The responsibilities of medical students : a sermon preached in the chapel of Guy's Hospital, on Sunday, March 4th / by F. Maurice.

Date:
1838
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Credit: The responsibilities of medical students : a sermon preached in the chapel of Guy's Hospital, on Sunday, March 4th / by F. Maurice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    multitude of streams that flow from it ; the fact which rejoices the first discoverer, remains fresh and living for every one who succeeds him, if he will not close his heart against it. But I pass over this and many other interesting topics, that I may allude to one which must very often be brought under the notice of those who are pre- paring for any branch of your profession. I spoke of the powers of life being deranged ; but in popular language — and I suppose, also, in medical language — we sometimes use that word —deranged—in another and more awful sense. We apply it not to the functions of the man, but to the man himself. We say. He is deranged,— his being is subverted. I would beseech you to think deeply of these words. The facts to which they point are in themselves so appalling, that for a moment they may absorb all your attention. But if, when you have a moment’s leisure from the contemplation of the mere signs and symptoms of a mind overthrown, you ask yourselves what is implied in the very possibility of such a disaster, you will find that an amazing deep opens upon you. Insanity could not be, if there did not dwell in that mysterious body with which your studies are occupied, a mysterious person who calls it his, who rules it, who needs himself to be ruled. Such a person there must be in you and in me ; what he is your science does not tell us ; what he is we must in some way or other learn. For this person