Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-06-12

VN pursuance OF an act Of the general assem-
\ biy 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 F. T. Crabb, 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, III the town
of Belevlle, st. Clair county, on the second
Monday of May, 1919, required by the act,
and proceeded to business, when,
On motion of Dr. F. T. Crabb, DIR. w. Heath
was chosen president, and Joseph Green, Sec
rotary pro tempore.
The meeting being dulyformed-when, after
considerable discussion, on motion of DR..
Brown, and seconded by DR.. Crabb, the ques-
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
meeting 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 confine itself to those pre-
sent. Whereupon, the meeting proceeded by
ballot to the election OF its respective officers,
when il appeared that DR.. William Heath was
elected President; DIR. Joseph Green, Vice
President; DIR. +. 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
a 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.
It was then motoned and seconded, that the
committee of five, conformablyto the act afore-
said for the purpose of examining students,
and others who may wish to practice medicine
hereafter, swithn this state, and who have not
been in the practice prior to the passage of
the act aforesaid, be balloted for; when it APP
peared that Doctors Langworthy, Crabb, Green,
Brown and CALDWELL were duly elected that
committee for the ensuing year.
Afterwards motioncd and seconded, that q
committee of three be nominated by the pre-
sident, for the purpose of drafting set of rucs
and bylaws for the future government of said
society, and make report thereof to the next
meeting-when Doctors +. I. Crabb, Angus
ttls Langworthy, and Joseph Green, were APP
pointed that committee.
On motion of DR.. F. T. Crabb, and seconded
by J. Green, it was proposed that the editors
of the kaskaskia and Edwardsville newspapers
be requested to give publicity to the proceed
ings of this meeting, three times in their re-
spective papers; and, also, at the same time,
publish the act of assembly, in pursuance Of
which the above proceedings were had.
On motion of Dr.. 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 Belleville, and una