Address delivered before the Alumni of the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York / [George Thomson Elliot].

  • Elliot, George Thomson, 1827-1871.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Address delivered before the Alumni of the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York / [George Thomson Elliot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -♦- Fellow Alumni of the University Medical College,— The unexpected honor of addressing you this evening, at the first formal meeting of the Alumni, has been awarded me by the committee, representing the interests of 2,631 of our number, in such a manner that it could not be declined ; and it has been accepted in the spirit which prompted the offer. As a native of this city; a graduate of the literary depart¬ ment of Columbia College ; a doctor of medicine of this Uni¬ versity ; a lecturer for several years in the College of Physi¬ cians and Surgeons; and as one of the founders and profes¬ sors in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, I represent alike those affectionate reminiscences which have called us together this evening, as well as that solidarity of purpose, interest, and responsibility in which all these colleges are embraced. The history of the past has shown that the prosperity of one enhances the prosperity of all, and the brightest hopes for the future success of medical teaching in this metropolis grow out of the harmony of feeling, the concert of action, and the honorable emulation by which they are distin¬ guished. The inevitable centralization of interests, which is begot¬ ten by the laws of trade and the natural advantages of Hew York, had foreshadowed the commercial preeminence of this city before its wondrous development had astonished the world. While the electric telegraph, pondered over by Prof. Morse in one of the rooms in this building, has so concen¬ trated the facilities for business operations, as of necessity to