Inaugural address delivered at the opening of the Medical Department of Lind University / by N.S. Davis.

  • Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Inaugural address delivered at the opening of the Medical Department of Lind University / by N.S. Davis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it snatched by your skill from an early grave. Thus, day by day, vou are to deal with the most confidential, the mosl important, and the most sacred interests of man. Lei me entreat each one of you, then, in the prosecution of your professional career, not only to cultivate the highest degree of familiarity with every branch of medical science and art, but also a mental discipline, which will enable you to use the facts and materials with which you become familiar, with the highest degree of promptitude and skill, and a moral integrity that no temptations can swerve. If you do these things faithfully, when you go out from these halls, your lives and acts will constitute the most efficient support^ for your Alma Mater, and the world will be better and happier for your living in it.