Page:The Harveian oration, 1893.djvu/66

42 famous sister Universities of Edinburgh or Dublin; for their complete removal no prescription is so efficient as a prolonged stay in Continental laboratories and hospitals. But even such a broad and liberal education, even familiarity with the daily advances of medical science recorded in periodicals and archives and year-books, or transmitted by telegraph to the wondering readers of the daily newspapers, is not all that is needful to make a learned Physician. We know well the difference between reading of an experiment, or even seeing it performed, and doing it with our own hands. We know the difference between studying a pathological atlas, or even a cabinet of histological slides, and seeing and handling morbid tissues and making sections for ourselves. So also is there all the difference between learning the present conclusions as they stand recorded in the last edition of a text-book or compendium