On the duties of physicians, resulting from their profession / by Thomas Gisborne.
- Date:
- 1847
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the duties of physicians, resulting from their profession / by Thomas Gisborne. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
17/64 (page 13)
![being directed to the promotion of science, into a scene of tlieatrical rant, and of senseless, bold, and tumultuous disputation. II. [duties of the physician beginning TO PKACTISE.] The first direction to be addressed to the young Physician, when about to enter on the exercise of his profession, is, not to begin to practise too soon. There are various inducements which may tempt him to offer himself to the world prema- turely ; overweening confidence in his natural abilities; extravagant ideas of the knowledge which he has acquired ; the res angusta domi; the impatient ardour of youth ; the solicitations of inconsiderate fi'iends ; and the fear of being anti- cipated by rivals. But human health and human life are objects with, which no one can innocently tamper. The latter, once lost, is lost for ever; the former, if not altogether destroyed, is often banished or enfeebled for years by the hand of ignorant presumption. Twelve additional months devoted to preparatory studies, might have en- abled the hasty practitioner to diffiise perma- nent joy through families, which he has now plunged into anguish and distress. The reflections and the conclusions to which these remarks will lead a conscientious mind, may be strengthened](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21954033_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
