Excerpt from The British Medical Journal, Vol. 2: Being the Journal of the British Medical Association, July to December, 1864MY first duty, gentlemen, is to welcome you to Brighton, and to express a hope that you may all carry away a pleasant recollection of this meeting. I will not dilate upon the things that you may see here, for I presume that by this hour of the day you have seen all that you intended to see, and that the business of our meeting will occupy your remaining leisure. I will only say, that the attendants at the different places indicated in the notice sent round to the members have had directions to be at your ser vice and I trust that your visits have been agreeable and profitable, and with these remarks I will turn immediately to the business before us.It is the custom at these gatherings, I see, for the president to select some particular topic of advice, and to treat of some of the great questions of medical ethics or medical reform. And perhaps, when the snow of years has fallen a. Little more thickly on my head than it has at present, I may on some future occasion adopt a similar course. Such advice, however, I could hardly give you now. I cannot now claim to guide you on these great moral questions, but if all of us, till we can be teachers, will be followers of the simple rule of doing as we would be done by, the task of medical reformers will be greatly facilitated.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.