Excerpt from Address Before the American Medical Association: At the Anniversary Meeting in Cincinnati, May 8, 1850

The whole of this Address was not delivered at the meeting of the Association. Circumstances of the moment made it necessary to omit a considerable part of it, and add others not originally intended. Being delivered memoriter, there must not be expected a precise coincidence in language. Whether its publication will add any thing to the stock of medical knowledge is very doubtful, but it was thought expedient to take this occasion to record the opinions which experience had afforded on some of the subjects now or recently discussed by the medical profession, and also to present a respectful notice of various distinguished individuals known to the author as contributors to the advancement of surgical science during the last half-century.

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