Excerpt from Transactions of the Kentucky State Medical Society: Eighteenth Annual Meeting Held at Paducah, Ky., April, 1873 In behalf of the Southwestern Kentucky Medical Society, the medical profession, and citizens of Paducah, I heartily welcome you to our city. We are aware that we can not entertain you as has been done on some occasions elsewhere, but we hope to cause you to pass the time so that you will not regret your sojourn with us. We know that your annual reunions have for the most part been pleasant and profitable, and it is our desire that this meeting shall be none the less so, and that your visit will be remembered by all with pleasure. For the first time this end Of the state has been honored with a meeting of your distinguished body, and we are not insensible to the compliment in selecting Paducah for your present session. By this meeting you will add valuable and honorable members to the Society - medical men worthy and competent to become useful co-laborers. This is gratifying to us, for we should all feel an interest in advancing the welfare of the State Medical Society. Repeated meeting with the members of the profession in this section in our District Society, which is one of the largest and best working organizations of the kind in the state, proves that it is our earnest wish that this body may maintain an elevated position; that it may enforce the code of ethics, which, if carried out, must harmonize with the most elevated ideas of a true physi cian or a generous and noble mind. Time has proved that the rigid enforcement of law and just discipline has not only been successful, but for the most part has meted out justice. We therefore hope that this Society will enforce the laws of the code, and thereby do its part in maintaining the standard of our noble profession, to which is intrusted the health and temporal happi ness of our fellow-beings. We meet annually for the interchange of opinion and expo ricuce, and in this way collect facts which are to be applied to the relief of suffering humanity, and also to perform our duty in endeavoring to elevate our profession to its proper position. 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.