conceivable character, not only of this State, but from a great many of the other states of the Union. That such gatherings had redowned greatly to the upbuilding of the city, and he said he desired to say that of all the assemblys that had thus held their annual sessions within her gates no honor was higher than the honor paid the city of the privilege of welcoming and entertaining the Florida Medical Association, and bid the Association doubly and thrice welcome.

Mayor Nolan's address was punctuated with many happy interesting anecdotes, and his address was warmly received.

The address of welcome on behalf of the Board of Trade was delivered by Capt. C. E. Garner, president of the Jacksonville Board of Trade. Captain Garner said he felt that he could not add more to what had been said by Mayor Nolan. He said that Jacksonville had grown to be such a convention meeting city that it kept the mayor almost constantly on his feet, delivering addresses of welcome, that almost invariably, by reason of his position as president of the Jacksonville Board of Trade, it had fallen to his lot to follow the honorable mayor in these addresses on behalf of the Board of Trade, and that it was hard to find a point that the mayor had not covered; he, therefore, begged the indulgence of the Association if he did not soar so high in the forensic art as the honorable mayor. Captain Garner referred to the great work for the State accomplished by the Florida Medical Association, and the admirable system under which it had been accomplished. He referred to the fact that not much more than a decade ago practically the entire population of Florida, and especially of the city of Jacksonville, lived in their trunks from May to November from a dread of that great scourge, yellow fever, which had now, through its State Board of Health and its guiding spirit, Dr. Joseph Y. Porter, State health

officer, been driven entirely from the borders of this country; that, therefore, not only the people of the State of Florida, but of the United States, owed the medical profession of Florida a debt of gratitude which could never be liquidated, and that on behalf of the Board of Trade of the city of Jacksonville, which of all commercial or industrial bodies first felt the paralyzing effects of a pestilence, it was a great pleasure to be accorded the opportunity of so publicly acknowledging the achieve ment of, and to express for the Board of Trade and the city of Jacksonville appreciation of, this great work by the Florida Medical Association and the Florida State Board of Health in the preservation of the public health of Florida, which has now become to be known as the world's sanatorium. In conclusion Captain Garner assured the Association that it was an honor to the city to have the Association hold its session in Jacksonville, and expressed the hope that the meeting would prove to be profitable, not only to the Association but to the city and State as well. Captain Garner's address was received with cheers.

Dr. J. D. Love delivered the address of welcome on behalf of the Duval County Medical Society.

Dr. Love's address was as follows:

"After the remarks already made by our distinguished mayor and president of the Board of Trade, anything further that I might add to the welcome we accord you would be superfluous. You must feel that the Duval Medical Society extends to you a hearty welcome. We accept your presence as a grateful tribute to our organization and we feel honored in being permitted the privilege of entertaining you.

"We feel that your mere presence among us will be to the good of our city, and the betterment of our profession, and we trust that by your presence here the ties that

already bind us together may be more firmly welded. The Duval Medical Society extends to you a hearty greeting, and feels that your deliberations will be conducive not only to the betterment of us as individuals, but to the edifying and uplifting of the profession of our entire State."

The response to the addresses of welcome was delivered by Dr. W. L. Hughlett, of Cocoa.

Dr. Hughlett said:

"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen:

"I esteem it an honor to have had imposed upon me the duty of responding to your cordial addresses of welcome. Representing the State Medical Association, I thank you on behalf of all of its members for this greeting and this welcome to your city and its hospitality.

"Many of us have previously been entertained by your citizens at other meetings of the Association in your city, and we can testify to the genuineness and openhearted hospitality for which you are noted. Would that I had the eloquent tongue and could respond in words comparable with those who voiced your welcome. I want to say to your mayor, to your Board of Trade, to your clergymen, to your Duval County Medical Society, to all you good people of Jacksonville, that you have a city of which you and all Florida may well be proud.

"Jacksonville-phenix-like-has arisen from the ashes of a few years past, and stands today a beautiful and progressive city, modern in every particular. Your busy streets crowded with people and traffic, your street railways for the convenience and speedy transportation of your people, your river docks accommodating seagoing vessels bringing and carrying out large freights of merchandise, lumber, etc., your electric light and water supply the best in the country, your telephone and telegraph lines in every direction, your paved streets and

spacious business houses, your many large hotels, your beautiful homes, your beautiful churches, your public schools, your great newspapers, your factories and mills, all point to great progress.

"Only a few short years ago your city was in ashes. Today it is rebuilt, and not the city it was, but a new and a greater Jacksonville. All hail to you men of Jacksonville, for it takes men to build a city as well as to build a state. All hail to you, doctors, preachers, lawyers, business men, mechanics, laborers, and always the good women. In the dark days of pestilence, in the common disaster following the great freeze, and in that awful disaster when occurred the greatest fire that ever visited a city (size considered), you wavered not, nor lost hope, but set actively to work to build again on the same ground a city destined to be the chief trading point on the South Atlantic. Your city is the pride of all Florida, you are the gateway to all Florida, and as in olden days all roads led to Rome, now all roads lead to Jacksonville.

"Gentlemen, we appreciate your welcome; we appreciate the advantage to us of meeting in your city, we know that we are going to enjoy your hospitality, and that we are going to have a good time, so now I am going to tell you what we meet for.

"Well, chiefly we meet to discuss ways and means of reducing our already small fortunes.

"Gentlemen, did you ever think of it seriously?

"Teachers, lawyers, bankers, merchants, railroad men and (last, but not least) politicians, all meet in council to devise means for increasing their business and incomes, and providing methods for reducing their labor; while us doctors get together and wrangle with each other how best we shall proceed, instanter, to cure all the diseases and accidents that flesh is heir to not once thinking that if our scheme did actually work we would all be out of our jobs at once. But this is the case, and if you, laymen, will attend our meetings, to which you are all welcome,

you will bear me out in this speech that we are a perfectly unselfish set of mortals,' and the only unselfish set that there is.

"But, now seriously, gentlemen, we have met for the public good. Medicine is not an exact science, and I might truly say there is no exact science. So year by year we confer to learn and to teach how best the problems of curing disease and relieving human suffering may be solved. It has been truly said that 'all that a man hath will he give for his life,' and, this being the case, without any particular design on our part in getting all that he hath, we strive to prolong life and relieve pain. We are accused of being mercenary, we are accused of trying to form a trust of the medical profession, we are accused of eternally trying to get lawful permission to cut up and kill people for our amusement, but I tell you the business of the doctor is serious, it is not appreciated as it ought to be, and not paid for as it ought to be. What is the physician's aim? Lately I read the following in the Medical Record:

"THE PHYSICIAN'S AIM.""

""To be accurate in diagnosis and painstaking in prescribing; to allow no prejudice nor theory to interfere with the relief of human suffering, and the saving of human life; to lay under contribution every source of information, be it humble or exalted, that can be made useful in the cure of disease; to be kind to the poor, sympathetic with the sick, ethical toward medical colleagues, and courteous toward all men; to regard his calling as that of one anointed to holy office, firmly convinced that no nobler work can be given to man, and to go forth to his labor with love for humanity, inspired with a reverent assurance that for this cause came he into the world.'

"Now, gentlemen, this sets forth the true business of the true doctors of this Association.