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4th, and last!}-. In your intercourse with your pa- 

 tients, I have only to suggest to you " to act towards 

 them, as you would wish them, in like circumstances, 

 to act towards you." Under the direction of this hea- 

 ven-born precept, you will be prompt and regular in 

 your attendance upon them ; you will treat them, at all 

 times, with delicacy and respect; you will sympathize 

 in their sufferings ; you will forgive the changes in 

 their tempers and conduct, which are sometimes in- 

 duced by sickness; you will forbear to oppress the 

 unfortunate; and you will be strictly just in your de- 

 mands for remuneration for your services from the af- 

 fluent. By these means, you will endear yourselves 

 to your patients, and impart a dignity and splendour 

 to your characters, which they never can possess from 

 an exclusive display of talents and knowledge. 



You have this day, gentlemen, ceased to be our pu-. 

 pils ; but you have acquired a new, and more intimate, 

 relation to us. You have become our younger bro- 

 thers in the profession of medicine; and, as such, we 

 invite you to command our fraternal services. 



In behalf of my colleagues, and of the fathers of the 

 institution, I bid you adieu. 



