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 READ AT BISHOP'S COLLEGE CONVOCATION, 
 
 Al'HIL STH 1893. 
 
 BY W. GRANT STEWART, B.A., M.D. 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 This is one of the red letter days of your life's history. 
 The long looked for day has come, and you are full fledged 
 M D.'s at last. For four years we have steered your bark through 
 the difficulties and dangers of college life; and now co-day, with 
 flying flags and favoring breezes, we send you forth on the wide 
 ocean of life as captains of your own fortunes. You have our 
 good wishes, and with interest we will watch your progress. 
 Your success will be our success ; and as you reflect credit on 
 yourselves, in so far will you reflect credit upon us your teachers 
 and shed a lustre over your beloved Alma Mater. 
 
 You have chosen a profession than which there is none 
 more noble. We congratulate you upon your choice. And if 
 you can only realize the dignity of your calling, and strive ever 
 to be men earnest and true, to be diligent and faithful workers, 
 success will come. The mad to success is no easy one, but 
 ofttimes long and arduous and rugged, but "all thin-s come to 
 him who waits " You will all have to wait and wait" patientlv. 
 for practice. Don't expect a rush of patients tht t -st day or 
 week or month that your plate is on the door. But this waiting 
 time need not be wasted time. Read, read and study and ever 
 be students. Don't go away with the idea that all that is worth 
 knowing in Medicine is stored away in your little brain. When 
 
you get into practice, you will tlml that there are a few things, 
 perhaps many things, — in fact, a great deal — that yon have yet 
 to learn, and that you have only be.n picking up crumbs of 
 knowledge. This is an age of advance and progress, and no 
 science is making greater strides than Medicine; then advance 
 with the times, acquaint yourselves with the work oi others by 
 reading books and monographs and medical journals Life is 
 short; select the best and study them well. Bo systematic, and 
 carefully improve your time. Time is dften said to be money; 
 but, as Sir ^ohn Lubbock says, "it is more — it is life; and yet 
 many who would cling desperately to life think nothing of 
 wasting time." 
 
 Now that you have graduated, you will of course be looking 
 around you for a place to settle in. Dorj't be in a hurry. Set- 
 tle, if you can, in a growing place, some place where you will 
 permanently locate and grow with the place. If you move too 
 often it will .seriously interfere with your arosperity and ad- 
 vancement. 
 
 Some of you will doubtless settle down in ^he quiet retire- 
 ment of country life, far from the ignoble strife and worrying 
 cares of city life, and there in peace and plenty along the cool 
 sequestered vale of life pursue the even tenor of your way and 
 do a good and noble and useful work. 
 
 Some of you may make your home in some ambitious village 
 which your foresight sees in years to come a thriving town and 
 busy city where you shall be looked upon as the old and leading 
 practitioner. 
 
 Some of you may at once launch out in the busy mart and 
 great city. But wherever you settle, be it in the (^uiet country, 
 the ambitious village, or the great city, if you would succeed, 
 and I would say here, start out on your career with the deter- 
 mination that you must and will succeed — I say if you would 
 succeed you nmst commence by being painstaking and earnest 
 students. And " whatever your hands find to do, do it with 
 your might." Life is made up of a mass of little things, but the 
 way to succeed is by attention to the apparently trivial things 
 and doing them well. 
 
hat there are a few things, 
 
 sat deal —that you have yet 
 
 een picking up crumbs of 
 
 nee and progress, and no 
 
 n Medicine; then advance 
 
 with the work of others by 
 
 medical journals. Life is 
 
 well. Bo systematic, and 
 
 ! is often said to be money; 
 
 s more — it is life; and yet 
 
 Y to life think nothing of 
 
 'o 
 
 ou will of course be looking 
 Don't be in a hurry. Set- 
 [some place where you will 
 he place. If you move too 
 h your prosperity and ad- 
 
 e down in the quiet retire- 
 
 gnoble strife and worrying 
 
 and plenty along the cool 
 
 ven tenor of your way and 
 
 le in some ambitious village 
 D come a thriving town and 
 upon as the old and leading 
 
 out in the busy mart and 
 , be it in the quiet country, 
 ity, if you would succeed, 
 our career with the deter- 
 cceed — I say if you would 
 ig painstaking and earnest 
 ,nds find to do, do it with 
 nass of little things, but the 
 e apparently trivial things 
 
Be always neat and tidy. People do not like an untidy 
 doctor. And always act the gentleman. Am I going too far 
 when I say it will be to your advantage to be total abstRJners? 
 I think not. You will be physically, mentally and morally 
 better. If at the commencement of your career you are thought 
 to be a drinking man, mark my words, it will act as a brake to 
 your success, and it will very materially interfere with your 
 progress. Nor is this mere sentiment. Many a young man, 
 whose bark like yours has started out with tiying colors, has 
 been sadly wrecked on the rock of intemperance, and his life 
 has been to him and to his friends worse than a failure. 
 
 When you locate, try and get near a corner when you can. 
 Don't start in a back street and hide your light under a bushel. 
 Have a neat and tidy office. You will find that this will pay. 
 Show people that it is the office of a real hard worker and that 
 of a man who is first and last and always a physician. 
 
 In your conduct with your confreres be always straioht- 
 forward and honest. At the outset of your career you mi^iht 
 make a few more dollars by being unprofessional, but remember 
 that life is ahead of you — and, I trust, a long one; ^lember 
 that the kindly feelings and the respect of your comreres is 
 worth more than a few extra dollars that might be in your 
 pocket. If you are earnest and industrious men you can all 
 gain practices in a legitimate way. Your talents will be appre- 
 ciated some day. Don't feel disappointed at the rebulfs and 
 snubs you will occasionally meet with. Some people would 
 not have Dr. So-and-So to doctor their cat. Others would not 
 have Dr. So-and-So, he is a mere boy. Don't fret or be dis- 
 couraged, you are remedying these things fast every day. Live 
 down the snubs and rebuffs. Some day you may yet be the 
 respected friend and physician of that same family, and your 
 advice and counsel may be sought after by your confreres who 
 may now pass by on the other side. 
 
 It will be necessary for you to have business tact as well as 
 professional ability. Ofttimes the learned and skilled physician 
 may be left behind in the race of life by some one who perhaps 
 
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 know much less but who has tact. In Medicine as in business, 
 a man's manner often has a good deal to do with his making 
 his fortune. Don't for a moment think that I would discount 
 skill and talent; but add to these the manners of the true 
 gentleman and the way to success is cerr^ "ily easier. Cultivate 
 a cheery, pleasant manner; when you to see your patients 
 carry sunshine with you. "A merry iieart doeth good like a 
 medicine." Your whole duty does not consist in writing out 
 prescriptions or diagnosing disease. Cultivate the gentle touch 
 of sympathy. 
 
 " Of kindly hands to feel the pressure true, 
 A word of hope — such trifles will renew 
 The sinking heart, ffive courage to the mind, 
 And like the soft sweet breath of summer wind 
 Upon a bank of drooping flowers, which blew 
 'Mid rain and sleet, but now revive anew, 
 So in our lives, such influences kind 
 Will make the sorrowing heart a home of joy, 
 All that oppressed before and caused annoy 
 Seems cased of half its load." 
 
 Most of you, no doubt, will start as general practitioners, 
 and I think you do wisely and well. Practise as such for a few 
 years and get a thorough knowledge of general medicine. If 
 then there is any specialty for which you have a preference, 
 devote your time to it. If you would succeed as a family prac- 
 titioner you must have the mother on your side; if you have 
 not the full confidence of the mother you will be sadly handi- 
 capped. She cares not whether you can diagnose a tumor in 
 t.ie motor area of the brain or remove a kidney. She wants a 
 man who can tell her how to make a poultice and how to 
 arrange all the little details of the sick room. She wants a 
 physician who is aifable and pleasant; a physician who will 
 patiently listen to her as she relates in her own way all the 
 real and fancied ills of her baby; a physician who can give that 
 undivided attention as if her baby was the sole and only baby 
 in the world. She wants someone whom her children will love 
 and respect. The man who has these qualities with a fair 
 
In Medicine as in business, 
 lal to do with his makin*» 
 pink that I would discount 
 the manners of the true 
 JcertainI} easier. Cultivate 
 lou go to see your patients 
 ry heart doeth good like a 
 not consist in writing out 
 Cultivate the gentle touch 
 
 |e88ure true, 
 ifill renew 
 ?e to the mind, 
 of summer wind 
 3, which blew 
 8vive anew, 
 
 liind 
 [t a homu )f.joy, 
 j caused annoy 
 
 |t as general practitioners, 
 Practise as such for a few 
 of general medicine. If 
 |h you have a preference, 
 Id succeed as a family nrac- 
 |n your side; if you have 
 you will be sadly liandi- 
 can diagnose a tumor in 
 l^e a kidney. She wants a 
 ce a poultice and how to 
 sick room. She wants a 
 Int; a physician who will 
 in her own way all the 
 jhysician who can give that 
 fas the sole and only baby 
 [horn her children will love 
 iiese qualities with a fair 
 
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 amount of professional ability will often succeed when perhaos 
 a more learned confrere may be '"ft behind. 
 
 Do not be stinted in your se vices to the poor. " The noor 
 ye have always with you." We do not always work for the 
 amoun of dollars and cents we make out of our profession, and 
 you will find it a pleasure indeed to minister to the poor- and 
 the gi-atitude one ofttimes receives from the poverty-stricken 
 sufferer IS far more heart-satisfying than the rich man's ^old 
 Be kind then to the poor. This is one of the privileges ot'our 
 noble calling. Kemember that kindness to the poor is bread 
 cast^upon the waters which will surely return to you after many 
 
 "His life is loncrest, not whose boneless gums, 
 Sunk eyes, wan cheeks, and snow-white hair'bespeak 
 Life's limits ; no ! but he whose memory 
 Is thickest set with thoKe delicious scenes 
 'Tis sweet to ponder o'er when even falls." 
 
 Emulate the examples of the great men who have preceded 
 you. Sydenham Abernethy, Simpson, Eichard Bright, Palmer 
 Howard, George Eoss-these are names that shine ^ut on the 
 page of medical history. Of Eichard Bright it has been said 
 that he was sincerely religious both in doctrine and practice 
 and of so pure a mind that he never was heard to utter a senti- 
 ment or to relate an anecdote that was not fit to be heard by 
 the merest child or the most refined female. Of all these illus- 
 trious names, Geo. Eoss perhaps comes closest to us. Althouah 
 he was not intimately connected with our own school, yet he 
 was a man whose attainments and ability and intellect were 
 retained by no one school. A man he was whose reputation 
 extended from sea to sea. And throughout this continent to-day 
 his memory is respected and his loss mourned bv hundreds of 
 successful practitioners. To know him was to "love him ; to 
 know him was a liberal education. George Eoss has gone, but 
 he has left an unsullied name behind him. Such lives are like 
 "rays of sunlight which gladden the world while they shine 
 but leave it dark and chilly when they depart. Oh! for an art 
 
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 in the moral sphere, eiiuivalent to tliat of the photographer in 
 the material, whereby we might seize and fix and perpetuate 
 those rarer rays which stream through the mass of human his- 
 tory like veins of feldspar in a ( quarry ." Take such examples 
 and let your ambition be filed and your enthusiasm be rekindled 
 as you read and think of such great men. 
 
 " Lives of great men oft remind us 
 We can make our lives sulilime, 
 And departing leave behind us '■ 
 
 Footprints in the sand of time." 
 
 You are now going forth to fight disease and death. Re- 
 member that prevention is better than cure. One of your 
 great duties will be to try and prevent disease. '• To what ex- 
 tent the prevention of disease, the prolongation of life and the 
 improvement of the physical and mental powers may be carried, 
 we do not know. Yet, that the average length of human life 
 may be very much extended and its physical powers greatly 
 augmented ; that in every year in this commonwealth thousands 
 of lives are lost which might have been saved ; that tens of 
 thousands of cases of sickness cccur which might have been 
 prevented ; that a vast amount of unnecessarily impaired health 
 and physical debility exists among those not confined by sick- 
 ness; that these preventable evils require an enormous expen- 
 diture and loss of money, and impose on the people unnumbered 
 and immeasurable calamities, pecuniary, social, physical, mental 
 and moral, which might have been avoided ; that means exist 
 withiu our reach for their mitigation or removal, and that 
 measures for prevention will effect more than remedies for the 
 cure of disease, will probably be admitted by everyone who has 
 carefully studied the subject." 
 
 " Disease and death are parts of the plan of creation," so 
 says Cathell. " Disease daily afflicts millions of earth's children 
 in every clime, while death on his pale horse is busy from pole 
 to pole. Fear of the former and dread of the latter are parts 
 of human nature, and these (fear and dread) cause mankind 
 everywhere to employ physicians; the prince in his palace, the 
 
jliat of the photograplier in 
 jze and fix and perpetuate 
 Igh the mass of human his- 
 |rry." Take such examples 
 Jur enthusiasm be rekindled 
 I men, 
 
 I remind us 
 
 suhlime, 
 bhind us * 
 
 of time." 
 
 |ht disease and death. Ke- 
 than cure. One of your 
 ent disease. *• To what ex- 
 |rolongation of life and the 
 Jntal powers may be carried, 
 lerage length of human life 
 Its physical powers greatly 
 |is commonwealth thousands 
 been saved ; tliat tens of 
 Jir which might have been 
 mecessarily impaired health 
 pose not confined by sick- 
 equire an enormous expen- 
 on the people unnumbered 
 fary, social, physical, mental 
 avoided; that means exist 
 Ition or removal, and that 
 |nore than remedies for the 
 litted by everyone who has 
 
 If the plan of creation," so 
 IS nullions of earth's children 
 pale liorse is busy from pole 
 lead of the lat^-.r are parts 
 land dread) cause mankind 
 [he prince in his palace, the 
 
 peasant in his cottage, and the beggar in his liovel : the citizen 
 in his mansion, the laborer in his shanty, and the felon in his 
 dungeon; the millionaire ,. i . the penniless; the prince and the 
 conqueror; the lord and the serf; the sailor on the pathless 
 ocean and the soldier on the tented field ; the purple of author- 
 ity, the ermine of rank, and the rags of squalor; the man of 
 religion, the man of law, and the man of science; the Christian, 
 the Jew, and the Pagan; the pale-faced Caucasian, the painted 
 Feejee, and the oily savage on the burning plains of Africa; 
 the tatooed, naked, fierce and brutal New Zeaiander, and the' 
 sinewy savage of our own far West; those in the blood-chilling 
 Arctic regions, and those in the pestilential swamps and jungles 
 of the tropics, man, man, man! sick and suffering man every- 
 where turns to our guild for relief. Yea, we stand at the gates 
 of life as humanity enters the world, and at the gates of death 
 as it goes out of it. And the children of Adam everywhere at 
 noon and midnight, from helpless infancy to old age, in dread 
 of the sick-bed and death-bed, the hearse and the'' grave, turn 
 their eyes and their hearts to the physician whenever sickness 
 seizes or death threatens to hurl the spear which strikes but 
 once." 
 
 " Bear therefore the -jreatness of your trust and the respon- 
 sibility of your almost divine mission. Eemember at all times 
 that every phase of your conduct, every word you utter, every 
 look, every nod of your head, tremble of your tongue, quiver of 
 your lips, wink of your eye, and shrug of your shoulders will be 
 observed and considered. Therefore strive to make your man- 
 ner and your methods as faultless as possible, and strive to do 
 thb greatest absolute good for each one of your patients." 
 
 GenDlemen, I could not close without giving you the words 
 of an eminent surgeon on the spirit that should animate the 
 true medical man: "Our manners should ever be the expression 
 of the habitual frame of our mind, and the habit and temper of 
 mmd which should animate us in our ministrations to the sick. 
 I can in no way so well indicate as by reverently paraphrasing 
 the words which so expressively tell us of the Divine Physician's 
 
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 tender care and true sympathy for ua in our soul's sicknesses 
 namely, we must be touched with a feeling of their infirmities. 
 The refining and elevating influence of such true sympathy will 
 keep us from ever making our noble office subservient to any 
 ignoble end ; and though it may interfere with our becoming 
 rich, yet it will raise us into a hight • and purer atmosphere 
 above the petty vexations and disappoiniments of professional 
 life. For what if by our work we become ueithe* rich in worldly 
 wealth nor great in the world's esteem ? Surely a good name 
 is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather 
 than silver and gold ; and thougii we may achieve no social 
 distinction, we may, by the Divine help, one day find, as many 
 have found who have now gone to their rest, that the conscien- 
 tious discharge of our duty in that profession which brought us 
 neither wealth nor rank has been to us none other than the 
 house of God, aye the very gate of Heaven." 
 
 Gentlemen, in saying farewell I want to give you one part- 
 ing injunction — Always remember that Bishop's College expects 
 every graduate to do his duty. Farewell. 
 
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