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chloroform upon himself. He obtained a quantity from Boston of which he had inhaled about one ounce. The propriety of employing ether for obstetric practice was also discussed, and an adverse opinion was elicited, though Dr. Loomis thought well of it in surgical operations if employed with proper care.
On May 2, 1848, the by-laws were amended providing that the annual election be held thereafter on the first Tuesday in April. The object of this change was to afford an opportunity for the printing of the names of the officers in the city directory which was then issued in June every year.
At the next annual meeting, August, 1848, the following named officers were elected to serve until the ensuing April: President, Frank Has- tings Hamilton; vice-president, S. F. Mixer; secretary, William Treat. Primary board: Austin Flint, Walter Cary, and H. M. Congar. The duty of the Primary Board was to examine students who desired to enter upon the study of medicine, and no physician in the capacity of preceptor was permitted to receive a student who did not possess the certificate of the primary board.
Annual meeting, April 3, 1849. The following-named were elected officers: President, Sylvester F. Mixer; vice-president, George N. Burwell; secretary, James M. Newman. May 1, Dr. James B Samo, from a committee appointed for that purpose, recommended the follow . ing as a minimum annual salary for medical services at the places named : Almshouse, $1,000; jail, $100; workhouse, $200. Fee in coroner's cases, $3 to $5; attendance on cholera hospital $5 a day. June 5, Dr. Walter Cary reported a case of Asiatic cholera, the first in Buffalo during the epidemic then prevailing.
June 10. Special meeting .- Dr. Josiah Trowbridge stated that the meeting had been called for the purpose of establishing a uniformity in reporting cases of the prevailing epidemic cholera to the Board of Health; also to ascertain by conference with the Board of Health what in its opinion were cases of cholera and what it expected physicans to report as cases of that disease. Dr. C. C. Haddock and Mr. A. Mc. . Arthur, members of the Board of Health, were present. On motion of Dr. Flint it was ordered that a committee of three be appointed to draft a report expressive of the sense of the asssociation relative to the object of the meeting. Drs. Flint, Treat and John S. Trowbridge were appointed as such committee to report at an adjourned meeting. The next morning after this meeting Dr. C. C. Haddock, in apparent
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good health, was attacked with diarrhoea which he neglected to heed, but pursued his public duties as health officer until late in the even- ing of the same day, at which time he was stricken with cholera and died the next evening. July 12, the adjourned meeting was held in the Common Council chamber, when Dr. Flint read his report (pub. lished in the Buffalo Medical Journal, August, 1849) and the death of Dr. Haddock was announced. Appropiate resolutions were passed in his memory.
April 2, 1850. The election resulted in the choice of the following named officers: President, George N. Burwell; vice-president, Charles W. Harvey; secretary, William Ring. September 3. Dr. Frank H. Hamilton read a biographical sketch of Dr. John E. Marshall. Octo- ber 1. Drs. Burwell, Pratt and Treat were appointed a committee to prepare a biography of Dr. Cyrenius Chapin.
April 1, 1851, the following named officers were chosen: President, Charles W. Harvey; vice-president, Silas Hubbard; secretary, James S. Hawley. Primary board: Drs. Wallis, Wyckoff and Treat. May 5. Drs. Ring, Sprague and Hamilton were appointed a committee to obtain signatures to a petition to the Legislature in favor of legal- izing dissection. Drs. Strong, Burwell and Congar were appointed a committee to memorialize the Common Council in relation to more per- fect registration of deaths. At this meeting the association resolved to meet every fortnight instead of every month as heretofore.
April 6, 1852. Election of officers: President, C. W. Harvey; vice- president, Silas Hubbard; secretary, Sandford Eastman. Primary board : Drs. Wallis, Strong and Garvin. July 6, 1852, this being the evening for obsequies of Henry Clay, on motion of Dr. Eastman, the association adjourned for one week. August 3d. At this meeting sixty-two cases of cholera and thirty deaths were reported within the preceding week. Drs. Hamilton, Wilcox and Strong were appointed a committee to re- port on the relation of upturning of soil to the causation of cholera.
April 5, 1853. Election of officers: President, Charles H. Wilcox; vice-president, James M. Newman. Primary board: Drs. Eastman, Hawley and Ring.
March 7, 1854. Dr. Sanford B. Hunt called the attention of the association to the propriety of taking observations of the temperature and humidity of the atmosphere, accentuating their importance in connection with disease. Means were at once taken to obtain proper instruments, which was the beginning of the valuable hygrometric ob-
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servations that subsequently made Dr. Hunt so famous in this field of scientific inquiry. April 4, election of officers: President, James M. Newman; vice president, P. H. Strong; secretary, Sanford B. Hunt. June 27 Dr. Rochester reported a case of cholera that occurred June 12, the first reported during this year. Dr. Hunt remarked on the epidemic of varicella or chicken-pox at Hornellsville. There had been three hundred cases and ten deaths. August 1, reports were made of cholera in Buffalo and Niagara Falls; it had been especially fatal at the latter place, and Drs. Hunt and Fred Gardiner had each spent a week there, while Drs. Hamilton and Rochester had been several hours at Suspension Bridge. In the discussion Dr. Hunt remarked that the higher the dew point the more severe the disease.
April 3, 1855. Election of officers: President, P. H. Strong; vice- president, Sandford Eastman; secretary, Sanford B. Hunt. Primary board: Drs. Hawley, Root and Baker.
At the meeting held in February, 1856, Dr. Daker from the commit- tee on organization reported a form for an act of incorporation. This was ratified April 1, 1856, when the Buffalo Medical Association be- came incorporated as the Buffalo Medical and Surgical Association. April 1, 1856. Election of officers: President, Sandford Eastman; vice- president, Austin Flint; secretary, Sanford B. Hunt; treasurer, James M. Newman; librarian, William Howell.
April 7, 1857. Election of officers: President, Austin Flint; vice- president, C. C. Wyckoff; secretary, Sanford B. Hunt; treasurer, James M. Newman; librarian, B. H. Lemon. Primary board: C. L. Dayton, John Boardman, A. W. Nichols.
April 6, 1858. Election of officers: President, C. C. Wyckoff; vice- president, James M. Newman; secretary, Austin Flint, jr .; treasurer, S. F. Mixer; librarian, B. H. Lemon. Primary board: Drs. Hawley, Eastman and King.
April 2, 1859. Annual election. President, James M. Newman; vice-president, Thomas F. Rochester; secretary, Austin Flint, jr .; treasurer, C. B. Hutchins; librarian, B. H. Lemon. August 2, Dr. Frank Hastings Hamilton expressed the opinion that a person during sleep could not be anesthetized by chloroform. This declaration gave rise to some discussion, most of the members coinciding with the views of Dr. Hamilton, which is the accepted belief at the present day. December 6, Dr. Hamilton introduced Dr. William K. Scott, an old and honored physician of Buffalo for some years retired from the
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profession, yet who in his seventy-second year possessed so firm a nerve. an eye so undimmed, that he was daily in the habit of executing calig- raphy in a manner most wonderful and pleasing. Dr. Scott stated that he had practised this exercise for the purpose of preserving and im- proving his eyes. He then presented for inspection 1, 391 words written upon a circular card fifty-seven one hundredths of an inch in diame- ter; each letter was beautifully and distinctly formed. He subse. quently became totally blind. Dr. Scott was president of the Medical Society of the County of Erie in 1844.
April 3, 1860. Election of officers: President, Thomas F. Roches- ter; vice president, C. C. F. Gay; secretary, William Treat ; treasurer, J. F. Miner; librarian, William Ring. Primary board: Frank H. Hamilton, Sandford Eastman, Henry Nichell.
April 2, 1861. Election of officers: President, C. C. F. Gay ; vice- president, James P. White; secretary, J. F. Miner. August 6, Dr. William Treat, who had just returned from Washington where he had assisted in dressing the wounded that were brought in to Fort Runyon, July 22, after the battle of Bull Run, gave an account of that service. He stated that very few capital operations were made, as most of the wounded were able to walk. One amputation near the shoulder well dressed arrived from the field, and several soldiers with their foreams in temporary splints also came in on foot. The whole number dressed was about 125. Dr. Charles H. Wilcox, surgeon of the 21st Regiment, and Dr. Joseph A. Peters, assistant surgeon, were actively employed; while Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, surgeon of the 31st N. Y., spent a por- tion of a forenoon at Fort Runyon. Dr. Treat went next day to the city hospital where he performed a similar service. September 3, Drs. Gould, Samo and Ring, committee, presented resolutions upon the death of Dr. Wiliam Treat. This skilful physician, who had been a resident of Buffalo for twenty years, died soon after the last meeting of the association in which he gave an account of his service with the wounded at Fort Runyon, Va.
April 1, 1862. Election of officers. President, James P. White: vice-president, H. M. Congar: secretary, J. F. Miner; treasurer, James B. Samo; librarian, William Gould.
At a meeting held January 6, 1863, Dr. P. H. Strong gave an ac- count of his observations while on duty with the army in the field. He spent most of his time at Frederick, Md., in taking care of the sick and wounded after the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. He said
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the operations on the field were successfully, many times beautifully, done, and that the wounded for the most part did well afterward. This statement applied especially to primary operations. His remarks were reported in full and received the commendations of the members present. At the annual meeting, April 7, 1863, the following named officers were elected: President, H. M. Congar; vice-president, James B. Samo; secretary, J. F. Miner; treasurer, C. C. Wyckoff; librarian, J. B. Samo. Primary board: Sandford Eastman, Henry Nichell, M. Shaw. The committee on fee bill, T. T. Lockwood and James P. White, reported in favor of increasing the fee for visits from one dol- lar to one dollar and fifty cents, and for office prescriptions from fifty cents to one dollar. This advance the committee affirmed was justi- fied on acount of the depreciation of currency and a proportionate rise of the necessaries of life, whereupon the report was adopted.
At a meeting of the physicians of Buffalo held February 12, 1864, resolutions of respect to the memory of Dr. William H. Butler were were adopted. Dr. Butler had been on duty as acting assistant surgeon at Armory Square Hospital, Washington. Annual meeting April, 1864. Dr. James B. Samo was elected president; William Ring, vice-presi- dent; Joseph A. Peters, secretary; T. T. Lockwood, treasurer; T. M. Johnson, librarian.
Annual meeting April, 1865. Election of officers. President, Will- iam Ring; vice-president, William Gould; secretary, Joseph A. Peters; treasurer, C. C. Wyckoff; librarian, James B. Samo.
December 5. Dr. Joseph A. Peters resigned the office of secretary and Dr. Thomas M. Johnson was elected to fill the vacancy.
February 6, 1866. Dr. Thomas F. Rochester introduced a resolution that was adopted urging every member of the profession to attend a meeting February 13, to take action respecting sanitary measures proper to be instituted for the welfare and protection of the citizens of Buffalo during the ensuing summer. The meeting was held on the date named, a committee appointed to confer with the mayor and Board of Health on the subject indicated, and an address of instructions sent out to the public. Annual meeting, April 3, 1866. President, William Gould; vice-president, John S. Trowbridge; secretary, T. M. Johnson; treasurer, T. T. Lockwood; librarian, James B. Samo. July 3. There were no communications to be read at the meeting, but the propriety of a revision of the constitution and by-laws was discussed. Septem- ber 4. The question was brought up in reference to druggists receiv-
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ing a percentage on physicians' prescriptions, whereupon Dr. Miner expressed the belief that in Buffalo druggists were conducting an hon- orable business, and that he had not known either a respectable drug- gist to offer, or a physician to accept, such a division of profits. De- cember 4. A discussion was had over the propriety of appointing a member at each meeting to designate a subject for consideration at the next meeting who should prepare himself to lead in such discussion. Dr. Miner was elected and initiated the course at the next regular meeting.
February 5, 1867. Dr. Miner opened a discussion on surgical rem- edies-vesicants, rubefacients, setons, issues, and the like. Some of the members, among whom were Drs. Congar, Strong and Cronyn, were surprised at the assault Dr. Miner made on some of these time honored therapeutic measures. Dr. Miner remarked that he did not desire to defend the paper but preferred to leave the objections to it unanswered. Annual meeting April, 1867. President, Sandford East- man ; vice president, Joshua R. Lothrop; secretary, T. M. Johnson; librarian, James B. Samo. May 7. Dr. Gould, as retiring president, delivered an address in which he referred to the fact that during the ten years preceding the association had lost nearly one fourth of its members by death. The names were as follows: Drs. Bissell, Bryant Burwell, Lewis, Newman, Sprague, Josiah Trowbridge, Treat, Wilcox, Lockwood, Howell, and Butler.
January 7, 1868. A resolution was introduced pledging the hearty concurrence of the association in the efforts making to secure the pass- age of a law in the Legislature that may tend to regulate the study and practice of dentistry, and to protect the people of this State from un- skillful dental operations. Annual meeting, April 7, 1868. Election of officers: President, Joshua R. Lothrop; vice president, T. T. Lock- wood; secretary, T. M. Johnson; treasurer, C. F. A. Nichol; librarian, James B. Samo. November 3. Dr. C. Diehl was elected treasurer to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dr. C. F. A. Nichol.
Annual meeting, April 6, 1869. Election of officers: President, Julius F. Miner; vice president, S. W. Wetmore; secretary, T. M. Johnson; treasurer, C. Diehl; librarian, J. B. Samo. May 4. Resolutions intro- duced by Dr. Miner were passed unanimously directing that hereafter the fee for examination in life insurance should be $5 when made at the offices of physicians, and $2 additional when the examination is made elsewhere. Also that it should be regarded as a breach of confi-
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dence for druggists to renew prescriptions upon which is written "not to be renewed " or any words to that effect. July 22. The death of Dr. Joshua R. Lothrop having occurred on that day, it was announced and appropriate memorial resolutions were adopted.
Annual meeting, April 5, 1870. President, S. W. Wetmore; vice- president, T. M. Johnson; secretary, William C. Phelps; treasurer, C. Diehl; librarian, J. B. Samo.
March 7, 1871. Dr. White announced the death of Dr. J. Herman Bird, of Sioux City, Ia., formerly a resident of Buffalo. Dr. Roches- ter moved that Dr. Sandford Eastman, at present residing in California, and Dr. H. P. Babcock, also residing in California, be appointed dele- gates to the American Medical Association at its annual meeting to be held at San Francisco, September, 1871. The motion prevailed. An- nual meeting, April, 1871. President, T. M. Johnson; vice-president, John Cronyn; secretary, William C. Phelps; librarian, J. B. Samo.
Annual meeting, April 2, 1872. Election of officers: President, John Cronyn; vice president, John Hauenstein; secretary, Leon F. Harvey; treasurer, B. H. Daggett; librarian, J. B. Samo. In retiring from the presidential chair Dr. T. M. Johnson took occasion to review the san- itary condition of Buffalo. He criticised the defective drainage, the condition of areas, courts, alleys and streets, and animadverted upon the presence of pig sties, stables, manure heaps, and cellars containing water and decaying vegetable matter, the Hamburg Canal which we have always with us, the milk supply and many other subjects of im- portance, affirming that there had been no annual report of the health physician for eight or ten years. The address attracted the attention of the association, and a committee was appointed consisting of Drs. Strong, Rochester and Miner, to confer with the health authorities con- cerning the issuance of an annual report by the health officer. May 7 this committee reported that they had succeeded in accomplishing the object for which they were appointed, and asked to be discharged, which was done.
Annual meeting, April 1, 1873. Election of officers: President, John Hauenstein; vice-president, J. N. Brown; secretary, L. F. Har- vey; treasurer, J. J. Walsh ; librarian, J. B. Samo.
Annual meeting, April, 1874. Election of officers: President, James P. White; vice-president, William Gould; secretary, E. R. Barnes; treasurer, J. J. Walsh ; librarian, P. H. Strong.
Annual meeting, April, 1875 .- Election of officers: President, Will- 96
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iam Gould; vice-president, C. C. Wyckoff; secretary, E. N. Brush; treasurer, Joseph Fowler.
February 1, 1876 .- Dr. Henry R. Hopkins read a paper relating to the sanitary authorities of Buffalo which concluded with a resolution authorizing a committee of three to be known as the sanitary commit- tee, whose duty should be to investigate the regulations of the Buffalo Health Department and all matters pertaining to the sanitary govern- ment of the city, to report at the next annual meeting with such recom- mendations as might be deemed necessary. The chair appointed Drs. Hopkins, Folwell and Barnes as members of the committee, which reported as instructed. Annual meeting, April 4, 1876 .- Election of officers: President, C. C. Wyckoff; vice-president, E. R. Barnes; sec- retary, E. N. Brush; treasurer, Joseph Fowler; librarian, J. B. Samo.
Annual meeting, April, 1877. Election of officers: President, E. R. Barnes; vice-president, Thomas Lothrop; secretary, E. N. Brush. July 3. In the course of the discussion of a paper by Dr. H. R. Hop- kins on spontaneous generation reference was made by Dr. Rochester to Professor Lister's address on antiseptic surgery at the Interna- tional Medical Congress at Philadelphia. Dr. Miner then remarked that surgeons were constantly reporting new methods of dressing and treating wounds, claiming wonderful results, yet under each of several plans-namely, the open method, the method of Lister, the hermetic- ally sealed plan, the immersion in hot water-all so different, there were yet substantially the same results obtained. This appears to have been the first discussion of so-called Listerism by the association.
Annual meeting. April, 1878. Election of officers: President, Thomas Lothrop; vice-president, John Hauenstein; secretary, Joseph Fowler; treasurer, F. E. L. Brecht; librarian, P. H. Strong.
Annual meeting, April, 1879. Election of officers: President, Lu- cien Howe; vice-president, W. W. Miner; secretary, Joseph Fowler; treasurer, F. E. L. Brecht; librarian, James B. Samo. November 5. Dr. Rochester read a paper on pulmonary diseases of elevator em- ployees. This was the first time attention had been thus publicly called to the fact that workers in elevators were especially liable to diseases of the air passages. On motion of Dr. White a committee of five was appointed, consisting of Drs. Rochester, White, O'Brien, Davidson and Hauenstein, that should take the subject of Dr. Rochester's paper into consideration, enlist public sympathy on behalf of a reform, and if necessary strive to secure legislation on the subject. At this meeting
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a communication was presented from J. N. Larned, superintendent of the Public Library, to the effect that the library committee desired to make purchases of books and periodicals serviceable to students and practitioners of medicine, and the opinion of the association was asked concerning the plan as well as instructions requested regarding the selection of books. On motion of Dr. Wyckoff, a committee consisting of Drs. Wyckoff, Rochester, Lothrop, Abbott and Bartlett, was' ap- pointed to confer with the library committee before mentioned in re- gard to the choice of medical books.
Annual meeting, April 6, 1880. Election of officers: President, Lu- cien Howe; vice-president, A. H. Briggs; secretary, Dougal Macniel; librarian, J. B. Samo. Hon. Charles Beckwith read a paper entitled, "Testimony of Medical Experts." September 2. Dr. William D. Granger read a paper entitled, "State Regulation of the Practice of Medicine." On motion of Dr. White a committee was appointed con- sisting of Drs. Granger, Barker and Keene, to obtain from some com- petent member of the bar a clear interpretation of the existing regis- tration act. At a meeting held September 7, this committee reported with an opinion from Judge Clinton, whereupon a communication was sent to the Medical Society of the County of Erie informing it of the opinion of Judge Clinton on the subject of the new medical registration law.
Annual meeting, April 5, 1881. Election of officers: President, A. M. Barker; vice-president, A. R. Davidson; secretary, Dougal Macniel; treasurer, F. E. L. Brecht; librarian, James B. Samo.
Annual meeting, April, 1882. Election of officers: President, A. R. Davidson; vice-president, John Cronyn; secretary, C. M. Daniels; treasurer, F. E. L. Brecht; librarian, James B. Samo. March 6. Dr. Julius Pohlman read a paper entitled "Geology in Sanitary Science," in the course of which he pointed out the relation of soil to drainage and the importance of properly constructed impervious sewers.
July 1, 1882. Dr. A. R. Davidson read a paper entitled "Sewer Gas and its Dangers." This led to considerable discussion, the members concurring with Dr. Davidson in his views concerning the bearing of sewer gas on public health.
Annual meeting, April 3, 1883. Election of officers: President, John Cronyn; vice-president, F. W. Bartlett; secretary, C. M. Daniels; treasurer, F. E. L. Brecht; librarian, J. B. Samo.
Annual meeting, April 1, 1884. Election of officers: President, F.
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W. Bartlett; vice president, Charles G. Stockton; secretary, Frederick Peterson; treasurer, F. E. L. Brecht; librarian, James B. Samo.
January 6, 1885. Dr. Frank Hamilton Potter was elected secretary to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Dr. Peterson. The committee on midwives reported a corrected bill to regulate their prac- tice, and on motion it was voted to ask the president of the Medical Society of the County of Erie to call a special meeting of that body for the consideration of this bill. The bill became a law and is now in op- eration. Annual meeting, April 7, 1885. Election of officers: Presi- dent, Charles G. Stockton; vice-president, William Warren Potter; treasurer, F. E. L. Brecht; secretary, F. H. Potter; librarian, J. B. Samo.
Annual meeting, April, 1886. Election of officers: president, Will- iam Warren Potter; vice-president, J. B. Coakley; secretary, F. R. Campbell; librarian, Lucien Howe.
Annual meeting, April 5, 1887. Election of officers: President, J. B. Coakley ; vice-president, P. W. Van Peyma; secretary, C. G. Steele; treasurer, F. E. L. Brecht, librarian, Lucien Howe. On motion of Dr. A. Dagenais a building committee was appointed to solicit funds, select a site and make plans for the erection of a hall or home for the medical profession of the city. A committee was appointed by the chair to select the building committee, consisting of Drs. Delancey Rochester, F. S. Crego and H. R. Hopkins. May 3 this committee reported the following names for members of the building committee: Drs. A. Dagenais, John Cronyn, Lucien Howe, William Warren Potter, Roswell Park, C. Diehl, and Charles Cary.
Annual meeting, April, 1888 .- Election of officers: President, P. W. Van Peyma; vice-president, A. A. Hubbell; secretary, W. H. Bergtold; treasurer, F. E. L. Brecht; librarian, Lucien Howe. November, 1888. -Thomas Lothrop presented a memorial of Dr. F. R. Campbell, who died September 14, 1888, aged twenty-eight years.
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