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telling or a humanitarian work that vitally concerns the lives 

 and welfare of one-sixteenth of the world's total popula- 

 tion, a work carried forward in the face of fanatical op- 

 position, under almost insuperable difficulties, and at great 

 personal sacrifice, 



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to the memory of five of my New England ancestors 

 representing four patronymic generations in direct line 

 who were Regular physicians of distinction, namely: 



(i) My great great grandfather ^ THOMAS WILLIAMS, 

 A.M. (Yale),M.D. (1718-1775), Colonial surgeon in the 

 French and Indian wars and brother of the founder of 

 Williams College; my great grandfathers (2) WILLIAM 

 STODDARD WILLIAMS, M.D. (1762-1828), of Deer- 

 field, Mass., and (3) JOSEPH GOODHUE, M.D., of Ports- 

 mouth, surgeon in the Federal Army; (4) my grandfather, 

 STEPHEN WEST WILLIAMS, A.M., M.D. (1790-1856), 

 Professor and Lecturer upon Medical Jurisprudence, the 

 Theory of Medicine, and Medical Botany, in the Berkshire 

 Medical Institute, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons 

 in New York, in Dartmouth College, and in Willoughby 

 University; author of numerous books; personal friend of 

 Valentine Mott and Oliver Wendell Holmes ; close associ- 

 ate of N. S. Davis in the organization of The American 

 Medical Association; and (5) EDWARD JENNER WILLIAMS, 

 M.D. (1823-1881), my father, a man endowed with rare 

 qualities of mind matched by yet rarer qualities of heart: 



Each of them perennially active in the service of human- 

 ity; each of them in the forefront of the medical progress 

 of his time; each of them a life-long zealot for the best 

 traditions of medical ethics; each of them honored by all 

 who knew him in life, and in death epitaphed simply and 

 justly with the words: 



"He was a skillful practitioner and an honest man." 



