An address delivered at the first medical commencement of the Massachusetts Medical College, March 7, 1855 / by D. Humphreys Storer.

  • Storer, David Humphreys, 1804-1891.
Date:
1855
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Credit: An address delivered at the first medical commencement of the Massachusetts Medical College, March 7, 1855 / by D. Humphreys Storer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    selves, if you have constantly one great object in view, and the returning seasons find you ever toiling unin- terruptedly on, you will have acted well your part; you will have accomplished what thousands similarly situated have failed to do. Should you not become known as men of science; should you not be able to add a single grain to the already limitless amount of human knowledge, you may yet make yourselves most valuable members of the profession and the community. To possess the respect, esteem, confidence, of your brethren should be your anxious desire. You are to be constantly associated with them in the discharge of your daily duties, in your social intercourse : you should wish to claim them as your friends; make them such by your frank, unreserved, gentlemanly bearing; by your rea- diness to allow the true value to all suggestions which may be made; your desire to overlook any trifling error of judgment which may exist; your willingness to acknowledge that the age and experience of your seniors ought to add some weight to their opinions; and by the modesty with which you present your own. The kind feeling and intimacy which may have existed for years between physicians is sometimes sud- denly dissolved by an unavoidable misunderstanding; or, more frequently, by the reprehensible, the utterly inexcusable, interference of some officious friend. Should such an unfortunate occurrence befall either of you, gentlemen; should you have any reason to