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Martin

, on period of his training (1877-1880)

“We were in medical school during the days when the ‘art of medicine’ was practiced to the exclusion of the ‘science of medicine’; we were approaching the development of the ‘science,’ which was more and more to share with the ‘art’; and then the time arrived when we began to speak of the ‘science and art of practice’ rather than the ‘art’ or the ‘art and science of practice’” (Martin, 67).