Transactions - 1877 Author:Illinois State Medical Society 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: a teacher, he mastered his subject, and presented it in clear, simple forcible language, and never submerged his thoughts in superfluous words. He stood among th... more »e representative men of his profession in America, and his example is of great value to the young, and is abundantly worthy of their imitation, while to those who have long wrought well in the profession, it lends reflected honor. Such men add dignity to cities and States in which they labor, and any community that holds them in its midst may well give thanks. Dr. J. W. Freer. A meeting of the physcians of Chicago was held on the evening of April 13, to pay their tribute to the memory of the esteemed late president of Rush Medical College. The following resolutions were adopted as expressing the sentiment of the profession: In Memoriam—Joseph Warren Freer. Born Aug. 10, 1816. Died April 12, 1877. His professional associates, townsmen and friends, meeting to pay their tribute of respect to his memory, and to express their sentiments of his life, after deliberation, have formally expressed, and desire to put on record, this estimate of his character, his life, and his services. Beared amid the drudgery of farm life, and deprived of all but the most meagre education, Prof. Freer acquired early a love for knowledge, that made him always a learner for the sake of learning. He honored the vocation of agriculture in his early years by his thrift and enterprise, and improved it by his study of its best methods. When—late in life to begin the acquisition of a new profession—he took up the study of medicine, he gave to it that enthusiasm which he had learned to give to all study, and the vigor of a manhood made strong by toil and sobriety and self-denial. He remained a faithful, humble student through life. As a...« less