Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-13
Erisl2y Morning.

Friday Morning.
The society was called to order by DR..
Carpenter, president, and Rev. DR.. Green
wald offered prayer.
DR.. Atkinson, secretary, read the fol-
lowing letter
POTTsvILLE, May 10, 1881.
Dr.. um B. Atkinson, Secretary Of State Iedi-
DEAR SIR-At special meeting If the
Schuylkill county medical society, held
this day. it was unanimously resolved that
Carr should be received as a part of the
annual report of this society for 1881 to
the state society, and that the officers Of
this society give this notification to the
committee of publication.
s. C. SPALD1NG, NJ. D.
President.
Attest
r. s. CHRISTIAN, Sec'y.
After some discussion, DR.. Roland Of
York, suggested, and DR.. Cohen made a
motion, that hereafter a stenographic re-
port Of the discussions be taken, as these
discussions are often equally as valuable
as the papers read. The motion was
agreed to.
DR.. L. Turnbill Of Philadelphia read a
paper on defective Hearing Of LOcomO-
| tive Engineers. The lecturer noticed at
length many accidents occurring from this
defect.
| On motion q committee to be Of DR..
Turnbulls own choosing was ordered, to
bring the matter to the attention of the
railroad authorities, and to prepare a me-
mortal to the state Legislature to enact
necessary laws relating to the matter.
DR.. J. Soils Cohen, of Philadelphia, read
/ Ixl, &C III: sr ,;nI~
among other matters the results Of the use
Of powerful drugs as medicinal remedies
| were stated and described at length.
The paper was discussed by Drs. French.
Townsend, Of N. j., BOodley, Curtin,
Turnbull, Traill Green, Rahter, Atlee and
President Carpenter.
DR.. Crawford Irwin, Of Blair county,
read paper ON the I" Scarlet Fever Epi-
Gemic OF HOllidaysburg.' A discussion
followed participated in by DIR. Traill
Green. DR.. Ulrich, DR.. Rahtcr. DR.. Atkin-
son, DR.. Pearson and others.
DR.. II. X. Miner, Of Delaware county,
was ON the programme to read paper on
Parasites Of the Human Body" bat as
he was in bad voice his paper was read BY
DR.. Ulrich, whose sOnOrOus voice has so
often filled the hall during the sessions Of
the convention. The paper treated almost
exclusively OF trichina, the modes Of its
introduction and the means of killing it.
and saving those affected by IL.
Drs. Ulricb, Lehman, Seller, Varian and
others followed with some remarks on the
same subject. Drs. Lehman and Seller
taking the ground that the hog is not re-
sponsiblc for all the blame cast upon him,
and that men are frequently infected with
the trichina from eating uncOOked or
partly cooked beef and other meats and
DR.. Varian believed that the parasite was
often introduced into the human body by
physicians feeding debilitated patients On
raw or partly-cOOked meats.
I DIR. J. L. Crawford, Of Indiana. county,
read paper on Indications calling for
active treatment liz Typhoid Fever" He
recommended that active treatment should
be only used when the temperature of the
patient rises to 1O3 or over. In such cases
the cold bath and 4uinine are recommend
ed in preference to all other remedies, and
when debilitated the patient should have
alcoholic stimulants.