The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-05-11
Hartford County Medical Society.
Election of Officers. Resolutions In Mem.
Dry Of Dr. y. Ii. Silver, Remarks, &c.

The Medical Society of Hartford county met at
the Changers Hotel, Bel Air, on Tuesday
There were present DR.. David Riley, President;
DR.. w. Stump Forwood, Secretary; DIR. Il. ID.
Lee Treasurer, and Drs. ". W. Hopkins, II. c.
Whiteford and j. Ward Scott.
The following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Dr. j. Ward Scott Vice President, DIR.
d. Preston Wysong Treasurer, DR.. K. d Lee !;
Secretary, DR.. w. Stump Forwood
Dr. Forwood announced the death of DR.. Silas
b. Silver, a member and eX President of the So
ciety, which took place April LIST, 1883. The
following facts concerning his education and
subsequent career, which We're furnished DIR.
Forwood by DR.. SiIver's brother, Mr.. Benjamin
Silver ST., were read:
DIR. Silas b. Silver was the fourth son Of Benja-
min and Charity Silver. He was born on the 10Th
of February, 1915, at the residence of his father
three-rOurthS OF mile east OF Deer Creek Hur-
mony Church.
After attending the common schools of the
neighborhood he was prepared for college in the
classical school in the neghborhood in charge of
I Mr.. Thompson Hudson, of Chester county, Pa ,
a young man who was educated at West Not
| tingham Academy, Cecil county, Md, by Rev
| James Magraw, ID. d.
From this school he entered the sophomore
| class of Union College, New York and graduated
A. b., in 1885. In the same year he began the
study of medicine under DIR. Joseph Parrish tho
| distinguished physician of Philadelphia; and. af-
ter course of three years, took the degree of NJ
| d., in the medical department of the University
| of Pennsylvania, in 1888.
He at once entered upon the practice Of medi-
cine in his native neighborhood with considerable
success.
About the year 1876 he had a severe attack of
gastric fever, which left his digestive organs in
very weak and delicate state and from which he
never entirely recovered. In 1861 he also had Il
very severe attack of inilammatory rheumatism :;
| n hA nIln "A so
| in 1864. Yet this disease was not hereditary-pa-
ralysis being the disease of the family. From
these attacks OF fever and rheumatism his gener-
| al health was so much impaired that he became
| unable to actively pursue his practice.
In November, 1857, he married Miss Susan S:
| Hartford county, who now survives him, without
| issue.
| Since 1859 he has resided at his residence "Sil-
verton, near GlenVille attending chiefly to the
| affairs of his farm; and leading an absiemious
life, guarding with vigilance and care against in
roads upon his health, until oyertaken by the lat @
| final attack of disease.
| DIR. Forwood then gave feeling account of
his personal relations with DR.. Silver, with
whom he began the study of medicine in 1851.
DR.. Silver was particularly kind and cncourag-
ing to students and liberal in the loan of his
medical books and journals.
DIR, Silver, said the speaker, naturally pos
sessed mental abilities far above the average of
men, and the early opportunities that he en-
| joyed for their cultivation, and his subsequent
life of study and reflection, placed him in the
rank with the leading men of the medical pro-
tesslon. Having enjoyed the advantages of the
preceptorship of the celebrated Dr. Parrish and
the teachings of such men as Chapman, Gibson,
Iorner and the other great instructors who in
that day expounded medicine in the University
of Pennsylvania, and also being privileged with
constant access to the Pennsylvania Hospital, il
is fair to presume, as was actually the fact, that
DR.. Silver was well grounded in the principles
of medicine.
| DIR. Silvers active interest in the organization
of the Medical Society, in connection with DR..
Forwood and Others, was adverted to and men
ton made of the distinguished and faithful
workers in the profession and in the society who
have passed away in the seventeen years that
have elapsed since the society was organized,
namely, Drs. John X Sappngton, John IL;
Cooley T. Morgan Elliott, John sappington, of
Darlington, Thomas G. Hopkins, Geo. Thos
Hays, John C. Polk, John Evans, George II.
Roberts, Joshua X. Nelson, VIM. H. Stump, and
lastly, DR.. Silas b. Silver.
| DR.. Forwood then described particularly, for
the benefit of his brother physicians, the leading
points of professional interest which in his last
illness contributed to Dr. Silver's DEATH which
resulted from disease Of the heart, the effect
of rheumatism upon the valves of the heart
and aorta. Dr. Silver was attended in his last
illness by Drs Forwood and Magraw.
In the death of DIR. Silver society at large has
| lost a useful, a high-mnded and an honorable
member; the medical profession has lost rep
resentatye who has at all times upheld its dig
nifty and honor to the highest standard, and his
family and friends are bereayed of tender COM
panion and kind and genial associate; of one
who was hearted and upright in all the
walks of life, and-comforting thought-who
was fully prepared for death.
| Drs. Forwood, Lee and Hopkins, n committee
on resolutions, presented the following which
were adopted
| Whereas, The sad visitation OF death has invaded
| our body, and again reminded us of our mortality
| by the extinguishment of the vital flame of our
| friend and professional collaboration, DIR. Slas b.
| Silver,
| of the Medical Society of Hartford county, in
| meeting assembled, while submitting to the iney-
ilable-to the laws of Nature and the will of
| God-do, in sadness and sorrow, sincerely grleve
over the loss of an active and useful member of
our society," whose efforts were largely eXerted in
| its organization as they were also toward the
elevation of the standard of medicine and in the
cultivation of the amenities of life between pro-
| fessional brethren.
Resoiaed, That while experiencing our personal
pain in the loss of our fellow and friend, are
still mindful Of. and sympathetic with, the sorrow
| of his immediate family circle: and that we do
| hereby tender our most profound respect and
| hearty sympathy to the devoted wife, who so
| faithfully and 30 tenderly ministered to every
want of the suffering invalid through his long
| and painful illness; and who now in her widow
hood must bear the storms of life without his