The discussion of this report showed considerable opposition and finally Dr. Hicks called attention to the fact that all changes of the Constitution of the Association must lie over until the next annual meeting, and that this matter had not been presented in this form at the last meeting, and therefore, he moved that the matter be tabled for one year, and that the proposed Constitution be published in the Transactions and thus the members would be in a position next year to vote intelligently in the matter. Motion carried.*

The report of the Board of Censors was called for and postponed.

Dr. K. P. Moore, as chairman, presented the following report of the Committee on Necrology:

MACON, GA., April 22, 1904.

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Medical Association of Georgia:

This report comes to you wrapped in a rather deeper folding of crape than usual. Perhaps never before in the history of the Association has its Committee on Necrology had the sad duty of reporting so large a list of its active membership for the roll, "In Memoriam." In this list will be found the names of some of the most brilliant stars in the galaxy of our Association-men who have borne the heat and burden of their day, and who have gone to their reward surrounded with a halo of honor and a glory of useful and well spent lives. Some of them have been bold and progressive investigators into new fields of professional work, and leaders of men, not only in the profession, but in the State as well.

The committee would venture the suggestion that in enthusiastic press for professional recognition, and exuberant contribution of scientific papers and discussions, which this committee is pleased to commend, we perhaps are not just quite as mindful as we should be to do honor to those who have passed over the river, and gone to that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler ever returns. In most all organizations, from the church

*The proposed Constitution and By-laws will be found in full at the end of the Transactions, just preceding the roll of membe:s.

to the highest forms of our government, memorial services are held, and seasons are set for paying the last sad tribute of honor to their immortal dead, and would it not be appropriate, at least occasionally, for our Association to turn aside from its busy press of professional work and devote an hour to this beautiful sentiment. We would suggest that some night session be held and devoted to this service.

We have tried to secure memorial tributes to the memory of all these whose names we herewith submit: Dr. Virgil O. Hardon, Atlanta; Dr. J. McFadden Gaston, Atlanta; Dr. McD. Blanchard, Columbus; Dr. W. D. Hoyt, Rome; R. G. Bryans, Jackson; A. G. Whitehead, Waynesboro; W. S. Whaley, Athens; C. A. Moran, Atlanta; J. D. Tyson, Adrian; W. R. Robison, Milledgeville; J. N. Guerrard, Savannah.

Respectfully submitted,

K. P. MOORE, Chairman.

IN MEMORIAM.

Dr. James McF. Gaston, son of Dr. John Brown and Polly (Buford) Gastou, grandson of Joseph Gaston, was born December 27, 1824, near Chester, S. C.; died Atlanta, Ga. He attended the common schools of his native county, and obtained an academic education at Russell Place in Kershaw district. At the age of sixteen he entered the South Carolina College, Columbia, and was graduated A.B., in December, 1843, received the degree of M.D., March 6, 1846. He immediately entered upon the practice of medicine in Chester District, S. C., in partnership with his father, which relation was continued until the fall of 1852, when he removed to Columbia, S. C. At the opening of the civil war, Dr. Gaston enlisted in the Columbia Grays, and entered service at Morris Islaud, where he was appoint d chief surgeon of the South Carolina forces under the command of Brigadier-General M. L. Bouham. Surgeon Gaston accompani d General Bonham to Richmond, Va., and when the troops were removed to Manassas, he was assigned as medical director of the department, under Brigadier-General G. T. Beauregard. After the first battle of Manassas, Dr. Gaston, at his own request, was transferred by General Beauregard to the Third Brigade Sou h Carolina Volunteers, under Brigadier-General R. H. Anderson, until this officer was appointed major-general. Dr. Gaston was then promoted to chief surgeon of his division, and participated in Virginia and Pennsylvania campaigns. By special order of the Surgeon-General, Dr. Gaston went to the relief of the wounded after the battle of Chickamauga, and assisted Dr. S. H. Stout, medical director of hospitals, in the secondary operations at Ma

rietta. An application was made by Surgeon Stout for the transfer of Surgeon Gaston to his department, but he was ordered, inste d, to report to the medical director of hospitals in General Beauregard's division, and was sent to establish a general hospital at Fort Gaines, Ga. He was subsequently in charge of a general hospital at Fort Valley, where he remained on duty until the close of the war.

After the cessation of hostilities in 1865, Dr. Gaston went to Brazil. In 1874 he removed to the city of Campinas, Brazil, and practised medicine there until his return to the United States in 1883, when he located in Atlanta, Ga., where he was actively engaged in the practice of his profession until the time of his death.

Full of days and with the record of a well spent life, he was the nestor of the medical profession of the South, upon whose annals in the surgical world, especially his eminent services in the cause of original investigation and discovery, have shed a particular lustre.

He was indeed a most zealous and enthusiastic di-ciple of Hippocrates. Illustrating the best traditions of the profession, from the time he was a young surgeon and patriot, he carried its beneficent influence and healing balm on many a bloody battle field of the Confederacy; to later years when undismayed by adversity and uncorrupted by want, he pursued the scientific investigations of that profession to which he had dedicated his whole soul and life, and although with him the almond tree' did flourish, his active and fertile mind never grew old. Perhaps the most unusual and distinguished trait of his personality was that freshness and vigor of mind that seemed amidst the physical disabilities of age, to rise superior to the material restriction of the body.

A most noted trait of his character was the kind y and respectful consideration and innate modesty of self-opinion with which he treated the younger brethren of his profession. Not to him did it occur to disparage merit on account of youth and thus 'damn with faint praise.' This, with his enthusiastic interest in the most advanced progress of his profession, is an impressive example to those who at half his span of years succumb to the mere material and selfish aspects of our noble profession. He may be truly said to have 'died in harness,' as until a few days of bis end he was to be found in his office. A true scientist in his profession, a thorough gentleman in his life, he leaves behind him an impressive example for our emulation, and a memory that smells sweet and blossoms from the dust.'

JOHN C. OLMSTED.

DR. A. G. WHITEHEAD.

Dr. Amos Grattan Whitehead was born February 14, 1841, in Burke county, Ga., and in the same room in which were born his father and grandfather.

He received his early education at Bath, Richmond county. He entered the preparatory school of Dr. Scudder at Athens, Ga., in 1854, and graduated in 1860. Soon after graduating he commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Henry F. Campbell, in Augusta, Ga. In May, 1861, he enlistened as a private in Company A, Clinch Rifles, Fifth Georgia Infantry. He served in different capacities and was paroled on May 15, 1865, having attained the rank of captain.

In 1866 he graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Georgia, and immediate y began the practice of medicine in Waynesboro, Ga., where he rose to the first rank in his profession. He was an ex-president of the Georgia Medical Association and an honored and loved citizen of his native county.

His educational advantages, talent and energy and his high character have won for him a position that is most gratifying to his people, and an honor to his Alma Mater.

Dr. Whitehead belonged to the old school of Southern gentlemen; by birth, by education, by environment and by nature, he was of that type of Southern manhood which makes the pages of the South's history so illustrious. He was a Chesterfield in every sphere of life in which he moved. Whether in the performance of the arduous duties of his profession-in the hovels of the poor, in the carpeted palatial residences of the wealthy, in the contact with his professional brethren, or in the social world, he was the same courtly gentleman. But the real beauty of his genuine and natural courtesy was best illustrated in his inner home life. He never seemed to forget that it was here that he should let his genial sunny nature shine most graciously, and his courtly nature found its best expression when surrounded by his own family. To him his aged and invalid mother was a queen-queen of all the earth-and to her and his sister he never grew weary in his attentions. Nothing could have more beautifu ly shown the true manhood and genuine qualities of nature than his deportment with his loved ones in the home circle.

Dr. Whitehead did a large practice, and few, if any, dispensed more good, as they passed life's fitful pilgrimage, than he did, and his memory will be cherished long and lovingly by the people of old Burke.

Not only among his own people and patrons did Dr. Whitehead

occupy an exalted station, but with his professional brethren throughout the State none were held in higher esteem; as evidence of this fact he at one time filled the chair of President of the Medical Association of Georgia, the highest honor within the gift of the Association.

On the 23d of March, 1904, our honor. d friend and brother fell asleep, and left to his family, his friends and the profession a record well worthy our emulation-a beautiful, well rounded character. K. P. MOORE.

Macon, Ga., May 12, 1904.

HENRY F. FREDERICK, M.D.

BY A. A. SMITH, M.D., HAWKINSVILLE, GA.

Dr. H. F. Frederick was born in Houston county, Ga., February 17, 1867. In early life he developed those traits of honesty, generosity, and purity of character which endeared him to all with whom he came in contact.

One of the distinctive attributes of Dr. Frederick's character was his unswerving probity and strict adherence to truth and duty. Hence in all the varied relations of li e the purity and sincerity of his motives were never questioned. Kind and amiable in disposition; frank and decided in his convictions, though sometimes impulsive in the expression of his opinions, no one ever doubted the sincerity and honesty of his purposes. Dr. Frederick when a boy expressed a love for the profession of medic ne and accordingly attended lectures and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Atlanta, Ga., in 1894. On November 22, 1894, he married Miss Jennie Renfroe of Houston county, who, with a little daughter three years of age, survives him.

In the early part of 1895 Dr. Frederick located in Emanuel county where he resided and pursued his profession for one year. Not being satisfied he removed to Grovania, Ga., where he resided until 1893 and then removed to Hawkinsville. It was here the writer first knew him personally and learned to admire his many noble traits of character.

In the early part of the year 1901 Dr. Frederick attende l a postgraduate course at Bellevue, New York.

For more than a year previous to his death his health gave way, but with that indomitable energy which was one of his chief characteristics as well as a desire to do his duty he would visit his patients when he did not have strength sufficient to sit up.

Dr. Frederick's love of his family, his profession and his own