Excerpt from First Church in New Haven, at the Interment of Nathan Knight, M.D., Late Professor of Surgery in Yale College Thus it is that the physician, wherever his intelligence and skill are recognized, is held in honor. Even among savages, if they know what his profession is, he is more honored than a king. Knowing only that he knows, better than they, how to relieve pain and to overcome disease, they look upon him with a superstitious awe and trust. And when, in the progress of intelligence, that superstition dies away, and the physician, instead of being classed with dealers in magical arts, is recog nized as acting in conformity with a better knowledge of the laws of nature, the sense of dependence on his aid, and the confidence in his knowledge and skill, are not the less real for being more intelligent. 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.