President's address : delivered before the Australasian Medical Congress (Eighth Session, Melbourne 1908) / by H.B. Allen.

  • Allen, Harry Brookes, 1854-1926.
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[1908]
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Credit: President's address : delivered before the Australasian Medical Congress (Eighth Session, Melbourne 1908) / by H.B. Allen. 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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    might not have been divorced, as now they are divorced, from the apprehension of beauty that we favoured ones are given,— the vision of the Grail that makes life fine for ever.” Translate these burning words of the spirit into the humbler phrases of the body, and we have the aspiration that animates the medical profession, an aspiration that must surely realise itself step by step in actual fact. In this mood I would bring my address to an end. The medi- cal profession owes to the public a service of thought as well as a service of action. We shall not fail in the service of action. Let us see that we fail not in the service of thought. And now we go to our Sections, there to rejoice together over our suc- cesses, there to take counsel in our difficulties, there to hearten one another for all that lies before us; and so back to our various spheres of duty, made stronger by our fellowship, humbly striv- ing to have more adequate answer to the questions,—what hast thou done, what hast thou thought. Stillwell and Co., Printers, 195a Collins-street.
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