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

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THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL.
tent that patients are constantly put to the tion of politics from medical boards, and |
unnecessary expense of specialists. urged tlie association to demand that the \
Everj' physician should have a specialty, laws of the States included therein be so J
even though not practicing it to the entire changed as to make it obligatory on the j
exclusion of his general work. This is, I respective Governors to select members of j
think, especially true outside of the large State Boards of Health from a list of com- \
cities where, ofttimes, many things render peteni physicians recommended by medical •
the services of an exclusive specialist im- men. He said that he believes that the I
possible to obtain. With the several men facilities for medical education which we |
of a community doing general work usually, have in the South are more than sufficiently I
but each one making himself extra profic- modern for our youth to obtain all the ad- ]
ient in some one or two branches, inter- vanced instruction they need to equip them "'
change of patients can be brought about in for ilie practice of the profession. Our cola
cordial manner, and without jealousy, leges are numerous, manned by capable ^
and the patients accordingly benefited by faculties and provided with the most scienspecial
work, well done at moderate terms, tific apparatus. We have men teaching in
which under ordinary circumstances the our schools who are surgeons and special-
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patient would have been unable to obtain, ists c>t international reputations. i
During the special treatment, the patient
for any other ailment is referred to his original
physician, as also after the special
treatment is finished.
I" his address Dr. DuBose emphasized
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the (opportunities open to medical men in
the South. He drevi- attention to the fact
that many talented young men, feeling that
Another duty of the physician is to do broader fields and better facilities were ofeverything
possible to avoid putting our fered, have followed the paths of greatness
profession on a purely commercial basis,
Money is a necessary commodity the way
away from home. Greater honor is to him
who makes opportunity arise around his
thiugs are constituted just now, but still
our duty to attend to and heal the "sick
and wounded" must be considered first,
Lack of funds on the part of the patient
must not mean lack of interest on the part
of the doctor. Our poor patients must receive
the same care as we would give the
nativity and becomes a worthy son on the
soil of his birthplace, who stays among his
own and adds to their uplift. For him who
adopts as his home this Southland, let every
act of fellowship make him feel so much at
home that it becomes a reality.
Attention was called to the necessity of ^'
well-to-do. Perhaps when all is done and
said we may find that our ultimate reward
legislation for the regulation of the business
of opticians in the annual address of the
is as great or greater.
chairman of the ophthalmology section, Dr.
Alex. W. Stirling, of Atlanta, and was
SOUTHBRPS MEDiCAu ASSocmT.or.. ^^^^^-^^ approved by the gathering of spec-
The Southern Medical Association held ialists who were his auditors. He urged
its 4th annual meeting Xov. 9-11, in New that the doctors throughout the South do
Orleans, La., under the presidency of Dr. their utmost to induce the Legislatures of
Giles C. Savage, of Nashville, Tennessee, their States to introduce similar bills, so
The attendance, though small, when con- that opticians might be controlled b)- the
sidered in relation to the number of doctors State authorities and be compelled to underin
the profession of the component States,
was nevertheless satisfactory, representing
as It does the flower of the medical profesgo
tests as to their ability,
Pellagra and tuberculosis received a large
amount of discussion. A number of excelsion
of several Southern States. City lent papers were heard on both subjects,
attorney, Garland Dupre, of New Orleans, Of particular interest were those of Dr. \V.
eloquently extended the welcome on oehalf J. W. Kerr, of Corsicana, Texas, Dr. C. C.
of the city. Dr. E. M. Hummel, chairman Bass, Dr. D. Harvev Dillon, Dr. Geo. Dock,
ofthe committee of arrangements, expressed Drs. H. P. Cole and G. J. Winthrop, Dr. J.
the pleasure felt by the doctors of New M. King and Dr. O. L. Pothier.
Orleans because of the presence of the Papers of value on tuberculosis were premembers
of the Society. Dr. W. W. Craw- sented by Drs. Wallace J. Durel, W. C.
ford, of Ilattiesburg, Miss., responded. Gewin, George Brown, Arthur W. Ralls,
The annual oration was delivered by Dr. H. P. Cole, Herman B. (Ressner, S.
Isadore Dyer, of New Orleans: the address Sheperd, Randolph Lyons, John A. Watin
medicine by Dr. John A. Witherspoon, kins, Benjamin B. Simms, H. L. Suth
of Nashville, Tenn.; the address in surgery
by Dr. Francis G. DuBose, of Selma, Ala.,
and the address in ophthalmology by Dr.
Alexander \V. Stirling, of Atlanta, Ga. Dr.
Witherspoon made a plea for the eliminaland,
R. F. Evhridge, J. A. Storck. J. C.
Moore, W. L. Champion, William Lilterer
and Roy Van Wart.
In the Section on Medicine Dr. George
Dock, of New Orleans, was elected cl