Address delivered in the Masonic hall at the commencement of the first course of lectures of the Medical Institute of the State of Georgia / by Paul F. Eve.

  • Eve, Paul F. (Paul Fitzsimmons), 1806-1877.
Date:
1832
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    ADDRESS, &c. Ffixow-Citizens : The Trustees of the Medical Institute of the State of Georgia, having organized a Medical College in the City of Augusta, it was thought proper, that at the commencement of the first course of Lectures, some one should deliver an address suitable to the occasion ; and in presenting myself before you as the humble organ of my colleagues in this great enterprise, I respectfully claim your attention, while I proceed to exhibit their object and their resources, with the consequent benefits which would result from its success to this community. In no country, perhaps, has individual enterprise been car- ried to greater extent than in our own. And when we look around and compare the advantages of our mode of legislation with that of other nations, we cannot but rejoice that we have been thrown into existence in such an age, and under such a government. Here, emphatically, the humblest individual will receive the reward of his own labour and ingenuity, and state patronage or court favor are as unlooked for, as they arc unknown in our operations. He who here can attain the proud satisfaction of having done his country some service, or he who lias even benefitted the community of which he is a member, rarely passes unnoticed and unhonored. It would therefore be unjust, were I on this occasion to neglect a tribute of respect to the author* of our present undertaking. With him, not only originated the idea of establishing a medical school in this place, but he has been its most active promoter, and in pro- portion to its success, ought his reputation be raised. It has been said, the existence of an Intitution ol this kind was premature and uncalled for by this State. It is true, there is a Medical College in the full tide of successful expe- riment in a neighboring city : but when we calculate that by the establishment of a similar school among ourselves, there might be an annual saving to this State of more than thirty thousand dollars, which have heretofore been expended by Students of medicine from Georgia, at New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lexington and Charleston—when * e^reflect that talented young men, who might be ornaments to their profes- sion, and useful members of society, from limited circumstan- ces arc unable to prosecute their studies abroad—and when we consider the improvement that must necessarily result from our own preparations, and from our more immediate applica- tion to one particular branch of the healing art; we trust, that * Professor, Milton Antony.