301 Report on the Diseases of the State of Pennsylvania for the Years 1867–68 and 1868-69. By D. FRANCIS CONDIE, M. D. Report on Topography, Climatology, and Epidemic Diseases of the State of Report of the Section on the Practice of Medicine and Obstetrics Intra-Uterine Injections and their Therapeutical Value. By J. BYRNE, M. D. The Physiological Laws of Human Increase. By NATHAN ALLEN, M. D. Report on the Propriety of Establishing a Cinchona Plantation in the United 365 369 381 409 423 Report on American Necrology. By CHRISTOPHER C. Cox., M. D., LL. D., 427 499 MINUTES OF THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Held in the City of Washington, May 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 1870. THE Association convened at Lincoln Hall on Tuesday, May 3, at 11 A. M., and was called to order by the President, GEORGE MENDENHALL, M. D., of Ohio, assisted by Vice-Presidents LEWIS A. SAYRE, M. D., of New York, FRANCIS GURNEY SMITH, M. D., of Pennsylvania, and JOHN S. MOORE, M. D., of Missouri. The Permanent Secretary, Wм. B. ATKINSON, M. D., of Pennsylvania, and the Assistant Secretary, WM. LEE, M. D., of the District of Columbia, were present. The ex-Presidents were invited to seats upon the platform. The proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev. C. B. BOYNTON, D. D., of Washington, D. C. The Committee of Arrangements, through their Chairman, THOS. ANTISELL, M. D., of the District of Columbia, welcomed the delegates in the following remarks: Mr. President and Members of the American Medical Association: "In the discharge of the duty devolved upon me as Chairman of your Committee of Arrangements, it affords me sincere pleasure, on this the 21st anniversary of the Association, on behalf of your Committee as well as of the profession of this District, to extend the usual welcome on your arrival here; a welcome the more pleasant, as it follows your recent visit to the south; as it was here we witnessed the presidency tendered to a member from the south, VOL. XXI.-2 so here we witness the response to that in the cordial and ample attendance from that section of our country. "You have met here in pursuance of your resolution to make it your partial home, and by such step you propose to make your sittings here more truly professional and business-like in character; here you are met for cultivating medical knowledge and for promoting the usefulness, the honor, and the interests of the medical profession-to aid in its elevation, purification, and progress. The mission of the Association is in the bond of brotherhood, to encourage scientific emulation, and point out new paths which may lead to the advancement of the medical standards in theory and practice; in fine, to search out and adopt TRUTHTruth, the search for which is the most untiring of all the instincts of man. Viewed in this light, it is no doubt good for the Society that some of its sessions should be free from the constant struggle between sense of duty of performance and the friendly importunity of hospitality. It is understood that you have met here for work, and your Committee have felt that they are not only not authorized, but that they have been strictly forbidden to take any action in a social direction. "It is from meetings such as this, meetings of representatives from all parts of our widely populated country, representing the extremest views of medical life and practice, the interests of the colleges, the hospitals, the polished cautious physician of the city, and the daring self-reliant doctor of the country, the general practitioner of private circles, the specialist of a great metropolis, the representatives of medicine in either branch of the public service, the time-honored Nestors of the profession, and the ambitious and pushing neophytes ready to jostle them in the struggle for existence; it is from such a conglomeration of sentiment that we hope to obtain as a happy result of our intercommunion, the unity of the profession. To attain that desirable result, your brethren at home have deputed you here and expect from you the active exercise of all the talents which you possess, to preserve and strengthen that unity of thought and action which is growing up among us. This congress presents one feature which no medical association in any part of the globe possesses to any extent similar, namely, the immense area of territory here represented. No other society possesses the true basis, the data of climatology in its widest sense like this; a territory extending from bleak and ice bound oceans and eternal winter, to the balmy subtropical winds and waters of regions of perennial spring, and in width extending along a parallel of one-eighth the circumference of our globe. Surely a society representing so much territory has much in its power to communicate upon the external causes of disease, and here ought to be studied, with more beneficial results to the physical geography, topography, and meteorology, of zymotic and malarious disease. "In thus welcoming you who have met for deliberation in our national metropolis, we trust that American medicine will in these reunions set her distinctive marks of freedom from the prejudices of the past, the idda tritres that out of such reunions may grow increased good fellowship, increased ésprit du corps, increased respect from the public toward our calling, higher modes of thought, purer springs of action, increased individual respect for our brethren, increased peace within our profession, increased strength without." He also presented the following programme for the entertain. ment of the Association: PROGRAMME FOR EVENINGS OF MAY 3, 4, AND 5. Tuesday-Reception by the President of the United States at 8 P. M. Wednesday-Reception by the Surgeon-General, at the Army Medical Museum, from 7 to 10 P. M.; surgical lecture in the lower hall at 8 P. M.; microscopical lecture in the lower hall at 8.45 P. M. Thursday-Exhibition of the illumination of the Capital dome at 8 P. M.; reception by the Mayor of Washington, Hon. S. J. Bowen, at 9 P. M. The Committee of Arrangements reported the following as duly accredited delegates,* comprising a total of 463 ALABAMA. Medical Association of the State of Alabama, EGBERT BEALL JOHNSTON, SAMUEL D. SEELYE. The list comprises all the names on the register. B. H. CATLIN, A. WOODWARD. AUGUSTUS H. ABERNETHY, CHAS. H. HUBBARD. C. M. CARLETON. T. MORTON HILLS. DELAWARE. Medical Society of the State of Delaware, HENRY F. ASKEW, L. P. BUSH, ISAAC JUMP. |