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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    [ 10] ttieefl she never fails to award to her sincere and faithful disciples, the prayers and blessings of unborn millions, who are indebted to you for their health, their happiness and their lives! Philanthrophy, hu- manity, charity, and even interest, invite you from the shades of inutility and oblivion! Uyou remain deaf to their entreaties, others more wise will joyfully o- bey the mandate and receive the triumphant laurel. Will you, can you, content yourselves with humble mediocrity, while others are basking in the meridian Sunshine of glory and renown ? Just ascending the eminence of youth, with hearts beating high with the love of distinction, will you hasten down the rapid declivity of old age, and be swallowed up in the devouring river of Death, and make no one manly effort to reach the glory-gilded Temple of Fame, which decorates the hill of manhood: Are you desi- rous to leave no one evidence of your having per- formed the journey of life? Yes, 1 know you are; already, in imagination, I see you joining hand in hand and marching, with majestic strides to useful- ness, to glory a^d to Fame. The profession of medicine in this country has been degraded to a mere money-making machine, whose wheels have been so clogged with empirics, ignorant pretenders andself-dubbed doctors, that the intelligent and deserving members of the faculty have been prevented from cohering into a perfect ^nd extensive* crystallization, which would reflect the beams of the science of medicine over benighted and suffering humanity. The establishment of a medical school in Transyl- vania University has contributed much towards the