Every science touches art at some points—every art has its scientific side; the worst man of science is he who is never an artist, and the worst artist is he who is never a man of science. In early times, medicine was an art, which took its place at the side of poetry and painting; today they try to make a science of it, placing it beside mathematics, astronomy, and physics.
Footnotes
Armand Trousseau, Lectures on Clinical Medicine (vol 2), The New Sydenham Society, 1869.
Submitted by A L Wyman, retired physician, London