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.

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    those only whose claims would not be disputed. I nwht find some such in our own land, who have finished their career in the present century. I will indulge myself in naming one only; one whom I had the happiness to know intimately. He was my first teacher, and I have been accustomed, with some others of his pupils, to call him old master. I refer to the late Edward Augustus Holyoke, M. D., of Salem. He, like Hippocrates, lived more than a hundred years, retaining his faculties, mental and bodily, to the end of his century, in unusual perfection. But it is not for his longevity that I mention him as entitled to a high rank in the profession. He was little more than fifty years of age when our Massachusetts Medi- cal Society received its charter, and in that Dr. Holyoke's name stands first on the list of those incor- porated. Upon the organization of the society he was elected its first president. Thus it appears that his hicdi claims were acknowledged by his brethren at a time when there must have been very many i» the state older than he was. It was on account of his professional merit that he was thus honored; but all the more that his whole character was most worthy of respect. He had the delicacy of taste, as shown in his manners and general bearing, which grows out of a fine organization and of a cultivated mind. This