The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-17
COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

Meeting at the New Haven House Yester-
day-Fellows to State Society Elected
Several Papers Read-Dr. Loomis' Ex-
periments With X Rays.
The annual meeting of the New Ha-
ven County Medical society was held
at the New Haven house yesterday,
beginning at 10 o'clock in the morning.
DR.. Gustavus Eliot president of the
society, was in the chair. The parlors
in which the meeting was held were
filled with physicians, most Of those
present being residents of this city.
The first business Of the meeting was
the election of new members. The fol-
lowing We're admitted to membership:
DR.. Elias w. Davis of Seymour, Yale
'92; DR.. Robert o. Moody of New Ha-
ven, Yale "a; DR.. John w. H. Lapointe
of Meriden, University of Laval, Mon
treal, 80; DR.. Edward S. Moulton of
New Haven, Yale '94; DR.. Frederick N.
Sperry of New Haven, Yale "a; DR..
William F. Verdi of New Haven, Yale
'94 The name of DR.. S. D. Otis of Mer-
iden, which had been proposed, was
withdrawn.
The meeting then adopted a new con-
stitution and bylaws, after which DR..
F. w. Wright read a paper on Scarlet
Fever" DR.. Wright's paper was dis
sertation upon the care and treatment
of contagious and infectious diseases,
and paid especial attention to the mat
ter of preventing their spreading. He
laid special stress upon the necessity
that every city should be provided with
an establishment for the care of conta-
gious diseases, and suggested for this
purpose portable sectional hospitals in
proportion to the population.
The inhumanity of the present sys-
tenn, the lack of proper hospital ac-
Communications for contagious diseases,
deserved attention, he said. He was
convinced that there were deaths in
New Haven every month which might
have been prevented by proper hospi-
tai accommodations.
The first topic discussed was 1.-THE
Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer
and a committee reported on the same.
DR.. C. j. Foote of this city presented
paper on Cancer of the Head and
Neck" and DR.. w. H. Carmalt a paper
on Cancer of the Chest and Abdomen"
and these topics were discussed by sew
eral of the members. DR.. F. E. Beck i.
with was to have read a paper on Can
Ger of the Pelvis and Extremities, but
he was not present.
Fellows were elected to the Connect
icut Medical society, which meets in
D,-
Townsend of this city, DR.. c. E. Mum
ger of Waterbury, DR.. F. N. LOOMS of
Naugatuck, DR.. R. A. Mcdonald of
New Haven, and DIR. w. V. Wilson.
Among the visitors present was DR..
Jarwin of New York. The out of town
members attending included Drs. Rod
man, Barber and Munger of Water
bury, Pierce and Meeks of Meriden,
Goodyear of North Haven, Barnes of
Oxford, Heddy of Milford, w. P. Will
son of Wallingford and Bradstreet of
Meriden.
Those attending from this city in
cluded w. H. Carmalt, T. H. Russell,
]. H. Townsend. Gustavus Eliot. C. A.
Lindsey, F. W. Wright, Fred Bellosa,
F. H. Whittemore, Alling, M2ilhouse,
Daggett, klenke and Osborn.
About seventy members were present.
The annual dinner was served at the
New Haven house at 2:S0.
After dinner DR.. Loomis gave some
shadowgraph pictures showing the re-
suit of his experiments with the Y
rays. He showed several pictures
which he had taken by Y rays, using
instead of Crooke tube a small in
candescent light globe,