The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-29
THE rREslpENr's ADDRESS.

| 4 crowd which comfortably filed the hall
was present last night TO listen to the an
nual address Of President Saunders, which
was 90 follows;
| Ladies ana Gentlemen In obedience TO
the organic law of this association APP
| r1ar before you tonight This law has
| been honored and made the moro binding
on me by its observance by the long line
of my predecessors In ofiice IRON the
founding Of our state Medical Association,
nov mt arly thirty years ago Among these
are names that have made muca y the
honor and glory in the History OF thif com
monwealth from the days of the Republic
down to tho present II IS meet and proper
then that |. their humble successor in of
ilcc, should follow, foebly and faltering
though IL may be. In the path OF duty
made luminous by the footprints of these
fathers OF Texas medicine many OF whom,
though long since gone from among us,
We YET am Will ever delight 10 reverence.
Grand old soldiers of the days gone by,
may your rest DO sweet "over the river
under the shade OF the trcus"
1t Is expected that what is said on an
| occasion of this kind Will be framed for
non-profeasonai hearers and am charged
with the difficult duty of entertaining and,
! IL possible. nstructlug you In some way
not too directly connected With professional
matters ana at tho same time not too far
removed from them
Tho public mind associates the doctor so
Intimately with bis vocation thai I imagine
,to bare mention OF tho name calls w Wis
ions of carsules pills, powders and bStles
labeled "Tfaspnonlul every hour" with
bandages, scnlpels and saws for dnrs
and forhidding background | often wonder
II they ever thin, OF him M simply Il
man, and frequently most ordinary iuan
~ ihaf, differing from themselves in mo
particular except Of education and envi-
ronment lum fully persuaded chat lr the
doctor and his patients snw moro of one
anothor~7know more OF one another IN n
purely professional way II would be
better for both. IL the hubble could b.
made to understand the limits Of our pro-
fessicnal resources. could hc made 10 sec
oecasicnallv even dlmly, the boundary line
hffond which the se'ence Of medicine has
not lighted the pathway Of IT'S most ardent
Votnry and all y dark MS Erehus, the doc
tors services would be caster 10 him ana
mnch moro satisfactory TO them
have any 81 YOU IN YOUR experience ever
Beard doctors abused most severely for not
doing something that was beyond The power
Of mortal man To dog This Is nc, because
OF an inmate desire 10 traduce the fair
ramn ~ m Honorable and CAPABLE physi-
can. u 's because OF want OF Knowledge
On the part al the public as to wha, mo
science OF medicine offers In The way ar
cures for disease. You do not intend to
asperse ths lalr name or impugn The ca
pacity or skill % faithful servaut nv
demanding OF him impossible duties. You
% not demand ~ any other man on earth
tfat he shall do miracles and perfcsn
wonders you do not REQUIRE others !. &c
WHIT tfev have never claimed tho move
to do Why try the medical profession b
some imaginary standard the authority ~
which has newer ACKNOWLEDGMENT The
standards by which YOU measure individual
tiMinments In other professions viii moi
do 10 gauge the doctor BY
We rad N continental history q, 81
hodv Ut patriots who called tbamselyes
"Mlnute Men," They would ~ called from
tho nlow 70 the workshop and M y ma
rients warning werc ready 10 march 10 the
defense az tfeir homes aud firssiaes nj
~ Tho professions the doctors are the only
minute men" You do not cxpsei your
minister, however learned he may be IN
hiblieai lore, TO do miracles nor YOUR
lrwrer, though he be vcrsed In every prln.
ririo OF law from, Moses down to The Last
enactment ~ 90 bcyoad the.-
md drnw from sesne unknown, unheard ~
source princlnlss ~ Law ,tnn~rvcn ani
hereby acrrnifAish ths ipauossfbia " moi
n those. why n the otherY simply aux |
Tor the medical profession thas vnnr A. |
'aignment Of II be IN accordance with th~
'cienee 4 professor and not by the stuff |