Medical examinations and physicians requirements considered / by Thomas Mayo.

  • Thomas Mayo
Date:
1857
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Credit: Medical examinations and physicians requirements considered / by Thomas Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    assurance of a position looked up to even among those wlio affect to doubt its usefulness. This is not a mere question of long and short syllables or of dialects ; though, in that point of view, it is connected with the presumption of an intimate acquaintance with two very remarkable languages : mixed up with such considerations there exists, however generated, a feeling, a sentiment, a tone of self-respect and of respect for others, intrinsically valuable—and peculiarly so to a profession such as ours—^in which the sanctity and vital importance of the duties which we have to perform scarcely com- pensate, so as to keep us in our just social rank, for the extent in which our time and our whole selves are largely prostrated before the convenience, the fancies, and sometimes the trivial Hkes and dislikes of the public under sickness and suffering. This result of classical literature is, I say, highly valu- able to us, both as fitting us to acquiesce in these duties in a proper spirit, and enabling us to find sympathy and friendship, in those at least who are of the same education, and have drunk out of the same fountains of thought with ourselves. Do not let us yield without a struggle to the insinuations
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