Teaching and healing : a sermon preached before the International Medical Congress at St. Paul's Cathedral, on the eighth Sunday after Trinity, August 7th, 1881 / by H. P. Liddon.

  • Liddon, H. P. (Henry Parry), 1829-1890.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Teaching and healing : a sermon preached before the International Medical Congress at St. Paul's Cathedral, on the eighth Sunday after Trinity, August 7th, 1881 / by H. P. Liddon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Aiid Jesus went about all tJie cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and ^jj-eac/i/ngr the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the j)sople St. Matt. ix. .35. THERE can be no need for insisting on the im- portance of an occasion such as the present. No profession touches the outward conditions of human life more constantly and intimately than the profes- sion of medicine; and when its foremost European representatives are assembled, under distinguished auspices, in this metropolis, to examine what their science has hitherto done towards relieving human suffering, and to decide what, with its present attain- ments and resources, it may yet hope to do, we all are interested as a matter of course. Heirs as we are, all of us, to the legacy of disease and pain, which comes down from the first fathers of our race, we welcome this serious and beneficent effort to review and mar- shal the accumulated stores of knowledge by which a kindly Providence enables man, not indeed to escape his inevitable doom, but to alleAdate, to reduce a 2