Address delivered in the Masonic hall at the commencement of the first course of lectures of the Medical Institute of the State of Georgia / by Paul F. Eve.

  • Eve, Paul F. (Paul Fitzsimmons), 1806-1877.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Address delivered in the Masonic hall at the commencement of the first course of lectures of the Medical Institute of the State of Georgia / by Paul F. Eve. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in exerting ourselves to affect these objects, we will meet with your encouraging approbation and your increasing support- Have we no peculiarities of climate and of habits ? Are all our complaints fully investigated and perfectly understood ? Have we here no fatal diseases ? And are there not men entrusted to our care, upon whose existence may depend the destinies ol the Republic ? Arc there not families whose means ot subsis- tence and happiness arc placed in our hands ? Arc not the liealtffand lives of our most endearing friends and relatives, confided to our knowledge of the healing art ? And shall it be said we are premature in organizing a school, whose object is to make us better acquainted and better qualified for exercising our profession ? So great were the abuses in medicine a few- years ago that the State Legislature was compelled to appoint a board of Physicians to examine and grant licenses to those only, whom they considered qualified to practice the healing art. We have consequently the highest authority for declaring that medical instruction and improvement arc required at home; and an Institution, whose operations would be economical to the country, which would charitably provide for the poor, and which would render us the industrious cultivators of medicine, is we therefore conceive, peculiarly and directly called for by this community. We believe too the times are propitious to the enterprise; ( and who. besides, does not cling with greater attachment at this political crisis, to his Southern feelings and his Georgia principles ? Who so dead to patriotism, that would not be first for his own, his native land ? The spirit of the present age is onwards to perfection in the arts and sciences. Breathing the inspirations of the genius of improvement, and yielding to the impulse of the times, we arc determined to be no longer idle spectators of passing events, but to be up and doing for our- selves. Cherishing the laudable ambition to be good and use- ful, we have entered upon an engagement, which in develop- ing the resources of our State and calling into action our native talent, will we honestly believe, promote her interest, advance her prosperity, and ameliorate the condition of her people. The city ot Augusta, containing a population equal to any other in the State, from its central situation to a considerable portion of country, from the facilities of its communication with surrounding parts, from its increasing commerce and trade, and from its healthiness, has appeared to us best adapted for the location of the medical school of Georgia : and upon application, the Legislature, has been pleased to confirm this opinion, by incorporating the Institution, first as a medical Academy and afterwards extending its charter to the libera fc°f^™ost respectable Medical Colleges of the United States. It now consists of twenty-four Trustees and six Pro- fessors empowered to frame laws and regulations to carrv H into full operation; and accordingly, wcl,ave assembled'this