Excerpt from Charge to the Graduates of Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia: Delivered March 25, 1847 At the commencement of your professional life, your time cannot be fully occupied. Opportunity will still exist to improve your knowledge on educational topics, which ought properly to be pre liminary, but which, owing to unavoidable circumstances, may not have received from you due attention. The rich stores of informa tion contained in the classical writings of the Grecian and Roman fathers - medicaz artis principes - to be fully appreciated, should be read in the languages in which they were originally conveyed; yet in the pursuit of such a luxury, it would be unadvisable for you to dissipate that time which ought to be assigned to the attainment of what is strictly necessary. Even in the desirable there may be variety; and it may be a question with you, whether your future leisure moments may not be much more profitably devoted to the more immediately useful study of the productions of the moderns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.