Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-23

Dr. OOnohue presided as toaStmaS- ter. It was expected that pr. John G. Stanton of New London would de- liver an address but he was unable to attend.
 Joseph T. Tanning, Esq, delivered a stirring address on Medical Profess
 In part MT. Tanning spoke as fol- lows:
 As look upon the faces and forms of this very attractive company I can well understand, assuming readily that in general you are a representative type of the members of your calling from ancient times, why Apollo was the deity who presided over the science of medicine. :. If he is still in the tu- telary business he might be disturbed at the serenity with which, at this part of the day, you dispose of the mysterious issues presented by the bill of fare of a hotel banquet, but he could be told that, whatever the cus- tom may have been in tAle early ages of world development, it doesn't make any difference now whether a>doctor gets any sleep or not, and consequent ly that if he eats himself into a state of insomnia he may simply be getting ready to take up his little black box and go out on a job. And speaking about the deity who was your patron reminds us, through the similarity of names, that about the year 1795 pr. Apollos Kinsley travelled the streets of Hartford in Q steam carriage which he invented himself; so that the seed of destruction to be wrought by the auto mobile was Sown by Connecticut doctor about a hundred years before l the car of our generation began to crowd the waiting lists at our well managed hospitals.
 It appears from the biography of Thomas Carlyle, the eminent British historian. and essayist that in his struggle to enter a state of action which would represent particularly his own ideas and disposition, he gave up the ministry at tEle age of 26 years and | explained later that he had then tried school mastering" and, to use his own language, found himself to be least fitted of mankind for a function which demands patience with stupidity" and that he had just glanced at the legal profession, only to be disguSted with 1 it's ehicaneries. Hack authorship was l his only Claance. The dyspeptic disor- | der which followed him through life was tormenting him. A rat was l g1.awing at the pit of his stomach Then he was embittered by the gen. | eral distress of his own class. Men ouI of work were threatening riots and the l yeomanry was called out to suppress l them.
 1 Why he didn't turn his attention tc medicine bo3l for the sake of dealing | SCleHI1lICdlly WlIR the rat and getting into a profession which would have furnished him the chance to work | during his long life on the scheme o1 l actually giving concrete assistance tC l his fellowmen, his biographers do not 1 explain, and the problem is one wflict IS hardly within the circle of my obli- l gatlonS to solve. But he was inSiStent | that a man, especially a, young man ! should follow the vocation which at l tracted him most strongly-whether il | was breaking colts or writing essays l I wonder again that he did not enter | the life devoted to medical science, fol this would l1ave furnished him the op. | portunity to advance according to tht | rule of logic which natural science car | best supply. Perhaps the answer tC I all these questions rests in the con- clUsion that as he believed above al l things that Q, man should not be | afraid to express and stand by hi: | convictions, and as he was continually | quoting with approval the sentimen
 May the devil fly away with the fint ! arts" he did not take a turn at youl profession because he regarded if as | all must who give it impartial scrutiny I 'one of the fine artS.'' Consequently l with a dread of endeavoring to discus: any of the characteristics of a fine ar and with no particular subject allotted l for consideration, it is a matter of ex treme difficulty for me to make an ad
 
 supposed to know all things, to be en
 tirely international, with all parts O
 the nervous system eliminated; ant
 who are not to be taken off their fee
 or their chairs by what might be
 thrill for an ordinary assembly, Il considering such a thing as a relation
 ship between your profession and mine
 the latter, according to the critic men
 toned, being the one so overladen wit chicanery, it is rather wonderful tha l the doctors have to depend so little ol
 the lawyers while the lawyers depen so much for information and assist ance on the doctors.
 1t is the information which is give by the doctor before the judicia
 tribunal which determines in man
 cases more than anything else tn l amount of damages which. should b awarded and whether demand 1 righteous or a sham. In cases wher
 the doctor has a chance to make per sonal and thorough examination h
 rarely goes astray in unfolding befex
 a tribunal the actual conditions fror
 which Glas arisen any particular in vestigation, and perhaps on some oc casions 1t has been noticedg that pru ! dent attorneys on the other side of tn
 case are too busy toEtake up time wit extended cross examinations of a doc tor.
 It may be regarded asy an. almos
 universal rule lthat YnedicaH wftnesse
 are disposed to tell sthings9as stheyyar
 and, in controverted matters, to gfv