The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-02
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY APRIL 2, 1880

Ike NEW OKLEANS UEMS
stand at sick bed with all that makes yol
what you are-just 80 much genuine manhood
The me ehanic can bring. his skill to his work
else behind. The lawyer even may bring t
Bile on,y his legal acumen and big ready wit ant
fluent tongue. The, physician. like the clergy
his touch, his manner have their part IN thu
problem hs is called to solve. as much toftei
far more, thinkl as his preseription.
| But why need tell you oil this you know |
! as, yell or far better than [.
What want to bring out especially is tina
aimee this y ths law od the case a oh ts thing
In their broad. many sense. without CANT o
p'etlsu. the best man is the best doctor. In fact
the one perfect Man. that onr Lord was neces.
sarily the Great Physician2"
| cay. all other things being equal. knowledge
| skill, training experience. aud cay bestin the
sense first Of the meus sana IN corpore saaa
sound healthy brain. sound healthy body
and this secured In the sense OF sound hear
forgetfulness, sincerity. simplicity of purpose.
loye to man and genuine faith In good God
No physically diseased man has any cuisines
| TO be physician. shy that broadly. Happily
| II such get In the profession, tts tremendous
drafts on life. and on the energy OF nerve and
muscle, soon put, them out Of the way, But to
| the sick themselves. one fret necessity surely
| Ia an energetic. hearty. healthy physician.
BUTT other things which go to make up z
g aa eanao Th s bs
| presence or note their absence. No examina.
| tion will reveal the situation, Your medical
| colleges might establish health standard for
graduates, and Q competent examiner could
decide whether It is. present. You can. estab.
lish intelactnal standards. and an examination
also will decide whether they are attained. But
no examination will tell you whether man
possesses The elements OF good and honest
moral manhood.
And vet bslieve that Is the essential founda-
tiou. It is unuuestinnable that In the minis
try learning, elouuence. all gifts and graces OF
mind and body have only spacious results un-
less perfect sincerity 90 with them. And yet,
we ministers are only called, they say, to
preach, while you gentlemen are all called to
am glad to know that there Is growing
sentiment among your colleges calling for q
higher and still higher standard q intellectual
1t Is likely to be too high. L were TO be wished
that all students, applying for admission to a
course Of medical studies. were required to
college or. Its equivalent. The profession Of
medicine is not only learned, but 2, liberal
nosedge which t does not sg and 81 aontr
button. 1t can afford to ignore no possession
that the human mind has won from the past or
thinking how thorough drill Ia Greek tragedy
and the Calculus shoul Id make o man better
doctor. But you. gentlemen. who are teachers,
your lectures and the text books. which they fl
lustrate In quite another fashion than the mind
not SO trained. It is marvellous how rarely you
can find a man who can state the simplest fact
Just as the fact is ] never met any one who
could, except those whose minds were trained
to scientific ,s dstnstoas And this ACCOUNTS
and for the provarb: There is nothing more
uncertain ii then the medical theories. except
But am not In favor of what is called lib.
eral education as a requisite for course of
SIR ya N IN N nbaar afa
grasp OF the. fact observed and true reasoning
from it, as | am for the influence of a broad
Of the ruts Of any mere speciality. and making
him o man first before he becomes lawyer or
merchant, minister or doctor. The intense
make every man q specialist. It dwarfs the
man Ia the calling. The rivalry is 50 enormous
that the man must devote himself heart and
soul to his particular department, and 80 the
shop rides him like an old man of the sea. The
lawyer Ia tempted to become merely lawyer,
the merchant to DO merely merchant. the doc
tor TO be merely doctor. and the clergyman to
be merely clergyman. The man 10 lost In the
Now il am right in what have said hither.
course is a fatal mistake. The physician and
the clergyman can neither take 1t without loss
TO deal directly and for It's own sake with that
fearfully and wonderfully made compound OF
N alter and spirit..humanity. It's well being
It, because 1t is what 1t is. their whole purpose.
Aud they do this. In very large degree by the
power Of wise. healthy and sound nature In
Because therefore the most liberal eduea-
tion has even more OF a moral than of an intel.
ieetuai power; because literature and Lam
guage, history, poetry. philosophy broaden
and enlarge the view, as logic, mathematics
and science clarity and sharpen his intellect. I
am In favor OF this growing demand for an In.
creasing extent OF preparation at the begin
ming.
How, much It Is needed you know well
: postal card from a gentleman who writes NJ.
ID. after his name. and has the papers to
prove 1t. too" who. amonR. other evidences OF
sends his postal to New Orleans Missouri! He
may be. for what | know. good at his trade.
But evidently It Is his trade and that Is all. He
need not say that his diploma Is not from the
Medical College OF Louisiana.
10 me the profession of medicine is no less
than a priesthood Of human health and sanity.
That In that priesthood there should be I'M
worthy men is only saying what may be- said of
all prieslhoods., That there, should be igno-
Ia only to say men are human. That pretend
ers and adventurous should desecrate with their
profane feet the sacred aisles and affairs of Its
nigh service Is what he's occurred in the temple
OF the Lord itself. / accept human folly. hui
man wrong and sin in your profession as In
min Bat cling to the ideals IL both and IN
have more or less realized the ideals. They
have never grown dim Ia either. and the con-
WcIlUH III DObn remains Inc same LQhG bn6 ASpl-
rant must still be told to strive toward the
white submits wherein the light of God IL sun
and moon, for In that climbing only Is victory
and peacel
And In this priesthood. as In the other that
deals with disease spiritual there is the same
heart" A corrupt evil-living. foul.souled
phys ician is a horror. He who ministers at
the wonderful and mystic affairs whore human
ity begins its course with all the infinite issues
It brings. with the eternal heights above IL and
the awful ahysses below, and sees life break
into being in that tremendous sacrament Of
love. and pain. of agony and joy. type of all
coming experience; he who stands to minister
beside. 1t when the gates of mystery are
opened. the curtains OF eternity drawn; and the
soul goes out alone into the awful galleries OF
the unseen to answer to Him who gave it. shall
We not look for in him clean life. a reverent
and earnest purity and TRUTH
Some tell me that. In these days. physicians |
are apt to be materialists. Tsimply cannot I'M
derstand 1t. Revelation aside. cannot. from |
my own experience, understand how a man |
dealing with human nature In It's supreme mo- |
menta can be o materialist. /, myself. have |
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