The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-01-19
The Doctors Agree on the Re.
concentrations to Submit.
Regular Meeting Of the Medical so
ciety Lest Night--Dr. Olivia
Melon Lectures.
PAPER ny DIR. CHILDREss

The McCracken County Medical So
ciety met last night In the Offices Of
Or ". NJ. Chlldress with a good at
tendance, several county physicians
being in attendance. The board
adopted resolution which will be
submitted TO the municipal boards
regarding the management of the
new city hospital. This is the plan
the doctors think best to adopt and
the resolution is simply form of rec
ommendation to the city, the doctors
feeling that the medical fraternity is
in better position to advance ideas
than persons unacqualnted with the
operation OF hospitals.
Or. Childress read paper on gran
ular lids, and a treat was the lecture
by DR.. Olivia Melon, formerly of New
York, on the treatment OF typhoid fe-
yer. her ideas being up-to-date and
very entertaining. DR.. Melon claim
ed she was not used TO writing papers,
and spoke instead. making the fol-
lowing bright Introduction:
"Mr. President and Members of the
Society: close kinship of sci
ence and art makes an art story per-
Missile. Like all true stories. II be-
gins: Once upon a time. There
were two picture dealers from Paris,
who called upon Rosa Bonheur, to
buy what they might of her paintings.
As they we're leaving, one of the men
asked II she had nothing more to
sell. Upon second thought she re-
membered a huge canvas that had
been consigned TO the attic some two
years before,-because of its dlmen-
slons II had been much in the way
and the men insisted upon looking
at Il. II was brought into the studio
and unrolled, revealed THE Horse
Show. which they purchased for a
value not to exceed $50 OF U. S.
money, believing that the enormity of
the canvas with Rosa Bonheur's name
would attract a buyer. Many times
this picture changed hands. Finally
It was sold for 10000, and is now In
the Metropolitan Art Museum. II
was my great privilege to see that
picture. but beyond my mental ca
pacity TO appreciate its strength,
grandeur and magnifcence. OF that
great painting am confident |
could make copy with as much
style. finish and intelligence as |
could write a paper to be read before
a medical society.
"The complimentary thought
which prompted DIR. Brooks to sug-
gest such thing was beautiful In its
dimensions. but he did not know that
even my letters are so bad-so unin-
telllgible at times. wearied cores
pendent suggested the use of perox-
ide However. | can talk. not always
intelligently, but fortunately for such
as I, the world recognizes in ambig-
uous discourse something reeking
with wisdom"
Following the papers and lecture,
came the action on the resolution
which was taken up in sections and
discussed The original resolution
was changed a great deal, and after
the changes were separately voted on,
adopted as whole.
The plan of the Paducah dostors is
as follows. the three physicians to be
members of no particular society or
school:
eve. your committee appointed
for the purpose of submitting recon-
for the control and man
agement of the new city hospital, beg
leave to report as follows
I'VE recommend that the entire
control and management Of the above
be entrusted to a board of
five. TO be known as the Hospital
Board Said board to be chosen of
one alderman, to be elected by the
board of aldermen, one councilman,
to be elected by the board of coun-
cllmen. and three physicians of the
city, to be elected by the physicians
of the city, subject to ratification by
both aldermen and council, their
term of office to extend over period
of two years or until their successors
are elected and qualified,
I'VE recommend to the hospital
board a thorough and complete fur
and equipment OF said hos
initial I'm "a madam mafranalitan and