Medical education, character, and conduct : introductory addresses, delivered to students of medicine in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1855-1866-1882 / by W.T. Gairdner.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Medical education, character, and conduct : introductory addresses, delivered to students of medicine in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1855-1866-1882 / by W.T. Gairdner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    hardening of the mind itself to intellectual exertion, which may be best accomplished by the study of Logic and Moral Philosophy, or of Mathematics with Natural Philosophy. To which I will add only one thing more—“ Work, while it is called to-day; the night cometh when no man can work.” Not a single session has passed over our heads since I was appointed to my office among you, that has not paid its tax of life to the great Reaper, whose harvest is always ready, whose sickle is never weary. Live, I beseech you, as in the sight of God, the Judge of all; that if He should call you away, we may yet feel sure that all is well. I tremble, lest to the bitterness of parting should be added the pang of remembering that the parting came in the midst of sin, or of idleness, or amid angry words and personal offence Go, therefore, to your work with the determination, once for all, to take the better part; to be from this day onwards the Christian gentlemen that I trust you mean to be; to let no malice, nor uncharitableness, nor anger, nor evil-speaking, nor uncleanness, come between you and your profession : and, finally, pray to God daily, with us, that you and we may continue to encourage each other, by precept and example, in every good word and work.