New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-25
LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL.

The First Commencement of The Long Island Col
lege Hospital held last evening at the Packer In
stitute the chapel of which was crowded with very
fine audience The sessions Of this Medical Instr
tuition are held during the months of April May, June,
and July. After music, prayer was offered by DIR. X.
s. SToRRs, jr. The oath was administered to the
graduates by DR.. MITCHELL, and DR.. DUDLEY read
over the list Of them. Dr. MASON then, 10 the bar
bafous Lslin Of the formua a, four times NV"
A yery Enghsh pronunciation, conferred the degree
upon tv enty -one young gentlemen
DR.. Mason proceeded ~ give some account OF the
foundation Of the Coege-tbe only institution CT the
Kind which has ever been esabEshedina hospital mths
country Nearly sixty students have sixteen
weeks course of lectures Several physicians have also
attended the lectures Of of the professors DIR.
M,so nc minietered a severe rebuke to Dr. Holmes
for bis dsres,ect 70 medicine, intimating that some
people knew more about poetry and epigrams than
about the grand art of healing. He concluded ti I'D
dress to the graduates by piece of religious advice.
DIR. AUSTIN FLINT, Professor Of Theory and PrAc-
tioe and Clinical Medicine in this Institution and
Of Pathology and Clinical Medicine in the New )rsS n,
School of Medicine, then gave the address, Which wa.
the feature of the evening After brief WEI come to the
graduates.
rital and the very considerable impr ncmen,s which
would be inroduceda at the next term. 1t offered from
medical colleges generally in th that colleges geper
ally were founded through tho ps4soul exerous q
the professors who were benoated by them. This
however was governed by cssinc1 oonp sed of med
ical who bad no desire ntesiJn to take part in
the course of teaching in the nstirition. Prof Flint
went Cd ~ spea. Of professional coocess The growth
of redicsl practice began, he Vald among the poor
poor practice always led to esood practice. He cd
ysed this on the Of policy but he would not have
them misc the satisfaction of knowing that they
| were doing a work o. charity. To be gu;
| cessful in acquiring practice, the physician
must want it, be must have a taste for it. If dis
taste for it could DO. be overcome, the sooner the
physician abandoned the profession the better. The
ph, stefan be social without giving up his time t.
society. Nothing gained in the long run by at
tempting TO practice by social connections the
physician should not seek TO gain practice by any ex
trsneons means. A good practice meant something
more than good number of paying patients; it often
meant select circle Of friends. Let them not be be-
trayed by any undue modesty into Understanding
the value of their services where employers were able
TO pay WELL les them beware OF being called cheap
Doctors; for the community would readily put the
same estimate upon them which they put upon them
selves. Above all let physicians keep pace with the
| perpetual progress Of medicine There were monu-
mental ply scians who were specimens of the condi
ton of the science in the various stages of its progress
| these men always were looking backward not re-
| membeIirg Lots wife. New graduates went out
amoI these monuments missionaries to show them
the new discoveries and revelations of medicine
He hoped, too, that of them would exert them
selves to extend the sphere Of medical knowledge and
he concluded by again enforcing upon them the neces
sy of desire, purpose, and patient persevering labor
| in the formation of the eminent physician. Prof
Flints address was delivered in thoroughly healthy
| way it was wholesome to listen to.
The valedictory was then read by Mr.. Morrison Of
the graduating Glass; it romantic, but therapeutic
The Reveries of (medicaD Bachelor.
The exercises concluded with the benedction.
DR.. Mason, after the Commencement, entertained
| the faculty and graduates at his honse.