A physician's counsels to his professional brethren / by a practising physician.

  • Hunt, Ezra Mundy, 1830-1894.
Date:
[1859]
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Credit: A physician's counsels to his professional brethren / by a practising physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    days in seeking honours and treasures here, forgetful of these trying hours, which are fore- runners of an everlasting future ? The phy- sician, who dares to think, cannot, it would seem, fail to ponder the questions of solemn and eternal import which his occupation sug- gests ; and to none does a more frequent or more touching voice cry out, Prepare to meet thy God. Procrastination too is out of all keeping with the acquired habits of our lives. In medi- cal experience we appreciate the often critical danger of delay. A quick perception of the necessities of the case, decision in judgment, and promptness in execution, constitute no unimpor- tant attributes of the successful practitioner. Appreciating the value of the present noiv in reference to the body, shall we forget its still more pressing importance in its relation to the soul ? Most men, if they knew the precise day and hour in which they would be summoned to exchange the scenes of time for the unal- terable destiny of eternity, would set apart a certain period for preparation for this untried