Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-06-05

I'm pursuance of an act of the general assem-
A bly, at their last session, dividing the state
of Illinois into four Medical Districts, and max
ing it the duty Of the practitioners of medicine
to convene at specified places in their respec-
tive districts, and organize themselves into
Medical Societies, and for other purposes,
Doctors william Heath, +. Z. Crsbb, Erastus
Brown, Augustus Langworthy, George Cad
well, and Joseph Green, residing within the
first district, composed of the counties of Bond,
Madison, Washington, st. Clair, and Monroe,
met at the house of James Garrison, in the town
of Bellevillc, st. Clair county, on the second
Monday of May, 1919, as required by the act,
and proceeded to business, when,
On motion of DR.. F. T. Crabb DR.. w. Heath
was chosen president, and Joseph Green, sec
rotary pro tempore.
The meeting being duly formed-when, after
considerable discussion, on motion OF DIR.
Brown, and seconded by DR.. Crabb, the cues
ton was put, whether, in strict conformity with
the letter of the law, it appeared, that in the
election of the officers of said society, the
mcetingo ought to confne itself only to the ply
sicians present, or consider absent physicians
alike eligible it was unanimously the opinion,
and resolved, that it confne itself to those pre-
sent Whereupon, the meeting proceeded by
ballot to the election of its respective officers,
when it appeared that Dr. William Heath was
elected President; DR.. Joseph Green, Vice
President; DIR. F. T. Crabb, Secretary; and
DR.. Erastus Brown, Treasurer, for the ensuing
year.
On motion of DR.. Brown, and seconded by
DR.. Langworthy, the question was then put,
whether it be expedient, at this time, to elect
delegate to the Medical State Society, to be
holden at Kaskaskia, or to postpone the same
to the next adjourned meeting; when it was
decided in the negative, by majority OF one.
1t was then motioned and seconded, that
committee of FIVE, conformablyto the act afore-
said, for the purpose OF examining students,
and others who may wish to practice medicine
heieafter,Twithin this state, and who have not
been in the practice prior to the passage OF
the ACT aforesaid, be baoted for; when it ap-
pcared that Doctors Langwortly, Crabb, Green,
Brown and Caldwell, were duly elected that
committee for the ensuing year.
Afterwards motioned and seconded, that a
committee of three be nominated by the pre-
sident, for the purpose of drafting set of rules
and bylaws for the future government Of sad
society, and make report thereof to the next
mceting--when Doctors F. T. Crabb, Angus
tus Langworthy, and Joseph Green, were APP
pointed that committee.
On motion of DR.. F. T. Crabb, and seconded
BY ]. Green, it was proposed that the editors
of the Kaskaskia and Edwardsyille newspapers
be requested to give publicity to the proceed
inas of this meeting, three times in their re-
spcctive papers; and, also, at the same time,
publish the act Of assembly, in pursuance OF
which the above proceedings were had.
On motion of Dir. Caldwell. and seconded by
DR.. Langworthy, it was proposed to adjourn
until the second Monday in June next, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, at Helevlie, and una
nimously agreed to; when the meeting dis
persed. ,,,, D,.,1,u.
Attest, Joslrn CuEES, Secretary PRO tsinlp0re