The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-22

matinee OF seusdIlOHal bIOTyg musI Oe
given up when duty calls. Men and
women should find ample time for per-
sonaI care of their own health and that
of their families. But outside of these,
much that is priced by others must be
dispensed with. We are expected, also,
to know something of the topics of the
day. A doctor who knows nothing out
side the especial profession, of art, the
oIogy, social reforms, political economy,
domestic economy, and general history
of the world, and the important SUBJ
iects which are eliciting the attention of
the intelligent minds of the age, will be
judged very far below par, since these
subjects are brought down to such a de-
gree of practicality that we can express
no opinion on apparently the most in
different topic that it is not nearly re-
lated to some one of them. Huxley,
Darwin, Tindall, Herbert, Spencer,
Agassiz, Washington Irving, Draper,
Bancroft, George Eliot, George Sand,
Margaret Fuller, Mrs. Stowe, and writ
ers of interest to mankind, should claim
attention, besides our ordinary medical
especial studies. One quiet half-hOur
each day properly spent in literary read
ing will prepare US to understand and
converse intelligently with our patients
and friends on various topics, thus pre-
,,ortincr tbof r,orrOnipo, Of YoipI yvh Ia n
our constant groove for thought endan-
gers. But above all things, let US not
fritter away useful moments in idle gos-
sip or superfuous dress.
While we should most thoroughly
pursue the study and practice Of our
chosen science, let US not become
dwarfed and distorted, either physically,
mentally, or morally. The easy facili-
ties of travel, the interchange of COM
merce, the commingling of all peoples
and nationslities, should broaden our
sympathies as it instructs our intelli-
gence. The laws of life and health, hy-
gienic dress, varieties of food and its
manner of cooking, and the results OF
climate, properties and the temperature
of the atmosphere, the best modes OF
securing an abundant supply of pure air
and pure water, comfort and safety Of
dwelling-houses and home surround
ings should also receive our atten-
tion. We can do much to teach mothers
in our tenement-houses. I have found,
even when they had the facilities fol
ventilation and sunlight, that few know
their mportance-the way to use them.
Oh many, many times find the little
children suffering for want of mothers s
knowledge more than for want of drugs;
those not so poor as ignorant feeding
their little ones on under-eooked animal
food, unripe or stale fruits, fresh, fer
mented, and often sour bread. The
amount of raw beef, mutton, veal, and
ham eaten in this city by the poorer
classes is sapping their life blood, i'm
pregnating it with animalcula and dis
ease. The first thing truly wise mai
or woman should seek is perfect health
holiness of heart and holiness of body
or wholeness of body, to be perfect il
that which is at least as stepping-ston,
to perfection of that which is greater
No city with dirty streets and foul gut
ters and faulty sewerage can be justl!
called a religious city, although a churcl
edifice stands on every corner, and tn
air of each Sabbath morning is tremu
lous with church-going bells. Pure
healthy, happy homes (f such could be
on one side of the street and novels ol
the other, is only one way of bringing
heaven and hell within sight of eacl
other-lust and liquor, drunkenness an
crime, poverty and dirt, damp, unventi
lated, ,overcrowded tenements, and bodie
that know no bath. Surely there is wor
enough here for us all to do. We do nc
expect to make all men and wome
scientific physicians or theoreticall
wise. The time of mortal life is to
brief. But we expect our learned scie1
lists and women doctors to become phi
anthropic enough, as they carry til
balm of healing, to do all possible i
their power to instruct the commo
people how to remove the availabl
causes of disease, and to submit INTEL
gently to reasonable taxes for city in
provements. knowledge is the onl
earthly power that can rescue the hl
man race from sickness, pauperism, an
crime, and lift it up to higher, pure
happier life. Education is the diffe
ence between weakness and strength
coarseness and refinement, degradatio
and nobleness, barbarism and civiliz
ton, between the demoniac and Go,
like in the human.
Ladies and gentlemen of the facult
allow me few words of pleasant gree
ing as we meet from year to year
these halls of learning, having grow
older and more experienced. Let
hope that our teachings may becon
more broad and deep and clear, inspire
by renewed zeal and energy. Mission
ries of Him who, in the beginnin
said, "Let there be light" and the
was light, and to you ladies of our 70
mer classes who still continue with U
: and to those who are just entering, v
would extend most cordial welcome.