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title: 'Religion and the Medical Profession'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'John Leyburn'
date: 1882-03-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Sermons'
- 'Natural Theology'
- 'Medicine and Health'
scriptures:
- 'Colossians 4'
- 'Psalms 90'
- 'Genesis 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/leyburn-1882-religion-and-the-medical-profession
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# Religion and the Medical Profession

Sermon to medical students praising physicians' self‑denial and service, warning that familiarity with death and materialistic study can blunt religious conviction, and affirming mind is not mere matter.

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