Medicine
Physicians mend or end us,
Secundum artem; but although we sneer
In health—when ill, we call them to attend us,
Without the least propensity to jeer.
Byron, “Don Juan.”
He professed a higher opinion of the medical, or rather the surgical profession, than any other. “Their mission,” said he, “is to benefit mankind, not to destroy, mystify, or inflame them against one another, and they have opportunities of studying human nature as well as science.”—“Mémoires de l’Empereur Napoléon.”