On the importance of personal character in the profession of medicine : an address delivered at the opening of the winter session of the Medical Department of the Yorkshire College, Leeds, October 3, 1898 / by Charles J. Cullingworth.

  • Cullingworth, Charles J. (Charles James), 1841-1908.
Date:
1898
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Credit: On the importance of personal character in the profession of medicine : an address delivered at the opening of the winter session of the Medical Department of the Yorkshire College, Leeds, October 3, 1898 / by Charles J. Cullingworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PERSONAL CHARACTER IN THE PROFESSION OF MEDICINE. I CONSIDER it a very great honour to have been invited to take so prominent a part in the interesting ceremony of to-day. As an old Leeds student and a native of this city, it is with both pride and pleasure that I observe the unmistakeable signs of healthy prosperity in my old school, now the Medical Depart- ment of the Yorkshire College. Your buildings, your laboratories, your teaching appliances, and, of course, your fine hospital, will not only bear comparison with other similar institutions in this couutrv. but are so modern and so complete as to warrant a passing twinge of envy in the breast of a London teacher. I should, however, be making but ill use of an exceptional oppor- tunity if I wasted the few minutes at my disposal in elaborate compliments, however well-deserved they may be. My desire, to-day, is to say a few words that shall, if possible, be encouraging and helpful, first to those of my younger brethren who are still in statu pupillari, and, secondly, to those who have just com- pleted their curriculum and are about to engage in