Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-06-13
MEDICAL SOCIETY.
THE SECOND DAYS SESSION, AND THE
LECTURE.
Numerous Papers Read During the Day
Visit to the Park, and
Large Audience at the Church.

The State Medical Society recon
vened at ten o'clock yesterday morning
and was called to order by DIR. Wilson,
who continued in the chair, at the re-
quest of Vice President Y. K. Moss, OF
Barboursvillc, who was present.
The following physicians, not present
at the previous days session, registered:
w. II. Harris, Parkersburg; V. y. Bur
well. Parkersburg: j. j. Prickctt, of
Wood county: w. W. Vandcrn, Caper-
ton: j. j. Richardson, New Martins
Vile: T. NJ. Hood, Weston; Lester KEEL
Ter, Benny: W. X. Curtis, Wellsburg; Il.
II. Fravel, Poca: Jas. Putney, Charles
ton; A. l.. Ilupp. Cherry Camp; ii. Il.
Baguley, Wheeling; X. NJ. Baird, Wheel
ing: Leonard ESkey. Bcnwood; j. i.
Hughart. Scwell: j. II. Storer, Elm
Grove: T.. Il. Camden, ParkerSburg; j.
:. Boone, Powhatan, o.; c. IL. Blu
baugh. ParkerSburg: V. X. Moss, Bar
louisville; j. e. Kendall, Parkersburg;
NJ. A. Dowlcr, Sherrard; w. ii. llogue,
Charleston.
Prayer was offered by Rev. DR.. Cooke.
of the Second Presbyterian church.
The following applications were re-
ferred to the Board of Censure: j. j..
Richardson, II. p. Stout, w. NJ. Brown
well, r. Z. Lowther, w. c. q. Wilson,
and Geo. L. Barker. No report was
made by the Board at this session, but 4
favorable report was made in the after
noon.
An application from DR.. A. l.. Hupp,
of Cherry Camp, who has been absent
from the State for three years, To be
placed on the roll, was acted upon
iayorably.
DR.. Dickcy, from the Committee on
Neurology, made a rcpon, which was
received and favorably acted upon.
DIR. |. 4. Harris submitted a paper
upon food adultcration, in which he
said:
MY purpose is not merely to defend these
articles from the charge of unhealthfulnesS,
but to protest against the placing under ban
of public sentiment-by attachinga penalty
to their production and sale-any whole
some articles of food. ! am opposed to the
sale of articles under false names and 10
adulteration of any food products 1t
would be well enough to require the arti-
cles to be made and sold under their true
and proper names, but when no charge can
be made against their healthfulness, the
consumer should be allowed TO use them
knowingly and to judge Of their relative
merits.
THE twentieth section Of the health law
of this State says;
III person fruudulcntly adulteraies. for the
purpose Of sale anything intended for food or
drink or il be- knowingly sell or barter any
thing intended for food OF drink. which Is not
what it Is represented 90 be-, OF what II l. sold
for he shall bc confined in Jail not more han
one year aud fined not exceeding five hundred
dollars, and the adutcratcd or other articles
shall be forfeited and Destroyed
This is the law as it now stands upon
the statutes. yet who will claim that II Is
not violated every day, both in regard to
articles of food and drink. My plea is not
for the suppression Of the sale Of any
healthful article of food or drink, but that
they shall be sold for just what they are,
and that the people shall be protected
against the adulteratiOn of articles of food
or drink with matters hurtful TO health,
and that they shall be allowed TO use an
intelligent choice in the use Of articles
made from materials not hurtful or UNI
wholesome.
| "Of the spices upon the market IL Is
doubtful If one can be found in the list of
ground spices which is not adulterated; il
not with articles hurtful TO the health at
least with inert matter. Again, in the
! liquors sold as beverages, who can measure
the adulteration of the wines, WHISTLES
and beers. and tell US the drugs and COM
pounds which are sold under the
name of pure liquors" | wish TO
refer TO one other article in com
mon use, and one unusually
referred 10 as n type of perfect food and
advised TO be used in sickness and in health.
| refer to milk COWS milk. That it is often
adulterated by INSCRIPTIONS dealers with
such harmless matters - water and chalk
/ 90 not doubt, which practice should be
prevented, but il is not TO this kind OF
adulteration which | now refer for il must
be borne in mind that there is no article of
food which so quickly abSOrbs hurtful as
well as harmless OdOrs and gases MIX is
open 10 the charge of having been the
means of communicating cases of scarlet
fever and typhoid fever in more than one
! instance, if not other diseases. BY changes
and decompotion within itself and thereby
the generation of poisonous agents it has
been charged with the production of large
proportion of the cases of summer COM
plant in children. Recent investi-
cations leave no room TO doubt
the communicability of tuberculosis from
trebuculous cows to the users of the milk,