Public opinion being unenlightened in medicine, physicians should not be influenced by it : an address to the graduating class of the Medical Department of the University of Nashville / by Paul F. Eve.
- Paul F. Eve
- Date:
- 1855
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Credit: Public opinion being unenlightened in medicine, physicians should not be influenced by it : an address to the graduating class of the Medical Department of the University of Nashville / by Paul F. Eve. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[6] forth our deepest gratitude to the Disposer of all human events. At the close of another course of lectures we are again per- mitted to return to parents, guardians, preceptors and friends', every student entrusted to our care. Called upon as we are this evening to render an account of those committed to us, we proclaim to this audience, they are all here; not one, thank God, is missing. This is the more remarkable, since it is well known how arduous is the labor and how great the exposure of those attending medical lectures during the winter; and, moreover, the daily papers have announced how frequently the other schools have been summoned to mourn the loss of students; yet not one of the 787, averaging nearly 200 a session during the four years of our organization, while connected with the Medical Department of the University of Nashville, has been removed by death. Hitherto that special Providence, invoked in the ineipiency of this enterprise, has protected us; and while profoundly sensible of our unworthiness of this great and sig- nificant merc}r, we cheerfully and fearlessly commit our Col- lege to His keeping: satisfied if God be for us, to fear none against us. You are about, my young friends, to enter the busy scenes of life; to claim a position of fearful responsibility in society; to begin the exercise of the most arduous and difficult professions among men. You will carry with you, wherever you go, our high expectations and sincere wishes for eminent success and true happiness. Your future career will be watched with in- tense anxiety by all those interested in your welfare. Among these, the Faculty will ever claim a prominent position; permit me, therefore, as appropriate to the occasion, to offer you a few parting reflections on the subject, that as public opinion is UNENLIGHTENED IN MEDICINE, WE OUGHT NOT TO BE INFLU- ENCED BY IT.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21118449_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
