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VALEDICTORY ADDRESS*
TO THE
GRADUATES OF THE CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF*



         MEDICINE AND SURGERY,
At the close of the Summer Session, June 24, 1852.
 ..       BT EDWARD MEAD, ]ft. D.,    «  *

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   PROFESSOR OF OBSTETRICS, ANJIStSEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
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 CINCINNATI.
1852. 
 
ADDRESS.
   The recurrence of a period like the present, is characterized by a
 degree of interest Avhich belongs to few ordinary  events.   The era of
 nominal pupilage is passing away, to  be succeeded  by  another, at
 the dawn of which the student is ushered into a new sphere of  action.
 The transition, with its agedasting consequences, concerns  not merely
 the members of the graduating  class; their friends, their teachers,  the
 Profession, and the public at large, all have an interest in it.  Conven-
 tional  usage,  sanctioned by the Profession, has established certain re-
 quisitions, which collectively constitute a test  of qualification in all well
 oro-anized Colleges.  The Trustees, Censors, Curators, or by Avhatsoever
 name that Board is known, in Avhom is vested legislative authority, in
 the premises, have paid respect  to the Avisdom, the foresight, and I may
 with truth say, the philanthropy Avhich has in these requisitions, placed
 a safe-guard around the rights  of the  people, in  time of sickness.  To
 the Board of Professors has been assigned the judicial functions, Avhieh
 become necessary to execute  these conventional laws;  as  Avell  as  the
 didactic and exemplary, which precede the final ordeal. To them there-
 fore the occasion is one of absorbing interest.   In the issue  is involved
 the fidelity with which the trust reposed in them  has been held,  the
 degree of success which has been attained by  the exercise of their pro-
fessorial functions, and their individual and collective reputation.  The
friends of the student, at such a  crisis in the  preliminary struggle  for
prosperity and fame,  cannot  look on  Avith indifference.  Consanguine
affection, and high personal regard, keep them alive to his Avelfare. The 
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 Profession governed hy high-toned  principles ;  having regard to the
 honor of their calling ;  scrupulously considerate for the welfare of di-s
 eased  humanity; look  with heart-felt emotion at the continual en-
 croachments of the hydra-headed monster quackery,  which insidiously
 besieges the  credulous public,  changeful as the phases of the moon4
 and as oft repeated. Yet exercising despite this compulsory vigilance,
 an ingenuous spirit towards the applicants for admission to the  ranks of
 the brotherhood,  they contemplate the event, with an equally intense,
 though  different  interest.   The  people  are  interested,  even more
 largely  than they, themselves, appreciate.  So far as regards the build-
 j lg up of an institution reflecting directly upon  the  prosperity of the
 city_contributing to its scientific  status,  and adding to  its  revenue,
 its importance is at once acknowledged.  Yet their real interest extends
 far beyond these subordinate considerations.   The reflecting  portion,
 Avhether belonging to the higher, or lower ranks, realize, as social beings,
 their relative position in regard  to the  Medical profession, and appre-
 ciate the importance of the true science and art of Medicine to its fullest
 extent.   But the individuals comprising another  portion are often  the
 dupes of the designing. The empiric  seizes them for his prey. Yielding
 to the impulse of fear at the threatening approach of disease,—a fear
 excited by the heart's tenderest sympathies, the judgment is overpowered.
 Flattered by caress, cajoled by sophistry, deceived by falsehood, they
 are easily led to  a misapprehension of the  true relations of things.  Dis-
 abuse their minds, and these persons acquiesce  in the conclusions de-
 rived from  the palpable demonstrations ot science.  As members of the
 body politic, they have an interest in  knowing what manner of men they
 are, who go forth, empowered to  act as the guardians  of the public
 health.
  The test alluded to requires  1st.  That the candidate for collegiate
 honors shall have reached the age  of legal majority.  This furnishes a
 guaranty that the judgment has been matured.   2dly.  That he  shall
 have pursued a course of study in the various branches of Medical sci-
ence,  under a private preceptor for three years.   This period  has,  by
 common consent, been affixed, as the shortest time, in which as a gen-
 eral rule, the student can  acquire that amount of knowledge, Avhich is
 absolutely  necessary to render him a safe practitioner.  In no period
 short of this, is it possible  for him to  qualify himself, unless he possesses
 a power of intellect —concentration  of  thought, and vividness of per-
 ception, that very few can lay claim to.  And if we take the testimony 
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 of the most brilliant  luminaries  in the constellation of genius, based
 upon their own experience, and a survey of the field of study, we should
 be disposed to extend the term.   3dly.   This course is inclusive of at-
 tendance on two full courses of Lectures in  some regularly organized
 and legally authorized College. The conjoint labors of seven instructors
 selected from  the mass of the profession  who  are  believed  to possess
 superior attainments,  and an aptness to teach, are thus brought to bear
 upon the mind of the  student.  The division of labor in accordance with
 this arrangement secures a collation of the latest intelligence, experim-
 ental and practical facts, and the latest discoveries. The attention of each
 is concentrated upon his own particular department.   The student thus
 derives the advantage of corrigenda.—Hypothetical opinions based up-
 on the limited knowledge of older writers give place  to the revelations
 of scientific discovery  in its onward progress. New and beautiful truths
 are presented to his mind.  The curriculum of study embraced in these
 lectures, comprise the structure of man's material organization;  the
 physiological laws which govern  the  actions of its  complex elements,
 the pathological phenomena which characterize its departure from the
 healthy standard, in multitudinous and multiform  variety ;  the chemical
 laws which affect it, in health and disease; the properties, powers, doses
 and modes of administration of remedies ;  the  application  of all known
 means of cure, according to therapeutical principles,  in order to bring
 back the diseased functions to their healthy condition, the reparation by
 surgical  operation, of injuries suffered through accident or design; the
 removal of the  dangers and accidents connected Avith reproduction :  the
 medico-legal relations  of crimes,  of criminal responsibility,  and moral
 accountability ; the adoption  of hygienic  rules for  the prolongation of
 life, and consequently  the promotion of  social and domestic happiness;
 and the accomplishment of the noblest aims of political economy. Lastly,
 it embraces virtually the philosophy of the human mind, and directly the
 means necessary for its restoration, from the aberrations, hallucinations,
 delusions, and perversions of all its functions, both intellectual  and mo-
 ral.   That a science so  comprehensive in  its scope,  should require un-
 tiring diligence, and good capacity, is obvious to all. It is obvious also
 that it is intimately associated with various collateral sciences, a know-
 ledge of which  becomes necessary  to a thorough understanding of the
 true practical application of the principles of Medical science ; and to
the perfection of a thoroughly  educated  and accomplished physician.
Their relations  to Medical science proper are very  intimate,  and can 
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never be dissevered.  4thly.   The  fourth  requisite  embraced in  the
conditions of graduation, is the documentary evidence  of good moral
character.  A consistent adherence to truth and rectitude, and the ex-
purgation of the profession from charlatanic and unworthy characters,
renders the adoption of such a rule indispensible.
  The application of the test,  Avitha reasonable  degree of rigidity, is an
imperative duty, incumbent on the faculty.  And this brings us to  the
particular event which the exercises of this evening are designed to
commemorate.
  Several gentlemen before us, to whom I must now address myself,
have submitted to the necessary  examination,  and  have been found
worthy.
  Gentlemen, the honorable and praiseworthy  aspirations which  have
hitherto animated your souls, have reached the period of fruition.  Hope
is realized. The Aveary toil of years meets its reward in the approbation
of your instructors.  Often while trimming the midnight lamp,  have
you looked forward with bright anticipations to  this event.  The daily
task,  the nocturnal vigil, has oftimes  discouraged  you, and  for the
moment made the accomplishment of your desires seem almost beyond
the bounds 01 possibility.  But by  summoning your energies 10 renewed
exertion, you have persevered.   A guiding star  has been seen in the
distance, beckoning you to pursue untiringly the  objects of your laudable
ambition.
  You are about  to enter the arena of  active  usefulness,  under the
auspices of a legally authorized board of  examiners.   A  change takes-
place in the relation which you have sustained towards the Institution,
the profession and the public.  While, hoAvever, this is not the ultimatum
of your aspirations and hopes,  neither should it terminate your studious
habits, nor abate your  devotion  to  your  favorite science.   The goal
which you have reached, is but a resting place, from which yon can,
view in retrospect, the ground over  which you  have  passed.   Medical
science is progressive, and therefore to keep pace with  its  development,
your efforts should be continuous.   Its periscope embraces a  range al-
most ad infinitum.   For proof of this, you have but to notice in addition
to the general topics already cited, the special revelations of microscopic
Anatomy, of Physiology,  of Pathology, and  of  organic Chemistry.
B*ch of these is sufficient to absorb a life-time.   And we could never
avail ourselves of the results of persevering investigation in those de-
partments, were it not for the division of labor, which taste and inclina- 
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tkm have made.   We are furnished by each collaborator  with the re-
sults ascertained in his line of investigation, and thus we are enabled to
appropriate them to ourselves,  and to apply them to practical purposes,
in common with the previously accumulated resources of our art.  To
this perseverance, you are encouraged by the brilliant examples of those
who have gone before.  There is no royal road to the temple of science.
Its worshippers must be ever watchful, ever studious, looking upward
and  onward.  By vigilance and perseverance,  your predecessors have
attained distinction.   The  mantle of their honors will fall upon  their
faithful successors.
   In these Halls, didactic instruction has been imparted to you for a
 series of months, in all the  elementary principles  of the profession of
 your choice. In order duly  to regulate their application, so as to enable
 you successfully to fulfil  your vocation, and thus to accomplish the
 o-reat purpose of life, a few  parting words of advice derived from  obser-
 vation and experience, may be necessary.
   The auspicious future opens before you, beaming with renewed hope.
 You go forth upon no doubtful mission.  The ideas which have occupied
 your minds from the date of your entrance upon  the period of pupilage
 have been by no means chimerical—the offspring of mere  imagination
 and prejudice—but founded in truth.  We trust you have been inspired
 in a truthful manner, with confidence in the resources  of  your art.
 Truth will guide you in the exercise of its solemn duties.   Candid in-
 quiry has satisfied your minds of the correctness of your position.  And
 the more extensively you pursue your investigation, and the more fully
 you institute a comparison between the true science of Medicine, and the
 vaunting pretensions  of empiricism, in its  thousand forms,  the more
 worthy of your profoundest admiration will  that science appear.  By
 applying the principles Avhich have been inculcated in your minds, you
 will be conducted  to  the therapeutical application  of remedies adapted
 to fulfil the requirements of diseased nature, by  a process of philoso-
 phical induction.  By disregarding those precepts, you will  be in danger
 of fallino- into the errors of the routinist, who follows  implicitly a beaten
  track, unable to give an intelligible reason for a single prescription he
 makes ; or of manifesting the improprieties, which mark the conduct of
 the empiric.
   In view of the temptations to irregular practices which will beset your
 path, it may be proper here to advert to the  topic of our Introductory
 Discourse, and to present a few remarks corroborative  of the positions 
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therein taken.  You will remember that on that occasion, the opinion
was expressed that there were three fundamental and essential qualifica-
tions, without which none  can lay claim to the title of physician, viz.:
1st.  The possession of a power of intellect at least equal to the average
of mankind.  2dly.  The  acquisition  of a knowledge of Medical science,
brought down to the period when the student merges into the practition-
er, and 3dly.  Sound moral principle.   In support of  the  asseveration,
it was argued that an  analysis of these elementary  conditions, would
render at once apparent, the obvious truth, that if any one is  wanting,
just in that proportion, is the capacity for discharging the duties of the
physician impaired.   It was contended that mere  intellectual endow-
ment, diligence of application, tenacity of memory, or conscientiousness,
taken singly, could never be relied upon.  The co-operation of all  is
absolutely necessary to success.  As far as the first condition is con-
cerned, it is but reasonable that such a degree of mental capacity should
be required, as would  insure to the individual a fair chance of success,
in any department of industry in which he might engage.   The time
has gone by, when the most talented of a family should be reserved for
the profession of the law, and the least capable,  with  impunity palmed
on the Clerical or Medical professions.    The power of judgment which
is necessarily called into exercise in a  complicated case, demands that
if a selection is made, he who is  the most liberally endoAved, should be
assigned the  post of Medical adviser.  That close application is equally
indispensible, will be apparent to any reasonable mind, upon the most
superficial survey of the extent of the science.  And when we  consider
that "knoAvledge is power," none will deny that that  power, when not
directedby moral principle, will be dangerous in proportion  to its extent.
The man who seeks to enter the ranks of the Medical profession for the
mere  purpose of accumulating  Avealth, will never be a trust-worthy
practitioner. A motive  higher and nobler than  that must operate upon
his mind, in order to  render his actions unexceptionable.
  Even if all these conditions have been complied with, in spirit, and to
the letter, rendering the indiA'idual humanly speaking,  a pattern of per-
fection ; he is not thenceforth exempt from the vexations and disappoint-
ments which belong to all departments of human  enterprize.  The road
to fortune and fame, although opened widely for  him,  is not one unvar-
ying gentle smooth acclivity, strewn with  roses, begirt with elysian
fields, the songs of birds ever and  anon  carolling in his ears—naught
but smiles and cheers to greet him at each step  of his progress!  He has 
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earned a share of these favors, but often the purposes of truth and jus-
tice are thwarted, and he may find his claims disputed.   Instead of re-
ceiving a just reward, his exertions may sometimes be  repaid with in-
gratitude.
   Scientific Medicine has, in all ages been opposed by empiricism.  In
the  early ages, even its own faithful disciples entertained the crudest
notions.  For the means of cure, they relied upon the meagre collections
derived from fortuitous discovery.  Nothing  had been reduced to sys-
tematic arrangement.  Superstition was  fertile in invention.  Dreams,
charms, and incantations were believed capable of working miraculous
cures.—In the times of  the  ancient Mythology, from the belief that
many diseases were inflicted as a punishment, by the offended Gods, it
was no uncommon circumstance for their aid to be invoked both as a
prophylactic and a curative means.  The  history of Medicine abounds
with facts illustrative of the  imperfection of the science at that period,
and of intense interest to the Medical philosopher, inasmuch as  it fur-
nishes apoint de depart, Avith which to compare the astonishing progress
towards perfection, since attained.  For centuries it has kept pace with
all the  departments of  natural science, seizing upon every  available
means afforded by all the three kingdoms of nature, and applying them
to the relief of human suffering.   Many, many years, however, elapsed,
before its facts and principles were classified in such a manner as to make
it  comprehensive.  Then, as  is now the case Avith  system mongers, a
hobby was seized upon.  A single idea was made a radiating point, from
which every thing relating to Medicine received a bias.   Facts Avere
distorted, in order to support a theory, instead of theory being adopted
as a rational and probable explanation of accumulated facts.   The love
of novelty,—a passion for the marvellous—has always given great scope
for the schemes of the designing. Systems have sprung up in all ages,
and  have been promulgated  Avith  wonderful zeal  and perseverence,
Some have contained within themselves the elements of speedy dissolu-
tion, and consequently have had but an  ephemeral existence.   Others,
directed by the cupidity of their mercenary votaries, however  absurd
their pretensions intrinsically, have won upon the credulity of the people,
and spun out their day.  With a score or a hundred systems  attacking
it on every side, the Genius of Medicine has kept on the even tenor of
its way,  achieving age by age, splendid triumphs  over the folly, and
ignorance, and prejudice of mankind ;  quietly reserving even  for those
who have been wheedled into the ranks of its enemies, a healing balm 
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for their wounds; knowing that when they have made the circuit of the
various systems  of quackery, they will  with broken constitutions and
empty purses apply to the physician for relief.
  In these days, nothing can outstrip the effrontery of quack-doctors.
Formerly they Avere content with  their  never erasing self-adulations
boasting of some universal Panacea competent to heal, as by magic, all
the ills that flesh is heir to.  They would ramble about with their huge
saddle bags, filled with roots, Aveeds, snakes oil, and a museum of other
curiosities, looking like a pair of Italian panniers upon an ass.   They
would discover in the eyes of every child they saAv, indications of worms,
or rickets in the boAvels;  and  always had in readiness a root, which
Avhen stewed up, would be a dead shot against ailments of the "in'ards"
—as they say in Kentucky, "certain and sure."  The old folks had the
Rheumatiz; or were "pisoned.with Marcury and bleeding," and nothing
short of a "course" would work it out.  The capacity of the stomach of
the patient, Avas estimated like  a modern Omnibus, "how many will it
hold."   The itinerant Esculapian had a  variety of remedies for fits,
dried-up liver, and female weakness.  The latter disease since the elu-
cidations  of Madame Oakes Smith  and others, however,  is among the
things that were.  It will not do now, for any  candidate for popular
favor to intimate its existence.—"Reform  !"  is the  watch-word.   The
forms of law are adopted,—the  organization of  Colleges imitated, and
a body of men will gravely go through the motions Avith as much sol-
emnity, and as much brazen assumption  as  if in the deepest earnest,
instead of making fun.   The barber does  the Military Chapeau and ex-
claims dignifiedly and then ferociously :  "I am a General!"  Reform !
he cries.  An agrarian spirit seizes the modern mountebank Doctor. He
must bring doAvn every man of distinction to his level.  "Down with
monopolies ! Cure your OAvn bodies, make  your own  wills, and pray
for your own souls !"   The  response  of Punch may  here be  aptly
quoted, when he exclaims: "DoAvn Avith every think !"   Mere change
will not do now-a-days.  In theory it must be a thorough,  fundamen-
tal, out and out  reform.   In order that it may  take,  you must go to
the extreme of  transcendentalism.  From  the use of  physic by the
pailful, one wing of the reformers,  require you to take the quintessence
of the infinite subdivision of a "millpart." According to certain notion*
concerning Natural  Philosophy, heretofore inculated, we have been
led to suppose that matter, as well as spirit had an existence, and that
matter possessed a certain property called  vis inertia, by  which if  it 
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 were desired to move a body of a pound weight, it was  necessary to
 apply a force equal to a pound in Aveight.  But now we see the folly
 of such notions.  Matter can  now  act where it is not, abroo-atino- an-
 other law.  We are brought  back to the Berkleian Philosophy.  We
 are the shadows of ourselves.—Etherealized spiritualism will  do for
 us  that   which we  imagined was  resultant from the employment of
 physical means.
   You may sometimes feel discouraged,  because the people do  not at
 once appreciate your services, but will run from one  empirical scheme
 to another, upon hearing the arrogant pretensions of their promulgators.
 It  is said of Radcliffe, that when meeting  a celebrated quack on one
 occasion, he asked how it Avas that the quack got so large a practice,
 and he, himself, at that time, so little.  Said the  charlatan, "Look at
 this stream of  people passing by.  How many of them do  you think,
 are intelligent, careful, thinking, and reasonable  beings?  "Perhaps
 one in  a  hundred," was the ansAver.   "Well," rejoined the   quac<^
 "you get that one and I get  the ninety nine."   This  is true to some
 extent. Imposters, believing the infatuation to be boundless, have taken
 advantage of it to enrich themselves at the expense of the  people. The
 evil sug jests a remedy—Educate the people.  Here  and there, a man
 of talent will be found willing to lend himself to a knavish quack, and
 his pretended system, prostituting his talent to base  purposes.  But
 there is a redeeming quality in the people—common sense,  Avhich will
 appreciate truth, Avhen rightly  and perseveringly presented to  them.
 True, it is to the Philanthropist and the man of science, a most humil-
 iating spectacle, to witness a creature ignorant of the first principles of
 Medical scie.nce, amassing a splendid fortune, by palming upon thousands
 of persons, a common every-day prescription, Avhich  could  be got  at
 any Apothecary's shop, claiming for it the properties of a universal pana-
 cea, by which is incurred the risk of injury in every case, to which it is
 not adapted. Falsehood must be resorted to, in order to practice success-
 fully upon the credulity of the people—to make them believe there if
 a specific  virtue in a nostrum.   And this falsehood lies at  the founda-
 tion of all quackery.  But truth is mighty and will prevail.
               "Let truth and falsehood grapple—
   Whoever knew truth to be put to the worse, in a free and open encounter."
  It is often asserted that  Medical science  is only a collection of old
opinions, and makes no advancement—that it  employs chiefly mine. 
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 ral substances, and leaves the resources of the Vegetable kingdom, al-
 most untouched.   This is one of the means of deception.   If  it were
 worth a reply, I need but cite to the splendid works of Pereira, to the
 inimitable Medical Botany  of Stephenson and  Churchill in England,
 and the magnificent  works af Richard and others in France. But those
 who make such assertions are incapable of conviction.  Like Goldsmith's
 schoolmaster, tho' vanquished, they will argue still.   The truth is that
 no department of Natural  science  has been  left unexplored by the
 physician.  The march of discovery is  constantly progressive.   There
 is now a large corps of indefatigable students, who are pursuing ong-
 iual investigation  in various specialies, extending their research far in-
 to regions hitherto unexplored, sacrificing their lives at the shrine of
 science, from a  love  of its inherent beauties alone.  It may be safely
 asserted,  that within the last decennial period,  a greater  amount of
. contributions have been  made to Medical and the collateral sciences
 than in all time preArious.
   Again in support of the assertion alluded to, you may be pointed to
 self-styled regular practitioners, whose attainments are wofully deficient,
 and whose want  of  success  corresponds with their ignorance.  This
 class consists of persons who commence the study of Medicine  solely
 from a desire to reap its emoluments.  They devote  as  little time as
 possible,—often but  three or  six months,—to the acquirement of a
 smattering knowledge—seldom attend lectures,  and never  submit to
 an examination.   Such persons you will of course disclaim.   They  are
 physicians but in name, and have no right to assume  it.  Their  mere
 connection in some partial Avay with regular medicine does not entitle
 them to be ranked as  practitioners.   For the sacrifice ot  life, which in
 the order of human probabilities, must inevitably result from their in-
 competence, you are not responsible, neither is the profession responsible.
 Every respectable practitioner, and every Medical  teacher  is morally
 bound to discountenance such practices.
               "A little learning is a  dangerous thing,
               Drink  deep, or drink not of the Pierian spring,
               For shallow draughts intoxicate the  brain,
               And drinking largely sobers us again."
   In adverting to  the mercenary spirit, which is too often allowed to
 preponderate, I would not be understood to  advise that in the proseou-
 tionofthe more exalted purposes  of science,  the practitioner should
 neglect a prudent oversight of his monetary affairs.   With the enthu- 
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siastic student, passionately devoted to scientific pursuits,  this is liable
to occur.  There are few who look with any degree of commisseration
upon his pecuniary sacrifices.  It is therefore necessary that he shoulp
have a proper consideration for his own welfare, and the claims of those
who are dependent upon him.  "The labourer is worthy of his  hire."
   The practice of Medicine is a noble calling.  The motives which I
have presented, for your rigid adherence to legitimate Medicine, consist
chiefly of the pleasure derived from  the  study, in  a scientific point  of
view.   But  there is a more exalted aspect still,—the philanthropic.  It
is as a scheme of humanity that it claims our highest regard.  The pec-
uniary consideration, based upon time devoted and services  rendered
for the benefit of others, and   die intellectual  pleasure derived from the
study, are incidental.  A just appreciation of its bearings as a philan-
thropic enterprize, permitting this highest  motive to control the others,
will render you thoroughly competent to exercise your functions in an
acceptable manner.
   Permit me, gentlemen, to  offer you, in the  name, and in  behalf of
the faculty,  our most sincere congratulations upon  your  success.   By
your conduct as gentlemen, and  as students,  you have merited our ap-
probation.   The diligence of your application resulting in the  attain-
ment of the  Doctorate, we trust  is an earnest of an auspicious, and yet
more successful careerin the future.
   But in bidding  you  God speed, it  becomes my duty also in their be-
half, to charge you that you  eschew all unworthy, dishonorable, and
unprofessional practices.  Humanly   speaking,  the issues of life and
death are in your hands.   The   temporal  happiness of families and
communities will be  at  your disposal.   How fearful the responsibility
involved in  the faithful discharge of  so sacred  a trust!  Some  of  ire
have seen the fairest flower of a family stricken down by the hand of
ignorance  and presumption.  See that you sever not the  ties of con-
sanguine affection, by inattention on the one hand,  or rash presump-
tion on the  other. Endeavor at all times to bring to your aid,  calmness
of judgment,  frankness of manner,  conscientionsness of purpose,  in
the sick room.  While you swerve not from principle^ but maintain it
with inflexible  resolution,  consider the  weakness of human nature.
Make all clue allowance for popular prejudice.  "A soft answerturneth
nway wrath." Bo kind to your patients and ingenuous to your fellow-
practitioners.  Pursue  an  upright and honorable course  in all your
dealings.  Let  modesty characterize your demeanor.  By  respectfu 
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oonduct towards others, seek to gain the respect and lasting support of
your fellow-citizens.  Persevere in well doing in all these respects,
and you will merit an  enduring fame.   Let your course be such, that
your instructors may hear of your good report, and exclaim with proud
emulation, and in the fulness of their  hearts,  "These are our sonsl"
And when in the lapse of time,  your Alma Mater enlarges her bounda-
ries, and rears her lofty turrets  to the skies, may it be your  pfoudesi
recollection, that your names are registered in her archives  among  the
first of her trophies.—Go ! and fulfil  your vocation ; and  may  the
blessing of God go with you. 
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