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Business Transacted in the Scientific Session.

FIRST SCIENTIFIC SESSION.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23D, 1917, 2:25 P. M.

THE PRESIDENT: We are happy in having with us to-day delegates from other state societies. I will first call upon and introduce to you Dr. Rowe of New Hampshire. Dr. Rowe, gentlemen.

DR. ROWE: Gentlemen and ladies: I am very happy to be with you to-day. Making a speech is something I never could do. I have no special word of greeting to bring from the New Hampshire Society, but I assure you I am pleased to be here with you to-day. (Applause.)

THE PRESIDENT: We can assure Dr. Rowe that we are very pleased to have a delegate and a representative from New Hampshire here. We are delighted to make welcome any representative from neighboring states. Is there another representative here? Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts?

DR. JACOBS (of Massachusetts): I am in the same position as Dr. Rowe. I have nothing to say. I am glad to be here.

THE PRESIDENT: We will next listen to the report of visiting delegates, those whom we sent abroad. From Maine? From New Hampshire? I know that our delegate went to New Hampshire. Vermont? Massachusetts?

DR. BURROUGHS: Mr. President, I attended the Rhode Island meeting. I had no idea I was connected with the court, but I had to go a year before and attend the Massachusetts meeting and I did make up a little report and none was called for, so I supposed I was to make no report at all this year.

But I went to the annual meeting on the first of June in Rhode Island. It was held in Providence. They had a one-session meeting beginning at four o'clock in the afternoon and their whole meeting winds up with a banquet in the evening. They had a talk by one of their members which was very interesting, and another talk by an attorney for the Massachusetts State Society, but the principal paper of the meeting was to have

been by Flexner, but Flexner was unable to be there so he sent Dr. Allen who gave us a very interesting talk on the treatment of diabetes, well worth going to hear. The banquet was quite a success and I had a very good time.

I think I might add that it is an important thing that we get reports from delegates to these meetings because I think we ought to know what our sister states are doing. I know in Massachusetts year before last I had a very good time and there were several things there that I liked very much. In the first place they had clinics in the hospitals and these clinics were to illustrate the subjects that were to be brought up in the meeting, subjects of the papers, which I thought was a very good idea. Another thing was their banquet. They had a very large crowd at the banquet at the Copley Plaza, very good banquet, and there are two reasons why they have a big crowd there. In the first place the banquet tickets are only a dollar and in the second place they print on their programme "No dress suits." They had splendid speakers and a splendid banquet.

THE PRESIDENT: The delegate to New York? Dr. Pierson of Stamford or Brooks of Greenwich? New Jersey? Maher? Kimball of Norwalk? Pennsylvania? McKnight of Hartford or Carmalt of New Haven?

DR. MCKNIGHT: Mr. President and gentlemen: I was late as usual. Dr. Carmalt was there during the whole session. It was a fine meeting, the third one I have been to at the Pennsylvania Society. I remember the second time when the meeting was at Scranton before. As I was introduced the president said I was on my annual pilgrimage to the Pennsylvania State Society. If any one wants a good time and wants to hear some good papers, they want to go to the Pennsylvania State Society. I see you didn't appoint any one this year. I am in line.

DR. CARMALT: Mr. President, I am quite in the situation you are yourself, being a native of Pennsylvania as you are of New Hampshire. When I heard that the Society was to meet in Scranton I felt that I should go, where I could go back to the scenes of my childhood. I knew Scranton long before it was Scranton; when it was simply a cross-roads of Slocum Hollow,

and the ride over the Pocono Mountains which my mother and I used to take, I sitting on her lap. I was about two years old then and it took more days than it takes hours now to go on the train. The contrast was very marked. So much for the personal matter.

The meeting itself was very good. Dr. McKnight didn't mention what I think should be, that we were the guests of an old Connecticut family, Dr. Wainwright, whose father was formerly president of this Society. Wainwright is now the chief of the Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, and we were his guests during the time we were there. That of course counted for a great deal in the way of having a good time. The entertainments were all good, the papers were good, Dr. Harris of Johnstown wrote a good paper as the president's address. It isn't worth while to run over the list of names, but there were many very good papers, one by Dr. Wainwright himself, and it was excellent. There was another one by Dr. Yeager on the Criminal Epileptic, in which the opportunity was presented to me to say that in Connecticut we have a law with regard to the well I may say the propagation of criminals and epileptics in general. As you know, the law forbids the marriage of epileptics to each other, and to the feeble minded; and I was able to give that to them as a note of progress, if they wanted it, from Connecticut to Pennsylvania. I was obliged, however, to follow it up by saying that the law has not been observed.

THE PRESIDENT: We have two illustrations of the desirability of the delegates attending to their duties; the one who did not expect to be called upon to report, and the others who had the satisfaction of reporting. Are there any other reports? Any other delegates? If not we will proceed with the scientific programme.

SECOND SESSION.

THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1917.

DR. CARMALT (New Haven): I beg with your permission, sir, to call up the resolution that was adopted by the House of Dele

gates yesterday in regard to Salvarsan and ordered to be read before this body, to have it read again, if you please.

THE PRESIDENT: You hear Dr. Carmalt's remark.

(The Secretary read the resolution regarding Salvarsan which will be found in full in the Report of the Councilor of New Haven County in the proceedings of the House of Delegates.)

DR. CARMALT (New Haven): I beg to substitute in the resolution "The Connecticut State Medical Society" for "The New Haven Medical Association," the point being that we wish to have this go to the representatives in Congress and the Committees on Patents in the House of Representatives and in the Senate with the endorsement of the whole Connecticut Medical Society. I think it is quite important that action should be taken at the present time as the matter is now before the Committee. It is of great importance to the United States Army that the patents on Salvarsan be abrogated and the profession allowed the use of Salvarsan which is manufactured in this country as well and perhaps better than it is there.

THE PRESIDENT: I understand that Dr. Carmalt's motion is that this resolution shall be adopted with the change from the "New Haven Medical Association" to the "Connecticut State Medical Society" and that any further action as implied in the motion be carried out.

This motion was seconded and unanimously carried.

DR. CARMALT: I now move, Mr. President, that the Secretary be directed to send these resolutions to the Chairman of the Committee on Patents of both House and Senate and to the representatives and senators from the State of Connecticut. This motion was also carried.

DR. TILESTON: Mr. President, I should like to move that a vote of thanks be extended to Dr. Sharpe for his admirable paper and pictures.

This motion was unanimously carried by a standing vote.

A vote of thanks was also extended to the Committee on Arrangements for their excellent programme.

The Smoker.

Wednesday, May 23d, 1917, at 8 P. M., an entertainment and luncheon was held in the Palm room of Hotel Taft. The entertainment consisted of vocal selections and moving pictures followed by informal singing and buffet luncheon. About 150 were present.

The Banquet.

The annual banquet was held on Thursday, May 24th, 1917, in the Hotel Taft at 6:30 P. M. One hundred and one were present. Dr. Frederick N. Sperry acted as toastmaster. The Nevin Quartette furnished music. The following responded to toasts: Dr. Samuel Garlick, Judge Robert L. Munger, Judson J. McKim, Rev. Charles R. Brown, D.D., Dr. Edward T. Bradstreet.

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