Medical improvement: an address read to the Medical Society ... / [John Aitken].

  • Aitken, John, -1790
Date:
1777
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Credit: Medical improvement: an address read to the Medical Society ... / [John Aitken]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    entertain of the great and uniollicited honour you have been pleafed to confer upon me, by twice calling me to the of¬ fice of President. Had my powers been equal to my wifties, no part of my con- dud in that elevated character, had been unworthy of you, or of this chair. Ah tho’ indifpenfible avocation permits me no longer to hold any office among youj yet will I lofe no opportunity of being prefent, and, as far as I may be able, of a (lifting in your inftrudive fpeculations j and of promoting to the utmoft of my power, the general profperity of a Society to which I ever have been fo much at¬ tached. In the commercial world, it is allowed by all, that the comparative rate of ex¬ change, is a juft index of the profperous or adverfe ftate of trade in different countries individually, or relatively con- fidered.