Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-04-13
PHYSICIANS CONFER.
Regular Quarterly Meeting Held Yester-
day.

day.
The regular quarterly meeting of
the Iowa and Illinois Central District
Medical association convened in the
parlors of the Harper house, after
having partaken of dinner as a body,
at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Those present were: Drs. Robertson.
French, Crawford, Saunders, Asav,
Hall, Kerns, Comegys, Baker, Wright,
DeArmond, MCGOWAN, Allen, Hollow
bush, Sala. Carter, Morgan, Can't
well, Craig, Eyster. Truesdale, Barth
and Middleton. Proposals for mem
bership followed. and DIR. w. o.
Seam, of Moline. graduate of the
College of Physics and Surgery, of
Chicago, class of '93; DR.. Charles L.
Whiteside, graduate of the same coll
iege in 81; DR.. A. r. Nichols, of
Davenport, graduate of the women's
medical department of the North
western University in 80, and DR..
r. j. Peck, of Davenport, graduate
of the Iowa, State University in 80,
were proposed for membership. The
board of censors reported favorably
thereon. and the physicians named
were duly elected to membership.
On motion delegates to the Ameri-
can Medical association meeting at
San Francisco, to be held in MAY,
were left to be appointed by the sec
rotary. DR.. S. &. Plummer having
already concluded to go, he was APP
pointed as one of the delegates.
Drs. Allen, Robertson, Cantwell,
Crawford. and McCowen were ap-
pointed delegates to the Iowa Medi-
cal society meeting, to be held in
June at Des Moines. Drs. Plummcr,
Truesdale, Eyster, Craig, Sloan,
Whiteside, Beam and Comegys were
appointed to represent the society al
the meeting of the Illinois Medical
society. so be held in the near future.
DR.. j. W. II. Baker, of Davenport,
read Il highly interesting paper on
Vaccination. in which he held,
Small pox is the most dangerous dis.
ease OF all except in persons who hav,
been vaccinated. and the finding of 4
preventative was one of our creates,
blessings. DR.. Jenncr had discov.
cred that the inoccuiation of people
with bovine or humanized vaccin,
virus would positively prevent small
poX-;his was in 1897. He claimed
that vaccination, ii properly carried
Tout. would eXterminate il entirely.
DIR. Baker then explained the tw,
methods. and claimed that the COW
poX or bovine virus had no superior
qualities to the humanized. except
chat it could he obtained fresher.
He gave humaniZcd virus the pref,
creucc. but in the discussion which
followed by Drs. Truesdalc. Allen
Crawford. Eyster, Morgan. Cantwel
and De Almond. the preference wa:
given to the cow poX, or bovine virus
Resolution.
At the conclusion OF Dr.. Baker,
paper, Dir. Allen introduced the fol
lowing resolution, which was adopted
Resolved, That this association re.
CARDS systematic vaccination Is tn,
only certain means of preventing The
spread of small poX, and endorses tn,
boards OF health in their efforts to en-.
force vaccination.
DR.. c. {. Carter then read a paper
on case Of '-Laparotomy. followed
by Pcritonitis and its Subsequent
Treatment" The paper was, on mo-
ton. received and discussed
DR.. Allen then reported a unique
ease on miningitis with tcmperatIlr,
a high a 10.
On motion the meeting was adj
iourncd.