Remarks on the new medical act, as affecting the curriculum of the student : being the substance of an address to students delivered at the opening of the medical session, 1861-62 / by George Buchanan.

  • Buchanan, George, 1827-1905.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Remarks on the new medical act, as affecting the curriculum of the student : being the substance of an address to students delivered at the opening of the medical session, 1861-62 / by George Buchanan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    0 reflect with me on some of the aspects in which your future life may be viewed. Your success will depend almost entirely on your own efforts now and after- wards. There is no walk in life in which more depends on individual exertion. The influence of friends and the aid of money, will never make a man a skilful physician or an able surgeon; their qualities are from within, and not dependent to any great extent on external circumstances. Success in a business-point of view, may not always be rapid or corresponding to talent at first; but no one who is conscious of good abilities and fair medical attain- ments, with unflinching energy and attention to his duties, need doubt that he will ultimately rise to an honourable position. This is especially the case in the public services now. The system of conferring medical appointments in the Army, Navy, and Indian medical service by personal interest, is now abolished; and any student who has obtained his diploma may present himself as candidate for a Commission, without any other recommendation than his professional quali- fications. But whatever be your future sphere of usefulness, at home or abroad, public or private, you can never hope to reach distinction or even have com- fort in the exercise of your calling, unless you resolve to take full advantage of the opportunities you will en- joy, during your student life, of carefully cultivating your mind, and storing your memory with those elementary truths which are the groundwork of scientific medicine. In order that you may set about diligently preparing