The herald., 1896-04-23
PHYS|C AND FEST|V|TY
CaIifOrnia'S Doctors i'm Numbers
Meet on the Second Day
SESSIONS AND DISCUSSIONS
Several Notable Addresses Character
lied the Days Proceedings
The Election Of Officers for the Ensuing
Term-Aiternoon Meeting Curtailed.
Medcos and the Parade
SESSIONS AND DISCUSSIONS

/ The medicoS of the state convention
| turned out in goodly numbers at both
| the morning and afternoon sessions yes
terday, but there was an unsettled spirit
in the air, evidenced in the constantly
shifting audience.
The morning session was opened at
o'clock by the president, Dr. William
LIE Moyne Wells. Several notable ad-
dresses characterized this meeting.
From the committee on clinical med
icine consisting of Drs. washington
Dodge and j. r. Mcdonald of San Fran
cisco; j. |. Sargent, Santa Rosa, and X
II. Burke, San Jose, very able paper on
Tachycardia was presented by w. w.
Kerr of San Francisco, chairman. Dr.
Dodge followed with an interesting ad-
dress on Edison's Aseptolin, when was
condemned as an unsuccessful remedy:
This opinion was coincided i'll by
the following medical gentlemen VINO
discussed both papers: Edwards, hel-
sey Knoff, Montgomery, Arnold,
O"Toole, Price and DaVisson.
On Medical Topography, Meterology.
Endemics and Epidemics. a committee
comprising Drs. III. d. Robertson, san
Francisco: w. j. D. Dawson. St Hei-
ena; r. e. Taggart, Bakersfield and Is.
D. Shugart, Riverside, was represented
by the chairman, r. +. Rooney of Au-
burn, on The Climatology and Diseases
of Placer County. Discussion followed
by Drs. Davisson. Ballard and knopf.
The committee on dermatology and
genitourinary diseases, of which the fol-
lowing are members. Drs. NJ Regens-
berger. G. j. Bucknall and f. Dudley
TAFT all of San Francisco, and u. Z.
Simmons of Sacramento, presented
three reports: Some Points In the
Technique of LithopaXy by DR..
George Chismore of San Francisco,
chairman. discussed by Drs. MacGoWan
and MacMonagle, and supplemental ad-
dresses by Drs. G.. C. c. Simmons and
]. S. Sargent, which were read by title
and presented to the committee on pub
lication.
The afternoon session, beginning at
1:30 O'Clock, was occupied with the
election of officers, which resulted as
follows: President, DR.. A. G. Gibbons;
first vice president Dr. Bard; second
vice president, DR.. Maupin; secretary,
DR.. w. w. Kerr: first assistant secre-
tary, c. C. Wadsworth; second assistant
secretary, DR.. Fl. Bert Ellis; treasurer,
DR.. j. II. Parkinson; board of censors,
Drs. Levitt, Mays, Hanson, Reynolds
and Dewitt; board of examiners. Drs.
Hart Barbat. Williamson, Cheney, Hop
kins, Fitzgerald and Wadsworth; alter
mates, Drs. Carpenter, Woodward and
Dodge. 1t was decided to hold the next
annual meeting in San Francisco.
A series of reports. also scheduled Tor
the afternoon, was ruled out until today
on motion suggested by DR.. Beverley
Cole. 1t was the learned gentleman's
private opinion that the other doctors
wives were waiting impatiently outside
on one foot, by turns. and for the sake
of conjugal evenness adjournment was
a duty.
In less than two minutes after the hes
itating motion was made there was not
a single medico to be seen. Besides the
demonstrations on the streets and other
distractions in the vicinity of the med
ical precincts were several cases of
sparkling Puritas sent through DR.. Fol
lansbee. first, that the doctors might not
carry home strange bacteria, and sec
ondly in consequence of a mild thrust
made by DR.. Cole that the City of the
Angels was "oiIy."
Further allurements in close proXim-
ity We're treats of ice cream made from
Horlick's matted milk and presented by
DR.. W. s. Clark Of Ontario, Cal Next
door could be obtained Malto-Fer.
tonic that looks like, tastes like, but
isn't wine made by Worden of San
Francisco. who has brought down ma
ciinery, as we'll as operators in dainty
caps and aprons. who brew all sorts
of liquid pharmaceutical preparations
and encase them in capsules.