He is an effective public speaker, easy in his mannei's, ready and fluent in speech, possessing a large fund of mother wit. His studious habits, quick perception, faculty of illustration, clear judgment and logical conclusions carry conviction with them.

THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.

BY GEOKGE JACKSON FISHER, M.D., Of Sing Sing.

Excepting to gentlemen of the medical profession, ] there is nothing particularly interesting in the life of i a physician or the transactions of a medical society. I Each family, though familiar with its own medical ' adviser, seldom looks beyond its favorite to learn the

traits of character, the extent of acquirements or the skill of others. The technical studies, and subtle researches of physicians, who strive to keep abreast with the rapid progress of the medical sciences, possess no interest or charm to the general public. It is only concerned with powers and results, and these only when disease interferes with the performance of the daily routine of business and pleasure, or when danger threatens life. So it becomes a difficult, perhaps a needless, and almost certainly a thankless task to attempt to write the sketch proposed.

On the 1st day of June, 1858, the writer of this chapter read the annual address, as president, before the Medical Society of the County of Westchester, taking for his theme " Biographical Sketches of the Deceased Physicians of Westchester County, N. Y.," which address was subsequently published in pamphlet form, " by order of the Society." (New York, 1861, 8vo., pp. 52.)