Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Medical Society of Virginia: At Its Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting, Held in Richmond, Va., April 1852 Considerations and influences such as these led to the for mation of the American Medical Association, and to the revi val and more expanded organization of the Virginia Medical Society. The American Medical Association has, at its seve ral annual sessions, wisely and boldly investigated the condi tion of medicine in the United States, with a view to ascer tain the causes which impede its progress, and to suggest the appropriate remedies. The present occasion may perhaps be most profitably employed in a hasty glance at its history and progress, in an examination of its action and of the best method of aiding its efforts. 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.