Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-10-25
Thirteenth Annual Session Of Med
lCal Society of Virginia.
DIR. LANDLORDS ADDRESS
Welcomed TO Virginia.. Capital city
by DIR. J. ALLISON modso.-Dr.
Avius Landlord. of Norfolk,
Makes tho Responsibilities she
Presidents Address tho society
Goes Into Executive Session.
Special to yirglnian-p,lot.)

ltichmond, Va, Oct 24.-The Medical
Society of Virginia convened in this
city in its 30th annual session tonight,
There were also many citizens and Wis
itors at Hotel Jefferson. where the daily
sessions will be held.
DR.. Jacob NIichaux. the president,
presided. The address OF welcome was
made by DR.. Allison Hodges, and was
full of cordlality. The response was
made by DR.. Livins Landlord, of Nor
folk. and commanded the undivided at
tention of his auditors. He said:
DIR. LANDLORDS ADDRESS.
MIR. President, Fellows of the Medical
Society, Ladies and GentlcInen:
as appear here ut our State Capital,
made sacred by n hundred memories,
before this splendid audience adorned
by that presence which to Virginia
gentlemnns heart has ever spoken of
all that Is true and noble, beautiflcd and
pure, l am reminded OF that occasion
when Edmund Burke, in the zenith Of
his power, appeared before the Uniyer-
slty OF Glasgow. It Is said that his
peerless voice faltered With the beating
or his great heart, and that for n
moment he stood before that cultured
assembly as speechless as n marble
sessNNSs CIV ttlllOJI us colo. III Edmund
Burke. the renowned scholar. the pro-
FOUND philosopher and the daring
sthtesmun, whose massive charactsr
was sufficient to Shake n. throne, and
whose Giant intellect moved Like a con-
qHeTor among the mighuest thinkers of
all Europe; il this high, proud scion Of
wealth and royalty could fail and stand
there abaShcd and muto as the walls
about him, surely there Is good excuse
tor the manifest trepidation which I
feel tonight ---
MI. President, have no bouquets of
tresh and fragrant flowers from the
ehchanted landS Of poetry and rhetoric
Tor this fastidlous audience OF ladies':
1 nave no mental telescope with which
70 transport the fellows OF this society
10 the iast discovered planet in the far
OIL heavens of scIncc. These tributes
you cannot. you must not, expect from
me. such glowing forms OF speech be-
ionS not to the practical realm wherein
me me toliing physician spends his life.
the common Greek could not SO much
us MT the shield or Achilles, nor can
l, l mere aspire TO wear the armour of our
lamented Dr. Moore and many Others
VINO have annually, upon these o<ca.
SONS s.. aeilghted and entertained this
association with their elcQuence, But
one thing l have. Mr.. President. and
tnat alone Is my excuse for not placing
the. Iacifc between Richmond and NV
SELF tonight and reporting for duty Mt
General Wheeler's headquarters IN me
Phllipplnes. l have interest in and
sympathy and love for this grand old
medical society. For eighteen years.
with lew executions, 1t has been my
great privilege. after n trying summer
calipaisn OF sickness In the eastern
portion OF the State, TO come up to the
meetings of this society Every time I
Nave been greatly cheered and COM
forted and benefited by contact with the
cholce spirits who have controlled these
assemblies and every year have re-
turned TO my work better prepared to
fight disease and allay the pangs which
torture our Groaning race no absent
myself and shirk the duty which your
generous suffrages have thrust upon
me would be display of selfishness and
insrntitutde which should blush to
iectlll. and so am here to speak for a.
little while upon q theme which ia of
interest to US all, trust. Another tonic
had been In my mind. but the death
Just ut that time OF our beloved brother.
Dr: w. w, Parker, OF this city. whose
brance. has led me to select q subject
winch was abundantly exemplfied in
MS career. I mean ~
THE IDEAL PHYSICIAN.
In his Autobiography Goethe says:
sooner or later every man comes to
IN; the consciousness that he lives double
iitethe one real. the other IDEAL"
world" Imagination Is that faculty
which looks to the possible and IN
known. which inwents and creates;
which mirrors and reproduces the real
The imagination In Its highest function
penetrates and analyses and reaches
conceptions by no other faculty disooy-
cradle. 1t is the great spring Of human
activity and the chief source of human
improvements: it delights to mirror to
the mind scenes and characters more
perfect than those with which we are
acquainted; II wards off dullness and
safety: it stiles satisfaction with pres
ent conditions and past attainments: n
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