The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-06-27
Vito Was R~e-IIeiertcsi SecrctaT! of the
North Carolina Boa ri of Health.

oil doSAoiS ~ -
an. other State. The speech of Dr.
J. Nj. Templeton. Of Wake, on The
Silent Influences Of the Physician.
was eloquent and was delivered in
such a way as to delight all hearers.
The Charlotte Observer says: over
wheiming proof OF a fact which mas
often been proven before-to-wit. thai
the doctors have the lawyers hope
!essly outcla:sed at their own game
Of poetic oratory-uas furnished last
night by the annual Grafton delivered
to the state Medical Society at the
courthouse by DR.. ]. NJ. Templeton,
of Cary.
In the course Of his address DR..
Templeton aid
"One of the ~proudest names in the
annals of the Southland is that Of
Stonewall Jackson. A very genius Of
battle, he, whose foot cavalry made
the Southeln armies almost InNlncl-
bic While he lived. For successful.
strategy and daring his campaign in
the valley has never been surpassed,
if equalled. and when the battles OF
Port Republic and Cross KEYS and
Front Royal are forgotten, Jackson's
name viii live in the tact hat Oh
that campaign he issued the order
that all surgeons captured While in
discharge OF duty should be paroled
ana lttctt1 dS "a
Southerners we glory in the fact that
it was a Confederate general who 70.
the first time in the worlds history
of wars adopted a policy so benefcen,
and human AS physicians, we
know that order was issued through
the silent influence of Jackson's SUI.
geon-in-chief that courtly gentleman
and peerless surgeon, Hunter Nc
CURE. :
-.l 49, ~
night amid winters snow and sum
mer's dust to cool the feyered brow
of the p~ain-racked child, to minister in
the holy of HOLES of the home when
the mother feels for the first time
her BREATH or sit help
lessly hen the last word is spoken,
the last kiss imprinted, and the life
cure is on the ebb-tide. These
form the type Of men old Patrick
D~rumsheugh had in mind that bitter
winter night in old Scotland. When
under the black frs with their icy
burden he prayed, Almighty God,
dinna be hard on Weelum Mac
Loure, for he's ND been hard Wi
anybody in Drumtchty. Be kind to
him as he's been to US a for forty
year. We're a sinners afore Thee
Forgive him what he's done wrang
and dinna cWist it up tae him. Mind
the foWk he's helped, the wee1nen ana
bairnes, and gle him a welcome hame.
for he's sore needn't after a his
work
Those true to the class that in
spire such prayers are always, every
where, all-round gentlemen. They
realize that the key to the measure
Of a man is his thought. Hence
their thoughts dwell not amid the
mire and slime Of earth, but are ever
turned skyward to things high and
pure and clean and noble. I care no,
how good our work today. it will be
better still If behind the aseptic hand
Of the surgeon there beats the clean
heart of a Christian gentlemen. No
low, vulgar, unclean word passes the
lips Of such, they are foes to all that
is venal, base or dishonorable. Tenn
perate in all things, true to the mar
riage vow, they live, not alone for
gold and the sordid things Of time
and life. but for truth and principle
and sweet charity.
Some such there are in the world
of medicine today. They belong to
no particular school or sect, or cult.
They are the product of no special
soil or climate, no political or geo
graphic division of earth can claim
them as its own. The educated, gen.
tienaanly physician is the true cos
mopohte- 1t matters not whether he
uomtCile beneath the liOn-creSted en-