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CHAPTER IVORGANIZATION OF THE ILLINOISSTATE MEDICAL SOCIETY:THE HOUSE OF DELEGATESBy FRANCES C. ZIMMER, Ph.B.*THEofficial proceedings of the governing body of any organization canbe considered, fundamentally, the history of the organization itself.Printed transactions have come down to us since twenty-nine forwardlooking,progressive physicians gathered in Springfield on June 4, 1850,and concerned themselves seriously and thoughtfully with the problemsthey had to meet medically, economically and ethically. Having come toorder in the State Library Room, Dr. Rudolphus Rouse of Peoria assumedthe chair on motion of Dr. W. B. Herrick of Chicago. The first actiontaken, "on motion of Dr. Blaney of Chicago," was a resolution "that wedeem it expedient to proceed to the organization of a State MedicalSociety." 1That afternoon the group adopted a Constitution and By-Laws, andelected officers for the ensuing year as follows:President William B. Herrick, ChicagoVice-Presidents . . . Rudolphus Rouse, PeoriaSecretariesA. G. Henry, SpringfieldEdwin G. Meek, ChicagoS. A. Paddock, PrincetonTreasurerJ°hn A. Halderman, CarlinvilleThese officers "were unanimously elected, and the Convention by vote,resolved itself into the Illinois State Medical Society."These early meetings gave us many of our present forms and traditions,such as the Committees on Arrangements, Practical Medicine, Surgery,Obstetrics, Drugs and Medicines, and Publications.* Mrs. Zimmer received the Ph.B. degree from the University of Chicago. She is acharter member of the Medical Society Executives Conference. Her work with theIllinois State Medical Society started in January, 1936, and she is at the present timeExecutive Assistant to the Secretary of that Society.—EditorxZeuch found that the Society had originally been founded in 1840. For an accountof that meeting, the reader is referred to Volume I of this series, p. 394.36
Organization of State Medical Society37On motion, the Society went into Committee of the Whole for the purposeof adopting a Code of Medical Ethics as based on that of the threeyearold National Medical Association. It was resolved that a special committeebe appointed to "memorialize the Legislature at its next session,praying the enactment of a statute providing for the registration of Births,Deaths and Marriages, and that the Committee cause a petition to thateffect to be circulated as widely as possible through the State."The State Legislature, in 1947, passed laws regulating the sale of variousbarbiturates. The State Society endorsed this law. In 1850, almost 100 yearsbefore, the Society "resolved that as members of the State Medical Society,we will discourage the sale of patent or secret nostrums, on the part ofDruggists and Apothecaries throughout the State; and that so far aspracticable, we will patronize those Druggists and Apothecaries, and thoseonly, who abstain from the sale of such patent or secret nostrums."All of this work was accomplished in two short days, and the men returnedto their homes with plans "to meet at Peoria on the first Tuesdayin June, 1851."The First Constitution and By-Laws. The first Constitution and By-Lawswere little more than a skeleton to provide the frame under which the smallgroup of physicians could work and meet for scientific and business purposes.The preamble to this Constitution contains the nucleus of Article IIof the present Constitution and By-Laws. It might well appear today as itwas written then:"Inasmuch as an institution so conducted as to give frequent, united andemphatic expression to the views and aims of the Medical Profession in thisState, must at all times have a beneficial influence, and supply more efficient meansthan have hitherto been available here, for cultivating and advancing medicalknowledge, for elevating the standards of medical education, for promoting theusefulness, honor and interests of the Medical Profession; for enlightening anddirecting public opinion in regard to the duties, responsibilities and requirementsof medical men, for exciting and encouraging emulation and concert of action inthe profession, and for facilitating and fostering friendly intercourse between thosewho are engaged in it; therefore,"Be it resolved, in behalf of the Medical Convention of the State of Illinois thatthe members of the Medical Convention held in Springfield, June, 1850, and allothers who, in pursuit of the objects above mentioned, are to unite with or succeedthem, constitute a State Medical Society."The Constitution provided for officers and standing committees, and thepayment of an initial fee of $2.00 upon being elected to membership. Itspecified that delegates should represent local societies, organized medicalschools, hospitals, lunatic asylums and other permanently organized medicalinstitutions of good standing in the state. Local societies had theprivilege of sending to the Society one delegate for every five of its regularresident members, and one for every additional fraction of more than half
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