An oration, pronounced on the anniversary of the K A Society of Hippocrates, in Lexington, Kentucky / by Henry Miller, M.D. President of the Lexington Medical Society, and member of the K A Society of Hippocrates ; published by request.

  • Miller, Henry, 1800-1874.
Date:
1822
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Credit: An oration, pronounced on the anniversary of the K A Society of Hippocrates, in Lexington, Kentucky / by Henry Miller, M.D. President of the Lexington Medical Society, and member of the K A Society of Hippocrates ; published by request. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [* j Of Virtue. This is a generic term, comprehend- ing a great many qualities equally necessary to our present and future happiness. It is diametrically opposed to, and holds no communion with vice. Although some have acquired an ephemeral con- sequence in medicine,who not only contemned virtue, but assiduously studied vice and profanity, yet the physician should know that this is one of his most essential qualifications, and the only passport to post- humous reputation. However safely he may wade through vice, falsehood and immorality, to tempora- ry distinction, yet posterity will analyse his charac- ter impartially, and if these predominate, he will cer- tainly be weighed in the balance and found wanting. Lucrative considerations will have minor import- ance with the humane and virtuous physician. The whole world, the noble and the ignoble, the rich and the poor, have equal claims on his kindness and attention. Virtue is an angel of such exquisite loveliness, and vice a monster of so horrid a mien, that we can have no hesitation in making our selec- tion. Of Honour. Scrupulous integrity is a jewel of no less value to the physician than any of the requisite- above considered. It is as much opposed to offi- cious interference and illiberal insinuations, as Sci- ence is to ostentation and gasconade. We ma] well exclaim, then, A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod, An honest man's the noblest work of God. With regard to the manner in which you are to demean yourselves in practice towards one another