Excerpt from Transactions of the Medical Association of Georgia: Sixtieth Annual Session, 1909 The friends of old Aristotle, author of the science of logic, claim that he was raised as a physician and actually practised medicine. It is undoubtedly true that Old Pythagoras was a practising physician and combined with his other studies that Of medicine. I might enumerate a great many other in stances of the honor'the Greeks accorded their physicians; suffice it to say that from the time of Hippocrates down to the time of Galen the representative men in medicine were highly honored. These cultured Greeks regarded their doc tors as their men of learning. They respected their learning; they respected them for their learning, and they respected their learning because it was applied to the subject of the greatest possible importance, the extension of life and the p. Lief of suffering. I am glad to see that the students Of medi cine in modern times have kept pace with the students in other branches Of knowledge. No less an authority than Dr. William Osler has decla'red that the average life of the Eng lish speaking people in the past centuries has been doubled. He assigns for this three causes; advancement in physical comforts, medicine and her handmaidens, hygiene and sur gery, and in the mitigation of pain and suffering medicine, he says, stands incomparably first. This is a very bold as sertion. I am not prepared to demonstrate its truth, but I believe there is much truth in it. If it be true only in part and medicine he only a factor, the subject of medicine is worthy of continued study and the results of your studv are worthy of our highest respect. 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.