Transactions of the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York, for the year 1867 : transmitted to the legislature January 17, 1868.

  • Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York.
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1868
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Credit: Transactions of the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York, for the year 1867 : transmitted to the legislature January 17, 1868. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ARTICLE XVII. Annual Address, delivered before the Brooklyn Academy of Eclectic Medicine. By Wm. W. Hadley, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Eclectic Medical College of the City of New York. THE DUTIES OF THE PHYSICIAN. Ladies and Gentlemen, and Fellows of the Academy—Another year has rolled its annual round, and brought us again to the time when we have been accustomed to meet, depose those who have worn the honors of office, and borne the official mace for a twelvemonth, and appoint others, who as novices in authority, will, doubtless, endeavor to sustain the dignity of the positions for a like term succeeding. And we can but hope that the mantles of those who have so faithfully performed the onerous duties heretofore, have fallen upon others no less worthy of the stations. It has become my duty, by appointment, to read before you an Annual Address, and while I conceive that there are many among you who might have done the occasion greater justice, and have prepared an address more useful and interesting; I can only say that I have done the best I could with the limited time at my com- mand, and console myself with the reflection that it is not very tedious in length, even if it prove so in interest, and that at our next annual reunion some one may be chosen who will be more entertaining and instructive. I would simply say further, that I have written this at intervals as I could find unoccupied time; have had little opportunity to review, and have scarcely read it; I have not given it that atten- tion which such a production should require, but with all its im- perfections, I claim your indulgence while I lay it before yTou. In taking into account the duties of the physician, we have a large field to examine, and a great variety of thoughts present themselves to the mind as bearing directly or remotely upon the subject under consideration. Bodily health being one of the requisites which all mankind should, and we believe the most of them do, strive for, it becomes important to them what measures to adopt to continue it, if they already possess it; or, if impaired or lost, what they may do to restore it.