Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-06-08
NEW MEXICO MEDICAL SOCIETY.
The Seventeenth Annual Meeting at La,
Vegas Last Saturday.

The Seventeenth Annual Meeting at Las
Vegas Last Saturday.
From the Optic, June o.
The seventeenth annual meeting Of the
New Mexico Medical society was held al
the city hall In East Las Vegas on June
4. There present Drs. G. g. Duncan, Of
Socorro; Samuel d. swOpe, Of Demlng.
and Drs. Upton, Shaw, Milligan. Atkins
Smith and Alice II. Rice, Of Las Vegas
As visitors at the opening Drs. Henry, Of
Albuquerque, and Wrubel, Mohr, Bradley
and n. B Romero, OF this place. Drs.
wrubel, MOhr and Romero were elected
to membership.
In the absence Of the president and
secretary from Albuquerque, DR.. Swope
held the chair and DIR. Atkins acted ~
secretary.
The new officers elected we're; Presi-
dent, 8. d. swope, Deming: FIRST vice
president, H. b. Shaw, Las Vegas; second
vice president, J. Il. WrOth, Albuquerque
third vice president, William c. Bailey,
Hot Springs; secretary, g. A. Wall, Albu-
querque; treasurer, G. g. duncan.
The next place OF meeting was fixed at
Albuquerque, In May, 1899.
a number Of excellent papers were
read, OF which the chief were. "The Man.
agement Of Our TuberculOs Visitor" by
s. ID. Swope, which was amply discussed
by most Of the physicians present; "The
Essential Fact in the Treatment OF
Chronic Diseases OF the Respiratory
fraci," by s. Wrubel, Of Las Vegas; "Ihe
Climatic Treatment Of Consumption"
sent I'M by Y. X. Waxhon, OF Denver, an
honorary member; "A Case Of Apparent
Perforation in Typhoid Fever" by y. II.
Atkins; "An Ideal Conception OF an IDEAL
Hystereclomy for Uterine Carcinoma"
sent I'M by Thomas II. Hawkins, OF Den.
YER, also an honorary member. One or
two other papers promised were not read
on account Of the enforced absence OF the
writer's.
In the evening the members aud their
ladies became the guests Of DR.. William
Curtiss Bailey, the amiable and skilful
medical director Of the MOntezuma SAM
tarium at the Las Vegas hot springs.
The visitors were shown all through
this magnificent plant and entertained
by the dulcet strains Of Prof. Hands
string quartette.
AT 8 y. m. an elegant banquet OF many
courses was served In the beautiful din
ing hall, though IL was rather puzzling
to the hungry scribe 10 tell who presided,
the amiable tOastmaster. DR.. Shaw, the
clever and versatile host, DR.. Bailey. or
the newly elected president, the silver
tongued Kentucky orator, DR.. Swope.
However, under the genial stimulation
Of a tiny cup OF coffee and a TIMER glass
Of some X. Y. z. U. beverage. served
Herewith, the tOastmaster extracted
some alleged after-dinner speeches from
Drs. Atkins, Swope and Mohr, and the
banquet ended.
The post -prandial exercises In the
smoking room, under the joylal leader
ship OF DR.. Jones, house physician. we're
very entertaining, and the entlcing con-
yivial songs which would not soften Dr..
Bailey's hard heart, andiMr. Nipples COM
ical address on Climate" served we'll TO
end a pleasing evening. The absence OF
many Albuquerque doctors, members Of
this society, was conspicuous. the same
unfortunate circumstance having occur
red when the annual meeting was held
here In 1896.