The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-13
DOCTORS FORGOT
THEIR PROBLEMS
AROUND BANQUET BOARD.
GEORGIA MEDICAL SOCIETY cELE-
DRAFTED ANNIVERSARY.

lowed Elaborate Menu-Dr. II. ii.
Martin, President of Society, De-
Iivered Address-Name of DIR. r.. j.
Num- Was Cheered to the Echo ny
Members and Guests.
Good cheer and good fellowship
marked the dinner at the De Soto last
night to celebrate the one hundredth
anniversary of the founding of the
Georgia Medical Society.
Shortly after o'clock the thirty-odd
invited guests of the society marched
into the breakfast room of the De Soto
in which had been spread the centen-
NAL dinner. The tables were arranged
in a hollow square about a bank of
palms and other potted plants in the
center of the room. Here and there
about the room, in every available
place, had been placed other plants so
that the entire room appeared almost
like one whose walls were solid green
cry.
At the head of the table sat DIR. H.
H. Martin, the president of the society,
and about him were the following
Drs. Marion Thomas, B. P. Oil
veros, r. P. Izlar, E. r. Cor
son, Col. j. H. Estill, Drs. M. F.
Dunn, j. N, Carter, w. E. Norton, w.
B. Orear, A. A. Morrison. r. S.
Reid, j. Weichselbaum, J.. S. Howkins
A. B. Crawford, Martin Cooley, H. w.
Hesse, ]. A. Stothart, W. w. Owens,
G. s. Thomas, Judge George T. Cam,
K. ]. Num-, j. A. Crowther, ]. T.
Rogers, Julian F. Chisholm, ]. Jones,
]. K. Train, Southgate Leigh, T. P.
Warning, R. Boyd Miller, ]. G.. Van
Marter, ]. G.. FARRELL and William A.
Dancy.
While the courses of the elabor-
ate menu were being served the
physicians threw aside the cares and
duties of their practice and anecdotes
and witty stories flowed in an almost
unbroken stream from all sides of the
festive board. There were stories of
operations that ended happily for all
concerned; there were humorous anec-
dotes of the Whims and foibleS of hui
rnanity as seen by the practicing ply
scan; and rich man and pauper, prac-
titioner and patient became alike the
targets of the ready, good-natured wit.
At times the humor was dropped and
the banqueters engaged in a serious
discussion of recent medical and sur
gical treatises, of important discoveries
in the treatment of call the ills the
flesh is heir to- and of matters of in
terest to the profession. Then the cur
rent would turn again to the humorous
and the witty and thus the evening.
passed. 1t was an informal social
gathering where each discussed those
topics with his neighbor which, were of
greatest interest to them both. Prob
lens were laid aside; puzzling ques-
lions forgotten. and merriment and
good cheer reigned. ~ a's
A MomentiOus Occasion.
After full justice had. been done to
the menu and when THE assembled
members of the society and invited
guests had settled back in their chairs
for "the feast of reason and flow of
SOUL Dr. Henry Hajer Martin rap
ped for order, and an instant later be-
gan the presidents address.
Georgia Medical Society.
DR.. E. r. Corson responded to the
toast. 'The Centennial of the Georgia
Medical Society,"" With rapid sketches
he pictured the changes that have
come with the last one hundred years
A century ago anatomy was not fully
developed, anaethetics were unknown,
molecular physics were in their in
fancy, and chemistry was almost I'M
known. The masses knew little of the
ways of physicians and the surgeon
was looked upon with grave doubt.
Since that time things have greatly
changed. The speaker pointed out the
benefits that have come from the de-
velopenent of surgery, the extension
of chemistry, the coming in of anaes-
thetics, and the wonders made posi-
BILE by the discovery of the X-ray.
In concluding his reference-retrospec
Of the first century Of the society's
history, he paid deserved tribute to
the early men of the society, the men
who gave it birth. Courage, self-sac-
rifice, and devotion, the great virtues
Of the surgeon, he deemed could not
have been absent from those old
workers, else they had not stamped
their memories so forcibly upon the
generations following. Though they
had not the advantages of to-day, they
did much, and because of the disad-
vantages which they overcome with
the true spirit of the physician the bet
ter-advantaged practitioners of to-day
should, in the opinion of the speaker,
not forget to do them honor.
In his reference to the last fifty
years of the society's history, DR.. Cor
son paid a tribute to DR.. r. j. Num-,
which called forth the prolonged APP
plause of the guests. He closed with
an earnest exhortation to the members
to strive ever to keep alive the prin-
ciples which have ever actuated the
society.
The Medical Profession.
DR.. G.. G.. Thomas, Of the Atlantic
Coast Line, responded to the toast,
THE Medical Profession" This re-
Spouse was one of the happiest of
the evening Astounding in rich humor
and ready, rapier-like wit.
With quick, mastery strokes. the
speaker painted the greatness of ply
clans. The Apostle Luke, and those
of the later years who have followed
in their footsteps have worked with
but one object in view. the relieving
of the ills and pains of humanity, the
sacrificing of self for the betterment
OF the whole human race. In illustra-
ton of the points made by the speak
er a number of Incidents were related
and the generous applause showed the
appreciation of the spirit of devotion
shown by the doctors OF the stories
DR.. Thomas closed with a beautiful
tribute to the profession. a eulogy of
It's labors, and Of the beauty that
hang about the word doctor" That
title, he said, was one OF which any
man might be well proud. The mas
Ter himself had been called the great
PHYSICIAN and doctors, through all the
course of history had been following
IN HIS steps, relieving suffering, light
ening human Ills, doing works OF kind
ness. charity. and love.
The HALLWAY surgeon.