Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annual Address Before the American Academy of Medicine, at New York, September 16th, 1879
Gentlemen Fellows of the American Academy of Medicine The close of the third year of the existence of our organization shows an increase of interest, on the part of the medical profession, in the ob jects aimed at in its formation, and a more earnest desire to see how they may be secured. The Academy does not claim any merit for the discovery of defects in the preparatory training of those who enter upon a course of medical study these defects have been long recog nized by the profession all over the land. It does not propose any novel method of association to bind in close fraternal bonds the members themselves of the profession; this is attempted by the organizations already in existence which have done so much to dignify the profession of medicine and to eliminate from its ranks the shallow empiric. It does not arrogate to itself any special ability to add to the store of medical knowledge in regard to disease or to the cultiva tion of State medicine these are the darling Objects of every cultured, faithful physician, towards which he feels himself drawn by the stron gest possible ties of professional loyalty and the most urgent claims of philanthropy. It antagonizes no organized effort to improve the profession or to increase the sphere of its usefulness, and it proposes no contest for numbers with any existing society. On the contrary, its members are mostly connected with other medical organizations.
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