Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-02-24
DOCTORS MEETING.
The GratiOt County Medical Society
Hold Session In City
DR.. DARLING, ANN ARB0R, HERE
Good Representation from Alma, ST L Ouis
Breckenridge Ithaca and POmpeli.

The Gratiot County Medical society
held their regular quarterly meeting in
the parlors of the Wright house last
thursday afternoon. There were
fifteen physicians and surgeons present
representing all the larger cities of the
county. including doctors from Alma
ST. Louis. Ithaca. Breckenridge and
Pompeii. Every doctor in Alma ex-
cepting DR.. E. A. Baglev was able
to be present. The object of the meet
ing of the societv is to listen to papers
upon medical subjects written by both
local and outside doctors.
Thursday Cyrenus Garrit Darling,
NJ. ID. of the University of Michigan,
addressed the members on the subject OF
Intestinal Obstruction. DR. Darling
is one of the greatest authorities In
Michigan in the line of medical ana
dental surgery lie is clinical professor
and demonstI ator of medical surgery
and clinical professor of dental surgery
in the university. In his lecture, Dr.
Darling explained the different kinds
of Instructors that might occur from
the pulorus down and. new growths,
foreign bodies such as gall stones,
PARALYSIS from Inflammation as in the
case of appendicitis. and SO on. He
dwelt at some length upon the ad-
vances made in the ways of treatment
of these diseases in the last twenty-five
years. He mainland that some OF
these should he treated by means OF
medicine others by means of surgery.
and empnasized much the necessity of
an early diagonis of each case in order
to be more successful in treating 1t.
The lecture was full of helpful hints
and suggestions to the society and was
greatly appreciated.
Following Or. Darling. DR. Brainerd,
of Brainerd hospital, lectured on the
subject of Fractures of the Femur'
which Is commonly known AS the thigh
bone. DR.. Brainerd pointed out the
various signs and symptoms of frac-
tures In the different parts of the thigh
and by numerous illustrations he
showed the different methods of treat
ment also for each case. This paper
was followed by warm discussion in
which nearly all the doctors present
took part. As a result of the discussion
DIR. Brainerd was asked TO read the
paper at the next regular meeting
of the society, which he consented TO
do. After this paper the society ad-
journed in time to allow outside m mem-
bers and DIR. Darling to catch the
afternoon trains for their homes
The next regular meeting of the
society will bs held in this city, pro-
badly, some time next Nav. The con-
stitution provides that meetings shall
be held in Alma, but sometimes for the
sake of accommodation to some of the
members they are held elsewhere. The
officers of the society at present are ::
president, DIR. Wheeler of st Louis !:
vice. president. DR.. McClinton of
Alma: secretary and treasurer, Dr.
McCandless of Ithaca. The society is
one of the banner ones of the state.
ALWAYS having good lively meetings
which are well attended. They obtain
for their lecturers the best men 70 he
had in the state, including such
authorities as Drs. Vaughn of Ann
Arbor Smith of Grand Rapids. Dodge
of Big Rapids and Rowe of Saginaw