National and municipal relations of the medical profession / by William Pepper.

Date:
1894
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    NATIONAL AND MUNICIPAL RELATIONS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.* BY PROF. WILLIAM PEPPER, PHILADELPHIA, PA. The movements of the medical profession in this beautiful city of Cleveland and in the northern part of this great state of Ohio must naturally attract widespread attention. Under any circumstances such would be the case, and it is doubly true when these movements are, as at present, so conspicuously in the direction of the greatest interests of the community and of the profession. The members of your society, Mr. President, have conceived their duty in the true sense of those weighty words of Bacon: “ I hold every man a debtor to his profession * * * to be a help and ornament thereto.” This is an age of organization and co-operation. The conditions of individual life change less radically and less rapidly than do those of organized society. The struggle for existence ; the burden of passion and sorrow and sin ; the unreasonable hopes of vanity and the painful dispersion of illusions ; the yearning for affection and applause and the unsatisfying share allotted to most,—these remain the destiny of selfish individual man. Only to those who can free themselves from the domination of self, and who can in some measure become absorbed in the larger conception of the com- munity, do the advancing years bring gifts of peace and of healing *Read before the Cleveland Medical Society, June 22, 1894.