The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-05
FORTY : NINTH SESSION
LAFAYETTE ENTERTAINs ANNUAL
CONVENTION OF DOCTORS.
Semi-CentenniaI of State Medical So
ciety to BE Held Here-Indiana
Dentists at Muncie.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 4.-This city was
given over to Indiana doctors tonight on
account of the forty-ninth annual meeting
of the State Medical Society. The visiting
physicians began to arrive on the afternoon
trains and tonight most of the prominent
practitioners of the State are here for the
three days session. There was a large dele
cation of Indianapolis physicians, including
Drs. w. N. Wishard, F. B. Wynn, l.. Burck-
hardt, III. o. Painter, G. V. Cook, A. w.
Brayton, Theodore Potter. j. A. Lambert,
A. E. Sterne and others. The officers of the
society are: DR.. w. N. Wishard, of In
dianapolis, president: DR.. Jonas Stewart, of
Anderson, vice president; Dr. f. C. Heath
of indianapolis, secretary, and Dr. A. E.
Bulson, of Fort Wayne, treasurer.
The first meeting of the doctors was the
one tonight in connection with the auxiliary
society of the state society, known as the
Indiana State Pediatric Society, formed a
year ago. DR.. Paul Barcus, Charlottesville,
is president, and Dr. Louis Burckhardt, OF
Indianapolis, secretary. The conclusions Of
this society are reported summarily to the
state society, and may be published in the
transactions-an annual report of five or
seven hundred pages, copy OF which IS
sent to each of the Loo members. This So
ciety met tonight in the parlors of the
Lair House and discussed the general topic,
What are the Effects of Disease upon the
Developing Mind of Children" The subject
was discussed under six heads as follows:
/, Diseases of the Nervous System" p. G..
Barcus of Charlottesville; 2, Diseases of
the Respiratory and Circulatory Organs"
Dr. Don Kennedy of Homer; 3, Diseases
of the Digestive Organs" DIR. Louis Burck-
hardt, of Indianapolis; A. Diseases of the
Excretory, organsi~ Dr. A: w. BIayt9n, OF
Diseases Dr. John A Lambert, of Indian
apols;" 6, Conditions Dependent on De-
fective Hygiene" Dr. w. j. Purchaser, OF
Salem.
The meeting was open to the local and
visiting physicians, many Of whom attended
besides the thirty members of the society
proper.
The state society will begin it's forty ninth
annual session tomorrow morning. There
will be five sessions for the reading of pa
pers and transaction of business, closing
Friday at p. m. The meetings will be held
in the chapel of Purdue University During
the two days of the meeting continuous
demonstrations will take place in the labora-
tories of pharmacy, biology, histology, bac-
teriology, chemistry, veterinary medicine,
botany electricity, mechanical engineering
and locomotive engineering The address
of the president, DR.. w. NJ Wishard, of
Indianapolis. will be delivered Thursday
night. DR. Whitaker, of Cincinnati, is the
guest of the society and will give an address
on THE Influence of Climate on Diseases
Of the Chest DR.. J. Dinner, of Fort
Board of Registration and EXAMINATION,
will speak on the Results Secured by the
will be given in the Trinity Methodist Epis-
copal Church in Lafayette, and are open to
the public.
The Lincoln Lafayette and Jackson clubs
will be open to the delegates, some three
hundred in number. and after the evening
| session the Tippecanoe County Medical So
ICtoN ion tn 40 OHIO &
aided by the citizens, at the Lafayette Club
house. The Street-car Company has ten
ton. The Purdue University faculty will
assist in entertaining the guests and at the
same time will make them acquainted with
their superior opportunities for teaching
the biological sciences.
Forty-seven meetings of the state society
have been held in indianapolis. In 1896 the
meeting held at Fort Wayne, with
an attendance of 280. Last year the society
met at Terre Haute, with about the same
| number. Evansville was selected for the
present meeting, but the Vanderburg So
cety found it had not hotel room sufficient
to accommodate the guests and so requested
the state society to relieve them, and La
fayette was selected by the committee. The
semi meeting, it is conceded, will
be celebrated at Indianapolis, and the Ma
Tion county society will entertain over five
hundred members of the state society by a
grand banquet, such as was given ten years
ago. when James Whitcomb Riley was the
guest of the state society and uttered for the
| first time his Incompatible poem of Doc
| Sifers,' which he has since expanded to the
volume of quotations known the "Ru-
bayat of Doc Sifers. 1t was to the same
banquet that Bill Nye, who could not be
present, telegraphed the side-sptting no.
| tice at o'clock in the morning: Sorry
/ cannot be with you; continue to take life
easily, as before.
The Indiana State Medical Society is the
third in numbers in the United States, COM
prising 1,400 members, of which 335 are
members of the great American Medical
Association of 10000 members, which holds
an annual meeting of from LOCO to 5000.
according to its geographical location. The
Indiana society is a delegate society made
up of over seVenty-five county societies. No
paper can be read before it unless it has
first been read before county society and
approved. The Marion county society has
1870 members and sends thirty delegates to
the state society, of whom ten will read
scientific papers, follows: Spinal Irri-
tation," H. M. Lash: The Optic Nerve"
J. O. Stillson: Sudden Blindness" j. L..
Masters; Appedicitis," l.. II. Dunning;
Hernia" W. v. Morgan; "Naso- Pharyn-
gifts" l.. c. Cline; Hay Fever" J. F.
Barnhill; Syphilis and the Public Health >
F. B. Wynn; rheumatism, Endocarditis
and Chorea." A. E. Sterne; Prevention of
tuberculosis IT. Potter. DR.. Wynn will
also present collection Of nearly one hum
dred pathological specimens, largely con-
tributed by the coroner of Marion county,
DR.. Brayton, and by various members of
the society.