An address, introductory to the session 1884-1885, delivered in the theatre of the Meath Hospital and County of Dublin Infirmary / by Rawdon Macnamara.

  • Macnamara, Rawdon
Date:
1884
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Credit: An address, introductory to the session 1884-1885, delivered in the theatre of the Meath Hospital and County of Dublin Infirmary / by Rawdon Macnamara. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    whom I have the honor of being surrounded. My ideal is that to constitute a perfect physician a rare combination is essential—wisdom and experience. A man may be very wise, yet, lacking experience, will be but a poor practitioner ; in like manner, he may have great experience, yet, wanting wisdom, he never will carve for himself a niche in the temple of science. In- separable from wisdom is truth—without truth all is vain in science, for in it lies the foundation of all science. The grand characteristic of truth is its capability of enduring the test of universal experience, and of coming unchanged out of every possible form of fair discussion. Experience and wisdom, walking hand in hand, alone can add to our stock of Medical knowledge; wisdom will suggest that which ex- perience will test, and the outcome is knowledge. But, gentlemen, above all things, and before all things, bear in mind that—The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and the abjuration of sin is the truest outcome of knowledge.
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