Valedictory presidential address to the members of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh (delivered 2nd November 1887.) / by T. Grainger Stewart.

Date:
1888
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Credit: Valedictory presidential address to the members of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh (delivered 2nd November 1887.) / by T. Grainger Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    1(5 I have to thank you, gentlemen, for the patient hearing of these desultory observations, and for all the courtesy that I have experi- enced at your hands during the years that I have had the honour of occupying the presidential chair. When we remember that our President elect has already, with eminent success, occupied the Chair of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, and is universally known among us as one of the most genial and cultured, as well as able of the members of the profession, we have good reason to hope that the Society may go on to greater prosperity during his tenure of office. Too often in the history of the Society have I remarked that the termination of a Presidentship coincided with the disappear- ance of the President from all future meetings of the Society. I hope that it will not be so with me, for I fully intend to be as regular in the future as during the past two years. I have never yet attended a meeting of this Society without learning something that I was glad to know, I wish that we could see the Society characterized by the attendance of the senior members of the pro- fession as well as by the juniors, by the communication of good papers, embodying the results of careful and able work, and by their discussion in short and pointed, appreciative and yet critical speeches. PKINTKI) nv OLlVEll AND BOYD, EDlNULItOH.