An address, introductory to the session 1884-1885, delivered in the theatre of the Meath Hospital and County of Dublin Infirmary / by Rawdon Macnamara.

  • Macnamara, Rawdon.
Date:
1884
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Credit: An address, introductory to the session 1884-1885, delivered in the theatre of the Meath Hospital and County of Dublin Infirmary / by Rawdon Macnamara. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    certain extent, this axiom— Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem quam quce sunt ocalis subjecia fidelihusP The observations I am now about to make to yon I would wish to prelude by what to my mind is a most interesting anecdote. In this Hospital the Medical education of two of the most remarkable men known to us in modern times was conducted—one of these, Dr. Stokes, after 49 years' earnest labor in our wards, during which period he shed undying lustre on the Irish School of Medicine, has gone from our midst, to receive in another and a better world his reward. The other, the Eevd. Professor Haughton, I am pleased to state, is present here this morning, and it is from his lips I have that which I am now about to relate. Dr. Stokes, said the Eevd. Dr. Haughton, you don't seem to have much faith in medicines. You are wrong, Haughton, I have great faith in certain medicines, but I see great danger to the progress of medicine as a science in the growing tendency in the minds of my younger professional brethren to run after new remedies, trusting to the remedial treatment of disease, rather than seeking for means to prevent its occurrence. I feel that as vaccin- ation, if properly and universally carried out, must eventually rob small-pox of its terrors, even if it did not stamp it out altogether, so may means yet be found to palliate, if not altogether to prevent, the invasion of diseases which at present are regarded as the ' opprobria' of medicine.