Annual address of the president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia / by G.E. de Schweinitz.

  • De Schweinitz, G. E. (George Edmund), 1858-1938.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Annual address of the president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia / by G.E. de Schweinitz. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As the result of a conference between Dr. Alfred Stengel, Dr. A. 0. J. Kelly, and the President, and with the permission of the College, granted at its May meeting, the Weir Mitchell Lectures have been established, the first one of which will take place during the present month, as already announced, and be given by the Professor of Pharmacology in the University of London, Arthur R. Cushny, and the second one by Edmund B. Wilson, Professor of Zoology in Columbia University, the subject and date of which will be published later. During the remainder of the year two and possibly three additional lectures will be given. It is the hope of the Committee that a sufficient fund will be avail- able, from the income of which a suitable honorarium can be paid to each lecturer, and, while he will not be forbidden to utilize his material for publication in some medical journal, that it will also form part of the yearly volume of the Transactions of the College of Physicians. With the interest of the Fellows in bringing to the College meetings their best efforts, with the continuance of the Public Lectures, and with the success which promises to be attendant on the Weir Mitchell Lectures, the special committee which has them in charge, as well as the Committee on Scientific Business of the College, confidently believe that the scientific program of the College for the coming year will not only equal that of the past, but excel it. For what has been done in this respect I desire to express the College’s and my own high appreciation of the work of the Committee on Scientific Business of our institution, and particularly of that of its efficient Chairman, Dr. A. 0. J. Kelly. The Publication Committee is to be congratulated upon the material contained in the last volume of our Transactions, and it is fortunate that this Committee was able to print with the other papers Professor Martin H. Fischer’s essay on “Edema,” to which the 1909 Nathan Lewis Hatfield Prize of the College of Physicians was awarded. If happily in future it should be possible to include some or all of the Weir Mitchell Lectures, to which I have made reference, as well as the more important papers read before the Sections of the College, our Transactions will grow in importance and reach a point of distinction they