The Portland daily press., 1876-06-28
Maine Medical Assaciafian.

Maine Medical Association.
The twenty-fourth annual meeting of this
association was opened at the Common Coup-
Gil room yesterday morning at 1915 o'clock, the
President, DR.. J. NJ Bates of Yarmouth, in the
chair
Prayer was offered by Rev. DR.. Hill of Port
land.
On motion of DR.. Sanger of Bangor, DR..
Charles o. Files of Portland, was appointed
reporter for the daily press.
On motion it was voted that the reading of
the records be dispensed with
On motion, business committee of three
consisting of Drs. Merrill and French of Port
land and DR.. Sanger of Bangor, were appointed.
On motion, nominating committee, con-
sisting of Drs. Albee of Union, Pendleton of
Belfast, Western of Bangor, Wedgewood of
Lewiston and Gerrish of Portland, were ap-
pointed.
On motion it was voted that the reading of
the presidents address be appointed for 3
o'clock this afternoon.
The Treasurer, DR.. T. A. Foster of Portland,
read his twelfth annual report as follows:
In treasury at last report. .....,.......S60 1902 49
soeiety..',.'.;.'. ,'.''.'''.....'''.'..' s56 oo
Interest on bank deposit NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 20 16
Total receipts. ,O5S Is
Paid for various expenses ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. sos 80
-
Balance on hand. ..$l62 50
Drs. Sanger, of Bangor, and Gordon OF
Portland, were appointed committee to audit
the treasurer's account, whose report was ac-
cepted and referred to the auditing committee.
DR.. Brown of Beverly, Mass, delegate from
duced to the association, and invited to partici.
pate in the discussions.
DR.. Bellows, of the Rhode Island association,
was introduced and made few remarks, l ear
ing the greeting of that body to this associa-
ton.
DR.. Graves of the New Hampshire associa.
ton, was likewise introduced, and invited to
participate in the deliberations.
DR.. Hunt, the secretary, presented several
papers which were referred to the board of GEN.
sors. One of the papers was from the board of
engineers of Massachusetts, requesting the
cooperation OF this body in introducing the
decimal system of weights and measures into
general use.
The board of censors proposed the following
names for membership, and they were uuani-
mousy elected:
w. G. Frost, M. D.. Of Portland
o. e. Ross, M. D., Rockport
VIM. I'll. Simmons, M. D., Bangor.
A. L. Stanwood, NJ. d., of Canton.
DR.. Wedgewood of Lewiston read the report
of the committee on the Maine Medical School.
The report was accepted and referred to the
committee on publication.
DR.. T. A. Foster of Portland read most adj
mirabe paper on exercise as a therapeutic
agent.
On motion of DR.. Albee, DR.. Fosters paper
noon. and convention adjourned till $50
o'clock,
AFTERNOON.
Meeting opened promptly at q o'clock.
DR.. Nichols, a delegate from the Massachu-
sets Medical Association was introduced.
The President delivered the annual address.
He urged the profession to keep up their inter-
est in the Maine General Hospital and to assist
In raising the standard of medicine. His ad-
dress was referred to committee consisting of
Drs. Gordon, Pendleton and Gerrish.
discussion on DR.. Fosters paper deferred till
this evening, or at some period of the session
when there would be time to have it thorough
ly discussed.
DR.. Spaulding read paper on "Jaborandi,"
giving his experience with the drug. The pa
per, which was very well written, was listened
to with close attention.
Dr Samoan III ba bad fnund tho nronart,os
of this drug somewhat different from those
stated.
On motion, voted to refer this paper to the
Committee on Publication.
DR.. Haskell of Stockton, read paper on
"Hygiene of our Homes" Referred to the
Committee on Publication.
DR.. Swasey of Limerick, made some remarks
on the same subject, taking occasion to express
his disapproval of the potato as an article of
diet. He stated that one season, when the
farmers were in the habit of cutting off the
eyes of the potato for seed, he believed he
traced an epidemic of malignant fever to the
use of those potatoes after they had begun to
decay at the points whence the eyes had been
removed.
DR.. Jewett of South Berwick, read short
paper on the use of belladonna in inflammation
of the brain; also one on the connection be-
tween disease of the heart and uterus. Both
papers were of great importance and were lis
tened to with close attention.
The report of the committee on Presidents
address was received and accepted, and the
resolution adopted. The report is as follows:
The committee, to which was referred the
/ That the committee having in charge the
continued.
2 That while we would urge individual men,
bers to assist the hospital in every way in their
power, we deem it inexpedient for the associa-
ton to continue to support a free bed, with
funds taken from the treasury of the assoca-
ton.
That in the matter of preliminar edu-
cation of students a strict construction and
more rigid enforcement of the rule adopted by
the faculty of the Medical School of Maine
and announced at the last session of this asso-
citation, be adhered to, and that to encourage
the faculty in this course the following resolu-
ton he adopted:
Resolued, That any physician or school of
instruction in receiving as student person
who is deficient in the elements of an English
education, is guilty of an act of injustice to the
student, of degradation to the profession and
of inbumanity TO the community.
S. G. GORDON.
L. w. PENDLEToN.
+. FL. GERRIsH.
Voted to adjourn till p o'clock.
EVENING SESSION.