The Annual message of the president, Benjamin James Baldwin1892 - 35 pages |
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Alabama American Medical Association annual fee ANNUAL MESSAGE Asso Atlanta Medical College attended Autauga bama Board of Censors boards of health boards of medical Cherokee Cherokee County College of Counsellors Constitution and By-Laws COUNSELLORS AND MEMBERS county health officer County in 1891 County Medical Societies county societies delegates discussion dollar duty Eclectic Physicians elected elevate enforced Georgia Hahnemann Medical College honor Hospital Medical Huntsville ILLEGAL DOCTORS illegal practitioners important Jefferson County LANE MEDICAL license to practice Louis Medical College Louisville Marengo medical examiners meeting members of Society Meridianville Montgomery Nashville non-graduates number of illegal Number of Physi number of Physicians Number of Regular organization pathological specimens Percentage of rejections Physicians members practice medicine President profession professional Regular Physicians Regular Reports Rejected since 1878 rejections of graduates rule Society in 1891 surgeon tion Treasurer Tuscaloosa Vanderbilt University Vice-President vital statistics Weatherly Whole number rejected
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Page 25 - Select School, and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1862.
Page 19 - But when a young man obtains his diploma from a medical college, he has passed through the only trial the law demands, and has obtained that which society recognizes as the test of merit. Next to the minister of the gospel, the physician appeals to the sentiments of the public mind, and particularly to those sympathies which are least inclined to make close examinations of pretensions. The atmosphere in which he moves is unfavorable to keen criticism ; the circumstances of anxiety and often of sorrow,...
Page 3 - I desire to express my gratitude for the honor you have conferred upon me in selecting me as your president for this meeting.
Page 4 - By-Laws provide, that the annual message of the "President shall be strictly devoted to the discussion of the interests, objects and business of the Association and not to the scientific discussion of some subject belonging properly to practical medicine or public hygiene considered as departments of human knowledge.
Page 6 - vital statistics" law is very important. "It is important in itself, in its immediate practical aim, and it is still more important in the influence it is destined to exercise in the future power, prosperity, influence and usefulness of all medical and health organizations." While the law for the collection of vital statistics is poorly administered in some parts of the State, yet, upon the whole, I think we have cause for congratulation. This is confessedly the most difficult of all laws to administer....
Page 19 - ... of pretensions. The atmosphere in which he moves is unfavorable to keen criticism; the circumstances of anxiety and often of sorrow, as well as the feeling of dependence under which his professional skill is sought, indispose families to scrutinize his ability, and he is usually accepted with implicit reliance. Outside of the medical colleges, what safeguard protects a community from impositions of ignorance, stupidity, and recklessness in our profession ? You all know that society has no redress...
Page 26 - He was for a few years a member of the American Medical Association, and also a member of the American Public Health Association...
Page 25 - Alabama Regiment. He served with this regiment until the surrender of Fort Donelson, when he was sent a prisoner to Camp Chase, and later to Johnson's Island. He was released in June, 1862. In August, 1862, Dr. Dement was assigned to the 49th Georgia Regiment, at Gordonsville, Virginia, under General Jackson, and remained with this regiment until it surrendered at Appomattox.
Page 4 - That our profession has been true to its high and noble calling, that it has deeply felt and wisely pondered its responsibilities to itself and its obligations to society, can not be controverted.
Page 14 - ... specifying the character of the disease, the name and locality of the patient, together with such other details as may be required by the county board of health, must, on conviction, be fined not less than ten, nor more than fifty dollars.