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

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THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL.
and very effective work of the retiring Sec- present. He likewise in fluent portrayal
retary of the State Board of Health— Dr. R. forecasted the future of the medical pro-
H. Lewis, of Raleigh, lie said that the fession.
work had been ably carried forward of ad- Essayist Dr. W. L. Dunn spoke of "Senvancing
preventive medicine, and that timental Barriers of Scientific Advancemuch
of tins advance was due to the untir- ment," among those being named antiing
zeal of Dr. Lewis. Others made many vivisection and opposition to post-mortems,
feeling and appropriate tributes to his He pointed out how the most notable disservices.
The report of the Secretary of coveries in medicine had been attained
the Board of Health dealt with the very through vivisection and maintained that
considerable advances made in this depart- while there might be rare, very rare cases
ment in our State in particular and in pre- of unnecessary vivisection the cause of
veutive medicine in general. He mentioned humanity demanded some suffering from
the recognition on the part of the legisla- the lower animals, pointing out that untold
ture of the value of the department by the suffering to countless thousands of human
increased appropriation. Reference was beings had been avoided through the realso
made to the laws enacted which require suits of experiments made on a few aniproper
analysis of mineral waters that are mals. Vaster progress could be made in
offered for sale, to the act making registra- medicine, he said, if physicians were pertion
of deaths obligatory and to the provision
for the free distribution of diphtheria
mitted to hold post-mortems on patients,
He made no suggestion, but simply pointed
antitoxin. out the loss to humanity which result from
The North Carolina Society for the Pre- prejudice.
vention of Tuberculosis held a session for The election of officers resulted as folthe
election of officers, those chosen being: "lows:
President, Dr. \V. L. Dunn, of Asheville.
Vice-president, Dr. Paul Ringer, of Asheville.
Secretary and treasurer, Dr. C. A. Julian.
President— Dr. J. A. Burroughs, of Asheville.
First vice-president— Dr. E. J. Wood, of
Wilmington.
of Thomasville.
Chairman committee on arrangements,
Second vice-president—Dr. John O. Myers,
of Charlotte.
Dr. Roy Williams, of Greensboro. Third vice-president— Dr. L. D. Whar- •;
The association is determined to make a ton, of Smithfield.
great campaign along educational lines Secretan,— Dr. D. A. Stanton, of High i
looking to the prevention of the spread of Point, re-elected.
tuberculosis. This work will be taken up Orator— Dr. Cyrus Thompson, of Jack- !
vigorously within the next year and the son ville, N. C. I
association is determined to push it. Essayist— Dr. R. \'. Brawley. of Salis- 1
An act of great significance was the elec- bury. !
tionof Dr. Julian, the secretary of the Soci- Leader of Debate— Dr. D. A. Garrison, i
ety for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, as of Gastonia. I
assistant secretary of the State Board of Treasurer— Dr. H. D. Walker, of Eli.a- ]
Health, the latter thus giving full of- beth City. 1
ficial recognition of the excellent work of Delegate to the American Medical Assothe
Society for the Prevention of Tubercu- ciation— Dr. T. 11. W. Brown, of Asheville. -.
losis. This election of Dr. Julian means Alternate—Dr. J. B. McGoughan, of ]
that the State Board of Health will shortly Favetteville. ^
begin a very active campaign against the Wrightsville was selected as the place of '
spread of tuberculosis. meeting, on the third Tuesday in next June, ij
Under the report of the Obituarv Com- Dr. George G. Thomas, of Wilmington, j;
miltee the eulogy of Dr. P. E. Hines by Dr. was chosen as chairman of the committee j
A. W. knox, of Raleigh, was a beautiful on arrangements for the meeting next vear.
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tribute to one of North Carolina's famous Committees were appointed as follows: (,
doctors. It IS one of the finest bits of lilera- On public policy and legislation— Dr. R. I
ture the State Society has ever heard. We H. Lewis, of Raleigh, Dr. Albert Ander- ||
call special attention to it. son, of Raleigh, Dr. George G. Thomas, of i
1 he annual oration by Dr. Moseley, of Wilmington.
Ckeensboro had for its text, "The Evolu- On publication— Dr. H. A. Rovster, of
tionot Medical Science, a Symposium of Raleigh, Dr. R. L. (^,ibbon, of Charlotte.
Its 1 ast and Its Manifest Destiny." The Scientific work— Dr. T. S. McMullan, of
paper manifested much brilliant research Hertford, Dr. R. II. Bellamy, of Wilmingand
dealt with the development of medicine ton.
from the earliest ages, from the time of the Finance— Dr. G. T. Svkes, of Grissom,
Iharaohs, through the dark ages, up to the Dr. I. Fearing, of Elizabeth City, Dr. Wil-
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