An Early Telegraph Idea: Physicians Often Feel Attracted to Engineering: An illustration of how old, wide, and intermingled science and technology are [Retrospectroscope]

The objectives of medicine are to restore, maintain, and improve human health apply- ing the biomedical sciences. The objectives of engineering are to restore, improve, and maintain human wellbeing applying the physicochemical and mathematical sciences. Both are practical activities with similar targets, for health is the first requirement of feeling well. No wonder, then, if over the centuries, physicians and engineers often crossed the now rather diffuse border between both.