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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    ADDRESS. My Brethren and Friends: Custom has in a manner made it obligatory thai the annnal address before this Association shall be in Bome sorl a popular review of the principles of Homeopathy. Since; our organization, each year has yielded the fruits of worthy effort in this direction, and it is not, perhaps, meet that, in our turn, we Bhould pause to plough the soil in so far prepared towards the harvest. The child does not wax to maturity in a nighl; the bud may qoI blow ere its foliage is developed; and the fra- grance of the rose is aot discovered in the little sprig that shoots nj) in the spring-time of its existence. Nor do we need an argument f<> prove that time and culture will write the marks of manhood on that lair brow; to satisfy us the green leaf is the forerunner of the flower: or to whisper us that little sprig is the bearer of odors the most grateful and delicious. The germ of it- future is hidden from view, but in each, time and opportunity will unfold its beauty ami its utility. So is it with Homeopathy. Fresh air and fair play will develop her resources ; and it may not be well to spoil the child by too much of adulation just now. I shall enter on no encomium upon Homeopathy; she does not require it at my hands. Jler virtues are being unfolded every hour, her merits discussed and developed in many a household, and we may not fear the result of such silent and unheralded tests. In such a community, and before BUCh an audience, we may declare us ready to appeal from the platform to the patient. There is not an