Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-28
MEDICAL SCHOOL
Seven Graduates Receive Dlplsmas-An
Address by Dr.. o. D. Saunders.

The following named seven graduates
Of the Memphis Medical College received
their diplomas last night; J. T. COchrane
Memphis; q. g. Hale, Hot Springs, Ar.
kansas; Howard Ford, Memphis; J. S
FOute, Memphis; S. Cooper and ". "
Cooper, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; W. NJ
Lynch, Horn Lake, Mississippi. The
Hon. Judge smith presented the diplO.
mas with the usual classical remarks il
classic Latin, and the students stepped
off the stage bearing their hOnOrs modest
" enough. The prayer was offered By
DR.. Slater.
DR.. Saunders then commenced the vale.
dic5Ory address, which lasted nearly an
hour. He said that another revolution OF
the wheel Of fortune brought them to-
gether that evening. They had turned a
new page in life's history. They had st
last mounted the professional Pisgah, and
were looking into the promised land.
You hold your diplomas in your hands,
and have a right to be called Doctors OF
Medicine. TIT faculty of the Memphis
Medical College have awarded them to
you after having stood an examination
in the different branches of the prOfes-
sion. We now extend to you the hand OF
fellowship. The great fu ure alone can
prove WHISTLER the seed has been sOWn in
good ground. Should YOU consider your
labor ended with the reception of this lit
tie parchment. then Our efforts in your
behalf have not been a success. Should
you continue to study and acquire
knowledge, then We may reasonably
hope that we have achieved some sue
cess. 1t il not to be expected that
perfection should characterize the Mem
phis Medical College, and that the alumni
thereof should come forth finished like
Minerva from the Uranium of JOVe. The
medical is a beautiful profession. You
will find everything in the pursuit of &c
calculated to elevate the uOblsr mental
and moral faculties. No crowded forum
Is TO be the scene of your achievements.
To you is allotted the sad duty Of binding
up the bruised and broken limb amid the
smoke n gloom of carnage; to walk
through the te5id halls of death minister
ing 70 stricken down and suffering hui
mainly. It will be your lot to be called
up at any hour Of the night and march
forth when the sentinel stars have lit
their fires in the sky, on your mission of
mercy. You have to meet the fell de-
strOyer face 20 face as he walks the earth
striking down the lOveliest Of human
kind. IT you seek boards of wealth, then
you have made a mistake. The profess
sion, as a general thing, does not bring it.
He cautioned them not to spend their
leisure hours in supiu5 idieness
1AgeALaAH +a11A E4NADA4AEs SAAA q
course would help them along to
ths condition of mere calomel, opium,
quinin8 and ipecac doctors, a
ton deyOu5ly to be abhored. Medicine is
a progressive science; the votariss of it
need not envy Newton nor Nose, who
claims the lightning and makes it go,
doing b bidding OF a In the human
you have nervous centres more
complicated and marvellous in their work
than the aInnfrfn huFNawu D.H.z-aI =.
IS one Of the great lights Ofthe pro-
f%essiOn, and IS showing what may be dOne
by members of the faculty out
side of their strictly professional duties.
him in the currents Of the ocean
streams as they sweep along far distant
carrying the mildness of the
and b luXuriance Of the equator
up the Atlantic coast across the ocean to
the British isles, while 10 blesses with per
petual verdure. He has opened up q vast
field OfneW studies to mankind. He has
the portals of an endless vista
Of knowledge. Referred to Harvey.
modern Galen. He cautioned
Them not to follow n-onsensicsl
chemical theories, but to study
10 in relation TO the blood and the bones
Of a man and of the healing properties
of plants, Untiring labor alone brings
professional success. A life time thus
spent leaves no aus for tears, for labor
3Onquers everything. COunseied them
10 keep a note book and enter down the
peculiar features OF every unusual case,
them q send the results to q
good medical journal for publication.
Referred to a great many recent discover
les in medical science, particularly the
1ydrate ofchlOrsl, which produces almost /
sleep. He said they would want
know something of everything, and
the proper study of mankind is man
man, made only q little lower than the /
What nObler study can there be? /
The speaker gave a very poetical picture
If q man greeting the rosy morn with a
and looking, amid the opening
)dors Of unfolding flowers, through ma
.ure up TO natures God, and feeling the
stirring within him. He advised
he young graduates to keep up with the
lines. The medical profession in France, |
England, America and Germany
TODD very high; was IN the first
'ank Of the army of progress.
was their duty to reflect honor upon
{. He laid great stress upon the value of
sbOr, the absolute necessity for it. Their
espOnsibility to society was great. Puri-
y of morals and lOftiness Of character
mark the true physician. They
mould seek the good opinion Of their
in trade, for after all, the MEM
)ers Of the profession are the only true
of ability.
The address was a very long one We
ave merely given the initial sentences Of
be various subjects treated OF, and treated
f In 8 very eloquent manner. The Board
f Trustees occupied seats on the plat
0rm, while the body Of the hall was
filed with q most respectable
udience.