Introductory address delivered at Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, at the opening of the medical session, October 1866 / by Patrick Heron Watson.

  • Patrick Watson
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1867
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Credit: Introductory address delivered at Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, at the opening of the medical session, October 1866 / by Patrick Heron Watson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    you cannot all attain-but that highest and best reward of all good work, a conscious sense of having done your duty. “ ’T is not in mortals to command success ; ^ But you may do more: you may deserve it. To those of you who come among us for the first time, and sc^rce^ ye^know whaflies before you, I should wish at once to d-pate any feeling of strangeness which may steal over you y _ sickness which may perchance welll nig ma e_y congratalating by not only welcoming you among us, and sin y b if you do not avail yourselves of our proffered assistance wnenev gW rA i,hXh .”»ST.sh3d oJ sincerity of our friendship for you.. We to™ ^ barrier a as.»s .ttoiSs.... .to i % ™» -a youths, >«»«» ”?S.ui difficulties occur in your studies, m the arrangement of yom con , in any of the thousand-and-one things which startupobstecles in the way of smooth onward progress, you may student f your teLhers can be of use to you, that your is the best introduction to them, and that it will always make you welcome to their best consideration. . , u^tily While to all of you, willing, working students, w ^ hold out the hand of friendly welcome, I am sui I y P wishes of my colleagues when 1 say to all mere id , than idlers, that we do not wish them amongst us It they come here without contrition for the past waste and loss °11 time, w out any desire to be something better Z determination to acquire good woikmg ’ already for what in time, in means m qmiandered their presence here will not only be PieJUQ , , themselves not only a practical deception to their friends but, w. £u,’. £a exLpL. to «low-..uto., to;“? E SS£ ££ SSftf* TViict note of warning reminds me that the pie y -i „prT„hr,°«:»»».o isrraJ ihs sts tssir-’sssss ft —- »f friendships.
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