Excerpt from Transactions of the Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina: Held at Raleigh, May, 1884 But some of the original members remain to receive the grateful plaudits of their brethren and to rejoice with them in the honorable record of an institution which has reflected so much credit upon its founders and the State whose name it bears. That record is known and read of all men. The pathetic language of the original appeal to the medical men of North Carolina portrayed the dangers which threatened and the difficulties which surrounded the profession, and which changed your influence and exertions, have been long since happily removed. Even to speak only of those whose labors have been closed by the Great Sealer of lips, shows how rich is the history of this Society in names worthy of lasting renown. Year after year they mingled their common offering with yours at the shrine of humanity, the end and aim of all medical effort. Freely they gave of their knowledge to their younger brethren, and when war lowered upon us, they gave to the soldiers their tenderest care. Speedily the day come when it was freely acknowledged that the citizen soldier of no other Southern State received such attention to their sick and wounded, and such supervision of their means to ward off disease and death, as the troops of North Carolina. A public debt of gratitude is due alike to great numbers of your Society, both deceased and living. The names of the former I need not repeat, for they are embalmed in memory. Of the claims of the latter I cannot speak as they deserve, for they hear me. There is one other event in the history of your Society which deserves signal recognition by the people, because its blessings are not temporary but lasting, and rest not upon a few, but extend to all who value the aid of skill and experience in the hour of peril. It is to you that the people are indebted for the act passed in 1858 requiring examinations of those who propose to serve as practitioners of medicine within our borders. 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.