The dignity of medicine : an address delivered before the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, at the opening of the 169th [i.e. 170th] session, Oct. 26, 1906 / by Sir Dyce Duckworth.

  • Duckworth, Sir Dyce, 1840-1928.
Date:
1906
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Credit: The dignity of medicine : an address delivered before the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, at the opening of the 169th [i.e. 170th] session, Oct. 26, 1906 / by Sir Dyce Duckworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    must be that they bring obloquy upon many others besides themselves. If our art and practice are not based on common-sense and strict integrity, I am sorry for Medicine. It is not always easy to refute in public such opinions and conduct as I refer to, and most of us have sometimes to fall back on the wise dictum of Bishop Andrewes, that “ he who tolerates, does not necessarily approve.” We can hardly suppose that the conditions under which so many of our brethren have to work amongst the poor in large towns tend otherwise than to detract somewhat from a due appreciation of the claims of our art for respect and appreciation. I speak with all sympathy for these of our colleagues, knowing full well with what exemplary and ill-requited labour they spend the best days of their life in the service of exacting and often ungrateful communities. If the public is inappreciative of their efforts and sacrifices, we, at all events, are able to appraise them, and to include many of these toilers amongst the worthiest members of our body. We may be sure that anything approaching extortion, or greed of reward, must seriously impair the regard which is due to our body, and we may remember a remark of the late Dr. Matthews Duncan to the effect that “all
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