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aanitjj'street’s Address,
To the Graduates of the Medical Institute of
Georgia, on the 17 Hi inst.
Gentlemen :—The relation which you have
hitherto sustained to the medical institute of the
State of Georgia is now dissolved, and I am
about to present you the testimonials of your
qualification to practice in the line of that pro
fession which has been your peculiar study, while
members of this institution.
Upon this occasion it is made my duty to
close the connexion between us with a parting
address. 1 could have wished that the duty had
devolved on one, more competent to improve it
to your benefit, and to the honor of our infant
Seminary. I enter upon tho discharge of it,
however, with as much confidence, as an ear
nest desire for your prosperity, and an ardent
zeal for the success of the institution, when
blended with a consciousness of my own inabil
ity, can inspire—assured that you will readily
find in the novcly of iny situation an ample apol
ogy for the sterility of my remarks.
In taking leave of you, gentlemen, I am com
missioned by the Faculty under whose immedi
ate charge you have been, to bear public testi
mony to the dignity of your deportment, the as
siduity of your studies and the promptness and
fidelity with which you have discharged all the
duties enjoined upon you, while members of this
Institution. Os your final examination, they
speak in terms highly creditable to you, and en
couraging to themselves. In all this, wo ilatter
ourselves that we discover, an earnest of your
future usefulness and elevation in the profession
of your selection. We need scarcely add, that
as you are the first fruits of the experiment
which we are now making to biing the means
of a liberal education in the science of Medicine
to the doors of our own sons,wc shall sensibly feel
a disappointment of the expectations which you
have awakened—and on the other hand we shall
feel with equal sensibility, the honor of their ful
filment.
In behalf of the faculty removed as I am
from all participation in their labors and their
honors I think I may be permitted to assert that
they have spared no pains to furnish you with
all the means of improvement which lay within
the compass of their power. By a sacrifice of
private interests seldom exhibited,- and more
rarely equalled they have given you tile advan
tages of many of those artificial aids iri the pro
secutions of your studies, for which other insti
tutions of the kind arc exclusively indebted to
Legislative munificence,or widely extended pub
lic patronage. Their industry in preparing them
selves for your instruction has been unremitted,
and your own proficiency is the highest compli
ment to their fidelity in imparting to you the
fruits of their labors. Still we have to regret
that their means are not commensurate with their
zeal. It is, however, due to the Legislature of
your State to remark in this place, that they
have given the most encouraging assurances
that the Institute will not be much longer left
to the unassisted support and protection of its
own officers. Nothing but a train of adverse
circumstances which that Assembly could not
control, prevented the last Legislature from ma
king an appropriation in behalf of the Medical
College of Georgia, which would have raised it
at once to a‘dignified rank among the rival in
stitutions of the Country. Its claims were zea
lously pressed upon the attention of that Body,
and with equal pride and pleasure I bear testi
mony, that from the Chief Magistrate down,
they were invariably received with the kindliest
feelings and the most flattering respect.
Gentlemen, the profession upon which you
have embarked, is one which embraces within
its range some of the most delightful, instruct
ing and interesting branches of Science. It in
troduces you to all the wonders of the human
frame —its complicated yet grand and bcautilul
machinery. It bids you trace the mutual rela
tions and dependencies of body and spirit. It
invites your research through the whole extent
of the animal, mineral and vegitable kingdoms,
for those agents which a beneficent Creator has
kindly thrown around his master work, to re
lieve its sufferings and to rectify its derange
ments. Its office is, to solace affliction, allevi
ate pain, chasten disease, lighten sorrow, and
quiet fears. That must be a callous soul which
can contemplate such a profession without some
thing like a feeling of moral sublimity. How ;
rich its stores of knowledge—how fruitful of
grand discoveries, how vast its compass—how
elevated its aims! Over all its space, through ’
all its windings, in all its triumphs, the Supreme
Being shines gloriously forth in his attractive at- [
tributes of wisdom, goodness, mercy and love.
Tire man who denies his being is denounced
as a fool by sacred writ—the Physician who de
nies it, would be complimented by so mild a de
nunciation.
Such, Gentlemen, is a hasty sketch of the
profession to which you belong. Can you en
ter upon a field so spacious, so rich in trea
sures, with no higher ambition, than to taste the
fruits which your predecessors have gathered
from it! Can you send your eye over its invi
ting and diversified surface, and be content to
consume your days in cultivating someone of
its narrowest borders l Do you feel that such
*St co in cs, the Herald of a Golden World.
a profession imposes on you no duty to your
country, no debt to science, no obligations 10
humanity? The first sons of the Medical In
stitute of Georgia do you feel no ambition to
render it illustrious by your names, and at some
future dayto shed the lustre of your names more
directly upon itfrom the the very flutering testi
mony which you have already given of your pro
ficiency in the several departments of medical
science, we arc encouraged to hope that you
duly appreciate your high calling, and that you
will dignify and adorn it by your conduct and
your talents. And here, as they come nat
urally in place, you will perhaps receive in kind
ness a few suggestions in reference to your fu
ture conduct, which seem to mo worthy of your
consideration.
With all its attractions, yours is a profession
of vast and serious responsibility. It necessa
rily introduces you to the confidence of the fam
ilies who honor you with their patronage. This
| confidence is often the most sacred and deli
; cate character, forced from your patients only
i by insufferable agony, or the perils of approach
j ing dissolution. To elicit an enlargement of
this confidence in the smallest conceivable de
gree, beyond what is necessary to direct you to
tho proper prescription, is to trifle with the feel-
I ings of your friend and benefactor, from nohigh-
I er motive, than to gratify a base and crim.nal
curiosity—openly to violate that confidence, is
to avail yourself of the disease of the body, in
order to inflict a cureles disease upon the
soul. lam happy to say the fault, or rather the
crime, of which I am now speaking, is not com
mon among your order, and I entertain no fears
that you will come within its censures. It is
sometimes, however, committed in a way rath
er less offensive than that to which I have refer
red, but not less criminal. I mean by oblique
but intellgible hints, and allusions—by exposing
the particulars of a nameless case, the promi
nent features of which have from necessity been
made public, and the like. Against this fault
in all its shades and complexions wc most ear
nestly entreat you to guard with unwink
ing vigilance.
So long as you hold yourselves out to the
world as practising physicians, you give an im
plied pledge that you will be obedient to the calls
of all who may require your services- Those
calls will often meet you at unseasonable hours,
but they should always be cheerfully and prompt
ly obeyed—first, in charity to your patients,
and—2ndly, in duty to yourselves. To light
en the irksomeness of this branch of your pro
fessional duty, direct your thoughts *- the dis
tresses of the family to which you may be called.
Compute the long train of ills which be entailed
upon it by your delay, and you must be strange
ly constituted if you do not forget yourself in
your desire to hasten to its relief. Placing this
matter upon the score of duty. I hold you
l )ou ;;d by all its obligations, either to notify the
world thru j'°' u practise only when it may suit
your convenience, f>r to obey the calls upon you,
at all times with promptness and fidelity. The
dead hour of night, when life is imperiled, and
alarms are high, is no time tor a man to change
his family physician.
Your practice will sometimes lead you to
families in which long settled and perhaps very
absurd notions prevail in relation to the treat
ment of diseases. These will often be very
unccrcmoniusly and perhaps rudely obtruded ;
upon you. You should receive them with mild- i
ness, and in pity, rather than in anger. To suf
fer them to inflame you, is to give signs of a
weak head, or a proud heart. More unpardon
able will it be in you to engage in controversy
upon these opinions. This would be compli
menting ignorance, by bringing science to its
level, and arguing where victory is hopeless,
and bootless if gained. And here a remark is ;
suggested to me which I think worthy of your j
attention. It is fashionable, and for the most ’
part with good reason, to ridicule the opinions
of old women in relation to diseases and their
remedies; but it not unfrequently happens that
their opinions proceed from an excellent judge
ment, enlightened by the most instructive expe
rience. They should not, therefore, be indis
criminately rejected, nor should they ever be re
jected without examination; lest in so doing
you shut your ears to some of the most valua
ble hints, in the line of of your profession.
My acquaintance with you, gentlemen, ren
ders caution against the pedantry and garriluli
ty ofthe profession unnecessary, and I bring
them to your notice here, only to remind you,
that there is a very harmless habit (it cannot be
called a foible) among physicians, which is
sometimes mistaken for those faults, and there
fore should be corrected. The language of
your profession is peculiarly technical, and un
intelligible to the people at large; but with phys
icians it is perfectly familiar, natuial and appro
priate Hence it is I presume, that some of the
fraternity, of good sense and good breeding,
confound their hearers by speaking in an un
known tongue, and thus undeservedly incur the
consures of professional pedantry. Physicians
often err in this respect in delivering testimony
in Courts of Justice.—Their testimony is ad
dressed exclusively to the jury, not unfrequent
ly composed of unlettered men, wha feel a dif
fidence in asking explanations; and if the coun
sel engaged in the cause deem no explana
tions necessary, the jury maybe left entirely in
tho dark upon matters which the physician has
most clearly explained.
If carelessness in speaking is to be avoided,
carelessness in writing is to be guarded against
with much more caution. This may be follow
ed by the most serious consequences, as you
readily admit when you are reminded that the
physician’s prescriptions are most commonly,
and should always be, delivered in writing.
IV rite your prescriptions, gentlemen, in a plain
legible hand; give your weights and measures
in both words and signs, that knowledge of ei
ther may explain the others, and avoid all abbre
viations.
In administering to your patients avoid pomp,
ostentation, petulance and authority; your pa- ;
tient is not your slave, and therefore, you have :
no right to address him in the tone of command,
j The favor between you and him is reciprocal,
and the reward with which he compensates your
visits, leaves him free to follow your advice or
not as he may choose. There are always around
a sick bed, witnesses enough to relieve von from
the responsibilities of his disobedience; and
you should always remember that a patient is
often much better acquainted with his own con
stitution and the effect of particular medicines
upon it, than his physician can possibly be. Ex
perience may have taught him, that self-preser
vation, requires him to reject your prescription.
Having noticed those errors which are of less
common occurrence among you, and the conse
quences of which are visited chiefly or exclu
sively upon the profession itself; I beg leave in
the next place, to call your attention to one of a
more common and more serious character, the
penalties of which fall almost exclusively upon
the community ; It has grown into a proverb,
“that lawyers are always quarrelling anil always !
friends, while physicians never quarrel and are
always enemies.” Making the proper allowan
ces for a maxim so general in its terms, and it
must be admitted that it contains too much truth.
The first member of it, I think 1 can explain—
when quarrelling is made a duty, friendship be
comes a recreation. The last member of it, is
left for physicians to explain. Be the cause
what it may, the rivalships, jealousies, and con
tentions of physicians, are so many dark spots
upon the character of the profession. Were this
all, they might be left to the undisturbed enjoy
ment of the fruit of their own raising; but as I
have just remarked the bitterest portion of it is
forced upon the community.—Contending phy
sicians refuse to unite their counsels over the
fevered couch of their mutual friend, and he in
his agony and alarm is required to weigh ques
tions of delicacy with golden balances and with
a steady hand. At a moment when he requires
all the lights of the profession he is given to un
derstand that he can have but one, without com
mitting an irreparable breach between himself
i and his friend. The physician who exacts so
much from nim, considers his life of too little
consequence to justify the condescension to
which he would have to submit in exchanging
a lew ideas upon his friend’s case with an ene
my. Thus an afflicted fellow being is compell
jcd in the hour of extremity to choose between
the hazardsof fife on the one hand, and of friend
| ship on the other. A justification of this course
of conduct on the part of physicians is not to he
found in any code of law’s, human or divine. It
is at war with all our conceptions of courtesy,
justice and humanity. Let me entreat you,
Gentlemen, by all the obligations of self-respect,
and by all the claims of benevolence and chari
ty to cultivate a spirit of friendship with your
brethren. In all professions there are some
w’ith whom it’is impossible to be at peace, and
you will doubtless find such in yours ; but upon
j n o consideration refuse to counsel with them, if
jit be required by an afflicted fellow mortal.
Surely your good rignse will teach you that it
evinces no distrust of your abillly, to call to
your assistance others of equal opportunities.
Finally, if skill, industry, punctuality, patience,
mildness, dignity and humanity, be duties ol i
your profession, every voluntary act of yours
which has a tendency to impair or destroy these
qualities, becomes a positive crime. Excesses
which unsettle the mind; irregularities which
weaken the physical energies; amusements
which interfere with your hours of rest; vices
which lead you frequently from home ; low com
pany which lessens confidence and injures char
acter, are all to be renounced as a necessary
consequence of the truths which have been de
livered.
Thus, Gentlemen, have I hastily thrown to- |
getlier such thoughts as it seemed to me might
be useful to you in future life.—l’erhaps they
had all passed through your own minds long be
fore they were suggested by me—and perhaps
you had already resolved to conform your char
acters to them. I would be far from disapprov- j
ing of good resolutions, much farther from cen
suring them—-but permit me to assure you,
Gentlemen, if you rest your hopes of a truly re
fined, dignified and elevated character upon the
unassisted strength of your own resolutions, you
place them upon a foundation extremely unsure.
The stain of original sin is too deeply imprint
ed upon the human heart, to be removed by a
power less efficient than that, which Omnipo
tence has provided essentially for the heart’s j
pollutions.—Religion alone can raise you to j
that point of moral elevation, w here true dignity 1
reigns.—This gained, and all the duties of life,:
public, private and professional, become easy,
natural and delightful.—This gained, then be
it your endeavor, to blend in your own charac
ter the suavity of Sydenham, the enterprizc ot
Hunter and the holiness of Paul; and however
far below your standards you may fall, you will
not fall below the love, admiration and respect
of an enlightened community.
Contentment. —Few men seem to be entirely
happy in the situation in which they are placed.
The poor man imagines that it ho possessed
riches he should be contented and happy. The
rich, in tho midst ofbispossessions is often wea-
ry ol'a world that has no new excitement to of
fer ; fretted by ten thousand claims on his gene
rosity, embittered by ingratitude, and sickened
by the heartless flattery of contending
The uneducated man envies the idel of literary
j fame ; every thing seems bright and golden in
[ his path, and h> does not know how often the
darling of popular lavor mourns for the peaceful
j spirit of the unambitious, and the untroubled
; faith of the ignorant; how often he despises the.
friendship which he sees but of temporary im
portance —and how in very heart-sickness ho
sinks from th publicity which tho world will
heap upon http, and the rancoroHs animosity it
ta sure to bring in its train.—Content is the
whole of wisdom, the amount of all philosophy .
Every class of mankind has an equal share of
1 happiness, and if wc do not believe, it is a more
distinct knowledge .>f cur troubles than any
others. \\ e believe that if we would change
places with the wealthy and celebrated, we
should avoid restlessness and languor; but wo
deceive ourselves. Mortals cannot escape a
mingled destiny. For wise purposes theie is a
drop of bitterness at the fountain—it mixes with
all the waters of life, whether we drink from a:i
earth, n or a golden cup, wc cannot escape our
portion.
The Village Preacher. —‘Farther, forgivn
them.’—Go, proud infidel—search the ponder-
I ous tone of heathen learning, explore the works
’ ofConfucious—examine the precepts ol Sene- ‘
| ca, and the writings ot Socrates—collect all the
excellencies of the ancient and modern moral-’
j ists, and point to a sentence equal to this sim
i pie prayer of our Saviour. —Reviled and insult
ed—suffering the grossest indignities—(downed
with thorns and led away to die ! no annihilation
curse breaks from his tortured breast. Sweep
and placid as the aspirations of a mother for her
nursling, ascends the prayer for mercy on his
enemies. * Father forgive them.’ Oh !it was
worthy of its origin, and stamps with the bright
est seal of truth that his mission was from
Heaven.
Acquaintances, have you quarreled? Friends
have you differed? If he who was pure and
perfect, forgave his bitterest enemies, do you
well to cherish your anger 1
Brothers, to you the precept is imperative .*
You shall forgive—not seven times, but seven
ty times seven.
Husbands and wives you have no right to ex
pect perfection in each other. To err is the lot
of humanity.—lllness will sometimes render
you petulcnt and disappointments ruffilc the
smoothest temper. Guard I beseech you with
unremitting vigilance, your passions ; controlled,
they are the genial heat that warms us along
the way of life—ungoverned, they arc consu
ming fires. Let your strife be one of respect
ful attentions, and conciliatory conduct. Cul
tivate with care the kind and gentle affections*
of the heart.—Plant not, but eradicate the thorns
that grow in your partners path: above all, let.
no feeling of revenge ever find harbour in your
| breast, let the sun never go down upon your
I anger. A kind word—an obliging action—if
| it be a matter of trifling concern, has a power
superior to the harp of David in calming the bil
lows of the soul.
Revenge is as incompatible with happiness as
it is hostile to reason and religion. Let him
whose heart is black with malice, studious of
revenge, walk through the fields while clad in
verdue and adore the fiow’ers: to his eye there is
no beauty, the flowers to him exhale no fra
grance. Dark as his scul, nature is robed in
the deepest sable. The smile of beauty lights
not upon his bo om with joy ; but the furies of
heii rage in his breast, aud render him ns mis
erable as he could wish the object of his
hate.
But let him lay his hand on his heart and say,
Revenge, I cast theo from me—Father l'ur
give mine enemies’ and nature will assume a
new and delightful garniture. Then, indeed,
are the means verdant and the flowers fragrant
—then is the music of the groves delightful to
the car, and the smile of virtuous beauty lovely
to the soul.
The following anecdote was related to us a so w
days since, by an esteemed female friend, and
should there be any thing in it w hich would seem
to imply the want of a proper regard to what is
due to the better half of creation, we hope that
the ladies will hold the authoress, and not the
editor responsible, whose name we shall cer
tainly give up, should any aged maiden lady
demand it, and state her reason for so doing pro
ceeded from a belief that she w as personally al
luded to.
“ An aged “spinster” w ho
“ —never told her love.
But let concealment like a worm i’ the fold,
Feed on her damask cheek.”
growing weary, amongst the olher “ills that
flesh is heir to',” of “a life of single blessedness”
betook herself to the silent recess ofthe grove,
and there prayed most fervently that Providence
would provide for her what forty years of smi
lintr,simpering and rougeing had tailed to entrap,
viz*: o husband!. She had no sooner got
through with her devotions than an Out, (of tho
largcr species, says our informant,) hooted
from the top of u tree, over the head of the “hap
less maiden,’’ —VVhoo—ho- hoo!” To which
she replied, with eyes reverently fixed on tho
earth, and supposing that he whom she implored
had come “to the rescue,” ‘■‘■any body good lord. ‘
—Jlbbcville JVliig.
“He that is without name, without friends
without coin, without country, is still at least a
man :and he that has all these is no more ”
NO. 6.