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Credit: [Prospectuses, 1864/5 to 1883/4]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![us to resist. Yet they must be resisted; they must he over- come ; and I know notliing that ever avails against them Letter than the constant recollection of our duty, and of the immense issues that we take in hand. I try to remind myself that the lives of men and women, with all that depends on them, their pain or liappiness, their wealth or want, their power to help, or their need of help, are in my hands. Soon they will be ui yours. Surely no present pleasure can be so keen or so enduring as your regret will be, if, having these great duties assigned to you, you negligently or wilfully fail to make yourselves fit for them; fit to the very brim of your capacity. And yet we must have some pleasures, for recreation's sake. So let me, for my last advice, advise you about these. And, first, as to their purpose. It should be that which the very name of recreation may imply—the renewal of our ability, the getting back the firmer heart and the clearer head, and the stronger will for the work that is yet to be done. How much pleasure may be necessary to this end must be left to each man's conscience to decide; and so must, in great measure, the kind of pleasure. Yet, on this point, let me say that it is due to your profession, as well as to your-selves, that your amuse- ments should be those of gentlemen, and in places where you have to associate on equal terms with none but those who are your equals in society. I believe, indeed, that you will do well to let your society, in amusements as in work, be iis nearly ;is possible exclusively medical. I can promise you, from the long experience which I had while I lived among the students of St. Bartholomew's, as warden of the college there, that by this rule you may lose no pleasure, and may gain much ])rofit. For not only in the ordinary conversation, but even in the leAdties, of the medical student's life, there may be instruction; the jokes of the School and the Hospital are at least as good as those of any other place; their gossip quite as amusing; and both alike often convey lessons not likely to be forgotten. They are a kind of ehaft' in which there are many good grauis. I am indeed convinced of this as a great advantage of the Medical School System, and especially of that collegiate system in the Schools the proposal for which Avill, I hope, be soon carried out here—that the society is or may be almost exclusively medical,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21507326_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
