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Section on Laryngology, Otology, and Rhinology
Section on Laryngology Otology and Rhinology Author:American Medical Association Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREVENTIVE OTOLARYNGOLOGY BURT R. SHURLY, M.D. DETROIT Your twenty-sixth Chairman rejoices with you in the spirit of optimism, scientific enthusiasm and... more » progress endowed to us as a legacy from those who have so nobly guided our Section during the quarter century gone before. It is my pleasure to extend to you the right hand of fellowship and a cordial and heartfelt welcome. You will pardon my inability to express appropriately the keen sense of appreciation I feel of the honor you have bestowed on me. I trust that in the future, time may permit me to render a full measure of gratitude by an enormous amount of long-continued and faithful work for the best interests of this Section. It is peculiarly the function of this body to welcome the new and aspiring members of our art, and those in general practice who have a leaning or yearning toward otolaryngology. One-fifth of the members of the American Medical Association registered at the Chicago meeting were classified in the eye, ear, nose and throat sections. We are suffering mentally, physically and financially from too many medical societies, too many new instruments and accessories and too many surgical operations with the name of the surgeon as the distinguishing pennant of the operation. It will soon be time to appoint a board of censors centrally located to which instruments and operations may be presented and which will approve those worthy of attention before the profession and public are subjected to so-called improvements. Chairman's Address. The practitioner and specialist of this country is particularly distinguished for a keen uplifting interest in humanity, a broad sympathy and a devotion to the greater comfort and general welfare of the patient. It is still true, however, that the most noble a...« less