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blossoming folds ? Here is the true field for the American medical 

 intellect ; not to set English portraits of disease in American frames; 

 not to trust for immortality to a little more or less of manual adroit- 

 ness or questionable hardihood; but to co-operate with that fast- 

 gathering band of students who, in other departments of science, are 

 studying what nature has done with her American elements, and 

 teach us what disease is here, how it is generated, and what kindly 

 antidotes have been sown in the same furrows with its fatal seeds. 



The Committee are not prepared to propose to the Association any 

 special organized mode of operation for encouraging and maintain- 

 ing a national literature of our own. It is by indirect means rather 

 than by direct contrivances that this desirable object is to be pro- 

 moted; by elevating the standard of education; by the stern exclu- 

 sion of unworthy articles from Medical Journals ; by the substitution 

 of original for parasitical authorship ; and by introducing such a 

 tone of general scholarship and scientific cultivation that the finer 

 class of intellects may be drawn towards the ranks of the medical 

 profession. 



OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 



ENOCH HALE, 



G. C. SHATTUCK, Jr., 



D. DRAKE, 



JOHN BELL, 



AUSTIN FLINT, 



W. SELDEN. 



