The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-02

W
ing of the Utah State Medical society.
There were two sessions held yester-
dav. one in the morning and one in
the afternoon, and after the reading
of papers and discussions, the medl- !
cine men gathered in the evening at
DR.. Bascom's home, where a reception
was rendered in their honor.
The morning meeting began at about
10 o'clock, when President F. 5. BascoIn
raped for order The Rev. IL. u NC
Niece offered prayer.
Mayor Baslz1n's Welcome.
1t then fell to Mayor Baskin to make
an address of welcome. He began py
concentrating the doctors on coming
together under suspicious circum-
stances and said he had always had a
fraternal feeling towards members OF
the medical profession. He then told
about the distinguished medical men
of Greece, Phonecia and Rome, ana
said that no profession had a more
brilliant past or would be likely 20
have a more notable future. He SAID
that doctors are indispensable in every
we'll regulated community, and If the
people would listen to what they say,
bad sanitation and filth. and conse-
cuent disease, would soon cease TO pc.
The executive committee ara com
nnittee on neurology brought in their
reports.
President BascOm.
President Francis S. Bascom then
delivered his address. He said that
| the honor conferred on him in electing
| him as president of the state society
was fully appreciated. and in that ca
pacity he wished to cordially well
come all who had come TO Zion from
! other parts of the state. The repre-
aentatives of the profession, he said,
| have met p deliberate upon matters of
vital interest. The programme pre-
pared for this gathering furnishes a
menu of scientific things that will
profit all members of the fraternity.
The primal objects of the society
are to strengthen fraternal feeling, and,
by concentration and unity, advance
this foremost of avocations-to protect
the community from the encroachment
of infectious diseases. But in order to
accomplish this the society must make
its influence felt. 1t must make the
are for the public good, in order that
it may receive their support in work
Ing for the public safety. Besides
state societies there should be inter
state and national societies. The
Marine hospital service has stopped the
introduction of disease from abroad;
what we now need is a national bureau
the spread of disease in every town of
the Union. The organization I'm this
territory recently of a territorial medi-
cal board encourage us to believe that
Utah appreciates the value of a. society
such as this Our present law places
wholesome check on the quack go
charlatan and they will not be able any
longer ito prostitute the best ideals of
the profession. The presence of such
laws has led the medical colleges to
advance the standard of education and
prescribe a more thorough medical
course for the student. This protec-
tive legislation has come after long
perseverance but we are proud of it.
We greatly need a state board of
health and some day will have it. Tiss
50 what the public after a. while will
demand.
The position of the medical profess
sion in the world is rapidly advancing
DR.. Hubbard, a man of culture and
scholarship, said physicians would soon
have first hOnors as professional peo-
Pile Their influence is no longer sub
ordinate to that of the priest or the
potentate. This lis because they have
devoted their lives to discovering the
source of disease and afterwards in
eradicating it. There is no more in
spring picture Of true manhood than
tine doctor. He goes on his rounds
quietly and unassumingly, Drawing all
kinds of weather and bringing cheer
and comfort to the homes of Che sor-
roW-Stricken. Physically and intellec-
tually the doctor should be possessed
Of superior parts.
Who does not remember the ''Two
Armies a poem by Dr. Holmes One
army goes out in martial array, with
saipres and flying banners. Their
glory is to slay;'" but the other goes
forward unheralded by trumpets and
bearing aloft the motto, our duty is
to save
The advancement of the standard of
medical work is to be accomplished
by just such societies as this. Personal
interest must be lost sight of in the
desire Tor the general good. It seems
almost Incredible. the long strides e.5
great developments that have beer
made In the last few years in biology
IN baGteriology, in sanitary science
Such early teachers as Escula nille
Hlppocrates, Galen and others left
much OF value to the generations after
In l5oe chemistry was introduced anc
on this mixture of science, superstition
t and magic modern medical science il
builded. d.
, Many of these false notions lin
e ger to this day. They Ar.
/, shown in the 'pathies" and Chris
= tan science. But modern medica
{ SCIENCE VIII nave none of them. An
: Gent medicine and surgery We're to
f great extent empirical, and not mt
: the last fifty years have thew devel
i oped into exact sciences. Ideal s,1,
gerry was about to be realized who
r Pasteur. whose death was but 1ataI
= announced, gave to the world the re
r suit of his Investigations and did mo,
IMAM any other man, perhaps. to owe,
throw spurious doctrines like that q
spontaneous generation.
1t is needless to recall those +r,
Il gifts of the gods, ether and cbIorr
5 form in 1S46-47; or how one hnndre
,e years ago Jenner introduced vaccina
Ie ton as preventative of disease Tn
S, oculatlon from diphtheria may b
$, looked toy as an event of the near fl
% ture.
is America takes pride in naming suc
IS surgeons as Sims, Gross. Agnew. SEM
q and Kelly; such physicians as Film
r Janeway, LOOMS, Pepper, and Gale
f. such pathologist as Welsh. The meC
Ia zeal institutions and hospitals of III
re- United States are becoming fame
e throughout the world and the doctc
v of the future is destined to be a ma
W worthy of all confidence, a. man {
:. scholarship and learning.
" This concluded the morning session
- Afternoon Session.
Of The meeting was called to order j
Sc the afternoon at o'clock and IL
a. reading of papers commenced at one
DR.. L. w. Snow, of Logan, read a
at article on "Cold Applications in tt