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knowledge respecting diseases, and such instruction on the subject of hygiene, as may be thought useful by the Board for dissemination among the people, with such suggestions as to legislative action as they may deem necessary.

SEC. 14. The sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the salary of the Secretary, meet the contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary, and the expenses of the Board, and all costs for printing, which, together, shall not exceed the sum hereby appropriated; said expenses shall be certified and paid in the same manner as the salary of the Secretary.

SEC. 15. The Secretary of State shall provide rooms suitable for the meetings of the Board, and office room for the Secretary.

SEC. 16. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and all laws in conflict with the same are hereby repealed.

The above bill was referred to the Legislative Committee, with the request to ask its passage by the next Legislature.

Adjourned to 8 a. m. to-morrow.

MORNING SESSION.

April, 25, 1884.

Association was called to order by Dr. H. C. Ghent, President.

Minutes read and approved.

The following papers were read by caption and referred to Committee on Publication:

Dr. J. S. Sanders, Blood-letting.

Dr. J. A. Gibson, Sulphate of Magnesia as a Cholagogue.

Dr. J. C. B Renfro, Typho-malarial Fever.

Dr. R. G. Williams, Prolonged Vomiting.

Dr. T. H. Nott, Tait's Operation.

Dr. Stallcup, Labor in a Girl II Years Old.

Several other papers in the different sections were referred to the Committee on Publication.

Dr. T. H. Nott read a memorial letter in reference to Dr. J. Marion Sims, and made quite a eulogistic speech in reference to his life and work.

Dr. W. J. Burt offered a resolution appropriating $100 to the Sims memorial fund, which passed unanimously.

A resolution of thanks was presented by Dr. W. J. Burt to the following firms for their exhibitions before the Association. Carried:

The Wm. S. Merrell Chemical Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, fine chemicals, fluid hydrastis, fluid extract from green plants. Represented by Mr. Henry Capleston.

J. P. Alban & Co., Memphis, Tenn., full line surgical instruments and appliances. Represented by C. W. Alban.

J. H. Chambers & Co., of St. Louis and Atlanta, Ga., publishers and dealers in medical books. Represented by Dr. J. W. Lanius.

Dr. Geo. T. Atkins, of Dallas, Tex., full line of surgical instruments and appliances of all makes. Represented by Geo. T. Atkins.

Dr. W. S. Richey, of Chicago, full line exhibit of artificial dentures. Exhibited by Dr. F. S. Lockwood.

W. H. Schieffelin & Co., of New York, line of soluble pills and granules, oleates. Represented by J. W. George.

Parke, Davis & Co., of Detroit, Mich., rare crude drugs, pills, chemicals, fluid extracts, elastic capsules, oleates, eff. gran. salts, sarco peptones, urinary test papers, concentrations. Represented by Fred. M. Odena.

The following resolution was adopted:

WHEREAS, Drs. Daniel & Brooks, members of this Association, have, actuated by a worthy and noble zeal in the cause of medicine, established, by their individual efforts, and under circumstances of a most difficult and discouraging nature, a medical organ of a high order of merit, a fit representative and exponent of rational medicine, which we hail with delight as a standard around which we can and will rally. and, by God's help, advance to the front in the battle for our rights in the march of sanitary and scientific progress,

Resolved, That in the Texas Courier-Record of Medicine, edited and published by Drs. Daniel & Brooks, we recognize a journal of first-class ability and high moral tone, whose teachings, based on an acceptance of, and a profound reverence for, the National Code of Ethics, advocate a higher code of morals, a higher standard of education, and unity, harmony and concord in professional ranks.

Resolved, That we individually endorse the Courier-Record, and promise our support.

The following resolution was offered by Dr. F. E. Daniel, of Fort Worth, and unanimously adopted:

WHEREAS, The good people of the loveliest village of the plain have, without regard to condition or sect, thrown open the hospitable doors of their peaceful homes to the delegates of the Texas State Medical Association, and have given us the warmest and most cordial welcome, making us to feel literally at home, and have been

indefatigable in their efforts to put us upon a footing of perfect ease and comfort, contributing in every way to the pleasure of our stay, to which end they have succeeded in a most thorough and satisfactory manner,

Resolved, That we hereby give expression to the general sentiment animating the convention, which is one of most grateful and heartfelt appreciation, both of these efforts and of the princely hospitality which we have most thoroughly enjoyed; and so long as the vital principle animates our bodies we will cherish the kindest and most pleasing memories of our visit, and of those new found friends who have already taken possession of our hearts, and who will ever occupy a warm place in our affections.

Resolved, That the thanks of this Association be and are hereby tendered to the entire citizenship of Belton—and especially and particularly to the ladies-God bless them—and to the reverend gentlemen of the religious denominations, who have contributed more than their share to our entertainment.

The following, by Dr. W. J. Burt, was also unanimously adopted: Resolved. That the thanks of this Asssociation be tendered the reporters of the Fort Worth Gazette, Houston Post, Austin Statesman, San Antonio Express and Belton Journal for their full and fair reports of the proceedings of the Association.

A motion to adjourn was then made and carried, and the President, Dr. H. C. Ghent, declared the Association adjourned to meet in Houston, Texas, on the 3d Tuesday in April, 1885.

W. J. BURT, M. D., Secretary Texas State Medical Association.

THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL ADDRESS.

DR. A. P. BROWN, JEFFERSON, TEXAS.

Gentlemen of the Texas State Medical Association:

The purposes of our Association are to modestly exhibit to you, in some way, the ability in our profession and the heart-felt interest we take in it; to show to you we are not unmindful of your best interests, the preservation of your health, and that we do strive to be worthy of the trust you so generously impose in us; and to better prepare ourselves to fully warrant your confidence and to extend the bounds of legitimate practice, and encourage and advise our law makers in the enactment of measures looking to the general good of the State; to learn and grow wise from the scientific attainments and practical truths gathered from the rich experience of those we meet at these annual convocations, and to impart each his learning to his fellow; compare experiences, the ripe results of which, will make us wise, practical, and of use to our fellow man, ourselves, and families, and enable us to pass the watchwords, here learned, far on down the lines to a posterity which we trust, becoming enriched by our experience, may further enrich and profitably benefit generations yet unborn.

"And through all future time,

Each grand achievement touches the sublime;
Within each field of learned labor lies,

For all who will contest, a fitting prize;

The higher flight demands the higher aim,—

'Tis only those that catch the heavenly flame."

He who for long years of toilsome labor shows the silver lock, the bending form and tottering step is yet a learner. Not satisfied with the experience of others, he yet reaches out into uncultivated fields, if perchance, he may find something that will add to his proficiency. And, often finding closely observed fact of more profit that speculative rea

soning, or prescribed rules by old authors, he brings these to us, in person or by representative, through onr established sections, or records them in some of our medical journals. Others seeing this record, compares it with their own, and, if of investigating mind rather than opposing disposition, become the gainers. Thus while our science is not an exact one it is one of the most exacting. From the date of matriculation to the close of our professional lives we are necessarily learners, and, if true to that profession, teachers as well as learners. Yet with all this study, investigation and labor-with the accumulation of thousands of years-there are many things in our profession which, like the promised land to Moses, we can see but not possess; for, far back in these ages measles, scarlet-fever and whoopingcough, were often as successfuly treated as in our present enlightened age. Many observers have attempted to determine the entity or producing cause of these, and many other well known and distinctly described troubles, and failed. Although yet on the border-land, we believe we soon will possess this coveted prize, and, as good pilots, steer the crafts, containing these ills, to a harbor of safety. Yet disappointment will come to all, and how to meet these casualities, sometimes blessings, will often tax even an inventive genius. No wavering or turning back is permitted. All must die. Change is written on the face of nature. No chemist's art has yet elaborated a panacea. The fountain of youth is yet beyond the horizon, and it is best for us that it is so, or else the knowledge of unpossessed facts would stay investigation, stagnate the brain, or remove the incentive to acquire greatness, or to do good. And to us might come the fate of Egypt's sages who, in lassitude begat of surrounding comforts and the enervating tendencies of her semitropical clime, stood still, then retrograded, then in abject poverty of mind and soul occupied stations intellectually inferior to some to whom, in her palmy days, she had been the bright encouraging exemplar. This being an acknowledged fact it is our duty yet to labor that we may eliminate the pretended and establish the true.

It is related that the eminent artist, Griotto, painted a portrait of Dante in fresco on the walls of Bargello palace, in Florence, where for five hundread years it had remained hidden by a coat of white wash. Something like the finding of this ancient piece of art comes up to us in some of our investigations here. The rust of ages is scraped away. "Iron sharpens iron," and many a grand idea is given with as much freshness as in its originality. Hidden things are not always lost (and

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