Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-19
connectlcut Homoeopathic Society.

Annual Meeting at the Elliott House
 An Interesting Occasion-Electiono of Of- o1icers, Delegates, Etc.
 The Connecticut Homeopathic Medical So- ciety held it's sixteenth annual meeting in this city at the Elliott House yesterday. There was good attendance and the organization was well represented by many of its leading and most influential members. Among them were Drs. Foote of Stamford, Sanford and Beebe of Bridgeport, Johnson and Hooker of Hartford, Wilson and Mansfield of Meri- den, Griffin of Danbury, Bishop of Norwich, Gregory of Waterbury, Stone of Fair Haven, Cheney, Anderson, Walker andssAdams of this city, and others
 The president, W. D. Anderson, M. D., of this city, occupied the chair. A report, pre- scented by committee on revision. of the con- stitution and bylaws, was read and adopted. The changes have been contemplated for two or three years past, and finally came into definite shape at the meeting yesterday. They simplify or reconstruct the plan of oficering the society, consolidate the offices of recording secretary and treasurer and define the duties of officers more strictly than heretofore.
 During the morning and afternoon sessions valuable papers were read on subjects of pro- fessional interest Among them was one on Electro Physics" by s. M. Griffin M D., of Danbury, illustrated by cases and instru- ments and one by E. B. Hooker, M. D., of Hartford, on Plumbing and Draining of City Houses" giving valuable hints and sugges- tions. In the discussion that ensued Dr. Foote stated an experience of his with sewer gas. He had carried ventilating pipe to his roof, but nevertheless an easterly wind filled the rooms with gas. He had two more ventilating pipes put up, but this did not remedy the matter. Finally the case grew desperate. Two of his daughters and his wife grew sick. He sent for the plumber and said to him: ssYou can't go out of the house nor eat until you have ascertained the trouble' The man was ingenious. He went to work and traced the ventilating pipes from the cellar up. He found that the holes in the roof through which they passed were too large. The pipes extended a foot or more above the roof. The gas being heavy it was blown down by the wind and passed into the house between the pipes and the holes. Then it went all over the house. Plaster of Paris was used to fill the interstices and all was thereafter in good trim.
 case of pendulus fibro cellular tumor of the perineum was introduced by Dr. Lin quist, who had been presented to the society by Dr. Cheney. The man was a patient of the former. The matter was considered with great interest, being a very rare abnormal manifestation.
 After this the society sat down to dinner.
 Papers for after-dinner discussion were "A Case of Ovariotomy," by G. P Swift, Hemiopia-a Clinical Contribution to the Physiological Anatomy of the Optic Nerve, ) by E. H. Linnell, M. D. Dr. Linnells paper was one of exceptional merit for its careful and highly intelligent and scholarly treatment and an inquiry into a debated question of much importance, and his deductions were weighty and convincing A case of gangrenous fatal attack of gangrenous cohc, an autopsy of which revealed an obstruction of the left ureta by large renal calculus and rupture of the ureta, and that death was consequent upon this combination of difficulties. In the same specimen were found biliary calculi and a calcareous deposit in the muscular tissue of the heart. Two or three other cases were narrated. Officers were elected as follows
 President-W. D. Anderson, New Haven. Vice President-W. W. B. Dunning, Hartford Secretary and Treasurer-H. M. Bishop, Norwich Librarian-G. H. Wilson, Meriden.
 Censors-H E. Stone, Fair Haven; James E. John- son, Hartford; Charles E. Sanford, Bridgeport E. H. tinneIl, Norwich J. P Swift, Waterbury. The following were chosen delegates to the American Institute of Homeopathy, which holds it's next session at Milwaukee in June : G. F. Foote of Stamford, H. M. Bishop of Norwich G. H. Wilson of Meriden.
 0. E. Sanford, of Bridgeport, was appoint ed delegate to the Massachusetts, Homoeo- pathic Medical Society, and W. D. Anderson, of this city, delegate to the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York.
 It was voted to hold the semi-annual session of the society at Hartford on the second Tues day in October.