Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-07
DIR. CIRCUITS ADDRESS.

DIR. CIRCUITS ADDRESS
I'm our profession" he said. "a quick
perception and a well-balanccd mind are
especially nccdful. With these and ob-
servation and judgment relatively is--
norant man will succeed. The studies
that cultivate the perception and judg
| ment constitute the best preliminary cd.
ucltior for the medical profession
In my opinion it should be a criminal
Offcnsc for any physician to so directly
from medical school into general plac-
ticc. unless he may have an opportunity
to work for a time assistant with
some good practitioner and even thi.
is 4 poor substitute for the experience
and knowledge that can be gained in a
hospital
Medicine is not trade and IL you
make il one YOU will bitterly repent it
If YOU seek for wealth you have mis-.
taken Nour vocation. Whatever your
success You viii want something NOR,
to make your profession tolerahle To YOU
The doctor is the bearer Of other poo.
PIES burdens; the confident and advisor
in other peoples sins and woes: tho
anxious watcher: the man who can mover
be his own master. To You Will otter
| come the question. after some fatal rc
| suit. could I have known or done more L?
| And at times will come the harder re-
| Election of friends. that you mistook The
| case.
''In spite OF all this the tide OF stu
| dents never ceases What feeling call
them? What sentiment sustains then
| in after life? Money is lacking. Prac
ticc alone is not enough. There must b,
something NOR" and higher. That some
thing is love of your profession; a pas
sion for science for its own sake;
broad humanity which covers all the sicl
| with mantle Of charity.
| Il assume that force of circumstance
will make most Of you country doctors
Much has been heard of the relatv
merits Of the country doctor and hi
| metropolitan brother. But il is not
question OF whore YOU come nom &
n,uch as who you arc. The seed vii
always produce its own kind and gen
orally the harder tho soil the sweetc
the fruit Nothing Guckcns ID man
perceptions more certainly or develop
more surely his inner practical resourc
than the consciousness that he has I
think with his own brain and act wit
his own hand.
"The country doctors mental guy
ropes are his own experience and that O
the marshallcd authorities in his library
the metropolitan practitioner can taste
tho tendrils of his web to the door post
lof all the experts ana specialists III hi
noishbOrhood.
"Much has been said and written re
gardng the cilc,t of the study and prac
ticc of medicine upon the doctors rcligio
or lack OF il. IL to serve ones fellow MA
he the essence Of religion then no one
more dcvout than tho doctor IL rcligiO
includes also something spiritual. IL dut
TO God, a reverence for things eternal,
Faith in the unseen and the undemonstra
bic, then many doctors are lacking
their religion. Every pl Profession has some
Thing In it which tends to drag the ma
down from higher places. What wonde
II tho doctor sonnet times doubts the benef
cencc Of misery. the utility of picty. q
Questions whether the human wrecks thi
he meets have been ennobl d with in,,no,
tality or stamped with the image of God
|, lin closing, allow me TO congratulate
you who were fortunate enough to hav
been born in Vermont: and to you VIII
were denied that good fortune ] want I
say that you have shown uncommon goo
sense to come to this department OF III
. University of Vermont
The speaker then quoted the incider
told OF bismarck. when he is said to ha,
cited the State of Vermont as his idea {
ID republic. AS his closing words, ID
Grout used the words which Prince hi,
marck spoke when speaking to two grat