THE SCHEDULE OF THE ANNUAL ORATORS. Gaston, John Brown-Mobile session__ 1869 Ketchum, George Augustus-Montgomery session_. 1870 1871 1872 Jordan, Mortimer Harvey-Tuscaloosa session_ 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 Sholl, Edward Henry-Birmingham session_ 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 Inge, Henry Tutwiler-Birmingham session_. 1890 Riggs, Edward Powell-Huntsville session_ THE STATE BOARD OF CENSORS, ACTING AS A State Board of MEDICAL EXAMINERS, AND AS A STATE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC HEALTH, Wilkerson, Wooten Moore Montgomery Robertson, Thaddeus Lindley, Birmingham.. Gaines, Vivian Pendleton, Mobile----- ORATOR. MERCER STILLWELL DAVIE, JR., M. D. -1901-1906 -1900-1905 1900-1905 Dothan. JEROME COCHRAN LECTURER. JOSEPH COLLINS, M. D....... STATE HEALTH OFFICER: New York. WILLIAM HENRY SANDERS, M. D., (Official Residence) __Montgomery. (Term expires 1909.) PLACE OF MEETING-BIRMINGHAM. Time of Meeting-Third Tuesday in April, 1906. SCHEDULE OF REGULAR REPORTERS. SCHEDULE OF REGULAR REPORTERS. JOSEPH COLLINS, M. D., New York City- GLENN ANDREWS, M. D., Montgomery-- M. S. DAVIE, M. D., Dothan- J. B. KILLEBREW, M. D., Mobile- J. S. McLESTER, M. D., Birmingham Recognition and Treatment of Certain Forms of Gastric Indigestion. W. R. JACKSON, Mobile Some Points on Pulmonary Surgery. J. M. MASON, M. D., Birmingham Unciniarisis in Alabama. L. C. MORRIS, M. D., Birmingham Gunshot Wounds of the Abdomen, with Report of Cases. W. W. HARPER, M. D., Selma Proprietary Remedies. Wм. P. MCDOWELL, M. D., Eufaula Acute Entero-Colitis in Infancy. E. M. PRINCE, M. D., Coleanor Abdominal Pain. J. H. BLUE, M. D., Montgomery Prostatic Enlargement. C. A. MOHR, M. D., Mobile Tuberculosis-The Relation of the Physician to the Problem of its Prevention. S. C. HENDERSON, M. D., Brewton Small-Pox as Observed in Alabama During Recent Years. WM. J. MAYO, M. D., Rochester, Minn. The Present Status of Stomach Surgery. M. T. GAINES, M. D., Mobile Treatment of Skin Diseases by the General Practitioner. A. F MONETTE, M. D., Greensboro The Entity of Primary Cyclic Vomiting as Observed in Children. B. B. SIMMS, M. D., Talladega A Comparative Study of the Aetiologic Factors of an Epidemic of Continued Fevers in the Town of Talladega During the Spring of 1905. E. B. WAED, M. D., Selma Accouchment Force. E. O. WILLIAMSON, M. D., Gurley- R. H. HAYES, M. D., Union Springs The Surgical Anatomy and Operative Treatment of Inguinal A. F. TOOLE, M. D., Birmingham Treatment of Potts' Disease by the Steel Brace and the Plaster Jacket. R J. HARGROVE, M. D., Tuscaloosa Society, Inebriates and Moral Perverts. WM. A. PUSEY, M. D., Chicago, Ill. The Status of the Treatment of Cancer by the X-Rays. PAUL S. MERTINS, M. D., Montgomery Ocular Headaches, their Causes, Symptoms and Treatment. This list, together with that of the Volunteer Reporters, will be completed later, and announced on the programme in advance of the next meeting. PART || Medical and Sanitary Dissertations AND REPORTS THE ANNUAL ORATION. BY SEALE HARRIS, M. D., UNION SPRINGS, ALA. ́ Junior Counsellor of The Medical Association of the State of Alabama. Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, Ladies and Gentlemen: In humbly practicing the duties of my chosen profession, I have rarely felt the need of the divine gift of eloquence, and have made no effort to cultivate arts and graces of oratory; so that addressing an audience composed of the learned members of this Association and the accomplished citizens of Alabama's Capital City, is an undertaking entirely out of my line of work, and I greatly fear that I cannot measure up to the responsibilities of the occasion. I think I can best illustrate my situation this evening by relating an incident which is said to have occurred on board a Long Island train. On one side of the car sat a lady, dressed in deep mourning, sobbing as if her heart would break. Opposite her was a sympathetic spinster, who crossed over to condole with her sister in distress. She said: "My good lady, why do you weep? Is there not something I can do to relieve your suffering?" The weeping woman replied: "Alas! there is nothing that can give me surcease from sorrow. I am on the way to the crematory to have the remains of my third husband cremated." Then the old maid sighed and said: "Alas! Alas! the good things of this world are not evenly distributed. Here I am, fifty years old and have never been able to get one husband, while this woman has husbands |