Transactions of the National Eclectic Medical Association of the United States of America for the Years (Volume 14)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1887 Excerpt: ... Papers Accompanying the Annual Report. SCHEDULE A. ANNUAL ADDRESS BEFORE THE NATIONAL ECLECTIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, AT ATLANTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 16, 1886, By Henry B. Piper, M. D., President. Laiiies and Gentlemen 0/the Association: As physicians assembled from all parts of this great country, and the official representatives of Progressive Medicine, permit me to congratulate you upon the marked progress made in the various departments of the healing art since our last annual convocation. To the physician, the surgeon, the chemist, and the mechanic, credit is due for valuable contributions in their respective arts, pointing toward a more perfect system for the relief of suffering. Progress is the result of individual effort. In the medical profession each physician in his own field and sphere, is the author or discoverer of something new and valuable in the profession. It is the aggregation of these individual efforts that constitutes the sum total of our progress, and makes each physician a stockholder, as it were, in the general fund of medical knowledge to the extent of his contribution. This Association is the Mecca to which these acquisitions are yearly brought. To this altar each physician brings his offering, and receives in return the accumulated contributions of all his fellow-members. These meetings are also valuable for the opportunity they afford us to meet each other personally, and cultivate and strengthen the ties of friendship by a more intimate acquaintance. Other and more important objects at this time are to concentrate and unify the Eclectic profession of the whole country, and to maintain for it a proper political and legal as well as professional status. A NATIONAL ORGANISATION NECESSARY. I think it has become apparent to every thoughtful...