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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    [4] the prolific source and inroad of innumerable affec- tions to which the natural man is a stranger. In the words of the poett Anxious study, discontent and care, Love without hope, and hate without revenge. And fear, and jealousy, fatigue the soul, Engross the subtle ministers of life, And spoil the lab'ring functions of their share. The sweets and advantages of civilization, then, are acquired by the sacrifice of healtri, one of the choicest and most invaluable of heaven's gifts; so that it may well be questioned whether civilization has conduced more to the happiness or misery of mankind. Gentlemen, it is the province and glorious prerogative of medicine to dispel this doubt; and the humane and scientific physician, by watching, with a guardian eye, over the health and lives of the com- munity, and attacking and successfully combating disease, will justly be ranked among the greatest worthies and benefactors of the world. This benev- olent design has already enlisted under its banners the talents and the souls of an Hippocrates, a Sy- denham, a Fothergill, a Cullcn, a Mead, a Haller, a Boerhaave, a Tissot, a Howard, and a Rush. If the station to which you aspire be thus exalted and responsible, if it has been occupied by the first men the world has ever produced, you cannot be indif- ferent to an institution, which has for its object the promotion of medicine, by concentrating the exer- tions of her worthy and respectable votaries. To the successful cultivation of every science, but particularly that of medicine, societies or associations nre highly tributary, if they are not essential;/ ne~