professionally and as a friend.

If one lived fourteen

miles away in the wilderness and could not get a physician, and especially if they had nothing to pay with, all they had to do was to send for Dr. Gridley and if anyone could get there, she would. Monetary remuneration, it often seemed, was her last thought. This, many times, made her the victim of designing people, but in spite of these experiences she to the last, kept sweet her faith in man and God. It was in taking one of these drives or rather a series of them, that she contracted the cold which resulted in pneumonia that caused her death.

The statement has been made that we never appreciate a thing till we lose it; and many are just beginning to realize what a loss the community has sustained in her death.

She was an active member of Trinity Episcopal church, but I do not remember ever to have heard her speak on religious subjects. She was a believer in acts and deeds, not in words, and certainly if one may judge from her life and acts, she was a close follower of the Great Nazarene, and it is not to be doubted that if we who stood by her bedside, as her spirit returned to the God who gave it, could have looked beyond the vale, we should have heard the voice of her Redeemer saying: "Well done, thou good and faithful servant! Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."

SAMUEL SALISBURY LATHROP, M.D., NORWICH.

WILLIAM WITTER, M.D.,

NORWICH.

The death of Dr. Samuel S. Lathrop occurred in Norwich on November eighth, 1903. Dr. Lathrop was the youngest son of Edwin and Lydia Lathrop and was born in Griswold, June fifth, 1864. After attending the public schools, he entered the Norwich Free Academy, from which he was graduated in 1884. After his graduation he taught school for a time, having the purpose of soon entering college. Later on he engaged in business and finally decided to make his life work the practice of medicine.

He commenced his professional studies in New York City, where he was graduated from the College of Physi cians and Surgeons in 1900. Immediately after gradua tion he began practice in Norwich. In 1903 he took a post-graduate course in pathology and bacteriology at his Alma Mater, and on his return to Norwich was ap pointed pathologist to the William W. Backus Hospital, where a pathological and bacteriological laboratory was equipped under his direction. At the time of his death he was a member of the Connecticut Medical Society and the New London County Medical Association and Secretary of the Norwich City Medical Association.

The death of Dr. Lathrop resulted from an accidental collision with an automobile. Seldom has the community in which he lived been more shocked than by the news of this calamity. Seldom is there a death so hard to reconcile. The medical profession had already begun to regard Dr. Lathrop as one of the most promising of young physicians. His high ideals and devotion to his work, together with his thorough equipment and winning

personality warranted the expectation that he would rise to a commanding place in the medical world of Norwich. Upon his death the members of his profession and the societies to which he belonged joined with his friends in their tributes of esteem and sorrow.

From the beginning of his practice Dr. Lathrop was associated with his uncle, Dr. William Witter, a relation which proved particularly happy. His marriage on November fifth, 1902, to Miss Janet Torrance of Norwich who survives him, served to render still more pleasant the beginning of his professional life. He was especially fond of his home. Perhaps he lacked some of the selfassurance and aggressiveness which are sometimes the means of the most rapid advancement. His was that sensitive and sympathetic disposition which, while it often causes one to seem retiring or exclusive, is most helpful in contact with the wounds and weaknesses of life. Combining to a somewhat exceptional extent the faculty of seeing the amusing in common affairs with a sincere and sympathetic interest in the welfare of others he was in the fullest sense a companionable friend. While he practiced the "divine art of healing," he understood more fully than most young men the divine art of living. So far as human judgment goes, at his death a life of the greatest usefulness had but just begun. But who shall say this life is short and that one long; "for qualities of mind and heart," as Emerson says "are not written in water that quickly passes but are enameled in fire and crowned with immortality."

Pages 18-53 of this volume contain the discussion of the Constitution and By-Laws proposed by the American Medical Association. The Constitution and By-Laws as finally Society, are placed here in full, but they cannot become in force until the repeal of our present Charter by the General Assembly of the State.

adopted by this

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE I.-NAME OF THE ASSOCIATION.

The name and title of this Organization shall be the Connecticut Medical Association.

ARTICLE II.-PURPOSES OF THE ASSOCIATION.

The purposes of this Association shall be to federate and bring into one compact organization the entire medical profession of the State of Connecticut, and to unite with similar societies of other States to form the American Medical Association; to extend medical knowledge and advance medical science; to elevate the standard of medical education, and to secure the enactment and enforcement of just medical laws; to promote friendly intercourse among physicians; to guard and foster the material interests of its members and to protect them against imposition; and to enlighten and direct public opinion in regard to the great problems of State medicine, so that the profession shall become more capable and honorable within itself, and more useful to the public, in the prevention and cure of disease, and in prolonging and adding comfort to life.

ARTICLE III.-COMPONENT SOCIETIES.

Component Societies shall consist of those county medical societies which hold charters from this Association.