Public Health Papers and Reports
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ISBN13: 9780217534451
Paperback|9780217534451
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. ADDRESS. By Hon. JOHN L. PEAK, Of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Chairman, And Gentlemen Of The Convention: At a late hour to-day I was commissioned by his honor, the mayor of Kansas City, to express to you his sincere and profound regrets that other and pressing engagements had forbidden his personal appearance to-night; and he further commissioned me, in his name and in behalf of the people of the great city of which he is chief executive, to extend to this convention a cordial greeting and a hearty welcome. And I can assure you, gentlemen of the convention, that this welcome is none the less earnest and sincere because the unfortunate circumstance that you are gathered in our city at this particular juncture may furnish our enemies with the suggestion that the condition of our body, corporate and politic, must be desperate and perilous indeed to require the concentrated presence of such a vast number of skilful physicians and surgeons. Laughter and applause.] We have become inured to calumny and detraction, until our wounds are no longer felt. For a few months past it has been whispered, among those who envy our prosperity and greatness, that our city was laboring under a severe ailment. Some have ventured to prophesy that this ailment might prove fatal. It was first mildly suggested that, in all probability, it was but one of the types of disease incident to youth, commonly known as colic. Laughter.] That a dose of catnip tea, wisely administered, would relieve the patient of all its difficulties. Inasmuch as the symptoms continue to be stubborn, other detractors ventured to suggest that it was not colic, but a case of epileptic convulsions superinduced by an overdose of real estate taken at an unguarded moment. Laughter.] Many of the gentlemen who favor this theory of...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217534451 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217534457 |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.72 In |
| List Price | $23.19 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 320 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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