Valedictory Address by the Retiring President

Valedictory Address

By Professor A. R. Simpson, Retiring President of the Society. Gentlemen,?Before I leave this now familiar seat, it becomes me to offer you my heartfelt thanks for the favour you showed me in making me a third time your President, and for the kindness and courtesy that have made my tenure of the office an unalloyed pleasure. There are positions of honour that entail a heavy burden of service. I...

Valedictory Address on the Treatment of Puerperal Sepsis

It is one of the traditions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society that the retiring President deliver a valedictory address, in the course of which he should give an account of the work done during his term of office, and touch on any topic which might seem to him of general interest to the Fellows. 1 welcome the opportunity of congratulating the Society on its continued prosperity during the pa...

Valedictory Address by the Retiring President

For as far back as we have any records of the proceedings of this Society, it has been customary for the retiring President to give a general resumt of the work done in the Society during his two years' occupancy of the chair. In a society like the present, which has always comprised among its members some of the most advanced thinkers and most able teachers of medical science, this biennial re...

Valedictory Address by the Retiring President

Gentlemen,?In accordance with the custom of the Society, I rise to address you for a few minutes before I relinquish the Presidentship to which two years ago you did me the honour of electing me. Permit me again, as on that occasion, to thank you cordially for the honour, and now, also, for the courtesy aud consideration which I have invariably experienced, and to assure you that I reckon it am...

Of the Address of the Retiring President of the Society in Awarding the Bruce Medal