Excerpt from Proceedings of the State Medical Convention, Held in Raleigh, April, 1849, and Constitution and Medical Ethics of the Medical Society of North Carolina, Then Adopted Gentlemen and Brethren of the Medical Profession: A notice was published the 7th day of February last requesting that a Convention of Physicians, from the different portions of this State, should be held in Raleigh, on the 16th of April, 1849, for the purpose of organizing a Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. The hopes of those who issued this publication were disappointed when that day brought to the designated place a delegation incompetent in numbers perhaps, but not in spirit, we trust, to represent fairly your honorable body. This mortifying circumstance influenced for a while some of the most elevated and liberal minds amongst us against the assumption of the name and authority of a State Convention; but a more correct opinion, and one more flattering to you, finally prevailed; which was, that as this Convention should dictate to no one, but proceed to organize a Society for the advancement of Medical Science and the elevation of our professional standard upon those honorable principles which have already been adopted by distinguished characters, whom you profess to admire, it would at once receive your unqualified support. The proceedings of this Convention and of the Society, which it has formed, are laid before you in the following pages, and we invite you to the positions there taken. 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.