The future training of the medical profession : an inaugural address, delivered at St. George's Hospital, on October 1, 1888 / by William Ewart.

  • Ewart, William, 1848-1929.
Date:
1888
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Credit: The future training of the medical profession : an inaugural address, delivered at St. George's Hospital, on October 1, 1888 / by William Ewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    among blighter siivroundiugs. Although an hour would have been short for the worthy performance of the multi- farious duties of my present office, sharing your impatience, I will endeavour not long to delay the applause which you are anxious to give to our prizemen. A more eventful record than that which it is my duty to lay before you was seldom contained in an introductoiy address delivered in this room. I wish that, in its every detail, it might have been uniformly acceptable to my hearers. Although death has spared the smaller circle of cm* Pupils and of our Staff, in Dr. Harrington Tuke we mourn a personal friend and one who had made himself almost part of St. George's. But in other ways our Medical School has sustained losses so great that I dread the task of relating them to you. Silence would have been more eloquent than any words at my command; and the duty of speech becomes twice onerous in the pre- sence of those who could have given adequate expression to their feelings and to jomx own. Wadham and Holmes I How closely intertwined are those two names with the history of the School for many years, and for varying periods with that of each of us 1 Who among their juniors is not beholden to them for professional knowledge, for prudent advice, for many offices of friendship, and for the highest examples 1 These are personal debts which each of us must honour. But there is an obligation resting upon us all evenly. Dming the last twenty years our School has maintained a most honourable place in spite of many dangers from Avithout and from within; and it may be said that to them the credit is due; for during that period they were both in succession our Deans. Deprived henceforth of the help of their immediate control, there is some solace for us in the thought that as members of the Consulting Staff they are among us still for long years to come. Dr. Wadham filled the office so long and with such