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Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (1895)
Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia - 1895 Author:College of Physicians of Philadelphia 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: ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. By J. M. Dacosta, M.D. [Read December 4, 1895.] At this meeting the law of the College makes it incumbent on the Presid... more »ent to address it on its affairs. The task is both pleasant and easy ; for the College is, on the whole, in a prosperous and progressing condition. Yet there are some matters to which attention may be advantageously drawn. During the term of our late President, to whose devotion and thoughtful generosity this College must be forever indebted, one of the most important movements in its history was inaugurated by the creation of Sections. Enough time has now elapsed for us to appreciate their working and to form an idea of their future advisability. T"hat they have worked well is undoubted. They have stimulated to greater activity, and valuable papers, which never would have been written, have been forthcoming under their fostering influence. The fear that the communications at the general meetings would be lessened has proved unfounded. There have been quite as many of these as usual, and of not inferior interest. It would not, indeed, have been possible to read, far less to discuss, at the general meetings more than a fraction of the papers that have been presented at the Sections. To the Surgical Section alone, in five months, twenty-five written communications have been made, besides verbal ones; to the Gynecological, in seven meetings, over twenty, in addition to the presentation of many pathological specimens. In the Ophthalmological Section, in little over two years, seventeen meetings have been held, inwhich thirty-three papers were read, and fifty cases, nineteen specimens, and eighteen instruments shown ; and the record of the other sections is also that of energetic labor. It is much to be regretted that all...« less