Silver sutures in surgery / by J. Marion Sims.

  • J. Marion Sims
Date:
1858
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Silver sutures in surgery / by J. Marion Sims. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This PRESIDENTIAL GALAXY, too, is naturally suggestive of the names of those who have filled the less important post of Orator. Ten yearsago that venerable Nestor of the profession, the devoted and eloquent Francis, inaugurated your anniversa¬ ries by a characteristic oration, replete with learning, anecdote, and historic incident, before an unprece¬ dented audience of more than four thousand spell¬ bound hearers, while thousands left unable to gain admittance. This mighty effort of the great and good man gave the community a just estimate of the value and importance of this learned body, which, it is to be hoped, we shall ever maintain. He was followed by the late lamented Manly. Then came the truthful and lucid Post; and next, the learned and critical Joseph M. Smith. After him, the elegant and accomplished F. Campbell Stewart; then the eminent, exact, and public spir¬ ited Griscom; and last, though not least, your own classic Watson. Is it then a matter of surprise that I have mani¬ fested so much diffidence in following the footsteps of these distinguished men ? Apologies on such occasions, are too frequently affected, but were I to proceed without some explanation, I should do injustice to you, and great violence to my own sense of propriety. When a member of this Academy but little more than one year, you conferred upon
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