Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank.
- Francis Graham Crookshank
- Date:
- 1926
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Migraine and other common neuroses : a psychological study / by F.G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![who teach, do not, as a rule, think. They repeat what they have been taught. Though the practice of our Art is to some extent empirical—based on experience, and afterwards explained by some theory that gives us the illusion of being rational—it is, never¬ theless, very largely guided by the views we hold concerning the nature of disease, and the relation that we impute between what we call mind and matter. In other words, our notions concerning disease and its treatment are derived from our attitude towards certain metaphysical and philosophical prob¬ lems. Time was when doctors of physic definitely studied philosophy in the broadest sense, and then systems of medicine were logically justified by current metaphysics. Nowadays we do not systematically study the founda¬ tions of knowledge and belief, and we ignore logic; but, nevertheless, medical doctrine is always, though unsystem- ically, expressed in terms of some form of metaphysical attitude, and usually in terms of some form that has been [17]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29813256_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
