Address to the medical graduates of the Jefferson Medical College : delivered March 11, 1837 / by Robley Dunglison.

  • Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Address to the medical graduates of the Jefferson Medical College : delivered March 11, 1837 / by Robley Dunglison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENTLEMEN, When I last had the pleasure to meet you, it was as members of the class of Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence of Jefferson Medical College. At that time, I little dreamed that it would be my pleasing duty to again address you, assembled, as you now are, before me, and under circumstances so deeply inte- resting to you, to the Institution of which you have proved your- selves worthy of the highest honours it can bestow, and to the community, of which I trust you are destined to be most useful members. The desires of my colleagues—although, owing to unavoidable circumstances, communicated to me at a short notice—that I should embrace this opportunity for presenting to you their fervent gratu- lations on the distinctions you have attained, and their warmest aspirations for your future success, have been felt by me as commands, and although I may regret that they should not have selected some one more capable of expounding to you the fervour and sincerity of their feelings, I cheerfully avail myself of the proffered occasion, to urge upon your attention some of those great principles of ethics, which, as Professor of Medical Jurispru- dence, I have already esteemed it important to inculcate, if not with ability, with a degree of zeal, which has occasioned them, I feel satisfied, to sink deep into the minds of most, if not of all of you. This day, gentlemen, is the closing scene, the crowning result, of your course of collegiate study. I need scarcely say to you, that you have not yet acquired all the knowledge which you will pos- sess of the healthy and morbid movements of that wonderfully complicated machine, the nature of which has been, for a few years past, the object of your earnest enquiry. You, doubtless, well recollect, that in the very earliest lecture which I had the