The ups and downs of a doctor's life : being the closing lecture of the course delivered in the Hahnemann Medical College for the session of 1863-64 / by R. Ludlam.

  • Ludlam, R. (Reuben), 1831-1899.
Date:
1864
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Credit: The ups and downs of a doctor's life : being the closing lecture of the course delivered in the Hahnemann Medical College for the session of 1863-64 / by R. Ludlam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    by thine own watch. We are prone to forget that principle and prejudice axe incompatible, and that an infraction of the ninth commandment must still be regarded as a crime against the decalogue. While Raphael was (imaged in painting his celebrated by two cardinals, who began to criticise his work, and found fault with it without under- standing it. The apostle Paul has too red a, face, said one. lie blushes in heaven to see into what hands the church h. said the indignant artist. You will recall this anecdote by-and-by, wdien you encounter the opposition which will be the lion in your way. But you are not to hold your convictions with a contentious spirit. You will discover that those physicians who devote themselves to the advocacy of distance and separatism, wdio spend their breath in abuse, have i small-clothes of an ignorant prejudice. A beautiful writer has said: You seldom hear a painter beap _ on anything in his special line of art; a sculptor i, tvorable eye for any marble hut his own. The only which you can prosper safely and satis- .iround you to think as they please, and to tgly. It is not expedient to attempt a sud- >rld from its old ways of thinking and form- i>i \ hen one said to Copernicus—If the world , Venus would have phases like the moon—sh owever; what have you to say to that? he answered—I have no reply to give, hut (iod will be so good as that an answer to this difficulty will he found. You can afford to labor and to wait, although, like Copernicus, you may have departed when the answer has come. You will ■ be annoyed by the persecutions of those who differ from you in medical sentiment. One will treat you in the spirit of a certain Duke of Somerset who deigned to pity Adam because he had no ancestors! Another will attempt to drown you with the muddy torrent of invective. A third blacksmith, will exercise a little brief authority in discrediting your professional certificates, and mayhap