Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . tributaries,bearing the products that help to feed and clothe the world and add to theriches of the country and the peace and plenty of the people. New Eng-land is great in history. It is now but a tiny corner of a land, each partof which equals it in all that makes for greatness. East of the Alleghenieslies a strip too narrow for the development of commanding power. Thegolden dream of the Pacific slope attained its ultimate decades physical, financial and commercial future of the country lies betweenthe Alleghenies and the Rockies. And here
Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . tributaries,bearing the products that help to feed and clothe the world and add to theriches of the country and the peace and plenty of the people. New Eng-land is great in history. It is now but a tiny corner of a land, each partof which equals it in all that makes for greatness. East of the Alleghenieslies a strip too narrow for the development of commanding power. Thegolden dream of the Pacific slope attained its ultimate decades physical, financial and commercial future of the country lies betweenthe Alleghenies and the Rockies. And here, too, I believe will be foundthe intellectual forces which, in the years to come, will lead this country,and through it the world. The valley of the Mississippi is an empire in itself, and its sons willbe rulers in the coining years. Narrowing this line of thought to our ownprofession^ look at the champions set forth by us to win undying honor in * Delivered before the Mississippi Valley Medical Association. October 5. 1F97, at 480 Original Articles. the warfare against suffering and death. In a million homes to-day amothers care is not missing, and there is happiness instead of mourningbecause Georgia gave to the world Robert Battey; Kentucky, EphraimMcDowell; and Alabama, J. Marion Sims, the father of gynaecology. Inthe ranks of general surgery, what names are written in brighter lettersthan those of Gross and Miles and Scott, of Louisiana; Hodgen, of Mis-souri; Brashear, Dudley and Yandell, of Kentucky, and Briggs, of Ten-nessee. In general medicine, we look back to the Flints, GaillardThomas, Lunsford Yandell, Bush, Henry Dixon, T. S. Bell and Harvey,of Indiana. These men are of the past, it may be said. But are we retrograding?Think of Senn, Murphy, Bernays, Walker, Parker, Reed, Owen, Wyeth,Gibney, Humiston, and our own beloved Mathews. Have we not causefor pride? I have singled out these men with difficulty; not because each andeveryone of them does not des
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