TRANSACTIONS -OF THE- Iowa State Medical Society, FOR THE YEAR 1895. HELD AT CRESTON, APRIL 17, 18 AND 19. VOLUME XIII. PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. DES MOINES: THE KENYON PRINTING AND MFG. CO. 1895. The Society does not hold itself responsible for the views enunciated in the papers read at its meetings. PROCEEDINGS OF THE FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE IOWA STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY HELD AT CRESTON, APRIL 17TH, 18TH, AND 19TH, 1895. FIRST DAY, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17th. MORNING SESSION. The Society convened in the Odd Fellows Hall and was called to order at 10 o'clock by First Vice-President Dr. D. S. Fairchild, of Clinton. Officers present: First Vice-President, D. S. Fairchild, Clinton; Second Vice-President, T. J. Maxwell, Keokuk; Secretary, J. W. Cokenower, Des Moines; Assistant Secretary, F. E. Sampson, Creston; Treasurer, G. R. Skinner, Cedar Rapids. Opening prayer by Reverend Robert E. Swartz, of Creston. Address of welcome by Mayor J. M. Scurr, Creston. He said: Gentlemen of the State Medical Society - Our city most cordially greets you. She extends to you a welcome that in warmth and sincerity has been surpassed by none of the cities that in the past have had the honor of entertaining you. While you have met in larger cities, cities of more magnificent homes, larger business buildings, greater wealth and commercial importance, and in more prosperous times; while you are accustomed to meet in our beautiful capital city, yet we assure you that our hospitality is not to be measured by our size, and Creston, feeling herself honored in being your entertainer, gives you a warm welcome from her whole people. She recognizes in your body not only a meeting of men of superior scholastic attainments, men recognized as authority on our most intricate scientific questions, but a nearer representation of every phase and station of life in our fair state, as observed by you in the daily discharge of duty, than any other assembly of men that could come together. The physician is with us all and always. No home or individual is so high as to be beyond the necessity of his attendance and none so low but at the call of suffering and disease the response and assistance is 1 as ready. It is not a financial consideration that prompts this impartial and unfailing conscientious discharge of duty; it cannot be the dollars attached to a visit that rouses a doctor from his rest at night and impels him, through the discomforts of cold, storm and unseasonable hours, to the bedside of suffering and the alleviation of pain, but it is the manhood in the man, the sympathy for and desire to palliate the ills of his fellow being. The physician must of necessity be a man worthy of the highest confidence. To him is intrusted the very heart secrets of the household; to him the mother brings the life of her little child, more precious to her than her own, and with no knowledge of the agents used, no knowledge of their action or effect, she places its destiny in his keeping and administers unknown medicines, and follows directions whose meanings are frequently to her obscure, with implicit confidence that if it is possible its health and strength will be restored. To the physicians are as confidently brought the ills and sudden physical disasters of mature life for correction. Old age with tottering footsteps, dimming eye and failing energies, pins its faith to its physician and its God in prolonging an already matured life. You greet us on our advent into the world. You minister to our various ills and whims as we pass through it. You alleviate our pains, soothe and comfort us in our old age, and finally close our eyes in death. While we are proud of our home physicians, we cannot claim them exclusively as our own, for their usefulness and their reputation as being eminently skillful are not confined to our city alone, but are recognized throughout the state, and yet our state is filled with good physicians. This convention, this exchange of ideas and experiences, must of necessity result in good to you and through you to the whole state. In welcoming you and extending to you the freedom of the city I place you in the hands of our local physicians and assure you you will find them most royal entertainers. Address in behalf of the local profession, by Dr. H. E. W. Barnes, Creston. He said: It is a pleasurable part that has fallen to me to welcome the Iowa State Medical Society, in behalf of the local profession, to the place of charming homes, enterprising men and handsome women, the gem of the summit, the metropolis of the Blue Grass region of Iowa, the hospitable city of Creston. And we are highly gratified to be favored by the presence of the distinguished medical and surgical ladies and gentlemen who thus today so signally honor us. The Iowa State Medical Society is composed of the thinking, working, broad, unselfish and progressive members of the medical profession of this great commonwealth, open to receive all truth. "Wherever found, on heathen or on Christian ground," too broad, too deep and too investigating to be hampered by any iron-clad medical "creed," "ism " or "pathy," ," "with malice toward none and with charity for all," striving to keep in touch with the master minds, the glorious "fragment" that, torch in hand forever leads the “unsound majority," whose genius robbed the operating table and the obstetrical "chamber of horrors" of its pain by giving to the world the blessed anæsthesia. To the men who have invaded the realm of the microbe with the effective germicide, and thus permit the wound to heal unvexed; to the men who have almost rid the world of small-pox pestilence, lessened the death rate of infectious and contagious disease and successfully invaded every region of the human body; ever ready at the call of duty, and trained to confront danger with fortitude and to meet peril with composure and presence of mind; foregoing all bodily ease and comfort to administer to the sick; called out in the terrific fury of the raging midnight tempest, facing the howling, blinding, merciless Arctic blizzard, on nights of which "Tam O'Shanter" never dreamed; with "cheer for the living and tears for the dead;" standing, like the Roman sentinel at Pompeii, where "Woe treads the heel of woe they come so fast," the battle ever on, the victory never won (and yet amidst the thorns and brambles, fragrant flowers of beauty redolent of spring are found by him who sees aright); and to those whose work appears a desert drear, of drifting yellow sand, where mocking ambition forever paints the false mirage, dissolving views of fame, and place, and power, that fade before his path a phantom brood, this meeting is an oasis, where genial palms and cool refreshing springs will rest and refresh until he is away again. And so we greet you, each and every one, trusting that when to your last call you cheerfully respond you all may be Of those immortal dead who live again, In deeds of daring rectitude, In scorn for miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, On motion the reading of minutes of last annual meeting was dispensed with. The Committee on Arrangements announced during the session the following delegate members: Drs. T. W. Mulhern, Greenfield; Walter L. Bierring, Iowa City; Charles W. Stewart, Washington; T. C. Cole, Thurman; D. Graves, Gilman; C. W. McGavren, Missouri Valley; John A. Gibbons, Keokuk; B. N. Torrey, Creston; J. E. Howe, Greenfield; J. A. Rawls, Creston; A. J. Mauran, Creston; L. S. Groves, |