Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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affording an excellent opportunity for a elected, which is but an index to the high
study of the disease. esteem in which he is held by the doctors of
Information can be obtained by writing the county.
Dr. C. F. Williams, Secretary of the Board.
Mississippi Medical Examiners. ^ '
Secretary S. II. McLean, of the State „ „ ,....
•"•• *^"*' "^*"*'''
of Health
%P»?'«'e"t
of Mississippi, announced
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regular examination of applicants for °^ ^'"f"' P"'^^'^"!'"^'. ^ ^^
^nd M Ehz-
Washington, I. C., were
1 license to practice medicine to be held in ^^^^^? }''^^' ° ,
,.1 ^^ f' •. •
1 T 1 r^ ^ 1 -, J married recently, at the bride s home in
the New Capitol 111 Jackson on Oct. 12 and „t , , t\ ^ .. ,,-,i
I leakage
Washington. Dr. and
13. The examination is held under the
1°"^^^^ '" Purcelh-ille.
auspices of the State Board of Health. The
Mrs. Miller have
of the examination questions which
such a sensation and compelled the
Dr. Herbert PheianCole, of Mobile, Ala.,
and Miss Elizabeth Wells, of Canton, N.
caused ,
[board to call off the examinatior some Y., were married on September the l.Sth at
months ago, determined the board to safe- the bride's home. Dr. and Mrs. Cole will
guard this examination in a manner which live in Mobile, where Dr. Cole is engaged in
would make it impossible for a leak to the practice of medicine,
occur.
Dr. J. J. Powell and Miss Modane Car-
Pellagra Conference. ^^^- '^°^'^ °^ Gainesville, (ia., were married
in Gainesville, September the 1st, at the
.
,\ national conference on pellagra will be ho,^je of bride's parent's. Dr. Powell is a
held in Columbia, S. C, under the auspices prominent voung physician, andhas located
of tlie South Carolina State Board of
j„ Gainesville, for the practice of his pro-
Health, Nov. 3rd and 4th.
fession.
Gov. Ansel has appointed the following
scholarships for the South Carolina Medical
"*• •*• S- »ye. a very prominent physician
college at Charleston for the session of °^ Chattanooga, Tenn., and Miss Lucy
19()y.)().
Wade, of Waterbury, Conn., were married
First District—J osiah Smith, Charleston. Sept. 2';th. Dr. Dye is a graduate in medi-
Second District—Thomas W. Hutson, ^nic from Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
^j]jg„ Tenn., having completed the course there
Third District—J. Rayford Power, Abbe- " 1«97. Dr. and aud Mrs. Dye will reside
ville. ill Chattanooga, where Dr. Dye has gained
Fourth District—Alva Pack, Greenville, great prominence as a physician.
Fifth •
District— W. B. Marion, Chester.
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Sixth District—S. R. Lucas, Florence. UC^ms .
Seventh District— H. Timrod Schifflev.
Orangeburg. "*"• ^- '" **a'''«'>. of Greenville, S. C,
died at his home on Sept. 16th. He had
Medical Society. been in ill-health for many months, and his
The Lexington County "°t
(South Carolina) ^^^l'' \?^
unexpected.
Medical society met in Lexington Oct. 4th,
^\'- ^fty-five years old. He
^'YV" '^""f
The feature
graduated from
of
the
the meeting was
College of Phj^sicians
an address
'^."'^ by Dr. T. II. Dreher
Surgeons, Baltimore,
of St. Matthews, who
Md. in 18/7, and
spoke on "The Business Side of Medicine." ^'"=^ ,t.'^ has practiced medicine m
^^l^*
Papers were
South Carolina.
also read bv Di-. A.
For the last five or six
H. Knowlton,
on
years he has been the special
"I'teriiie Deviations," and by
vaccmation
Dr.
F. A. Coward, on "The
quarantine agent of the State
Laboratory and
Board of
the f"'^
Countiy Doctor
" Health for the counties of the piedmont
A banquet was tendered the visiting doc- ^.°"^^
^^':V°"°^ ^^^'"f-, , ^.
tors on the h.wer floor of
^'the
Masonic build- ^}^'.^''' "'^^ °"! .
°/
ing, to which a number of friends were invited.
The dinner consisted of barbecued
the leading physi-
"'^''^ ""^ ^'« ^^^^'°'' "f ^^'^ country.
Dr. J. T. Williamson, an aged and prommeats.
Dr. R. li. Mathias acted as toast- iiient physician of Calhoun County, Ala,,
master. died at his home at Peek's Hill, August
At the afternoon meeting Dr. F. R. Geiger 30th. His death was due to a stroke of
of Brookland was chosen president; Dr. R. paralysis. Dr. Williamson had lived in
E. Mathias, vice-president. Dr. Jas. J.
Wiiigard of Lexington, who has been the
Calhoun county all his life, and was a regular
practitioner until about two years ago,
able secretary since the organization of the when an accident caused the amputation of
society five years ago, was unanimously re- his legs.