The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-06-10
WEST VIRGINIA STATE MED.
ICAL SOCIETY.

lCAL SOClEI1.
This Society convened at tn
Court House, Point Pleasant, on Wet
nesday, June ID, 1875, at O'Clock l
NJ, DR.. NJ. Campbell, President in tn
Chair.
Prayer by Rev. DR.. Lane, OF the oil
Presbyterian Church.
Roll called by Secretary, and thirt,
members answered to their names.
The Committee Of Arrangements
through their Chairman, DR.. A. L
Knight, welcomed the Society, in be
half of the Medical fraternity of Poin
Pleasant, in very neat and veryap
propriate address.
His Exccllency, James II Couch
Jr., Mayor, rendered the Inequalities
of the town to the Society in the fol-
lowing beautiful language.
| GcaAemca:-In the name of the
citizens of Point Pleasant, and as
their representative, extend to you
4 cordial welcome; and it shall be our
endcavor and earnest wish to make
your stay, while here, so agreeable,
that you may carry with you to your
homes, pleasant recollections of our
quiet town.
Not many generations ago, the
place where We are now assembled,
was covered with the virgin forest,
beneath whose lcafy shadow roamcd
the wild beast, and the scarcely less
wild Indian hunter and warrior
Here the Indian lover wooed and
won his dusky mate. Upon the spot
where stands this temple of Justice,
was lit the council-tire of the great
Shawnee nation, around which were
assembled the braveSt warriors of the
tribe. Where now stand the Christ
ian churches, the untutorcd savage
raised his eyes in silent alteration to
the Great Spirit; it needed not the
researches of science, nor the beauties
of revelation, to inform him Of the
existence of a Manatou; He was re,
vealed to him in the whirl-wind that
swept over his native forest, in the
lofty pine that had dcticd the storms
of 4 century, in the beautiful flower
that snapped in the morning breeze.
Now, we are surrounded by all the
comforts and embellishments of the
civilization of the latter half of the
nineteenth century. Instead of the
untutorcd children of the forest,
see before me body of men celebra,
ted for their learning, skill, and hu,
manity;;-how great the change?
In welcoming you to the place
which YOU have chosen for your de
alterations, l cannot refrain from
paying a passing tribute, humble
though it be, to the noble profession
which you represent, though | am
a member of profession ennobline
in itself, and tending to develop tho
highest aspirations of the human
mind; yet, without detraction from
it, recognize in the followers o
Esculapius, 4 power more mighty
than that manifest in any other sci
cncc or profession. The geolosist
the naturalist, the chemist, and the
astronomer, have spent their lives II
laborious examinations of earth, air
water, and the starry vault of HEAVIER
and whatever was therein contained
They have compelled natures grea
. forces to work for them; have delight
: ed to pass their days inthc examina
ton, classification and analysis Of TIL
earth, the air and the water, AM
: their inhabitants, the beasts, birds
: and fishes, tracing them back to tn
f prcalamitic ages; they have inscri
l bed their names high upon the TEN
. pie of fame. Such names as keplel
Newton, Gallilco, Cuvier and Aggasis
will be remembered until the Ange
G shall stand one foot upon the Sc;
= and one upon the solid land, and de
: clare that TINE is no more!
, If pleasure, profit and lasting fam
can be gained by the explorers of Ma
lures great Arcane, how much great
t er can be gained from the rcsearche
4 of the intelligent physician? Thu
( Sacred writer tells us that in fly
] days God created the earth, the sea
: the air, the sun, moon and stars, an'
' everything therein contained; TIA
s he looked upon his work and behold
$ it was good in his eyes; but there wa
$ something wanting to complete il
6 "And God said, let US make man il
y our image, after our Likeness: and lie
+ them have dominion over the fish Q
d the sea, and over the fowls of the ali
and over the cattle, and over all tn
earth, 50. God created man in his owl
!, image" and he gave him dom
\ inion over the fish of the sea, AM
: over the fowls of the mir, and orc
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