The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-06-10

perfect Of created beings-the one
moulded after the Creator-was seen
70 be.the only thing lacking to make
creation perfect. This most perfect
work Of creation, is the study of the
physician; to him alone it is given to
understand his wonderful mechan-
ism; he knows that We are indeed,
'.fearfully and wonderfully made"
Gentlemen, we recognize you as set
apart and consecrated to a noble call.
Ing. In your hands are life and
death; you will need no monuments
Of bronze or marble to perpetuate
your fame, for it is, and will be in
scribed upon the hearts of grateful
patients whose sufferings You have
alleviated, whose lives YOU have saw
ed. Time cannot effacc it, and eter-
nifty will reward it.
Your labor and researches IN the
sick room; in the hospital, and in
your office, has raised your profession
up to take its rank among the sci
ences. The vast strides which you
have made in the last half a century
toward more perfect knowledge of
the human system, its wants, diseas-
es and their remedies, has robbed
many of the once terrible scourges, Of
half their terrors. While it is ap-
pointed that all shall suffer disease
and death, you have the power, in a
great measure, to put off theevil day,
and when the time of dissolution
comes, torob it of MANY Of its ter
rors.
Your humanity and enlarged phil
anthropy are too well known to re-
quire any comment from me. The
benefit of your knowledge, skill, and
discoveries. are ever ready, ut the
call of suffering humanity. The
names of such men as Jenner, Simp-
son and Hervey, can never be forgot
ten while mankind is doomed to SUI
fer disease and death; by the repudl-
alton of empiricism and the use ofall
secret remedies used for the purpose
of fattenins off of the known credu-
lily of mankind, you have raised the
standard of your profession to the
highest grade, and perhaps, the near
| ost 70 = nerfect standard Of any
profession. Like the good sa,
marian. YOUR stores of wisdomand
the benefit of your skill are as readi-
ly employed to relieve the suffering
Of the stranger who falls fainting by
the wayside, as for the wealthicst
pharisce in the land.
Hoping that your deliberations
may be profitable to yourselves and
be greatly conducive to the allevia-
ton of some of the many ills that
flesh is heir to, and the comparison
and analysis of the varied and ex.
tcnsivc experience of SO learned and
practical a body of men may bring to
light remedies for some of the terri
bic scourgcs with which mankind
are sometimes afflicted, and which
have hitherto defcd the utmost eff
forts of skill and learning.
] again extend to you the hearty
welcome of our citizens, and bid you
God-speed in your noble work.
At the conclusion of Mr.. COUGHS
address, the President read his an
nual address, which with the addresses
Of DR.. Knight and Mayor Couch were
referred to the Committee on Publ
cation and ordered to be printed.
The report of the Committee on
Publication was read and adopted.
Report of Secretary read and refer
red to Publication Committee.
DR.. L.F.~ Campbell, Chairman Of
the Committee on Neurology, read
paper on the death of DR.. c. I. B.
Moore, as follows, which was referred
and ordered to be printed:
DR.. c. T. B. Moore, the subject we
memorate, was born in Merccr's Bot
tom, Mason county, Virginia, (now
West Virginia. May 10Th, 1S4l.
His Acadcmical education was fin
ished at jefferson College, CannonS-
burg, Pennsylvania, taking the de-
gree of 4. B. in July, 1861.
From this period he resolved upon
the study of medicine, and his early
reading was under the preccptorship
Of DR.. james II. Hoof,, nov deceascd)
of Point Pleasant, Mason county,
West Virginia.
In the fall of 1861 he matriculated
in the University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine, and graduated in
this Institution in 1862 and 3. The
late war was then in progress and
he was Immediately employed by the
U. S. Army as an Assistant Surgeon,
and stationed near Pensacola, after
wards New Orleans. After the war
he returned to Point Pleasant, and
engaged in the practice of his pro,
fcssion in connection with his old
prcceptor, DR.. Hootf, deceased. After
a few years practice with Dir. Hooff,
he dissolved his connection, and &C
companied Hon. X. V. Whaley, who
had been appointed Collector of Gus
toms for the District Of Brazos'dc'
G. L. D.or;1lnnt Inhnsnn