The motives to industry in the study of medicine : an address delivered at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, on Thursday, October 1, 1846 / by James Paget.

  • Paget, James, Sir, 1814-1899.
Date:
1846
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Credit: The motives to industry in the study of medicine : an address delivered at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, on Thursday, October 1, 1846 / by James Paget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sir, you confer on us an advantage hardly less than we derive from the liberality with which you provide so large a portion of the apparatus for our teaching; for this would be comparatively useless, if we lacked that right spirit of study, of conduct, and of enterprise which you thus encourage. To yourself, Mr. Treasurer, our thanks must be the warmer, since we recognize in this annual custom only one of the many instances in which, setting an admi- rable example to those who act with you, you prove that you regard it as an imperfect, short-sighted view of the purpose of a hospital, which would limit it to the ministration of relief to its own patients; that you think the work of charity is not half done, unless the great hospitals are also large and effective schools of medicine; so that the skill, which is the instrument of charity in them, may be diffused by education, and multiplied in instances of imitation, wherever the like charity is needed. I know it from your own words (and your generous actions. Sir, attest the fulness of their meaning), that you feel the diffusion and advancement of medical knowledge to be part of that with which, as Treasurer of a hospital, you are entrusted ; and that you anxiously mark our progress because you consider that the Governors of the Hospital have delegated to us, as teachers of medicine, a large and important share of that which the public has committed to them. But, Sir, I know also that it is not to receive compli- ments, but to evince the interest you take in the welfare of this school, tliat you now honour us with your pre-