History of Oneida County, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 52

Author: Durant, Samuel W
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Fariss
Number of Pages: 920

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Resolutions were offered and freely discussed at the semi- annual meeting in January, 1873, asking for an amendment of the code of medical ethics, so as to allow medical men to meet all practitioners who had been educated in schools recognized by the laws of the State. This proposition seemed to many who had not carefully examined the sub- jeet a striking innovation on the usages of the society, and it was finally laid on the table. In April a resolution bear- ing on the same question met the same fate.

As a rule, I have confined myself in this history to notice only those measures which had finally been adopted, leaving questions which had been proposed, but not adopted, unootieed. This ease proposed a measure which had been thoroughily examined in my investigations for the benefit of the society. I have been for a long time satisfied that a change must be made, and wished this society to have the honor of being a leading power in the transaction. I do not wish to urge the society to rashly make a change, and this is not the proper place to bring forward arguments in behalf of the proposed measure. When it becomes an es- tablished fact, it will then belong to the history of the society.

In 1873 the State Society reported in favor of a com- mittee on hygiene in every county of the State. At the semi-annual meeting in 1874 the committee made a partial report, and were continued for further investigations. This committee, in 1875, were dirceted to present a petition to the Common Council of the City of Utica, asking for large sewers in the eastern part of the city, and another in the western, which the Council had the good sense to adopt.

In 1875 charges were made against a member for viola-

tions of the code of ethics, in publishing notices in a daily paper, and in eireulars distributed in the surrounding vil- lages, promising marvelous cures. The author was expelled from the society. At the quarterly meeting in October a series of resolutions were received from the New York Soci- ety, relating to the law of the State to prevent cruelty to animals, which declared that nothing in this aet shall be construed to prohibit or interfere with any properly-conducted scientifie experiments or investigations. It was the sense of this meeting that the investigations in physiology and pathology, by experiments on animals, had been of inea !- culable benefit to the science of medicine, and that they had been so managed as to be almost entirely devoid of suffer- ing to the animals so used, and that no investigations could be allowed by unprofessional men, who were not qualified to examine the methods used nor understand the results to be obtained.

The large increase in the population of the county and the multiplied interests of the profession have now made our quarterly meetings equal, in the regular attendance, to the annual and semi-annual of former days. At the quai- terly meeting, April, 1876, thirty members responded to the call, and the record of the regular attendance is sufficient proof of the interest taken by the members of the society. Three prominent men in the society had recently died-Dr. Bissell, Dr. Preston, and Dr. Coventry. Dr. Bissell was an energetie, stirring man, prompt and decided, a good practitioner, and disposed to mingle in politics. Dr. Pres- ton, in his early life, held a good and fair position among medieal men, and was a popular practitioner in Sangerfield and Waterville. Dr. Coventry was too well and widely known to require more than a passing notice here. His contributions to the literature of the profession have been large, and, with his report on the medical jurisprudence of insanity, delivered at the American Medical Association at Washington in 1858, have given him rank as an able writer. The resolutions of the city physicians and those of the county society, with its memorial notiec, attest his worth.

Grouped in the same catalogue, we have to notice the death of Dr. John McCall, one of the zealous members of the society, who was a living example of professional dig- nity and honor; of Goodsell, Blair, Guiteau, Whaley, Sampson, Alexander Coventry, N. H. Dering, and many others whose names have given character to the profession in Oneida County. I would gladly enlarge, did time and space permit. Most of them have their records in the transactions of the State Society, where their histories have been preserved, and where all that is worthy of imitation or that could aid us in the struggles of professional life can be found to help us onward.

1876 finds the society with its regular ineetings, its interesting topies of hygiene and disease, but nothing no- table in the passing events of the profession. During the year of 1877 there does not appear to have been any fall- ing off of the attendance at the meetings, and there has been a more regular and increased interest among its mem- bers, and the quarterlies of April and October were equally well attended with the January and July meetings.

We have now gone over the history of this society from its organization in 1806 to the present time, 1878. We

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have endeavored to reproduce as little as possible of the narratives of Drs. Bagg and Porter. They have both gone over the records to the year 1870, and, in order to keep up a connected history, I have often had to trespass upon their details and blend the three histories into one. They have left tables of attendance and receipts, and from those two sources we have judged of the prosperity of the society. These tables covered the periods when we had only two meetings a year. The average attendance from 1843 to 1850 was 16, and from 1836 to 1843 about the same. From 1829 to 1836, 34, and from 1822 to 1829, 24. From 1850 to 1857, about 18. From 1857 to 1864, a fraction over 24, and the next seven years is about 25. A new cra dates from the beginning of the quarterlies in 1869, and the average is a fraction over 22 at each meeting, showing a marked increase in attendance per annum. An attempt had been made to have quarterly meetings as early as 1843 or 1844, but there was not enthusiasm enough to keep them up, and the failure was so decided that many members who had been engaged in the first effort were at first unwilling to engage in the proposed change. The first quarterly was held in April, and the large attendance and interest manifested in the proceedings gave promise of a fair measure of success.

The item of receipts has been an important element in the society,-the index of its growth and declinc. No regular reports were made by the treasurer until 1822. From that time his accounts were regularly presented and examined, and the amounts he had received yearly care- fully recorded until 1855, when there was an interruption of ten years, or until 1865.

From 1822 to 1829, average receipts, $117 per annum.

From 1829 to 1835,

From 1835 to 1842, 16

From 1843 to 1849,

35 66

The records of the treasurer have been lost, and as the secretary failed in his reports to name the amount collected, we are not able to give the yearly amounts received. It will be seen that for a few years after the regular reports of the treasurer were made to the society, the amount annu- ally received was large,-one year being $159, and one $181, so that the seven years' average was over $117. The next seven years it declined to $58, and ran down to a mere trifle in 1849. One reason for the large amounts from 1822 forward was the income from fines and giving diplomas. It is interesting to note that as the society grew remiss in collecting its dues, and repealed one after another of its sources of revenue, the attendance declined, and, with its declension, professional interest and enthusiasm were lost. When reaching its lowest ebb, with an empty treas- ury, bills unpaid, and a scanty attendance, there was but one step more to dissolution, and the prestige of the Med- ical Society of the County of Oneida would be lost forever. Efforts were made to meet this unfortunate condition, and to bring the society back to its normal state; but appeals were useless. Like many tottering institutions, the first great need was money. To obtain this a new order of management was necessary, and a change in the treasurer's department, when enforced payment of the taxes (for all other sources of revenue had been cut off ) was made the

law, and in a few years, with a replenished treasury and increased interest and attendance, the society started on a career of prosperity that has rivaled the most sanguine expectations of its palmy days.

We have now traversed the records of seventy-two years- of this society's history. For forty-six years I have taken a more or less active part in its transactions. During that time I have joined with its prominent and leading meinbers in a warfare for its preservation, and in spite of all difficul- ties to so manage its manifold interests that it might hold a prominent position and have no rival in the societies of the State. It has been the source of many important measures in the science of medicine. It has had a few leading men in its ranks who sought to build up the pro- fession, and were ready to make sacrifices for the welfare of the whole. No association can last long whose members surrender its interests to the cravings of personal anibition. A standard has been raised and adopted, fixing the remu- neration for medical services, and it is the duty of every member to sustain its prices. But when men who claim to be in full communion in such association, seek and obtain business (from those abundantly able to pay) by agreeing to a reduced percentage on the regular prices of the society, the binding cohesion of time-honored principles has been outraged, and the honor and dignity of a noble profession has been lost in the groveling acquisitions of individual avarice.

To elevate its character and the character of its members it has purged itself from the stain of unbridled passion, the criminal actors of ante-natal murder, and the selfish pursuits of the charlatan and nostrum vender.

I have annexed a table of the names of the members and the dates of their admission to membership. Most of them who have died have had eulogies prepared under the direction of the State Society, whilst others have had fitting memorials recorded in the annals of the County Associa- tion. It is always easy to look back and see what might have been donc. A wise management of the finances of the society, more stringent laws, and a continued imposition of fines for neglected duties, with a larger annual tax, if necessary, would have yielded a revenue which could have been used for founding a medical hall for the use of the society,-a fit place for holding its meetings, to preserve its addresses and dissertations, its varied collections in patho- logical anatomy, its library, its records, and all that would give it interest in the eyes of the profession. Had such a plan been organized, and a painstaking effort been instituted to accomplish this object, men of means in our profession, and friends of the vocation, might have felt it their duty to give material aid to a movement that was destined to accom- plish so much good. I have on a former occasion alluded to a similar plan, but it fell lifeless to the ground ; and, for the future, I can see no chance for such an action to be set forward, unless some of the physicians who have been blessed with a grand patrimony, or others whose resources have brought them gold in untold measure, can fall into the current of improvement, and, with cheerful heart, give to the founding of an institution whose blessings will last for all coming time. If we could catch the enthusiasm that has moved the Freemasons to found and maintain

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their halls for publie services, or the less noble organization of Odd-Fellows, and others of a kindred nature, where the spell or enchantment of secret rites has been powerful enough to bring forth gold to lavish in adorning halls and in gaudy vestments and the various orders of those institu- tions, we might have filled the picture I have thus unskill- fully drawn.

I have now discharged the duty imposed on me by the resolution of this society in July, 1877. My labors in the interest of this society have been faithfully discharged. Since my admission to membership in 1832, age has in some measure diminished the enthusiasm of those early years, and the sad realities of professional life have thrown a dark shadow over the glowing prospects of youthful am- bition.

ROLL OF MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE COUNTY OF ONEIDA, FROM 1806 To 1878.

Present at first meeting, held at Rome, July 1, 1806 .- Amos G. Hull, Sewal. Hopkins, David Hasbrouck, Seth Hastings, Jr., Caleb Sampson, Francis Guitcau, Matthew Brown, Jr., Welcome Sayles, Elnathan Judd, Sherman Bartholomew, Marcus Hitcheoek, Isaac Weston, Thomas Hartwell, Laurens Hull, Zenas Hutchinson, Alexander Whaley, Morris Shannon, Paul Hutchinson, Jr., Eliphaz Bissell, Seth Capron, Daniel Avery, John Fiteh, Enoch Alden, Stephen Preston, Arba Blair, Thomas G. Hooker, Norton Porter, Seth Hastings, Samuel Frisbee.

Admitted in 1806 .- Solomon Wolcott, Nathaniel Rose, Isaae Goodsil, F. Deming, Earl Bill, Lucins Kellogg, Syl- vester Nash, Joel Rathbun, Joshua Ransom, Chester Gay- lord, Jamin Tyler.

1807 .- Andrew French, Luther Guiteau, Samuel Snow, Waitstill W. Wolcott, Spalding Pierce.

1808 .- Amasa Trowbridge, Henry Smith.

1809 .- William Fiteh. (Interim to 1813.)

1813 .- Isaae Cushman, Ira Cross, Erastus Cross, Lem- uel L. Chester, Ezra Williams, Nathaniel Cheever, Lewis Riggs, Campbell Waldo, Moses D. Campbell.

1814 .- John M. Watson, Charles Babcock, Roswell P. Hayes, Wilbur Tillinghast, Josiah Noyes, Benjamin Rus- sell, M. Wright, Peter B. Besse, Daniel Barker, David M. Hale.

1815 .- Leverett Bishop,* Medina Preston,* Eliashib Adans,*, Anson Hayden, W. M. Coventry.

1816 .- John Young, Morris T. Jewell, Jonathan B. Burton.

1817 .- Abiram Parker, Lyman Huntley, Samuel Wil- lard, Thomas Goodsell, John Brown .*

1818 .- James L. Palmer, Jonathan Snow, Emery Bis- sell, Moses Bristol, Silas West, Ariel Norton.

1819 .- George Brown, David M. Richards.

1820 .- Setb S. Peek, Luther Spalding, Anson Jones .* 1822 .- Alexander Coventry, John McCall, Theodore Pomeroy, Edmund Allen, Medina Preston, Simon Z. Havens, John F. Trowbridge, Hezekiah Gates.

The following list of names are subscribed in a body on several pages of the Record, without dates, but they were

written previous to 1833. They also include many of those already given :

Arba Blair, Seth S. Peek, Seth Hastings, Jr., Laurens Hull, Elnathan Judd, Alexander Coventry, Thomas Good- sell, Chester Gaylord, Norton Porter, Emery Bissell, John McCall, Silas West, Theodore Pomeroy, John F. Trow- bridge, John M. Watson, Edmund Allen, Hezekiah Gates, Simon Z. Haven, Charles Babcock, Medina Preston, Lev- erett Bishop, Uriel H. Kellogg, John Fiteh, Jr., Herman Norton, Luther Guiteau, George Brown, Nathaniel Chee- ver, James L. Palmer, Zenas Hutchinson, Almon Beards- ley, Abraham Diefendorf, Abram Chase, Levi Buckingham, Stephen Winchester, John S. Livermore, Henry Smith, Alexander Whaley, Welcome Sayles, Eliphas Bissell, Wil- liam Jones, Robert C. Wood, Earl Bill, James Douglas, Samuel Tuttle, Francis Guiteau, Lemuel L. Chester, Levi Beardsley; Horatio Gates, Gerrit P. Judd, C. B. Coventry, H. Hastings, Edward Aiken, Samuel Hastings, Newel Smith, Welcome A. Clark, Stephen Preston, John Stevens, J. A. Paine, Caleb Burge, H. Storrs, Benjamin P. Cross- man, Luther Guiteau, Jr., Sewall Hopkins, W. P. Cleve- land, Frederick B. Henderson, Lemuel Boomer, O. L. B. Main, A. MeAllister, G. E. Harral, P. B. Peekham, Pat- rick McCraith, David Ely, Benjamin Earl Bowen, Nathan- iel Rose, Ely Botsford, Ezra Herton, Parker Sedgwick, George H. Wright, O. K. Cook, Jeremiah Knight, Covell Lee, Royal S. Sykes, William Abell, J. N. Meacham, Al- fred Gillet, John D. Bancroft, Thomas M. Foote, Ralph Lord, Nathaniel Sherrill, John Gridley, Elijah Ward, Na- than North, M. Hitchcock, Harold H. Pope, William C. Warner, W. S. Lobdell, W. Wadsworth, Isaac H. Doug- lass, Jared W. Fitch, John W. Hitchcock, Hosea Palmer, Whiting Smith, Rufus Priest, A. W. Marsh, Lewis Yale, Helon Fay Noyes, J. P. Batchelder, S. Cooper Benjamin, Daniel Thomas, Asahel Grant, James G. Douglas, Charles Porter, Isaac Freeman, John Morrison, Edward Loomis, James S. Whaley, George W. Cleveland, George H. Gard- ner, John Staats, Reuben Luce, Ichabod Davis, Jr., W. H. Peckham, A. W. Lothrop, S. W. Stewart, William Giles, David V. Bradford, Lewis Yale, William W. Tefft, John P. B. Sloan, Sidney H. Blossom, L. F. Henry, F. Howes, Daniel Brainard, Orville P. Laird, E. A. Munger.

The following list comprises those who have subscribed to the by-laws adopted in July, 1833. Many of these also appear in the former list :

Patrick MeCraith, John R. Mckibbin, Samuel W. Stewart, George W. Gardner, Medina Preston, Leverett Bishop, Isaac Freeman, Warner Wadsworth, Samuel Hastings, Charles Porter, Charles Babcock, Uriel H, Kel- logg, Eli Botsford, David Larabee, Jeremiah Knight, Joseph S. Whaley, Gustavus W. Pope, C. B. Coventry, Edward Loomis, L. L. Chester, J. M. Fuller, Thomas M. Foote, Aaron B. Bligh, Almon Beardsley, Lyman Buckley, William Kirkwood, Giles I. Sheldon, Charles Barrows, Justin B. Colwell, A. S. Bradley, Joseph R. Newland, Almond Pitcher, John MeCall, Daniel Thomas, A. Blair, Lemuel Boomer, T. Pomeroy, J. H. Champion, P. B. Peckham, J. P. Batehelder, Thomas Goodsell, Barrilla Budlong, William H. P. Davis, Jabez V. Cobb, Lyman H. Wilson, P. D. Knieskern, W. H. Wiser, Simon Z.

# Date of license.

HISTORY OF ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK.

Haven, Parker Sedgwick, Nathan North, Fitch Howes, John F. Trowbridge, Brock McVickar, James S. May, Luther Guiteau, Jr., Rufus Priest, E. A. Munger, Herbert Hastings, William Morris, Erastus King, William J. Olm- stead, Jonathan Hurlburt, Edward Trask, M. M. Bagg, J. T. Teller, Hosea Hamilton, De Witt C. Hamilton, Welcome A. Babcock, George Brown, Herman Norton, John A. Paine, A. Brigham, P. M. Hastings, Theodore Dimon, Joseph W. Harmon, F. M. Barrows, Nicoll H. Deering, Daniel P. Bissell, B. Philleo, Ulic Burke, Samuel G. Wol- cott, Gustavus W. Pope, Jr., Dwight C. Dewey, Thomas M. Flandrau, H. N. Porter, J. E. West, F. T. Henderson, Jacob Hunt, J. M. Sturdevant, William Russell, Thomas Spears, A. Cornish, Henry Brown, C. K. S. Millard, Aristus Brown, J. F. Huntley, James Elias Jones, S. B. Valentine, Walter R. Griswold, W. B. Coventry, Thomas S. Virgil, Robert Frazier, D. A. Crane, H. W. Carpenter, E. J. Lawton, Charles L. Hogeboom, John D. Hall, I. D. Hopkins, Thomas W. Hall, David Terry, Edgar C. Bass, Charles E. Smith, Alonzo Putman, Abram G. Brower, M. C. West, George Seymour, Austin A. Barrows, Louis A. Tourtellot, Walter Booth, H. Lloyd Williams, Thomas Pell, Isaac J. Hunt, Ogden M. Randel, Albert Bickford, Samuel E. Shantz, Medina Preston, Jr., C. C. Reed, Evan G. Williams, Francis Jones, Jr., John Russell, Charles W. Hamlin, Norton Wolcott, Frank L. Stone, Hugh Sloan, E. G. Howland, Henry W. Caldwell, Rev. E. Sutton, J. W. Cooper, C. N. Palmer, Matt. Cook, H. G. Dubois, B. Frank Pope, E. Hutchinson, Joshua M. Fiske, H. B. Day, John A. Jenkins, Thomas J. Bergen, Robert S. Dryer, J. C. Darling, William L. Baldwin, Wales Buel, Judson B. Andrews, Walter Kempster, William H. Nelson, D. A. Barnum, H. C. Palmer, Timothy E. Wilcox, Joseph V. Haberer, E. H. Thurston, Henry G. Reid, Charles H. Bailey, H. B. Maben, G. Le Ray Menzic, G. H. Wheelock, J. K. Cbamberlayne, W. M. James, S. P. Uhlein, Daniel H. Kiteben, Edwin Evans, David H. Lovejoy, James G. Hunt, Martin Cavana, P. H. Thomas, William S. Whit- well, Jr., Smith Baker, Benjamin F. Haskins, Alfred T. Livingston, W. E. Ford, Charles P. Russell, W. B. Palmer, R. H. Hews, C. E. Fraser, Jr., Ed. E. Smith, E. H. Bul- lock, Franz Steinhauzen, William Kuhn, D. C. Besse, J. B. Nold, A. R. Simmons, David Hughes, Alva P. Maine, Wallace Clark, E. W. Raynor, J. B. Drummond, Wilbur H. Booth, Henry Foord, Charles Munger, Frederick A. Veeder, John Spertzell O'Hara, John Watson, Eliza Ellin- wood, Amanda Conkling, William M. Gibson.

PRESIDENTS AND SECRETARIES, 1806 TO 1878.

Date.

President.

Secretary.

1866.

.Matthew Brown.

David Hasbrouck.

1808-9 Francis Guiteau.

Seth Hastings, Jr.

1815-16

Elnathao Judd.

Charles Babcock.

1817

Amos G. Hull.

1818

1819

Thomas Goodsell.

1826-21

. Amos G. Hull.

1822-24.

Alexander Coventry.

1825-26 Luther Guiteau.

1827 Alexander Coventry.

1828-29

Seth Hastings, Jr.

1830.

John McCall.

1831.

Laurens Hull.

John Gridley.

1832.

J. P. Batchelder.

President.

Secretary.

1833.

Laurens IIull.

Thomas M. Foote. ¥

1834

Charles Babcock.

1835. J. P. Batchelder.

1836.

A. Blair.

Daniel Thomas.

1837

T. Pomroy.

1838.

U. H. Kellogg.

1839

J. F. Trowbridge.

P. B. Peckham.

1841-42

.C. B. Coventry.

John McCall.

1845 F. M. Barrows.

1846.

G. H. Pope. J. Knight.

1848

P. M. Hastings.

1849

M. M. Bagg.

1850.

D. G. Thomas.

John McCall, C. S.

1851.

F. M. Barrows.

1852 D. P. Bissell.

1853 J. H. Champion.

1854. S. G. Wolcutt.

1855

J. V. Cobb.

1856.

N. H. Dering.

1857.

J. S. Whaley.

1858

J. M. Sturdevant.

W. B. Coventry, C. S.

1860

W. Smith.

1861

D. Larrabee.

William Russell.

1862

C. L. Hogeboom.

1863

L. Guiteau.

1864

C. B. Coventry.

1865

W. Booth.

1866.

D. G. Thomas.

1867

L. Guiteau.

1868

A. Churchill.

1869

Thomas M. Flandrau. Edwin Hutchinson.

1870

H. N. Porter.

1871

William Russell.

1872

Robert Frazier.

Walter Kempstor.

1873 Walter Griswold.

P. H. Thomas.

1874 John P. Gray.

1876

L. A. Tourtellot.

1877

Norton Wolcott.

Charles P. Rassell.

The officers for 1878 are as follows :

President .- Edwin Hutchinson, of Utica.

Vice-President .- E. G. Williams, of Renisen.

Secretary .- Charles P. Russell, of Utica.

Treasurer .- J. K. Chamberlayne, of Utica.

Librarian .- Alonzo Churchill, of Utica.

Censors .- Jacob Hunt, S. G. Wolcott, W. R. Griswold,

Thomas M. Flandrau, Robert Frazier. Delegate to State Medical Society .- L. A. Tourtellot.

LIST OF THE PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY .*

Utica .- M. M. Bagg, W. L. Baldwin, Thomas J. Bergen, W. H. Booth, Judson B. Andrews (State Lunatic Asylum), J. B. Ammann, J. K. Chamberlayne, Alonzo Churchill, Wallace Clark, Amanda Conkling, Matthias Cook, Isaac H. Douglass, W. E. Ford (State Lunatic Asylum), H. Dwight Gardner, William M. Gibson, John P. Gray (Su- perintendent of State Lunatic Asylum), Joseph V. Haberer, B. F. Haskins, Herbert Hastings, Ira D. Hopkins, Jacob Hunt, J. G. Hunt, Edwin Hutchinson, William M. James, A. T. Livingston (State Lunatic Asylum), William H. Morris, John S. O'Hara, W. B. Palmer, Josiah Rathbun, Charles P. Russell, William Russell, Lafayette Rinkle, George Seymour, Hugh Sloan, Franz Steinhausen, Charles B. Tefft, Daniel G. Thomas, Thomas P. Henry, Louis A. Tourtellot, John Watson, Joseph E. West, Samuel G. Wolcott, T. A. Veeder.

Rome .- Edwin Evans, Thomas M. Flandrau, Henry Foord, Charles E. Fraser, Charles E. Fraser, Jr., Eliza M.

* From list in secretary's office.

1840.

1843. Luther Giteau.

1844 Medina Preston.

D. G. Thomas.

1847.

M. M. Bagg.

J. E. West.

1859

A. Blair.

J. E. West. =

1807. Amos G. Holl.

1810-14 .Sewal Hopkins.

Thomas Goodsell, Jr. Ezra Williams. Seth S. Peck.

1875 H. G. Dubois.

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Ellinwood, E. J. Lawton, H. C. Palmer, C. C. Reid, M. C. West, J. S. Whaley.

Boonville .- Walter Booth, John B. Nold. Cumden .- H. G. Dubois, Robert Frazier. Clinton .- A. A. Barrows, F. M. Barrows. Cassville .- D. A. Barnum.

Holland Patent .- Delos A. Crane, Norton Wolcott. Oriskany .- W. A. Babcock.

New Yorle Mills .- E. H. Bullock, H. N. Porter. New Hartford .- W. R. Griswold, A. R. Simmons.

North Bay .- J. W. Cooper. North Western .- Robert H. Hews.

Oneida Castle .- Martin Cavana.

Knoxboro' .- Charles Munger.

Stanwix .- David Besse.

Sangerfield .- Medina Preston.

Trenton .- Luther Guiteau, E. W. Raynor.

Taberg .- William H. Nelson.

Walesville .- Wales Buel. Waterville .- G. W. Cleveland, W. P. Cleveland.

Washington Mills .- David Hughes.

Westernville .- H. G. Reid.

Whitesboro' .- Charles E. Smith.

Whitestown .- Smith Baker.

Wl'estmoreland .- J. B. Drummond.

Western .- Alfred Gillette.

Vernon .- Alvalı P. Maine.

Verona .- G. Leroy Menzie.

HISTORY OF HOMEOPATHY IN ONEIDA COUNTY .*

When homeopathy was first adopted as a system of medical practice in Oneida County, and elsewhere, the con- dition of the philosophy of life forces in human organisms was in a large measure paralleled by that of inorganic mat- ter at the close of the last century. " It was then supposed that matter was destructible. The chemiist, therefore, on finding a portion of his material had disappeared, had a ready solution,-the matter was destroyed. But, starting with the axiom that matter was indestructible, all disappear- ance of material during his operations was chargeable to their imperfections."

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History of Oneida County, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 52

Author: Durant, Samuel W Publication date: 1878 Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Fariss Number of Pages: 920

Author: Durant, Samuel W
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Fariss
Number of Pages: 920