Anniversary oration delivered before the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, September 26, 1866 / by J.M. Toner.
- Joseph Meredith Toner
- Date:
- 1869
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Credit: Anniversary oration delivered before the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, September 26, 1866 / by J.M. Toner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![HENRY IIUXTT, Corresponding Secretary. THOMAS HENDERSON, Recording Secretary. x ST. W. WORTHINGTON, Librarian. WILLIAM JONES, Treasurer. JOHN T. SHAAFF, j CnAHLES WORTHINGTON, j THOMAS SIM, }• Board of Examiners. FREDERICK MAT, THOMAS SEMMES, I G. W. MAY, 1 G. A. BROWN, I Censor.?. N. W. WORTHINGTON, j It will be perceived j hat some of the officers elected at this time were practitioners in Alexandria, so that it is evident that the profession of the whole District was not only included in the operation of the law, but took part in the affairs of the Societ}\ The following form for the certificate of license, in Latin, to be printed on parchment, and given to such practitioners of the District of Columbia as should from time to time be found qualified to practice the healing art by the Board of Examiners of the Society, was agreed upon and ordered to be engraved on a plate 13 by 15 inches: Prases et Qucesitorcs Societalis Medicorum in Columbia1. Terrilorio omnibus et singulis lias literas leeturis, salutem :* Notum sit. examinatione habita virum doctumque Mediciua; et chirurgia? satis peritum nos comprobare. Itaque auctoritate nobis collata ex Societalis decreto, eidem jusque potestatem artemque salutarem et Chirurgiam exerceudi damus et con- cedinms. Cuju» sigillum commuui huic membraase affixum nomiuaque nostra sub- scripts testimonio sint. Datum Anno Domini Millesimo Octingentesimo et Re- publican Septuagesimo ct bujusce Societatis instituta) . — , Praises. , 1 , j , j- Q iasitores. ; j *[Translation of certificate.] The President and Examiners of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia to all and singular who may read these presents, greeting : Be it Known, That, upon examination held, we approve ns a man sufficiently skilled in the science of Medicine and Surgery: Therefore, Under the authority conferred on us by the deeree of the Society,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2115983x_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)


