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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    G thought to cover his own deficiencies by Ijelittling tlie successes of his more industrious fellow-students. Let anyone who is interested in the subject, and anxious to arrive at a correct estimate of the amount of truth in this statement, take up a “ London University Calen- dar,” and refer to the Honours Lists in the various subjects of examination for the degrees in Medicine. Here and there, of course, he will find an unfamiliar name amongst those who from year to year have taken the highest honours, but he will probably be astonished at the comparatively large number of names that have since become well-known, and, in many cases, even distinguished, as those of recognised leaders of our profession. Amongst those, for instance, who in the years long gone by obtained scholarships and exhibi- tions in the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Medicine, will be found the familiar names of Richard Quain, Edmund Parkes, George Johnson, Alfred B. Garrod, William S. Savory, Samuel Habershon, John S. Bristowe, J. Russell Reynolds, Henry Thompson, Joseph Lister, William Roberts, and William H. Broad- bent, all of whom may certainly be said to have fulfilled the promise thus given of future distinction and success. I speak of the London University because I happen to know it best. I have no doul^t the same is true of the other universities, including your own still youthful Victoria University, in which, as some of you know, I take _ a special interest as having borne a somewhat active part in the work of administration during the anxious and perilous years of its early infancy. Holding this view of academic