The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-05-23

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Kirksville H L Scales, Cole Camp
G w Schnabe. Beaman ] n Jack
son, Kansas City; w X Hawkins,
Keytesville; J H Brltts, Clinton NJ
o Biggs, Bowling Green J o Khan,
Plattsburg; H A Longan, Kansas City
J o Quicker, Louisiana NJ H Post, St
Louis; r F Brooks, Carthage; Evan
Quasi, B E Fryer, John Punton, II
C Crowell, E w Schauffer,S G Cant,
A L Lueton, L A Berger, C w Adams,
Kansas City; L F Murray, Holden
Easton Buckard, Kansas City; NJ.
A. Bogie, Kansas City.
Second Day.
The attendance upon the meeting
OF the State Medical association was
very much augmented today, the
trains from every direction last night
and this morning unloading saw
bones" OF high and low degree in great
profusiOn.
Many of those in attendance are
not members of the association and
their names are consequently not en-
rolled nor given in the newspapers.
During all this mornings session
the criminal court room at the court
house where the meeting is being held
was pretty well filled with doctors,
representing every section of this
great state. There are no spectators,
is the proceedings are, except an &C.
casional interesting incident CT an
essay at humor, very dull.
Many OF the most eminent phy-
sicians and surgeons of the state,
whose special qualifications are not
confined solely To the knowledge of
the people within this state. but ex-
tends all over the country and even to
Europe are present, and are doing
all in their power by word,
illustration and suggestion TO further
the interests Of the medical profession
in Missouri, whose medical men a..
ready stand high among the profess
sion everywhere.
The professors, constituting the fac
ulties of the noted medical colleges at
Kansas City and St. Louis, are pres
ent in great numbers and their learned
discussion OF any subject matter that
may he up is very valuable to those
physicians whose scope of work,
though not less important, is less
broad.
A night session will be held and the
meeting will adjourn tomorrow after
noon.
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
At the opening of last nights session
DIR. A. B. Miller, president of the
Missouri St"te Medical association.
delivered the presidents annual mes
sage. which was retrospective and Sug-
gestive.
When DIR. Miller arose to deliver
his address he faced every member of
the association present in the city. be-
sides many interested outsiders. 1t
was the largest audience the session
had been favored with.
DIR. G.. \. Cohen. of kirksville, one
of the vice presidents, presided.
President Miller hasa good voice and
puts force and animation in his words.
He is a fine looking gentleman. re-
minding one very much ofGeneral L.
S. Grant.
The Introductory of the presidents
address was of a retrospective nature
and reviewed the history and progress
Of the association, its uses and abuses.
He said that the membership of the
association has increased forty per
cent. within the past five years, but
the increase had been confined princi-
pally to Kansas City and ST. Louis.
The increase of the membership from
those two cities is seventy-three per
cent. while that from the country
precincts only reaches nineteen per
cent. DIR. Miller pointed out some of
the causes for this. One
cause was the lin.
tied railroad facilities at
the service of most Of the doctors in
the country towns. But another cause,
the doctor said, was that the pro-
gramme Of the association was too Of
ten made up Of subjects which only
specialists could handle and which the |
average country doctor never pre-
sumes, or needs to know much about,
because it rarely comes under his OBJ
and when it does he sends |
h,s patient, as he should do, to some |
hospital, where q specialist, familiar |
With every detail of the disease, could
1--WE the case the strictest attention. |