The times., 1901-05-08
MEDICAL EXPERTS MEET
Second Annual Convention of the
American Therapeutic Society.
Sessions Held at the National Hff.es
Armory-The Memory of DIR. Busey
Appropriately HOnored - The Ad-
dress OF vice President wilcox.

sessions Befd at the NaftOnat hhsSS
Armory-The Memory of DIR. Busey
Appropriately Honorcd - The Ad-
dress OF Vice President Wilcox
The first session of the second annual
meeting of the American Therapeutic So
ciety was opened yesterday morning at
10 O'Clock at the National Rifles Armory.
The meeting was presided over by DIR.
Reynold Webb Wilcox, of New York,
second vice president of the society, in
the absence of the president Dr. Horatio
c. Wood. who is unable to be present at
the convention because OF Ill health. The
out of town members We're welcomed in
a hearty address by DR.. Robert Reyburn,
after which reports were submitted by
the secretary, DR.. Noble P. Barnes, and
the treasurer, DR.. John S. McLain
The chief paper of the morning was read
by Dr George c. Ober, and it was in eu-
logy of the life of the late Samuel c.
Busey, one of the organizers of the so
ciety. DR. Ober said in part:
Filled with emotions to which l am
unable to give expression, ! rise to dis
charge a duty which has been unexpected
ly imposed upon me. DR.. Busey was one
of natures noblemen, a man of fearless
mental strength, energy. and ambition.
and a man of letters. whose eIoquence
alone would have entitled him to high
rank in literature. He was an honor to
his profession and his genius has added
to the wealth and knowledge of man
kind
Samuel Clagett Busey was born in
Montgomery County Md. near Cabin
John Bridge, July %, 1928 lie died in this
city February H. 1901, after a very brief
Illness. A Mr.. Grindage, of Georgetown,
offered to be his patron saint and to send
him TO West Point. 1t was the height of
the lads ambition, but his mother siren
uously objected, telling him that she de-
sirpd he should become physician He
declined to accede to his mothers wishes
until after her death. when he set about
seriously to become a physician, as she
had desired. He commenced the study of
medicine in the office of Dr. Hezekiah
Magruder in Georgetown, in May, ls45,
and took Il course In anatomy and opera
tive surgery in the National Medical Col
lege in 1916. Later he became the private
pupil of the late DR.. George B. Wood at
tended lectures at the University of Penn
sylvania, and had for his professors such
distinguished men as Pepper, Chapman,
Gibson, Norris. Horner, Hodge, Reese,
and others. He was graduated In April.
1873, when twenty years of age. and be-
gan the practice of medicine in this city.
his Office standing on ground now occu-
pied by the Congressional Library.
AS physician he was pre-eminently
successful. He was imbued with ambi-
tion and a devotion to his profession He
was a strong and honest man, who de-
sired to express his better self devoid of
affectation, pretenee. finesse, or veneer
y, h
lantly, meditated deeply and judged tenn
perately. His caution. self-controI pa
tience, and ability made him a valued
companion and d serviceabIe friend. No
intrigue, no combination of rivals ever
overawed him. He was earnest, conscien-
tious and untiring. He resolutely and
dextrously nodded his policy and then
worked it out He assisted in the reor-
ganization of the Medical Society in 1852
and some time after read his first essay
The Treatment of Aseites with Elate-
rum From that time throughout his
active professional career his contribu-
tions to medical literature were numerous
and valuable.
'Dr. Busey was made professor of
materia medica i'm the medical department
OF Georgetown University in 1853. During
the decade between 1858 and 1869 he sought
to recuperate his health by engaging in
farming, and, relinquishing his practice
removed to his country place, now known
as Belvoir. Returning TO the practice of
his profession in 1869, he helped TO organ.
ize the Columbia Hospital, in which he
had charge of the department of diseases
OF infancy and childhood. About this time
he helped organize the Children's Hospital
OF this city. In 1872 he was delivering his
first course on pediatrics in Columbia
Hospital. IL was the first course of its
kind ever delivered in the District of Co
lumba. He accepted the chair Of diseases
of infancy of Georgetown University in
1875 and in 1876 was made professor of
theory and practice OF medicine in the
same school
Nothing is more natural than the trib-
ute we pay 10 great men They represent
the history and toll and struggle OF the
nation to which they belong. So it has
been with Dr.. Busey. He was a good
man. fair, fearless. tried and true up
/ right honorable, and just-always just
a truly great man and great physician
The afternoon session, beginning al
O'Clock. was given up TO the presidential
| address and executive business.
The presidential address was delivered
! by the second vice president DR.. Rey-
! mold Webb Wilcox, professor of medicine
| and therapeutics at the Post Graduate
Medical School, of New York, and visit
| ing physician to st. Marks Hospital He
| said
The past twelve months have Witness
/ ed but few startling achievements in the
! treatment OF suffering humanity. Yet
careful review of therapeutic literature
| gives much satisfaction in that progress
| is of a kind that is likely to prove. per-
manent. | refer TO the careful study of the
! older remedies, the reinvestigation of
| theories based upon tn I'm and the read
justment of our conclusions in the light
! of those researches. Therapeutic Mill
I ism is now in disfayor, but there is
| danger in going 10 another extreme and
| stepping over the lines of a healthy op-
| timisTn into the obscruity of an insstent
| credulity"
In the evening the members of the so
| ciety attended a banquet at the Cochran.
GRADUATES OF FREEDMAN'S
| sixteen Young Women Receive
| Diplomas Nurses.
Sixteen graduates of the Training School
for Nurses of Freedman's Hospital last