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October 05, 1889, Vol XIII, No. 14 >
ARTICLE | October 05, 1889

THE CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS.

J. A. LARRABEE, M.D.
JAMA. 1889;XIII(14):469-470. doi:10.1001/jama.1889.04440060001001.
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Gentlemen:—Again the bell has struck a warning note upon the horologe of time; again we have assembled for the purpose of contributing our mite to a science which can no longer be called "a conjecture," a science which challenges the admiration of the whole civilized world. Like a "Grand Army of Veterans" we meet around the campfire of the fortieth annual reunion of the American Medical Association. Permit me, then, to greet you as valiant captains of a mighty host of warriors, each bringing the trophies of successful battle with the common enemy of mankind. I see before me those who, amid frosts and snows of a northern winter, have fought the savage foe whose wolfish grasp lay at at the throat of the child; those who, beneath a semi-tropical sun, single-handed and alone have fought the pestilence, which walketh in darkness and which wasteth at noonday; those who,

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