Excerpt from The Works of the Right Rev. John England, First Bishop of Charleston, Vol. 5 of 5: Collected and Arranged Under the Advice and Direction of His Immediate Successor Medicine is a more extensive school than that of law. Every Observation which I have made regarding the utility of the dead languages to the lawyer, will apply with at least equal force in this school. It is in those languages that one will best converse with the great fathers Of the science; it is in those peculiar idioms Of which no trans lation can convey the spirit that yet dwells in the original, that the very soul of the master is discovered. The structure and organization Of the human frame is every where the same: and the science Of heal ing its diseases is one of universal interest. Wherever the victim of the original male diction is found, whether at the equator or near the pole, in China, in California, upon the Mississippi, the Ganges, the Danube, or the Nile; in the monarch's palace, or in the Arab's tent; whether he discourses in the halls Of the academy, or encounters the lion or the panther In the recesses of the forest, or under the Open canopy Of heaven whatever be the tinge of his complexion, or the quality and form of his vesture, he is equally a child of Adam, and not only bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh, but moreover liable to all those disorders which that flesh is heir to. The necessity of study ing and remedying or alleviating those dis orders is, and has always been, and will always continue to be, a universal and an important concern. The subject of those disorders being then, everywhere the same, and the attention Of so many persons of various nations and ages having been given to the improvement Of the science of heal ing, nothing can be more beneficial, or de sirable, or proper, than that the good men so employed should possess the faculty of communicating with ease and precision to their brethren throughout the world, the useful discoveries which they make; and thus rapidly give to each individual of the fraternity the benefit derived from the ex perience of the whole body. This can only be continued as it has heretofore been effected, by the preservation of a common language, the meaning Of whose terms is not liable to change and which is more or less prevalent through the regions of science and civilization, all over the universe. In this view 1 fearlessly assert, that an accu rate and extensive knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages, so far from being speculative or unnecessary literature, is essential for the preservation and perfection of medical knowledge and surgery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.