The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-16
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FEMALE MEDICAL COLLEGE - ANNUAL Com
MENCEMENT AT THE COLLEGE BUILDING
DEsREEs CoNFERRED-THE VALEDIcToRY AD-
DRESS BY MARY J. SCARLET. The annual
commencement of the Female Medical College
TOOK place at IL O'Clock to-day. in the large
parlorB OF the College Building. There was q
large attendance of friends interested in the
proceedings of the commencement The degree
OF Doctor of Medicine was conferred, by II.
ladies:-
Mary f. Blackmar, Michigan; Rebecca ].
Cole, Rachel A Dickey, Ruth A. French,
Lizzie A. Sanders, and Lizzie A. Smith of Penn
sylvania Mary l.. Wadsworth. New Hampshre;
Elise Pfeiffer Stone, California; E M. Roys,
Rhode Island; Elizabeth Hays, Missouri
The valedictory was delivered by Miss Mary
]. Scarlet, M. D., Professor of Anatomy, from
which we make the following extraots:E
"Ladies-Graduates of the Cass:-rhere are
moments in our lives into which the response
bilities ofyears appear to be compressed solemn
moments, when some expected event is con-
summated, and the full weight of impending
duties is felt This hour to you-to us-is an
hour of solemn joy. You have just had con-
cine, a degree for which you have labored so
assduously for years. It has been given you
in token of your appreciation and application
thus publicly recognize you who have been
our students as physicians-as our peers; vet,
we would not disguise from you and ourselves
that the position is one of toll and trial, as
well as of satisfaction and reward. A physi-
clans life is not one of ease, No weather is too
tnclement no night too dark for the calls of
the sick to reach medical aid and advice.
often, delay In responding to these calls
might be fatal and the warm tiresde must be
forsaken, the nights wonted repose changed
to, toll that the sufferer may receive timely aid
and the bereaved friends feel that all human
skill which they could command has been
eXerted. This is not all time spent in visiting
the sick-but is only portion, greater or less,
of that required to be laboriousiy occu pied. Re-
Election and research, deep and long continued,
into the causes of disease and the requisite
treatment, belong to the works of the physi-
clan. However pleasant this work may be, 1t
requires mental and physical endurance; IL re-
It is nothing simply, to read what is published,
a novel would be read: the reading and
thorough, as to make what is appropriated
blend with our own thought, and become, as
may be available when needed. 1t is due to
the patient that the best efforts should be con-
centrated on the means of cure.
Constant acceSstOnS are being made to
medical knowledge; and II is not sufficient that
the science of medicine should have been
studied in college from lectures and textbooks.
There is q continual work to be done-the new
to be carefully examined-the true adopted and
the false rejected. Neither is IL well to be too
fastidious as TO the sources from which infor-
nation may be derived. The little child in its
simplicity oft teaches important practical
truths to the wise. The suggestions of the un-
learned may lead from darkness to light. A
scientific fact is not dlvested of value by being
exhumed by the unlearned; and he who has
greatest facility for collecting and arranging
facts, and bring them to bear upon everyday
occurrences will have the most resources when
called to visit the sick.
"The combination of well trained habits of
thOughtwlth good powers OF observation, are
important qualifications for the physician.
We live in an age when the right to labor in
our own way is not denied us; when new ave-
nues of usefulness are being continually opened
to us; when our God-given mental, physical,
and moral powers may be expanded under the
benign influence OF active and ennobling work.
Work is the great reformer: idleness the tempter
to vice and immortality.
"That want of employment sends the young,
the beautiful, the fair. to the lowest depths of
degradation, to seek shelter in the justly con-
demned of ali earthly abodes. To sell them
SuDnOrt become patent. l0leneSS
is one OF the great vices that are instrumental
in filling our county houses and prisons with
the proprlety of women attending TO other than
household duties is past. None toll more un-
apparently deem it obligatory upon themselves
to spend the thousands acquired annually by
their fathers, brothers. and husbands, in sup
porting a fashionable style of living.
"Time is consumed in dressing, attending
parties, eating, and entertaining those who
belong TO the same set, regardless of congeni-
ality of feeling and true friendship. Days of
patton, Listessness follows nervous exhaus-
tion-the body fatigued and the mind left with
out healthy aliment. The unsatished soul can
not shed around it the congenial influences
that make the abiding place truly a home
that is right and proper. AS some by their acts
appear to deem that the mistress of the house,
who has spent her time in toilsome follles, and
depends entirely upon hired help to procure the
creature comforts for her household, there
her employing her time actively, usefully,
and proftably, and having the same depend
ence. But she need not, necessarily, have the
same d0pendence Habits ofindustry engender
executive ability, and even while attending to
professional duties care can be extended to
domestic comforts. Time economical is virtu-
ally equivalent to time increased; and 1t is
astonishing how much can be accomplished by
making proper use of the moments. We would
not advocate position for women that would,
in the slightest degree, remove her from the
home throne, the family circle the Holy OF
holies,' which is the sanctuary in which her
inner life is most refreshing and refreshed."* =
The address throughout was interesting and
the professional duties for which they had SO
assiduously applied themselves.