An address delivered at the opening of the classes of the Medical School attached to the Middlesex Hospital, October 1st, 1845 / by Alexander Shaw.

  • Shaw, Alexander, 1804-1890.
Date:
1845
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Credit: An address delivered at the opening of the classes of the Medical School attached to the Middlesex Hospital, October 1st, 1845 / by Alexander Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    AN ADDRESS, In ancient times^ if we may credit our Livys or our Sallusts, it was the custom of the General commanding an army, when breaking up their winter cantonments, and commencing a new campaign, to mount a rostrum, and deliver an Exhortatorv Address to the soldiers. You are assembled here, some like troops who have seen service, to resume the toils of a new session; others, like newly-enlisted soldiers, to engage in ardu- ous labours, from which you look for honours and re- wards. It is the established custom of the schools in the metropolis, to seize this opportunity for one of the Lecturers to deliver remarks, which may prepare you for the course of rigorous and severe study appointed for you to follow, and may animate you with proper zeal to pursue your occupations with manly courage and unshaken perseverance to the end. If, however, I correctly judge of your present feel- ings by what I can easily recall of my own, when I sat, like yourselves, before a revolving table such as this, on the first day of October, upon a new session commencing,—I would say, that it was a superfluous part of an Introductory Address, to use language for inspiring ardour, and exhorting to work. There is not one amongst you, I may safely assume, whose bosom is not filled with an ardent desire to engage in the la-