Excerpt from The Mutual Responsibilities of Physicians and the Community: Being an Address to the Graduating Class of the Medical College of the University of Michigan, Delivered March 27th, 1856Years of arduous study have been brought to a successful termination, and you are now about to enter the world, to do your work in one of the most humane, noble, and responsible of the learned professions.Before parting with you, will you permit one, who although not of the profession deems himself not altogether incapable of judging of its value and importance, to say a few words to you on the mutual responsibilities Of physicians and the community at large? As one of the community, I may, properly, speak of Meir responsibilities, while, from my re lation to you, I trust I shall trespass upon no propriety in speaking also of yours.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.