The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-06-07

DOCTORS MEET.
Eighty-Third Annual Meeting Of the
R. ]. Medical Society.

The s3rd annual meeting OF the Rhode
Island Medical Society was held at
Tillinghasts assembly room at
10 o'clock this MOI ping. The
president, DIR. Robert i. Meyer, pre-
sided and after the records OF the last an
nual and business meetings had been read
and approved, DIR George l.. Collins made
the annual statement OF the trustees OF
the Fisk Fund. AS no essays had been re-
ceived during the past year no prize
had been given and the COM
m'ttee suggested that a prize OF 300 be
offered for the best essay on the subjecs
of 1.-The Etiology, Pathology and Treat
msnt OF Diseases OF the Prostate Gland. T"
The financial report of the fund COM
mittee was as follows: Balance on hand
at laot annual meeting, S7939.3l !;
receipts, 1867 10; total, ss906. f6; in deposit
at local banks, S27S; total, s91Sf.46; which
showed an increase OF S977.93 over last
year.
DIR. j. III. Hobart Burge OF Brooklyn, N.
Y; DIR. IL. Il. Silvers OF Orange, N. j.;
DIR. II. Il. McQuesten OF Nashua, N. H.; DIR.
Charles A. Morse OF New Market, ". H.,
end DIR. Francis w. Goss of Rox bury,
Mass, were presented as guests OF the
society.
DIR. George ID. henry then read a most
interesting paper on ''The Selection and
administration of Anasthetics," ;" in which
he made a number of important sugges-
tions that provoked considerable discus
sion among the physicians OF the society.
DIR. Robert f. Noyes then delivered his
annual address on "The Evolution of
Antisepsis."
On the recommendation of the censors
DIR. j. l.. Sprague OF this city was elected
TO fellowship in the society.
number of brief but exceedingly in
teresting addresses were then delivered
by DIR. IL. II. Clark, DIR. Leonard, DIR. Palm
or, DIR. Noyes and Others, after which DIR.
George ID. Hersey delivered an instructive
address on "The Selection and Admins
tration Cf Al@sthetics."
A brief intermission was taken, after
which DIR. Noyes delivered his annual adj
dress, the subject being "The Evolution
of Antisepsis."
DIR. Noyes spoke briefly OF the many
great invention that had permitted the
medical and surgical science to take such
great strides to their present high posi-
tions and paid tributes to all the great
men who had mado discoveries that
tendored to rcsch much results.
DIR. NCySs then took up the subject OF
Gntisepe- Is and followed IL from the time
whom bacteria WIS first discovered.
Many gr t minds had united in making
centurioo, rad brou ghs ou stioning man
to tic verge OF thu precipice of the
unhnoVcble. Man was ever ready to
search for some fact that would lead him
to the discovery of the cause
and the origin of life. Up
TO the present time the expert
monts had not been entirely satisfactory
Lut they had certainly been more or less
successful for they had led To the
discovery OF spontaneous gonoration OF
protoplasm as the osence of life and had
evolved the science of baeteriology.
DIR. NoyeJ then reviewed the history
OF the treatment of wounds and
mentioned many strange and in
terestlnS facts about the old
fallacies OF the phyr icinns before the dis
covory of the CORN theories and the days
of anticopsis.
Tho JDeaker then conlidered the future
possibilities Of le science of antesepsis,
and raid hat while many Of the expert
ments OF Pasteur nd Koch had
bocl un-uccossfIl or only p rtially sue
ce5sful, there was no re-son 10 doubt that
some one, follow \ after them, might
not take Their Worl, when they had left it
ard carry IL TO it, 81 cces~ful completion
The pop@r Showed the deepest research
and was heartily erplauded, after which
Ito meeting ws adjourned, the
members proceed lin, TO the small he'll
where the exhibit OF phycicianu' supplies
IVES e4sf.4s ff4ed. d.
Dinner was then served at the Troca-
dero, nearly eveIy chair at the table being
occupied, and tie menu was one that
couls be thoroughly enjoyed by all.