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Credit: Suggestions to medical writers / by George M. Gould. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Suggestions to medical writers / by George M. Gould. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![“ black hair, 2 ; ” “ long nose, 4 ; ” “ shorty, 5 ; ” “lengthy, 6.” Here is the authoritative statement of ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Thomas B. Reed : “ Whenever a member desires to introduce business, he rises in his place and addresses the presiding officer by his title as ‘ Mr. Chairman,’ ‘ Mr. Moderator.’ The Chair thereupon recog¬ nizes the member and says, ‘ Mr. A. has the floor] or simply, k Mr. A.' ... It will be seen by the proceedings just de¬ scribed that the member, in order to introduce business, must first obtain the floor, and in order to obtain the floor must first be recognized by the Chair A Undoubtedly the value of a speaker’s remarks is depend¬ ent upon the record of his name. His remarks might be strikingly brilliant or brimful of research and scientific in¬ vestigation, yet their value would be an unknown quantity in the absence of authority, i. e., the name of the speaker. To insure accuracy the name and city should also be writ¬ ten upon the blackboard by the Secretary. The inability to get speakers’ names, or the responsibility imposed upon the stenographer to get them himself the best way he can, undoubtedly has a deteriorating effect upon note-taking. Parliamentary law, as above intimated, requires that each speaker shall be recognized by the Chairman before he is allowed to speak, which means not only that he may have the floor, but, in addition, that he must be recognized by name, and this recognition is not to be made in one or two instances, but throughout the entire meeting, when any speaker addresses the Chair. The presiding officer is not expected always to know by name every one present; there¬ fore, a duty devolves upon each member to announce his own name. In judicial proceedings the full name of the witness is required to be announced before he is sworn so that the stenographer may make due note of the same. The testimony of a medical man in scientific debate is often as important as the testi mony of a witness in a legal case, and his name should invariably precede his remarks. There is](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31360981_0140.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
