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and executive officer, it may be permissible to repeat here some- 

 thing from an address delivered by the author at the fifteenth 

 anniversary of Gaylord Farm Sanatorium on September 13, 1919: 



"Up to the tenth anniversary of the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium, at which 

 it was also my privilege to be present, this institution had expended $800,000. 

 Now, what have the patients given back to the state in return for these ex- 

 penditures which made them breadwinners again and supporters of their 

 families? Dr. Lyman, who has kept a careful record of the earning capacity 

 of those who have left the sanatorium as cured or practically cured, finds that 

 they have added something like $2,000,000 to the wealth of the country since 

 they left the institution. That pays surely even if the elimination of a certain 

 number of state liabilities and the decrease of the total sum of unhappiness 

 are not taken into account. Ninety per cent, of the graduates who went to 

 Gaylord Farm in the early stages of tuberculosis are in good health after ten 

 years of work. That percentage cannot be exceeded outside of sanatorium 

 ranks. If the first thousand men passing a given corner were caught and ear- 

 marked to-day, it is not likely that 900 of them would be alive and vigorous 

 ten years later. In the moderately advanced cases 60 per cent, of the pa- 

 tients were restored to health at the sanatorium, and 10 per cent, even of the 

 apparently hopeless cases were turned out well men." 



Dr. Lyman's invaluable services to the commonwealth of the 

 state of Connecticut have been recognized by the state author- 

 ities. He was elected a member of the Connecticut State Tuber- 

 culosis Commission, and served in this capacity for four years. 

 In the year 1908 the medical faculty of Yale University appointed 

 Dr. Lyman a clinical lecturer on tuberculosis, and Yale Univeisity 

 conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 

 1916. Besides being a member of the National Tuberculosis 

 Association, Dr. Lyman is also a member of the American 

 Climatological and Clinical Association, the American Public 

 Health Association, the New Haven County Medical, Connecti- 

 cut State Medical, and American Medical Associations. In 1919 

 he had the honor of being president of the New Haven County 

 Medical Association. 



Dr. Lyman's service on behalf of the tuberculosis movement 

 has been universally recognized. He was most active in organiz- 

 ing tuberculosis dispensaries in France, particularly in the Depart- 

 ment of Eure et Loir. As already stated, on his return he was 

 unanimously elected as the fourteenth president of the National 



