Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-30
STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY.

SaAo Oh Me0lc1ne-VtAef R0Ref8-Ino
Evening Gathering.
The morning session of the second days
proceedings of the annual convention of the
Connecticut Medical society was held yester-
day in the councilmen's chamber in the city
hall with about fifty of the doctors present.
There was also number of ladies in atten-
dance. DR.. Orlando Brown presided. DR..
N. E. Woodin of Bridgeport, the secretary,
read his report Immediately after the open
ing. The total membership of the society to
date. he said, was 306. During the year thirty
six new members were gained and thirty
three lost. The members were divided
among the various counties as follows: New
Haven 1875, Hartford 115, Fairfield 30, Litch-
field 80, New London 80, Middlssex SO, Wind
ham 80. Tollsnd 10.
DR.. Henry Fleischner of this city made
report on behalf Of the committee on matters
of professional interests In the state. He read
an essay venereal diseases and called the
attention of the society to the alarming ex.
tent of what he called a contagion. In be-
half of the committee he recommended that
the committee on legislation be permitted to
secure the passage of statutes to check and
prevent the spread Of such diseases. The
committee gave It rs its opinion that it
should be made felony to keep houses of
prostitution. DR.. Carmalt thought the mat
committee should continue its work for
another year before any action should be
taken in the matter of securing legislation.
DR.. Carmalt made q motion to that effect
and II was passed. DR.. Fleisohner, continu-
Ing his report further, called the attention of
the society to the medicinal properties to be
found in the springs at Stafford Spring,
Conn.
A cordial reception was rendered the dele
gates from other medical societies-Dr. ]. A.
Exton, DR.. E. L. B. Godfrey and DR.. Holmes
of New Jersey; DR.. Thomss II. Monley and
DR.. Andrew +. Currier of New York.
DR.. @. A. Lindsey of this city, who was
the sooisty's delegate to the national oonven-
ton at Nashville, Tenn, made his report as
such. At 10 O'Clock President Brown made
the annual address, his subject being "The
and Sale of Medicine" It was an extremely
forcible and we'll written paper. The doctor
was out against "quack practitioners /" in
full force, and thought 1t the duty Of the
state to interfere with tho present existing
great traffic In worthless and oftentimes in
furious nostrums. It IL safe to estimate, he
said, that the amount of money paid out to
QubUk uOCtOxb AA0 AOK PAt0us AAOuAchhSn oAA-
ing the past year was fully 81, 100000.
The existing laws are not sufficient to pre-
vent these impositions and when drugs fail
the credulous man calls in the Christian
scientist to exercise over him. The itiuerant
medical practitioner is PERMITTED by law to
operate in this state. II he 10 desirable, why
should not the towns pay him $40 day to
render his services than to make him pay $40
day to benefit the people. The browning
glory of the first century of the existance of
this society would be in securing immunity
to the state from the evils of quackery.
He was followed by DR.. Hawkes., who read
paper on 1.-THE Absence of the Rsctum in
New Born Infant"
The afternoon was opened by an interest
New Canaan on 1.-THE Disease Theory Of In
temperance" Hs said that intemperance is
the outgrowth of disease ,lmental, moral or
physical, cannot we'll be denied. To say
that 1t is o disease in itself would be wrong.
II would be very Encouraging to prohibi-
tionists and temperance workers, he said,
that intemperance as disease is patholog.
ical fact. Intemperancs 10 not q disease,
though in can be removed by proper treat
| ment. The ordinary work of reform and re-
ligion would be useless, he said, II intern.
| perance in general be disease, and with all
other diseases should be relegated to the
medical profession.
AT THE MEDICAL SCHOOL.
Between and 8 O'Clock last evening at a
gathering of the members at the medical
| school DIR. III. O.. White read paper on
"Non- Indicated Red Blood Corpuscles" and
DR.. Charles Brown read paper on "Of what
Value Is Bacteriology to the Professionl"
Both papers were illustrated with stereopti-
con views.
BANouETINa DOCTORS.
| The members of the association held their
annual banquet at the New Haven house last
night. The dining room was tastefully deco
rated with flowers and the long tables were
surrounded by between fifty and one hun
dred of tho Medical society and its guests.
The POSTMASTER was DR.. Francis Bacon, and
entertaining addresses were made by Pro.
fessor E. j. Phelps of the Yale law school,
| Rev. DR.. HARDWOOD Of Trinity church, DR..
| Cutting of Boston, ex.Judge Lynde Harrison,
Congressman SimOnds and Amos P. Wilder,
editor of the Palladium. Among the guests
were Lieutenant Governor 8. E. Merwin and
several other prominent state and city
officials. The committee in charge of the
banquet consisted of Drs. Francis Bacon, w.
E. DapQett and ]. #, Luby.