The professions : an address delivered at the commencement of the medical department of Western Reserve College at Cleveland, Feb. 21, 1849 / by Henry N. Day.
- Henry Noble Day
- Date:
- 1849
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Credit: The professions : an address delivered at the commencement of the medical department of Western Reserve College at Cleveland, Feb. 21, 1849 / by Henry N. Day. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![towards a perfect civilization ; that they are, in a peculiar sense and distinctively, learned professions ; and that they subsist by an organic law of perpetuation. May I be allowed, in conclusion, to offer one or two brief sugges- tions which naturally arise in the review of our discussion. One is, that the members of the several professions should cultivate and cherish for each other a reciprocal sympathy, esteem and respect, while they harmoniously co-operate in advancing the highest interests of societj. The professions, as we have seen, stand in their very nature and origin in a most intimate, may I not say, sacred relation to each other. Society has taken its three great departments of functional duty and assigned one to each for its especial care. With functions equally high, important, sacred, society expects in the very distribution, that they labor harmoniously, and consequently with reciprocal good will and deference in promoting the great ends of social lite. Separated in their respective provinces of duty by distinct boundaries and land- marks, they yet are more than neighbors. They bear to each other something of a fraternal relation while they owe to each other some- thing more than even a fraternal dependence and obligation. Neither can properly discharge its high functions without the other. They rise and fall together. Meeting often in the same held for the discharge of their several functions, they have a right to expect from each other a reciprocal defer- ence, conhdence and respect. Having one common aim, tin care of the life of man in its three-fold development, thej .should move to- gether in harmony of purpose and harmon] of endeavor, subject to a higher law than that which determines the courtesies of ordinary life. As learned professions, society seems to have a light to demand of them, especially, conspiring endeavors in the extension of the domain of true intelligence and science. One department of science particularly calls for their united culture. It is the science of sciences, fn m which all ethers originate, from which all receive their shape and character; the science of mind. It is a science of vital necessity to each of the professions. May I be allowed here, with all deference to invite the attention of the .Medical Profession particularly, to the importance of this study to inquire u hether some branches of Medical .science might not be advanced to B vastly higher degree of perfection, if they weieto receive a more decidedly psychological development? Is there not](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21113968_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
