The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-03-18

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70 prevent, and which doubtless distresses him
more deeply than his accusers.
You win experience in your professional life, !
am sadly certain, some one Of these trials--the
most fortunate and the most brilliant practice is
not exempt from them. Prudence may diminish
the number, but there are in disease, fatal coinci
dences and unfavorable and unexpected changes,
in which, surprised yourselves, you will be unable
to foresee to arrest the fatal blow which is i'm
pending.
Let never forget that our mission is one Of hui
manty, of peace, of preservation that before this
glorious mission disappears all distinctions of peo
pie of social condition. of party of opinions that
the physician belongs to the entire community, and
not to fraction of it, that if his hand Yields the
knife, it Is to save and not destroy.
Let US march with firm and even step in the
good path. Let US deserve the esteem of the pub
lie, BY profound requirement, scrupuous honesty,
and life without reproach, modest in success, and
calm in The hour of danger. Let us not fear or
TO be enlightened by brother practitioners in
cases of diffculty-rooting out from our bosoms
those detestable feelings of envy and Jealousy Let
assist each other to carry our burdens through
out life.
May gentlemen, the considerations which | have
just presented to your attention, sink deeply and
take firm root in your hearts. May you have, in
the first steps Of your career, always before you,
the obligations which you have contra cted towards
society and yourselves. Obligations of science,
obligations of benevolence of rmness, of morality,
of courage, of prudence, of disinterestedness, of
selEdenial.
/ am sure, gentlemen, you will pardon me if
these counsels may seem to you severe, for they
dictated by the wish to be useful to you and by
the sentiment of the dignity of medicine, and be-
cause they are based upon principles inleXible as
duty, and sacred as conscience.
Ten years ago, gentlemen, one of the graduates
of this institution occupied the position which
you now do that CT recipient at the hands of the
Faculty, of his title to the degree of Doctor of Me-
dicine.
Ten years ago, and he on the eve of separa-
ton, You are now, from that alma mater from
whom he had received the education which was to
be his passport to usefulness and distinction.
These ten years have passed away, and with
them two from our midst, whom he dearly loved
but they have left him high in his profession, and.
in the esteem of the virtuous and good. And we
find him now revisiting the scenes of his studies,
and eager to lay at the feet of his beloved alma
mater, the laurels he has won. He has left his
hom, in the far south west his friends his patien.e
to return once more, for little while to Virginia
to be present at your honorable admission into the
| ranks of the profession, and to address you and
your brethren, the alumni of the school. You
| have heard him and will long remember his clio.
| quent and beautiful discourse.
with y,Iao Ill
career of our distinguished graduate, and to his
grateful tribute to cherished schools and sin
cerely trust your in life may not be infe.
rior, whilst your memory may remain as fresh and
as afectionate.
IT, however, it may be your fortune to establish
yourselves, be assured our hearts will follow YOU
and remember that every intelligence of your sue.
cess and happiness will come to US most gratefully
That we shall hear of you again-and hear of you
as the parent loves to hear of his child-ws doubt
not-and though it may happen, that we see some of
you this night for the last time, yet believe me, you
will always be remembered, individually with re
spect and affection. Gentlemen-farewell!
Professor Gibson here took his seat amid the
hearty plaudits of the large assembly in attendance
The person alluded to SO eloquently by Dr. G. in
the concluding portion of his address, was DR..
Thunl, of Louisville, alumnus of the institution
and now avisit to this city.