Anniversary Oration, Before the New-York Academy of Medicine

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Excerpt from Anniversary Oration, Before the New-York Academy of Medicine: Delivered in the Chapel of the University of the City of New-York, November the 14th, 1849Time, in his rapid ¿ight, has brought us to the close of another year of our academic existence, and it is with mingled emotions of sorrow and of gladness, that we are assembled here this evening to celebrate our third anniversary. The places of some who have been accustomed to unite in our assem blies are now vacant, six of our associates have been summoned away from the scene of their labours and their usefulness, and we shall see their faces no more until we shall meet them in the spirit-land. Doctors james macdonald, abraham T. Hunter, ravaud kearney, ' peter S. Townsend, edward earle, and josiah D. Stickney, have been called away suddenly, most of them in the full vigour of manhood, from a large and widening sphere of in¿u ence. Their memories are embalmed in the hearts of many who look back with grateful interest to times when they were struggling with terrific forms of disease, from whose ruthless grasp they were rescued by these champions of the healing art.And their professional associates look back with satisfaction to their upright and honourable course, and to their ardent and successful efforts to extend the reputation and usefulness of our common pro fession. Let us emulate their zeal and their devotion to the interests of science and humanity, let us cherish the recollection of their virtues, and let us be admonished, by their sudden departure, to prepare for that summons, which shall bid us likewise to lay aside the vestments of our mortality, and which shall vacate our places in the assemblies of earth. When that summons shall be addressed to us, may we go, not like the quarry-slave at night.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.