A Lecture Introductory to the Course on Materia Medica and General Therapeutics

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Excerpt from A Lecture Introductory to the Course on Materia Medica and General Therapeutics: In the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Delivered October 13th, 1857Of the varied shadows that give a sombre hue to thelife Of a physician, allow me to name, as entitled to a prominent place, the deficalties encountered by many pu pits in the course of study. These may arise, partly from defects in early education, and in part from want Of pecuniary means. Embarrassments, such as these, are always augmented by a consciousness of ignorance, or a sense of humiliating dependence on others, or by both. When, as sometimes happens, a young man Of very feeble intellect, and of slender literary acquirements, enters on medical studies, he feels not how deficient he is, and, of course, realizes not the difficulties that are soon to gather around him. Such persons are apt to entertain highly favourable notions of their own powers, and at all events have convinced themselves, by what process I know not, that any sort of material may be worked up into a Doctor, and that, therefore, they need not despair.Others there are, whose native powers are of gigantic proportions, who, though far from having been well educated, have become enamoured of medicine, and are devoted to its study. And, however industrious they may be, they meet with hinderances at almost every turn, and their ardour is often suspended. Such per sons are sometimes compelled to protract their studies beyond the limit prescribed by their first calculations, by reason of poverty. The man whose means are very limited, although possessed of a high order of mind, is often forced to be in the rear Of the drone in science, whose purse, it may be, is far better supplied than his head. This may be a source of keen mortification, for which there can be no remedy but patience and perse verance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.