Nashville Monthly Record of Medical and Physical Science (Volume 1) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ultima! Intelligence aitb Juporfs. The American Medical Association. [As the two journals to which the present is a successor were both in a state of suspension at the time of the meeting of the American Medical Association in Washington, last May, we give, though rather late in the day, a very condensed report of its proceedings, omitting those parts which, relating to medical education, are detailed at large in our paper upon that subject.] This National Medical Congress of our Republic held its eleventh annual meeting in Washington, D. C., beginning May 5th, 1858. The Association met in the lecture-room of the Smithsonian Institute, and was called to order at a quarter past eleven o'clock, A. M., by Dr. Condie, of Philadelphia, when the chair was taken by the President, Dr. Paul F. Eve, of Nashville, Tenn. Vice-Presidents Breckenridge of Kentucky, Reese of New York, and Campbell of Georgia, were also on the platform; and at their table were the efficient Secretaries, Drs. Foster, of Tennessee, and Seinmes, of Washington City. Rev. Byron Sunderland, D. D., at the invitation of the President, offered an eloquent and appropriate prayer, invoking the blessing of Almighty God upon the Convention. The meeting was then addressed by Dr. Harvey Lindsley, of Washington, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements. The number of delegates and permanent members present was larger, We think, than ever assembled on any similar occasion, excepting, perhaps, the meeting in 1853, held in the city of New York. The names amounted to over four hundred, on the calling of the roll at the first session. On the calling of the roll by the Secretary, State by State, as it had been made out up to the commencement of the meeting, the following number of delegates responded: Maine, 2...