The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-05-27

| The annual dues 10 be PAID by Gil mem
bers In attendance (other than honorary
members, shall be So, and such members
shall be entitled to copy of the trsnsac-
actions.
ANY physician in this state not q men,
Der, who shall remit 81 to the treasurer, on
or before the annual meeting. shall be en-
titled to copy of the transactions.
The report was adopted.
DR.. Trader, on behalf of Dr.. Jackson, in.
vited the association to visit the hospital
at any time they may see fit.
The banquet is set for this "wednesday
evening, and cordial invitation was ex-
tended to all to remain and partake thereof.
DR.. Williams, of Morgan county, one of
the vice-presidents, appeared and took his
seat on the platform.
DIR. W. c. Glasgow, of st. Louis, reported
case of slow pulse at one OF the hospitals
in that city.
This report elected Others, and the dis
cussion on the subject became quite ami
mated, and lasted for over an
hour. DR.. Tefft spoke of man
of his acquaintance, whose pulse, during
the fifteen or twenty years he had known
him, had never been faster than 35 or 40
beats to the minute, and frequently came
lower than that, as low as 80 or a.
DIR. Tuholsky reported 9 very similar
case under his observation.
Other cases of very slow pulse were re-
ported by various members.
EVENING SESSION.
Minutes of the afternoon session read,
corrected and approved.
The committee on Medical education
made their reports, which is as follows:
Committee on Medical education think
it unnecessary to submit any lengthy
report.
There has been no change in the facili-
ties for medical education in this state, of
any considerable importance, so far as we
are advised, nor is there any change that
we know of in educational advancement
of the profession ITSELF Hence we do not
think it is advisable to occupy the time of
the association by reproducing the argu-
ments and considerations which have been
so often advanced before this association.
]. E. TEFFT, Chairman.
"The relations between spirit drinking,
insanity and crime" paper read by DIR.
Potter, OF Camden, was one of the best read
during the day, and elected much warm
applause from his hearers. The writer had
been appointed one of q committee to pre-
pare paper on this subject, and had gone
to the trouble OF procuring a report from
the warden of the various state prisons rel
alive to the statistical status of the conyicts
on the liquor question. He read number
of these reports, each tending to show that
nearly IS per cent. of them were incarcer-
ated through crimes committed while
drunk or under the influence of alcohol.
The paper was strong temperance plea
from the standpoint of the medical profess
sion, and furnished many valuable stats
tics.
DIR. Hart, of Brownsville, read a supple
mentary report of the committee mentioned
above, entitled "Alcohol: Its Relations to
Insanity"
On motion the association adjourned un-
til 9 q. m. this morning.
Second Day.
The association was called to order at
$50 a. m, President Gregory in the chair.
On motion, the reading OF the minutes OF
the evening session was dispensed with.
A motion to refer the papers read at
the evening session to the publication COM
mittee caused furry among some OF the
members, owing to the prohibition tone OF
the papers. They did not want the senti-
ments expressed therein endorsed by the
association.
DIR. A. w. McAllister, of Columbia, of
ferred the following resolutions, which
were, after the defeat of motion to table,
passed:
Resolved, That we recognize the inef6-
cheney of the present law regulating the
practice of medicine, and the inability of
the board of health to accomplish the great
good that was intended by this body when
it recommended adoption by the legisla-
ture.
I'd, That this society appoint committee
of OF least FIVE to visit our next legislature
and urged that honorable body to remedy
at least the most glazing detects of the pres
ent law.
Sd. That this committee 20 uninstructed.
4th. That each member pledge himself
to carry out the objects of the above reso-
buttons.
A number of letters and communities
tions from members who were unable to
attend the meeting, were read.
The president, DR.. E. II. Gregory, then
delivered his annual address.
The address was ordered printed in the
transactions.
On motion, recess was taken for ten
minutes.
A resolution that the election of place
for holding the next meeting of the asso-
citation be made a special order for 2
o'clock, was passed.
On motion of DR.. Dickinson, the greet
ings of the association were rendered to
the State Medical associations of Illiuois,
Iowa and Kansas, now in session, and the
secretary was instructed to transmit the
same.
The paper by DR.. Cotlett, of st. Joseph,
entitled, 1.-THE Relation of Insanity to the
Practitioner" was, on motion, read by its
title and referred to the publication COM
mittee.
DR.. c. A Godd, of st. Louis, then read
his paper on Deafness following Aumps,"
involving many facts from actual expert
ence not generlly known, even to the