The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-02-09
[snecial pespatch to The prsss.1

Especial Despatch to the Press.l
LEWISTON, Feb. 81 Commencement exer-
cres of the Maine Eclectic Medical College
were held today in the College rooms, at the
City Building The exercises were opened with
prayer by Rev. W. G. HASKELL pastor of the
Uniyersalist church, afoer which the Dean of
the College, DR.. Buzzell, introduced Prof.
Root who delivered the opening address.
He commenced by speaking of the qualifica-
tions that go to make up the term physician,
mentioning sound, practical common sense;
natural and cultivated taste for medical work;
accurate perceptions; good reasoning powers;
good, general and medical education; stuGi-
GUS habits; discrimination; courteous man
ner and a gentle hand; true dignity based
on innate sense of honor and honesty; temper
ance and broad religious sympathy as broad
as the interests of suffering humanity In the
course of his address DIR. Root spoke in the
highest terms of the late DIR. Greene of Port
land. In conclusion, addressing the class
about to graduate, DR.. Root said:
Your course of study has been thorough and
practical; indeed, the curriculum has been
identical with that of the best medical coleg-
es with the addition of the branches purely
eclectic. If the standard text books of Gray,
Dalton, DuDgeson, Gross, Flint. Bartholow
and Thomas and the United States Dispensa-
tory are good instruction in Bowdoin Harvard
Chicago and Cincinnati Many of you have
attended one or more courses of lectures in
othes colleges. Henceforth you enter practi-
Cal life. Your work is in the office, and at the
bedside. Do not be satisfied with your present
attainmentS, Take the best medical journal
of all schools and keep abreast or in advance
of the times. Every branch of the medical
profession is with you as as far as eclecticsm is
understood, and multitudes of physicians are
really Eclectic who have not SO announced
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courteous treatment. Let your practice speak
for you and the people will understand. Let
your triumphs be triumphs of skill, and not of
wit or blackgaardism. We welcome you to
the trials, labors and victories of the profess
ion.
The Dean then presented the class of '83 to
the President of the Trustees, the Hon. Hor-
ace O. Little, who in few we'll chosen words
addressed the class before him.
Mr.. Little said that he was not public
speaker, but he had examined into the qualifi-
cations of the candidates as submitted to the
trustees. One of these qualifications was
good moral character. The citizens of Lewis
ton as well as himself had noticed the bearing
and orderly behavior of the students and had
been pleased with them. He then presented
the diplomas to the members of the class as
follows comforting upon them the degree of
MD:
Darius Leonard Powe, Boston, Mass; Mar
cissa Thvreye, Biddeford. Me-; Charles Alb
bot Barnes, Montpelier, Vt; George Warren
Brown, Cumberland Mills, Me-; William
Franklin Putnam, Bucksport. Me-; John
Cummings Butterfield, West Baldwin, Me-;
Clara Anna Moore, Portland, Me-; James
Davies, A. M Wales, England; George Leon
ard Colby, Whitefeld, n. H.; Alonzo Down
ing Muchmore, Compton Village, N. H.; Wes
ley Sawyer, Cape Elizabeth; Jason Lee Lufkin
Minneapolis, MINI; Josiah Ingraham Brown,
Athens, Me-; James WILDER Newcomb, Ber
wick, Me.
The Dean announced that two candidates
had passed a satisfactory examination, hut
their diplomas were withheld to await tech
nical conformity to the requirements for gradu
ates, and that the postponement was for no
fault of their own.
The Dean then delivered the closing address
to the students.
After speaking of the duties of the physician
both to the patient, the profession and the
public Dr. Buzzell said:
after all your reading and study, much of
your success must come from observation and
clinical experience. New discoveries are to be
made and you may become contributors to
medical science and dscoverers OF new facts
for the profession. 2. Do not be in haste to
make diagnosis. If symptoms are obscure
take time. See if former disease has any in
fuence. Es
and do not change for new medicine every
day in hopes to find better one.
3. Drugs are not the chief nor only reliance;
see how few and not how many drugs will ef
feet cure. Do not doctor symptoms nor give
a mixture of many Ingredients hoping that
some one v i'll hit. Do not experiment with
hydrate of chloral and other dangerous reme-
dies unne cessarily, nor te ich your patients TO
become habitual users of morphine or opium.
4. Attend to the nursing; see to the birth,
Cruel, ventilation, aDd=if the nurse does not
carry out instructions make fuss about it.
s. Keep the secrets of your patients and
your own. An open-mouthed doctor deserves
to be drummed ont of town.
On motion of DIR. W. f. Putnam vote of
thanks was rendered to the faculty, and the
trustees of the College. A vote of thanks was
was also rendered to Dr. Root for his able clos
ing address.
The Dean spoke of the interest that the Rev.
W. G. Haskell had manifested inithe College,
and returned the thanks of the trustees and
faculty to that gentleman.
Prizes were awarded for best dissection as
follows:
Newcomb and Butteifield first prize; Thivi-
eye and Powe, second prize. Honorable men
tion was given to Mrs. Clara Anna Moore.
Honorable mention was made of the theses
of Mrs. G. A. Moore, ID. L. Prove, John c..
Blu uterfeld and Wesley Sawyer.
A class sociable was held this evening at the
College lecture room