A short view of the importance and respectability of the science of medicine : read before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the 7th of February, 1800 ; pursuant to appointment / by John Redman Coxe, M.D. ; an honorary member of the society.

  • Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864.
Date:
1800
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Credit: A short view of the importance and respectability of the science of medicine : read before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the 7th of February, 1800 ; pursuant to appointment / by John Redman Coxe, M.D. ; an honorary member of the society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    To the Members of the Medical Society. Gentlemen, JLN allowing this Oration to be made public, I am actuated more, from a wifh to comply with your requeft, than from any idea, that it is deferving of this high mark of your efteem. Many pieces of compofition, may anfwer well enough for the hafty manner, in which they generally are recited ; but which, however, are by no means proper to be committed to the prefs : becaufe their faults are thus render- ed permanent ; which, in the former inflance, were generally forgotten as foon as made public. As