ABSTRACT
Shepherd. That’s a truth. In the ancient warld, was na there but ae God for poetry, music, and medishin? and the ancients, tak ma word for’t, saw far intill the mysterious connexions o’ things in nature. Owre mony folk noo-a-days, forgets that the alliance atween sowle and body’s stricker – though no unlike it – than that atween church and state. Let doctors learn a’ they can o’ baith – and hoo they are to do that without leeterature, philosophy, and poetry, as weel’s as anatomy and mere medishin, surpasses my comprehenshun. Some doctors practeeze by a sort o’ natural rumblegumshun, without ony knowledge either o’ leeterature or ony thing else; and that accounts for some itherwise unaccountable kirkyards. 1
