Eulogium on the late Wright Post, M.D : delivered in the chapel of Columbia College, at the request of the Medical Society of the City and County of New York, on Wednesday, October 8, 1828 / by John Augustine Smith.
- John Augustine Smith
- Date:
- 1828
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Eulogium on the late Wright Post, M.D : delivered in the chapel of Columbia College, at the request of the Medical Society of the City and County of New York, on Wednesday, October 8, 1828 / by John Augustine Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![is ultimately to till his high and lucrative sta- tion] Why do not some of those who consi- der Dr. Post^as so very common a personage step into the place which he has vacated^ The inducements are ample. Honor and emolument on the one hand, and the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens on the other, await the successful aspirant. Yet he appears not. Will it be said that these things come by chance—that* Dr. Post was lucky J Let no man thus solace his vanity. Every one may rest assured, that events are no more for- tuitous in the moral than they are in the mate- rial world, and that in the one, as in the other, every effect has its appointed and apportioned cause. To great permanent success, then, though other things be requisite, correspond- ing abilities are indispensable. I say perma- nent success, because I acknowledge that h\ puff and parade, by sounding his own praise and by hiring others to swell the note, a man may acquire a certain kind of notoriety. This is particularly easy in medicine, from the ac- knowledged incompetency of the public to judge of medical men. But this mushroom fame never lasts. In the end justice is sure to be done, and mankind, though imposed upon for a time, finally reduce the vain pretender to that obscurity from which he so improperly, and frequently so surreptitiously, emerged. Now, whatever may be thought of Dr. Post in other](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21155203_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
