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REPORT OF THE CHESTER COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

AT the meeting of the Chester County Medical Society, held May 1, 1877, the following resolutions were adopted :—

Resolved, That the members of this Society have heard with profound sorrow of the death of one of its oldest members, Dr. Wm. S. Malany, whose admirable personal traits, no less than his abilities as a practitioner, entitle him to a prominent position in his profession.

Resolved, That in his keen observation, combined with a genial, kind, and gentle courtesy, which were unfailing even amidst the trying conflict incident to his professional life, he furnished an example of the highest value to the profession, and made his loss deeply felt.

Resolved, That we sympathize with the family of the deceased in their bereavement, and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to them.

While called upon to minister to the needs of those around whom Death casts at times the foreshadows of disease, an admonition here and there reveals the common mortality of all, and that warning is brought forcibly home when the solemn visitant enters our midst and takes from among our own number one after another, who, by his profession as a physician, finds it a duty to battle with the dreaded foe.

By the death of Dr. William S. Malany the profession has lost one of its brightest members. His manner was captivating, and he was never known to utter an unkind word to a patient. He was ready everywhere and at all times with every cause intrusted to his management. He never marred his profession by undue prominence of self. He possessed a cheerful and amiable disposition; and the firmness with which he adhered to his opinions was only equalled by the slowness and caution with which they were formed. Throughout his whole career he exhibited a brilliant example of professional honor, conscientiousness, and straightforward dealing.

Among those most noted in these particulars he towered up clearly conspicuous. Filled with a profound sense of the duties of

a physician to his patients on the one hand, and to his medical brethren on the other, and imbued with a thorough contempt for all the arts and practices which are so strongly discountenanced by a high sense of professional propriety, his daily walk was characterized by a remarkable degree of candor, courtesy, and kind consideration for the feelings and opinions of others.

No man probably had more warm friends and fewer enemies among physicians than he. To the younger members of the profession he was especially endeared, in consequence of his exceedingly kind, encouraging, and liberal treatment of them. For those of his patients who were in indigent circumstances he performed many acts of charity and considerate kindness.

Not even the brutes escaped his sympathy. Cruelty to animals excited in him always the most intense disapprobation. Being possessed of agreeable manners, he always felt it a privilege to pay the courtesies of a gentleman first to the mother he loved above all others. She still survives him. Upon him she leaned in her old age indeed as upon a very staff.

ISAAC MASSEY.

REPORT OF THE CLARION COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

ALTHOUGH the membership of this Society is much smaller than it should be, considering the number of practising physicians in this county, yet those who are in the Society are acting harmoniously and endeavoring to assist and encourage each other in their professional labors. We hope also to be able to report a much larger membership than at present at the next annual meeting of the State Medical Society.

The general health of this county has been better during the past year, since the State Medical Society last met, than for some years previously; yet quite a number of localities in this county have been visited by epidemics of diphtheria, and, in many instances, of a malignant form, not controllable by or amenable to treatment. In several instances nearly whole families were removed by death from this disease in a few days, leaving in some families but one of the parents to mourn the loss of husband or wife, and from four to seven children. There have been also a few cases of scarlatina and whooping-cough, mostly of a mild character. Pneumonia also prevailed to some extent, of a mild form, in the case of young persons afflicted with it; whilst in the aged it in many instances was very violent, and proved fatal to those afflicted.

J. N. BECK.

REPORT OF THE DELAWARE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

DURING the year covered by this report our Society has held twelve (monthly) meetings, and out of a membership of 22 has averaged 12 to 15 in attendance. There are about 35 regular physicians practising within the bounds of this county, all of whom should be enrolled as members of the Society; every effort of invitation and conciliation has been employed to bring in these outside gentlemen, who might add greatly to the interest of our meetings, and who would certainly receive for themselves much profit from the proceedings.

There have been delivered within the year eleven lectures as follows:

On "Fixed Dressings in the Treatment of Fractures," by Dr. Richard J. Levis, of Philadelphia.

On "Some of the Distinctions between the Old and the New Chemistry," by Dr. Linneus Fussell.

On "Stricture of Esophagus," by Dr. Frank Rowland.

On "Our Duties as Physicians," by Dr. J. M. Allen.

On "The Radical Cure of Hernia," by Dr. G. Dowell, of Texas. On "Dengue," by Dr. W. B. Ulrich.

On "Tumors," illustrated by pathological specimens, by Dr. T. L. Christ.

On "Hygienic Warming and Ventilating," by Dr. Isaac N. Kerlin. "Four Years' Professional Residence in South America," by Dr. I. T. Coates.

"The Laws of Heredity applied to Man," by Dr. E. Harvey. On "Social and Domestic Hygiene," by Dr. E. Fussell. By a resolution of the Society the lecturer is appointed two months before, and he must announce his subject one month preceding the delivery of the lecture. The discussions following the lectures have consequently been animated, pointed, and useful.

The following resolutions on medical education, of interest to the general profession, have been passed.

At the June meeting, 1876:

Resolved, That any person applying to any member of the Society

to be entered as a student of medicine, shall be required to present to the Secretary a certificate or diploma, showing that he is a graduate of some college or university, which has a legal right to confer the degree of B.A. or M.A., or a similar attestation that he has graduated with honor from one of the high or normal schools of this or other States, or from a private seminary or academy of equal or higher educational standing with the latter institutions.

Resolved, That in the absence of the aforementioned certificates of learning, a candidate for the study of medicine within the jurisdiction of this Society shall submit to an examination by the censors of this Society, aided by a competent educator of their own choosing, the fee of the latter not to exceed the sum

dollars, which

fee shall be paid by the candidate at the time of such examination, and only on said applicant having passed satisfactorily an examination, not lower in grade than that demanded of a high school graduate, shall he be eligible for admission as an office student of medicine. Resolved, That all students of medicine in the offices of members of this Society shall be registered on the books of the Society, on the above credentials having been examined and approved by the President or Secretary.

At the May meeting, 1877:

Resolved, That the Society recommends its members not to accept office students addicted to the habitual use of intoxicating drinks or tobacco, or who use profane language.

Dr. Elwood Harvey reports the case of expulsion of a tapeworm following 30 grains of koussa taken in the morning before breakfast, followed by a purgative after dinner.

Dr. E. Fussell employs for obstinate ozæna a snuff made of one part of crystals of nitrate of silver to ten (10) parts of white sugar. Dr. Jefferis reported a very interesting and novel case of cystocele, and asked for suggestions of treatment.

Dr. Theo. Christ reported having had a somewhat similar case six years before, in which he had made use of a globe pessary with complete relief to his patient.

Dr. Elwood Harvey considers the fluid extract of cimicifuga to be almost a specific in cases of neuralgic rheumatism, given to the extent of producing slight headache, say from 10 to 40 drops as a dose.

Dr. S. P. Bartelson, of Clifton, contributes the following important facts in connection with the origin and spread of an epidemic of typhoid fever, the points of interest being the infection of a family by importation of the fever, and the poisoning of many others by infected milk.

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