Address Before the Philadelphia County Medical Society: Delivered February 11, 1863 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Address Before the Philadelphia County Medical Society: Delivered February 11, 1863

It is very true that scientific societies are far from being useful in proportion to the number of their members. The most valuable papers in the volumes of published Memoirs and Transactions, which form one of the choicest stores of medical knowledge, have often been read before the small coterie of a snug back parlor, or a scattered audience in a more imposing hall. But it is the very purpose of this Society to popularize science within the medical profession, to bring together those who have had less and those who have had greater opportunities for culture and experience; to harmonize in thought as well as feeling the magnates who have raised themselves to fame, and the laymen who have pursued the more humble and unobtrusive ways of usefulness. While its meetings, then, are attended by so few, a principal purpose of its institution is frustrated, and the profession in this city does not avail itself of the influences by which the deficiencies and excesses of its individual members might be corrected, and the whole body made to act harmoniously for the good of every part.

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