MR. PRESIDENT, fellow members of the Massachusetts Medical Society, ladies and gentlemen: In accepting the honor of becoming on this day your one hundred and forty-third orator out of a possible one hundred and forty-nine since the first of these verbal marathons was run, I am humbly conscious of the fact that I am appearing before you in substitution for my friend, John Fallon. Had he survived the year since last we met, he would have been standing at the rostrum and I would have been sitting at his feet.There is, however, some precedent for even the editor's becoming . . .
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