PHYSICIANS AND PHYSIC.

FIRST ADDRESS.-DUTIES.

"Your future history and character will be in a great measure of your own making-therefore pause and consider what you will make yourself."

J. ANGELL JAMES.

SECOND ADDRESS.-PROSPECTS.

"La Medecine est la plus noble des professions, et la plus triste des métiers."

REVEILLÉ PARISE.

THIRD ADDRESS.-PROGRESS.

"Scientia medica, humanorum omnium præstantissima, jucundissima, utilissima. * * * Indefesso acutissimorum ingeniorum studio magnus hodie rei medicæ cumulus accessit, ut spem inde majorem hujus rei concipere possimus."

ALBERT THAER.

PHYSICIANS AND PHYSIC:

THREE ADDRESSES,

I. ON THE DUTIES OF YOUNG PHYSICIANS.

II. ON THE PROSPECTS OF YOUNG PHYSICIANS.
III. ON THE MODERN ADVANCEMENT OF PHYSIC.

BY

JAMES Y. SIMPSON, M.D., F.R.S.E.

PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AND MIDWIFERY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH,
AND PHYSICIAN-ACCOUCHEUR TO THE QUEEN FOR SCOTLAND.

Formerly President of the Royal College of Physicians, of the

Royal Physical, of the Medico-Chirurgical, and of the Obstetric Societies of Edinburgh ;
Honorary Member, and formerly Senior President, of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh.
Honorary Fellow of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland.
Foreign Member of the Imperial Academy of Medicine of France, of

the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, of the Societies of

Surgery and Biology of Paris, of the Medical Societies of
Norway, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Ghent,

etc. etc. etc.

OTHE

EDINBURGH:

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK..

MDCCCLVI.

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PRINTED BY R. AND R. CLARK, EDINBURGH.

INSCRIBED,

WITH FEELINGS OF SINCERE ESTEEM,

TO MY FRIEND

ROBERT S. GRIEVE, ESQ.

ONE OF THE PATRONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF

EDINBURGH.