The centennial celebration of the Hartford County Medical Association, Hartford, Conn., September 26th, 1892.

Date:
1893
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Credit: The centennial celebration of the Hartford County Medical Association, Hartford, Conn., September 26th, 1892. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    our first liundred }'t“urs’ work, and to do honor to those ol us who have jiassed on lietore. It is not only “the evil that men do that lives after them it is the good that they have done that “makes the whole world kin,” that keejis their memories ever green, and that makes us love to talk and think of their nohle lives, and their unselfish deeds, which have made life a hundred times more worth living to-day than it was a hundred years ago. That the Hartford County Medical Association has well played its ])art in the century’s humanitarian work would not he difficult to jirove. “ Hy their fruits shall ye know them.” I do not intend to encroach upon the province of our his- torian, hut I cannot forbear to mention some of its monu- ments :— the Deaf and Dumh Asylum, the Retreat for the Insane, the Hartford Hospital, and, connected with it, the Old People’s Home. Of course, and for which Ood he praised, it is to the nohle and generous liherality of the ever-ready body of laymen that our county and our city are indebted for the foundation and maintenance of these most nohle charities. Hut the Paul that planted, and the Apollos that watered, were, to our honor he it said, members of the Hartford Countv Medical Association : Cogswell, Todd, Sylvester Wells, Carrington, Pardon Plrownell, Sumner, Woodward, Plrigham, Pierson, Griclley, Butler, Fuller, Beresford, Hawley, Hunt, Jackson. It seems a fitting thing that we should invite our breth- ren of the other “learned professions”—divinity, law, and literature — to join with us in this celebration. From the beginning, medicine has been bound up more or less inti- mately with them all ; and to-day, while perhai)s the pathways separate more than they did in the early days, the resjiect and regard which medicine holds for them all is still most strong and firm. 'The connection between the church and medicine has always been a most intimate one. M'ith the ancients, the idea prevailing that all disease was caused by the anger of the gods naturally placed its treatment in the