Excerpt from Special Edition of the Canada Lancet: Commemorating the Meeting of the British Medical Association at Montreal, August 28th, 1897 With respect to other addresses, which it is customary to deliver on these occasions, medicine will be dealt with by one whose reputation is now world-wide - by our Osler - whose professional education was in great part received in this city, and who, I am happy to say, is still a Canadian. How he has been able to escape the alien law is a puzzle to many; but he has really only been borrowed for a time; he is merely passing through the United States in bond. We are only waiting until we can find a place large enough to hold him, when we shall coax him back. Sorry am I that his Old colleagues in his own department of medicine, Howard and ross and Macdonnell, are not here to share with us the genuine pleasure we experience in finding him in the position which he occupies to-day. One of these, the late lamented Howard, had much to do with moulding his career and setting him to the task which he has so ably accomplished. You will hear addresses in Surgery and Public Medicine delivered by gentlemen who have devoted their lives to their special subjects. Before proceeding further, however, allow me, for the benefit Of those who may not be acquainted with the work Of the British Medical Association, to give in as few words as possible a general idea of its organization. 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.