Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07
THE ALL0PATHS
Listen to Learned Papers at the
Annual Meeting at Portland.
The Officers Elect-kew Members Session
Will Last Through Today.

Portland June 6.-At Thursday fore
Moons meeting of the Maine Medical AS
ISOLATION. DIR. S. u. Weeks of Portland
read paper upon Tuberculosis of the
Knee joint
The committee on revision of the code
and bylaws reported at length. making
certain recommendations. All tie report
which related to proposed changes in the
code was indefinitely postponed.
The following recommendations were
adopted: Every applicant for member
ship shall be furnished with a copy of the
code OF ethics and before being recon-
mended for membership. he shall satisfy
the board of censors that he has made
himself familiar with the teachings of the
code. and in the presence of the board
shall subscribe to its requirements.
Resolved, that 1t is the sense of this
association that the principles of the code
OF ethics should be taught in medical
schools by special lectures devoted to this
subject
The association met at 3 o'clock. Dr.
j. M. Jonah of Eastport, read reports of
unusual cases occurring during practice
OF 30 years. DIR. G. +. Williams of Au-
burn read paper on "Inguinal Hernia. -
Dr. John f. Thompson reported case of
abdominal abscess from gall stones.
The association then proceeded to the
election of officers for the ensuing year.
DR.. L. W. Pendleton of Portland, was
unanimously elected president. The other
officers are as follows: First vice presi
dent, DR.. d. A. Robinson, Bangor; second
vice president, DR.. C. f. Williams, Au-
burn: corresponding secretary, W. T.
Goodale, Saco; board of censors, DR.
G. o. Hunt, Portland, A. Mitchell, Bruins
wick, DR.. j. L. Bennett Bridgton, B. f.
Bradbury, Norway, w. B. Moulton. Port
land; business committee, Addison a
rhayer, Portland, Alfred King, Portland
publication committee, DR.. G. ID. Smith
secretary lex officio), DIR. C. A. Ring
Portland, F. c. Thayer, Waterville. A
G. Young, Augusta, ]. l.. NJ. Wills, Eliot
The necrologist reported the deaths dur
ing the year of Drs Moses f. Cobb, Bidde-
ford; Henry II. Hunt, Portland Fred c.
Perkins, Augusta; f. M. Eveletb, Waldo
boro; William Osgood, North Yarmouth
DR.. r. r. Goodhue of Deering Center
I. M. Griffin of Pittsfield, Alice NJ F.
Leader of Lewiston, and John A. Leader
of Lewiston, were elected members.
DR.. G. A. Peaslee of Wiscasset, read a
paper on 1.-The Treatments of Tubercu-
losis." DR.. J. A. Spauldlng read paper
IN 1.-The Sequelae of Diphtheria
The committee of visitors to the Maine
Insane hospital reported, commencing the
institution to the notice and confidence of
members Of the association. Adjourned
to so clock.
The association met at the appointed
hour, and in the absence of the President.
DR.. Alfred Mitchell of Brunswick, was
called to the chair.
DR.. A. X. p. Meserve of Portland, de-
livercd the annual Grafton, dealing with
the effects of the efforts of the individual
upon others, as we'll as the influence of the
masses upon the individual. The address
was scholarly and instructive, and was
illustrated abundantly by reference to ma
tional and individual development during
the centuries past.
DR.. d. E. Parsons of Oakland, read q
paper upon IA Clinical Study of Typhoid
Fever" DR.. S. p. Warren exhibited a
form of placenta forceps. Adjourned to
A. NJ Friday.