The principles and practice of medicine. An inaugural lecture delivered at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on October 3rd 1893.

  • Moore, Norman, 1847-1922.
Date:
1893
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Credit: The principles and practice of medicine. An inaugural lecture delivered at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on October 3rd 1893. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Am I but what I seem, mere flesh and blood, A branching channel with a mazy flood ? The purple stream that through my vessels glides Dull and unconscious flows, like common tides j The pipes through which the circling juices stray Are not that thinking I, no more than they; This frame, compacted with transcendent skill, Of moving joints obedient to my will, Nursed from the fruitful glebe, like yonder tree, Waxes and wastes; I call it mine, not me. New matter still the mould'ring mass sustains; The mansion changed, the tenant still remains, And from the fleeting stream, repair'd by food, Distinct as is the swimmer from the flood.* How many a man, without structural change, looks older than his years and feebler than his powers! Ovid,t writing to his wife, laments his failing vigour : Jamque meos vultus ruga senilis arat Jam vigor et quasso languent in corpore vires, Nec juveni lusus qui placuere placent, Nec, si me subito videas, agnoscere possis : yEtatis facta est tanta ruinae meas. Gonfiteor facere hsec annos, sed et altera causa est Anxietas, animi continuusque labor. * Gnothi seauton, by the late Dr. Arbutlmot, • Dodsley's Col- lection of Poems,' vol. i, p. 209. t 1 Epistolae ex Ponto,' lib. 5, ep. v.