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Excerpt from Transactions of the Third Annual Meeting of the American Laryngological Association: Held in the City of Philadelphia, May 9, 10, and 11, 1881 The following candidates for Fellowship were present and afterward signed the roll: D. B. Delavan, M.D., New York. E. C. Morgan, M.D., Washington. G. W. Major, M.D., Montreal. H. Mynter, M.D., Buffalo. and a large number of invited guests and visitors. Dr. Harrison Allen, the Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, read the following address of welcome: Fellows of the American Laryngological Association: Gentlemen - It has been delegated to me by my associates of the Philadelphia Laryngological Society, to welcome you to your Third Annual Congress. Some of the most noted medical gatherings of our time have been convened in Philadelphia. We have now to witness the opening of a congress new to her history, - a congress of physicians who are specially engaged in studying the diseases of the respiratory passages. I take, therefore, great pleasure in welcoming you on this most interesting occasion. It is to be regretted, on some accounts, that this meeting of the Association is called at a time when the American Medical Association is barely adjourned, and the State Medical Society of Pennsylvania is about to convene. The plans of your Committee of Arrangements may be, in some measure, disturbed by these circumstances. But the committee trusts that the essential work of the congress may go on uninterruptedly and prosperously. May your meetings here prove as valuable as have those of your previous congresses! May your labors stimulate to renewed exertion all persons engaged in laryngology! May the session serve to strengthen the bonds that unite a society of brothers! May it end in crushing out charlatanism and self-seeking! May it overcome prejudice and opposition! May it spread the boundaries of knowledge to the advantage of the noblest of pursuits, the relief of human suffering! The following invitations were read, viz. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.