The state chronicle., 1893-05-27
sion among the foremost in rank
and usefulness.

sion among the foremost in rank
and usefulness.
In our early history towns ex-
tended free hospitality in our en-
tertainmert; but today our body is
too large for that, and too we'll paid
(?) to accept it. We have not only
increased in numbers, but we have
reduced quackery, developed skill,
increased culture, exalted profes
sional honor, and raised the practice
of medicine to a plane of excellence
which diminishes disease while it |
administers relief to the afflicted. |
In the field of investigation there
has been steady growth as seen in
the contributions of medical litera-
ture by progressive members. In
addition to all this, the society has
brought the State together in more
fraternal relations, and made the
members broader in all that per-
tains to the profession. Modern
means of travel spread diseases,
once local, over the entire State
The local doctor is, therefore, too
narrow, too limited, and this society
meets that by comparing, discuss
ing broad living questions, and by
informing and inspiring its mem
bers. The competent physician now
knows how to treat disease in noun
tain, in valley, and by the far sound
ing ocean. Moreover, we have Sc
cured legislation in behalf of the
unfortunate, and thus our people
are protected against incompetent
and unscrupulous men. Quaran-
tine seeks to prevent those
3 scourges which invade Asiatic
t and European countries Science
3 and State powers are invoked, and
: professional exposure is offered
g whenever necessary, to prevent
o cholera from invading our fail
shores and affecting our happy peo
pie. Wholesome sanitary laws and
Q boards of health guard local anc
8 internal interests. We are prouc
9 of our birth place and our NOBLE
e history. The centennial of the Ole
r. Homestead last year thrilled ou
= hearts, and we rejoice in her mate
y rial and social progress, her culture
k and moral strength We believ
q, Raleigh is proud of our growth ant
ar influence, and we accept her cour
tesies with the sincerest and mos
- grateful appreciation. Her twenty
=. five manufactures, her twelve print
!, - ing places, her splendid schools an
- churches, her asylums and othe
- State institutions, indicate perma
~ nence and future advancement. Tn
- very air Of this city is balmy an
;, delicious with fragrant flowers
- ~ May loveliness adds poetic CHAIR
~ y. to park and lawn, and to palatis
- residences reposing among oaks an
- leaf-crowned naples. Her spler
~ did physicians, the culture of he
citizens, and her beautiful wome
~ and skill and virtue add grace t
~ her society. The blue sky canopie
y no lovelier city, and the stars of th
, armament look down upon 4
,ir worthier people.
~ And last but not least Of the NJ
= BILE tributes due to this glotio,
90 Capital City, is that springing fro
or the memory of the honored nan
10 she bears. It is especially prop,
~ to recall that name in this year
- memorial festiv1ty and splendo
8 Far above Spanish title and Italis
~ courage, above the generous git
~ ~ of queens and the brave self-sac,
- - fee of the Great Navigator, endea
he ed to North Carolina, by his br
ho liant life and martyr death, his g
o;r MUS shining like star over la,
WI and sea, the planting of the virg
for blossom of his fame on our sile
,ba shores, and by the mystic shrine
fadeless worship wherever the En-
lish tongue is spoken, stands t
oes name of Walter Raleigh This,
ter all, is your noblest title, 20
as richest possession. Like a strain
at music, that has fingered among t
1ne hills and faltered among the vale
,in let that name rise upon every wi
a. that visits our shores. And VIII
=, the great war guns utter the pra
Aoo of the gallant sailors of Palos, a
nus by the lakes of the North
ton wealth, intelligence and beauty
the world gather to honor him W
died an Admiral of Spain, let
honor him, who having made
edi- world his debtor, died a poor G.
the tive to English indignity and
fol- preston. And from the waves e
Ugh isle of Roanoke, where the sw
memory of Virginia Dare lives +
any ever, and from the milk WI
nta- beach, where the gallant keels
zen Raleigh fingered long ago, j,
GU come the eternal spirits of Histe
has the loving children of remembrar
ions to consecrate and sanctify our
an votion.