Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-21
THE CONGRESS OF DOCTORS.
rhe New Organization as Just Com.
pleted-The Old Code Men i'm Control.

The committee appointed at the meeting of
the American Medical association in New Or
leans last spring to make arrangements for the
meeting OF the International Medical Con-
gress in this city, In 1887, recently met in New
York city, and after filling the vacancies in the
committee caused by the resignation Of doctors
who were opposed to the method of restricting
the representation in the congress to those be-
longing to what is known as the old code
school selected the presidents of sections. These
are as follows: General medicine, A. B. Arnold:
general surgery, VIM. 7. Briggs: military and
naval surgery, II. F. Smith; obstetrics. DR.. Las
and meseTa %se e. H. Trrs ana
omy, VIM. H. Pancost; physiology, John c..
Dalton; pathology, E. o. Shakespeare; diseases
of children, ]. Lewis Smith; opthalmology, A.
w. Calhoun: otOlogy and laryngology, S. J.
Jones; dermatology and syphilis, A. R. Robin
son; public and International hygiene, Joseph
jones' collective Investigation, vital statistics
and climatology, Henry o. Marcy: physcho-
logical medicine, John p. Gray; dental and oral
surgery, Jonathan Tafft.
OF arrangements, which was authorized at
the meeting of the Medical association in
this city in the spring of lisa to
gress, with DR.. Austin Flint, OF New York, as
president, have been retained with the follow
and Tired stille, of Philadelphia, vice presi,'
dents; Or. John s. Billings and DR.. John NJ.
Browne, of this city, respectively secretary
scHeIdl auU tTeaSuTcr. DdlttN
Jonathan Taft are the only chiefs of sections
appointed by the old committee who have been
retained. The members of the council have
not yet been announced.
The local committee of arrangements is as
follows: A. Y. P. Garnett chairman; the Sur
geon General U. s. A, the Surgeon General u.
s: NJ. the Supervising Surgeon General U. ).
Marine hospital, j. H. Baxter, C. H. A. Klein
schmidt, N. g. Lincoln, ]. NJ. Toner, and such
additional members of the profession in the
District of Columbia as the executive committee
OF the congress may select.
The rules adopted by the committee provide
that the congress shall consist of members of
other scientific men as the executive committee
may see fit to admit. who shall have inscribed
their names on the register and shall have
taken out their tickets OF admission This
committee consists OF Austin Flint, president;
Nathan ). Davis, secretary general; Il. >. r.
Arnold, treasurer; Frederick 5. Dennis, chair
man of the finance committee and the presi-
dent of sections.
In the last issue of the Medical Record pub
lished in New York city, the editorial comment
on the work of the committee is as follows:
"They have also filled the vacancies in the
presidencieS of the sections. Their list OF names
suggests both freshness and decay, but does not
fairly represent American medicine, and the
profession will very quickly ask who many of
those new men are who thus take the seats
which have heretofore been held only by recog-
niZed leaders. But q much more serious
thing remains; no attempt was made to remove
the code issue from the congress. 1t Is Still in
cumbent on an American physician to subscribe
to the American medical associations code of
the Ninth International congress- if ii meets in
this country. The stupidity, as well as abso-
lutte WrOngfulneSS of failing to meet this point,
is certainly beyond parallel"