The profession of medicine : its study, and practice ; its duties, and rewards / by Charles West.

  • West, Charles, 1816-1898.
Date:
1896
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    PREFACE. T the close of a long life, when active work is ended, when there is no more scope for ambition, no more question of self-interest; and when the mind turns naturally to what they are doing on the other side, rather than to what is passing here, one still asks oneself, Is there yet nothing can be done to help those just entering on the path which one began oneself to tread sixty-three years ago? I have adopted as the title of this book that which I gave to an Introductory Lecture, delivered at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in the year 1850, and I have done so, because what I thought then, when my way seemed smooth, and all my prospects fair, I think still, after much rough journeying, and often under cloudy skies. An old man's opinions on these subjects will, I am sure, meet with indulgence, and all the more, since in the main they correspond with those of Dr. Gregory,* as expressed in his Lectures on * Note A, p. 109.