The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-19
COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY


New Officers Elected for the Ensuing
notwithstanding Papers Read by
Prominent Physicians-Next Meeting
| VIII be In Water bury-Banquet nt tho
| New Haven House.
The semi-annual meeting of the New
Haven County Medical association was
held yesterday at the New FaVeh
house with about thirty-f1ve members III
attendance. DR.. Carl E. Munger OF
Waterbury, president of the assoc1a-
ton, presided The following officers
for the ensuing year were elected: Pres
ident, DR.. II. L. Swain of New Haven;
vice president, DR.. F. B. futile of Maui
gatuck. The secretary and treasurer
of the association is DR.. Joseph Fl.
Townsend of this city, who holds over
this year, he having been elected for
term of five years.
| The meeting was called to order 'at
| 1O:45, and after the minutes of the last
meeting were read and approved the
| following members were elected: Drs.
| Charles H. Gardner of New Haven,
| William S. Barnes of New Haven, Jo-
seph A. Cooke of Merden, Edward A.
HARE of Derby.
President Munger read very inter-
esting paper on 1.-THE Prevention of
Consumption" The doctor argued that
consumption was a disease that was
usually regarded as incurable. He said
1t was more to be feared than any other
disease that was usually regarded as
incurable He said it was more to be
feared than any other disease and that
in a measure contagious and that it
might be communicated by means of
moist and dried sputum. He said there
ought to be hospitals where consump-
tive patients should be separated from
all who had no symptoms of the dis
ease He said that in this manner
phthisis could be deprived of its ter
rors by strict separation and by pre-
venting conSumptiye patients from 60
ing to church or the theater or to trav-
ell in the street cars or other public
conveyances. The patients went
through life splitting their lives away,
and that there was in this act great
deal of danger to the public. Every
one is afraid of cholera, but it is not
more dangerous than tuberculosis He
instanced the action of the officials of
the Victoria hospital in Edinburgh,
where they adopted the most rigorous
rules of separation for the good of the
community at large. He said that If
the consumptive patient had to expec-
70 that hn Chnl111 q h1n6kpr-
chief of some cheap material that
could be burned at once and thus not
left as a source of danger to the pub
lie. Consumptives ought not to marry
and propagate their kind and consump
tive mothers ought not to kiss their
children.
Dr. s. G. Hubbard spoke on the pa
per. He said that he had prepared a
valuable paper on that subject many |
years ago and he wished that he had
100, 900 copies of it to distribute through
out the state and country. He instanc-
ed the case of Rev. jeremiah Day of
Yale who, he said, at one time of his |
life had a well developed case of con-
He went and lived for a few |
years in Washington, Litcht1eld county,
Conn, and after a time he was cured.
Rev. DR.. Day died Of old age in his
year. The speaker and
Dr. Moses C. White, medical examiner
Of this city, made a post norton exam
nation and they found where there
had been two well developed cavities
IN the lungs. He thought that out of
door exercise was beneficial for con
He said that he did not
believe in drugs, nor did he go so far
as to say that there ought to be CON
sumptive hospitals. He said that he
himself had phthisis in his early life
md that he was sent out on a cattle
arm in Illinois. He said: Il am now
n my eighty-fourth year, and have not
symptom of disease"
DR.. Mary B. Moody spoke on the sub
ect and said that the disease could be
checked to some extent by clothing,
rood air and altitude. She said that
PASADENA, Cal, was a good place, as
vas Asheville, N. G. She said that
pittng in street cars ought to be pro-
libited by law.
DR.. Slattery also spoke commencing
he doctrines laid down in the paper of
Or. Munger. Drs. Wright and Poore
lso spoke at length.
There was no report of the commit
ee.
DR.. c. s. Rodman of Waterbury was
lected to succeed himself as one of
he executive committee. DR. Gustavus
1liot the other member, holds over,
he members being elected for two !
ears.
1t was decided, upon the invitation of .
)r. C. S. Rodman, to hold the next
netting Of the association at Water t
ury. Y
DR.. Goodwin read a paper on THE I
-rtificial Feeding of Infants" DR.. L
V. Bacon read a paper on "Dissecting l
Wounds and DIR. Poore of waterbury
cad a paper on "Endo-Card itis."
AT 2 o'clock the members sot down |
} banquet at the New Haven house
BOND INCREASED.