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HALL OF THE FACULTY, 122 W. Fayette St.
BALTIMORE, May 12, 1882.

The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty met this day at 1 P. M., pursuant to adjournment. Dr. Wm. M. Kemp, the president, in the chair.

The minutes of May 9, 1882, were read and adopted.

The consideration of the Report of the Library Building Committee, and the amendments to the Constitution referring to the same, were, on motion, temporarily postponed.

On motion of Dr. Judson Gilman, the sentence in Report of the Directory for Nurses Committee, reading as follows: "No nurse shall be allowed to register whom the Directory Committee will not recommend, and all wet nurses shall be recommended," was ordered to be changed to read as follows: No nurse will be allowed to register whom the Directory Committee is unwilling to recommend.

On motion of the same gentleman, and by request of the Publishing Committee, a copy of the Report of the Directory for Nurses Committee was requested for publication in the Transactions of 1882.

On motion of Dr. C. H. Jones, the proposed amendment referring to Diseases of Animals, &c., was laid on the table.

A letter by Dr. A. M. Fauntleroy, of Staunton, Va., to the Corresponding Secretary, Dr. W. F. A. Kemp, accepting Honorary Membership, was read.

On motion of Dr. E. F. Cordell, the first section of the New Library Rules was amended to read as follows:

The Librarian shall attend at the Library Rooms daily, except Sunday and legal holidays, from 12 o'clock M. until 3 o'clock P. M., during which hours, only, books and journals may be taken from the Library.

Dr. G. Halstead Boyland offered the following:

Resolved, that the members of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty do deprecate the practice of prescribing, so commonly, as we believe, indulged in by the apothecaries of Baltimore, as unsafe and detrimental to the public health; and that a committee be appointed with reference to the sale of opium and its preparations.

After considerable discussion on the above resolution, the following substitute, offered by Dr. T. S. Latimer, was adopted:

Resolved, that a committee be appointed to prepare a law, to be subsequently submitted to the Faculty before presentation to the Legislature, regulating the sale of potent drugs in this State.

The president appointed the following gentlemen as the committee: Drs. G. Halstead Boyland, T. S. Latimer and L. H. Steiner.

On motion, the Report of the Library Building Committee was again read by the chairman.

Dr. H. P. C. Wilson, of that committee, offered a series of seven resolutions embodying the suggestions of the report. On motion, the resolutions were taken up seriatim. Numbers 1 and 2 were adopted as read. No. 3 was, on motion of Dr. Latimer, amended by appending the following words, "and not then without the consent of the Faculty." No. 4 was changed by the adoption of a substitute offered by Dr. J. S. Conrad and accepted by the mover of the resolutions. No. 6 was adopted by appending an amendment offered by Dr. C. H. Jones, viz. "and that Dr. H. P. C. Wilson be the chairman of said committee." Nos. 5 and 7 were adopted unanimously. The resolutions were then read as amended and adopted as a whole. They are as follows:

1. That this Faculty create a Building Fund, and appropriate to the same the five hundred dollars (more or less) derived from the sale of the Courtland Street property.

2. That the said fund be vested in five trustees, who shall hold the same, separate from other funds of this Faculty; with the provision that the fund, with the interest arising therefrom, and future contributions to it, shall be devoted exclusively to the purchase of a lot of ground, and buildings thereon suitable to the accommodation of this Faculty and the undoubted safety of its library, and that these trustees shall have power to fill any vacancy occurring in their number.

3. That this fund shall not be expended or encroached upon until it has reached the amount of fifteen thousand dollars, and not then without the consent of the Faculty.

4. That this Faculty transfer, under this resolution, the money now in the hands of the Treasurer arising from the sale of the Courtland Street property, to the Trustees of the Building Fund, subject to the provisions as recorded in the 2d Resolution of this series.

5. That this Board of Trustees shall report at each annual meeting of this Faculty the amount and condition of the Trust Building Fund.

6. That a committee of nine be appointed by the President of this Faculty to invite and receive contributions to this fund, and devise such other means as it thinks best to raise money for the Building Fund; that Dr. H. P. C. Wilson be the chairman of said committee.

7. That the above Board of Trustees be appointed by the President of this Faculty.

During the debate on the above resolutions, notably the 4th, involving a question of funds belonging to the Faculty, the point of order was made by Dr. Latimer, that in his opinion the resolution contemplated a disbursement of funds, and that the Constitution required that a meeting be called for that particular purpose. The Chair ruled that this action would only be a change of the investment and not a disbursement. Pending the consideration of the same resolution, a motion to adjourn was twice voted down.

After the reading of the resolutions as amended, on motion of Dr. Judson Gilman, the report of the Library Building Committee, as read at the annual convention, was referred to the Publishing Committee.

Professor Richard McSherry presented a chart of the sewerage of Memphis, to the Library, remarking that it was supposed to be the best of the day. On motion, a vote of thanks was tendered to him for the same.

No further business being presented, the Faculty, on motion, adjourned.

G. LANE TANEYHILL, M. D.

Recording Secretary.

HALL OF THE FACULTY, 122 W. Fayette St.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 13, 1882.

The Faculty met in special session to commemorate the death of one of its members, DR. HENRY ALBERS; the president, Dr. Wm. M. Kemp, in the chair.

On motion of Dr. H. P. C. Wilson, that a committee of five be appointed, with Dr. Judson Gilman, chairman, to prepare suitable resolutions to be offered at this meeting, the president appointed Drs. Judson Gilman, H. P. C. Wilson, B. B. Browne, John Morris and E. C. Baldwin.

The committee reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:

Having heard of the sudden death of one of its venerable and honored members, DR. HENRY ALBERS, the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, in special session assembled, desires to express and place upon record its high appreciation of his many virtues as a Christian gentleman, and of his professional integrity, honor and excellence as a physician.

Resolved, that our warmest sympathies are due and are hereby tendered to the family of our deceased brother, and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to them.

Judson Gilman, M. D., H. P. C. Wilson, M. D., E. C. Baldwin, M. D., B. B. Browne, M. D., John Morris, M. D., Committee.

Suitable remarks were made by several members.
On motion, the society adjourned.

ROBERT T. WILSON, M. D.
Assistant Secretary.

HALL OF THE FACULTY, 122 W. Fayette St.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 16, 1882.

At a meeting of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, the president, Dr. Wm. M. Kemp, announced that we were in attendance upon memorial services regarding the death of Dr. E. CLEVELAND COXE, late a worthy member of the Faculty.

Upon motion of Prof. I. E. Atkinson, a committee of five was appointed to draft commemorative resolutions and report at this meeting. The following minute, which they offered, was unanimously passed:

The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland would hereby place upon their record their sense of the loss which the Faculty and the medical profession have sustained in the death of DR. ERNEST CLEVELAND COXE. Endowed with excellent abilities and cultivated by professional study, he had, though comparatively young, won for himself a reputation for medical knowledge and skill; and by a remarkable grace and charm of disposition and manner, he had endeared himself to multitudes in this community in which he had made his home. The Faculty unite in this tribute of respect for his memory and virtues, and of regret for his loss.

Resolved, that a minute of these resolutions be entered upon the

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