PIONEERS IX KNOWLEDGE.
” Galen driven from Rome by the jealousy of his rivals; Harvey seeing his patients lonic him one by one as a result of.the feeling fomented by his medical colleagues; .Tenner journeying hack sadly to Berkeley. laughed at by. the London doctors for his impudence in attempting to teach them anything about, smallpox; Simpson attacked by his colleagues for tampering with the laws eof (tod and Nature in seeking to alleviate pain ; Pasteur scorned as a ‘chemist’ when he propounded his bacteria theories ; Lister faring the attacks of those of his colleagues who tried to rob him of the honour ol his diseovei-y, and likened his methods to the crudities of past ages, with Simpson unbelievably taking the loading part in launching the kind of attacks from' which he himself had suffered so much—all these are typical of the pioneer struggling for advance of knowledge against the inertia of conservatism.-’—“ A.P." in the “ British Journal of Active Therapy.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1927, Page 4
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