New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-03-18
Louisiana Medical College.

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": Louisiana Medical College.
The following is the vaedctory Address to the Grad
ating class of the Medical Department Of the Universal
of Louisiana, delivered yesterday in the Medical Hall
II. G. Rawlings, NJ. D., of Nashville Tenn 1t will |
found very interesting and spirited historical eulogy
the profession of which the young orator has just
ceved the graduating honors and will well repay perusa
= We understand there seventyone graduates in al
We shall give their in full together wit
the subjects Of their theses DR. Hunt, Dean distribute
their diplomas and spoke eoquenty and pertinenty
: the duties and responsibilities Of the physician,
The class graduates this year nearly double that
any previous Taking all the facilities into
count there place in the Union where better med
cal education can be obtained than in New Orleans
GESrLEMrS-Fsov Graduates Of the Medical Depatmsr
Of The University Of Lo,siaa-Your friendly regard ha
upon the honor and the task at pleasn
and melancholy of pronouncing the yaledictory to tn
, Class
appreciate the honor conferred upon me and the re
gard from which it springs 1 cordially and fully reel
, procate.
have called the task both pleasant and sad one
1t pleasant to congratulate you upon your graduation
and to behold you all your wishes crowned with
starting well prepared upon that professional career
which the three years. novitste terminates to-day 1t
sad to know also that the first steps take in that hon
orabe break associations here lead along
separate paths in the world and preclude perhaps
possibility of future reunions endearing those
have enjoyed during attendance the lectures In
the same breath must give you joy and bid you farewell
First, let me dwell tho cheerful topics which
the occasion suggests
OF our profession, gentlemen, may entertain Just
becoming pride But other can be said to have
nobler noble object. And that in the dawn
the history Of medicine united with it, To relieve
the Affections of the body laudable and natural as
piration of the priest who mnsered to the sorrows of
the soul The physician and the priest were according
ly, long consecrated with the OIL If the former
failed to relieve the invalid the latter present to calm
the agitation Of the mind to reconcile the conscience and
smoothe the to the grave And when our art
began to be taught schools established in the tenn
pies the altar the the neophytes were
youths who reverenced the gods The teacher perform
ing thus the two most important functions pertaining to
humanity, than respected in life while after
DEATH his urn was deposited in sacred crypts and his
memory revered that Of hero Chiron and his pupil
Aeculapius deed by the grateful Greeks and to
Machaon and Podairus, sons of the last Homer turns
aside though Hector in his theme to atune his praise
.Awe physician skilld our wounds to heal,
Is mos than armies TO the public wesl.n
Originating in benevolence and phsnthrophy the same
pure motives led the founders Of to cultivate 1t
sedulousy Nothing in the vast of nature that
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Indeed, the state of medicine in any nation may be
taken the type and guage of the coemporaneous en-
ghtenment civilization and refinement For its subject
being Man. and its object being the maintenance and
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az thome nj thar ce,,ra of which tbssa d,ras;ons a
meant to further the study Man namely and Iis and
Death
when tbereore in the revolution of ages our art as
divorced from the priesthood its advantageous
ton recurring the attention Of an entire mind set apar
and singled to tive are not surprised to find that men
of the lofest intellect and humanest hearts
themselves to H. seeing i'm its wide field space enough for
the most aspiring medation and the practice and exam
pie of the truest religion Upon it. as basis philosophers
predcated their systems Pyhagoras Democritus Plato
and Aristotle founded sect upon their
It's lessons Man. know thysefn came at length to be
the summary of Grecan wisdom an aphorism that is
likewise the motto of art among whose disciples alone
much of that knowledge possible to be acquired
The volumes which of medicine constitute his
tory the most authentic and the best of the human
race history not of dynases kings or generals not
of factions or the rancors of politics but of
the eternal race The fathfuness Of its generic
porraure renders susceptible of universal application
SO that it contains vivid pictures of all men Of the past all
men of the present and by anticipation all men of the
future We learn from it how our ancestors looked in
Eden we gaze in its pages upon the reflected images of
ourselves and like forecasng shadows the outlines
those who shall witness the millennium lumne its mar
gins For this history commences with the germ of life
the cell committed by Deity to the stream
1t narrates the incidents of vital
pansion complete DEVELOPMENT decay decline as.a.sa
n nonts ont the mvsterious connections ~ th,s IT,,
prnciple with the animal vegetable and miner., t,ng
ioms II dcourses Of the wars of the element, w,.s
against living creatures of the march Of epdemcs
terrible than an army with banners. of the ;nd,o g.;
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