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

  • Alexander Shaw
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[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 / [Alexander Shaw]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    advice, on their entrance into life, to young men destined for the profession of medicine, can ever have opened a work which discoursed on the science of Anatomy ! Let me turn to the testimony of another eminent, and no less liberal and enlightened member of the sacred profession—whose tastes, as evinced by his pub¬ lished works, draw him nearer to our profession; and it is hoped, make him a more competent judge on such subjects. Let us hear what Bishop Stanley has said of the aim and bent of our particular studies. The words I quote, were spoken on the occasion of the formal opening, last month, of the Norfolk Hospital Museum. “ It has been frequently said, and I have heard it in London, Edinburgh, and various parts, and from various quarters, that medical students, although en¬ gaged in this most interesting department of science, were less religious—nay, were more tincturt ’ with infidelity, than any other class of society. I cannot AND WILL NOT BELIEVE THAT SUCH IS THE CASE. I will UsKe ... » not believe that young men, applying their thoughts to subjects, in which Omnipotence, and Omniscience, are so deeply impressed in every branch, in every line, in every trace and path they pursue, can wantonly shut their eyes, cast aside their mental faculties, and deaden their sympathies, when approaching such lofty and enlightening subjects. If these bony lips [pointing to the jaws of the skeleton] “ could speak, what would they say ? If those fleshless forms in yonder case, could address a sermon from the other world, they would tell of anything but infidelity—they would preach a dis¬ course, which, for eloquence, they of this world could never reach.” FINIS. ,7 Walton and Mitchell Printers, 21, War dour Street, Oxford Street.