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" The first habit to be recommended to all students is diligence , and to a medical student a . diligent devotion of liis mind to his proper profession . Whoever Means hereafter to practise physiewith comfortor / credit ; whoever would be consoled under the depressions incidental , I imagine ^ to the niost judicious practice , must never forget ; th ^ t thessciences connected with it , and to which he is consequently iintroduced , arejottly valuable to Mm as the auxi-¦
liaries of his profession ~ tbat they do not make , but only , asm * a physician . With this caution , the . medical student cannot be too diligent . To him no mistake will be more detrimental than to underrate the homely virtue of industry ; without which , in our profession , jjerhaps in any profession , no man ever attained to eminence . If some individuals , by the help of a brilliant imagination and certain powers of acquirement , have gained celebrity in spite of their notorious indolence , such men have done little for their profession , their country or mankind , and have acquired no permanent or valuable fame ;
but the greatest men of aU nations and times have been men of industrious or even of laborious habits . I have watched with much interest the fate and conduct of many of those who were pursuing their studies at the same time with myself . Of these , some were of course idle , and despised the secluded pursuits of the studious : —of such , I do not know one whose progress has been satisfactory ; many of them , after trying various methods of dazzling the public , have sunk , already , into merited degradation . But I do not know one among those who were industrious , who has not attained a fair prospect of success : many of them have already acquired reputation , and some of them will doubtless be the improvers of their science in our own day , and remembered with
honour when they are dead . " ****** "All men are accountable for their time , but none more than you . You will be hereafter liable to be called upon to act unassisted , or to assist others , in cases of sudden and great danger ; and on your previous preparation , and on the state and temper of your mind ^ it must often depend whether the result be life or death . The sacrifices and exertions which these considerations
render necessary are surely more than compensated by the real importance , interest , and dignity , of your art , * by the value of which you may be to your fellow-creatures ; for there is no pursuit which engages its followers in such a variety of delightful studies , for ends more directly useful to mankind . The ample page of all knowledge is thrown open to you , from whence to learn ] iow to relieve the sufferings , restore 6 r prolong the activity , and
thus bless the existence of those about you . * * * The justifiable' hope of being able to add to the resources of the physician and surgeon ; bf being able to cure diseases now invariably fatal j to relieve sufferings which now proceed uncontrolled , and thus to become signal benefactors to your nation and to the world , is surely sufficient to prevent ybur becoming desponding during your studies , or inert in your dail y practic ^ If . tliere be any truth in these observations , you cannot be desponding without fojly , or negligent without criminality . " : ! . , sh earnestl
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Unwersiiy of London . 775
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1828, page 775, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2566/page/47/
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