Biographical Sketches of the Deceased Physicians of Westchester County, N. Y

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Excerpt from Biographical Sketches of the Deceased Physicians of Westchester County, N. Y: Being the Annual Address Before the Westchester County Medical Society, at This Session Held in White Plains, June 1, 1858 Gentlemen - Members of the Westchester County Medical Society: I propose as the subject of my address on the present occasion, a few brief and imperfect Biographical Sketches of the Deceased Members of the Medical Profession of Westchester County. Although medicine, in its history, its ethics, its relations to other and collateral sciences, offers a wide range from which to select a subject, the task of choosing one which has not already been treated upon has not been easy. Having at last determined on that which I have just announced, as being one never before attempted in this County, I have hoped to be able to interest you for a brief hour, and at the same time, to place on record "the plain, unvarnished tale" of the character, merits, trials, and experience of those medical men who have previously been the incumbents of the field which we now occupy. How frequently are we reminded, when called to the families of the older inhabitants, of those who, years long passed, visited the same houses upon a like errand of mercy as ourselves! How many hours have we spent in listening to detailed accounts of the many virtues and the wonderful skill of those good old doctors, who were always looked to for aid in the day of anxiety, tribulation, or peril! We have been told how they rode on horseback, with their apothecary-shop snzgly packed in huge leathern saddle-bags, which hung over their horses back behind them, how promptly they responded to a call, though in the dead waste and middle of the night, how cheerfully they came, how patiently they remained, to watch their patients and witness the effects of their remedies. 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.