Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-12
THE DOCTORS.
PROCEEDINGS IN THE CONVENTION.

fAOCEEO1NO6 IN THE CONSENI1ONs
Addresses ana Papers Read and discussed
-Musicai Entertainment.
The officers being absent DR.. Trail
Green, of Northampton, was called to the
chair, and on motion . committee of three
was appointed tv hunt up the officers and
inform them that the time for assembling
had passed half an hour.
After brief absence the committee re-
turned and reported that it was their pain
full duty to report that the officers had
been lost, strayed or stolen. { Great
laughter.
In a moment afterwards the president
and secretary arrived and were greeted
with cheers.
DR.. A. H. Smith, of Philadelphia, Of
fered a resolution protesting against the
the removal Of female physicians and at
tendantS of female insane and replacing
them with male attendants, at the state
hospitals.
The resolution was made the special Or
der for tomorrow morning.
The amendment to the constitution Of
fered at last years convention by DIR.
Dale, relative to the appointment of CEN
SO1o, sStIu 1PpCobS lloAA CCuoOA . uCVloAOAo
was discussed by DR.. Traill Green, DR..
the appointment of judiciary committee
to whom all such questions be referred.
DR.. S. NJ. Ross, of Blair county, then
read an "Address on Surgery" He warm
" advocated conservative instead of he
rOic treatment, unless the latter was abso.
lutely necessary to save life or prOlOng
life. Conservative and successful surgery
are almost synonOmOus. The doctor de-
scribed at some length several cases he
had treated, in which the limbs, or parts
of limbs had been saved by conservative
treatment. The profession are apt to be
too unwilling to trust to nature recuper-
tions. Tight bandage of wounds he said
has done more harm than all other
causes combined, by Obstructing the cir
culation. The anti septic treatment of
wounds and lacerations was commended.
After tho second battle of Bull Run,
wounded men were permitted to lie on the
field for many days before they could be
placed in hospitals all of them got we'll ;
while those who were ut once placed in
crowded hospitals died off like rotten
sheep, owing to the crowded condition of
the hospital, the impurity of the air and
the medicine and surgery Of the doctors.
DR.. Ulrich, of Chester county, endorsed
DR.. Ross views, and gave the particulars
of one or two of his own cases.
DR.. Jacob Price, of Chester county,
read a paper on "The Importance of Local
Treatment in Congestion and Intlamma-
ton of the Cervex of the Pregnant
Uterus" The paper was closely listened
to by the convention, and a warm discus
sion followed. DR.. Sutton. of Pittsburgh,
not only disputed the sOundness of DR..
Prices treatment, but declared it to be
based upon false pathology, exploded
hundreds Of years ago, and revived again
recently. DR.. Price found able advocates,
however, in DR.. Potts, DR.. Dale, of York ;
DR.. Albert Smith, Of tho University of
Philadelphia DR.. John l.. Atlee, of Ian
caster, and DR.. Ulrich, Of Chester county,
all of whom made speeches in general
accord with DR.. Prices theory and treat
ment.
[The reporter beys leave to state just
here that the addresses, papers and dis
cussions, though of great value no doubt
to the medical profession, were entirely
too long to be published in ertensO in any
other than medical journals, and that they
abounded in so many technical phrases, of
which lay reporters and lay readers are un-
acquainted, that it is quite impracticable
to make an intelligent condensation of
them. Hence we do little more than men-
tion the titles Of the several matters dis
cussed.
Affections of Lachrymal Passages
Their Nature and Treatment the title
of long paper read by DR.. S. D. Risley,
of Philadelphia, and so entertaining did it
prove to his fellow members, that, though
his time expired before he had finished it,
he was urgently requested to ego on :"
and was granted moro time. He exhib-
tied and explained the use of probes used
by him in opening or charging CONSTRUCTED
lachrymal ducts, and also showed some
other instruments manufactured for the
same purpose, but which were utterly un.
fit for the purpose.
DR.. J. L. Crawford, of Indiana county,
who was set down on the programme for
a paper entitled ''IndicatiOns Calling for
Active Treatment in Typhoid Fever" was
not present and the subject was passed.
Dr.. j. w. G.. ONeal, of Adams county,
read paper entitled ''ContributiOns to the
History and Use Of Katalysine Spring
water 1T Gettysburg" After referring to
the battle Of Gettysburg and its deci sivo
results, DIR. O'Neal stated that many of
the people of their section were left III an
impoverished condition, and were CON-
PEELED to look around and find means of
support. Just west of the ridge on which
Gen. Reynolds was killed is a mineral
spring, which, up to that time, was held
in small account but the owner conceived
the idea that it might prove valuable in
both a pecuniary and medical sense.
The historic associations of tho locality, the
beauty of it's surroundings, its variegated
scenery and salubrious air, would of them
selves be attractive to tourists, and if the
waters of the springs should prove to be
valuable, there was a fortune in them.
The waters were analysed and found to
contain many valuable properties they alb
tanned notoriety through wide and judi
cious advertising, and are much sought by
invalids who arc always hopeful. The
speaker gave an analysis of the waters, and
claimed that properly used they were ben
eficial in cases Of gout, rheumatism, dis
pepsia, diabetes, indigestion and some
other diseases. He thought, however, to
secure lasting benefit, the patient should
live at the springs, drink the waters and
bathe in them, and inhale the pure air of
the surrounding country which is $50 feet
above the tide.
"The Pathology of Shock was the
title of a paper read by DR.. G. c. Sea-
brook, of Dauphin county. The speaker |
detailed the results of many experiments |
made by him on this subject and exhibit |
ed diagrams showing the rise and fall Of
The blood currents, as shown under the |
in some experiments, with |
wounded frogs. dogs and rabbits.