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When I first faced the realization that the honor of being President of this Society carried with it the awesome responsibility of a Presidential Address, one of my first thoughts went back to the days when I was a young resident, and old John Lovett Morse gave the house staff a preview of a paper he'd written entitled, “Recollections of 45 Years of Infant Feeding.” This was a wonderful bit of nostalgia and it gave me for the first time a concept of the progress that had been made in infant feeding, and why. It was my recollection that this was Doctor Morse's Presidential Address before this Society, but I was wrong; as a matter of fact, he was never even President of the Society. So you see, my memory is not so good and if you care to challenge me on some of the recollections I am about to make, you are welcome to do so.
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Wheeler, W. Recollections of 40 Years of Hospitalization of Children: Presidential Address to the American Pediatric Society, May 24, 1972. Pediatr Res 6, 840–842 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-197211000-00005
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