The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-10-17
The Doctors Banquet.

The meetings of the Vermont State Medi-
cal Society were continued in the co inty
court house Thursday evening. +. G. Shat
! tuck of Boston and DIR. j. G.. Irish of Lowell,
Mass, were elected honorary members.
/ BY unanimous vote, DIR. s. j. Allen of
membership. Doctors L. f. Garland of
| White River junction, w. b. Hyde of St.
| Adams, 9. E. Allen of Swanton, William
Lindsey Of Georgia, and George Gorham of
Bellows Falls were elected to membership
in the society. DR. James b. ONel Of
Portland, Me, was introduced and pre-.
sented the greetings of the Maine Medical
| Association. DR.. A. Is. Bsbee of Mont
pelier then delivered an exhaustive and
carefully-prepared address on Some of the
Conditions which Favor Tuberculous In.
lection" 1t was replete with statistics
gathered from personal knowledge gained
in his position as medical examiner of the
National Life Insurance Company. The
discussion of the subject which followed
was participated in by Doctors j Henry
Jackson of Barre, A p. Grinnell of Buring-
ton, G. s. Caverly of Rutland and f. c.
Shattuck of Boston.
The annual banquet was held at the Pa.
vilion Immediately at the conclusion of the
exercises at the court house. DIR. A. p.
Grinnell, anniversary chairman, presided.
On his right sat Governor Woodbury., an.
ator Redfeld Proctor Congressman w w.
Grout, State Treasurer Ii. f. Field, G. NJ.
Wilds of Middlebury, Joel G. Baker of Rut-
land and Q. A. Prouty of Newport. At his
Church of Montpelier, Speaker W. w.
Stickney and Hosea Mann, Jr., of Whining
ton. Among other invited guests were
Judge Lawrence of Rutland, Senators Plat,
Lewis and White, Messrs. II. A. Smith of
Rutland, j. G. Ulery of Brattleboro, NJ.
E. Smile, j. A. DeBoer, f. w. Bancroft,
f E. Towner and ID. e. Powers of Mont
pelier, and representatives of the press.
Grace was said by Rev. Mr.. Lewis. The
Montpelier orchestra was stationed in the
small dining-room, and discoursed excel
lent music during the hour or more that
was spent in discussing the elaborate menu.
When cigars were reached DR.. Grinnell
raped for order and pleasantly introduced
His Excelency Governor Woodbury. to
speak for Vermont. The governor facetiously
remarked that he had intended to repeat the
same speech he made at the bar supper on
Tuesday evening, but he noticed too many
of the legal fraternity present who were
there. He then thought he would repeat
his speech of the previous evening at Bur.
lington, but he noticed the representatives
of the press present, who had reported that
speech once, and he hardly knew what to
say. Thirty-five years ago he graduated in
the study of medicine at Burlington and he
very happily expressed his pleasure and
pride in having the privilege to represent
the state officially at banquet of the State
Medical Society He referred to the changes
that have taken place since he, as a boy
was working his way through college, and
was glad to think that there is a chance for
every Vermont boy if he is willing to work
The medical profession is noble profess
sion, none more so. The medical men did a
brave work during the war. No officer or
soldier who faced the bullets of the enemy
was entitled to more credit than were the
physicians and surgeons who went there to
assist suffering humanity. The sight of
Grand hutton in the lanai Of a nh
clans coat was always a pleasant sight for
him. In closing, Governor Woodbury. cor
daily thanked the presiding Off ,er for the
privilege of being present and saying few
words in an official capacity.
DR.. A. b. Bisbee responded for the g State
Medical Society" He said the Vermont
Medical Society was now in a green old
age. Eighty years ago its first meeting was
held in Montpelier. AS the years have
passed this society has caught some of the
verdure of the Vermont hills and it was
never more prosperous than at the present
time The career of the Vermont Medical
Society is a long and honorable one, one on
which its members look back with pride
and to 1t the men who compose it are 10y
ally devoted.
Rev. A. N Lewis spoke for the clergy,
and for fifteen minutes kept the company in
a roar of laughter, He thought the kindliest
relations ought always TO exist between
the clergy and the doctors, as one important
part of a clergy mans duty is to cover up
a doctors mistakes. He was once a med-
cal student, and, like the convict who had a
brother in congress. he was not ashamed of
it. Mr.. Lewis said he was by no means a
Christian Scientist but he believed that
half the people of the world who think they
are sick have only diseased imaginations.
He spoke OF the uncertainty of remedies,
illustrating this with apt stories that called
forth roars of laughter AS an after.dinner
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