Res medica, res publica : the profession of medicine, its future work and wage : an inaugural address delivered at St. George's Hospital on October 1, 1907 / by William Ewart.

  • William Ewart
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1907
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    self—not as a body alone, but as a mind, and as a soul, the entire man. Unless we can perceive that this is a totally different level from any other on earth, and not one of inferiority, we shall have mis- taken our vocation, and could hardly do justice to it. The Profession and its Twentieth-Century Crisis. I may put to you briefly as general propositions the views I have to express. Although the laity has much to discover in this constellation of ours, we are being a little better focussed and better understood. The sign of the profession is in the ascendant, and everything points to its gravitating into the orbit of the State. At the same time, strange perturbations are noticeable within it, and to these I have to call your attention under the name of our twentieth-century crisis. Looking back, there is no profession of greater antiquity, yet none so truly young. The history of humanity is our history, and its future our future. Their joint record can be but beginning. Are we not still fighting for dear life against deadly foes ? Ages ago it was the mammoth. Now the microbe only remains ; but its days are numbered, and the era of health with its peaceful developments is in sight. The profession is only just cutting its back teeth, in the weirdness of puberty. Had a man stepped forth in ancient Greece or