Christian Association.

Last evening, Professor Goodale spoke on the subject of the Hippocratic Oath. After a short account of the medical profession among the early Greeks, he analyzed the oath, or obligation, taken by the students of medicine, in the time of Pericles. The candidate for graduation promised solemnly that he would be loyal in every way to his chosen profession, that he would abstain from all wrong and injustice, that he would not furnish poison to anyone soliciting it, that he would not lead astray anyone committed to his charge, but that he would pass his life and exercise his art in purity and holiness. The candidate further promised that whatever he should hear in the practice of his profession or not in connection with it, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, he would not divulge, believing that all such things should be kept secret. The Hippocratic Oath has been at different times embodied in the ceremonies of graduation in medical schools, and its adoption indicates how lofty is the ideal of morality held by the profession.