Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1904-01-08
WAYNE COUNTY
MEDICAL SOCIETY
HOLDS FIRST REGULAR MEET
ING OF THE YEAR.
AT THE COURT HOUSE
Excellent Program Rendered Papers
Read and Discussed.
AT THE COURT HOUSE

The first meeting of the Wayne
County Medical association for the
year 1904 was held yeterday after
noon at the court house. The follow
ing program had been prepared:
Papers.
ssFracture of Femur" DIR. Mauk.
"Puerperal Eclampsia' : DR..
Watts.
EsDiphtheria DR. Ewing.
ssLocomotor Ataxia DIR. Littel1.
Drs. Littell and Mauk were de-
tanned and unable to be present, and
DIR. Watts is confined to his home
with a severe illness, so that the pa
pers of these three were not read,
but will be held over and called for
next meeting.
The afternoon was largely taken
up in the reading of DIR. Ewing's pa
per and the discussion of diphtheria
and its treatment. The question was
up for discussion as to which was the
best remedy for the disease. With
out single dissenting voice, it was
agreed BY all that anti-toxin was the
"sine qua non," the best thing to
apply and, moreover, that it should
be applied in the early stages OF the
disease. Furthermore, 1t was unanl-
mousIy agreed that even if there
might possibly be any doubt as to
whether the patient was suffering
from diphtheria or tonsilitis that
antitoxin should be given early and
should be continued in substantial
doses. Thus, If the disease did final
" settle into diphtheria the patient
would be on the safe side, while, if
the disease proved nothing more than
an attack of tonsilitis, no harm would
be done and the antitoXin might have
warded off the dread diphtheria. As
to the use of antitoxin there was not
a dissenting voice, all the physicians
present being convinced that the
above named remedy was the best
and the only one to be applied.
After the discussion the remainder
of the afternoon was entirely taken
up with the regular routine matters
of business.
The medical society is trying to
get a suite of rooms to be used as a
laboratory and a medical library, and
is looking over the rooms at the court
house preparatory to making a
choice The Wayne County Bar as
sociation has a legal library, and the
Medical society is getting up a
medical library. At present there are
forty nine members of the society.
Physicians from all over the coun-
ty were present at this, the first
meeting Of the New Year No appli-
cations for membership were received
and the routine business was very
light. The following physicians were
In attendance:
J. b. Allen and J. n. Study, Cam
bridge City; NJ W. Veneer, Boston
NJ. L. Meek, Abingdon; o. n. Huff,
Fountain City; G. S. Bond, L. G.
Bowers, A. L. Bramkamp, Z. B. G.
Ewing, G. H. Grant, r. r. HOPKINS,
M. F. Johnston, S. c. Mar 4, G.
Marvel, J. B. Meek, d. Steven
son, J. w. Strange and 3 NJ. Wamp-
Ter, of this city.
The next meeting of the Medical
society Will be held February 4th at
the court house.
The last Indiana health report
gives the following diseases as caus-
ing the greatest mortality in the
months in which they are placed:
January Diphtheria
February Pneumonia and infuen-
IA.
March Scarlet fever and measles.
April tuberculosis and acute ar
ticular rheumatism.
July Sunstroke, apoplexy and
malaria.
August-Dysentery and mucus col
tits.
September ber-Appendicitis.
October Ulcer of the stomach and
typhoid fever.