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Address before the Rocky Mountain Medical Association
Address before the Rocky Mountain Medical Association Author:Joseph Meredith Toner Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HISTORY AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, WITH A SYNOPSIS OF THE ADDRESSES OF THE EARLY PRESIDENTS. This Association was fo... more »rmed at Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, in May, 1872, the earliest practicable moment after the meeting in California. It is composed of the medical gentlemen who crossed the Rocky Mountains in 1871 to attend the meeting of the American Medical Association in San Francisco, and was organized in reipcrpctitam mcmoriam. Dr. Washington L. Atlee, of Philadelphia, was elected President, and Dr. John Morris, of Baltimore, Secretary and Treasurer. The ladies and a few gentlemen who accompanied the party were chosen honorary members. It was then resolved to have an annual reunion at each recurring meeting of the American Medical Association, on which occasion an address should be delivered by the presiding officer. SECOND MEETING, 1873, IN ST- LOUIS. The Rocky Mountain Medical Association met in the afternoon at the Masonic Temple, Dr. W. L. Atlee, of Philadelphia, the President, in the chair. Dr. John Morris, Secretary, read the minutes of the last meeting, which were approved. The President then delivered the following interesting address: Dr. Atlee's Address. Gentlemen and Fellow-Members of the Rocky Mountain Association: Two years ago we traversed the American continent to the golden shores of the Pacific, in order to greet our brethren of the extreme West, and to plant the standard of the American Medical Association, and with it American medicine, beyond the boundaries of the Rocky Mountains. No member has ever regretted that visit, but on the contrary we look back upon it with feelings of extreme delight. Professionally, it may be considered a success. New energy was infused into the medical men on the Pacific sl...« less