Memphis Medical Monthly Volume 35, No. 7 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ... Christ," Chap. XX. I will admit as a fact that the great majority of men select an occupation or pursuit, or have it thrust upon them, accept the first label put upon them by their fellows and remain quietly in one place upon the shelf assigned to the end of their days. But as is often said, not merely the academies and colleges are schools, but life in its entirety is a university. Yes, and only the sluggards or dullards remain without excellence in some class or another. The greatest talent is not always discovered at first, but is found later by trial, by opportunity, by environment, by development. If you are harboring the fallacy that a man always finds his sphere and does his principal work early in his career, or during the first four or five decades of his life, or under the first label that you stick upon him, study past and current history, or read Dorland on "The Age of Mental Virility," and be convinced to the contrary. There are some men who will not stay put--and those are men who have to be reckoned with in the intellectual world. Of that class were five immortal physicians, members of the Continental Congress, who signed the Declaration of Independence: Josiah Bartlett and Matthew Thornton, of New Hampshire; Oliver Wolcott of Connecticut, Lyman Hall of Georgia, Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania, who was surgeon general of the Middle Department of the Army, member of the Convention for the Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, foremost medical practitioner of his day, alienist, medical historian as well as a maker of history, forceful writer and controversialist upon medical, political, philosophical and educational subjects, whose monument at Washington will stand and whose memory endure while the nation has a place ...