An oration, pronounced on the anniversary of the K A Society of Hippocrates, in Lexington, Kentucky / by Henry Miller, M.D. President of the Lexington Medical Society, and member of the K A Society of Hippocrates ; published by request.

  • Miller, Henry, 1800-1874.
Date:
1822
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Credit: An oration, pronounced on the anniversary of the K A Society of Hippocrates, in Lexington, Kentucky / by Henry Miller, M.D. President of the Lexington Medical Society, and member of the K A Society of Hippocrates ; published by request. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [8] and towards your patients, I cannot do better than recommend to your careful and attentive perusal Doctor PercivaFs excellent Code of Institutes and Precepts, judiciously adopted and republished by this society for its government: But I cannot refrain from adverting to, and dilating on one of the prima- ry objects of this institution; I allude to the collection and dissemination of accurate and authentic medi- cal information. Our constitution entitles every worthy and honour- able member of this society to a charter, authorising him to establish a similar society at his place of resi- dence. He can by this means associate with him medical men of primitive excellence and talents, and possess himself of their experience and observation, and thus he will be prepared to encounter those pecu- liarities which climate, modes of living, &c. impress on the face of disease. But the beneficial conse- quences flowing from this institution do not ter- minate here. Each subordinate society is obligated to draw up and forward on an annual report to the mother society, detailing the observations of its members, relative to the prevailing disases of their districts, together with their causes and most suc- cessful method of treatment, and announcing import- ant discoveries in medicine, or any of its collateral branches, of Anatomy, Geology, Botany, Chemistly, Mineralogy, or Zoology. By this regulation a sufficiency of matter will be collected for the publication of an annual volume, which will be the more valuable as we can rest with implicit confidence on the accuracy and fidel- ity of the observations it may contain, inasmuch as