Valedictory Address by the Retiring President
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For as far back as we have any records of the proceedings of this Society, it has been customary for the retiring President to give a general resumt of the work done in the Society during his two years' occupancy of the chair. In a society like the present, which has always comprised among its members some of the most advanced thinkers and most able teachers of medical science, this biennial retrospect has had this manifest advantage, that from one fixed period to another it indicated the lines in which medical thought was progressing, as well as the nature and extent of the progress made. This time-honoured custom lias not, however, been always adhered to. It has been varied from time to time by original essays of great value, one of the earliest of these being by Dr John Gairdner " On the Importance of Medical Statistics," another by Dr Seller " On Medicine as an Art, and the Nature of its Scientific Basis," and a third by Sir James Simpson " On the General
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