Medical education : being a lecture delivered at King's College, London / by J. Forbes Royle.

  • Royle, J. Forbes (John Forbes), 1798-1858.
Date:
MDCCCXLV [1845]
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Credit: Medical education : being a lecture delivered at King's College, London / by J. Forbes Royle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    40 that your want of professional success, has been the natural result of your early neglect of duty. Again, if you should be admitted into the public service, as for instance, in the army or navy of your country, you may in your very earliest career, be called upon to exercise your professional skill, in the midst of the din and the shouts of battle. There distracted by the groans of the dying and the entrea- ties of the wounded (and where you may any moment be placed in the situation of one or the other), you will have to preserve your countenance unmoved, and if possible your mind unruffled, when, not forgetting kindness, you have, with unwavering hand, literally to bring your knowledge to your fingers’ ends. Tf such should ever be your situation, you will feel grateful to those who have taught you the virtue of self-possession; and will rejoice, even in the midst of strife, if you have not neglected your opportunities of professional educa- tion. You will feel also on this, as on many other occasions, that Medicine differs from most, if not all, other professions, in success depending, in a great mea- sure not only on the skill, but also the promptness, with which we can safely rely on our individual exer- tions. This perhaps, produces much of that isolation of the Medical character which seems to distinguish it from that of other professional men. The highest moral qualities may be possessed by those devoid of Intellectual culture, but I hope that it has been made clear, that it is only by a proper com- bination of the two, that, we cam be qualified for all the duties of our Profession/ The,, deficient branches K