An Address on the Welfare of the Medical Profession, Delivered Before the State Medical Society, at Warrenton, N. C., on the 20th May, 1868, by the President, S. S. Satchwell, M. D.

The constitutional term for which you so kindly honored me with the unsolicited office of President is about to expire. In leaving the chair to my worthy successor I propose to observe the custom which assigns to your retiring President the privilege of submitting a few remarks on the WELFARE OF THE, MEDICAL PROFESSION.
Another year has passed, and we are approaching the end of another annual meeting. It is mete that we should consider the condition and prospects of the profession in this State. Our augmented numbers and the increased interest of this meeting afford the best evidence of the vitality, prosperity and success of our honored Association. The circling seasons, unaffected by those political convulsions that now shake the foundations of society, and involve anew the prosperity and happiness of our people, move on in their accustomed regularity, leaving their impressive lights and shadows behind. Our Society meets in stormy political times, amid those demoralizing scenes and depressing circumstances that dishearten the moralist, patriot and christian, and exert a disastrous influence upon the cherished pursuits and professions of men. Our people, already conquered, ruined, crushed, were never so much dispirited as now. In these gloomy times let us demean ourselves according