Notes on Some Recent Epidemics at Home and Abroad. Inaugural Address of Session 1885-86

retirement, to contribute to this Society, and so to the profession and the public, the matured results of much thoughtful observation and world-wide experience. During the twenty-three years I have enjoyed the privileges of Associate and office-bearer many changes have occurred in the composition of our Society, and also, to some extent, in its functions and scope of action. In 1862 the science of public medicine had only just begun to show a bold front in our civic polity under the banners of two illustrious leaders, and the names of Simon and Farr must be held in lasting and grateful remembrance. Mr. Simon, as well as Drs. Milroy and Richardson, Mr. Chadwick, and Sir William Jenner, who all at that time took an active share in