An address delivered at the first medical commencement of the Massachusetts Medical College, March 7, 1855 / by D. Humphreys Storer.

  • Storer, David Humphreys, 1804-1891.
Date:
1855
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Credit: An address delivered at the first medical commencement of the Massachusetts Medical College, March 7, 1855 / by D. Humphreys Storer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    such cases, read the best authors upon the several subjects, within your reach. You will thus acquire a method, the value of which will be more apparent each succeeding year. Let no opportunity escape you of frequenting the medical institutions to which you may obtain access. You will now examine the cases with very different feelings from those which you have previously enter- tained : in all, you will find something to interest and instruct you. Should any of you decide to establish yourselves in this vicinity, I would most strenuously advise you, regularly, constantly, to accompany the physicians and surgeons of the Massachusetts General Hospital, in their daily visits to that noble institution. You will there obtain a familiarity in diagnosing disease, and in administering remedies, which will do much to remove that want of confidence, which, not unfrequently, is a great obstacle to a young physi- cian's success. I feel at liberty to assure you, you will ever be most kindly received by every medical gentleman connected with it. Thus engaged in the study of your profession, pre- paring for its practice, the greater portion of your time will be employed. There will yet remain hours, long, lonely hours, — the mind wearied with effort, the spirit harrowed by penury or depressed by anxiety, — when the present will appear dark and gloomy, and the future desolate. Conscious that you are exerting yourselves to the utmost, do not allow such