Oldest Preserved Lexington Medical Society Bylaws and Constitution
- “There is a number of individuals, connected with the School of Medicine in Transylvania University, who are desirous of being incorporated as a society…for the purpose of cultivating to more advantage the science of medicine, and of awakening in these western states, a more lively zeal for greater attainment and improvements in that important branch of knowledge…”
Mayo, W. Porter, Medicine in the Athens of the West, Princeton, McClanahan Publishing House, 1999, Print, page 37