The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-11

I graduates is that you are TO be students still
nay. that You m ust always oe students, aiways
| day and you enter for the nrst time the greal
school of ex peIieBce In which so nsch ls 20 os
most assid nously TO cnItivate AMI extend your
store of professional knowledge oy oouS,hnl
Let no opporIuni les escape of studying for
yourselves the aspect, phenoDena, and haoits
Place then, from the first, all your hopes for
advancement upon the extent of your profes.
antici ipations Of success from other means, be
dissbused at once. such expectations are ~
into difficulties and finally 20 oes ruoJion
You Will never, an sure. cease To Iemem.
ber the sacred character OF Jour missiOn--t1e
cause of charity, OF mercy, OF humanity. Yoa
devote yourself heDcefOrth 60 the suoooriny of
the sick, the comforting of the afflicted Ano
In Tins you have made no tai rsser vation OF
eva lou Of what Will Of en- prove self sacri tioing
duties You have entered iatO moral cou,
tract WIN ihoSe who are TO become your
patients, To protect and preserve for Jnem the
luestimsble gifts of health and life 10y ali the
mtbns WD1ch the researches Of medIcAl scIeuce
have heen able To devise.
DO not forget the claims OF the poor In purse
Ior tne poor YOU have always with YOU. An
eminent ph, stci4n once said tuaJ the poDr were
hlh best patients, for that God was their pay
But II Is as women practitioners of med icne
IhaL nave Tor YOU special on1rse This day
As As race, as people, Amerlosns do not sno v
me fslrest type of healLn, and H. is said of
American women IN particular that though
beautiful in youth they fade early aud suller
any OLber clviiized people In the word. TnlL
these are facts may, thiek, fairly Ue conceded
ANA the explanation of these facts Is to be
found In the lamentapls wapL OF knowledge
even among the more uucated and telligsnL
portions OF our comm unity of the fund amen tai
laws OF by glene. The laws of our b-ing, tue
cTcuDsiSnces which cOnduce to the preserya
tion oi our health and even oi our lives, are not
made matters of study and consideration as
tney should be by our people, and especially by
Our women.
From the intimate aud confidential relation.
ship which Is TO exist between yourself and
The influential OF your sex, we hope mucl from
your sound precepts and good ex ample Your
some results where one OF the sterner sex
might labor in vain. Show your patients where
the inexoiable exactlons Of fashion, OF custom
OF habits are at variance with the dictates of
judgment and prudence, ana insist, with the
mid but hrm authority wnich your proies Ion
assigns TO you upon u return 10 reason, pro.
priety, and good sense.
AS you care tor the mothers of America, so
Will you have cnarge of the children OF our
people The mothers OF country fashion
the people thereof The mortality Of infant life
Is am oDg as simply enormous, ana the best
effol Is Of physicians seem thus far TO be In
adequate to stay the tide of death. Que half OF
ali children born die before reaching their
seventh year, and many grow up with feeble
and wasted frames. Let 1t be your duty to
check this terrible sacrifice of human life aud
save lives o the community bv u higher eyer
else OF professional acumen. To you Int ust
the problem in the faith Jnat in It, you will find
copgenial emplov ment for the exercise Of your
bighest talents, and that they will not be ex.
erted in vain.