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BY selecting me as your 170th speaker, the Councilors of the Massachusetts Medical Society have accorded me a great honor, for which I am deeply appreciative. This custom of an Annual Discourse or Oration was inaugurated 175 years ago and has been a feature of each of our annual meetings since 1832. Our most distinguished medical leaders have presented their views in this forum, and their discourses have covered the whole of medicine. For example, the inaugural address was given in 1804 by Isaac Rand, president of the society, who spoke on "Phthisis Pulmonalis and the Use of the Warm . . .
H. Thomas Ballantine (Thu,) studied this question.