Malarial fever / by Albert Woldert, M.D., Tyler, Texas.

  • Woldert, Albert, 1867-1959
Date:
[1906?]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Malarial fever / by Albert Woldert, M.D., Tyler, Texas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    v. BY ALBERT WOLDERT, M.D., TYLER, TEXAS. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: Through a most cordial invitation tendered me, I have the honor to speak to you this evening on a subject which has engaged my undi¬ vided attention for upwards of eleven years. Long before I began the study of medicine I became interested in this sub¬ ject, and after my graduation there seemed to be some kind of fascination about the work which has kept me searching here and there, in the nooks and dark corners, for any new facts, any new truths which might be hidden in them. Well do I remember an address given us students at the University of Pennsylvania by that distinguished physician and author, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, in which he advised all young practitioners of physic to take up spme kind of hobby which would be profitable and wouldrj enrich their gray hair with pride. He advised us students to take up some line of investigation or research work in one of the sciences, such as botany, geology, or any other kind of original work, and to “ride that hobby hard.” He went further than this, ind tried to stir up within us some feeling of restlessness, some of the deeper sentiment which would formulate an ideal. He wished us to read Ruskin, whose works had given him more real pleasure than all other works he had read. It is Ruskin who pours out to us the story of Athena, the Neith of the Egyptians, the Athena of the Greeks, the Minerva of the Latins, and who instils into us the four cardinal virtues governed by Athena, prudence, justice, fortitude and tem¬ perance. It is Athena who wears two robes, the one of light, and the one of darkness. It is always Athena that we hear in the sound of trickling water, that we see in the golden embroidered robe of the purple cloud; that produces the rust- *An address (delivered by invitation) before the Bowie and Miller County Medical Societies, Texarkana, Ark., March 9, 1906.