Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24

makes his diagnosis under the gaze of thou
sand eyes. In long practice secret. are dis
covered and wisdom learned. The distinguish
Ell and venerable physician who is the Presi-
deht oil The Board of Trustees has in his
long experience learned hosts of secrets
which will unfortunately die with him,
because he haG not this hospital be-
lore. The community j. benefited by the
hospital. You are sure to get good doctors,
IN such pleasant place TO live in as this is
but now would 1t be in the West, in Montana
and Utah, and even in the remote parts of this
state. We must make them all good, and have
the assurance that a fever will be cured in
Texas and broken leg set in Montana lust as
well as here. We can do this by hospitals. Ii
will not be many decades, according to the
present outlook, before we will be safe in the
hands Of our medical men. For all the great
medical discoveries that bless you and me we
are indebted TO hospital men. John Hunter
became what he was through the hospitals of
London and Edinburgh. Velpeau, Sir Thomas
Watson, the lamented Mott Lister J. Marion
Sims, Emmett and hosts of others, wero made
by the hospitals. All their trinmphs came
from the hospitals.
This hospital is peculiarly situated. few
steps from here is the Medical Department of
The University OF Vermont. A few steps on
the other side is the Academical Department,
where we could wish every future member Of
The medical profession could go. Bear in
mlnd what the University may be when we
are all gone, for it will be to Vermont what
Gottingen and Jena and Heideber. are to
Germany. In New York and Philadelphia we
began wrong, century ago, as to our colleges,
and we have continued 10 do so. At Harvard
College the Medical Department is on an
equal footing with the others. The time must
come when this will be the rule everywhere
Are there no more Mary Fletchers: / am
sure there must be some one, mute and ut
present inSlOrious. who will erect a new
building for the Medical Department and en-
dow II law school of the University of YER
mont. What can they do with their money that
will make so enduring monuments:
There Is a common notion that scenery ofitself
elevates. This is superficial theory. Under
the sublime peaks of the Alps, in their torrent
traversed valleys,i it would seem that all must be
peace and righteousness; and yet some of the
people living there are the most abject and
degraded creatures eve ever rested upon. In
the most beautiful valley of the beautiful State
of New Hampshire, in the light of all that beau
ty, have known TO be committed one of the
most atrocious crimes ever recorded. Scenery
alone will not enlarge the heart or cultivate
the affections. Burlington Is situated beyond
compare. In the morning the sun shines over
the peaks of the Green Mountains; at high
noon. upon the placidly beautiful stiffness of
Lake G,hlAia,Pisini and at sunset, over the dis
everything that nature can give. Add to this
the reputation it has for such deeds "a this, for
its churches, and for its benevolent and litera-
~ institutions. Thus will it be not only centre
of education but of charity-where every pros
pect pleases and not man is vile. [Applause.l
DR.. Carpenter then, in behalf Of Miss
Fletcher, rendered to the audience her re-
grets that the condition OF her health pre-
vented her presence on this occasion, and
extended her kind wishes to all.
The exercises, which were Of high interest,
closed with the benedlction by the Rev Mr..
Brastow.