The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-25
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ed upon to minister to the bloated
limbs Of George the Fourth it was the
| King who was honored and not that
great surgeon. When you are called
upon to cross the Threshold of the
money king, if you do not know that
| your profession is nobler than his
mansion. then the grinning negro who
let's you in is your fitting companion.
The father of your profession stood
with kings as their equal but the Bar
ber-Surgeon's Hall is still standing in
London. You can hold yourselves fit
for the palaces of princes or you can
crE NJ back to the Barber-Surgeon' S
l1fI just as you like. But the man
who practices the art of healing in or
der to relieve the suffering of HUMANE
ty is one of the worlds greatest men,
but he who practices only for the
money he may get out of it, deserves
the contempt of every true physician
i'm the land If you honor your art as
you should, you will honor all honor
IaDle practitioners in your honored call
ing, and will beware of all degrading
jealOuSies and unfair advantages
which promise to raise you at the ex-
pense of rival. You will pardon
me l know, if | give you a new COM
mandment-one which is peculiarly
appropriate to physicians, and that
covet thy neighbours PATIENTS
And now, Mr.. President and gem
tlemen, / am perfectly certain that
you are already satisfied that / am
not afflicted like the dyspeptic old Wo-
man, who after consulting her physi-
elan said: The doctor told me that
my real difficulty was that / had not
sufficient gall to justify my Vctuals'
certainly have had a superabund-
of IN
as | have, but having been in active
practice myself for twenty years, /
know you will excuse me. And then
you know once medicinal doctor, al
ways Doctor Medicinal. You can un-
frock minister you can debar a law
yer, and can even unWed q husband.
but you can never put off the title Of
doctor. Once doctor always a doc
tor.
Again l welcome you in behalf of
this great State to her capitol build
ing, and to everything-theya are yours.
and | trust your stay with us may be
profitable to you, and that your pleas
ure here may be so great that YOU
will tarry long enough to allow at least
some of your patients to get we'll in
your absence
DR.. Dixon was heartily applauded,
and then Mr.. Ed. Chambers Smith, of
Raleigh, was introduced by DR.. Roy
ster, to welcome the society TO the
city in behalf of Mayor Powell Mr.
Smith spoke as follows:
Mr.. Smiths Welcome.
''Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle
men of the Medical Society of North
Carolina-U believe there are some
lady members now)
Sometime ago there met in this
City Of lra Il
a young friend OF mine had the temer-
ity to deliver an address of welcome
to them | thought when asked to
deliver this address that L could with
pleasure Welcome to the city those
men who stand between me and the
undertakers, and it is with real sin
cere pleasure that | give you this cor
dial welcome to our city.
Sometime ago old lack Chandler,
while serving in the Senate of the
United States, in reply to some one
who was deploring the fact that the
South had not taken its former stand
in the great legislative halls of the
country, said that he had found that
when we invited the prodigal to cCme
back ne came and. came in full force.
We killed the calf and invited them
to partake and they ate the calf and
ate it all. We had dancing and mu-
sic and song and they had been
there long before they were leading
it all and calling the figures.
NOW we want you to come and
take charge of everything in the city
of Raleigh. TO take whatever you see
and call for what you do not see. Take
absolute charge of every thing we have
got Anything we can do for your
pleasure we will gladly do. Again,
gentlemen, l welcome you to our city.
Mr.. Smiths brief and pretty re-
marks were greatly appreciated, and
after the applause subsidized, Dr. j. M.
Parrot, of Kinston, rose and respond
ed to the double-barreled welcome, as
follows:
DR.. PARROTS Response.
1t has seldom been the good fortune
of the State Medical Society to be well
coined so heartily and so eloquently
as we have been today. The physi-
clans of our State feel highly hOnored
that Mr.. Smith and DR.. Dixon
should consent to attend our opening
session and participate in our eXer-
cises. We are encouraged by this act
because it tells us more forcibly than
words can express that the thinking
men of our country are with us in our
work, and bid us God-speed in all our
professional undertakings.
On one occasion while going by
boat from one point on the Italian
coast to another, julius Caesar was
overtaken by a great storm. The wind
ragged with the fiercest fury, heavens
artillery Numbered and roared, while
the waves as though maddened dash
ed with unrelenting violence against
the frail bark on which the great Ro-
man had taken passage. When the
storm reached it's height, and it SEEM
ed all must surely be lost. an old sea-
man rose in the midst of his tremb-
ling panic-Stricken comrades and
said: men, why are you afraid, do
you not know that we cannot sink
since we have on board the great
Caesar himSelf?''