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Excerpt from Address at the Commencement of the Medical School of Harvard University, March 11, 1868 We flee to it in trouble, when our daily pursuits are suspended, when the bonds between body and soul are loosened, when the peril of our life, or of lives dearer than ours, has transformed the world and our selves. N or only in the darkened hour, but in the hour which it has brightened with returning health, medical science brings us joy and h0pe, and helps us to feel that they are secure. Even when it fails to save the sick, it does not fail to relieve them, or to give the watchers by their bedsides the precious sense that all which could be has been done, and no igno rance or neglect of man, but the will of God, has shortened the days which we would fain have pro longed. Wonderful associations for any science, for anything except religion, to establish between itself and man, sinking into and rising from the very depths. Of his emotional nature, and mingling a power which is but mortal with that which is immortal in his time of need. 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.