Gambar halaman
PDF
ePub

THE ANNUAL CONVENTION

Of the Connecticut Medical Society was held in the Common Council Rooms, City Hall, New Haven, May 25th, 1876.

The Convention was called to order by the President, Dr. Pliny A. Jewett of New Haven, at 9.30 A. M.

The Secretary then read the list of officers of the Society, and presented the following names of new members admitted during the year through the various County Societies.

Newton S. Bell, M. D., Burlington, Vt., 1864, Windsor.

H. G. Howe, M. D., Burlington, Vt., '73, College Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y., 1875, Hartford.

[blocks in formation]

Joseph Coogan, M. D., Bellevue, 1876, Hartford.
Isaac R. Sanford, M. D., Yale, 1875, New Haven.
J. F. C. Foster, M. D., Yale, 1875, New Haven.
Fred. O. White, M. D. Yale, 1873, New Haven.
B. S. Lewis, M. D., Harvard, 1875, New Haven.
F. W. French, M. D., Harvard, 1875, New Haven.
Edward S. Meers, M. D., Yale, 1874, New Haven.
James Olmstead, M. D., Yale, 1874, New Haven.
Geo. L. Beardsley, M. D., Bellevue, 1873, Birmingham.
Seth Smith, M. D., N. Y. University, 1875, New London.
W. T. Parker, M. D., Royal Ludwig Maximilian University,
Munich, 1873, New London.

W. P. Barber, M. D., Dartmouth, 1870, Lebanon.

G. H. Jennings, M. D., L. I. College Hospital, 1875, Griswold. Frank A. Coates, M. D., College Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y., 1875, Mystic.

John Cotton, M. D., Harvard, East Woodstock.

F. X. Barolet, M. D., Victoria College, Montreal, Putnam.

F. Powers, M. D., College Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y., 1870, Westport.

S. P. Warren, M. D., Yale, 1874, Bridgeport.

M. C. Burke, Jr., M. D., L. I. College Hospital, 1875, S. Norwalk.

C. L. Blake, M. D., Yale, 1875, Essex.

R. M. Griswold, M. D., N. Y. University, 1875, Cromwell.
G. O. Johnson, M. D., University Maryland, 1869, Clinton.
T. B. Bloomfield, M. D., College Physicians and Surgeons, 1876,
Middletown.

A. W. Bell, M. D., University N. Y., 1874, Moodus.

Julian LaPierre, M. D.,

Columbia.

J. W. Stevens, M. D., College Physicians and Surgeons, 1852, Norfolk.

The names of those members of the Society who had died during the year, were read, and obituaries presented to the Convention, which were referred to the Committee of Publication.

Dr. A. W. Barrows of Hartford, the Vice-President, then took the chair.

The Annual Address was then delivered by the President, Dr. Pliny A. Jewett, on "General Hospitals in Connecticut."

The thanks of the Convention were presented to Dr. Jewett for his interesting Address, and a copy requested for publication.

As a portion of the address was prepared for the Directors of the Hospital at New Haven, it would be inexpedient to divide the paper. It will, therefore, be published by the Directors of the Hospital, in separate form, and a copy will be sent to each member of the Medical Society.

A very able and interesting dissertation was then presented by Francis Bacon, M. D., of New Haven.

The thanks of the Convention were presented to Dr. Bacon, and the paper was referred to the Committee of Publication.

The Chairman of the Committee on Matters of Professional Interest in the State, Dr. C. A. Lindsley of New Haven, presented the report of the Committee, which was accepted and referred to the Committee of Publication.

An half hour was then taken in discussing Dr. Lindsley's report and in general business. The defects in our present system of registration of vital statistics, and the nomenclature of diseases adopted by registrars, were brought to the attention of the Convention in the report, and it was voted that a committee be appointed by the President to secure such legislation as would result in uniformity of classification of diseases with the system adopted by Public Boards of Health generally, and such revision of the laws concerning registration necessary to secure accurate and reliable sanitary statistics; it was also voted that the classification of diseases refer

red to, be published in the transactions of the Society for the use of its members. The President appointed on this committee,

C. A. Lindsley, M. D., F. Bacon, M. D., G. W. Russell, M. D. It was also voted that a committee be appointed to consider the expediency of pressing the subject of a State Board of Health this year, and the President appointed E. K. Hunt, M. D., C. A. Lindsley, M. D., C. W. Chamberlain, M. D. Dr. Hunt then read the following:

MINUTE CONCERNING THE DISCOVERY OF ANÆSTHESIA,

In reference to so much of the President's Address as relates to the Discovery of Anaesthesia, this Convention deems it proper to place upon its record at this time the unanimous conviction of its members, that to the late Dr. Horace Wells of Hartford belongs all the honor of this invaluable discovery.

The proof of this is established by numerous irrefragable facts now before the world, by the published opinions of many learned societies, and distinguished members of the medical profession and others, both at home and abroad, and by the unanimous verdict of the American Medical Association.

The above was approved and referred to the Committee of Publication.

The Delegates from other societies were then presented, with a brief address of welcome by the President.

A. Le Baron Monroe, M. D., from the Massachusetts Medical Society, William V. Wilson, M. D., from the Medical Society of New Jersey, who addressed the Convention.

An essay was read by Dr. C. W. Chamberlain on Laryngeal Phthisis.

The thanks of the Society were tendered Dr. Chamberlain, and a copy of the essay requested for publication.

Dr. B. W. Catlin then presented the report of the Committee or Sanitary Science.

The thanks of the Society were tendered Dr. Catlin, and a copy requested for publication.

Dr. I. W. Lyon presented an essay on Diphtheria.

The thanks of the Society were tendered Dr. Lyon, and a copy of his essay requested for publication.

The following papers were read by title only and referred to the Committee on Publication.

Reports of Interesting Cases-Dr. S. L. Chapman.

On the Nerve of Perception-Dr. G. W. Gray.

ter.

The Practice of Medicine Conducive to Health-Dr. Isaac Por

A Centennial Address delivered before the New London County Society-Dr. A. Woodward.

On Medical Ethics-Dr. B. B. North.

The Committee to nominate essayists reported the following

names:

Dr. C. W. Gaylord,

Dr. R. Hubbard,
Dr. F. D. Edgerton,

Dr. Jas. Campbell,

Dr. S. G. Hubbard.

The Committee of Arrangements announced dinner at half past two P. M. Adjourned sine die.

C. W. CHAMBERLAIN, Secretary.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MATTERS OF PROFES

SIONAL INTEREST IN THE STATE.

C. A. LINDSLEY, M. D., NEW HAVEN.

Your Committee adopted the plan, inaugurated a year ago, of issuing a circular containing a series of questions which might form the basis of communications. The partial success attending that method seemed to demand another trial of its merits. We have been disappointed chiefly in that an expectation of a largely increased correspondence has not been realized. But sufficient results have been obtained to justify continued confidence in it as the best. Your Committee believe that, with some modifications which experience can suggest, it will be the most effectual means of any yet proposed of cultivating in the profession in the State a habit of communicating important and valuable information for the general good.

The following questions were published, and supplied to the several reporters of the County Associations, in sufficient numbers for distribution to every member of the Society.

QUESTIONS.

1. What have been the prevailing diseases in your locality during the year ending in April, 1876?

2. Have any new or infrequent diseases occurred?

3. If "remarkable and instructive cases of disease" have occurred in your practice, will you please report them in writing to your County Reporter?

4. Can you distinguish Membranous Croup from Laryngeal Diphtheria?

5. In your opinion, is Diphtheria at first a local disease, which may at an indefinite time in its progress become general?

6. Or is it at first a general disease, or blood poisoning, of which the affections of the mucus membranes are merely secondary localizations?

7. Do you think Diphtheria can occur spontaneously, or in consequence of only such external influences as variable temperature and moisture?

« SebelumnyaLanjutkan »