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HOSPITAL OF THE MATER MISEHICOHDI^E. 257
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Ladies, P Douj3t:Less Many Of Your Reade...
_developing- the capabilities of the human , mind was the process of education . General education , liberally construed , meant , of course , tlie acquirement of
those branches of general knowledge which were recognised by society as useful and necessary . By special education was understood that which was -designed to fit the student for a peculiar , specific career in life . The _yoiith
liberally educated looked very naturally to that future career , so as to insure future _liappiness , which so few attain in this world . The gentlemen _, students he now addressed had chosen the pursuit of the ' healing art' and
when all things were considered , it was a profession which , in its prospects ,, and in the rewards it held out to the really earnest and attentive , ought to -satisfy all reasonable irations . The learned lecturer tlien drew an able
and comprehensive sketch asp of the system of study whicli medical students would find most conducive to the attainment of practical knowledge in their profession . They should be prepared to meet obstacles and difficultiesand
to encounter with spirit and fortitude the trials of temper and tests , of perseverance and endurance , from which no walk of human pursuit was altogether free . He pointed out to the class ( especially to the younger
pupils ) that they were not to deceive themselves into the belief that the pursuit of their profession would permit of their leading a life of mere pleasure or inactivity . He adverted to the various collateral sciences closely
allied witli medicine and indispensable to a due knowledge of it , the Anatomy aggregate of hysiology all formin practice g the of gran medicine d structure chemistry of the botany healing & c science to all .
theseand , to p other bran , chesthey would have , to devote , proportionat , , e time and , study , avoiding , however , , any undue devotion to the pursuit of one , to the comparative lect of othersbut time would and should be found
for the cultivation neg of those sciences , , because a knowledge of them was exacted by all licensing bodies . After cautioning the students against the errors of the materialists who ht to account for the wonderful henomena
of organic life and vital function soug by vain attempts to refer them p to material causes , tlie lecturer dwelt on the value of chemical study , and the practical observation of disease at the bed-sides of the sick . He spoke of the value of
; steady and systematic perseverance in medical study , observing that young with gentlemen restless , often energy at the at commencement every source of of acquirement their first season , running , seemed from to lecture rush
some to lecture time , their and ardor from is hosp cooled ital to and hosp their ital visits , with either impatient to lecture zeal , or but hosp after ital became , like angels' visits , few , and far between . ( Laughter and cheers . )
This falling off" of zeal was attributable , perhaps , in some instances to idleness , but it could be traced more frequently to the neglect and want of _rg punctuality iving some of admirable those who advice undertook to the pup the ils serious as regarded duty of the instructors apportionment . After of
their due attention time and at the the conduct bed-sides of their of the studies sick . , They he commented should not upon be satisfied the value with of what the Cockneys called ' walking the hospitals ' —they should exercise
their organs of sense rather than those of locomotion . It was their right to ask the surgeons or physicians in attendance for information in every Interesting case . Their manner to the sick should be kind and soothing .
They should imitate the example of those good and devoted ladies—the Sisters of the Order of Mercy . ( Cheers . ) Thus in this fine hospital they would enjoy and profit by an ever-recurring succession of opportunities of
acquiring practical knowledge . As to the medical officers of the institution , their professional acquirements and their ability and willingness to impart descanting information on , he their felt deserts restrained . ( A from lause speaking . ) He and , leaving his colleagues to others stood the p ri led ght ged of
to the pupils and the patients pp as well as to the public to fulfil a serious and < onerou < 3 ven now s duty contained , and all over he could one hundred say was beds , that and in this woul sp d lendid accommodate hospital one , which day
five hundred patients , he and his colleagues , would discharge that duty with
Hospital Of The Mater Misehicohdi^E. 257
HOSPITAL OF THE MATER MISEHICOHDI _^ E . 257
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 257, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/41/
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