ASSOCIATE EDITORS: JAMES WRIGHT PUTNAM, M. D. ERNEST WENDE, M. D. JOHN A. MILLER, PH. D. Contributors to Vol. LXII. AUGUST, 1906-JULY, 1907. BEAHAN, ALBERT L.... BIRCH MORE, WOODBRIDGE HALL. BOSWELL, CHARLES O... BROWN, C. W. M... BROWN, WILLIAM M.. BRUSH, EDWARD N.. BURNHAM, M. P... CANNADAY, JOHN EGARTON. CLINTON, MARSHALL.. COOK, ROBERT G.. DIXON, SAMUEL C... FRAZIER, CHARLES H... FRONCZAK, FRANCIS E. FRYE, MAUD J............. GARDNER, JAMES A.. GREENE, DEWITT C... GREGG, MILTON E.. GOLDBERG, SIGMUND. GOULD, GEORGE M... HAYD, HERMAN E.. HUBBELL, ALVIN A.. JACOBSON, NATHAN.. JAMESON, THOMAS. JENKINS, J. F. T....... JOHNSON, WILLIAM D.. KING, JAMES E.... KRAUSS, WILLIAM C... LANGDON, H. H.... LEBRETON, PRESCOTT.. Canandaigua . Brooklyn . Rochester ..Elmira . Rochester Baltimore Raybrook .Hansford, W. Va .. Buffalo Rochester Harrisburg Philadelphia . Buffalo . Buffalo Buffalo .Buffalo .Elbridge, N. Y . Buffalo Philadelphia Buffalo ...Buffalo Syracuse Rochester .Los Angeles Batavia . Buffalo Buffalo New York Buffalo LEVY, I. H.... STOVER, CHARLES.. Syracuse Chicago . Buffalo Buffalo .. Cortland Cincinnati .Akron .New York .Boston New Haven Buffalo Carlisle Buffalo . Buffalo Rochester ..Buffalo New Haven .Amsterdam ..Buffalo THOMA, FRIDOLIN. TOTMAN, DAVID M.. VANDER VEER, ALBERT. Syracuse ..Albany Syracuse WILDER, BURT G.... WILLIAMS, HENRY T. WILSON, NELSON W. WRIGHT, ADAM H. YOUNG, J. C..... Medical Association of Central New York Medical Society of the County of Erie Chicago . Ithaca . Rochester Buffalo .Toronto . Cuba, N. Y BUFFALO MEDICAL JOURNAL. VOL. LXII. AUGUST, 1906. No. I ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Address to the Graduates in Medicine, Law, Dentistry and Pharmacy, at the Sixtieth Annual Commencement of the University of Buffalo, N. Y., June 1, 1906. BY EDWARD N. BRUSH, M. D. Physician-in-Chief and Superintendent, Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, MR. VICE-CHANCELLOR, Members of the Faculties of Medicine, I MAY not be, indeed I know that to some of you I am not, revealing a secret when I say that I am not here this morning as the one first chosen to address you. I can but feel flattered that I came second to him who was your first choice, and I most deeply regret with you, that he was prevented by the pressure of public affairs from standing in my place. I fear, moreover, that before I reach the conclusion of what I have to say my audience will wish that the choice had passed on to the next man on your list of possible speakers. When, however, the Dean of the Medical Department of your University asked me, in behalf of himself and his fellow Deans of the departments of Law, Dentistry and Pharmacy, to address you this morning, while I knew that the preparation of an address would, in the midst of a particularly active period of professional work, be an added burden; and appreciated also my lack of ability for the task, it was not difficult to yield assent. The opportunity to return to one's Alma Mater after more than a quarter of a century's absence from her fostering care, to the city of my boyhood and young manhood, to the scenes of my professional studies and early professional work, to say some words of Godspeed, and possibly some of admonition and advice, gathered from varied experiences and observations in many places, and among many men, to those just entering upon professional |