Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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HI HE publication of this book presages a notable event to a class of medical students. For years to come its anniversary will be remembered as the year of entrance into a profession considered by many the noblest of vocations. Last May, the three hundredth anniversary of the publication of a medical book was celebrated in London by elaborate ceremonials in which King and Prince, the Royal College of Physicians and the Municipality joined. It was a book which established a medical truth, and although derided and attacked at the time of publication, for twenty-one years the author made no reply, content in the confidence that truth would prevail. HARVEY'S DE MOTU CORDIS lives on through the centuries a symbol of that ceaseless search for truth which has characterized the medical profession. In the professions, success is measured by what is done for others by service rendered, rather than as in business, by what is acquired for one's self—by profits received. Medicine is a dauntless, courageous profession. Its members march unarmed and unprotected with the first line tr x ps in battle—they endure the hardships and guard the lives of explorers who brave tropical infection and polar colds. In pestilence and deadly catastrophe the doctor is the first to respond and the last to leave. He suffers infection in the laboratory and in the field, inoculates himself with loathsome disease, experiments with anesthetics upon his own body; not for personal benefit, but that truth may set others free. Grant me the epitaph “He loved the truth and always sought it — asked the outstanding surgeon of our country, as the greatest tribute that could be paid him. May this book serve its class as a permanent reminder of the fine, age-old obligations of medical practice and of that ever constant aim of the profession— the never-ending search for truth. Sincerely, Seven

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W. Waysi. Babcock, M.D.

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irinie physician “The physician should he of tender disposition, of wise and gentle nature, and more especially an acute observer, capable of benefiting every one by accurate diagnosis, that is to say, by rapid deduction of the unknown from the known. And no physician can be of tender dispose tion if he fails to recognize the nobility of man; nor of philosophical nature unless he be strengthened by God's guidance, and he who is not an accurate observer will not arrive at a correct understanding of the cause of any ailment. Eight