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Title: Chicago medical journal and examiner
Year: 1880 (1880s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Chicago
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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tarried longenough to enjoy some impromptu sentiments and responses fromrepresentatives of the three classes. At the Womans Collegethe party enjoyed some excellent music, after which the law andmedical classes returned to the city, highly pleased with theirafternoons entertainment. Medical College Commencements.—We give in this num-ber an account of the commencement exercises of the BushMedical College. Those of the Medical Department of the North-western L^niversity, better known as the Chicago Medical College,do not occur until ^larch 30th, and consequently will not benoticed until our next issue. 392 Editorial. (April, Mrs. Astors Present to the New York Academy op.Medicine.—On the 15th of January last, Mrs. Augusta Astorpresented to the New York Academy of Medicine, a costly andbeautiful gift, in the form of a loving cup. We are indebtedto the kindness of the publishers of the N. Y. Medical Recordfor the annexed figure, which well represents the artistic finish ofthe original.
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We have not reproduced this illustration without a purpose.When the wealthy and cultivated citizens of our great metropoli-tan centers are ready to exhibit their sense of what the medicalorganizations in those centers are actually accomplishing, whenthey learn to appreciate the character of their representative menand are prepared to give evidence of that appreciation in theirgenerosity, that is a good day for the citizens of any metropolis.Medical men in America are by no means the social Pariahs which our English friends have lately been called by one of their 1880.) Mrs. Astors Present. 393 own number. They are ;n no sense, either beggars or paupers ofthe commonwealth. Industry, sobriety and even an ordinarydegree of skill in the performance of their professional duties, arerewarded here with that comfortable and competent income whichis far removed from the average of the immense majority of men. The medical men of our land, and the medical institutions theyhave in charge, deserve

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