William Henry Welch
1920; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 52; Issue: 1349 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1126/science.52.1349.417
ISSN1095-9203
Autores ResumoON this memorable and beautiful oocasior~ I have the chwished honor of having been chosen to perform, as it were, the duties of chronicler, in order that we may all be led to review in our minds the successive steps by which our great leader and master rose to such high dilstinction and wrought the miracle of giving to medicine a new birth in this country; and in order, al,so, that our successors, lighting their lamps at the shrine of Pathology and studying the treasures which these precious volumes enclose, may catch a gleam of what manner of man he was who produced them, and by the vigor of his living example and the c h a m of a rare personality, as well a's by the power of his spoken and written word, in the short span of a lifetime raised medicine in the United States from a beneficent art to an expanding scienca , William Henry Welch was born in Norfolk, Connecticut, April 8, 1850.H e was the son of William and Emeline (Collin) Welch.His father was a practising physician, as were four of his father's brothers.Moreover, a great grandfather and grandfather were also ghysiciam.When about one year of age, William Henry9,s mother 'died; thereafter he wm
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