Advice and maxims for young students and practitioners of medicine : with remarks on the pulse / by Daniel Johnson.

  • Johnson, Daniel.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Advice and maxims for young students and practitioners of medicine : with remarks on the pulse / by Daniel Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    measure, counterbalanced by feelings of an opposite nature, would deter any one from entering on such a profession; but, to the honour of mankind, a sympathy exists in human nature, that gives such a heartfelt satisfaction on rescuing a parent or child from the jaws of death to a large family, or in giving ease to a painful sufferer, as fully to recompense him for much painful time spent in houses of affliction. And as I conceive that happiness in this life is more equally divided amongst mankind than is generally imagined, it is also doubtful on a balance, which profession affords the great- est share of it; some are continually exhili- rating and depressing our spirits, whilst others neither cause much delight or unea- siness ; and therefore which of these is the most desirable, must be entirely left to the decision and feelings of the person. For my own part, I should prefer now and then a walk and sometimes a gallop, to passing through life always in a jog trot.