Abstract
IT has sometimes been disputed whether medicine should be regarded as a science or an art, but there is no doubt that the original meaning of the term medicine, in English and in other languages, is the Art of Healing. Medicine is so defined by Aristotle, and it has all the characters of an art. It depends Upon experience and skill; it deals with individual cases; and the perfection it aims at is practical, not speculative: the knowledge how to do, not the knowledge how things happen.
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Centralblatt f. Bakt. u. Parasitenkunde, Abt. II., vol. iv., 1898, pp. 855–9, 889–96, 913–9 (6 figs.). Also Proc. Amer. Ass. Adv. Science,1898, p. 408 (the limits of this paper prevent a longer reference to this research).
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Medicine as a Science and Medicine as an Art 3 . Nature 62, 356–357 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062356a0
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