MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

You are invited to attend the One Hundredth Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of the State of New York, which will be held in Albany, January 30 to February 1, 1906.

This Centennial Meeting, for the fitting and appropriate celebration of which efforts have been in operation throughout the past year, will be one of unusual interest. To all members of the medical profession of the State of New York its importance as an anniversary will, however, receive a vast addition in that it will be the first meeting of a united profession, secured in the Judicial order of the Supreme Court on December 9, 1905, consolidating the two State medical bodies, which have existed separately for many years, under the name of the Medical Society of the State of New York. This culmination of long and anxious work will be an occasion of rejoicing on the part of all in the State and will make this Centennial Meeting the opening of a new era under fresh and vital methods and one in which many will wish to participate.

Among the special features are:

Orations on medicine, surgery and sanitation, by Drs. S. B. Ward, Roswell Park and Herman Biggs; in addition to which other papers of timely and scientific interest will be upon the program of the meeting, and a centennial banquet on Wednesday evening.

A History of the First Century of the Society. is being prepared, and this, with the addresses and proceedings of the centennial celebration, will form a notable volume.

The general meeting will be held in Odd Fellows Hall on Lodge street, and the public addresses will be delivered in the Emanuel Baptist Church on State street.

A rebate in railroad fare can be obtained if, on purchasing a ticket a certificate is applied for which, on being viséd at the meeting, will entitle bearer to return at one-third fare.

Assistance in securing accommodation at hotels or boarding houses will be given by the Committee on Arrangements, who can be written to in advance.

The Committee on Arrangements also request that those who desire to attend the banquet send their remittances to the chairman of the Committee, Dr. W. J. Nellis, 210 State street, Albany, that places may be assigned as desired, so far as possible. The price of the dinner is $5, and the sale of tickets closes January 29th, to allow of printing a table directory. The seating capacity of the dining-hall is limited, and to make sure of a place as well as to relieve the Committee of unnecessary care an early response is desired.

The banquet will be a notable social part of the

occasion.

It is our anticipation that the physicians from all parts of the State will come in large numbers to honor the occasion, to enjoy what it offers, to participate in its congratulations, and to learn the plans which open for the future in society work. JOSEPH D. BRYANT, President. FREDERIC C. CURTIS, Secretary.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS.

The One Hundredth Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of the State of New York will be held in Albany, Tuesday, January 30, 1906, commencing at 9.30 A. M., and continuing until Thursday afternoon.

This Centennial Meeting will be fittingly and appropriately observed and will be one of unusual interest. The Medical Society of the State of New York and The New York State Medical Association were legally amalgamated on December 9th and this Centennial Meeting will be the first meeting of the united profession of this State in over twenty years.

The scientific meetings will be held in Odd Fellows Hall on Lodge street, and the public addresses will be delivered in the Emanuel Baptist Church on State street.

Ample accommodations at hotels and boarding houses can be reserved on application to the Committee on Arrangements.

A rebate in railroad fare can be obtained if a certificate is secured on purchasing a ticket, which will be viséd at the meeting, and then will entitle the holder to return at one-third fare.

The Centennial Banquet will be made worthy of the Society's history. A toast list of distinguished post-prandial speakers has been prepared and the dinner and appointments will befit the occasion.

The dinner will be served promptly at 7 o'clock in Odd Fellows Hall, thus giving ample time for the after-dinner speeches.

The price of the dinner is $5 and as the seating capacity of the hall is limited, it is requested that those who desire to attend should send their remittances to the chairman of the Committee on Arrangements, in order that places may be assigned.

The sale of tickets will close on Monday, January 29th, in time to allow the printing of a table directory. W. J. NELLIS. Chairman of Committee on Arrangements, 210 State street, Albany, N. Y.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SCIENTIFIC WORK.

The committee respectfully presents the following preliminary program:

Tuesday evening, address of welcome by the President, Dr. Joseph D. Bryant and other addresses to be delivered in the Emanuel Baptist Church.

Arrangements have been made for an oration.

on Medicine, to be delivered by Dr. S. B. Ward, on Tuesday afternoon; also an oration on Sanitation, by Dr. H. M. Biggs; Wednesday afternoon there will be an oration on Surgery, by Dr. Roswell Park; Drs. McMurtry, Welch and other prominent speakers are expected. The orations will be delivered in the Emanuel Baptist Church.

Papers for the morning sessions, which will be held in Odd Fellows Hall, have been promised by the following:

"The Art and Science of Fitting Glasses," by A. E. Davis, M.D.

"Typhoid Fever," by Luzerne Coville, M.D. "Rapid Method of Detection of Blood in Feces," by A. L. Benedict, M.D.

"Economy in Hospital Management," by John A. Wyeth, M.D.

"A Study of Results of Sanitorium Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis," by J. H. Pryor, M.D.

"Report of a Case," by J. F. Whitbeck, M.D. "Arterio Sclerosis," by J. M. Van Cott, M.D. "A Point in the Technique of Breast Amputations for Cancer," by R. F. Weir, M.D.

"Induction of Hyperleucocytosis in Infections," by W. G. Macdonald, M.D.

"Notes on Factors which Further Convalescence Following Abdominal Section," by Frederick Holme Wiggin, M.D.

"Ex-Ophthalmic Goitre," by W. Gilman Thompson, M.D.

"The Role Played by the Medical Society of the State of New York Concerning Medical Éducation," by William Warren Potter, M.D.

"The Clinical Limitations of Eliminative Treatment," by Allen A. Jones, M.D.

"The Immediate and Early Treatment of Ocular Injuries," by Alvin A. Hubbell, M.D.

L. H. NEUMAN, M.D.,

194 State Street, Albany, N. Y., Chairman Committee on Scientific Work.

THE MEDICAL DIRECTORY OF NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY AND CONNECTICUT. Volume VIII of this valuable Directory will be published by the Medical Society of the State of New York. Every endeavor will be made to make it a correct list in every particular. Members will confer a favor by notifying the Medical Society of the State of New York, 64 Madison avenue, New York, of any errors that they may find in the present volume. Changes of address, of office hours, of telephone numbers should be reported promptly. The value of a Directory depends upon the accuracy of the data it contains, and it is the duty of every member to assist the Society in making this book as nearly perfect as possible.

On the 18th day of November, 1905, the petition of Medical Society of the State of New York and The New York State Medical Association, for an order consolidating said two corporations, pursuant to Chapter 1 of the Laws of 1904, duly verified and complying in all respects with the provisions of said Chapter 1 of the Laws of 1904, was duly presented to this Court at a Special Term thereof, held at the Court House in the City of Rochester, New York, on said 18th day of November, 1905. Upon the papers so presented and upon the application of Frederick Collin, Esq., attorney for said petitioners, it was then ordered, among other things, that the hearing upon the said petition and the prayer thereof, and of the application for the order consolidating said petitioners be at a Special Term of this Court, to be held in the Court House in the City of Rochester,

New York, on the 9th day of December, 1905, at the

opening of the court on that day, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, and was further ordered that a copy of said order of November 18th, 1905, with notice of its granting and filing, and of the filing of the copies of the petition and papers thereto annexed, and that the application for the order consolidating said petitioners would be heard at the time and place above mentioned, be given to the medical societies and the medical associations and the colleges, universities, hospitals, medical schools, societies, academies, clubs, library associations and institutions named in said order and as provided in said order. Copies of all of the said papers presented to this Court at said Term held at the Court House in the City of Rochester, New York, on the 18th day of November, 1905, were on said 18th day of November, 1905, filed with said order in the office of the Clerk of the County of Monroe, as required and provided in the said order as appears from the records presented to this Court at this Term. At the Term above mentioned, to attorney, Frederick Collin, Esq., of Elmira, New York, wit, of December 9th, 1905, the said petitioners by their presented to this Court due proofs that a copy of said order of November 18th, 1905, with notice of its granting and filing, and of the filing of the copies of the petition and papers thereto annexed, and that the application for the order consolidating said petitioners would be heard at the above mentioned Term as provided and required by the said order of November 18th, 1905, have been duly served, except upon the Medical Society of Seneca County, which is duly proven to be non-existent. THEREFORE, upon filing the said proofs of the service of the said order of November 18th, 1905, and of the notices as required thereby upon each and every of the parties as required thereby, and the original petition, and upon the application of Frederick Collin, Esq., attorney for the petitioners, the Medical Society of the State of

New York and The New York State Medical Association, and no opposition thereto being made.

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petitioners, Medical Society of the State of New York and The New York State Medical Association, be and said petitioners are, pursuant to and subject to the provisions of Chapter One of the Laws of nineteen hundred and four, entitled "An Act to authorize the consolidation of the Medical Society of the State of New York and The New York State Medical Association," consolidated on the terms and conditions set forth in the approved agreement, dated October nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and five, between the said petitioners, which agreement is incorporated in this order as a part thereof, and as prescribing the terms and conditions on which the consolidation of said petitioners is effected, and is in full as follows:

AGREEMENT.

WHEREAS, The Medical Society of the State of New York, hereinafter called the Society, and The New York State Medical Association, hereinafter called the Association, desire to consolidate and become one corporation under the name "Medical Society of the State of New York," pursuant to the terms of the Act, Chapter 1, of the Laws of 1904, entitled "An Act to authorize the consolidation of the Medical Society of the State of New York and The New York State Medical Association," of which said act a copy is hereto annexed marked Exhibit A,"

NOW, THEREFORE, the Society and the Association hereby agree as follows:

First: It is mutually covenanted and agreed that from and after the entry of an order of the Supreme Court for the consolidation of the Society and the Association, pursuant to the terms of said act, the Constitution and By-Laws, of which copies are hereto annexed, marked "Exhibit B," forming a part of this agreement, shall be the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society; subject, however, to amendment or repeal as therein or as by the laws of this State may be authorized; provided that for the purpose of inaugurating and completing the organization of the membership of the consolidated corporations in conformity with the requirements of such Constitution and By-Laws, and for transacting the business of the Society, the officers of the Society and the chairmen of standing committees in office at the date of the entry of the order for consolidation, and the members of the Joint Committee of Conference heretofore appointed to bring about the consolidation, namely, Dr. Henry L. Elsner, Dr. A. Jacobi, Dr. A. Vander Veer, Dr. George Ryerson Fowler, Dr. Frank Van Fleet, Dr. E. Eliot Harris, Dr. Julius C. Bierwirth, Dr. Alexander Lambert, Dr. Parker Syms and Dr. Wisner R. Townsend, shall be deemed to be severally and collectively, in accordance with the purpose and intent of this agreement, ad interim, the officers, the chairmen of standing committees, the House of Delegates and the Council of the Society, with the power and authority conferred upon the officers, House of Delegates, Council and chairmen of standing committees by said Constitution and By-Laws, and with the further power when sitting as the House of Delegates of appointing presidents of District Branches from among their own number, or from the membership of the Society at large; and from and after the date of the entry of an order consolidating the corporations, the said officers, House of Delegates, Council and chairmen of standing committees so constituted shall have and may exercise their respective powers and authority for the organization of the members of the consolidated corporation and the management of its affairs until the annual meeting of the Society, which shall take place on the last Tuesday of January, 1906, and for such further time as their powers and authority may be extended and continued by the vote of a majority of the members present and voting at any general or special meeting of the Society after the consolidation; and provided further, that in determining the eligibility of members of the Society for

office in the Society after the consolidation, the period during which such members shall have been members of the Association continuously at the date of the consolidation, shall be equivalent to membership in the Society for the same period.

Second: The Society and the Association each for itself covenants and agrees that it will employ expert accountants to determine accurately the amount of its assets and liabilities, and that their reports shall be submitted with this agreement upon an application for an order consolidating the corporations, and the Association agrees that upon the entry of such an order the property of the Association specified in the report of its experts shall be duly transferred to the Society; and the Society agrees that upon receiving the same it will assume and pay and discharge the liabilities of the Association specified in the said report.

Third: All members of the Society and all members of the Association in good standing at the time of the consolidation shall be entitled to membership in the county medical societies in the counties in which they may reside, without the payment of any initiation fee or other cost to them, except that the members of the Society who, at the time of the consolidation, shall not be members of any county society, may be required to pay the initiation fee regularly charged by the society which they may join. If there shall be no county society in the county in which a member of the Society resides, he shali be entitled to membership in the county society of an adjoining county, or else to membership in a society to be organized and chartered by the House of Delegates. Members of the Association shall be entitled to membership in county societies upon the_certificate of the President and Secretary of The New York State Medical Association at the time of the consolidation that they are in fact such members, or upon the like certificate of the presidents and secretaries of their respective District Branches or county associations; and such members shall not be subject to the payment of dues or assessments to the respective county societies or District Branches, except from the date to which they shall have paid their dues in full to their respective county associations, after which date dues to the respective county societies or District Branches may be imposed or assessed upon them, and they may be collected, at the rate imposed or assessed upon all other members of their respective county societies or District Branches. Members of the Society who shall not be members of a county society at the time of consolidation shall be admitted to membership in the respective county societies upon like certificate signed by the President or Secretary of the Society. In counties in which there shall be a county medical association, but in which there shall be no county society in affiliation with the Society at the date of the consolidation, the said county medical association shall be deemed to be a county medical society in affiliation with the Society, subject to the Constitution and By-Laws hereto annexed; provided that all members of the county societies residing in such counties, and all members of the Society residing in such counties shall be admitted to membership in such county associations upon the like certificates of their membership in the Society or in their county societies, and upon the like terms with regard to the initiation fees and dues as are hereinabove prescribed with respect to the admission of members of the Association to membership in county societies, and the dues which may be imposed or assessed upon them; and provided further, that the names of all such county associations shall be changed to the County Medical Society of their respective counties in conformity with the nomenclature of county societies in affiliation with the Society; and it is hereby further expressly declared and agreed that upon the entry of an order for the consolidation of the corporations, all members of county medical societies in affiliation with this Society, or which, by virtue of the provisions of this agreement, shall be deemed to be in affiliation with this Society, and all persons who shall, upon consolidation, or thereafter be or become members of county medical societies in affiliation with

this Society, or which shall be deemed to be in affiliation with this Society, and all members of societies thereafter organized and chartered by the House of Delegates, shall by virtue of such membership, be members of the Medical Society of the State of New York. Fourth: The Association agrees that upon the admission of its members to membership in the respective county societies to which they will become entitled under this agreement, the property and assets of the respective county associations in affiliation with the Association shall be transferred to the county society for the same county.

Fifth: The Society and the Association mutually agree that before the entry of an order for the consolidation of the corporations, notice of an application for the order shall be given to every county society and association. Such notice may be given by the Society or by the Association. Service of such notice upon any officer of a county society or association shall be deemed to be sufficient, and shall bind the societies and associations, provided that the length of time of the notice and manner of serving it may be determined by the order of the Court, upon the presentation of the petition for consolidation.

If the Court shall decline to order the consolidation pursuant to the terms of this agreement, or if for any other reason the joint Committee of Conference heretofore appointed shall deem it to be expedient to submit this agreement, or any question in connection therewith, for ratification or determination to their respective county societies and county associations, it shall order such submission. In that case the agreement shall not be binding upon the corporations parties hereto, until the same shall have been ratified by all such county societies and associations; and a certificate of the ratification of the agreement by any county society or association signed by the President and Secretary of the meeting shall be conclusive evidence thereof in any court or place; provided that for the purposes of this agreement no county society or association shall be deemed to be in existence which shall not have held a meeting since January first, nineteen hundred and one.

Sixth: The Society and the Association each for itself agrees that in order to facilitate the due execution of this agreement according to the terms thereof, it will prepare, or cause to be prepared and delivered to the Society, a roster containing the names and addresses of all its members in good standing at the date of the consolidation, and the Society agrees that as soon as practicable after the consolidation, meetings of the county societies shall be called on due notice to all their members, including all members of the Association in good standing at the date of the consolidation, residing in the counties in which the meetings shall be held, respectively, for the purpose of effectuating the plan of organization under the Constitution and By-Laws hereto annexed, and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting.

Seventh: It is further covenanted and agreed by the parties hereto, that as soon as practicable after the entry of an order for the consolidation of the corporations, the following proposition shall be submitted by referendum to the vote of the members of the Society, namely:

"The principles of medical ethics of the American Medical Association, being suggestive and advisory, shall be the guide of members in their relations to each other and to the public."

Eighth: The Society agrees that it will petition the Legislature for the passage of such further act or acts as may be necessary, if any, to carry this agreement into effect.

Ninth: Neither the Society nor the Association shall be deemed to have incurred any liability under this agreement if the Court shall decline to order the consolidation of the corporations as herein provided.

Tenth: It is further mutually covenanted and agreed that whenever the Chairman and Secretary of the Joint Committee of Conference shall certify that the conditions precedent to an application to the Court have been

fully complied with, the Presidents of the respective corporations shall, and are hereby authorized and required in the name and behalf of their respective corporations, to petition the Supreme Court for an order to consolidate the corporations in accordance with the terms hereof, and the certificate hereinabove provided for shall be conclusive evidence of the fact stated therein in any court or place.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Medical Society of the State of New York has caused these presents to be signed by its President, and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed, at the City of Albany, in the State of New York, on this second day of February, one thousand nine hundred and five, and The New York State Medical Association has caused these presents to be signed by its President and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed at the City of New York on the 19th day of October, one thousand nine hundred and five.

To Authorize the Consolidation of the Medical Society of the State of New York and The New York State Medical Association.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Medical Society of the State of New York, incorporated by or pursuant to chapter one hundred and thirty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and six, entitled "An act to incorporate medical societies for the purpose of regulating the practice of physic and surgery in this State," and continued by chapter ninetyfour of the revised laws of eighteen hundred and thirteen, passed April tenth, eighteen hundred and thirteen, entitled "An act to incorporate medical societies for the purpose of regulating the practice of physic and surgery in this State," and The New York State Medical Association, incorporated under chapter four hundred and fifty-two of the laws of nineteen hundred, may enter into an agreement for the consolidation of such corporations, setting forth the terms and conditions of the consolidation and the mode of carrying the same into effect.

Each corporation, party to the agreement, may petition the Supreme Court for an order consolidating the corporations, setting forth in such petition the agreement for consolidation, and a statement of all its property and liabilities, and the amount and sources of its annual income. Before the presentation of the petition to the court, the agreement must be approved by a majority of the vote lawfully cast at an annual meeting of each corporation, separately, or at a meeting of each corporation separately and specially called pursuant to its by-laws for that purpose, and a certificate of such approval, verified by the president and secretary of the meeting shall be annexed to the petition.

On presentation of the petition, the certificate of approval and the consolidation agreement, and on such notice to interested parties as the court may prescribe, and after hearing such interested parties as desire to be heard, the court may make an order for the consolidation of the corporations on such terms and conditions as it may prescribe.

When the order is made and duly entered, the corporations, parties to the agreement, shall be one corporation under the name "Medical Society of the State of New York," which shall not be deemed to be a new corporation, but to be a continuation of the Medical Society of the State of New York, incorporated in eighteen hundred and six. A certified copy of said order shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. All the property belonging to the corporations so consolidated shall vest in the said Medical Society of the State of New York, which shall have all the powers, rights and privileges possessed by either corporation at or immediately prior to the consolidation, and which shall be subject to all of the liabilities of each corporation. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately.

"EXHIBIT B." CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE I.

PURPOSES OF THE SOCIETY.

The purposes of the Society shall be to federate and bring into one compact organization the medical profession of the State of New York; to extend medical knowledge and advance medical science; to elevate the standard of medical education and to secure the enactment and enforcement of just medical laws; to promote friendly intercourse among physicians; to guard and foster the material interests of its members, and to protect them against imposition; and to enlighten and direct public opinion in regard to the great problems of State medicine.

ARTICLE II.

MEMBERSHIP.

SECTION 1. The membership of this Society shall include all members of county medical societies now in affiliation with this Society, and all members of other county medical societies to which charters shall be granted by the House of Delegates pursuant to the ByLaws of this Society, and any member ceasing to be a member of a county medical society shall cease to be a member of this Society.

SEC. 2. The term county medical society as used in this Constitution shall be deemed to include all societies which may be organized and chartered by the House of Delegates.

SEC. 3. The membership of the Society shall be divided into eight district branches, as provided in the By-Laws.

ARTICLE III.

OFFICERS.

SECTION 1. The officers of the Society shall be a President, three Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and one Councilor from each District Branch. They shall be elected annually by ballot for the term of one year, and the majority of the votes cast shall elect. The President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer shall be elected by the House of Delegates. Each Councilor shall be elected by the District Branch of the district in which he resides, and shall be the President thereof.

SEC. 2. No delegate elected to the House of Delegates shall be a candidate for office in the Society until after the expiration of the term for which he shall have been elected a delegate, and no person shall be elected to any office in the Society who shall not have been a member of the Society for the two years immediately preceding the date of his election.

ARTICLE IV.

HOUSE OF DELEGATES.

The House of Delegates shall be the legislative body of the Society, and shall be charged with the general management, superintendence and control of the Society and its affairs, and shall have such general powers as may be necessarily incident thereto. It shall have power to suspend or otherwise discipline county societies. It shall be composed of the officers of the Society and of the chairmen of standing committees, who shall

be ex-officio members thereof, and of delegates elected to the House of Delegates by county societies in affiliation with the Society. Each county society shall be entitled to elect to the House of Delegates as many delegates as there shall be state assembly districts in that county at the time of the election; except that each county society shall be entitled to elect at least one delegate; and except that whenever at the time of election, the membership of a county society shall include members from an adjoining county or counties in which there shall be no county society in affiliation with this Society, such county society shall be entitled to elect from among such members, as many additional delegates as there are assembly districts in the county or counties so represented in its membership.

The House of Delegates may provide for a division of the scientific work of the Society into appropriate sections, and for the organization of the District Branches; and it shall have such additional powers and duties not inconsistent with this Constitution, as the By-Laws may authorize or prescribe. It may adopt rules and regulations for its own government, and for the administration of the affairs of the Society, not repugnant to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society; and it may delegate to the Council such power and authority as may be necessary to the efficient administration of the affairs of the Society, while the House of Delegates shall not be in session.

ARTICLE V. COUNCIL.

The Council shall be the executive body of the Society. It shall consist of the officers of the Society and of the chairmen of standing committees. The Council shall be the Finance Committee of the Society, and shall have such additional powers and duties as the By-Laws may prescribe. It may adopt rules and regulations for its own government, and for the administration of the affairs of the Society within its control not repugnant to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society, or to the rules and regulations which may be adopted by the House of Delegates.

ARTICLE VI. MEETINGS.

SECTION 1. The annual meeting of the Society shall be held at Albany, beginning on the last Tuesday in January of each year.

SEC. 2. Intermediate stated meetings may be held at such time and place as the House of Delegates may appoint.

ARTICLE VII.

FUNDS.

Funds shall be raised by a per capita assessment on each county society, and the amount thereof shall be fixed by the House of Delegates. Funds may also be raised by voluntary contributions, by the sale of the publications of the Society, and in any other manner approved by the House of Delegates. No funds of the Society shall be appropriated for any purpose, except pursuant to a resolution of the Council.

ARTICLE VIII.

REFERENDUM.

SECTION 1. At any annual or stated meeting of the Society a majority of the members present may order a general referendum on any question in accordance with such general regulations respecting the manner of submission as the House of Delegates may prescribe. Members of the Society may vote thereon by mail or by roll-call in open meeting. The poll on the question shall be closed at the expiration of ten days after the general submission; and if the members voting shall comprise a majority of all the members of the Society, a majority of such vote shall determine the question and be binding on the House of Delegates.

SEC. 2. The House of Delegates may voluntarily, by the vote of a majority of its members present at any meeting, submit any question before it to a general