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1880 .- C. A. Wall, J. W. Keene, M. Hartwig, W. D. Bidaman, Julius F. Krug, Charles G. Stockton.
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The society at its annual meeting, June 13, 1880, memorialized the Legislature against restricting vaccinations, and also by a set of care- fully prepared resolutions endorsed Dr. J. F. Miner for health officer of the port of New York.
Officers for 1880 .- President, F. F. Hoyer; vice-president, John Hauenstein; sec- retary, D. W. Harrington ; treasurer, W. C. Phelps; librarian, J. B. Samo. Censors: Henry Nichell, F. F. Hoyer, J. C. Greene, James Sloan and A. H. Briggs.
1881 .- W. C. Barrett, F. O. Vaughn, Carl H. Guess, Louis C. Vol- ker, J. B. Coakley, J. Stone Armstrong, W. D. Granger, Judson B. Andrews, Benjamin H. Grove, Frederick Peterson, Franklin Burt, W. H. Jackson, A. S. Hancock, S. L. Atwater, S. H. Warren.
Judson B. Andrews, a native of New England, was born in 1834. and graduated at Yale College in 1855, after which he studied medicine. Before taking his medical degree the Civil war began, and he joined the army, serving first as captain in the 77th Regiment, N. Y. Volunteers, and afterward as assistant-surgeon of the 2d Con- necticut Heavy Artillery. In 1867 he was appointed third assistant physician at the Utica State Hospital; later he became first assistant, serving in that capacity until the Buffalo State Hospital was established. He came to Buffalo in 1880, assumed the superintendency of the latter institution, serving in that capacity until his death. He joined the society in 1881, and served as president in 1886. He was one of the most distinguished alienists of his time and inaugurated many methods that resulted in great benefit to the insane. He died at his hospital August 3, 1894, aged sixty years.
Officers for 1881 .- President, John Hauenstein: vice-president, T. M. Johnson; secretary, A. M. Barker; treasurer, F. W. Abbott; librarian, J. B. Samo. Censors: Edward Storck, H. R. Hopkins, W. C. Phelps, A. H. Briggs, P. W. Van Peyma.
1882 .- Clayton M. Daniels, Mary E. Runner, Edward Clark, E. H. Ballou, J. A. Hoffmeyer, Irving M. Snow, M. T. Kiefer, C. G. Cham- plain, Henry D. Ingraham, Carlton C. Frederick, Matthew D. Mann, William Warren Potter, George L. Brown, George W. York, C. A. McBeth, Walter D. Greene, Floyd S. Crego.
Officers for 1882 .- President, T. M. Johnson; vice-president, S. E. S. H. Nott; secretary, A. M. Barker; treasurer, F. W. Abbott; librarian, J. B. Samo. Censors: Edward Storck, H. R. Hopkins, A. H. Briggs, P. W. Van Peyma and F. F. Hoyer. Delegates to the State society, F. F. Hoyer, S. E. S. H. Nott, A. M. Barker, H. R. Hopkins.
1883 .- Alvin A. Hubbell, Charles Weil, Jacob Frank, George E. Fell, Frank Hamilton Potter, Herman E. Hayd, James Wright Put- nam, Willis G. Gregory, Eli H. Long, J. W. S. Hunter, John H. Pryor.
A special meeting was held April 11, 1883, to consider action on a bill to be introduced into the Legislature regulating the practice of
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medicine. Dr. H. R. Hopkins, chairman of a special committee to consider the subject, reported at the semi-annual meeting, June 12,
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1883, to recommend the passage of a bill creating a separate State board of medical examiners that should represent the several so called systems of medical practice. The report of the committee closed with
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the recommendation that seven members be appointed as a committee of legislation to have full charge of this subject and to report action from time to time. The committee was composed as follows: John Hauenstein, M. D. Mann, F. S. Crego, Edward Storck, A. R. David- son, H. R. Hopkins and A. H. Briggs.
At a special meeting held September 8, 1883, Dr. Hopkins's commit- tee reported a bill, consisting of fifteen sections, that was acted upon seriatim, amended in important particulars, and after debate was unanimously approved. This bill was subsequently introduced into the Legislature through the Medical Society of the State of New York, and after delays and amendments it finally became a law, June 5, 1890. By this act the control of the practice of medicine, which had lapsed from the State many years before, was now reclaimed, and under it no person is permitted to practice medicine in the State of New York with . out submitting, after graduation in a legalized medical college, to an examination by the State Board of Medical Examiners. The authority to appoint this board was placed in the hands of the Regents of the University, and they, under the nomination of the Medical Society of the State of New York, appointed the following-named examiners who still hold office: William Warren Potter, Buffalo; William S. Ely, Roch- ester; M. J. Lewi, New York; William C. Wey,' Elmira; George Ry- erson Fowler, Brooklyn; J. P. Creveling, Auburn; Eugene Beach, Gloversville. These names are given in the order in which they were officially announced from the Regents' office.
Frank Hamilton Potter, who became a member in 1883, was soon afterward ap- pointed clinical assistant in surgery at the Niagara University Medical College. He went abroad for study in 1885, and afterward devoted himself to the practice of laryngology, and was soon appointed clinical professor of laryngology at Buffalo Uni- versity Medical College. He was a young man of promise, and commanded the respect of his colleagues, companions and seniors in and out of the profession. He died July 16, 1891, aged thirty-one years.
Officers for 1883 .- President, S. E. S. H. Nott; vice-president, Henry R. Hopkins; secretary, A. M. Barker; treasurer, F. W. Abbott; librarian, J. B. Samo. Censors: M. D. Mann, A. H. Briggs, P. W. Van Peyma, F. F. Hoyer.
1884 .- R. A. Witthaus, William Meisberger, W. A. D. Montgomery, B. G. Long, Carlton R. Jewett, C. Niemand, F. W. Sweetland, Will- iam H. Thornton, A. G. Gumaer, Mary Berkes, Herman Bauer, Ros- well Park, R. M. Root, F. R. Campbell, Julius H. Potter, A. F. Hel-
1 Dr. Wey died June 30, 1897, and Dr. A. Walter Senter, of Herkimer, has been appointed to fill the vacancy.
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wig, W. B. Hawkins, Alpheus Prince, Herbert Mickle, Stephen Y. Howell, Louis Carmer, A. E. Persons.
Frederick R. Campbell, a native of Niagara county, took his baccalaureate degree at the University of Rochester and his doctorate degree at the University of Buffalo. He was lecturer on hygiene at Niagara University Medical College in 1883, and after- ward professor of materia medica and therapeutics. He was sanitary inspector for the Board of Health and acquired an extensive practice. He was the author of Language of Medicine in which he displayed great erudition. He died September 14, 1888, aged twenty-eight years.
Officers for 1884 .- President, J. C. Greene; vice-president, Judson B. Andrews; secretary, Edward Clark: treasurer, F. W. Abbott; librarian, J. B. Samo. Censors. Edward Storck, H. R. Hopkins, A. H. Briggs, P. W. Van Peyma, F. F. Hoyer.
1885 .- William Pask, James S. Porter, John Parmenter, A. B. Wil- son, William G. Ring, F. P. Vandenburgh, F. W. Hinkel, C. F. How- ard, Thomas G. Sheehan.
Officers for 1885 .- President, Judson B. Andrews; vice-president, E. T. Dorland; secretary, Edward Clark; treasurer, F. W. Abbott; librarian, J. B. Samo. Censors: Edward Storck, H. R. Hopkins, A. H. Briggs, P. W. Van Peyma, F. F. Hoyer.
1886 .- J. W. Grosvenor, H. W. Bode, F. M. Rich, D. A. Morrison, Delancey Rochester, J. M. Stanley, J. G. Whitwell, E. E. Johnson, Dewitt C. Greene, William C. Callanan, Thomas M. Crowe, Arthur W. Hurd, E. H. Norton, E. T. Smith, Mark M. Brooks, William L. McFarland, H. H. Bingham, Benjamin W. Cornwell, T. F. Dwyer, Elmer Starr, Edward L. Gager, John T. Pitkin.
Officers for 1886 .- President, E. T. Dorland; vice-president, O. C. Strong: secre- tary, William H. Thornton ; treasurer, F. W. Abbott; librarian J. B. Samo. Censors: Edward Storck, H. R. Hopkins, A. H. Briggs, P. W. Van Peyma, William Gail. Delegate to State Medical Society: B. Bartow, F. S. Crego, M. B. Folwell, F. W. Hinkel, C. W. Bourne.
1887 .- George H. Westinghouse, E. J. Murphy, W. E. Jennings, Gustave Pohl, C. J. Hill, W. E. Robbins, E. M. Wetherill, E. T. Stevens, C. G. Steele, Harry A. Wood, Jacob Goldberg, Bina A. Pot- ter, G. W. Cutter, William A. Hoddick, Thomas G. Allen, George S. Palmer, J. G. Meidenbauer, R. E. Miller, Julius Pohlman.
Officers for 1887 .- President, O. C. Strong; vice-president, J. D. Hill; secretary. William HI. Thornton ; treasurer, F. W. Abbott. Censors: Edward Storck, Henry R. Hopkins, W. H. Gail, P. W. Van Peyma, Charles H. Wetzel.
1888 .- B. M. Strong, W. H. Bergtold, Emil Lustig, William H. Heath, J. J. Birmingham, Charles W. Howell, Charles E. Congdon, Ernest Wende, M. B. Cook, M. B. Searls, H. G. Matzinger, Paul F. Bussman, W. Scott Renner, W. M. Ward, Bernard Cohen, Jacob M. Falk, John Ketcham, S. Goldberg, B. F. Rogers, W. T. Tanner.
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Ernest Wende, who became a member in 1888, was appointed health commis sioner of Buffalo under the new charter, January 1, 1892. Under his administra- tion many reforms have been instituted, and the death rate of Buffalo become the lowest of any city of its size in the world. He was reappointed for a term of five years by Mayor Edgar B. Jewett to take effect January 1, 1897.
Officers for 1888 .- President John D. Hill; vice-president, Rollin L. Banta; secre- tary, William H. Thornton ; treasurer, F. W. Abbott; librarian, J. B. Samo. Cen- sors: Edward Storck, H. R. Hopkins, P. W. Van Peyma, A. R. Davidson, W. D. Greene.
1889 .- Westervelt Banta, J. M. Goltra, George F. Cott, Electa B. Whipple, John D. Flagg, H. C. Buswell, Clark F. Bruso, Ira C. Brown, Fridolin Thoma.
Officers for 1889 .- President, R. L. Banta; vice-president, G. W. McPherson ; sec- retary, W. H. Thornton; treasurer, F. W. Abbott; librarian, James B. Samo. Cen- sors: Edward Storck, P. W. Van Peyma, Thomas Lothrop, Henry Lapp, H. R. Hopkins. Delegates to the State Medical Society: A. E. Persons, Roswell Park, E. L. Bissell, F. W. Bartlett, E. H. Long.
1890 .- L. L. Ball, A. L. Benedict, J. D. Bowman, John J. Cham- plin, M. A. Crockett, Sydney A. Dunham, C. E. Ernest, Howard L. Hunt, J. M. Krauss, C. B. Le Van, George W. T. Lewis, George H. McMichael, John Middleton, R. S. Myers, E. N. Pfohl, T. Haven Ross, Clinton A. Sage, George H. Sisson, C. M. Smith, T. S. Stewart, John J. Twohey, W. Wolff, F. B. Voght, J. E. Whitmore, E. E. Briggs, F. M. Gipple, Allen A. Jones, William C. Krauss, R. E. Moss, M. Retel, Emil Schroeder, Hugo Schmidt, Otto Thoma, J. C. Thompson.
Officers for 1890 .- President, G. W. McPherson ; vice-president, E. C. W. O'Brien; secretary, William H. Thornton; treasurer, F. W. Abbott; librarian, J. B. Samo. Censors: Edward Storck, Thomas Lothrop, Henry Lapp, Joseph Haberstro, P. W. Van Peyma.
1891 .- L. B. Dorr, B S. Bourne, Henry J. Mulford, E. A. Forsyth, Henry Y. Grant, C. T. Wolsey, E. A. Milring, William A. P. Andrews, R. L. Patteson, Walter J. Riehl, E. G. Danser, William Dowlman, H. S. Townsend, William P. Clothier, John J. Mccullough, John Haus- berger, E. H. Young, William H. Chace, C. R. Jennings, J. F. Sell, M. J. O'Connell, J. P. Wilson, William H. Woodbury.
Officers for 1891 .- President, E. C. W. O'Brien; vice-president, William H. Gail; secretary, William H. Thornton ; treasurer. F. W. Abbott; librarian, Lucien Howe. Censors, Edward Storck, R. L. Banta, Henry Lapp, M. B. Folwell, E. H. Ballou. Delegates to the State Medical Society: B. H. Grove, B. H. Daggett, Edward Clark.
1892 .- W. H. Baker, C. A. Schladermundt, Harriet E. Sheldon, F. . H. Powell, Charles H. Meahl, E. H. Tweedy, Charles H. Woodward,
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Charles P. Clark, Lillian C. Randall, A. B. Knisley, Lewis C. Smith, Irving W. Potter, Arthur B. Allen, Charles J. Reynolds, John R. Gray, F. L. Watkins, Frederick Preiss, F. E. Hill, W. J. Beutler, J. M. Hewitt, A. J. Colton, M. V. Ball, J. J. Drake, L. A. Denton, Mary I. Denton, H. U. Williams, J. T. Harris, E. J. Gilray, C. B. Johnson, A. N. Collins, A. G. Bennett.
Officers for 1892 .- President, William Warren Potter: vice-president, William H. Gail; secretary, E. H. Long; assistant-secretary, Ira C. Brown; treasurer, Edward Clark; librarian, Charles A. Ring. Censors: Edward Storck, H. R. Hopkins, P. W. Van Peyma, J. J. Walsh, Henry Lapp. Delegates to the State Medical Society: B. H. Grove, Edward Clark, E. C. W. O'Brien, Ernest Wende, H. E. Hayd.
At the semi-annual meeting, June 14, 1892, Drs. Joseph Price, of Philadelphia, Charles A. L. Reed, of Cincinnati, Lewis S. McMurtry. of Louisville, James F. W. Ross, of Toronto, and Brooks H. Wells, of New York, attended and read papers, or took part in the discussions. This meeting was probably the most remarkable in the history of the society. Never before had so many distinguished men attended from a distance to participate in the proceedings. The papers and the dis- cussions were published in full in the Buffalo Medical Journal for Au- gust and September, 1892, and reprinted in separate form.
1893 .- Eleanor McAllister, Loren H. Staples, Carlos E. Bowman, Mary T. Greene, H. C. Leonhardt, Jane W. Carroll, Robert S. Ham- bleton, Frank J. Thornbury, Henry T. Carter, Alfred E. Diehl, Albert F. Erb, Edward L. Frost, Franklin C. Gram, George J. Hearne, George A. Himmelsbach, H. Corwin Jones, Charles E. Long, Edward J. Myer, Ferdinand G. Moehlau, Duncan Sinclair, James Stoddart, Clarence A. Tyler, G. W. Wende, J. F. Whitwell, Edward R. Wiser.
Officers for 1893 .- President, John Parmenter; vice president, William H. Jackson; secretary, E. H. Long: assistant secretary, George F. Cott; treasurer, Edward Clark; assistant-treasurer, E. A. Smith; librarian, Charles A. Ring. Censors: P. W. Van Peyma, Henry Lapp, J. F. Krug, J. H. Potter, A. L. Benedict. Delegates to the State Medical Society, William H. Bergtold, J. J. Walsh, William C. Callanan.
1894 .- Albert T. Lytle, Ada C. Lathrop, Harry Mead, Dewitt H. Sherman, Horace Clark, Charles S. Jewett, A. W. Bayliss, C. S. Sieg- fried, Francis T. Metcalf, Ludwig Schroeter, William G. Taylor, Helen J. C. Kuhlman, William Meisberger, Maud J. Frye, William C. Fritz.
Officers for 1894. -- President, William H. Gail; vice-president, F. W. Bartlett ; sec- retary, F. C. Gram; assistant-secretary, George F. Cott; treasurer, Edward Clark. assistant-treasurer, Eugene A. Smith; librarian William C. Callanan. Censors; J. F. Krug, James S. Porter, Henry Lapp, A. L. Benedict. Delegate to State Med- ical Society to fill vacancy, J. H. Pryor.
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1895 .- N. Victoria Chappell, A. H. Macbeth, G. B. Hepp, Charles A. Clemens, William G. Bissell, A. T. O'Hara, Charles E. Bowen, Evangeline Carroll, Walter M. Kidder, F. H. Field, Thomas B. Car- penter, Homer J Grant, Hiram A. Kendall, Lawrence J. Hanley, P. H. Hourigan.
Officers for 1895 .-- President, F. W. Bartlett; vice-president, J. G. Thompson ; sec- retary, Franklin C. Gram; treasurer, Edward Clark. Censors: J. B. Coakley, M. Hartwig, E. H. Long, F. T. Metcalf, Henry Lapp, J. H. Perry, William C. Krauss, M. A. Crockett, F. C. Gram, C. C. Frederick, G. W. McPherson.
1896 .- R. H. Lounsbury, John V. Woodruff, F. H. Milliner, Amelia F. Dresser, Jacob Miller, C. E. Fisher, Ray H. Johnson, John E. Bacon, H. C. Rooth, Martha F. Caul, Wellington G. Grove, Richard H. Sat- terlee, J. Grafton Jones, John B. McArtey, C. T. Stewart, E. E. Blaauw, Henry Osthues, J. Henry Dowd, and J. J. Finnerty.
Officers for 1896. -- President, J. G. Thompson; vice president, Henry R. Hopkins; secretary, F. C. Gram; treasurer, Edward Clark. Censors: J. B. Coakley, M. Hart- wig. B. G. Long, F. T. Metcalf, Henry Lapp.
1892 .- Jane N. Frear, F. W. Hayes, E. E. Koehler, E. P. Lothrop, E. T. Rulison, A. E. Woehuert, Marian Marsh, Cora B. Lattin, H. W. Lattin, J. Glen Ernest.
Officers for 1897 -- President, Henry R. Hopkins; vice-president, Hiram P. Trull: secretary, Franklin C. Gram; treasurer, Edward Clark ; librarian, W. C. Callanan. Censors: J. B. Coakley, C. E. Congdon, T. F. Dwyer, Irving W. Potter, Gaston A. Pohl.
At the annual meeting held January 14, 1896, the society having completed its seventy-fifth year celebrated its diamond jubilee. Papers commemorative of the occasion were read by Drs. John Hauenstein, C. C. Wyckoff, John Cronyn, Franklin C. Gram. These papers were published in the Buffalo Medical Journal during the next few months, and also were reprinted and sent out in pamphlet form to libraries and medical societies throughout the State.
Every possible effort has been made to verify the facts and dates given in the foregoing section, sometimes at considerable expendi- ture of time and patience, but they are believed to be correct in the main, and are offered as containing much of interest to physicians as well as to many outside the ranks of the profession.
The society is now in flourishing condition, has 350 members and is contemplating the establishment of a medical home for itself and the other medical organizations in the county.
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BUFFALO MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
The first attempt to organize a medical society with membership limited to the boundaries of Buffalo is recorded as having taken place July 16, 1831. . On that date a constitution and by-laws for the Medi- cal Society of the Village of Buffalo was submitted for adoption. It comprised a preamble of three paragraphs, a constitution of twelve articles, and a group of thirty six by laws. They were such as are usually adopted by medical societies and were signed by the following- named foundation members: Cyrenius Chapin, Judah Bliss, John E. Marshall, Josiah Trowbridge, Moses Bristol, Bryant Burwell, Henry R. Stagg, Alden S. Sprague, James N. Smith, Lucian W. Caryl, Orson S. St. John.
These physicians met again July 19, 1831, adopted the constitution and by-laws, and elected the following-named officers: President, Cyrenius Chapin; vice-president, Judah Bliss; recording secretary, Bryant Burwell; corresponding secretary, Josiah Trowbridge; treasurer, Moses Bristol. Whereupon the organization of the society was .com- pleted. Six members were chosen to read dissertations on specified subjects at successive meetings of the association. In accordance with this order at the next meeting, August 2, 1831, Dr. Caryl read a paper on the circulation of the blood, which was discussed by Dr. Trow- bridge, in the course of which, he referred to the case of Mrs. General Porter who had recently died. During 1831 five meetings were held, two papers were read, and three members paid fines of $2 each in de- fault of presenting papers at designated times. The annual meeting was held January 2, 1832, when the follwing named officers were elected: President, John E. Marshall; vice-president, Bryant Burwell ; corresponding secretary, Josiah Trowbridge; recording secretary, Lu- cian W. Caryl; treasurer, Alden S. Sprague. Meetings were held February 7th and March 6th, but on April 3d, May 1st and June 5th, the secretary reported no quorum, and recorded fines against delin- quent members. This was the last attempt to convene the society and it died in less than a year after its organization.
The second effort to organize within the lines previously mentioned was on January 22, 1836, when a meeting of the physicians and sur- geons of the city of Buffalo was held at the office of Drs. Marshall and Harris. At this meeting Drs. Bryant Burwell, Marshall, Barnes, Haw- ley and Winne were appointed a committee to draw up a fee bill, and
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Drs. Miller, Salisbury, Sprague, McVickar and White were appointed a committee to prepare a constitution and by-laws for the proposed med- ical association. Another meeting was held January 27, 1836, at the same place, when Dr. Gorham F. Pratt was appointed chairman, and Dr. Charles Winne served as secretary. The committee on fee bill re- ported the following named physicians as having pledged themselves to adhere to it: Bryant Burwell, Henry R. Stagg, James E. Hawley, John E. Marshall, C. H. Reynolds, Brock McVickar, Charles Winne, James P. White, Abraham Miller, Judah Bliss, Josiah Barnes, Alden S. Sprague and Francis L. Harris. The committee appointed to pre- pare the constitution and by-laws failed to report, hence no organiza- tion was effected. It is stated as a reason for this failure that at the time mentioned everybody was carried away with the spirit of specu- lation engendered by the sudden prosperity of the times; hence it was impossible to interest a sufficient number to maintain a medical organ- ization.
The third attempt, more successful, because permanent, did not occur until ten years afterward. The Buffalo Medical Journal, which had lately been established, in its issue for July, 1845, printed the following notice: " To the Physicians of Buffalo: Physicians of this city, mem- bers of the Erie County Medical Society, who are disposed to unite in forming a city medical society, are requested to meet at the office of Dr. Josiah Trowbridge on Wednesday evening, July 2, at 7 o'clock." The meeting was held as appointed, and the following named physi- cians were present: Josiah Trowbridge, Moses Bristol, Alden S. Sprague, George N. Burwell, John S. Trowbridge, Charles Winne, Josiah Barnes, Francis L. Harris, Horatio N. Loomis, H. M. Congar, Frank H. Hamilton and Austin Flint. Dr. Josiah Trowbridge was called to the chair, and Dr. Flint was appointed secretary. A commit- tee consisting of Drs. Loomis, Winne and Flint was appointed to pre- pare a constitution and by-laws. This committee reported at an ad- journed meeting held July 16, 1845, at the office of Drs. Sprague and Loomis. Its report was adopted after a debate during which some minor alterations were made. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows:
President, Josiah Trowbridge; vice-president Alden S. Sprague; recording secre- tary, Austin Flint. The constitution and by-laws were signed by Josiah Trowbridge, Moses Bristol, James P. White, Alden' S. Sprague, H. H. Bissell, John S. Trow- bridge, Sylvester F. Mixer, George N. Burwell, James B. Samo, Samuel G. Bailey, 95
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Austin Flint, Gorham F. Pratt, Francis L. Harris, H. M. Congar, William Treat, Silas Hubbard, Charles H. Wilcox and Josiah Barnes; total eighteen members.
The first regular meeting of the Buffalo Medical Association was held at the office of Dr. Frank Hastings Hamilton, August 5, 1845, at 8 o'clock P. M. On this occasion Dr. Flint presented for inspection a heart with valvular lesions; Dr. Hamilton moved the appointment of a committee to collect statistics concerning shortening in fractured limbs. At the September meeting Dr. White presented a placenta with ossific deposit, and reported a case of rupture of an ovarian cyst caused by a fall in which absorption of the fluid and recovery took place We have mentioned the reports of these three men at these meetings because they, perhaps more than any others, gave direction to the early efforts of the society. Hereafter in these pages only such proceedings or acts of the association as may possess some general or public interest will be recorded. No reference to its scientific work will be made other than such as relates to the public health, except when some question of paramont importance is presented.
At the meeting held December 3, Drs .. White, Barnes and Flint, as a committee, reported a fee bill which was adopted and ordered printed for the use of members. At the meeting held March 3, 1846, the sec- retary applied for and obtained permission to publish the proceedings of the association in the Buffalo Medical Journal. At this meeting Dr. Bryant Burwell introduced resolutions favoring a national medical con- vention to be held at New York, May 1, 1846, and at a subsequent meeting, Drs. Bryant Burwell and Alden S. Sprague were elected del- egates to attend the convention.
At a meeting held April 27, 1847, on motion of Dr. White, it was voted to raise the sum of $25 by subscription to help defray the ex- penses of the delegate to the American Medical Association. Dr. Josiah Trowbridge was elected delegate, but declined to serve; where- upon a committee was appointed to select a delegate, but subsequently reported that they had failed to do so.
At the annual meeting held August 3, 1837, the following named of- ficers were elected: President, Bryant Burwell; vice-president, C. H. Austin; secretary, William Treat. At a meeting held January 4, 1848, Dr. Sprague reported the successful amputation of a thigh while the patient was under the influence of ether and unconscious throughout the operation. This is the first capital operation performed in Buffalo under anesthesia. February 1, Dr. Hamilton related the effects of
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