Introductory address to the students in medicine of the College of physicians and surgeons of the University of the state of New-York : Delivered Nov. 6, 1840 / By Chandler R. Gilman.

  • Chandler Robbins Gilman
Date:
1840
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Credit: Introductory address to the students in medicine of the College of physicians and surgeons of the University of the state of New-York : Delivered Nov. 6, 1840 / By Chandler R. Gilman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    shared by mother's ready sympathy. And as your life advanced, has not her gentle influ- ence been, like a guardian angel, ever present, to check the impulses to evil, and lure you on- ward in the path of duty. And oh, happy are they to whom, amid the cares and toils of man- hood, the Divine mercy has vouchsafed a con- tinuance of the blessed influence of a mother's gentle wisdom. But there are those of us to whom that great blessing has been denied, to whom mother is altogether a word of memory. Yet to us—perhaps to us chiefly — it is*a holy and a blessed word, recalling, as it does, the thousand tender and grateful re- collections of days gone by. To us, nay, to all, woman will not appeal in vain when she bids us, if we love a living, or cherish the memory of a dead mother, to give aid and suc- cour to her in this her hour of trial, that hour of perilous hope, as it was beautifully called by one* who, alas ! did not survive it. If aid and succour be afforded skilfully, you may hope that, after a few brief hours of suf- fering, all will be well—the woman's agonies * Princess Charlotte of England.
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