The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-27
STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH ANNUAL
 SESSION.

Dr. Ralph S. Goodwin Presldent-Report ofsecretary N. IG. wordin-NeoroloGy for the Year-Papers Road at To-day's ses- sion-Banquet This Evening.
 Hartford, May 26-The one hundred and fifth annual meeting of the State Medical association was begun at 11:S0 this forenoon at Keney hall on Pratt street. The attendance was large for the initial meeting. pr. Robinson Of Danielson, president of the association, presided and Dr. N. E. Wordin of Bridgeport was the secretary.
 The vice president of the association is Dr. Ralph S. Goodwin of Thomaston. Both Drs. Goodwin and Wordin are members of the state board of health Dr. Wordin, the secretary, is also a veteran of the war. serving three years in the Sixth Connecticut
 His report as secretary, which was presented at the meeting, reviewed the year in an interesting way. Dr. Wor- din said, in substance: The Connecti- cut Medical society enters upon its one hundred and sixth year with mem bership of 622. This is a gain of thir- teen over last year, rather small in- crease.
 An analysis of the colleges from which the new members have graduat- ed shows that the graduates are wide ly distributed in their college homes; that New York and Philadelphia are ceasing to be the choice of most Of the young medical students, and that Yale continues to increase her lead among the new men who settle in our state. Out of the forty-five new members, ten are graduates of Yale, four each of the University of New York and the Col lege of Physicians and Surgeons, three each from Bellevue, Baltimore Medical college and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, while two each come from the classical institu- tions of Harvard, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania
 Familiar names may be also noticed and it will be found that some of the sons are treading in the footsteps of their fathers.
 Of the dead there are twelve, some of them among the oldest, two of them having been members for fifty consecu- tiev years. The oldest on the list is Dr. Hull Allen, University of New York. 1921. Then follow him Henry Wightman Hough, 1886; Pinckney Web- ster, Ellsworth, 1S39 William F. Lacey, 1S44; John Welch Bidwell, 1S46; Edwin Allen Hill, 1S50 Leonard J. Sanford, 17S54; Daniel Carroll Leavenworth, 1865; Abraham Travis Clason, 1866; Byron Wooster Munson, 1869; Joseph A. Liv- ingston, 1890; William Rowland Bab cock, 1894.
 In transcribing these names there comes the suggestion that the blood of many noble and great men of early days is coursing through the veins of the Connecticut men of to-day.
 PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS.
 Dr. J. c. Kendall of Norfolk, chair man of the committee on matters of professional interest in the state, made the report of his committee. The first topic treated of was the sterilization of milk. There are two methods of steril- izing. One at high and the other at low temperature. Experience has shown that milk sterilized at a high temperature Is often repugnant to the taste, and also that it does not nour- ish the patient or the child as well as milk that has not been sterilized. So the idea has been suggested and the practice adopted of sterlizing at a low temperature by prolonging the time during which the milk Is exposed to the heat A favorite method is using 165 degrees of heat for twenty minutes. u,hi hot thr1c +ol ;c better taken by the patient or child and maintains the nutrition more satisfac- torily.
 The second subject reported on is the recent treatment of typhoid fever. The abortive treatment does not meet with much favor from the physicians of this society. The eliminative and antisep- tic treatments are quite generally adopted, with results which encourage the general adoption of these treat ments. By these methods the tempera- ture is kept at a lower point, and the period of it's highest degree is much ab- breviated The nutrition of the body is better maintained. There is less need of stimulants, and all the symptoms are less marked in severity. Although perhaps the course of the disease is not materially shortened, it is better borne by the patient, and the mortality is much diminished.
 Dr. Kendall who made this report has been in practice in Norfolk for the last twelve years. He is classmate of Dr. Wordin, graduating in 1870 at Yale. He pursued medical course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. Dr. Kendall is a native of Ridgeheld in this state, and his fa- ther is still living, at the age of eighty years, in that town.
 PRESIDENT GOODWIN.
 At the annual election of officers, which took place at o'clock this after noon Dr. Goodwin, the vice president was advanced to the presidency of the association, and pr. Wordin was re- elected secretary.
 Dr. Ralph S. Goodwin, the new presi- dent, was born July 24, 1899, in the town of Litchfield and was educated in the Binghamton academy, Binghamton N Y. He began the study of medicine in 1862 under Dr. Barr of Binghamton and continued it under Drs. Enos and Conklin of Brooklyn, N. Y, and Dr. A. S. Hunter of New York city. He at Of rne6ion1