The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-06-10


business, the meeting adjourned unit
g.: 30 p. m.
Thursday Evening Session.
The address of welcome was delivered
| by Rev. Ward, pastor of Mt. Lebanon
! Baptist Church, of Columbia. He said
he believed that the negro race could
never reach the destiny which God has
intended it should until it recognized
it's own professional mec and women.
He looks forward to with nope for the
time when negro physicians shall do
all their practice. II do this" be said,
mot from prejudiced standpoint, but
because it is our duty to each other
The address on behalf of the ministry
was delivered by Rev Lawrence.
DR.. Stevens welcomed the Society on
behalf of the profession.
Respor ses to those welcomes were
made by Dr. Voorhees, and DR.. Town
send, both of Nashville. rhe latter
pleaded with the profession to bestir it.
self to bring about some means of stamp
ing out the dreadful diseases of con
sumption and cancer, which he said,
are making destructive inroads among
our people.
DR.. Winston responded on behalf of
the pharmacists.
Rev. DR.. j. a. Davis, Presiding Ell
der of the Columbia district, who has
just returned from the General Confer
ance at Chicago, was called upon and
addressed the Society.
The final business of tho evening was
transacted and the session closed to
meet this morning at 800 o'clock.
Friday s Session.
The convention was opened W. 1
prayer Frsday morning at 10 O'Clock by
Rev. J. S. Gilmore. The first paper
read was one on 'Pyogenic Infection
i'll the Newly Born, by Dr. c. O
Hadley, of Nashville. The next was
Infant Feeding, by DR.. r. I'll. Boyd
of Nashville; Hay Fever, +" by A.
NJ. Townsend, NJ. d. All the papers
discussed by the convention.
DR.. Joe VOORHEES,, of Maury County
the convention. The con
vention then adjourned until 2 O'Clock.
Friday Nights Session.
The Convention met Friday night. |
Dr.. A. 7. Braxton, of Columbia, was
elected President of the A ssociation for |
the next twelve months; DR.. E. w. En-
win, of West Tennessee, First Vice
President; D. w. d. Rogers, of Easi
tennessee, Second Vice President; j. ID.
Flower, of Middle Tennessee, Third
President; W. A. Read, Secretary; DR.
Corresponding Secretary;
J. w. Winston. Treasurer: Annie b
Marsh, Historian.
The nsw executive committee is as
ollows; Drs. r f. Boyd, Bandy, Red
non, Severe, Low, Washington, Nit
,hel. Tnis committee was empowered
10 select the place of meeting next year
A committee was appointed to inves-
gate the appropriation of 100000 by
he u. S Government for che education
If colored physicians in the United
states.
The following papers were read and
discussed at Friday afternoon 5 session.:
The Education of Colored Physici
MS" by DR.. G W. Hubbard Dean OF
1eharry Medical College, Nashville; |
IA per by l.. @. Isbell chief physician /
{ the colored Sanitarium in Nashville. /
q the Regulation of Diet ana Necessi-
y of Batbs;'' paper ON "Constipa
ION, (" by DR.. w. A Reed, of Nashville;
and Anesthetics," by DR..
'. W. Stephens, of Columbia; "The
'rained Nurse and the Physician" by C
liss Dckerson; "Some Pharmaceuti &
II Preparations, by DR.. Sewer; ar "
uinal Hernia by DR.. G. w. Bandy; {
The Pharmacist as Factor in the l.
Ieaing Art, by DR.. j. w. Winston. Fl
Drs. j. G. Williamson and j. n. q
likes, two of the prominent white =
hysicans Of Columbia, addressed the n
invention and made encouraging talks Y