A souvenir with an autobiographical sketch of early life and selected miscellaneous addresses and communications / By Samuel Clagett Busey.

  • Samuel C. Busey
Date:
1896
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Credit: A souvenir with an autobiographical sketch of early life and selected miscellaneous addresses and communications / By Samuel Clagett Busey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    I have long ago announced, that a life lost through ignorance, inattention, or neglect, is Homcthing more than a mistake to be appeased by one's complaisant promise to himself that such wrong shall not again be committed. The responsibility of misguided judgment and misap])lied resource does not cease with tlie conviction of right. Right or wrong cannot be submitted to the arbitrament of such judgment, nor dis- missed with the declaration of one's own opinion of right. The tribunal of justice is at the bar of eternity. I take this occasion to gratify a long-cherished wish to communicate to my colleagues and confreres the statement of my firm belief in the beneficence and omnipotence of Almighty God and the efficacy of prayer. INIy past experience assures me that sincere and prayerful submission to the will of God may displace doubt and fear with confidence and courage, and that in His wisdom such help may be granted as will vouch- safe results not believed to be otherwise attainable. In a recent publication entitled Personal Reminiscences and Recollections of Forty-six Years' llembership in the Medi- cal Society of the District of Columbia and Residence in this City, I have narrated many incidents and circumstances of my professional life and associations. Could I have antici- pated the favor with which that volume has been received, as well by the lay as the professional reader, I would have added many omitted details and incidents, which, as it seems to me now, might have enhanced its historical value and interest. In the one hundred and eighty letters of acknowl- edgment now in my possession — many of which are from members of the immediate families or near descendants of those to whom reference was made in the volume—there does not appear one unpleasant criticism; on the contrary, the flattering commendations of those correspondents, and of others, verbally communicated, have been so general that I am greatly surprised, as expressed by one in high educational standing, at my success as an author. Some have, however, criticised the omissions of a frontispiece and an autobiography
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