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duet myself in the practice of physie and surgery, with the privileges of exercising which profession I am now to be invested, and that I will with fidelity and honor do everything in my power for the benefit of the siek committed to my charge. N. K. OLMSTEAD."
Jan. 19, 1821, society met at the house of John L. Fouquet. Dr. B. J. Mooers, delegate to State society, pre- sented his statement of expense for attending State society, amounting to $20.25, which was ordered paid. Dr. Luther Ransom was permitted to withdraw from the society on account of age and infirmity. Bill of J. L. Fouquet for use of room, $1, was ordered paid. This is the first charge for room that has been made up to this time. Society ad- journed to meet the third Tuesday in January, 1822, at the house of John L. Fouquet, and the secretary was directed to publish notice in Republican two weeks previous to the time of meeting.
April 7, 1821, Thomas Cummins was examined and licensed to practice medicine and surgery after signing declaration as above.
At the meeting in January, 1822, some trifling amend- ments were made in the constitution, the officers clected for the year, and the following alteration in the by-laws made :
" Resolved, That the elause, 'and that no member shall at any meeting of the society on any account withdraw from the room with- out first obtaining leave of the President,' in the 14th Art. of the By- Laws, be and the same is hereby repealed.
" Resolved, That Drs. Miller, Davidson, Mooers, and S. Beaumont be a committee to procure a proper seal with a suitable deviee for the use of the society."
Drs. - and -, being absent, were fined $1 each. July 22, 1822, Socrates Tuttle was examined and licensed to practice.
Jan. 21, 1823, society met pursuant to adjournment.
The president, Dr. B. J. Mooers, read a dissertation on puerperal convulsions, for which he received the thanks of the society.
In accordance with a resolution passed at a previous meeting the secretary reported an examination of the books and accounts, in which he found various irregularities and some unexplainable accounts analogous to those in public accounts of the present day, but not as extensive. This examination showed the following notes owing to the society and past duc, viz., Dr. - , $12.84; Dr. - , $12.74; Dr. -- , $1.75 ; Dr. - , $3.50 ; Dr. - , $5.25, and quite a number of fines unpaid, and, to make matters easy so far as fines were concerned, the society forgave them the debt by this resolution :
" Resolved, 'That all fines that may have acerucd during the years 1818, '19, and '20 for non-attendance be, and the same are hereby, remitted.'
The secretary reported a balance then in the treasury of $44.03, counting notes and money ; he also reported having obtained a seal under the direction of the committee ap- pointed for that purpose, and paid therefor $10, which was ordered and paid and seal accepted.
Dr. Nathan Carver was elected President ; Dr. James K. Platt, Vice-President ; S. Beaumont, Secretary : Dr. B. J. Mooers, Treasurer; William P. Taylor, Elijah Jones, and John Page were admitted to an examination. The two former, after a full and satisfactory examination, were duly licensed to practice physic and surgery, and the last was
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rejected, he not having passed a satisfactory examination. Society adjourned to third Tuesday in January, 1824, secretary to give notice of the same in the village papers three weeks before the meeting.
Jan. 20, 1824, society met at J. McCreedy's, in the village of Plattsburgh. Dr. S. Beaufort was allowed $8 for the following services, viz. : For making out account for society, $5.00 ; for three parchment diplomas, $1.50; for twelve fine paper diplomas, $1.50.
Dr. R. P. Allen was elected delegate to the State society.
The treasurer was directed to collect all accounts due the society, either on book or note, by our next annual meet- ing. Adjourned to meet at J. McCreedy's, in Plattsburgh, the third Tuesday in January, 1792.
The death of Dr. James Kent Platt occurred April 4, 1825, and it seems fitting and due to his memory to intro- duce some extracts in this place from his obituary notice, written by the late Prof. John B. Beck :
" James Kent Platt was born of highly respectable parents, at Plattsburgh, in the State of New York, on the 11th of February, 1772.
" His father, William Pitt Platt, who still resides at that place, is a younger brother of the Hon. J. Platt, late judge of the Supreme Court of the State of New York.
" Young Platt remained with his parents until the eighth year of his age, when he went to reside with his unele, Moss Kent, Esq., then of Cooperstown, Otsego Co., N. Y., by whom he was adopted as his own son. . . . In 1808 he entered as a student at Middlebury College, in Vermont, and graduated with credit to himself in 1812. In the au- tumn of the same ycar he became a resident graduate at Yale College, in New Haven, where he remained until the ensuing spring, and availed himself of the instructions of the late President Dwight. Having completed a very ex- tensive course of preliminary education, he commenced in 1813 the study of medicine under Dr. Mooers, of Platts- burgh, and in the winter of the same year attended the medical lectures in the University of Pennsylvania. In the ensuing year he became a private pupil of Dr. Hosack, and in the spring of 1816 received his diploma of doctor in medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York.
" During his pupilage in New York, although his con- stitution had been feeble and his health had now become exceedingly precarious, Dr. Platt distinguished himself by his assiduity in the acquisition of knowledge, while his talents and manly virtues commanded the universal respect and affection of his associates. That nothing might be wanting to complete the education of a youth so promising, it was determined that he should visit Europe.
" It was also fondly hoped by his friends that a voyage across the Atlantic might be the means of improving his health, and of prolonging a life already threatened with a premature termination.
" Hc accordingly sailed in 1816, and remained abroad two years, the greater part of which he spent in London and Paris. Previous to his return he was made member of the College of Surgeons of London. ITis friends with great regret beheld him return to his native country with the same frail and emaciated form in which he had left them.
" Dr. Platt now commenced the practice of his pro- fession in New York under circumstances quite auspicious of success and to his future distinction. He soon found, however, that the atmosphere along the seacoast was too keen for his feeble lungs, and he determined to change his residence for some place in the interior.
" He accordingly removed to Plattsburgh, in the State of New York. After pursuing his profession there for about a year, thinking his health sufficiently re-established, he re- turned to this city. In a few months his enfeebled health again compelled him to abandon New York, and to scek a warmer climate. IIe sailed for the island of St. Croix, where he remained for some months ; but, not finding his health benefited by the voyage and the subsequent residence on the island, he returned to this country.
" In 1823 he received the honorable appointment of Pro- fessor of the Institutes of Surgery in the University of Ver- mont. It may easily be imagined that, situated as Dr. Platt was, with his constitution daily wasting away under a fatal disease, the undertaking of an enterprise like this must ne- cessarily have been attended with extreme hazard. He was not, however, to be deterred by such considerations from entering the lists of honorable competition. He accordingly accepted the appointment which had been proffered to him, and in the winter of 1823-24 delivered a course of lectures on surgery, which is spoken of in terms of the highest com- mendation. The effort, however, was too great, and he had scarcely finished his course, when the pulmonary disease with which he had so long struggled developed itself with fatal rapidity, and in a few weeks terminated his earthly career."
Jan. 18, 1825, society met pursuant to adjournment at J. McCreedy's. The president, Dr. B. J. Mooers, read a dissertation on scrofula, for which he received a vote of thanks of the society. Drs. Patchen and Forsyth joined the society. Dr. Allen presented bill for expenses while attending the State Medical Society of $26.11, which was ordered paid. The treasurer was directed to call on all members indebted to the society, for the amount due, and, if not paid in three months, the demands shall be left with an attorney for collection.
It was resolved that the prize question for the next com- munication shall be phthisis pulmonalis, and $3 be awarded for the best-written thesis on the subject. Drs. Carver, Miller, and Mooers were appointed a committee to decide on the merits of the writing.
Adjourned to meet the third Tuesday, January, 1826.
June 8, 1825, Herman Vaughn was examined and li- censed to practice physic and surgery.
Jan. 17, 1826, society met at the inn of J. McCreedy, in the village of Plattsburgh. The president, Dr. O. Da- vison, read a dissertation on phthisis pulmonalis, for which he received the thanks of the society and the award of $3 for the best thesis on the subject. Drs. Edward Kane and D. C. Stone applied for membership, and were admitted. It was resolved that a committee of three be chosen to ex- amine the law proposed by the State Medical Society for the suppression of quaekery, and that said committee draft a petition to be presented to the Legislature of this State during the present session.
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Drs. Miller, Carver, and Davidson were chosen such com- mittee.
Moved and carried, that Dr. E. B. Jones receive the sum of $14.50, in remuneration for expenses which occurred in preserving an anatomical preparation for the society.
Society met on the third Tuesday in January, 1827. The president, Dr. Miles Stevenson, read a dissertation on symptomatology, for which he received the thanks of the society.
" Resolved, That the librarian call into his possession, as soon as may be, the books of the society and keep (them) till their next meet- ing, to be disposed of as then thought proper."
It is understood that the books were then divided among the members, and thus ended the library in 1828. It is evident that for the times the library was a valuable one, and must have been the means of doing much good. It was further
" Resolved, That Drs. Allen, Stevenson, and Davidson be a com- mittee to draft a memorial to the State Legislature, during this ses- sion, soliciting their aid in the suppression of quackery ; also legislative aid in defraying the expenses of delegates thereto from the remote parts of the State."
The last clause evidently refers to delegates to the State society, and not to the Legislature, as its peculiar phraseology would indicate. Attendance on the State society is quite a tax upon the delegate, and of late years, when the Clinton County Medical Society has been represented, the delegate has paid his own expenses, which, in some cases, bears rather heavily. Dr. Miles Stevenson was appointed dele- gate to the State society.
" Resolved, That Dr. - be remitted a judgment against him in favor of the society ten dollars."
Dr. B. J. Mooers was elected President ; Dr. E. B. Jones, Vice-President ; Dr. E. Kane, Secretary ; Dr. J. Taylor, Librarian. Adjourned to meet third Tuesday in January, 1828. Aug. 20, 1827, diplomas were granted to David Eastman and George Sampson.
" RULES OF LIBRARY.
" ART. I. Name and manner of electing librarian.
" ART. II. No person shall be entitled to a right in this library un- less he is a resident of the counties of Clinton or Franklin, and shall have at the same time been a member of the Clinton Medical Society. " ART. III. Each proprietor in this library shall have the privilege of drawing from the same one book four times in each year, viz., on the third Tuesday in January, first in May and October, and on the first day of sitting of the Court of Oyer and Terminer for the county of Clinton, and as frequently on intermediate days as the librarian shall consent to. Whenever two or more proprietors are wishing for the same book, he who will bid the greatest sum for the use of the library shall have the book. Provided, that no proprietor shall have out but one book at a time.
"ART. IV. Every proprietor who shall neglect to return to the librarian such book as he has out in due time on the above mentioned days of drawing shall forfeit and pay to the society for the first offense 25 cents and three cents per day for each succeeding day that he shall continue his neglect ; to be by the librarian recovered with cost of suit before any justice of the peace in the county of Clinton ; provided, that the society shall have the power to remit such fine or fines as they think proper.
" ART. V. Each proprietor shall pay at every annual meeting to the librarian the sum of one dollar; in case of neglect or refusal to pay this sum he shall forfeit his right for the time being.
"ART. VI. Every proprietor shall forfeit and pay to the society, to be recovered as in Art. 4, the following sums for each respective of- fense, viz. : for cach grease [spot] in a book, 3 cents; for every leaf
torn, 12} cents; for every leaf turned down, 5 cents; and for every damage done such sums as shall be assessed by the president and librarian.
" ART. VII. The librarian shall at every annual meeting pay over to the treasurer all moneys by him received for the use of the library, and shall at the same time exhibit to the society a just and accurate statement of all doings for the year last appertaining to his office.
"ART. VIII. The president and librarian shall be a committee of in- spection to examine the books on each of the aforesaid days of their being returned.
" Adopted June 28, 1808.
" Attest, H. S. WATERHOUSE, Sec."
Books in Library .- Lavoisier's Chemistry, Henry's Chemistry, Medical Museum, Desault's Surgery, Bell's Operative Surgery, Thomas' Practice of Medicine, Den- man's Midwifery, Hunter on Venereal, Wilson on Fevers, Boyer on the Bones, Cooper's Surgery, Boyer's Surgery, London Dissector, and Hamilton on Purgatives.
A few words in relation to Dr. Wm. Beaumont may not be out of place here.
Dr. Wm. Beaumont was a surgeon in the United States army, and gained a world-wide reputation from his inves- tigation of the process and physiology of digestion in the case of Alexis St. Martin.
Dr. Beaumont was born 1796, and died at St. Louis in 1853. St. Martin was a young Canadian voyageur in the employ of the American Fur Company, and was accidentally wounded by the discharge of a musket on the 6th day of Junc, 1822.
Whilst Dr. Beaumont was stationed at Michillimackinack, in the then Territory of Michigan, this case came under his care. The wound was in the left side of the stomach, and in healing there was left a valvular opening by which the process of digestion could be fully observed.
The doctor's investigations werc continued without in- terruption from 1825 to 1833. St. Martin went to Europe in 1857, with a surgeon of the British army, but he never proved so useful to the scientific world as when under the charge of Dr. Beaumont.
The doctor established many facts in relation to digestion, and became on the subject undisputed authority throughout the medical world. An examination of the records of the Clinton Medical Society shows that it had a degree of med- cal talent and skill equal in degree at least to any other sec- tion of like extent in this State.
The officers from 1828 to 1831 were, B. S. Mooers, President ; E. B. Jones, Vice-President ; Edward Kane, Secretary ; S. Taylor, Treasurer ; R. P. Allen, Librarian.
From this time the meetings were held irregularly until the reorganization of the society in 1865.
Reorganization .- The society was reorganized April 18, 1865, with the following members: T. De Forris, T. B. Nichols, I. Platt Foot, Geo. A. Dewey, E. M. Lyon, John H. Mooers, Joel Chandler, Edward Thomas Belle Isle, Joseph H. Smith, F. J. D'Avignon, Orville Terry, and P. Sherman.
The first officers were as follows : President, J. D'Avi- gnon ; Vice-President, T. De Forris ; Secretary and Treas- uror, I. Platt Foot ; Delegate to State Medical Society, J. H. Mooers.
The officers from that time to the present have been as follows :
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Presidents .- 1866, D. G. Dodge; 1867, I. P. Foot ; 1868, W. N. Coit; 1869-70, A. C. Butler ; 1871, T. De Forris ; 1872, L. Wood ; 1873-74, J. H. Smith; 1875- 77, E. M. Lyon ; 1878-79, G. D. Dunham.
Vice-Presidents .- 1866, J. H. Smith ; 1867-68, A. C. Butler; 1869-70, T. B. Nichols; 1871, R. Erwin ; 1872, R. E. Hyde ; 1873, R. Erwin ; 1874, T. De Forris ; 1875- 77, G. D. Dunham; 1878, R. E. Hyde; 1879, D. S. Kellogg.
Secretaries and Treasurers .- 1866, I. P. Foot ; 1867- 72, E. M. Lyon ; 1873-1877, A. C. Butler; 1878, J. H. Smith ; 1879, E. M. Lyon.
Delegates .- 1866, J. H. Mooers ; 1868, A. S. Wolff ; 1869-70, D. G. Dodge; 1871-73, A. C. Butler; 1874- 75, J. H. Smith ; 1876-79, E. M. Lyon.
Censors, 1879 .- J. H. La Rocque, L. C. Dodge, D. S. Kellogg, J. H. Smith, and E. M. Lyon.
The following is a list of members of the new society, with the dates of admission : 1865, Joel Chandler, T. De Forris, T. B. Nichols, I. Platt Foot, George A. Dewey, E. M. Lyon, John H. Mooers, E. T. Belle Isle, Joseph H. Smith, Orville Terry, P. Sherman, F. J. D'Avignon ; 1866, D. G. Dodge, W. N. Coit, E. C. Butler; 1867, Lueien Wood, G. D. Dunham ; 1869, Ralph Erwin, Romeo E. Hyde; 1870, Stephen Bertrand; 1871, C. B. Barber ; 1874, L. C. Dodge, D. B. Woodward, W. S. Honsinger, J. M. Fulton, D. S. Kellogg, Hiram H. Rust; 1878, E. D. Ferguson, C. W. Arthur, J. Ladd, J. H. La Rocque ; 1879, J. D. Woodwarth, C. V. Vaughan, S. Haynes, and Charles S. Haynes.
GEORGE D. DUNHAM, M.D.
It is always a pleasure for the historian to place upon his pages, passing incidents in the life of one who has devoted his life-study to the advancement of a noble profession, and to the amelioration of the human race. Such an one is Dr. George D. Dunham, the subject of this sketch, who was born in Newport, N. H., Aug. 13, 1839. His parents re- moved to Tunbridge, Vt., when he was about two years old. Here they remained until he was about fifteen years of age, at which time they located at Claremont, in his native State. He received his academie education at Clare- mont Academy, and, having manifested a decided interest to enter the lists of medicine, at the close of his academic course, began the study of his chosen profession, in the office of Dr. Wm. A. Traeey, a celebrated physician and sur- geon, residing in Nashua .* He pursued his studies with Dr. Tracey with diligence and attention, at the same time attending the Dartmouth Medical College, from which he graduated in November, 1861, just at the time when the Rebellion was assuming gigantic proportions, and grim- visaged war stood out in all its horrors before the people of this county. He promptly offered his services, and joining the 12th Regiment Vermont Volunteers, as assistant sur- geon, immediately went to the front. He participated in all the engagements of the regiment, closing with the mem- orable battle of Gettysburg, which was fought only one day before the expiration of its terni of service.
Dr. Tracey was surgeon ef the 4th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers during the late Rebellion.
At the close of his military service he returned to Tun- bridge, Vt., where he practiced one year, and then removed to the town of Saranac in this county. Here he continued the practice of his profession with great success, and very soon ranked among the leading physicians in Clinton County.
In May, 1875, he removed to Plattsburgh, where he has taken a very prominent position in the medical profession, and while his present success, as one of the leading physi- cians in all Northern New York, must indeed be gratifying, it has not been obtained without struggle. Hard labor and diligent study have won for him an enviable position ere he has scarcely reached the prime of life .; He was president of the Northern New York Medical Society in 1877 and 1878, and was chosen president of the Clinton County Medical Society in 1878, and is the present incumbent.
Dec. 31, 1865, he united in marriage with Sarah Par- sons Davis, a native of Saranac, and their family consists of one son, Henry Wales. Dr. Dunham attends the Epis- copal Church, and politically is a Republican.
HOMEOPATHY.
The homoeopathic school of medicine was first represented in this county by E. Darwin Jones, of Keeseville, a graduate of the Albany Medical College in the year 1844. He was the first to practice according to this system north of Troy. A few years later he removed to Albany, N. Y., where he still resides. Hc is regarded as one of the representative men of the homeopathic profession. For a series of years he was recording seeretary, and for one term the president, of the State Homoeopathic Medical Society.
Two years later, in 1846, his father, Dr. - Jones, also of Keeseville, after a practice of forty years in the old school, adopted the new. In 1852 he followed his son to Albany, but on account of his advaneed years did not con- tinue in practice.
Dr. Henry Blanchard succeeded to the practice of Dr. Jones, Sr., in 1852. He remained for two years, when he removed to Buffalo.
Dr. John Ward, of New York City, succeeded Dr. Blan- chard for a year only.
In 1852, G. A. Dewey, a graduate of Cleveland Medical College, came to Plattsburgh, introducing homoeopathy. Until within a few months previous he had practiced in the old school. With but three families for a nucleus, in ten years Dr. Dewey had a leading practice. From August, 1864, to March, 1865, he was in the army. In April, 1868, he went to Brooklyn.
In January; 1856, Dr. H. A. Houghton, of Vermont, a graduate of Philadelphia, followed Dr. John Ward iu Keeseville, and is perhaps more identified with the progress of homoeopathy in Clinton County and Northern New York than any other one person. Dr. Houghton practiced in Kceseville twenty-one years, and during that time, by his gentlemanly characteristics and medical ability, won for himself and the school he represents the highest regard from the community. Ile might well be ealled a father in
+ In 1875, Dr. Dunham was commissioned as surgeon in the reg- ular army of the United States, and assigned to duty at the Platts- burgh Barracks.
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this school, for there have gone out from his office twenty- five graduates of medicine to practice homœopathy from Vermont and Massachusetts to California and the Sandwich Islands. Among the physicians in Northern New York, Drs. Southwick and Childs, of Ogdensburgh, Dr. Hoag, of Canton, Dr. Macomber, of Norwood, Dr. Low, of Platts- burgh, Dr. Pope, of Keescville, and Dr. Chase, of Essex, were students in his office. In 1877 he removed to Charles- town District, Boston, Mass.
Dr. E. C. Low studied medicine with A. Pollard, M.D., of Westport, and in 1866 to 1868 was associated with Dr. H. A. Houghton, of Keeseville. In 1868 he removed to Plattsburgh, succeeding Dr. G. A. Dewey, where he still remains ..
Dr. A. Pope, a graduate of the New York Homoeopathic Medical College, was associated with Dr. H. A. Houghton in Keeseville from 1868 to 1872. He then removed to Vermont, and returned to Keeseville in 1875.
In January, 1872, E. A. Carpenter, a graduate of Al- bany Medical College, settled in Plattsburgh, where he still practices.
E. J. Farley, of Sandy Hill, N. Y., a student of Dr. H. A. Houghton, and a graduate of Burlington, Vt., Medical College, practiced in Kecseville in 1861-62, and again in 1876, when he succeeded Dr. H. A. Houghton. He re- mained in Keeseville three years, and then removed to Swanton, Vt.
A. Salls, of Malone, N. Y., a graduate of Cleveland Hos- pital College, located in Champlain in 1879.
CHAPTER XXXII.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY-BIBLE SOCIETY.
Organization-First "Cattle Show and Fair" held at Champlain in 1819-Address by Allen C. Moore-Premium List-"Fair" of 1820 -Premiums-Abandoned-Reorganized-Officers.
THE Clinton County Agricultural Society was organized in 1819, and the following is a description of the "First Cattle Show and Fair" held in the town of Champlain, Oct. 14, 1819 .*
" The day opened by an exhibition of domestic manu- factures, which did great credit to the ladies interested. Little was expected at a first show of this kind, but all present were agreeably disappointed at the variety and ex- cellence of the articles offered. The premiums were de- clared by Silas Hubbell, one of the censors, with a short address to the ladies. A procession was then formed, which moved to the district school-house, where, after an appro- priate prayer by the Rev. Mr. Byington, the president, Allen C. Moore, addressed the society in a strain of elo- quence rarely equaled by the professed public speaker. The view he gave of the state of agriculture and manufac- tures among the ancients, as well as its present state in Europe and America, was interesting in a high degree.
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