Remarks on fractures : read at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, May 27, 1840.
- Abel Lawrence Peirson
- Date:
- 1840
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on fractures : read at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, May 27, 1840. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![ON FRACTURES By a. L, PEIRSON, M. D., Fellow of the Society. [Read at the Annual Meeting, May 27, 1840.] Mr. President and Gentlemen, We are met in compliance with our time-honored custom of passing an hour together in the contempla- tion of some topic appropriate to our medical employ- ments ;—one 'h6ur in the year, which has no rivalry to stimulate, no jealousy to embitter, no perplexities to distract, no recompense to be toiled for; and yet it is an hour which, at each annual revolution, brings with it mingled emotions. It tells our younger brethren they have ascended one more step in the rugged and toilsome path of professional life; and to those who have reached its culminating point, it teaches, there is a decline as well as an ascent. It shows us the vacant seats, and calls to mind the absent forms, of 34](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21071809_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
