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.

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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    [9] every individual is obligated by the honour of a K A for the veracity of his reports. Gentlemen, what a wide and unbounded field is here presented to you! While the most insignifi- cant streams and mountains in other countries have been made the habitations of as many Naiads and Gnomes, and every forest marked by the footsteps of the naturalist, the hidden treasures of the wilds of America are comparatively unexplored! Medici- nal plants are every where wasting their healing virtues on the desert air—unknown because unsought by the patriotic and scientific physician! Medicated mineral waters rise up in every part of our continent, run their course unheeded, and are absorbed by their parent earth, without having as yet been made sig- nally tributary to the health and happiness of our citizens! Perhaps in these there is a charm which can give renovated vigour to the palsied nerve, and arrest the ravages of that fell scourge of our countrymen, Consumption! As the mineral kingdom has already furnished us with some of our most active medicinal substances, perhaps from this source we may extract a cordial prophylactic and restorative which will eurtail, if not entirely expunge, the catalogue of in- curable diseases! when the only outlet of human life will be the gradual and progressive decay of age! Gentlemen, with such an attractive prospect be- fore you, such encuraging incentives to emulous ex- ertion, you cannot remain supine and inactive! You cannot refuse the inviting solicitations of nature to enter her grand medical Laboratory, and receive the 2