Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-24

boast, without making exception of Harry, til e
still greater glory of Britain, the immortal dis
coverer Of the circulation of the blood. In
coming nearer TO our own time, we can men,
ZION a host OF names that have done honor "a
themselves, and the nation that gave them birth
and eductioni but it is not possible, in the short
space of time allotted TO this essay, to do more
than mention few of the names of those who
have earned place upon the enduring scroll OF
medical philosophy. The names of Pinsl,
Cruveillear, Qupuytran, Laennee, Nelpan, Brol-
dla, Liston, COPELAND, and many others, who
are fully equaled by our own eountryInen,
as Eberle, Drake, Phisc, Patterson, Beau
mont and last. though not least, may be
mentioned the name of Prof Derning, the pre-
siding President of this Society, only one short
year ago. but has since bowed with Christian
resignation to the hand of the destroying angle
of death He was not only an expOnder of the
abstruse doctrines of medical philosophy, but
ia those more intimate and tender relations
which bound him to his friends, to society, and
to his kindred-he was all that friendship could
ask, or affection claim, or humanity aud kind
ness enjoin,
"Hs life was gentle snd the elements
50 mixed In him that nature might
stand up and say TO the world
This lsas man.i
All these great lights in medical literature
have been the opponents of some great princi
PIE OF auueu some useful improvements TO The
pursuit Of their choice. They occupy the top
most round in flames towering ladder, and I'll
niche of glory in the proud temple of then
country's history, and the worlds remembrance
Some Of them have hoated down to US. on the
wrecks of nations and empires, as q casket Of
precious Jewels, whose brillianey could never
be effaced and time could not eorrode France
England, and our own favored land, in all then
glory, may be swept from the face of the earth
their language be destroyed, and their record:
perish, still these great names will live amid The
| nations, and their lustre increase with the in
crease of years, "a long as man is civilized, o.
| the earth inhabited. But, gentlemen, there il
no royal highway to this splendid and be
witching goal; it is desideraturn to costly Il
he purchased with gold:eyen if We had tn
wealth of California, and it compressed into tn
compass of an orange at our command. Tn
influence Of family, and the power of estate
are utterly impotent in such an enterprise
| The rich and the poor, the high and the low
meet here on a common level Mind, the no
blest attribute of man, is the jewel that calls o.
US tor perpetual vigilance, while it laughs a
tho arbitrary distinctions found in society,"
With solemn sense Of the responsibility of tn
profession, we will take a stand firm as tn
everlasting hills on the side Of virtue. order
knowledge and truth, and embrace every oppol
tunity to improve profession which is hence
forth to make the business of our lives; and
there is anything certain in this scene of fiuctu
ations and changes, never cease to cherish ia
conviction, that cur career must terminate j
the actual possession of the respect and conf
dence of the truly great, and in the delightfU
consciousness of having accomplished some
thing for the happiness Of man.