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54 xviii THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA There is another change, Mr. Chairman, that has come to Greensboro since we last met in this city. You know about that time Greensboro was just beginning to get a little bit dry but the rivers flowed in dry places just the same and numbers of us sat in the shadow of the great rock in the weary land and took our martinis and mint juleps and none dared to make us afraid. Nothing doing now. Some of us old fellows, like Dr. Julian and Dr. Morris over there, when we consider how fearfully and wonderfully dry Greensboro is have felt like exclaiming with Kipling, "Take me somewhere East of Suez where the best is like the worst; where there ain't no prohibition and a man can raise a thirst." Why, gentlemen, did you know that Greensboro is so dry that I was told the other day—I do not know if the Mayor will vouch for this story, I hope he won't—that a fire broke out here and the fire engine rushed to the scene of the conflagration and hitched on to one of the fire plugs and all she could get was a spurt of dust. (Laughter). The firemen had to put out the fire with a chemical engine and gunny sack. Not only that, but out here at the Guilford County Sanatorium, the little institution of which I have the honor to be superintendent, we had a few patients to come in a short time ago. My laboratory technician put his report on my desk. I looked it over, and one after another I saw, "No sputum," "No sputum," "No sputum." I called him into my office and I said, "What does this mean?" He said, "I don't know doctor, every one of them has a cough but when I got their sputum cups all I could find was a little bit of dust." Then I remembered how dry Guilford County is and I told him that was all right. I don't expect you to believe that story. I don't believe it myself, but I just mention it in passing so that none of you need be disappointed because you have come to Greensboro and certainly nobody will have any less of a good time because Greensboro is dry. Finally, in the name of the Guilford County Medical Association, with its 135 members, I wish to assure you one and all that every one of us stands ready to do your bidding, to give you a welcome here, to wish that this may be the best meeting the old North Carolina Medical Association has ever had and that every man and every woman will be delighted to come back and see us again. I thank you! (Applause.) Chairman Julian: Next on the program is the greeting from the Women's Auxiliary A. M. A., Mrs. Allen H. Bunce, President, Atlanta, Georgia. (The audience arose and applauded.) Mrs. Allen H. Bunce (Atlanta, Georgia): Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Officers, Ladies and Gentlemen: Only seven years ago a splendid, a far-seeing woman presented to the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association the request for an organization of doctors' wives to be known as a Woman's Auxiliary.
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-16: Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1929 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-076 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 76 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page 54 |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1929 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-076-0080 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; organizational news; report/review |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 76 |
Page Number | 54 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 54 xviii THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA There is another change, Mr. Chairman, that has come to Greensboro since we last met in this city. You know about that time Greensboro was just beginning to get a little bit dry but the rivers flowed in dry places just the same and numbers of us sat in the shadow of the great rock in the weary land and took our martinis and mint juleps and none dared to make us afraid. Nothing doing now. Some of us old fellows, like Dr. Julian and Dr. Morris over there, when we consider how fearfully and wonderfully dry Greensboro is have felt like exclaiming with Kipling, "Take me somewhere East of Suez where the best is like the worst; where there ain't no prohibition and a man can raise a thirst." Why, gentlemen, did you know that Greensboro is so dry that I was told the other day—I do not know if the Mayor will vouch for this story, I hope he won't—that a fire broke out here and the fire engine rushed to the scene of the conflagration and hitched on to one of the fire plugs and all she could get was a spurt of dust. (Laughter). The firemen had to put out the fire with a chemical engine and gunny sack. Not only that, but out here at the Guilford County Sanatorium, the little institution of which I have the honor to be superintendent, we had a few patients to come in a short time ago. My laboratory technician put his report on my desk. I looked it over, and one after another I saw, "No sputum" "No sputum" "No sputum." I called him into my office and I said, "What does this mean?" He said, "I don't know doctor, every one of them has a cough but when I got their sputum cups all I could find was a little bit of dust." Then I remembered how dry Guilford County is and I told him that was all right. I don't expect you to believe that story. I don't believe it myself, but I just mention it in passing so that none of you need be disappointed because you have come to Greensboro and certainly nobody will have any less of a good time because Greensboro is dry. Finally, in the name of the Guilford County Medical Association, with its 135 members, I wish to assure you one and all that every one of us stands ready to do your bidding, to give you a welcome here, to wish that this may be the best meeting the old North Carolina Medical Association has ever had and that every man and every woman will be delighted to come back and see us again. I thank you! (Applause.) Chairman Julian: Next on the program is the greeting from the Women's Auxiliary A. M. A., Mrs. Allen H. Bunce, President, Atlanta, Georgia. (The audience arose and applauded.) Mrs. Allen H. Bunce (Atlanta, Georgia): Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Officers, Ladies and Gentlemen: Only seven years ago a splendid, a far-seeing woman presented to the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association the request for an organization of doctors' wives to be known as a Woman's Auxiliary. |
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Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2983307 |
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