The new century and the new building of the Harvard Medical School, 1783-1883 : addresses and exercises at the one hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the medical school of Harvard University, October 17, 1883.

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1884
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    APPENDIX. ENDOWMENT OF THE HAEVAED MEDICAL SCHOOL. [The following appeal, from the pen of Bt. Holmes, states clearly and concisely the work of the School, and its aims for the future.] Among the branches of knowledge which are taught in schools, not one comes so directly home to the needs of all communities and every condition of human beings as that which deals with the issues of life and death, of health and disease, as affecting the public and individuals. Sooner or later, most persons must call upon medical art, for themselves or others, in one of those moments when the physician or surgeon is looked to as an earthly saviour. But, besides what he can do in saving life, and in shorten- ing the course of disease, it is impossible to estimate the amount of relief from suffering, bodily and mental, which is due to his ministrations. There is hardly any case so desperate that art cannot alleviate some of its symptoms, if it can do nothing more. And one thing the physician can always do, — lift off that load of responsibiUty which falls upon the relatives and friends of a patient when they are least able to bear its weight. But we are looking foward to the time when much of the disease which now preys upon our city population shall be done away with