Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-03-18
To Or. 7. AiCkISOn Frazer, Secretary
Of GritteDden County Medical
Society.
SHOULD BE REAL BY ALL PHYSICIANS,

tat'On To attend on meeting Of the
= c'"ty on the Sth inst received.
Thank,
Present phys,cs, ,n6'mi,ies, fear
NAV prevent me eoJov'ng that pleas
ure. feel that need not ask YOUR
forbesrsnce IL depart somewhat from
The ordinary range Of the topics
Of the association over which you now
preside 1t is the fortune OF those who
enter our profession at this day to
to have fallen upon times when the
professional standard is very high
around them. The profession has
been growing in responsibility and
effectiveness; our colleges have been
thronged as no other places are; &C.
cordipgly the standard raised high
and is rising.
This state of times calls for cor
responding power and exertion on
the part Of the studen, te meet the
d msnd. Store Of learning. a fund
or thought, devoted and uniting in.
dustry are required and he who has
them not. and is not in wsv to &C
quire them, is behind his time; he
has mistaken his place and calling.
in fact-he is not wanted.
The intellectual industry and stand
ing and progress demanded of the
physician, in this age, and in this
region, regard as the glory Of the
profession. and | rejoice IN them.
| rejoice soberly and anxiously, but
deeply and sincerely.
During the last half century y
great change has taken place in the
treatu ent Of disease. Scientific =
searches and Investigations have add
ea iaTs.v valuable truths 20 the gen
eral fund Of medical learning since 7
first started out fifty seven wears
ago.
The practiae Of medicine is every
year becoming more successful.
New aud improved methods Of treat =
ing disease are being discovered and
developed, and the conscientious
physician will avail himself Of all the
means. bya knowledge Of which he
NAV benefit his fellow man.
The early practice Of the profession
was necessarily crude and emperical
The present. with all its scien'ifi =
knowledge Of the human structure
and functions, and its vast resources
for remedy, diseases. nav he ap'lv
ter ned the liberal era OF medicine
Doctor I firmly believe the tim"
is coming when those mslsdies which
are now considered necessarily fatal
will be readily cured---when diseas'
will be d,sarme ed Of its terrors.
believe that to be successful. a
physician must be independent, free
from al btgoty, having to narrow
prejudice against his fellow. men
liberal, accepting new truths from
whatever source thew come, free from
restrictions Of socities. and an earn
est laborer in the interests Of the
great physician.
Bear with me a little time longer
as wish to say few words about
myself. for it may be my last. who
knowest2 My mind runs back to
the years long ago when first enter
ed college (ls5D as a student, and
follow after that the long years OF
service | have been in the harness,
the hardships must have undergone,
the good work | mus, have done. and
and the feeling of pride that bios
SONS with m, now always as the
shadows gather closer and closer
around me of we'll sreut life IN my
work for Others
1t is a great thing to live right,
1t is better thing to know you have
done so, for all consultations il ap-
pears to me that the knowledge of a
fair soent, sincere life, lightens NJ =
ny burdens in declining years, and
in turning from one path followed
here to look forward to another path
vet to be trodden, there remains no