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BUSINESS SESSION. 337 come to any medical man in North Carolina is to be president of the State Medical Society, and with that feeling I approach the office. I thank you, gentlemen. Dr. Fletcher : I will ask Dr. Laughinghouse to escort the incoming secretary up to the stage. Dr. Laughinghouse : I introduce Dr. B. K. Hays, the new secretary. RESOLUTION OF THANKS TO GREENSBORO. Dr. Cyrus Thompson, Jacksonville: I do not know, sir, what inclined the retiring president to impose this duty upon me, except it be what has been very evident to the society, that I have been unusually quiet during all its deliberations. I suppose he simply wanted to give me an opportunity to say something in order to prove to the society that I have not lost the power of speech. I want to say, sir, that this, in my estimation, has been one of the most successful meetings that the society has ever held within my knowledge of it. I want to say that it has been wTell attended, the papers of remarkable excellence, and the weather has been pretty good. It hasn't rained much; and, indeed, it may be said that we have been exceedingly dry. I remember, sir—and I break no secret wrhen I say that there is a wonderful contrast in wThat we have seen at the meeting of the society on this occasion and what we saw wTlien we met in the city of Charlotte nine years ago. We were delightfully entertained at that time, but many of us grew unconscious of it. Everything goes by fashion, and even water becomes fashionable now. Only a few years ago, if a man had presented a prohibition plank before the North Carolina State Medical Society, he would have been turned out with contempt as too weak for our tolerance. We would have called for something stronger than grape juice, or nothing at all. I believe, indeed, that this is true, that once the W. C. T. U. in North Carolina did ask the State Medical Society, meeting in the town of Winston, to give its professional indorsement to its temperance view, and the matter wTas laid upon the table—turned down with absolute contempt ; and one member of considerable prominence felt that we had been insulted. Why, we have changed mightily in a few short years, and all our progress comes by the patent-medicine process of advertising. Indeed, "It always pays to advertise if you've got the goods," and of course you've got the goods if you are advertising water. Now, then, whether it is true every member of the society meant it or not when we went on record last year at Raleigh, I don't know, but I do know'that still a little bit can be got, and when it's got in such small quantities it's held in very great esteem and it can't hurt much. I am somewhat of a poet myself, 90
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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 | 1915 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-062 |
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. |
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Volume Number | 62 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page 337 |
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 | 1915 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-062-0375 |
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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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 | 62 |
Page Number | 337 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | BUSINESS SESSION. 337 come to any medical man in North Carolina is to be president of the State Medical Society, and with that feeling I approach the office. I thank you, gentlemen. Dr. Fletcher : I will ask Dr. Laughinghouse to escort the incoming secretary up to the stage. Dr. Laughinghouse : I introduce Dr. B. K. Hays, the new secretary. RESOLUTION OF THANKS TO GREENSBORO. Dr. Cyrus Thompson, Jacksonville: I do not know, sir, what inclined the retiring president to impose this duty upon me, except it be what has been very evident to the society, that I have been unusually quiet during all its deliberations. I suppose he simply wanted to give me an opportunity to say something in order to prove to the society that I have not lost the power of speech. I want to say, sir, that this, in my estimation, has been one of the most successful meetings that the society has ever held within my knowledge of it. I want to say that it has been wTell attended, the papers of remarkable excellence, and the weather has been pretty good. It hasn't rained much; and, indeed, it may be said that we have been exceedingly dry. I remember, sir—and I break no secret wrhen I say that there is a wonderful contrast in wThat we have seen at the meeting of the society on this occasion and what we saw wTlien we met in the city of Charlotte nine years ago. We were delightfully entertained at that time, but many of us grew unconscious of it. Everything goes by fashion, and even water becomes fashionable now. Only a few years ago, if a man had presented a prohibition plank before the North Carolina State Medical Society, he would have been turned out with contempt as too weak for our tolerance. We would have called for something stronger than grape juice, or nothing at all. I believe, indeed, that this is true, that once the W. C. T. U. in North Carolina did ask the State Medical Society, meeting in the town of Winston, to give its professional indorsement to its temperance view, and the matter wTas laid upon the table—turned down with absolute contempt ; and one member of considerable prominence felt that we had been insulted. Why, we have changed mightily in a few short years, and all our progress comes by the patent-medicine process of advertising. Indeed, "It always pays to advertise if you've got the goods" and of course you've got the goods if you are advertising water. Now, then, whether it is true every member of the society meant it or not when we went on record last year at Raleigh, I don't know, but I do know'that still a little bit can be got, and when it's got in such small quantities it's held in very great esteem and it can't hurt much. I am somewhat of a poet myself, 90 |
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