Address : delivered before the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania at its fifteenth annual session, held in Philadelphia, June 1864 / by Wilson Jewell.

  • Jewell, Wilson, 1800-1867.
Date:
1864
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Credit: Address : delivered before the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania at its fifteenth annual session, held in Philadelphia, June 1864 / by Wilson Jewell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gentlemen :— The return of another anniversary of the Medical Society of Penn- sylvania brings with it a hearty greeting to old and familiar faces, and a cheerful salutation to those, who for the first time are present to mingle in this refreshing and invigorating intercourse with their medical com- peers. Our meeting is a subject for congratulation, notwithstanding the lack of professional energy and the tardy action in several sections of our commonwealth in behalf of medical association. Nor is it less worthy of remembrance that each succeeding anniversary initiates those whose aspirations and professional desires are, to render themselves useful in carrying out the great mission of our benevolent vocation by associated action, as one of the means for its approach to certainty and increased usefulness. To all of you, more especially to those present for the first time as representatives of county organizations, I extend a genial welcome to our city, the emporium of the State, the great centre of medical science and learning, which has been so repeatedly honored by you for these annual gatherings. With a feeling of genuine pride I welcome you at the present time, as affording me the opportunity and the privilege of introducing you to this new and beautiful medical hall of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, which has been appropriately chosen by the committee of arrangements and cheerfully granted by the College for our session. Not alone because it is the hall of the College of Physicians that I thus welcome you. No, gentlemen, with a more exalted and unselfish ambition I hail the erection and the occupation of this edifice, as con- stituting a new epoch in American medical history. And it is fit that the Medical Society of the State should enjoy the distinguished privi- lege of dedicating this hall to one, at least, of the purposes contemplated