The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-03
by b a dellghiful a they vsra o Amer

pay be as delightful As they yere 10 Amer
EyeEy one Of tl,e tgctorg 70, On, ne ie,t
when DR. Weloh closed with this and aang
q song made Up at Johns Hopkins for the
occasion 20 the tune Of "My Country, Tie
OF Thee One OF the verses, which was
sung with much glisto, ran thus:
Look az his arteries,
Judge Of his age by these,
Scarce thirty .hvcl
May he neer pass his prims
Younger IN spite Of time
long live our chiefl
Dr. Osler az an author and physician
was the subject Of DIR, A. JAoobi who also
got great ovation from the medioos. Or.
jacob got lot OF laughs when he said that
he wac glad that the subject Of his re-
marks hadn't pasaad sixty. He hadn't
written ~ much. either. he said jsstingly.
IN all the medical libraries Of the County
Medical Association he said, not more than
forty medical periodicals bore the name OF
the guest Of the evening
He Ia responsible, he went on, for many
things which he has never said. There are
many things, after all, which he has not
done and many books which he has not
written. But our criticism OF our guest
should not all be adverse. / might draw
here to- night picture Of q great medical
man which all OF us might covet He never
forgets the poor In the hospital who have no
one TO rely upon but their doctors, and
n
or In the ward he il the friend Of the sick,
always kind and genial
DR., jacob touched on the alleged 'Osler
theory only to say that II was the "sensa-
tional lie OF a penny-a-liner. The state
ment got lot Of cheers.
The presentation Of the copy Of Cicero's
treatise de Senectute,- printed by Benja-
min Franklin was left 10 DR.. s. Weir Mitchell.
DR.. Mitchell got a great burst OF cheers
when he got up. He said:
1T Ia desirable for q man to expire at the
proper time
This quotation from Cicero was loudly
welcomed.
There were many cheers for DR.. 0sler
when he arose 70 reply. He thanked his
hosts for their welcome and their gift, and
said.
ITO few men has happiness come in so
many forms as 1t has come 10 me, although
I have not deserved II more than others.
/ have been singularly happy in my friends
and In the profession Of my choice. | owe
u all 20 you, gentlemen. Ihaye been happy
In the people among whom l have worked,
both in Canada and my adopted country,
TO whose grace and nobility Of character
/ bear testimony. ! have met with the
warmest devotion from my patients and
the people.
Il was In Leipsic when received the in
yitation to take the professorship at the
University Of Pennsylvania and had
played 40 many pranks on my colleagues
there that thought II must be joke and
did not reply for weeks. When ! found II
was not, another question came up. Phila-
delpha regards breeding as Boston regards
brains. DR.. Mitchell said there was only
one way TO determine breeding-to give
me a cherry pie and see how disposed OF
the su0nes. I disposed Of them discrim-
inatingly with spoon, and got the chair.
H., MY students have been the inspiration OF
my work and life. | have had but two
ambitions: first TO become a good clinical
physi, ian: second, TO build UP great clinic
In this country on Teutonic lines-not
the lines that have been followed in this
country and in England, but the lines that
have put Germany in the forefront OF the
medical world,
change in this country il is hospital re-
quirements and equipments. In every
town Of more than 5000 clinical hospita
should be built up, with good clinical and
pathological laboratories. Then more
clinical work would he done In this country
in FIVE years than is done in Germany in
ten.
sIn all my career have tried to do the
DAYS work we'll not minding the morrow,
You NAV say that this is not an ideal, but
IL is / owe everything to settling down
TO the days work and letting the future
take care Of itself. | have tried, too TO
cultivate a certain degree OF equanimity,
TO bear success with humility. so that II
sorrow should come could meet IL with
the equanimity BETTING a man
What the future has in store for me /
cannot tell, nor do care much, so long as
l can take with me the memory Of the
friendship you have given me.
Il can truly say TO you and / take myself
to witness. that IN my sojourn among you
] have loved no darkness, sophisticated no
truth, nursed no delusions and allowed no
fear