The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-06-22

cH thfbaSn every Nv OF nfe IRON /
er, brick mason and the hod-carr,er.
the top To the bottom. These people
proht by their organizations; then why
should not we But the time - Ions
Slnce when were needed TO
sho" the Importance, the need, the
value OF the county medical society in
North Carolina. If IT were. | would
reffr you to that comprehensive. log
fcai, learned ornate eloquent discus
sion OF this subject by DR.. T.. g. Reg
lister in his presidents address before
the Tri-State Medical Association this
year, and To the address of my imne-
date predecessor, DR.. J. NJ. PARROT. |
than which there is none more able
and none more constructive. But the |
d~epforabfe tact remains that a large |
percentage of the counties of this |
State have a med cal society in ma me
only and not in fact. There are nota-
bhh exceptions, however. perhap>
there is no better medical society in
this or any other State than the Bun
combe County Medical Society. 1t ex-
cells in everything that a county med
zeal society should be in North Caro-
lima Mecklenburs County Medical So
City is doing splendid work. In ad-
ditlon to their regular society work
they arranged a meeting this year at
which DR.. Leweilyn F. Barker, Ct Bal
timore, was their guest, and, true to
the M~ecklenburg spirit, they allowed
any physician who would, in this and
adjoining States, to share their pleas
ures with them. Society too is
nagnifying the district meetings by
arranging once a year a clinical SEES
sion for their district medical society.
AS an example of what a small county
medical society can do, l would pre-
sent to you the work now being done
by the Henderson-Polk Medical So
ciety. At this time they are meeting
weekly, perhaps the only county med
lcal society in the State that is hold
ing weekly meetings. The Buncombe
County Medical Society, when your
president had the honor to serve as its
president, changed from monthly to
weekly meetings, which was later
changed to semi-monthly meetings and
which o continues. And the Hender-
son-Polk Society at these weekly meet
ings has for the principal feature A
Case Study" The complete history of
four cases Is sent to them each week
by DR.. Cabot, of Boston. They take
up the family history, personal his
tory, physical examination, symptoms
laboratory findings, in order. From
these each member makes a diagnosis
which latter is compared with the
diagnosis of the hospital, of DR.. Cabot
and lastly with the post-mortem find
ingS. A discussion and criticism q
the treatment would close the case
There is no county medical society il
this State too small TO carry out sucl
a splendid scheme Of work as this.
: Our district medical societies can b-
made Of great value if the membership
in each district SO wills. | have al
: ready referred to the splendid elm
S ical meetings OF the 7th district a
] Charlotte. AS an example Of what
district medical society ought to be
/ the fourth district medical society is
: conspicuous example. You all kno>
1.-The nvao,,firn ab:]itu and 1on7arChi
of the one mar who more than an,
other has made this splendid distric
: medical society possible. The fifth dis
r trlct is we'll organized, has two inter
f estfng meetings each year, one o
y these being held at the S~anatoriun
g as guests of the institution, where
e clinic IN some special feature OF tn
S berculosis work is given. At it's win
r ter meetings his year this society ha
as its guest DIR. w. l.. Rodnlan, presl
dent Of the American Medical Asso
i~ciation. What these societies are dc
ing others can do. Some of the Othe
societies are doing good work: other
are doing little, and a few making n
, attempt to hold meetings.
- The greatest opportunity the med
# ical profession of North Caroline ha
ever had is now thin its grasp. Wit
the splendid foundations, deep an
n wide and lasting, for public healt
WORK, la1u Dy the lamented WOOu an
tO'Hagan, broadened and deepene
and strengthened by our own Thona
and Lewis and now builded upon Y,
al by Lewis and by Way and Laughing
It house, Wood the younger and other
with Rankin for the architect ar
contractor, who shall say that Mort
Carolina shall not sit at the head
IN the tADte III ieI puplft neaitH "oi
= THAT she will not soon be the val
is guard in the fight against u~nnecessa
ir disease and needless death; in fac
she now rs.
at With this splendid beginning-f,
it is only a beginning-fostered by II
Intelligent, conscientious Statesnfs
m WHO 10TH ou! genera asSeiHo'e@'
= given the whoEe-hearted support
this medical society individually al
collectively and the cooper
III ton of the people of our rat
the kernel, the acorn plantt
, no ~. ooo mill y~oor tic cf0ta1u hnr