Introductory Lecture Addressed to the Class of the Kentucky School of Medicine: Session 1853-54 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Henry Massie Bullitt

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ISBN 10: 0260232475 ISBN 13: 9780260232472

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Excerpt from Introductory Lecture Addressed to the Class of the Kentucky School of Medicine: Session 1853-54

If as Cicero declares, true glory is the renown which arises from many and important services to one's friends or country, or the whole human race, no one has more or better opportuni ties than the physician, of encircling his brow with its bright est halo. In the exercise of an art which must from its very nature, bring you into relations of the closest intimacy with all descriptions of persons, you cannot fail to form friend ships, based upon congeniality of tastes and accordance of men tal and moral constitution, such friendships as standeth Srif fly in storms, and which, if properly cherished, will afford abundant opportunities of securing whatever of person al gratification or worldly renown may spring frdm many and important services to friends. The vulgar notion that daily familiarity with sickness, sorrow and death, tends to harden the feelings of physicians, and divest them of the more delicate sensibilities, and sympathies of our common human ty is utterly fallacious. It is true. They learn to suppress their feelings and to sustain, in the language of the Poet.

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