The art of medicine, its objects and its duties : an introductory address, delivered at the Manchester Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, on the opening of the winter session, 1860-61 / by Edward Lund.
- Lund, Edward, 1823-1898.
- Date:
- [1860]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The art of medicine, its objects and its duties : an introductory address, delivered at the Manchester Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, on the opening of the winter session, 1860-61 / by Edward Lund. 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 they have come to listen ;—yet, I must beg of you to allow me to depart from the more usual style of in- troductory lectures, and to offer my remarks by way of counsel and advice to my young friends whom I see about me, rather than to seek to make them instructive or entertaining to yourselves, collectively. It seems to me, gentlemen, that the short time allowed for this purpose to-day, may be very profitably occupied, if I address myself to the new students who are here ;— to those who are still workers in our school;—and to those, who, either in this school of Manchester, of which we are all so justly proud, as one of the oldest and most successful of provincial schools, or in some other Medical Institution, have completed their studies, and now resting, as it were, on the threshold of our profession, are candi- dates for public favour ; and have many anxious thoughts passing through their minds, which would almost lead them to wish that they were once more students, and had still before them that very curriculum of study, from which they have but just emerged. And I believe that there is yet a fourth class of my auditors to whom I may speak to-day;—to those who, having toiled, for longer or shoi ter periods, in the practice of their profession, know well enough what it is to be a Medical man, and could tell us, if they Avould, from their own experience, what are really the profitable and important points of study on which we, as juniors, might well enlarge;—and who, therefore, may be supposed to take a peculiar interest in all that concerns the rising generation of Medical men, which they observe, year by year, growing up around them. To those, then, who are found here to-day for the first time, and to whom the 1st of October, ] 860, is to be the be ginning of their scholastic course in the Medical pro- fession, I would, in the name of my colleagues and myself I might almost add, in the name of the whole profession', hold out to you the hand of friendship and receive you, at once—as friends. I would say to you, if you have indeed selected the study of the art of healing, in all its I](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22327307_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
