ARTICLE VII. Amendments. Proposals to alter or amend the constitution or by-laws shall be presented in manuscript and read at a regular meeting, when they shall lie over until the next meeting, unless there is a unanimous desire to act upon them immediately; but no alteration shall at any time be made, except by a vote of two-thirds of all the members. present. The laws of the State of New York regulating the practice of medicine and surgery, and other statutes applicable, shall be deemed a part of this constitution. ARTICLE VIII. Order of Business. 1. Calling the roll of members and delegates. 2. Reading the minutes of the last meeting. 3. Receiving propositions for permanent membership. 4. Reports of officers. 5. Reports of committees and action on the same. 6. Reports of essayists and discussions. 7. Miscellaneous business. ARTICLE IX. Dues. At each annual meeting of the society each auxiliary society shall pay to the secretary an amount equivalent to fifty cents for each member of such auxiliary society as annual dues, and no delegation shall be received from any society in arrears. Permanent members, non-residents of this State and not connected with any auxiliary society, shall pay to the secretary two dollars annually as dues. ARTICLE X. This society shall appoint annually, at its regular election of officers, a committee of three, to be nominated by the chair and approved by a two-third vote of the members present, which committee shall be called the Advisory Committee. If, at any time, any member of this society, in the opinion of any other member, abuses the privileges granted by the code of ethics, complaint may be made against such member to the advisory committee, and if, in the opinion of this committee, the complaint is well founded it shall notify the accused member that his case will be heard at a meeting appointed by the chairman of said committee; that if the matter can be satisfactorily settled between the committee and the accused member, it shall not be brought publicly to the notice of the society, nor affect the standing of the accused member in the same; that if it be the cause of any insurmountable conflict of opinion between the accused and the committee, in consequence of which the case cannot be amicably adjusted, it may then be reported at the first regular meeting of the society held thereafter ; that after due consideration of the case at said meeting a resolution may be offered providing for taking a ballot at the next regular meeting on the question of censuring, suspending or expelling the recalcitrant member, and requiring the secretary to notify each member of the proposed action of the society; that if, at this meeting, two-thirds of the members present shall vote for the suspending or expelling of the accused member the presiding officer shall formally announce to the society the result of the ballot, and if it be in favor of expulsion the name of such member shall be forthwith stricken from the roll and his membership in the society declared to be at that moment ended. No member of this society shall attempt to support any of his claims to medical success in any newspaper or other advertisement by announcing therein his connection with this society or any of its members, directly or indirectly. The name of this society shall not be used in any pamphlet or book publication by any member without the consent, in witing, of the advisory committee; that even this consent may be reconsidered and retracted by the committee at any meeting called by the chairman of the same, if the publication is such, in the opinion of three or more members, as to damage the reputation of the society. In the case of any such decision of the advisory committee the member feeling aggrieved may, if he choose, bring the question directly before any regular meeting of the society, at which the vote of twothirds of the members present, for or against the question thus introduced, shall be final. CODE OF ETHICS OF THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, ADOPTED JANUARY, 1873. ARTICLE I. The interests and rights of medical men are as dear to them as are those of any other class of citizens in this union to themselves; they are entitled, by the Constitution of this republic, to the same freedom and privileges in moral, social, political and civil life as are individuals pursuing any other vocation; and any association or rules which would deprive them of the least portion of these rights and privileges are unwarranted usurpations, contrary to the spirit and intent of our government, and, consequently, of no force in law or custom. ARTICLE II. The common rules and maxims of morality which are enjoined in the Bible, and have been recognized by the wise and virtuous at all times and in every civilized country, are comprehensive enough in their scope to meet all the contingencies and emergencies which, in a moral point of view, are likely to arise in the transaction of business and the interchange of thought and sentiment between man and man. |