JUDICIAL COUNCIL. Dr. M. H. Oliver (one year), Ennis. SECTION ON PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, MATERIA MEDICA AND PATHOLOGY. Dr. S. H. Stout, Chairman, Cisco. Dr. C. F. Paine. Secretary, Comanche. SECTION ON OBSTETRICS AND DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Dr. W. F. Starley, Chairman, Mexia. SECTION ON MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, CHEMISTRY AND PSYCHOLOGY. Dr. A. W. Fly, Chairman, Galveston. Dr. Secretary, SECTION ON STATE MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HYGIENE. Dr. F. E. Daniel, Chairman, Fort Worth. Dr. R. B. Grammer, Secretary, Fort Worth. Dr. A. V. Doak, Taylor. Dr. T. H. Nott, Goliad. Dr. J. W. Coombs, Houston. Dr. Wm. Saunders, Sherman. Dr. S. F. Starley, Tyler. Dr. A. A. Terhune, Jefferson. Dr. J. H. Sears, Waco. Dr. George Cupples, San Antonio. Dr. F. E. Daniel, Fort Worth. Dr. J. W. McLaughlin, Austin. Dr. J. M. Pace, Dallas. Dr. E. J. Beall, Fort Worth. Dr. H. H. Harris, Ennis. Dr. H. C. Ghent, Belton. Dr. D. F. Stuart, Houston. Dr. M. K. Lott, Belton. Dr. R. W. Park, Waco. Dr. R. B. White, Palmer. ASSOCIATION. DELEGATES TO THE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION, TO MEET IN WACO. Dr. R. B. White, Ennis. Dr. H. L. Taylor, Waco. Time and place of next meeting, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 3d Tuesday in April, 1885. PROCEEDINGS OF THE TEXAS STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, HELD AT BELTON, TEXAS, APRIL 22, 23, 24 AND 25, 1884. FIRST DAY. MORNING SESSION. The Sixteenth Annual Session of the Texas State Medical Association convened in Belton Opera-House, Belton, Texas, at 10 a. m., April 22d, 1884. The Association was called to order by Dr. A. P. Brown, President. Prayer was offered by Rev. L. B. Smith, Pastor of the Baptist Church. The roll of members was read, and a quorum found to be present. Minutes of the preceding meeting were adopted as printed. Dr. Taylor Hudson, Chairman of Committee of Arrangements, introduced Mayor D. A. Chamberlain, of Belton, to the Association, who spoke as follows: Gentlemen of the State Medical Association, Brethren of a Proud and Noble Profession, One whose Origin Antedates the Earliest Historic Period: Enlisted as you are in the grand and humane mission of alleviating the sufferings of the children of earth, as the chief executive officer of our city, I greet you in the name of our people with a cordial welcome, and gratefully tender to you our hospitality during your stay among us. Standing as your profession does, on the very pinnacle of usefulness, although I am myself but one of the vast multitude of nonprofessionals, I know I but voice a universal sentiment when I declare that yours is pre-eminently the profession around which cluster all the ennobling virtues and sympathies of life. In what can humanity feel a safer or more abiding interest than in that which so closely concerns their physical and intellectual well being? Who can ever forget, or learn to view with indifference the unselfish work of the faithful physician? At once the accomplished gentleman, the tried and trusted friend, braving alike the summer's heat and winter's cold, and "the pestilence that walketh in darkness" and "the destruction that wasteth at noonday." Who does not feel that heaven's light has yet a resting place on earth as he sees him waging his unceasing war with disease and death, alike in behalf of the lisping infant or the aged and decrepit? To him it matters not where he gives battle to the great destroyer; of whom it is said "he taps with equal step at he palace of the rich or the hut of the poor." Whether on the field of carnage, amid the terrible music of the bursting bomb, and the piteous moans of the crushed and dying; whether around the squalid cot of the friendless pauper or the gilded couch of the millionaire, the same good, kind physician, with impartial thought, brings to his task his wealth of learning and experience, and applies his ministrations with all his mighty energy. Always so intent on relieving the sufferings of others, as to be totally regardless of his own health or safety. Thus, often with the same hand which soothes and heals the woes of his fellows, he plants the seeds of his own dissolution. The science of medicine has ever been progressive, and in all ages distinguished for its great names, who have been remembered among the benefactors of our race. And as only good can spring from reunions such as yours, in conclusion, I will say, trusting your stay among us will be pleasant to yourselves and profitable to the great cause in which you are engaged, I again greet you with a cordial welcome and God-speed. Judge H. Y. Sanders was next introduced, and spoke as follows: Gentlemen of the State Medical Association: Having been honored by the request of your local committee to bid you welcome, in their names I so greet you. And just here I will take occasion to remark that being myself the son of a physician who gave his life to the duties of his profession, this is to me doubly a pleasant duty, although in coming before your honorable body, composed as it is of men many of whom have achieved not only a local distinction, but a national reputation in the fields of professional and scientific inquiry, I confess to a degree of embarrassment such as I would not feel under ordinary circumstances. Gentlemen, it has been beautifully and truthfully said that "peace has |