Report to the State Society by the Committee on Diseases and Topography of Ingham County, Michigan / by G.E. Corbin.

  • Corbin, G. E.
Date:
[1859]
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Credit: Report to the State Society by the Committee on Diseases and Topography of Ingham County, Michigan / by G.E. Corbin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (p 0Vi-^ $< I REPORT TO THE STATE SOCIETY BY THE COM- MITTEE ON DISEASES AND TOPOGRAPHY OF INGHAM COUNTY, MICHIGAN. 1/ BY G. E. CORBIN, M. D. 30&M Fortunate indeed is it for man, that by tossing about for a few brief years upon life's billowy deep, subjected alike to the adverse breezes of admiration, flattery, criticism, competition and jealousy, he loses much of that youthful sensitiveness which is so prolific of chagrin and humilia- tion to youth, when reproved, and especially when requir- ed to do their work over again. I have been so situated as to learn nothing more con- cerning the Topography of Ingham county than what I stated in my apology to the Michigan State Medical Socie- ty at its meeting for the year 1858. It may be somewhat adverse to the legitimate exactions of the State Society, and yet perhaps not entirely without interest to its mem- bers, to state that Ingham county has been settled some- thing over twenty years ; and although, unlike several counties in Pennsylvania, and the southern part of Illinois, it has not given an overwhelming majority for Andrew Jackson for President at the various Presidential elections during the time, it becomes necessary from the strongest kind of circumstantial evidence, to convict most of the practicing physicians of this county of being unab.e to read and write ! At least, letters of inquiry addressed to them at various times during the past eighteen months— letters requesting a single word of information upon a