OBSERVATIONS
OF THE
DUTIES OF A PHYSICIAN,
AND THE METHODS OF
IMPROVING MEDICINE.
ACCOMMODATED TO THE PRESENT STATE OF SOCIETY AND MANNERS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania, February 7, 1789, at the conclusion of a course of lectures upon chemistry and the practice of physic.
PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF THE CLASS.
GENTLEMEN,
I Shall conclude our course of lectures, by delivering to you a few directions for the regulation of your future conduct and studies, in the line of your profession.
I shall, first, suggest the most probable means of establishing yourselves in business, and of becoming acceptable to your patients, and respectable in life.
Secondly, I shall mention a few thoughts which have occurred to me on the mode to be pursued, in the further prosecution of your studies, and for the improvement of medicine.
I. Permit me, in the first place, to recommend to such of you as intend to settle in the country, to establish yourselves as early as possible upon farms. My reasons for this advice are as follow: