Letters to a young physician just entering upon practice / by James Jackson.

  • Jackson, James, 1777-1867.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Letters to a young physician just entering upon practice / by James Jackson. 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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    LETTER I. INTRODUCTORY. I congratulate you, my young friend, on having arrived at the period on which your eyes have long been fixed: the period at which your education is terminated, and at which you are to enter upon the serious business of your profession. Your education, I say, is terminated. You are told, indeed, that you must continue to educate yourself through life. With- out quarrelling about words, I think this does not present the subject in its true point of view. I agree that you are bound to study and to increase your knowledge as long as you continue to be engaged in your profession. But you are now educated; you arc brought out. You are now placed on the course where you are to run your race. You look at the objects before you from a new point. You have put on your working-dress, and you are to go to business.