The future of the medical man / John George Adami.

  • John George Adami
Date:
1913
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    MAX * THE FUTLfBE OF THE MEDICAL JOHN GEORGE ADAME M.D. 1'rofessor of Pathology and Bacteriology, McGill i niversity Medical Faculty MONTREAL Gentlemen of the Graduating Class: Xeed I tell you how I appreciate the honor that has l>een conferred on me by your dean and the medical faculty of Hush Medical College by asking me to address you this afternoon at this, the culminating moment of your university career? But let me confess to you that with the honor comes the sense of heavy responsibility. From him to whom much is given much is also asked. Time and again in the years that are to come, this graduation ceremony will recall itself to the minds of each one of you as marking an epoch. It would be well could I utter words which should impress themselves in such a way that they remain with you as part and par- cel of the event, words memorable for themselves as well as of the occasion; but if the utterance of such words is given to few, very few, of us, it is proper that what I say should be not unworthy, that it should attune itself to the occasion. It would be out of harmony with the event were I to seize this opportunity to deliver my mes- sage as a pathologist, and enunciate my views concern- ing some moot point in medical science; were I to read , you a lecture on advanced pathology. I must perforce strive to utter thus that which will appeal to each of you, that which will be helpful. Dur- ing the last few years you have been satiated with lec- tures on special topics; to-day it is for me to strive to sum up the significance of all this teaching—all this education—in one comprehensive address. For four years—aye, and for long years previously—you have been preparing to enter the practice of medicine; to-dav Cotmnenccment address at Rush Medical College, Chicago, June