The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-13
MEDICAL MEN MEET.
The Kansas Medical Society in SEES
sion in Topeka.

sion in Topeka
The medical and surgical gentlemen
composing the Kansas Medical society,
one of the largest medical organizations
in the west, are in Topeka today in full
force For the past ten or twelve
years it has been the habit of these
scientific gentlemen to wander into To-
peka during the month of May, renew
acquaintances, read papers, elect Of
ficers and adjourn, and the same for
mula is to be gone through TINS week
The meeting opened at Hamilton hall
last night and Will continue up to Fri
day night.
General J. c. Caldwell delivered the
address of welcome to the members
of the society at Hamilton nail last
night, and took occasion TO say all the
agreea bic things he could think of
about the medical profession as whole
and the Kansas doctors in particular.
General Caldwell is a pohshed taIker
and each individual member OF the So
cfety felt cOmplimented before he con-
Guided. In part General CaIdWeI
said:
I don't know why, but the reception
committee has seen fit TO lay upon me
the pleasant task of welcoming you to
Topeka. 1t is task entirely IN &C
cord with my feelings Certain II IS
if one considers the objects and aims of
your profession, no more noble occu-
patton can be thought OF Know OF
none nObler, and say IL not TO natter
you, but from deliberate CONVICTION
that IN no OCCuDaIlOn VI liz ID tAACtC
more of self-sacrifice, more OF general
humanity, more of endeaVOr TO promote
the we'll being of the world than the
medical profession.
In this world of ours we are often
misled by thoughts of glimmering glO-
ries, and are wont to bestoW praises,
not upon the real benefactors of man
kind, but rather upon the scourges
The conQuerOr who deluges the CONT
nent with blood is held in immortal
fame, While the silent practitioner who
banishes disease from our mldst mas
been held hitherto in but Slght regard
And yet if one looks through seeming
things to real reality, if one cOnSid-
ers the benefits of all mankind, VINO
will dare to say that among the illus
triOus F'renchmen of this century and
of the centuries to come, Louis Pasteur
will not hold q higher place Ihan Ma
pOleon BOnaparte. The one killed; the
other, if he did not make life, at least
has prolonged human uIe ana dlIllln-
ished human suffering. One left after
him a crop from which has come SUI
fering to mankind at large; the other
commenced a movement Whlch VIII 80
on forever in ever widening circles IN
til the benefit which there will be to
mankind the Imagination stands ap-
palled to contemplate.
But it is not for me, a layman ana
an outsider, to speak to you OF Things
YOU already know a thousand fold bet
ter than 1 do. 1t merely devolves on
me- in obedience to the kind invitation
of the committee, 10 eElellu 70 YOU .
hearty welcome. which in their name L
do We welcome you to o. our city, to
and We welcome you as those who
come bearing gifts giving US n;,. knows vs.
banefits and therefore there is, more
than is usual on such an occasion 7ea 10 "a
deep significance and hearuness IN the
welcome we extend to you.
DR.. F. NJ. DALEY of Be io t. president IRE rsa
ent last night. and DR.. II. Z. Gill of
Pittsburg, vice president Of the ot S z1oei
come DR.. Gill made but br1ef
speech.
The organization of the meeting was
then taken up, after which the first
paper of the session. one by DR. H NJ;
Ochiltree of Haddam, Kan, entitled
Gases From a Country Doctors
Diary was read. After the reading
of the per the meeting adjourned IN
til 10 o'clock this morning
The renewal of acquaintance was
the order declared after adjournment,
and the physicians stood in groups and
talked until a late hour.