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George Macilwain
(1797 - 22 Jan 1882)
British surgeon and author. who was strongly against indiscriminate amputation, violent purgatives. He was also strongly opposed to the cruelty of vivisection of animals, and produced several commentaries on the subject. In addition to clinical medical writings, he published the Memoirs of John Abernathy (1858) under whom both he and his father had been students.
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Science Quotes by George Macilwain (2)
Error has indeed long darkened the horizon of medical science; and albeit there have been lightnings like coruscations of genius from time to time, still they have passed away, and left the atmosphere as dark as before.
— George Macilwain
Memoirs of John Abernethy (1854), 293.
Lecturing after a fashion is easy enough ; teaching is a very different affair. ... The transmission of ideas from one mind to another, in a simple unequivocal form, is not always easy ; but in teaching, the object is not merely to convey the idea, but to give a lively and lasting impression; something that should not merely cause the retention of the image, but in such connection as to excite another process, ' thought.'
— George Macilwain
Memoirs of John Abernethy (1854), 253.
