On the sources and benefits of professional earnestness : being an address delivered before the Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Association.

  • Ludlam, R. (Reuben), 1831-1899.
Date:
1859
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Credit: On the sources and benefits of professional earnestness : being an address delivered before the Illinois Homoeopathic Medical Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of our medical republic to the detriment of its ism ; and it is this Li which i while oilier, lab ond their ca] ill-' dawn of a more enlightened and cultivi our l.eln\ed science. It is astonishing to contemplate how nun who, with all the assuranceof a morbid indiffen rd- ing the consequent 3, fall back upon tl ting relations of , to perform such duties by pi are essentially individual, both iii application and accounta- bility. Ami, as in the physical man, bo in the professional organ- ism ; if too onerous a duty be imposed U] ne member, in order to make up for the deficiencies of another, th< very considerable hazard thai both may Buffer th quence8, and diseased action resuH as tl what may have been a very trivial cause at the i: that, h\ one's ueglecl of duty, we shall find the burth< another augmented ; and also, that in addition to accountability of the former, will be that of jeopardizu brother's usefulness with his own. Thus are our i mutual, and, to a certain extent, our responsibility To shirk them is to stamp the impress of disorder upon what was designed to be harmonious and complete in e function, as in every organ. [f one lung be incapacitated because of dis< unable, therefore, to labor for the general health, i ingon the respiration in a normal, physi its partner and co-worker, the other luug, must Bee to it that this Labor is performed; that the Bystem does i tVom defective oereation of the blood; must take for the time being, or until health I _ain. and these twin-workers shall be ready each to acquit itself of dutj vital to be adjourned, and too delical entrusted more than temporarily to a delegated member, though it be of the same order of organs. EXacth so is it here. The compensating relatioi society are of great benefit to us all, if we may pr< ]