Morning journal and courier., 1884-05-14
Connecticut EcIect;cs.

Annual Meeting Held in |
 the Elliott Housewife Were Present
 Interesting DIscussiOns-E ectiOn of
 Officers |
 The twenty fourth annual meeting of the | Connecticut Eclectic Medical association called together about fifty physicians of this and neighboring States in the parlors of the Elliott House. The meeting opened yestsr- day morning and was presided over by Dr. T. W. Brockway, of New Hartford. Those present were: Drs. J. G. s. Smith of Bridge port, Isaac P. Leete of Sufisld, T. Fl. Will Hams of Bristol, 0. N. Gallup of Columbia, Leroy A. Smith of Higganum, George A.
 Bradford of New London, O. H. Jewell of
 New London, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Smith of
 Bridgeport, F. W. Pulford of Seymour, J.
 Durand of Kensington, N. D. aodgkins
 of Rocky Hill, s. B. Mum of Waterbury, T.
 l.. Hodge of Cornwall Bridge, B. w. Pease of Thomaston George Andrus of New Haven. H. R. Bradley of New Haven, M F. Linquist of New Haven, and as guests Professor Alex andeY Wilder of Newark, N. J., Rev. George
 L. Coburn, Rocky Hill. Mrs. Dr. Mum and
 the wife of Dr. Hodgkins were also present The minutes of the last meeting were read
 by Dr. N. D. Hodgkins. 1t was voted to hold the annual banquet at the Elliott House this afternoon at o'clock.
 After intermission the treasurer's report
 was read by Dr. Smith. He reported that
 the cash on hand when he was appointed treasurer was $28 93. The other receipts l received since then amounted to SAP. The | expenses after having been settled left bal- ance in the treasury of just $20. An audit | ing committee approved the report later. Dr. s B. Mum read a paper on ''Tuber- l culosis" He introduced statistics from the health reports which showed that of the peo- ple in the northern half of the eastern Uni
 ted States 14 199 deaths out of 100000 are | from consumption, and throughout the country 10 per cent. of the deaths in the | United States are from one form or another | of tuberculosis. He claimed that no sensible ] physician believed that a person on whom consumption had once laid hold could be
 cured by any human physician.
 An animated discussion followed upon l the subject introduced by Dr. Munn's paper. l Prof Wilder related an incident of a man
 who was given by the doctors six months to l live. His disease was consumption. Being | an Englishman he resolved to have as good | a time as possible, and went off into the | woods huntsd and fshed and kept full of | milk punch all the time. At the end of six | months he came back 8 well and strong man 1 and lived many years. While alcohol Is not | to be prescribed it forces man to breathe l faster and more, and the breathing of good l U1soh5o I the doctors in the country were shut up | somewhere and forbidden to practice 1 there would not be one-half the deaths in | the country that there are at present. The enforcement of vaccination was roundly de- nounced by all the phy ysicians present as pro- ductive of consumption. The most vaccin- ated people were said to bs the most con- sumptive.
 A paper on anti-alcohol was contributed by Dr. Charles N. Gallup. His paper denounced the use of alcohol most unqaulifedly and ad-
 vised the phy sicians present not to prescribe
 it in any form. He said that he had not used two quarts in his practice in nine years. Physicians were responsible for large share
 of the misery caused by the liquor habit. Dr. Linquist thought it was unjust to lay the great burden of the use of alcohol upon physicians. He had practiced for twenty-five years and didn't believe he had ever made a man a drunkard. For his part, he thought
 that if a man is given much liquor when he was sick, it nauseate him 50 that he won't touch it when be is well. Other discussions on the paper turned on the opium habit. statement was made
 that nine-tenths of the opium eaters are led
 into the habit by physicians who prescribe
 the drug. They give it to their patients ex-
 formally, internally and sternally.
 The new constitution and bylaws were read by Dr. B. W. Pease, of Thomaston, as chairman of the committee appointed to draw up constitution. The constitution was taken mp section by section and partially ap- proved. It will be called up the first thing this morning. The election of officers com pleted the days session. It resulted In the
 choice of the folio wing: President, Dr. I.
 P Leete SufieId, yice-president, Dr. George
 Andrews, New Haven; recording secretary,
 Dr. N D. Hodgkins, Rocky Hill; correspond | ing secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth G: Smith, Bridgeport: treasurer, DeLeroy A. Smith, Hipoinsor; censors Drs M F. LinquiSt, Byron N Pease, s. B. Mum, c. N. Gallup, T. Brockway.
 An adjournment was then taken till this mornfnD