Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Annual Address to the Candidates for Degrees and Licenses, in the Medical Institution of Yale College, January 20, 1847
These will cordially greet you as brethren, and will readily proffer their aid in promoting your professional interests, provided your characters are such as to gain their confidence in your professional integrity.
Our profession claims a rank equal with the other learn ed professions. For the purpose therefore of securing such rank with the community, it is requisite that a professional self-respect be manifested, by exhibiting to it evidence, that honor with integrity is the governing principle among its members. It has been remarked, that the nature of med ical science is such, that the public cannot be expected fully to comprehend its elements. It can hardly be hoped therefore, that their confidence and respect can be secured for its professors, unless they harmoniously unite in the support Of the principles, upon which they claim their pro fession is based. Should all, who like yourselves are in the incipient stages Of professional life, resolve to effect such elevation of the standard of medical character, the work at no distant period would with certainty be accomplished, and it is even probable that most of you would live to enjoy such auspicious result.
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