Laennec-one hundred years after the address in medicine / [William Sydney Thayer].

  • William Sydney Thayer
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[1919]
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    Reprinted from The Canadian Medical Association Journal, September, 1919 LAENNEC—ONE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER ADDRESS IN MEDICINE By William S. Thayer, M.D. Baltimore AT the outset, let me tell you how deeply I appreciate the honour that you have done me in inviting me to address you—with what happiness and satisfaction 1 appear before an audience of Canadians. That broader sense of patriotism which links us all to the Mother Country which is as much mine as yours, has suffered much in the five years that have passed. But despite the noisy discord of ephemeral politics, that which has happened has, I think, drawn closer about us the bonds of a common ideal and a common inheritance which we cannot and would not escape; and the aureole that to-day surrounds Canada in the eyes of every American who deserves the name, can never fade. “iiiya de p.£po$ yysoai rr}? rixvrj? elvau to duvaaQai ofyiniiv “ The power to explore is to my mind a great part of the art.” —Hippocr. epid. III. These words appear on the title page of Laennec’s u Traite d’auscultation mediate,” which appeared just an hundred years ago. It is fitting for more reasons than one that we pause on this notable anniversary and consider, for a moment, the man and his work, for there are lessons therein which we may well take to heart. Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe Laennec was born on the 17th of February, 1781, in a stone house which fronted on the charming quai that Delivered before the Canadian Medical Association, Quebec, June 26th, 1919.