Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 15-16. (Budapest, 1959)
Prof. dr. Felix Boehnheim: Orvosok - ahogy Marx Károly látja őket
other Qualities but a perfect Knowledge of Mankind and a Capacity of making the most of it, is something extraordinary ... If a Man in his Lifetime should discover on the one hand such manifest Symptoms of Superlative Pride, and an insatiable Greediness after Wealth at the same time, and on the other no regard to Religion or Affection to his Kindred, no Compassion to the Poor, and hardly any Humanity to his Fellow-Creatures, if he gave no Proofs that he lov'd his Country, had a Publick Spirit, or was a Lover of Arts, of Books or of Literature, what must we judge of his Motive, the Principle he acted from, when after his death we find that he has left a Trifle among his Relations who stood in need of it, and an immense Treasure to an University that did not want it?" Mandeville természetesen az egyetemekkel is foglalkozott. Teológiai tanárokból van elegendő, orvosokból azonban nincs. „In the first place I would have near double the number ot Professors in every University of what there is now . . . Pharmacy and Knowledge of the Simples arc as necessary as Anatomy or the History of Diseases: It is a shame that when Men have taken their Dcgreem and are by Authority intrusted with the Lives of the Subject, they should be fore'd to come to London to be acquainted with the Materia Mcdica and the Composition of medicines, and receive Instructions from others that never had university Education themselves; it is certain that in the City I named there is ten times more Opportunity for a Man to improve himself in Anatomy. Botany, Pharmacy, and the Practice of Physick, than at both Universities together . . . unless there is a Charm in the word University, that inspires People with Knowledge. I am told that as for publick Dissections, Hospitals, Physick-Gardens, and other things that are necessary to the Study of Physick, a Man may meet with three times more Opportunity of improwing himself that way in London, than either at Oxford or Cambridge'. Indeed the inefficiency of the Universities in this respect was notorious. In 1710 Uffcnbach and Borrichius agreed that the anatomy school at Oxford was nox comparable to that at Leyden." A tanárok kiválasztásánál nem volna szabad tekintettel lenni a pártállásra, a szülőföldre és a fajra. A hallgatóknak azt ajánlja, hogy csak olyan helyen tanuljanak, ahol a betegágy mellett folyik az oktatás, tehát kellő tekintettel vannak a praxisra is. A filozófia legyen az alap. „lt is true, that the Languages, Logick and Philosophy should be the first Studies in all the Learned Professions; but there is so little Help for Phisick
