The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-01-26

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our Legislative Hall at Lansing.
AS was saying. we shall have men
in Legislative Halls wise enough 10
protect humanity against quackery.
What grand sitting il will be when,
by the means of thoroughly qualified
Medical Examining Boards, the sheep
and the goats among doctors shall be
separated and properly labelled, SO
that the -faring man though fool
need not err when he comes to select
his medical attendent.
Medicine is daily growing stronger,
more exact and pains,aking, though
such phy,ic as the late John b.
Beck, il. all honesty and truthfulness
could say Gas my hairs grow thinner
my mafe,7a meaiea grows less There
is no doubt our mater7a medicaS
and dispensatories are loaed down
with mass of rubbish that should
be swept away with the bosom of
obstruction in the sweet by and by
we shall have learned to unlearn what
we have learned amiss-perhaps then
we shall more highly esteem that
quality of the mind we now call for
getfulness For the reason that there
is SO much now in our medical
libraries, if we could forever consign
them TO oblivion the world would be
the better for it,
And further, in the near future the
adulteration Of food and medicine will
be stopped ehectually, as it should be
now, and this will be very import
ant factor in making up the sum of
human life. BY and by it will be a
penal offense to adulteratc food and
medicine
And thus we go on enumeratng
one item after another which will
pd'7 passn make up the sum total Of
important factors which by and by
will consummate this glorious era.
Then perhaps shall come the days
seen by the ancient seer There
shall be no more thence an infant OF
days, nor an old man that hath not
filled his days; for the child shall
die an hundred years old"
And now we look across the
breadth of coming years and know
that this must come Perhaps like
Chinese writings the lines stretch far
down the lengthcning scroll of Time.
Let us not be discouraged, we may
not see this in our day, but it will
come in the line of our work. Ours
is a noble profession, and worthy the
devotion of a life time, says the
classic Watson, in whose words l
close.
Trials no doubt belong to it, and
difficulties, but it has also privileges
and immunities peculiar to itself.
Affording ample scope and exercise
for the intellect, it is conversant with
objects that tend to elevate the
thoughts, to chasten the feelings, and
to touch the heart. The sad varie
ties of human pain and weakness,
with which our daily vocation is ia.
miIiar should rebuke our pride,
while they quicken our charity.
To us are intrusted, in more than
ordinary measure, opportunities of
doing good. Let us beware how we
idly neglect or selhshly abuse, a
stewardship SO precious, yet so
weighty. The profession of medi
cine having for its end the common
good of mankind, knows nothing of
national enmities, of political strife,
Of secrarian discussion. Disease and
pain, the. sole condition Of it's minis
try, it is disquietsd by no misgkings
concerning the justice and honesty
Of its clients cause, but dispenses its
peculiar benefits without stint or
scruple, to men of every country,
and party, and rank, and religion,
and to men of no religion at all.
And like the quality of mercy of
Of which it is the favorite handmade,
sit blesses him that gives and him
that takes" reading continually to
our own hearts and understandings
the most impressive lessons, the most
solemn warnings.
Familiar with death in it's mani
fold shapes, we are not permitted to
be unmindful that our own stay is
brief and uncertain, our opportunity
precarious and our time, even when
longest, very short if measured by
our moral wants and intellectual
cravings and are ever to remember
in our most successful efforts we are
but the honored instruments of a
superior power, that after all alt is
God who healeth our diseases and
redsemeth our life from destruction"
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