Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-11
M. D.
THE DOCTORS IN COUNCIL.

sylvania.
The thirty-secOpd annual session of the
Medical Society Of the State of PennsyL
vania commenced in the opera house this
fOrnoon.
At 9 O'Clock the doors leading to the
vestibule were opened to give delegates
and permanent members of the society an
opportunity of registering. The register
was in charge of Drs. Roland and Cox Of
this city. Up to moor about 12J names
were registered. The list is SO incom-
plete, and will be SO largely increased by
arrivals this afternoon and evening, that
its publicatian is deferred until to. NOR
row.
The room to tho right of the main en-
trance OF the opera house, occupied by Mr..
StuckenhOlz as piano room, has been
placed at the disposal of parties interested
IN the manufacture of remedial agents
and surgical instruments, of which
quite an imposing exhibit is made. The
Macintosh Galvanic Belt and Aattery COM
pany exhibit number of batteries, to-
gether with Dr.. MacIntosh's Uterine Sup
porter. A. L. Hernshein, of New York,
exhibits case of surgical Instruments OF
all kinds very elabOrately finished. Charles
II. Phillips, of New York, exhibits phOs-
phO-nuterine, milk Of magnesia, a peculiar
preparation of cOd-liver oil, and perhaps
some other remedies for cOnsumptives sug-
gested by the experiments of Nj. F. Ander-
son, Of England. DR.. VIM. Il. Warner
& Co., chemists, Philadelphia, have
widely distributed throughout the hall
circulars regarding a remedy they have
named "Ingluvin," aud which they tell
us is prepared from the Vcntriculus Callo-
sus Gallinaceus, or Sizzard of the domestic
fowl, and is said to be remedy for Gys-
pepsia, indigestion and kindred diseases.
Bonds Improved Sphygmograph is
also shown. 1t is intended to save doctors
the trouble of feeling the pulse of patients
and to show the exact condition Of the ar
teries and heart, detects and locates aneu-
risms, &C., &c. Its merits are certified to
by many eminent practitioners.
To-day's Sessions.
Punctually at II o'clock the President
DIR. }. L. Carpenter, of Schuylkill, called
the convention to order.
Rev. j. y. Mitchell, DID,. Offered Il prayer,
invoking the blessings of heaven on the
labOrs Of the convention.
DIR. Henry Carpenter. Of this city, de-
livered the fOllowin. address of welcome,
which was received with cheers
Observation-Disclosures to the Meeting Of the
1t is my very pleasing duty-on behalf
of the Lancaster county medical society
to tender to you 4 cordial, hearty welcome
to this, our ancient city the birthplace
of your association thirty-thrce years ago.
This association was organized in this city
and, alas how sad to contemplate, how
cpW nf tho cborichoI oil r,,o, Of
that day are present here now. We miss
the cordial, friendly grasp, and genial,
pleasant faces Of Humes, Muhlenbcrg,
BurrOwes, Hays, Emerson, WorthinstoD,
Coates, Norris, Parrish, Hester, Jackson,
Mutter, Dufield, Carpenter (of Pottsville),
kerfoot. Carson, Richards, Mayberry,
Raub, Huston, Condic and scores of others
who "have passed the bourne" who VIC
were formerly SO delighted to meet, and
upon whose voices, pregnant with words
OF wisdom and instruction, VIC were 81
pleased to hearkcn. But, in the language
of the poet, Uors janua rittc"-
'Death is the gate to life eternal
The entrance to immortal life"
So that We may console ourselves by the
reflection that ''Our loss has been theil
gain"
the largest, as we'll as the oldest inland
city of our rapidly growing country. 1t
was laid out as a borough, by James
Hamilton, as landed proprietor, getting
title from the English crown, in the year
1928; and the adjoining territory erected
into i county i'll the year 1923, one yeal
subsequently. The city contains a popu.
'ation bordering upon 80, 900 inhabitants,
whilst the surrounding country is a little
empire, comprising an area of over go, OOl
acres, or about 969 square miles, and
peopled by about $50, 900 inhabitants. 1t
is eminently an agricultural district, its
great fertility and productivcness, having
long since gained for it the cnviable name
Of the "Garden of America" 1t has been
long famous for its big Conestosa horses.
great crops of wheat, corn, and latterly of
tobacco, Industrious and frugal inhabi-
tants, and last, but by no means least, its
large number of pretty girls, which condi-
ton Of things may serve to explain to you
tho fact that all of our physicians are
well-to-do married men. U myself having
enjoyed that felicity, three several
times all surrounded by the boun-
ties, as we'll as the cares and con-
sequcnt responsibilities of the situa-
tion. which facts you can prove
by calling upon them, at their homes,
where you will find the latch-string hang
ing freely out and all most delighted to
meet and welcome you. But I will not
longer tire your patience with these crude
and hastily conceived sentiments, but in
their name. and that of their families.
wish you \ hearty, sincere and cordial well
come to their homes.
DR.. Carpenter, from the committee OF
arrangements, also read the program me
agreed upon for the convention, and rules
relative to the reading of papers and de-
bates. No voluntary papers are to exceed
twenty minutes in length, and all papers
to be open to discussion.
Delegates from other states and all cX-
presidents of the state society We're invited
to take seats on the platform.
Reports from delegates from other states
being called for,
DR.. f. p. Townsend. delegate from the
State Medical society of New Jersey, report
cd that said society was in favor OF inter-
state delegations. Also that all applicants
as students Of medicine should be subjected
to n preliminary examination as to their
DR.. Townsend concluded
his report by cordially inviting members of
tho convention to attend the 114th annual
session of the New Jersey State Medical
society at Long Branch on the fourth
tuesday Of May.
DR.. Allis offered series of resolutions
% the effect that the Philadelphia Medical
society be the custodians for publication
If the transactions Of the state society and
uch other societies rs shall exchange with
t, until tho State society shall make other
provisions that tho publication commit
CO shall be constituted tho library COM
nittcc to report 1T next meeting of the