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III.— ADDRESS DELIVERED TO THE GRADUATES 



IN MEDICINE* 



Gentlemen, — You have now attained a position in which 

 you are henceforward to be engaged, not only in the study of 

 medicine, but also in the practice of it. You have become 

 responsible for a continued course of self-improvement, and 

 for your efficiency as physicians. Having taken your places 

 as members of one of the three professions, the collective 

 erudition of which constitutes the whole liberal learning of a 

 country, you are bound deliberately to consider the nature of 

 the position you now occupy. It devolves on me, on this 

 occasion, briefly to indicate to you the scope and character of 

 the duties which that position entails. 



If the clerical profession demands an extent of study, and 

 occupies a sphere of action which bring it into relation with 

 every department of learning, and all grades of society ; if the 

 erudition and the knowledge of mankind necessary for the 

 accomplished lawyer cannot be definitely limited ; it is still 

 more difficult to determine the line of demarcation between 

 the province of the physician and the ever-extending area of 

 liu man knowledge and activity. 



The training required for any of the three liberal profes- 

 sions La therefore properly considered as the completion uf 

 a thorough education ; and thus, those three distinct depart- 

 ments of professional study are, from their essential character, 



* This address was delivered on the ls1 August 1850, when Professor 

 Good rir acted as Promote] foi I ba1 yi ar. Eds. 



