Excerpt from Transactions of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, Held at Wilmington, N. C., May 25, 1870 The flight of another year, with its joys and sorrows, again assembles us to the needed works of scientific advance merit and professional improvement. A pleasing task devolves upon me at this happy return of our social and professional reunion. The agreeable duty is imposed upon me of extending to you, as I now do, a cordial welcome to the city of Wilmington. It is not, I assure you, the formal welcome of the tongue alone. It comes warm and fresh from those feelings of cordial greeting and of high appreciation of your presence here, which causes those whom I have the honor to represent to bid me to offer to you the hospitalities of their homes and the best affections of their hearts. We feel honored by your presence and are gratified at this meeting. In entertaining you as our guests the Medical Faculty and citizens Of Wilmington and New Hano ver confidently expect to be improved and elevated by their acquaintance and intercourse with the accomplished and devoted members of this learned Association. Your labors in behalf of medical science and of suffering humanity are nowhere more highly valued than in this section of the State. Our Society has withstood the prejudices and corrosions of time, the conflict of war, and the throes of revolution. After an absence of eighteen years it again convenes in a city where its usefulness is appreciated and its triumphs acknowledged. It is not for us, on an occasion like this, to commend at our own homes the enterprise and material progress of this section, or the worth and services of our leading men. But it is certainly in good taste, even here and now, to state that the Cape Fear country has a heart big enough to embrace, not alone ours and the other learned professions, but the industrial pursuits, material interests and general welfare each and every portion of our noble old commonwealth. 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.