Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-27
The Connecticut Medical Society.

The Ninetieth Annual COnventiOn-The
Proceedings.
At the ninetieth annual meeting of the
Connecticut State Medical society, held in
Hartford Wednesday and yesterday, the
chair was occupied by the vice president, DIR.
W. Deming, of Litchfeld, in place of the
president, DIR. Plat. who is in Europe. DIR.
Deming also made the annual address. 1t
was listened to with deep interest and was an
eloquent effort. Next substitutes for absent
| fellows were announced, but the practice
| was objected to, and on motion of DR.. Cham
| berlain, the secretary, the list of fellows as
| first reported was accepted as the official
one. The report of the committee on unhn-
ished business was presented andsaccepted,
after which the following committees for the
| ensuing year were announced:
| County Resolves-L. ]. Sanford, New Haven; E. P
swasey. New Britain; A. Woodward, Franklin
| Business. W cham erlain, Hartford; N. E. Wor-
den. Bri geport; c. j. Fox, " ilimantic
| Honorary "embers and Honorary Degrees-F n.
/ Braman, New London; c. H. Hubbard Essex; NJ B.
| Auditing Comnittee-R. S. Goodwin, Thomaston !;
| To Nominate Fssayists-H s Fuller. Hartford W.
| G. Allen, Woodstock; Orlando Brown, Litchheld.
| The Hartford Times report says DR.. Cur
/ don W. Russell the chairman of a committee
appointed last year to present report to
| this meeting on Medical Experts" read a
| paper as full of calm sense and clear thought
/ as it was broad in sentiment and elegant in
| expression It stated in substance that the
| committee had given the subject close atten-
| ton, but regret that they cannot present any
| thing very practical in substitution for the
present system.
Dr. Baker, of Middletown, read the report
| of the committee on the sale of poisons. 1t
| recommends the enlargement of the list OF
| poisons now comprised in an act of the last
Legislature, where it is provided that the par
| eel be plainly marked poison" and that a
| registration of the sale shall be kept, but
| which comprises only three articles He
propos to include an additional number
| and also provides for further number of
drugs to be marked dangerous"
Professor Moses White, of New Haven, pre-
| scented the report of the committee on vital
| statistics, which contained some suggestions
in regard to the collection and preservation
of this valuable material A discussion fol
| lowed on this point but it was shown that
the law was explicit and sufficient, but not
| altogether well observed. DIR. Hubbard moved
that some law be enacted to prevent inspec-
| ton of vital records by unauthorized per
sons 1t was discussed at length. An
amendment to Dr. Hubbard's motion, but in
| similar sense, was finally adopted.
/ Delegates from other States societies were
called upon. DR.. Dixon, delegated from the
| Maine medical society, and DR.. T. W. Perry,
delegate from the Rhode Island medical soci-
received. Next DIR. A. NJ. Shew read the re-
port of the committee on 'Lunacy Commits
sions," one of the most important of the day.
His paper was of considerable length, and,
| with historical remarks, rather proved a de-
fence of the present system. He was sue
ceeded by DIR. Cleveland, who made minor
ity report sharply dissenting from DR.. Shew's
report, and ventilating ideas of his own an
tagonistic to those previously stated. 1t was
in sympathy with the recent movements in
New York city headed by Drs. Hammond
and Seguin, which disapprove the hitherto
| management of lunat1c asylums in this coun'
try and propose the care of lunat1cs on an
| entirely different plan. It was resolved to
Law both reports on the table until after the
transaction of some pressing regular bust.
ness
The election of officers for the ensuing year
resulted as follows:
| President-wm Deming, of Lftchneld.
| Vice President-William G. Brownson, of New Ca
| secretary-C. W. Chamberlain. of Hartford.
| Treasurer. D. Fdgerton, of Middletown:
| Committee on matters of professional interest il
the state-w. A. M. wainwright, L. s. Wilcox and j.
| F. Lewis.
In the evening DIR. Mann, the gynecolo-
gist received the society at his residence.
corner Elm and Trinity streets. At the hour
named the drawing rooms were crowded with
medical men from all parts of the State. II
was highly enjoyable affair, and there was
fine supper by Habenstein.
| At the meeting y sterday morning DR..
Chamberlain made report showing grow
ing and otherwise satisfactory condition OF
| the society.
| The following are the deaths which oc-
| Cured during the last year:
| Dr. B. s. Roath of Norwich, DR.. A. W. Goats oil
| Mystic river, Dr. Edward Buckley, jr., of New Ha
of P South %oPWaik. DE- D. Haight Of stafford DE-
| B. NJ. Whitcomb of Brooklyn.
! Next in order Dr. Wilcox, of Hartford,
| read the report of the committee on matters
of professional interest, which was ordered
| printed in the transactions of the society.
| Then followed DR.. E. G. Seguin, of New
| York, one of the most distinguished neuro-
| logists In the country. His paper was on
s"The Early Recognition of Epilepsy and
| was attentively listened to.
| Dr. S. B. ST. John, of Hartford, read an
| interesting paper on ''Sympathetlc Ophthal-
| mia" ia an interesting manner, and was fol-
| lowed by Dr. Henry Fleischner, of New
Haven, with an essay on ''Non-Pharmaco
| logical Therapeutics, which ventilated some
| novel ideas on the employment of certain
drugs in disease.
| DR.. G. B. Newton, of Stafford Springs, and
DR.. ]. Fl. Grannis, of Saybrook, read papers
on the subjects announced in the programme:
| Next followed DIR. M. D. Mann, of Hartford,
| the gynecologist. His paper was on the
| Treatment of Lacerations of the Neck of
| the Womb" and contained a record of thir-
| ty-four cases which he had treated in the
| past two years. Seventeen of those had
been operated upon, most of them with the
| most striking success in the relief of the
| symptoms.
| At 1:30 p. m. the meeting adjourned to the
| United States Hotel for dinner.
Killed Near Ansonia.
I A Waterbury dispatch last night says
Daniel S. Sloss, aged so, was run over and
killed by train on the Naugatuck railroad
near Ansonia this evening. He was lying on
the track and in such position as to give
rise to theory of suicide.
Police Notes.
Detective Brewer went to New Milford yes
terday to bring to this city Harvey Blake,
| who was under arrest there for stealing a
| horse md carriara from p O,Kaefe of fhis