On the duties of physicians, resulting from their profession / by Thomas Gisborne.

Date:
1847
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Credit: On the duties of physicians, resulting from their profession / by Thomas Gisborne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    he who habitually disregards the public duties of Rehgion, should soon omit those which are private ; : should speedily begin to wish that Christianity may ! not be true; should then proceed to doubt its ' truth ; and at length should disbelieve it. It must be admitted that the Physician is pre- ■ eluded by the nature of his occupation fi-om the 1 regular performance of public religious duties. His time is not at his own disposal; he is liable I every moment to calls, which will not admit of I denial or delay ; and he knows from vmquestiona- I ble authority that mercy is better than sacrifice*. But there is great danger, even if his faith remain I unshaken, that the impossibility at one time of at- 1 tending at church, and at another the uncertainty, whether, if he goes thither, he should be permitted • to continue there unto the conclusion of the ser- vice, may lead him unawares into a habit of ab- senting himself altogether ft-om public worship. . At any rate it is in his power, and it is manifestly ihis duty, to embrace all opportunities which find Ihim disengaged ; and so to contrive the arrange- iment of his visits on Sundays, if the situation of Ihis patients will permit, as to leave himself suffi- cient space in the former or in the latter part of •the day to unite with his fellow Christians in prayers and praises to his Maker. And let him • [Hos. vi. 6.]