Address in connection with the opening of the medical classes of the University of Glasgow, October 31st, 1876 / by Dr. M'Call Anderson, Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Glasgow.

  • Thomas McCall Anderson
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1876
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Credit: Address in connection with the opening of the medical classes of the University of Glasgow, October 31st, 1876 / by Dr. M'Call Anderson, Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    necessarily freedom from, occupation is necessary to our welfare ; let us strive at all times to act up to the principle that “ whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well; ” and let us endeavour to take pleasure in our work; for, as Lord Lytton wrote, “ Man arrives at his highest state of moral excellence when labour and duty lose all the harshness of effort—when they become the impulse and habit of life; when, as the essential attributes of the beautiful, they are, like beauty, enjoyed as pleasure ; and thus .... each day becomes a holiday.” But while all this may be true, let us not suppose that the whole of our waking hours can with safety be spent in brain work; in that case both mind and body must suffer deterioration and decay. Let us, therefore, combine amusement and recreation of an innocent and healthy kind with those labours which directly or indirectly lead to professional eminence; let us keep in view those well-known hygienic rules which conduce to good bodily health, and act upon the principle that the mind and the body are so intimately connected that physical well-being is indispensable to the full fruition of the intellectual powers. Alas ! how many illustrations from our own experience could most of us give of the sad results of untiring devotion to the pursuit of knowledge, coupled with the neglect of the physical wants of our nature. At the same time, we have all need of being on our guard lest we forget or underrate the priceless value of time. In contemporary history we meet with many
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