The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-11-15

The Medical Society of Hartford county met in
Rel Air, on Tuesday last. The attendance was
not large, but the proceedings were unusually
interesting. At former meeting the society
made it the duty of DR.. W. Stump Forwood to
deliver before it., on Tuesday last, lecture on
| diptheria, which he did, and in which he gave
history of the disease, from its disappearance in
Rome, A. D., $50. To our mind the lecture was
able and lucid as well as interesting and instruct
i've, and in this opinion We are sustained by a
medical gentleman of deservedly high reputation.
! From Il short interchange of sentiment in re-
gard to the disease, among the members, winch
took place afterwards, and in which Drs. S. b.
Silver Lee, Hays, Finney, Hopkins and others
took part, we did not understand them as dis
sentng from the views presented by DR.. For
wood, although some of them we understood to
be new. We shall nuke no attempt TO report
any part of the Doctors remarks, because we
could not do so without doing him geal injus-
tice. He read his lecture in a clear, distinct
voice, and consumed about one bour in doing so.
After which the members acknowledged their in
debtedness by the unanimous passage of resolu-
ton thanking the Doctor for the very able man
ner in which he had performed the duty. DR..
Lee chairman of the committee appointed at
previous meeting to report upon law passed by
the last Legislature, made report, VIII oh was ac-
cupted, on motion of DR.. Silver. The report
condemns the law, and sets forth that it was UNI
constitutional in this, that it interfered with
contracts heretofore existing; that it is in viola
tion of the chartered rights of the Medical College
of this State, and that it is calculated to foster
jealousy, political as we'll US personal, besides
subjecting the profession to license and
taxes which are unjust.
The committee to enquire into the just
ness OF the county's paying the expenses of medi-
cal attention to out-pensioners, was continued,
with direction to report at the next meeting
This subject it seems to US, swor:by ofinvesliga-
CATION. The county annually appropriates
means for the support of what are termed out
pensioners, and this system of supporting this
class of people has been found TO be not only hui
name but economical. But why the county
should not pay for the medical attendance of
these people, as well as for their food and raiment,
we are at loss to discover Charity as much
requires them to be furnished with medical at
tendance when they are sick, as it does that they
should be furnished with food when they are
well, and it they are unable to furnish themselves
with proper food and clothing, without the aid Of
the county, tits to be presumed that they are al
so unable to furnish themselves with medicine
when they are sick. 1t occurs to US that this
society may be made one Of great utility. We
have been present at two or three meetings, and
have been impressed with the Iact that such
society is not only beneficial to the community
and advantageous to its MEMBERS but that for
the prop cation of scientific and practical knowl-
edge among its members, it is almost necessity.
There is no business or profession which men
are engaged, that an interchange of opinions with
others following the same pursuit is not benef-
cial, and none certainly where it is more profit
able than in the profession of medicine and to
the extent to which the members of the medical
profession advance in knowledge, scientific and
practical, the community in which they practice
are the gamers. Convinced, as we are, that this
association is useful to the community, as well as
to the profession, we are anxious for its pros
perity.