An address delivered to the Hunterian Society / by Thomas Mee Daldy, the appointed orator for the year 1853.

  • Daldy, Thomas Mee.
Date:
1853
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An address delivered to the Hunterian Society / by Thomas Mee Daldy, the appointed orator for the year 1853. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Each time my mind cast an exploring glance over that section of the ample territory which was within the range of its observation, it shrunk back again to its starting point; and as the Nostalgia of the Swiss peasant tethers his thoughts to his mountain-home, so mine seemed rivetted to the Hunterian Society. Nor does it appear to me inappropriate that we should take this opportunity of considering, under that title, two questions of which the name is suggestive: the first, Are we, as the constituted guardians of legiti- mate medicine, zealously co-operating for its advance- ment ? and the second, Is the mode of co-operation which we adopt, that best calculated to effect its progress? The answer to the first question is readily to be found in our periodically assembling—after the harass- ing and anxious cares of an active professional day— here, to weigh, in friendly intercourse, those grave facts which our daily experience is accumulating, and to guage their relation to the standard of truth; here to impart the suggestions arising out of those facts which are constantly occurring to the mind of the professional man who is earnestly following out his vocation, and which would be otherwise lost to his profession, and in all probability, from lack of fixed- ness, even to himself; here, to cast into the treasury of medical knowledge what each has to give, and carry away with us the fruits of others' contributions, to be pondered and digested in the quietude of the study.