Excerpt from Address Before the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Their Annual Commencement: March 14th, 1867 I feel myself much honored in being permitted to address, on this distinguished occasion, the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York. It is a privilege as well as a duty, for the learned professions whenever opportunity offers to interchange expressions of sympathy and good-fellowship in the presence of the public; to testify to the esteem in which they hold each other, and to unite more closely in resisting the flood of suspicion or depreciation, which in the very nature of things ever threatens the more recondite studies and occult interests of society. 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.