The annual address to the candidates for degrees and licenses, in the Medical Institution of Yale College, January 20, 1841 / by Luther Ticknor.

  • Ticknor, Luther, 1790-1846.
Date:
1841
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Credit: The annual address to the candidates for degrees and licenses, in the Medical Institution of Yale College, January 20, 1841 / by Luther Ticknor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADDRESS. Gentlemen, Having gone through with private and public instruction, and in so doing complied with the prescribed formalities of a medical education, and being about to assume the guardian- ship of public health, it is no more than fair to presume you are worthy to be received into the medical family. If you have been zealous, devoted students; if your studies have occu- pied your time, engrossed your attention, and called into ex- ercise all the energies of your minds, as they certainly should ; still are you probably ignorant, at least to some extent, of the character and habits of that society to which you are about to be introduced, so far as its prominent traits are in- teresting to men of our profession. A few brief hints, then, on this subject may not be amiss, since a misapprehension, or error in the outset, frequently mars a man's whole history, and involves consequences which are not easily counteract- ed, nor always patiently endured. Having no test by which to estimate his claims to patron- age, the public, though courteous and civil enough, are apt to be guarded and cautious, shy, and sometimes fickle mind- ed ; and only receive into full favor and confidence, a young physician, when he shall have given some fair evidence of cleverness in his profession. The public you are about to serve, are ignorant of medicine as a science ; they know lit- tle or nothing of its first principles ; caring little about the formalities of medical education, and still less for college honors. Though men do not now believe in witchcraft, and