Art and Science in Medicine

Stethescope which he described as 'horrible quackery'. As I considered all this I realised that the medical profession and those who dealt with people have often been in opposition, and it would seem as if all the scientific advances (and there are many) have not been able to defeat the unorthodox in the care of the sick. The medical profession must, however, have an inbuilt and fundamental motivation to help those who are finding life hard and difficult because of disease. In July 1883 the first number of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal was issued under the editorship of Greig-Smith,4 who was elected to the