Medical education in the United States : an address delivered to the students of the Philadelphia Association for Medical Instruction, at the close of the session of 1846 / by Alfred Stillé.

  • Stillé, Alfred, 1813-1900.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Medical education in the United States : an address delivered to the students of the Philadelphia Association for Medical Instruction, at the close of the session of 1846 / by Alfred Stillé. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    paration from the comforts and amenities of domestic life, by their willingness to incur expense, endure fatigue, and to pursue studies which are in nowise essential to graduation, prove that they appreciate somewhat of the responsibilities of the profession they have embraced, and that they are ambitious of obtain- ing its highest honours. You, gentlemen, who have made such sacrifices, and who indulge such aspira- tions, will have your reward; your devotion and en- thusiasm are warrants of your success; not of that success which dazzles suddenly and for a moment, but of that, which like all that is good and great and lasting in nature, grows by invisible increase from day to day. In this anticipation of your future eminence we rejoice, for we know that you will look back upon the hours spent in the hall of this association as the source of your superiority over many less instructed rivals. We are persuaded, also, that from your inter- est in the success of the school, it will give you plea- sure to hear of its contemplated improvements. I beg to announce that, in addition to his regular obstetrical course, Dr. Meigs will next summer deliver a series of lectures on the diseases of children; and that for the first time in a Philadelphia school, the subject of Medical Jurisprudence will be taught in a separate course by Dr. Edward Hartshorne, whose opportuni- ties for studying the relations of disease with crime have, it is believed, peculiarly fitted him for the post he has consented to fill in this association. For your eventual success, and for our own right to take pride in anticipating it, there is a substantial ground in the history of the summer medical schools of Philadelphia. Most of those who within the last twenty years have held a prominent rank in the medi- cal profession of this part of the country, were pupils of these schools. They justly attribute their advance- ment to the method of instruction there pursued, a method which allowed them time to digest what they learned, to read as well as to listen, and to follow the clinical teaching of the hospitals. The summer schools were originally instituted for the very purpose of sup-