Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Introductory Lecture Delivered Before the Class of Medical Students at Willamette University, for the Season of 1867
It is a rule in mathematics that the greater area or circle always includes the less, but the less the greater never. So in any profession, and especially in that one to which you are now giving your at tention. It isornade up of numerous sections or parts, true, each to some extent complete in itself, but which, mortised and dovetailed together, form one pe1 fect whole, and a proper knowledge of that necessarily includes at least an equal knowledge of all its sections or parts. While without such enlarged comprehension of the whole subject, y 0111 professional vision must, as a necessary echse quenco, be obscuied, your way dark, while your progress will be attended with lack of confidence upon your part as well as upon the part of those who employ you and although you may struggle manfully and work faithfully, yourbest efforts will be enveloped in the mists of uncertainty and doubt. And of all the various branches of your profession none perhaps is more interesting to investigate, and at the same time carries with'it greater safe guards to fortify and protect you against responsi bility, legal and moral, while pursuing the line of your profession, than that of fifedicaljurtspru deuce.
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