Identifier: purduedebris00purd_3 (find matches)
Title: Purdue debris
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Purdue University
Subjects: Purdue University College yearbooks Universities and colleges
Publisher: Lafayette, Ind. : Senior Class of Purdue University
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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THEDEI 1906 161 GREAT men become great only by evolving. The names of illustriousmen and women have been placed and remain upon the Roster of Im-mortals only because of the memory of great deeds done or deathlesssentiments uttered. Far back in the dim uncertainty of Grecian Myth Avefind the name of Aesculapius, the founder of Greek medicine. But the manand his deeds are so befogged with uncertainty that we must, perforce, be sat-isfied with only meager records. But Aesculapius claims our interest fromthe fact that from his descendants there came that man whom all succeedinggenerations of physicians have been taught to revere—Hippocrates. With his illustrious lineage traceable to the very foot of Mount Olympus,it is not to be wondered at that he gave his life to the study of science, where-by he might be enabled to heal his fellows and leave to posterity ideals as uni-versal as human longing. Hippocrates introduced a new era in medicinewhich before his time had been in the hands of t

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