Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-13

eeles, and E. L. Puett, of Boonville, Ind,
n whom the degree OF M. D. was con-
fer ed
On behalf of the faculty, DR.. Walter
Lindley said
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN--We realize to-
hight the importance of the occasion.
he faculty of the University Medical
College. through their President, are
about to pronounce the words that will
author. re certain young men to go out
into the world to take charge of the lives
of the sick and the manned. To them
the innocent child, with burning hand
and throbbing temple, will soon turn be-
seeching eyes for help; to them will the
good wife, in the throes of labor, look for
aid and guidance in that supreme hour
of womanhood; and to them will
the sleepless haunted man, with
frenzed brain, turn with un-
utterable anguish, begging to
be saved from madman's doom. Will
these young men be prepared to meet
these great responsibilities? This is the
question that each OF the teachers in this
medical college asks himself. There
were others in this senior class, some of
whom came near the required profic-
iency, but where there has been any
doubt we have deemed it charitable to
give the sick of this earth the benefit of
the doubt, and have said to the
student: "Await a time with pa
tience and industry, until you
have qualified yourself more fully for
the great work that you desire to under
take" One year ago class was grad
uated from this platform, and l am
happy to say that wherever they have
been-some in the hospitals of Vienna,
some in the hospitals of Paris, others in
the hospitals and surgical ampitheatres
of New York and Philadelphia, and yet
others in active practice-wherever
they have been they have reflected
credit upon this Los Angeles College.
To-day. as l look around me and see
practicing medicine in this city Drs.
Thiele, Ellis, Bagg and Beckett, all
graduates of this college, feel proud of
the fact that they are SO we'll equipped
with knowledge and skill, and have
such gentlemanly demeanor and such
kind hearts that they invariably acquit
themselves satisfactorily.
Graduates of 1888, you who are now
practitioners here, we, your teachers, do
not forget or mistrust you. We are glad
to know that while you are pursuing your
professional work as a livelihood, you
are, at the same time, enthusiastically
pursuing your studies. Yes, we have
been obliged to reject some candidates
for graduation, but it was with regret; ;
and yet, the true teacher would rather
that his right hand might fall powerless
to his side, than that it should sign a
diploma conferring degree where it was
undeserved.
DIR. Lindley then spoke of the great
underlying principles of Eedicine as
preventive, and said Longevity is in
creasing. Disease is gradually losing its
terrors, and l would not be surprised to
see, ere another fifty years roll by, the
average period of human life increased
from its present position Of forty years to
three score and ten years. This same
underlying truth that is steadily increas-
ing longevity, has come to the surgeons
aid, 30 that to-day he chisels his way
through the skull into the brain and re.
moves therefrom the cerebral tumor, and
the imbecile becomes the man of sense
He spoke OF the aid it had given in
operations in the abdomen and in
obstetrics, and said that cleanliness"
was the successful practitioner motto;
not ordinary cleanliness, but surgical
clean iness, the absolute destructor OF all
poisonous organisms.
DIR. Lindley spoke of the necessity OF
selecting the proper kind of wives, and
in conclusion said: "This parting from
You students fails to cause within us
single pang. No tears of grief will be
shed on either side. You who have
looked forward anxiously for this occas-
ion for several years, cannot fail
to feel an unmixed joy that you
have at last passed the ordeal success
fully and received your diplomas as ply
sicians. We, your teachers, are glad
that you have successfully stood our ex-
aminations, and have so conducted your
selves otherwise that we can, without
reserve, commend you. We shall watch
your course with great interest, and it
will be a source of pride il decade
hence your honestly gained coat of arms
will bear the word, Success"
The benediction was pronounced by
Rev. R. s. Cantine, and then the newly
made physicians were congratulated on
all sides.