Excerpt from Proceedings of the New York Academy of Medicine: At the First Stated Meeting, Held in the Hall of the Academy, 12 West Thirty-First Street, May 20, 1875 Mr. President, what I shall now say may be a repetition, in part, of my remarks, January, 1867, in taking leave of the chair which you at present occupy with so much dignity. I propose to present a retrospect of some of the early incidents connected with the incipiency of the plan, the matured results of which we are to-night enjoying. 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.