An introductory lecture, on the studies, duties, and qualifications of the medical practitioner : delivered at the opening of the seventh session of the Sheffield School of Anatomy & Medicine / by Corden Thompson, M.D., physician to the Sheffield General Infirmary, and lecturer on the principles and pratice of medicine, &c. &c.

  • Thompson, Corden.
Date:
1834
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Credit: An introductory lecture, on the studies, duties, and qualifications of the medical practitioner : delivered at the opening of the seventh session of the Sheffield School of Anatomy & Medicine / by Corden Thompson, M.D., physician to the Sheffield General Infirmary, and lecturer on the principles and pratice of medicine, &c. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have been said to demonstrate the importance of an extended and liberal education to the Me- dical Practitioner; and that he who enters the Profession of Physic does not enter on a life of indolence and ease; that, in fact, from the be- ginning of his studies, to the very termination of his career, he has obstacles and difficulties to surmount of no ordinary kind; toils and fatigues to undergo that happen not to other men. Let not, however, the Pupil be discouraged; his studies possess a degree of interest that will sweeten the labour he must spend over them; in proportion to his talents, acquirements, and integrity of conduct, will be his success; and though he cannot accomplish every thing at once, one by one, industry will remove the obstacles that lay before him; perseverance and habit will render that which, at first, is irksome, or even painful, easy and agreeable; the mind will acquire a facility of application and reflection, which may, perhaps, at one time, seem unattain- able ; difficulties may momentarily daunt, but success must never be despaired of; assiduity and industry will eventually triumph, so true is the maxim—Labor omnia vincit.