Dedication of the new building and hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, 19 Boylston Place, December 3, 1878 : order of exercises, address by the President, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, report of the building committee, remarks by Dr. J.S. Billings ... [et al.].

  • Boston Medical Library Association
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1881
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Credit: Dedication of the new building and hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, 19 Boylston Place, December 3, 1878 : order of exercises, address by the President, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, report of the building committee, remarks by Dr. J.S. Billings ... [et al.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    light on the recorded results of their labors, brought together as they are in such a collection as this which is now spread out before us. Thus, then, our library is a temple as truly as the dome-crowned cathedral hallowed by the breath of prayer and praise, where the dead repose and the living worship. May it, with all its treasures, be con- secrated like that to the glory of God, through the contributions it shall make to the advancement of sound knowledge, to the relief of human suffering, to the promotion of harmonious relations between the mem- bers of the two noble professions which deal with the diseases of the soul and with those of the body, and to the common cause in which all good men are working, the furtherance of the well-being of their fellow creatures ! Note. — As an illustration of the statement in the last paragraph but one, I take the following notice from the Boston Daily Advertiser of December 4th, the day after the delivery of the address: — “ Prince Lucien Bonaparte is now living in London, and is devoting himself to the work of collecting the creeds of all religions and sects, with a view to their classification, —his object being simply scientific or anthropological.” Since delivering the address, also, I find a leading article in the Cin- cinnati Lancet and Clinic of November 30th, headed “ The Decadence of Homoeopathy,” abundantly illustrated by extracts from the Homoeo- pathic Times, the leading American organ of that sect. In the New York Medical Record of the same date, which I had not seen before the delivery of my address, is an account of the action of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Northern New York, in which Hahnemann’s theory of “ dynamization ” is characterized in a formal resolve as “unworthy the confidence of the Homoeopathic profession.” It will be a disappointment to the German Homoeopathists to read in the Homoeopathic Times such a statement as the following: —
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