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Excerpt from The Method of Our Work, Not Faith, Is the Basis of Organization of Medical Societies
Ladies and Gentlemen: The subjects upon which I would Offer some re?ections are partly derived from events concerning this Institute for the past year, and partly from affairs at large. I mean the origin and work of the Yellow Fever Commission, and the organization of medical societies.
The special report of the Yellow Fever Commission is in good hands, and speaks for itself. It is the origin of this report and how it came into the world that I desire to explain to you. When we last met, there existed no necessity for such a report. So far as we knew, the health of the country was all that could be desired. But in the course of the summer a fearful epidemic of yellow fever raged along the southern banks of the Mississippi. A commission was soon appointed on the part Of the Govern ment, urged by philanthropists, to inquire into the nature of the Southern scourge. NO physician of our school had a voice upon that commission, ignored as they always had been by the domi nant school, who mainly advised the Government in such mat ters. Even the voice and untiring energies of Dr. Verdi, the chairman of the Committee on Legislation, did not succeed in Oh taining the degree of representation of' our school that in the name of justice and common-sense it deserved.
It was in the early part of October, 1878, that appeals were addressed to me from various quarters to exert my in?uence, as President of this Institute, in appointing a commission from among physicians of our school to examine into the nature of yellow fever from our point of View; that is, not only to speen late and theorize upon its hypothetical causes, but to examine into and devise, if possible, means for the cure of the disease, and methods of its prevention.
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