The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-06-05
Ghe01telliQRnre1.
Medical Society of the Stats of
West Virginia.
Proceedings of the Second Annual
Meeting.
CLARKsnuRG, June 2, 1869.

CLARKsBURG, June 2, 1869.
The Medical Society of the State oil
West Virginia met in the Southern
MethodistChur at 3P. NJ.
The President, DIR. II. w. Brock, OF
Morgantown, occupied the chair.
The Secretary, DR.. A. II. Thayer, Of
Grafton, was present.
The session was opened with prayer
by the Rev. Mr.. Way, of Clarksburg.
| DR.. j. w. Ramsay, OF ClaTksburG,
chairman ofthe Committee OF Arrange.
ments, welcomed the members to the
city in the following address:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Med.
Icat Society Of West Virginia:
1t becomes my pleasant duty to greet
you and give you hearty welcome to
our city. A welcome in behalf OF the
medical profession and citizens at large.
1t is little more than two years since
we were babe welcome to Fairmont. for
the purpose OF organizing this society
The gentlemen who were most active
In the effort to affect the organization,
will remember with what marked in
| difference the members of the profession
of the State treatedthe call, and how re-
luctantly they contributed in any way
toward its accomplishment. Our worthy
President will remember also, our dis
| appointment when he found how in
appropriate were the remarks we had
matured for that occasion, ,notwith-
| standing we were willing to compro-
mise on more liberal principles for the
sake OF efecting an organization. The
| regulations were not all we could de-
sire, but time and labor have effected
some wholesome reforms; and we sim
cerelv hope that in few years the prin-
ciples of this Association may be the
ruling spirit OF the profession in this
State; that all regular physicians
may acknowledge its authority,
and seek to be governed by its regula.
| lions. This Society is not only designed
to elevate the standard of the medical
| profession, but for the benefit of the
whole community. What physician
does not remember with regret many
instances where he was compelled TO do
injustice to the anlicted because ofsome
| irregularlty in the practice OF some pro-
fessionRl brother? Many very respecta-
| BILE physicians who mean we'll, who are
noble minded, honorable and upright
in all relations with the outside world,
are, through neglect of those duties,
thoughtlessiy unmindful of the rela-
tions they bear to the other members
| of their profession. In this way many
times the patient is made to suffer neg
lect of his medical attendant by some
| thoughtless violation of the code of
ethics by physician who pays no re.
gard to the influence of Society like
| this.
Let US perfect our organization. re-
| form by alterations and amendments,
! shape the rough ashlers already pre-
pared in the building of this naguih-
cent superstruoture. and guard we'll the
portals from the wary wiles of material
unfit 10 enter into the formation OF this
colossal edlfice.
Let us eschew all evil, adopt every
| thing that is good. Let us avoid all
political and sectArian differences, ours
| is profession of philanthropy sama-
ritan institution. We have met on the
bloody battle field members of the
medical profession from every part of
the enemy's country. their comrades
and ours, in active deadly hostility,
while we were engaged in our arduous
| professional duties as members of our
great brotherhood, never ceasinR our
labors to discuss political differences.
AS long as men are created with YER
satility of talent they will require the
restraints of organized society.
In Republican country like this,
where every man from the peasant to
the landlord are politicians. we shall
have trouble and Discussions when
constant appeals are made TO the peo-
pie for their suffrage and when the
whole country is convulsed every four
years by the election of Chief Magis-
trate of the nation. When the ebuli-
ton of the political cauldron is more
terrific to the thoughtful observer than
| q thousand volcanoes-then 1t is that
we can yield our influence for good.
Let us bind ourselves together in one
| indissoluble bond that when the
| necessities of the human family, re-
quire our aid, we may meet together
without fear or embarrassment, and go
straight forward fearlesslY to do our
duty. When we accomplish this we
shall indeed merit universal respect, and
die honored-yet ever live in the memo
nv of our professional posterity.
| Trusting that nothing may transpire
| to mar the social feeling of the Society,
| nor interrupt its deliberations, l again
| bid you welcome.
The roll being called by DR.. Thayer,
Secretary, the following members an
| Swereu:
A, s. Warder-PruntytOlUn
J. NJ. Lee GTESOurg.
| A, K, Kunst-pruntytOlUn
| NJ. Campbell-PIrkc1'Sb
81. w. Brock, observation-disclosures
tOWn.
]. E. Kendall IVirt Court House.
Jas. NJ. Lazzell-F'li1mOnt.
J. K. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
A. s, Todd Wheeling.
Z. A. Hildreth- Wheeling.
| G. Baird Wheeling.
II. J. Weisel- Wheeling.
B. w. Allen Wheeling.
John G. Hupp, (Treasurer) Wheeling.
J. NJ. Cooper WeLLSburg.
VIM. NJ. Dent-Ne,D6urg.
J. W. Nye-MoundSVfLte.
J. w. MISUNDERSTANDING
A. H. Thayer, (Secretary) -GrGft61e
J. n. Legge-GermGn Settlement.
E. D. Safford-PGrkeTSbuT
The following address was then de-
livered by DR.. Brock the President:
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
| Gentlemen, and FeILoaO Members of the
Medical Society Of the State Of Vest
Virginia:
The second annual meeting of our
organization finds us assembled in this,
one of the chief cities OF our young
State, to which we have just been so
kindly welcomed by the committee OF
arrangements through its chairman.
| A little more than two years since,
pursuant to a call addressed to the
Medical Profession of our State, tweD-
ty-two of the number so addressed as
| semb:ed in convention at FairmOnt to
| organize the association, which now
brings us together with Il membership
| of nearly one hundred-a membership
which might have been still more
| greatly increased but for the fact Of our
Society having, very properly, excluded
all applicants for admission except
such whose attachments and character
could conform with the standard 1t had
erected. The presence OF even SO great
a number here to-day, as we'll as
the numbers in attendance upon our
| previous meetings, considering the facL
| that our vocGti0n-above all others,
| nerhaps-alloWs its members least ire
ouentiy to absent themselves from their
| fields Of labor, bespeaks the earnest
| ness of our efforts to promote both the