Man, the microcosm . alutem hominibus dando.—Cicero. 76 THE MICROCOSM. Nosology—Auscultation of Heart and Lungs How many forms of sickness man befall,Sorrow and pain the common lot of all!Science inquires, and, as its kinship finds,Makes classes, orders, families and kinds,Grouping and marshalling diseases soYou can them better nominate and no nosology did eer includeThe total of the mighty multitude. Wise to interpret each prophetic sign,To pierce the veil and hidden fates divine,When parents ask, with grief and terror wild,* Canst thou not save my darling, save my child ? You skille
Man, the microcosm . alutem hominibus dando.—Cicero. 76 THE MICROCOSM. Nosology—Auscultation of Heart and Lungs How many forms of sickness man befall,Sorrow and pain the common lot of all!Science inquires, and, as its kinship finds,Makes classes, orders, families and kinds,Grouping and marshalling diseases soYou can them better nominate and no nosology did eer includeThe total of the mighty multitude. Wise to interpret each prophetic sign,To pierce the veil and hidden fates divine,When parents ask, with grief and terror wild,* Canst thou not save my darling, save my child ? You skilled to catch, while listening to the breath,The distant footsteps of approaching , in the sighing of the suffering lungAnd in its stillness, hear alike a tongueThat syllables oracular reply :** Impossible, tis fixed, your child must more dread not Delphic prophetessEer shuddered from her murmurous recess. With rush of countless chariots, palpitatesLifes great metropolis through all her gates ;. CO ?-3 CO n THE MICROCOSM. 77 Their crimson wheels with a perpetual sound, Coming and going in their endless round, Are heard tumultuous as they hurrying throng Th Appian or Flaminian ways along : Tis yours to know next hour all this will fail, And death and silence everywhere prevail. Physicians Character and Aims—Science Progrescive, O it is well, that ye have hearts to feel,And ears not deaf to pitys soft appeal,Putting no difference twixt rich and with equal zeal the means of deeming it becoming to regardColor or rank or person or man of impure life and sordid smuts his office and his calling shames ;Him you disown and place him under banAs nothing better than a needless ignorance a crime,You strive to reach the summit of your time ;To old age learning up from early youthYour life one long apprenticeship to suspicious sometimes of the give alert acceptance to the true : 78 THE MI
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