Presidential Address on Surgical Interference in Gynecology
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placing me in this Chair, and, however unworthy I may feel myself of this renewed exhibition of your favour, I can only, in what remains of my term, throw myself unreservedly on your generosity, and do my best, however little that may be, in some small way to acknowledge the distinction you have conferred upon me. Alas, such a compliment at your hands only unfortunately too vividly reminds me tempora labuntur tacitisque senescimus annis. Gentlemen, this is the 60th session of our Society, and we can look back with satisfaction upon hard, steady work, enlightened here and there by no mean examples of genius, and certainly by many brilliant additions at once to the literature and the science of our department. Originating under the exceptional brilliance of a Sir James
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