Excerpt from A Retrospect of Surgery in Kentucky, the Presidential Address Delivered Before the Southern Surgical Association at Louisville, December 16, 1925: The Heritage of Kentucky Medicine, the Presidential Address Delivered Before the Kentucky State Medical Association at Frankfort, September 21, 1926 I would be derelict in my appreciation of the honor you have conferred upon me did I not begin with an expression of my pro found gratitude for your confidence in selecting me to preside over your deliberations. In viewing the roster of distinguished surgeons whom you have so honored, I am overcome with a sense of humility at my own shortcomings and at the same time stimulated as never before to make myself in some degree worthy of such association. The task of selecting an appropriate subject for my address has not been an easy one. Having been reared professionally in the waning shadow of one school of thought, that founded on clinical Observation alone, and in this golden age seeing the beautiful fruition of that built on accurate scientific knowledge, it occurred to me that a brief review of Kentucky surgery would not prove uninteresting, particularly if I could present to you on the screen the portraits and scenes from the environment of those who in this state did their part in advancing the growth and knowledge of surgery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.