The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25

lasting love.
How beautiful and Christ-like thus
! to live giving OF all one possesses to
| alleviate the pain and sorrow of
neighbOr, or to save a neighbours life.
How noble and Christ-lille thus to die
! crucified on the cross of brotherly love
that on ones dead self men may rise
to higher things and by ones sacri-
| flee the pain and sorrow incident to
! life may be lessened.
In Raleigh the medical man finds an
atmosphere of sympathy. BY birth
| and education you are a benevolent
and charitable people. Those of us
who have had the good fortune to
visit you before know you are a hos
pitablc people. We know that we will
| enjoy ourselves while in your city, and
that the hour for departure will ar
rive all too soon. We know that we
will be so highly entertained, so roy
ally treated that when we close our
work here and prepare to dispense to
! our homes, that we Will do so under
| the burden of ten thousand regrets
! 1t is said that Schiller once accepted
an invitation 10 visit Goethe. They
soon became close friends. Time flew
RAPIDLY by for both. At last Schiller
tore himself away When he reckon
/ ed how long he had remained he eX-
| claimed: Il came to spend q MONTH
I have remained thirty years" Don't
/ be alarmed now, none Of US VIII re-
main so long as that, though II one
! should / am sure you would never
tire, that every day of his visit would
be filled with pleasure. If we were
not forced by precedent and circum-
stance to migrate from one section OF
the State to another, / would move,
and lam sure the motion would be
carried unanimously, that we locate the
Society here.
The word has gone from Raleigh
to all North Carolina doctors to come
and spend the week with us and make
yourselves at home. This we will do
in the good fashion way.
Permit me- in behalf of the North
Carolina State Medical Society, to
thank you most cordially for this
| royal welcome. We are delighted to
gather together under your vine and
fg-tree, and enjoy your many courte-
sizes The doctors of North Carolina
are proud Of their State, and equally
proud of their capital city. We point
with Joy which equals yours to it's
| great past: we rejoice with you over
it's brilliant present, and we look for
ward with notwithstanding and ever
increasing interest with thrill of
soul which equals yours, to it's great
future We will gather hope and in
|
that time shall come when fond
memory brings to light other days
around me-" am very sure that this
occasion will be great oasis in the
life of everyone SO very fortunate as
to attend this meeting.
DR.. PARROT was warmly applauded
as he took his seat, and then DR.. Fl.
Il. Weaver, of Asheville, president of
the society, delivered the annual adj
| dress of the president, of which the
following are some extracts:
DIR. Weaver's Address.
eve should congratulate ourselves
i'm having the pleasure of meeting in
a community like Raleigh, which has
always had the enviable reputation of
being the most generous host, pro-
ducng the most gallant knights and
certainly possessing the most beauti-
/ full women. 1t is q city noted for its
conservatism, for it's patriotism, and
for it's erudition. Here we find that
spirit of the old South, if you please,
still pervading her citizenship in all
it's pristine purity. a spirit whose
highest aim is the conservation of
those ideal virtues of simple honesty,
learning and genulity, the most pre-
| cious bOons, which are the bulWarks
of the manhood and Womanhood of
this Southland! These characteristics
|
Gus life of commercialism which char
acterizes some other sections of the
country, whose citizens allow that
morbid sentimentality of money get
ting to dominate their thoughts and
actions, and to subserve Interior pur-
| poses. Your city is no less diStin-
guished for its patriotism, for it has
among it's citizens representatives of
those who were First in war. first in
peace, and are now in the hearts of
their countrymen. With a peculiar
veneration do we recall the names of
a Wyatt, of a Bagley and a Shipp, who
were first to lay upon the altar of
their country their young lives as a
sacrifice in defense of those principles
which are dear to every American
| freeman. But we would be unjust to
history if We failed to mention the
names of Ruffin, of Pearson, of
| Badger of Ashe, OF Merrimon and of
/ Vance whose lives and actions are a
part of the wool and web Of the body
polite of this capital city. Their lives
stand out in bold relief upon the
horizon in the States history.
at was at this meeting i'm 1884, that
your humble speaker had the temerity
to introduce the original resolution,
promulgating the idea of making it a
criminal Offense, and punishable as
other misdemeanors, to practice medi-
cine and surgery without a license
from the State Board and also to con-
stitute a committee whose duty should
be to pray our next Legislature for
an amendment incorporating into the
statutes of the State the misdemeanor
clause After q spirited debate the
resolution was passed the committee
was appointed the law. was enacted,
and has been amended from time to
time, until now it stands almost per-
feet, without a rival in the United
States. For the perfection of this law
we can not fail to mention with just
pride the names of DR. Thomas F..
| Wood and DR.. Richard II. Lewis, and
thank them for their valuable services
as benefactors in their long and ardu-
GUS work, which they rendered to the
whole State.
what has been the result of this
legislation? This feature of the medi-
cal law soon became SO popular that
every State in the Union, with one or
two exceptions, has adopted this idea
and has incorporated the misdemean-
or clause into the statutes of the
the respective States. In consequence
the standard of requirements for IL