On the study of medicine and the duties of the student : an introductory lecture delivered at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, on Monday, October 2, 1848 / by William Baly.

  • William Baly
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1848
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Credit: On the study of medicine and the duties of the student : an introductory lecture delivered at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, on Monday, October 2, 1848 / by William Baly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and purity of those he dearly loves, will be confided to your care. If your honour be sullied, or your nature debased by any low and sensual vice, you will be un¬ worthy of this exalted trust. Neglect, then, no means which may aid in preserving the purity and upright attitude of your minds, and in fostering all your more generous sentiments. The constant occupation of your time with improving studies will be a great safeguard to your morals, for vacuity of thought opens a way for the entrance of vice. The influence of good precepts and examples, and the dictates of your own conscience, will, likewise, do much; but all these will be insufficient, unless the controlling power of conscience be strengthened and supported by re¬ ligion. For no one who has watched the workings of his own mind, can doubt that true religious faith and feeling are the only real security against the treacherous assaults of our passions, and the withering influence of selfishness. If you enter on your labours here with right prin¬ ciples of thought and action, sincerely desirous to fit yourselves by moral as well as intellectual culture for the high duties of your future profession, the very studies you are about to pursue will tend to strengthen those principles, and to keep alive all the best feelings of your nature. In the study of the natural sciences, the object of your search will be truth, pure, unmixed, sublime truth; and your minds, elevated and expanded by such a pursuit, will hardly stoop to enter the low and devious ways of cunning and deceit. While constantly reminded of the infinite power, wisdom, and
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