The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25
Doctors Greeted by Capital
City.
Continued from Page one.)

VIM. |. Taylor, HarrelI's Store
John o. Plummer, Warrenton.
Everett l.. Hoffler GreenvilIe
Joseph Is. Phillip Spring Hope.
John II. Bourneman Wilmington.
John X. Williams, AsheVille.
May 5. Miles, Greensboro.
Benz. G.. Allen, Henderson.
Thos j. Holt, Smithffeld.
VIM. II. Cotfman, Asheville.
Robt. j. Orr Robbinsvile.
Sheridan G. Highway, Murphy
The ranking men We're: First, DIR.
Marshall c. Guthrie, of Raleigh, with
"a II per cent; second, DR.. Hugh T..
bowman, of Davidson, with 80 IL;
third, DIR. VIM. A. Bradsher, of RoX-
boro, with 80 2-7.
Or. Guthrie is a graduate of The
Medlcal department of the University
at raleigh, and is splendid Young
man of character as we'll as talent
me percentage of failures this year,
Is out of SO, is better than last year,
when ii out Of 107 failed to pass.
The Days Session.
DIR. Hubert a. Royster, of this, city,
OF pelah OF the local committee of ar
engagements, declared the hfty-first
session of the medical society of the
State Of North Carolina in session, and
called the meeting to order
Then Rev. DR.. Alfred II. Moment.
pastor of the Presbyterian church of
this city offered prayer, and next Dr..
Royster introduced DR.. b. =. Dixon,
the State auditor, to welcome the WISH
tors to North Carolina in place OF
overnor Aycock, who was absent from
the city. DR.. Dixon said:
Dir. Dixon's Address of Welcome.
"Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
Medical Convention of North
Carolina:
cit is with sincere pride and pleas
! ure that | have the distinguished hon
or of standing this morning in the
! place of His Excellency, Governor Ay-
| cock and of welcoming to the capital
1 of North Carolina this great body of
| great men who have so much to do in
/ determining the destinies of our peo-
pie.
Not long ago a physician in the
city of New York was called upon to
respond to the toast, Our Doctors
| they lead to a brighter world ana
| show the way This was intended
for joke upon the profession, but I
think that it was an appropriate toast,
for | stand here today to say that doc
| tors do lead to brighter worlds and
show the way. Do not misunderstood
me, ! am not talking of that world
that lies beyond the setting sun. But
| what world can be so dark and dreary
as the world in which q sick man
lives? And when Il doctor leads him
out OF that wretched world into the
bright and beautiful world of health,
out of the darkened chamber of sick
ness into Gods sunlight, where the
| roses bloom and the hooking bird
sings, he has shown to that man the
! way to Il heaven upon earth, and in
this way the doctor leads to brighter
| worlds.
II wish to congratulate you upon
the marvellous progress which has
| been made by your great profession
| within the last generation A few de-
cades past the sign over the office
doors of many physicians should have
been similar to the quaint and curious
one which Isaac Letsum placed over
/ his door when he wrote:
| If any sick to me apply,
/ physics, bleeds and sweats 'em,
If after that they choose to die,
What's that to me? | Letsum.
/ "BMut now old things have passed
away, and all things have become
new, and physicians of today are ia
miliar with facts in all departments of
medicine and surgery, which q genera
| ton ago were supposed to be known
! only to the angels of God. Vast i'm
provements have been made in all de-
! partments of human activity, but |
honestly believe that your profession
has outStripped them all in the great
benefits which have come to the hu-
man race by reason of progress and
honestly believe that the medical
profession of no State in the American
Union has made more rapid develop
| ment than that which has been made
by the doctors of North Carolina. This
has been brought about by the deter
mination on the part of many of the
ablest physicians of the State to raise
the standard of medicine in North
4 Carolina. All honor to those brave,
devoted men who held the flag of the
medical profession in the heavens
amid the thunderouS upro2r of opposi-
ton and revolt, until all men flocked
/ to it, AS q lover of my State and my
people. | beg you to hold it higher
still until all men everywhere shall
give to your noble profession the hon.
or and the glory it 50 richly deserves.
| For believe me, the man who gives his
life that humanity might not suffer
! pain. the man who goes to the cabin
1 Of the poor as we'll as to the home OF
the rich. and with his kindly aid
soothes the brow of suffering like an
| angels wing; is as near to those who
dwell in the mansions of God as any
man on earth can be.
I 'sSee that all men honor your pro-
fession and you honor it yourself
"When Sir Ashley Cooper was call