Medical College of Virginia - X Ray Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA E STUDENT BODY

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YEAR BOOK Ol 2iJ«£i51-aS£.SiiSlltiJia SS lS PUBLISHED

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DEDICATION fX THK hear ul,.,. thou l ilunlimc-nl ol .■ is enLT.ived llie portrait of a man n unhc-ralclecl and unsung, is still to us the line in man. We pause to examine this ce a rugacd man, his kinillv face etched and mciils and his hair streaked with the ol advancing vears and responsil.ililics. With purity and holiness ' he carncs out the loltv .deals ol his chnsen art of healing. No night is larU, no storm rages too herccly but that when the call c comes he buttons h,s old coat ab.uit him, pulls on his fraved n .-.nd resolutely goes lorth to stay the grim, col l hand of death. Too olten the only reward lor his sleepless niglits and weary days spent on tter cnilless vigils is that feeling of profound satisfaction that is his when he sees some life snatched back from the very edge of the Great Bevond by his efforts. Tired, overworked, many times underpaid, still he cheerlully carries the caduceus forward on high, not failing to contribute his share to the new discoveries of science, for was it not from such as he that man learned the use of the great anaesthetic, ether? And the cause and methods of combatting dreaded malaria? We ponder over this portrait of a man and then fondly and reverently to that friend and servant of suffering humanitv, the Countrv Doctor, we dedicate this volume of the X-R, v.