The study of medicine, its dignity and rewards : being an inaugural address, delivered at the commencement of the Winter Session, 1861-62, at the Grosvenor-place School of Medicine / by Francis C. Webb.

  • Webb, Francis Cornelius.
Date:
1861
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    with the attributes and relations of health. It is as certain that the only true foundation of rational medicine is biological science, as it is that, in the present state, death is the necessary conse- quence, termination, and corollary of life. I shall not here, either, attempt to lay down precise rules as to the manner and mode in which you are to study. I may, however, say that in my own experience, the men who have succeeded best, are those who have neglected none of the prescribed modes by which knowledge is to be obtained. Never absent from their place in the lecture-room, careful and diligent dissectors, patient and pains-taking in the laboratory, and never allowing a day to pass without its due quota of well-digested reading ; they have come to the bed-side of the sick with minds thoroughly fitted to observe, to remember, and to reflect. The very diversity of the modes by which they have obtained their knowledge has kept their faculties vigorous and fresh. Every faculty, whether of the mind or body, requires change ; the eye wearies of the most glowing landscape ; harmony, however beautiful, at last palls on the ear ; and a monotony of study weakens and impairs intellectual power as certaiidy as the digestive functions suffer from withholding the varied nutri- ment they are fitted to assimilate. Remember, also, that there are certain opportunities now presented to you, which, if neglected, it is utterly
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