A lecture introductory to the course on obstetrics and diseases of women and children : in the University of Pennsylvania, for the session of 1835-6 / by Hugh L. Hodge ; published by the members of the class.

  • Hodge, Hugh L. (Hugh Lenox), 1796-1873.
Date:
1835
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    this community, may I not say, of the world. He thus becomes an example for you, gentlemen, as well as for my- self. Let us follow him in this path, and by patient industry let each cultivate the talent with which he is endowed, that our reward may be equal, and if possible, greater than what he enjoys. But while, gentlemen, I thus fix your thoughts on the liv- ing,—on one of whom you have all some personal knowledge, and with whom I would hope, some pleasant associations, you must excuse me while I perform a similar duty to another great man, personally unknown to most, perhaps to all of you, but who, for more than forty years practised Obstetrics in this city, and during the long period of thirty three years, was a private and public teacher of Midwifery;—an individual whose reputation has long been cherished in the hearts, and by the voices of devoted disciples, in every corner of thc^land, but who, by the all-powerful hand of disease and of death, has been removed from the scenes of his usefulness. Doctor Thomas C. James, having enjoyed an excellent edu- cation, classical, as well as medical, in this country, and in Europe, commenced the practice of his professsion in Phila- delphia, in the fall of 1792, with a mind, richly endowed by nature, and well cultivated by a most sedulous improvement of the advantages at his command. As formerly intimated, he was the cotemporary of Dewees, as well as of Wistar and Barton, but owing to a natural diffidence of character, and to a delicate sensibility, which involuntarily shrunk from obser- vation, he for years toiled with comparatively little success B