Advantages of medical association. An address read to the Harveian Society at the opening of its 14th session / [Edward William Murphy].

  • Murphy, Edward W. (Edward William), 1802-1877.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Advantages of medical association. An address read to the Harveian Society at the opening of its 14th session / [Edward William Murphy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are fully aware of this evil, and hope that, before long, it will be in their power to propose a remedy. Permit me now to direct your attention to the important advantages derivable from this Institu¬ tion. First, then, we give to the medical men of the district a means by which they may become known to each other in the most favorable manner, namely, by meeting together for the purpose of mutual improvement. We offer them a retreat, as it were, from the toils of practice and the cares of an anxious profession, where they can discuss their difficulties, explain their doubts, or communicate the successful results of their exertions to their fellow-labourers in the same field. This, alone, is a source of gratification to many who therefore set a proportionate value upon a Society, which gives them the opportunity of meeting their professional friends. If, however, there are any practitioners who have no doubts or difficulties, and who are only desirous to make known their successes through the medium of the press, to such persons a Society of this kind is certainly useless. But, I believe, if there be any such, they constitute a very small minority, whose assistance may be withheld with¬ out serious injury to us. Another advantage of this Society is peculiarly applicable to the present time, when the general interests of the profession occupy so much of our own, and of the public attention—a period also in which the quiet cur¬ rent of our avocations is becoming ruffled by gusts of medico-political discussions—and we are rendered anxious and uneasy, lest these ominous indications should be the forerunners of a destructive tempest.
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