The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-12

THE Indiana State Medical Society COM
mences it's annual session to-day. OF the
five thousand physicians of Indiana, probably
two or three hundred will be present. All of
the Glasses and cliques of the regular profess
sion will be represented. The professors" of
the five regular colleges will be on hand, and
will literally paste the floors and settees with
the announcements of their institutions.
called into being by the widespread need of a
college which should uphold ''higher stand
ard of education" The political DOCTORS"
interested in the management of medical
practice acts, and The establishment Of board
Of public health which shall have the power
to license practitioners and determine what
constitutes reputable medical college, will
be on hand, and will take the front row of
seats.
The preacher doctors, who make their liv-
ing by the double trade of body and soul saving,
will exhibit their profundity and eloquence
The editors of the medical journals will form
stuff the pockets of the rural practitioner with
pamphlets and journals full of wise editorials
on medical ethics, the latest news from the
great medical centers, and dreary pages Of pro-
prietary medicine advertisements-al for one
dollar year. The medical specialists may be
looked for in large numbers; this is their an
nual harvest, or, rather, their seeding time
The professor of diseases of the mind and
nervous system will again show the relations
of the pineal gland to the immortality of the
soul, and explain the relations of bromide of
potash to the psychology Of Holland KATRINA.
The professor of diseases Of the throat and ma
sal passages will show his new instrument for
removing the hypertrophied mucous mem
branes Of the mares, and explain the relation
of these to assesses Of the cervical glands.
The usual papers upon the germ theory of
the contagious diseases, upon medical soce
ties as the great educators of the profession,
upon the similarity Of membraneous Group and
dipththeria, preventive medicine and sanitary
legislation, the old and the new Codes will be
read and discussed, and referred to the com
mittee on publication. The medical tn eorists
will present their new views on the 'relation"
of things in general; of nerve to muscle, of
typhoid fever to air dust, of malaria to tenn
perature, of the comma bacillus to cholera, and
cod liver oil to consumption. The sleek and
smooth -tongued representatives of the patent
and proprietary medicine houses will dispense
their samples and circulars, and the doctors
will go home SO loaded down with new
tangled pills, powders and elixirs for trial,
that the out-town druggists will find their oc-
equations gone until the free supply is used
up. But back in the corners, in the alcoves
and hotel Hobbies, the real meetings will be
held. The old-timers who come up once
year for rest and recreation will exchange
notes, tell the new stock of stories, give their
experience with cocaine and quinine, and the
ms and outs of bedside practice. Such meet
ings cannot but make for good. No credita-
bic physician can afford to forsake the assem-
blies and the counsel of his compeers. Pro
fessional men learn by association. The
Journal has always welcomed the doctors at
their annual gatherings, and recognizes the
hard work done, in spite of the froth and foam
inseparable from such meetings.
.zzz..~0~-s~--~s
WE have great hopes of Mr.. Spahr. There
is breeziness, selfconscious power, about
his card on the saloon tax matter that acts