University Medical College - Scalpel Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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52122115 nt' thc lgrnfeaainn BY J. M. ALLEN, A. M., M. D., L. L. D. Professor of Diseases of the Abdomen. benefited by his having lived You have selected for your profession one of the 'if broadest fields that civilization offers for individual renown as well as the greatesi possible chance for benefiting and increasing the happiness of the human family. You must not forget that when Darwin announced his theory of survival of the fittest that it covers all the past as well as all the future of the human race. Applying this to man it is intellectual development that makes him survive the conflict and battle of life. There- fore you must decide today that you will be students of nature and science as long as life lasts and by this be enabled to add many new facts to the glorious profession that you have selected, to gain and retain the good will of your profession without which the life of a physician is a failure. Therefore you should at once get a copy of the code of Medical Ethics and study them well and thoroughly. They will teach you your correct relations to the members of your profession and to the public. And let no tempta- tion seduce you, no matter how flattering from the strong anchoring of a thorough knowl- edge of the medical code of ethics. Don't be disheartened because all of our public prints are filled by the advertisement of charlatans-and quacks, and boasted cures of special diseases, because this charlatanism' has existed long before the days of Hippo- crates and is gradually failing before education and intellectual development and will finally be obliterated by truth itself. And if you follow the advice I have given you, you will be one of an army whose armor is truth, which banished falsehood in the world. The supreme moment of a man's life is when he takes his last look on this earth at his past life. If his life has been guided by truth and a large vein of humanitarianism there is within him that which says, God's will be done. If on the other hand his life has been full of untruth, fraud and deception, I would imagine in this aftermath there would be wailing and gnashing of teeth and a coward would be before the bar of God. Be truthful, be honest, cultivate humanitarianism. Also be an optimist. Remember that there never was a cloud -so black but what the sun was shining back of it. HE objects and aims of every individual should be such that the world has been ' ns

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examining and licensing boards. The Association of American Medical Colleges dropped us from her honor roll, a discredit to which we were not entitled. But today every state in our broad land welcome the alumni of our college, and you will find your diploma a letter of credit with every examining and licensing board in the country. Of the twelve schools in the state of Missouri there are only two, the Washington University of St. Louis, and the State University at Columbia, that stand a-s high in the educational world, and they enjoy about the same points of credit as we do. In the United States there are only eight or ten medical colleges that out-rank us, and they are institutions with large endowment. How do we stand with the National Association of Medical Colleges? I will tell you, We not only have been taken into her confidence by reinstatement, but in the last seven years our school has been honored by having one of its faculty twice called to the presidency of the National Body, a distinction no other college in the United States claims. Now what is the cause of this great prosperity? Is it an incidental condition as a lesult of good times? No. For when we look around us, we find that in the last five or six years a large number of medical schools have closed their doors, or consolidated with other schools, largely on account of the advanced requirements necessary for ad- mission and graduation. With us we saw the handwriting on the wall. We knew that it was quality more than quantity that would win out, and we adopted that as our standard. That, coupled with a thorough and scientific course of medicine and sur- gery, taught by up-to-date educators, who search the hospitals and laboratories of both continents each, year to secure the latest ideas and technique in teaching, and which is presented in such a manner easily grasped by the student, and supplying him with thorough understanding of the fundamental branches in medicine, as well as equipping him with the latest discoveries here and abroad, is what gives our college its enviable reputation among medical colleges.

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