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     PROF. EVANS'
VALEDICTORY ADDRESS. 
 
ADDRESS
TO THE
GRADUATING  CLASS
              OF

 RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE

             ON THE

NATURE, UTILITY, AND OBLIGATIONS,

             OF THE

     MEDICAL PROFESSION

      DELIVERED FEBRUARY 7,185
         \
BY JOHN EVANS, M.D.,PROF. &c.
PUBLISHED BY THE CLASS
C. A. SWAN; Printer.
CHICAGO:
   1850. 
                                         Rush Medical College,  7
                                          Chicago, Jan. 1850.  )

Prof. Evans:—

  Dear Sir—Oft the  25 Inst.,  the  undersigned were  appointed a Com-

mittee, to procure acopy ol the Valedictory Address you are to deliver to

the Graduating Class, for publication, which we respectfully solicit;

  With the best wishes for your health and prosperity, we are,

                             Yours, Respectfully.

                                    E. J. FRENCH of Illinois,
                                    W. W. PERRY, of Michig-an.
                                    S. A. PEASE, of Wisconain.
                                    JNO.M. PHIPPS; of Indiana.
                                    J. C. MACON, of Iowa.
                                    JNO. H. MURPHY, of Minnesota.
                                    ORSON C.HOYT, of New York.
                                    J. R. SNELLING.of Ohio.
                                                          Committee.
To Messrs. French, Perry, Pease, Phipps,  Macon, Murphy, Hoyt,  and

  Snelling:—
  Gentlemen :—I herewith send you a  copy of the Address, thanking

you for the generous confidence manifested in asking its  publication before

you have heard it.
  Please communicate to the class my thanks for their uniform kindness,

with  assurances  of  my warmest wishes for their future  success  and

happiness.                       Your friend, truly,
                                                     JOHN EVANS.
  Chicago, February 2, 1850. 
ADDRESS:
Graduates of Rush Medical College:—
   With the ceremonies of this evening, which have conferred
upon you the highest honors of our cherished  institution,  is
closed the  interesting relation that has for a time existed be-
tween you and its Faculty, of Pupils and Professors, and the
pleasing task has been assigned to me, of welcoming you as
brethren into the  ranks  of the  Medical Profession.   Accept
then, my hearty congratulations upon your having attained to
the high distinction  of the Doctorate, and worthily assumed
a fraternal  relation,  with the  members of our time-honored
and  useful profession.   The Diplomas which you  have re-
ceived from the hands of our President, give you our strongest
recommendation.   They will afford you  an introduction to
all honorable Physicians,  and  certify to them and to  the
world, (for they are in our vernacular tongue,) that you have
entered the profession by the straight gate, and that you have
attained that  high degree of knowledge and skill that entitles
you to their respect  and confidence.   We trust, that,  by  as
diligent  an application to your studies, and as faithful a dis-
charge of your duties in after life, as have marked the period
of your pupilage, you will never forfeit that respect, nor betray
that confidence. 
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   In giving you our parting address, no subject seems  more
 appropriate for our consideration, than the nature, utility, and
 obligations of that profession, the cultivation  and practice of
• which, is to be the business of your lives.  Permit me, there-
 fore, to call your attention to a few thoughts; 1st upon the na-
 ture of the science that we study and teach: 2d, upon the utility
 of the  art we  inculcate and practice,  and 3d,  upon the rspon-
 sibilities imposed by the office of Physician: on each of which,
 1  must necessarily be brief.
   There is,  in  the public mind,  a well settled conviction of
 the  necessity of efforts for the relief of the afflicted, which not
 only has the sanction of Him who said "they that are whole
 need not a physician, but  they that are sick," but which has
 existed in all ages and countries  since the  time when man
 partook of

                           "------the fruit
           " Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
           "Brought death into the world, and all our woe."

   This conviction has always secured patronage to those who
 pretend to  the  art of healing,  whether they relied upon the
 agency of religious rites  and ceremonies, superstitious incan-
 tations, the royal touch, the empirical use of medicines, or the
 well directed remedial agents, of the scientific physician.—
 Medicine as an  art,  then,  however rude, has existed •' time
 whereof the memory  of man runneth  not to the  contrary,"
 but as a science, it cannot boast of  such high  antiquity; yet
 having originated with the cultivation of letters, being one of
 the elements of civilization, it has a growth of over two thou-
 sand  years.
    The science  of  medicine at  the present day comprises all
 the facts which throw light upon  the  health  and  disease of
 man, and the means of preserving the former, and relieving
  the latter.   It consists of several departments, each of which
  is a science of itself.  But as it has been the object of years of 
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devoted study on your part, to become acquainted with these,
by which your minds have been endued with their great and
important principles, I pass them by with a simple enumera-
tion and definition.
  Anatomy, the foundation of our knowledge of the body, and
of the nature and seat of the injuries and  diseases of the sys-
tem, comprises  a complete understanding of the form,  size,
structure and situation of each organ  and tissue, even to its
minutest texture and composition,  only perceptible  through
the power of the microscope, and the analytic crucible of the
Chemist.
   Physiology teaches the part that each organ and tissue plays
in the great phenomenon of life, and reveal* the laws of their
 action in health.   It gives a knowledge of the various stages
 in  the organization and development of living beings.  Among
 other  things, it  shows  how the  blood performs its wonderful
 rounds of circulation; and is changed by nutrition, respiration
 and secretion,—being the medium through which the body is
 built up and pulled down. How the nervous system  endows
 different parts of the body with sensation, and forms  the mys-
 terious channels of communication  between them, and how
 the mind, through these telegraphic connections, with elec-
 trical  velocity holds intercourse with different  parts of  the
 system, and exerts its control over them.
    Pathology, teaches the  nature of the various deviations from
 healthy action and natural structure which constitute disease,
 including  their  causes,  symptoms,  detection,  situation and
 consequences.
    Chemistry makes us familiar with the nature of the elemen-
 tary substances by which we are surrounded, and of which all
 material objects  are composed,—their  various combinations,
 affinities,  and laws of action  in the composition and decom-
 position pi bodies.  It is of the greatest importance to the  un-
 derstanding of physiology, pathology, and the action of reme-
 <he&. 
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  Materia Medica imparts a knowledge of the long catalogue
of remedial agents, their nature, effects,  doses  and modes of
administration.  Pharmacy is the science of preparing, preser-
ving, and dispensing them.
  Therapeutics is the science of applying remedies to the pre-
vention, palliation and cure of disease, and is so extensive as to
include the treatment of all the accidents and  maladies that
affect afflicted humanity.   It is the application  in practice of
the knowledge of all the  other branches of our science, and
comprises the three extensive departments of Practical Medi-
cine. Surgery, and Obstetrics.
  Medical Jurisprudence makes us  familiar with  the proper
modes of investigating and giving evidence in cases involving
legal questions, and is often of the utmost importance to  the
ends of justice.
  It has been  said that medicine is an uncertain science, but
it is only so in  the imperfections of our senses, which limit our
knowledge, and these are in many instances already partially
overcome.  But,  when viewed in this light, what science is
not uncertain?   Theology, Law, Political  Economy,  Me-
chanics, Agriculture, Metaphysics, and all other departments
of human knowledge are limited by these imperfections.   If
the certainty of a science may be  determined by the number
and accuracy of its known facts, then, indeed, may Medicine
challenge a  comparison with others,  and comparatively, at
least, repel the charge of  uncertainty.  No other  includes so
extensive a range  of  Knowledge; for in addition to the vari-
ous departments already  enumerated, there are  collateral sci-
ences which indirectly belong to it. Among these, are Natural
Philosophy, which is necessary to explain the various actions
in the living economy,  and the influences  of  physical agents
upon it—Natural  History, Botany, and Mineralogy, the store
houses of our remedial  agents—Geography, Topography  and
Meteorology, which teach us how to understand  the influences
of locality, climate, and changes of weather, in causing,  modi-
fying,  preventing  and curing  disease—Mental Philosophy, 
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which enables us more readily to understand the diseases of
the mind, and its various influences over the physical system,
in exciting, complicating, and controling its maladies.  These,
with all the social, political and religious influences that favor-
ably or injuriously affect the health of body or  mind, are pro-
per, and to a certain  extent, necessary  studies for the physi-
cian.  These  departments  of knowledge are quite full, and
generally their facts are plain and demonstrative.  Uncertain-
ty, then, does not apply to the science, although a want of
knowledge may often render its application uncertain.
   Nor  can a charge  of falling behind the  improvements of
the age,  bear against our science;  for it is the economy of
each department to adopt every improvement and discovery,
so soon as ascertained and established.   All that is useful and
true, let it come through never so humble a channel, belongs
to legitimate, scientific medicine; for it, unlike all special sys-
tems, has no rules of exclusion except for error and false doc-
trine—no boundaries  within which it must be restricted, ex-
cept those of truth—the whole, wide, boundless field of nature
is its open theatre  of action.
   The science of medicine may well be  compared to a state-
ly edifice, whose firm foundations are laid broad and deep in
immutable truth.  Its superstructure is built of the indestruc-
table materials of  known  facts, well arranged and cemented
together by the intimate relation and correspondence between
them.   Its design  is the theory that has guided her innumer-
able votaries in their  labors upon its erection.  Its-various
finished  and furnished apartments are the bulwarks of  safety
against  disease, and  the downy pillows of repose from sick-
ness, sorrow,  and pain.   Its  lofty domes ^and  triumphal
arches are the trophies of success; and its heavenward reach-
ing spires are  the  tendency, which, looking through Nature.
has to point to Nature's God.
   Although the plan has  undergone many changes  in  its
various  parts, and the building is not completed, there  are
very many perfect apartments,  and the sound of the imple- 
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ments of thousands of skilful workmen, is  daily to be heard
inspiring an abiding confidence in the maxim that " time,
patience and perseverance will accomplish  all things."   But
however perfect our  science  might be rendered, and how-
ever skillful its practice may become, it must not be expected
to secure immortality to man, for the fiat of the Most High has
gone  forth—"dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
   It has been said that the study of medicine leads to infideli-
ty, and that its practice has a tendency to harden the  heart.—
But it is not so.  To the Christian Philosopher, the contempla-
tion of the wonderful works of Nature that our science reveals,
can but inspire devotion ; for at every  step he is struck with
a wisdom of design  and a  beauty of  adaptation, that could
alone be the offspring of an Allwise and Omnipotent Creator.
And unless association with the most benign phase of Human
Nature is injurious to moral and refined feeling—unless  the
practice of benevolence blunts the sensibilities, the  physician
is  little exposed to the influences that tend to harden the heart.
His associations with men are during their afflictions and
greatest sufferings, when, if ever, they are humble, and moral,
and religious; and his whole life  is  an active scene of practi-
cal benevolence,  in which he spends a large part of his time
and substance in gratuitously relieving  the wants, the afflic-'
tions, and the sorrows of the poor.
   We come now to  the second topic of our discourse,—the
utility of the art we inculcate and practice.
   To the philosophic mind, further evidence of the utility of
our art could scarcely be demanded, than a contemplation of
the range of knowledge comprised by the science upon which
it is founded; for certainly, he whose mind is stored with the
facts and experience of the profession, could not fail to ren-
der useful service in the relief of disease.  As he who under-
stands the mechanism of the watch can repair it;  and he who
understands  the compass, chart, and helm,  confidently ven-
tures  to guide the ship in its way on the trackles ocean,—so he 
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who understands the materials and laws of our organization,
in health and disease, together with the resources of medicine,
can safely venture  upon the duties of the physician.
  But many, from inattention, or a want of  comprehension,
fail to see that in medicine, as in political economy,  knowl-
edge is power, and ask for the practical evidence and positive
demonstration of our ability to combat disease.  And here
we  shall be able  to  make our strongest  claim  upon public
confidence, and our most invulnerable defence against the
attacks of our enemies.   But in casting around for a point at
which to commence, so innumerable are the  triumphs of our
art, that  their very abundance creates  embarrassment.  As
all of the achievments of the mind cannot  be  arrayed  at once
to prove  its power, so with the healing art.  As neither moun-
tain nor  ocean impose a successful barrier  to  our  onward
progress, for we scale the lofty heights of the one, and ride
securely upon the  billowy bosom  of the other; so neither the
rapidly ebbing currents of .life through the severed artery, nor
the  terrific  throes  of obstructed  labour defy  our skill,
for  we quietly pass a ligature  around  the vessel  and stop the
bleeding in one  case,  and by the application of a safe and
efficient  instrument give  prompt relief to almost  superhuman
sufferings, and save two lives in the other.  By our improved
methods of treatment we cut short, generally  within a few
days, the commonly  prevalent  fevers  of our Great West,—
the  remittent and inteimittent,  which,  without our  aid, prove
fatal, or  run a course of weeks, and even months.  Our art
has provided a safe-guard, that is efficient in preventing the
most dangerous and loathsome disease  that afflicted  our an-
cestors, and simply by vaccination the smallpox is robbed of
its terrors.   It frequently, even though  the bones  are much
diseased, saves both life and limb in cases where the unskilful
and ignorant certainly sacrifice one, and often both.   By the
use of antidotes, it neutralizes and renders harmless the most
virulen t  poisons, or  inserts the stomach pump and removes
them.  It often cuts short, in resolution, the most  violent and 
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destructive  inflammations.  It divides  the cords that  draw
awry the  crooked limb,  or  neck,  or eye, and restores it  to
comeliness and usefulness. It applies the local remedy within
the larnyx and almost certainly cures the formerly fatal laryn-
geal consumption.  When the throat is closed by  tonsillitis so
as to stop the breath and cause the patient to die of suffocation
without our aid, by a small incsion and the insertion of a tube
in the  trachea, the breathing is often rendered easy and re-
covery safe.   It removes the cataract and allows the light to
penetrate the darkened chambers of the eye—closes up the
natural deformity  of the hare-lip—administers ether and chlo-
roform and gives the subject of pain and torture perfect, and
even delightful repose.   It has recently provided a remedy,
that, if it does  not entirely cure consumption, certainly  is
annually saving  multitudes of our race  from sinking into the
grave.   It applies the ethereal  solution  of gun cotton to the
nsevus maternus  and  cures it  without ,an  operation—to the
abraded,  erysipelatous  and burnt.surface, relieving the pain
and promoting recovery.  It has taken the Lunatic from the
public highway  where he was the subject  of the sports and
jeers of the cruel aud unfeeling—from the loathsome dungeon
cell, where the light of hope  for his recovery was shut out for-
ever—from  under the superstitious  impression  that his con-
dition was the legitimate curse of God, and that it was impi-
ous to offer relief—proved that his derangement was a physical
disease, subject  to the action of remedies,  and now annually
from hospitals in various parts of the country,  sends  eighty-
five out of every one hundred recent cases home to  the glad
embrace of  rejoicing friends, clothed and in their right minds.
But why need I continue an enumeration which volumes can
alone contain.
   Although we cannot restore life, we certainly can often ward
off the poisonous arrows of death,and cause them to fallharm-
less at the feet of their  intended victim.   And in those cases
that are beyond the reach of the curative resources of our art---
when we are compelled to see  our arch enemy in his gloomy 
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pall ride triumphant over all our barriers, bearing our patients
down to the mansions of the dead, we can still smooth the as-
perities of the rugged way,  allay the  torturing pang, and ad-
monish them of our failure, that they may apply to the Great
Physician, who, alone, can give them immortality.  Surely,
an art  so rich in blessings to afflicted  man, ought  not to need
an advocate in this enlightened age.
  But notwithstanding the irrisiitible  evidence of  the  utility
of our art which you have at your  command,  you will meet
with those  who  doubt  and  refuse  to  employ  you,—thry
may ptoperly be divided into four classes.
   The first  class is composed of candid and sensible people
who have fallen into the hands of  the unskilful in our ranks,
by  whom they judge the entire profession.  These  you will
generally be able to reclaim by philosophical explanation, and
the demonstration of intelligent and successful practice.
   The second class, quite numerous, is made up of those who
are ever on  the look-out for  some new way,—who, as soon as
told that there is a new system promulged,  either in politics,
medicine, or religion, follow immediately after,  all  the way
shouting praises to  the progressive spirit of the age.  They
will scarcely pay for the labor necessary to  convert them,  as
they will  only remain  convinced  until some new breeze of
doctrine strikes them.
   The third class comprises the excessively credulous, who
believe the  recommendations and certificates of wonderful
cures on  the labels of nostrums, and  in  newspapers, to  be
true.   Yes,  they even believe the boastings of the  quack him-
self, giving  accounts  of miraculous cures performed after all
the doctors had failed. They follow first one "lo here," and then
another, as  they successively  rise  and vanish away.   By  no
means should you stoop to the gasconade and self-laudation
necessary to charm their ears.
   The  fourth class are the  penurious.  They prefer  the un-
certain, and generally, in the end,  more  expensive  plan, of
using domestic remedies and nostrums for fear of the doctor's 
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bill.   Thus they tamper with life until they become alarmed,
when post-haste they come after you.   " Hurry, doctor, I fear
you'l be too late!" is their anxious entreaty now.   Go and at-
tend them, they will be tedious cases, if  curable,  from the
firm grasp the disease has  been allowed to make.   But you
cannot reform this class.   They are incorrigible.
  But notwithstanding you may be  harassed by  each or  all
of these classes, let a spirit of forbearance govern you—let the
law of kindness be written upon your hearts, for it generally
is the fault of their delusion.  Interested pretenders, by mis-
representation and abuse (for a  quack who does not abuse the
profession never thrives,) may continue to  lead many astray,
but true science will, as ever, remain permanently in the as-
cendant.
  But I must pass to the third topic of my  discourse,—the ob-
ligations imposed by the office of physician.  These are three-
fold—to the  profession of which you  are  members—to your
patients, and to society at large.
  For the government  of your intercourse with your profes-
sional brethren, you will find the code of ethics adopted by
the American Medical Association yonr best guide.   Remem-
ber, as you exalt the character  and standing of the profession
by  your own merits, and a just appreciation of the merits of
others, you increase the public confidence in it, and extend its
usefulness.
   It it is your duty to diligently cultivate the field  of science
in which you have chosen to labor, by a devoted application
to the study  of that that is  already known, and a close inves-
tigation of mooted questions  and obscure  and hidden points.
For  study, the leisure from practical  duties that  generally
 attends the commencement of practice,  will afford you ample
 time, and in proportion as you improve it, will you be  quali-
 fied afterward to  prosecute these investigations.
   We trust your  minds are already fired oy a laudable am
 bit ion to excel; as without this you cannot hope to attain to
 eminence.   The ardent desire  must precede in  an underta- 
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king requiring so much toil  and perseverance, or the success-
ful effort will not  be made.   And as the whole field of our
science is too broad for any one successfully to cultivate it in
its entire extent, and attain to high distinction in all its de-
partments,  you will do well  to  direct your attention, more
particularly, to special subjects for  close and  minute investi-
gation.  While it should be your  aim to  be generally well
informed, bear  in mind,  that  one subject thoroughly studied
and completely mastered, is better than a smattering of many.
I would also advise you in reference to the subjects you se-
lect lor investigation,  to  be particular  to choose  those,  a
 knowledge of which will be of the most practical  utility  to
mankind:  keeping constantly in mind that usefulness is the
great object  of life.
   Would time permit, it would afford me  much pleasure  to
point out some of what I conceive to be great and important
errors that a  neglect of  this  fundamental truth  has caused
 in our systems of popular education. Too generally, students
 at college are instructed without any reference whatever to the
 calling they are to pursue through life.   They pass through a
 curriculum  of studies, a large part  of which is afterwards so
 totally foreign  to their pursuits, that it is  entirely laid aside
 and forgotten.
    But i must confine myself to the duties  of the physician.—
  And here I cannot follow the popular course and advise you
  to  attempt to compass all science, and to study  many lan-
  guages, holding up before  you the fascinating prospect of a
  fame for universal erudition.   There is a vast difference  be-
  tween the  true  merits and solid reputation of the most learned
  and the  hest educated man.   While the former will discourse
  intelligently on a great variety of subjects, and perhaps not be
  able  to  apply a tithe of his  information  to  the use  of  his
  calling in life; the latter from a complete and thorough under- 
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standing of all that pertains to his own  field  of labor,  is not
only prepared to tell yon all about it, but safely and correctly
to serve you in it.  If we turn for examples to the great men
who have by their labors enriched our knowledge and im-
proved our art, and who, by the brilliancy of their  discoveries
have ornamented the history of our profession with names  as
imperishable as the science itself, we find that they devoted
themselves principally  to the study and investigation of spe-
cial subjects, and generally the greatest defect in their educa-
tion has been time and  labor spent in the acquisition of knowl-
edge which was  only attained to be laid aside and forgotten.
Although  John Hunter, whose name is as imperishable  as
brass, was not learned, in the popular acceptation  of the term,
to deny that he was  well educated would  be absurd.  The
secret of his great success is to be found in the devotion of his
giant powers of intellect to special subjects, instead of follow-
ing the popular infatuation of trying to learn  every thing.—
Had he spent his time in  studying Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and
other languages,  instead of his  patient,  close  and constant
reading in the book of nature, do you suppose the world would
have been more blessed with his  labors,  or the  profession
more enlightened by his  discoveries?  I would much like to
see those who have been  in the habit of deploring  John Hunt-
er's want of classical education, and advising the young to
beware of his example,  demonstrate the application of He-
brew to the discovery of physiological laws, and the nature of
disease, or Sanscrit to therapeutic indications or the modus
operandi of medicines.
   But in  addition to  becoming  profoundly  learned in your
profession, I have said  it is your duty to investigate: to extend
its boundaries.   There  are  many subjects, that, from  your
location in a comparatively new country,  you will be favor-
ably situated to  investigate.  And when you have made dis-
coveries  that may be  of importance to  science or success-
ful practice, publish them to the  world.  Let no  venal spirit 
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actuate you to withhold knowledge that .nay be of service to
science and mankind.  And here let me guard you against
an immoral practice, which I fear is too common, which has
even disgraced high places, and is as  injurious to the profes-
sion as  it  is unjust to community, being but another  phase
of the great quack system of nostrum vending.  I mean pre-
tending to  have secret remedies or modes of curing disease,
for the purpose of acquiring  reputation  and business.  The
physician who  resorts to such expdients, degrades himself and
his calling, and must either admit that he is withholding valu-
able knowledge from the profession and robbing mankind of its
benefits, or that he is making false pretensions; either of which
is both unprofessional and unjust.
   Your  duty to your patients  requires that  you  should be
thoroughly qualified to afford all the relief our art has provided
 and to pay strict attention to them.  To be prompt in attend-
 ing to their calls, for a short delay often puts the case beyond
 the reach of remedies.   To be ready and at your post in the
 hour of trial and danger.   The physician's life should be one
 of constant duty, for when not engaged in actual attention to
 the sick,  the  notes of preparation for duty  must keep time
 with the fleeting moments as they pass.   His recreation must
 be found rather in a change of labor than ease and relaxation
 from toil.  The Holy Sabbath, the blessed day of Heavenly
 Rest to all Christendom beside, exempts him not from  toil
 and practical  duty,  and  "his nightly sleep is broken that
 others may  have  better rest."
    Nor are your obligations to society  less imperative.  ^ our
 learning, and  the  constant intercourse which your  calling re-
 quires you  to have with the  members  of the cdmmmty  in
 which you reside, place you in  a position to exert an influence
 in society, which it is of the utmost importance for you to rightly
 appreciate.  Your opinions and precepts  will almost neces-
 sarily  be widely diffused,  and your example constantly be-
 fore the world.   How important, then, that your high mission 
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of relief to the sick be accompanied by the refining and puri-
fying influences of the christian virtues.   And as pure water
can flow only from the pure fountain, so pure morality and
christian virtue only from  the  regenerate heart.  For this
qualification you must study in the school of Christ.   Then,
while you minister to the relief of the  physical  sufferings  of
the sons and daughters of Men, by your example and religious
influence upon them, you may help to cure their moral infirm-
ities, and apply the balm of consolation to the wounded and
bleeding heart.  Then  truly may you  emulate your Great
Exemplar in going about doing good.
  With such obligations upon you, and such influences around
you, as the Medical Profession brings, may we not hope that
you will be true to the  interests of the profession and of so-
ciety, and true to your own best temporal and eternal welfare.
  Go, then, my young friends, with a heart  brimmed with
emotious of the  warmest  friendship,  and an abiding confi-
dence in  the integrity of your purpose—I bid you go to the
discharge of your arduous and responsible duties.  And al-
though your road will lead you in rugged and thorny paths of
difficulty, and up mountain steeps of opposition, be steady to
your purpose, and you will come to bright, green spots of con- \
solation, pluck  fragrant flowers  of approbation, and drink
from  the pure gushing fountains of gratitude  that will occa-
sionally spring up to cheer you on your way.