The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-24
UNIVERSITY MAN
LEADS THE CLASS
Highest HOnOrs to LeOn
B. Newell.
EIGHTY EIGHT PASS
There Were 129 Applicants Before
the Board of Medical Examiners.
List of Those Successful. Pro-
Ceedings of the Medical Soc
iety. Pres. TayIOe's Address.


Greensboro. N. c., May 23.-The
most interesting feature of the days
sessions of the North Carolina Medi-
cal Society was the report of the
Board of Medical Examiners this af-
ternoon, showing that out of 129 ap-
plicants, representing 80 medical coll
leges 8S had passed a successful ex-
animation and were entitled to license
to practice in this State. The highest
average made by any applicant was
that of Leon E. Newell. of the Uni,
Versity Medical Department Second
and third honors went to James J.
Phillips and Eustace II. SloOp respect
lively.
Proceedings of the Day.
The Medical Society of North Caro-
lima met in it's hfty-second annual ses-
sion in the court house at ten o'clock
this morning. three hundred being
present.
DR.. Charles Robertson. of Green's
boro. chairman of the local commit
tee on arrangements, called the body
to order and in behalf of the Guilford
County Medical Society extended a
cordial welcome to the visitors. Rev
DR.. II. w. Battle, pastor of the First
Baptist church. offered the invocation.
DR.. Charles ID. McIver. president Of
the State Normal and Industrial Col
lege, extended a welcome i'm behalf OF
the Chamber of Commerce of Green's
boro. Dr. McIver made fine address.
No aggregation of citizens. said he.
could do more than physicians to ele-
vate the tone and the standard of citi-
zenship, and right nobly have they i'm
proved their opportunities to upIift
communities as we'll as alleviate main
Representing the city of Greensboro.
Hon. A. l.. Brooks extended 4 welcome
DR.. L. b. McBrayer, of Asheville
responded to the address of welcome in
Il beautiful and eloquent and compli-
mentary strain. He referred 20
Greensboro as being known far and
wide as the City of Flowers. the Gate
City, the Hotel City, the Educational
City, the Convention City, and to these
honored and deserved titles. he found
could be added the Railroad City and
the City of Commerce and Manufac-
lures.
Address of DR.. TayIoe.
President of the North Carolina
Medical Society. DR.. d. T. Tayloe, of
Washington. then delivered the all
nual address. His subject was "Tne
Growing Need of Hospitals and Their
Isolation"
The address was closely followed
and at frequent intervals strongly ap-
plauded.
He said that most of the hospitals
in the South had been built in the past
twenty years. but their growth had not
kept pace with other forms Of pro-
gress. In the South there We're yet
many towns of four to five thousand
population without a hospital.
The health of the average man was
of greater importance than education
and the hospital had become the
greatest of all modern necessities IN
time of need. The average individual
man of today had la"ge families and
small house room and in case of acct
dent or injury, there was no possibility
of adequate relief which the emerg-
ency often demanded.
DR.. Dwight Hills had said there
were too many church buildings and
too few hospitals in this country. The
Saviour when he commanded his dis
ciples to preach the scriptures. in
cluded the injunction, Heal the sick. "
and modern life required hospitals TO
do that in many cases effectively.
DR.. Tayloe then paid high tribute
to the valuable work of the society
secretary. DIR. 7 Howell Way. of Way
nesville. in outlining and securing the
greatest practical methods known for
emergency isolation hospital substi-
tuteS and for the great impetus his
work was giving the movement to es-
tablish permanent hospitals. either
public or private.
DIR. Ways name was enthusiastically
applauded. At the conclusion of DR..
TaylOe's most able and instructive ad
dress, a resolution that it be printed
in pamphlet form for general distrf-
button was unanimously adopted.
DIR. John 7. Burrus. of High Point. !
read an instructive paper in which he
said more babies were killed by the !
administration of many modern popu- !
lar remedies than were cured and a
great many of those saved from death |
over to drug or alcoholic addictions
which made their future a burden to |
and the rublic. and to none
more so than the medical profession. |
DR.. George Thomas. of Wilmington. |
DR.. Adolph Meyer. a pro-
fessor in Cornell University and direc-
tor of the Pathological Institute of the |
city of New York. on Lone Island DR. |
Meyer was unanimously invited to 4 |
seat on the floor and requested to take |
part in the discussions of the session |
In returning his appreciation for the |
DR.. Meyer said that in |
future mental diseases would be one |
of the most important cares of the |
profession.
The future highest success of the
profession would have to depend |
largely on the family physician paying |
attention to the development of mind.
instead of reliable specialists or unre
liable duacks, being overrun with |