Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-16
MODEL MEDICINE MEN.
Half Hundred Doctors Take Their Own
Anopathic Dose DeIighIfully-Rare Fra
ternity of Feeling.

Half a Hundred Doctors Take Their Owl
ATiopathic Dose DeIightfully-Rare Fra,
ternity of Feeling.
"When doctors disagree" Z" etc., has beer
so long familiar adage as to be believed b,
the multitude. If belief in it be the rule
there must certainly be one glittering ex
ception to that rule. The Southside Medica
Society has both furnished and long exem
plified the exception. A more fraternal bod!
of professional men than this one, which thii
morning concluded by banquet its nineteenth
anniversary, would be difficult to find through
out the length and breadth of the land.
The banquet was held at Rich's parlors. Car
son and Fifteenth streets, and was one of the
most highly enjoyable and instructive in the
dual character of the feast provided that has
been held in Pittsburg for a long time. From
II. R. o'Connor, to the concluding toast, ''The
Press" happily responded to by Erasmus vii.
son. @, o., M. D., it was veritable flow OF
soul and feast of reason well worthy
@ salutatory Of Dr.. W. T. English, the he
newly chosen President, was a charming de.
parture from cold, dead usages and stereotyped
forms, in that he sang with splendid effect the
tenor solo. "Oh, Why These Clouds that Dim
the SkyP" from 1.-The Lion of Peru" whose
libretto was written by DR.. E. A Wood, one of
the most prominent members of the banquet
ing society.
Before ailuding to the refreshingly varied
and entertaining toasts, which were still crisply
toasting at / o'clock this morning. it will
be but fair and Just to say that the other viands
included in the large. allopathic prescription
a wealth of variety, and well worthy
of the attention bestowed upon
them by the eminent convalescents
who took the dose. Imagine sage old doctors,
WhO have for wisely shaken their hoadc
to patients, saying: Light food, and very lit
tie of it; no pastry"-iust conceive of such
old fellows, and their heir. younger younger brsth.
through menu half yard long and having
100 parts, beginning with picked lambs tongue
turning on the downward course at custard pie
lady fingers and cream. and winding up with
Spts. Frumenti, Vir1um Rhini and Apollfnaris!
But how pleasantly they did take the entire
dose, to be surei Music and flowers pervaded
and surrounded them, and the medicine was
truly stimulating.
The hour of writing precludes the possibility
of reviewing toasts in detail; but here's glance
at them: "Our Guests, I" with double play on
scruples drachms and the bier, by DR.: W. T.
Burleigh; "Our Medical SocietyS' with a re-
juvenated horse, and soap" as the prescription,
by Dr. E. A. Wood; Allegheny County Medi-
cal Society,"" with Centennial reflections. by
DR.. Kernsi Pennsylvania State Medical So
J. B. Murdoch; Western Pennsylvania
Medical College" with plenty of
local patriotism, by DR.. ]. M. Duff: duet,
ship Ahoy," by Drs. English and Hersman;
Thomas; preliminary Education, /" with mighty
instructive suggestions as to method, by DR..
b. c. Jillson, of the High School; "The Med.
ical Sciences" with real stimulus to pursue
them, by DR.. c. B. King; and finally 'sThe
Press" well represented by Erasmus Wilson.
Prot. ]. A. Brashear was i'll and couldn't be
present.
What representative professional gathering
it was! Half or more of them looked like the
excellent physicians they are. Yet no two
looked alike. One resembled Bollanger: an
other Bismarck, and yet third General Han
cock, while fourth looked like the last Ma
poleon at his best. Yet they might all be
'tspotted for DOCTORS by any intelligent
stranger in a strange land.