President's address, delivered at the forty-first annual meeting of the British Medical Association, held in London, August 1872 / by Sir W. Fergusson.

  • William Fergusson
Date:
1873
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Credit: President's address, delivered at the forty-first annual meeting of the British Medical Association, held in London, August 1872 / by Sir W. Fergusson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BY SIR WILLIAM FERGUSSON, Bart., F.R.S., Surgeon to King’s College Hospital and Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen. Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association held in London August ^th, 6th, ']th, and %th, 1873. On assuming the position of President of The British Medical Association, I feel naturally impelled to express to you the very high sense I entertain of the great honour you have conferred upon me. Looking back to the long list of distinguished men who have preceded me in this position; distin¬ guished alike by their high social qualities and eminent professional reputation, the honor of being selected to hold this chair, during the meeting of the Association in 1873, is such as might be thought to fill to overflowing the cup of ambition upon which any member of our profession may have set his mind. It has happened to me to have received a share of honors far beyond my humble merits, and far beyond what the wildest dreams of youth B