The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-08
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND
syArE AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE.
SeVentseth commencement.
MEDICAL. DEPARTMENT,

on MOhday afternoon nj O'Clock Oc- |
CURED the annual exercises of the Medical |
Department Of the university.
The graduating class, to the number of
twelve, occupied the front seats, and the
platform was occupied by the President,
the Dean and Faculty of the Medical De
partmcnt, and DR.. John l.. Chandler of st.
Adams, and after prayer by Rev. Mr.. SAT-
ford the president introduced the orator.
DR.. j.. G. Butler of Essex, president of the
Vermont Medical Society.
ABSTRACT or TIE ADDRESS or Dir. rrclrs
&. BrTLER.
Taking for his text the somewhat famous
MOTTO The world is governed too much
that community is governed best which is
governed least and substituting the word
d0ctoyNd for g0g0Rcd, he proceeded to show
that if doctoring were confined to the legiti
mate members of the profession and quack
medicines dispensed with the first half of
the motto would not be true and the last
half only fact. The future of medical
science he held to lie with neither extreme
OF the school Of medicinc-thc looming
doctor TO be the product and cduct
Of all the theories that the past has
wrecked The history of medical science
is yet but that of successive theories
and experiments made and abandoned,
which have been stcppiDg-stones for pro-
grcss Observation, investigation, chcmic-
nj and microscopic research, are changing
continually the course of medical practice.
The great study of the physician now is
how TO prevent disease rather than how to
cure it, and new triumphs of discovery
are year by year announced The speaker
mentioned in illustration the success of
modern practice against typhoid fever, con-
sumption cholera and small poX-whcre
the ounce of prevention is so well applied
instead of the pound of cure. He alluded
TO the germ theory of disease, which has
found many advocates, and argued that
he Is the greatest bcncfactor OF his race
who teaches us to ward off the approach
of disease, who discovers its HIduS
and prevents its growth. Such are
needed to-day, and their labors will be APP
preciatcd. People are surfcited with dosing
and will hail the day of delivcrancc from
this body of drugs and death The Mile
MUM, il is true, is not yet here, and there
Is yet work enough for the educated physi-
can to do. People will be ignorant of the
| laws of health, and careless about breaking
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bid vou welcome TO our temple and bid YOU
bring no offerings to its altar but those OF
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path TO the amenities and courteses of it..
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words, sometimes, that will gladden. and
encourage your hearts ahu sometime Tue
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sponsibites of it. and they are great when
the lives of hundreds depend upon your
hhoM luus, 'l'i'; KIT , .u1 ''o.i'ns nNuiN'
promise that shall dishonor you in the sight
of the community or Your brethren or the
NV iou are rcspChslple 70 you A'lla
orc Won orconnial,lr to ,,oI for the intcg.
ritz Of your conduct and the purity of
your lives. Tor conscience vold ol offence
toward YOU anu man
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