History Of The San Francisco Medical Society

Author : Gustavus L. Simmons
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396261879
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book An Address Delivered at the Opening of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of the State of California, Held in San Francisco, April written by Gustavus L. Simmons and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Opening of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of the State of California, Held in San Francisco, April 1895 Reasons for Deficiencies in Medical Organization in California. It is made my duty in the Constitution to address you upon some subject in harmony with the objects and aims of the Society. I propose, therefore, to offer some practical remarks upon a few topics which have already been discussed by the distinguished gentlemen who have preceded me, but which, in my judgment, so intimately concern our welfare that their reintroduction may not be unprofitable. There are two prominent characteristics of age in physicians who have passed the mid-period of active professional life, which prevents them from being wholly impersonal. The first is to deal largely in retrospection, and the second (from having seen the rise and fall of innumerable supposed systems and specifics for the cure of disease) to lack the essential credulity for unlimited faith in new discoveries in medicine, until time and patiently recorded results and compari sons aid a solution of the important problems. Acknowledging these tendencies in my own case. I need not apologize for a reference to the history of our profession in California. I do this with more confidence because my personal interest in medical science as youth and man about covers the period since the tide of gold seekers liter ally rushed to the then territory of California, and it is to the peculiar nature of this immigration that I have attributed not only many of the striking characteristics of our present population, but also the presence of these earlier pioneer traits in the medical profession itself, which has no doubt been one of the chief causes for the lack of inter est in the fraternal association of its members. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.