Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-06-12
Meeting of the State Medical Society.
at Madison.
To the Editor Of The Democrat.


As the annual meeting of the STATE
Medical Society held in the Assembly
Chamber on the 3, and ) of this
month is more than an ordinary gath
ering, l know you will be interested in
a short account of it.
Unable to attend but two evenings,
still, in what l did hear, l was deeply
interested in the papers read and the
discussions which followed. About
one hundred doctors IF that be the
right world were present, representing
the various parts of the state.
In the evening of June ,, Rev.
Updike, Mayor Rogers and Governor
Peck were seated at the speakers desk
DR.. G. d. I.add of Milwaukee, Presi-
dent of the society, presided.
The band occupied the gallery.
The Legislative desks and seats were
removed and chairs substituted.
Dr. Ladd opened the meeting by
calling upon Rev. Updtke to offer
prayer
In the name and on behalf of the
resident physicians, and the Central
Medical Society, DR.. II. b. Tayill wei
coined the society, Mayor Rogers for
the citizens of Madison rendered to
the visitors the freedom of the city.
His words were well received.
In short but interesting talk Gov
ernor Peck said that some time ago
the Medical Society learned that he
was Mayor of Milwaukee, and held its
meeting there. Now, in some way it
had learned that he was Governor Of
the state and it decided to hold its
meeting here.
He urged the doctors to be more
careful of their health; THAT the people
needed their service; that we would
have more faith in their skill if they
made a practice to live longer.
In earnest words, earnestly spoken,
he implored the profession to learn
every possible detail of disease, and
seek its remedy, especially that of
diptheria, that the man who found a
reliable remedy for that terrible scourge
of our time, would have the highest
monument the people can rear, and
would also be rewarded with a million
dollars.
The President, DR.. Ladd, followed
with the annual address, which was
given in conversational tone, and was
a carefully worded. shrewdly con-
strUcted paper. He pointed to the
fact which people have long believed,
that medical practice is not a science,
that at best the phyician can but aid
nature in its efforts to throw off dis
ease, and to assist it in overcoming
obstacles in the path of recovery; that
the greatest danger lies in OVERRIDING
or doing too much in giving medicine
An invitation was extended by the
local committee to visit the Hospital
for Insane, but was strenuously OPP
posed by DIR. Whiting, of GAINESVILLE,
on the ground that every moment was
needed to learn all possible of the
treatment of diptheria. | do not
know what DIR. VS. skill is as Il ply.
stefan, but | do know he can speak
The paper of DR.. Wingate, of Mil
waukee, on Sanitation, brought out
the Importance of proper sanitary
as preventive, laying stress
ON prevention as possible, and cure
| wish every parent in Wisconsin
could have heard DIR. Fox, of Mad
ison, on Remedies in Diptheria. AS
a matter of fact, parents do not know
what, when or how to do anything,
when this destroyer enters our homes,
which makes it the more imperative
to secure proper sanitary conditions,
chat there may be no invitation to
disease.
Taking it all in all, this was a
notable meeting. Here were gathered
young men, just entering the Practice;
here were men in the prime of life
whose names and prcctice were not
bounded by state lines, here too, were
old men who, for more than a score
of years have ministered to their pain
stricken fellow mortals; nor have |
ever seen in the same number so many
brainy men. respectfully,
/. NJ. DYER.
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