Committee, shall have the privilege of withdrawing them from the report of the Committee to the Association. On motion of Dr. PALMER, of Michigan, the resolution was indefinitely postponed. The Secretary read the following protest against admitting the delegates from Oglethorpe Medical College: NASHVILLE, May 6, 1857. The undersigned, members of the American Medical Association, protest against the admission of delegates from the Oglethorpe Medical College of Savannah, on the ground that it is not a regularly organized college, it being a matter of public notoriety in Savannah, that during neither of the two sessions of its existence have all the chairs been regularly filled. During its first session the chairs of Physiology and Materia Medica were not filled, except by a very few lectures, by the gentlemen appointed to them, and the same thing occurred during its last session as to the chairs of Materia Medica and Chemistry. All of which is respectfully submitted. RICHARD D. ARNOLD, M. D. GEO. P. PADELFORD, M. D. After several resolutions were offered and some discussion, On motion of Dr. PALMER, the whole subject was referred to a committee of three to be appointed by the Chair. Dr. BRODIE, of Michigan, moved as an amendment, that no Faculty Member of a Medical College be appointed upon the committee, which was accepted by the mover. The Chair appointed as such committee, Drs. WISTER, of Penn., BEMISS, of Ky., and.GIBBS, of South Carolina. Dr. FELIX ROBERTSON, the oldest physician in Tennessee, being present, was invited to a seat on the stand. He was greeted with marked consideration by the Association. The Committee on Nominations was convened to transact important business. The calling of Special Committees was resumed : Spontaneous Umbilical Hemorrhage, etc.-Dr. J. FOSTER JENKINS, New York. Further time asked. Referred. Use of Instruments in Obstetrical Practice.-Dr. HENRY CARPENTER, of Pennsylvania. No report. Measures to be adopted to remedy the Evils existing in the present mode of holding Coroner's Inquests.-Dr. ALEXANDER J. SEMMES, D. C. Report presented, with the following resolution attached: Resolved, That committees of three, in each State, Territory, and the District of Columbia, be appointed, and that said committee be, and they are hereby authorized in the name of this Association, to memorialize their respective Legislatures, to pass such laws as will best carry into effect the objects of the foregoing report. The report was referred to the Committee of Publication, and the accompanying resolution referred to the Committee on Nomi nations. True Position and Value of Operative Surgery, etc.-Dr. J. B. FLINT, of Kentucky. Further time asked; granted. Causes and Cure of Indigestion, etc.-Dr. G. VOLNEY DORSEY, of Ohio. No report. Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity, etc.-Dr. C. B. COVENTRY, of New York. Further time granted. Human, Animal, and Vegetable Parasites.-Dr. JOSEPH LEIDY, Pennsylvania. No report. Value of strict attention to position in the Treatment of Diseases of the Abdomen.-Dr. M. D. DARNALL, Indiana. No report. Milk Sickness.-Dr. GEORGE SUTTON, Indiana. No report. Blending and Conversion of the Types of Fever.-Dr. CLARK G. PEASE, Wisconsin. Communication sent, but not received. Postponed. Best Substitutes of Cinchona, etc.-Dr. B. S. WOODWORTH, Indiana. No report. Use of Cinchona in Malarious Diseases.-Dr. FRANKLIN HINKLE, Pennsylvania. Report furnished. Referred to Committee of Publication. Nervous System in Febrile Disease.-Dr. HENRY F. CAMPBELL, Georgia. Verbal abstract of report given. Referred to Committee of Publication. Laws governing the Absorption and Deposit of Bone.-Dr. JNO. NEILL, Pennsylvania. No report. Intimate Effects of Certain Toxicological Agents in the Animal Tissues and Fluids.-Dr. JOHN W. GREEN, New York. No report. Intimate Structure and Pathology of the Kidney.-Dr. CHARLES E. ISAACS, New York. Further time granted. Diseases Incidental to Emigrants, etc.-Dr. ISRAEL MOSES, New York. No report. Etiology and Pathology of Epidemic Cholera.-Dr. T. W. GORDON, Ohio. Partial report presented and Committee continued. Excretions as an Index to the Changes going on in the System.-Dr. H. A. JOHNSON, Illinois. No report. Remedial Effects of Chloroform.-Dr. D. D. THOMPSON, Kentucky. No report. Best Method of causing an Increase in the Number of Essays, etc.— Committee: Drs. LEIDY, WOOD, and MEIGS, Pennsylvania. No report. Committee continued. Changes produced in Composition and Properties of Milk, etc.-Dr. N. S. DAVIS, Illinois. Communication read and further time granted. Stomatitis Materna.-Dr. McGUGIN, Iowa. Further time granted. An abstract of the report of Dr. FENNER, of Louisiana, upon the Medical Topography of that State, was then read and referred. Dr. SINGLETON, of Kentucky, offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted : Resolved, That in the death of Dr. GRAFTON, of Mississippi, the American Medical Association has lost a talented and useful member, and society a benefactor. On motion of Dr. WHITAKER, of Tennessee, Dr. H. RONALDS was expelled from the Association for giving certificate contrary to the rules of the Association. Dr. CASPAR WISTER, Chairman of the Committee upon the Admission of the Delegates from Oglethorpe Medical College, reported as follows: Dr. W. BENSON asserts that for the past session the Oglethorpe school has been fully organized, that six professorships have been regularly filled, and that the occupants of these chairs have been in the constant fulfilment of their duties, except in cases of illness; such instances having, however, at no time interrupted the regular course of lectures, the professor absent having had his place supplied by his colleagues. The seventh chair is admitted to have been vacant; the duties were discharged, however, fully by other members of the faculty. Dr. R. D. ARNOLD prefers no charges beyond those admitted above. Therefore, your Committee finding nothing that infringes upon the strict letter of the law of the American Medical Association, in VOL. X.-3 reference to the admission of members, recommends that all further action in this question be suspended. CASPAR WISTER, R. W. GIBBES, A. M. BEMISS. The Secretary read the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : WHEREAS, It has pleased God to remove by death our fellowmember, ROBERT M. PORTER, and because of his devotion to the interests of the Profession of Medicine, and his steady support of the American Medical Association, Resolved, That this Association learned with unfeigned sorrow of his decease; and that they have lost a firm and intelligent supporter, and society a benefactor and friend. Dr. T. BULLARD, of Indiana, offered the following: Resolved, That in the death of Dr. JOHN L. MOTHERHEAD, this Association has lost a useful member, and society a benefactor. The Secretary read a communication from the Connecticut Medical Society, asking that the time for holding the meetings of the Association in northern cities be changed to a later period in the year. Referred over to the next meeting by the Constitution. Adjourned to meet at 9 o'clock A. M., to-morrow. May 7, 1857. The Association met pursuant to adjournment. The minutes of yesterday were read and adopted. Dr. HOYTE, from the Committee of Arrangements, read the names of additional delegates to the Association, who had arrived since the meeting of the Association yesterday. The Secretary read a communication from Dr. CLARK G. PEASE, of Wisconsin, which accompanied his report on "Blending and Conversion of the Types of Fever." Dr. HOOKER, of Connecticut, moved that the report be referred to the Committee on Voluntary Contributions. Dr. MCKINLEY moved to amend by having a portion of the report read, which was lost, and the motion recurring to refer the report, it was carried. Dr. CURREY, from the Committee on Voluntary Contributions, submitted the following report, which was accepted :— The Committee on Voluntary Contributions has examined the following papers, and recommended them for publication in the Transactions of the Association: 1st. A New Principle of Diagnosis in Dislocations of the Shoulder-Joint. By L. A. DUGAS, M. D., Professor of Surgery in the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta; accompanied by four photographic plates illustrating the principle. 2d. Medical Statistics of Washington Territory. By GEORGE SUCKLEY, M. D., U. S. A., embracing 1st, Geological Divisions of the Territory; its Geology, Meteorology, Fauna. 2d, White Population and its Diseases. 3d, Native Population; Diseases; Medical Practice; Causes of their rapid Disappearance; Concluding Re marks. 3d. Medical Flora of Washington and Oregon Territories. By J. G. COOPER, M. D. All of which is respectfully submitted. R. O. CURREY, R. T. EVANS, GEO. R. GRANT. Dr. YANDELL offered the following resolution : Resolved, That this Association reaffirm the principles respecting the rights of constituent bodies announced in a report contained in Volume V. of its Transactions, in the following terms: "The Faculty of every Medical College shall have the privilege of sending two delegates to this Association, provided, that the said Faculty contain not less than six Professors, who give one course of instruction annually, of not less than six weeks, on Anatomy, Materia Medica, Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Surgery, Midwifery, and Chemistry; and also that said Faculty requires that its candidates for graduation, among other requisites, shall have attended two full courses of lectures with an interval of not less than six months between them, one of which courses must have been in their Institution." Dr. BRECKINRIDGE in the Chair. Dr. BUCHANAN proceeded to discuss the resolution, and at the close of his remarks, moved to lay it on the table, which was subsequently withdrawn. Dr. BORING offered the following resolution in lieu, which he proceeded to discuss: Resolved, That this Association has not the power to control the subject of Medical Education. |