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THE MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS.

SESSION OF 1889.

THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST DAY.

MOBILE, TUESDAY, APRIL 9.

The Association assembled in Temperance Hall at 10 o'clock, A. M., Tuesday, April 9, 1889.

The following Counsellors, Delegates, Health Officers, members of county societies, and visiting physicians from other States, appeared and registered:

GRAND SENIOR COUNSELLORS:

ABERNETHY, WILLIAM HENRY, Birmingham, Jefferson county.
BALDRIDGE, MILTON COLUMBUS, Huntsville, Madison county.
COCHRAN, JEROME, Mobile, Mobile county.

FURNISS, JOHN PERKINS, Selma, Dallas county.

GODFREY, JAMES MYERS, Sumterville, Sumter county.

JACKSON, WALTER CLARKE, Montgomery, Montgomery county.
KETCHUM, George Augustus, Mobile, Mobile county.
MCKITTRICK, ADAM ALEXANDER, Evergreen, Conecuh county.
MEANS, THOMAS ALEXANDER, Montgomery, Montgomery county.
REESE, AUGUSTUS JORDAN, Mobile, Mobile county.
SANDERS, WILLIAM HENRY, Mobile, Mobile county.

SEARS, JOHN WILLIAM, Birmingham, Jefferson county.

SEELYE, SAMUEL DIBBLE, Montgomery, Montgomery county.

STARR, LUCIUS ERNEST, Camden, Wilcox county.

WEATHERLY, JOB SOBIESKI, Montgomery, Montgomery county.

SENIOR COUNSELLORS.

CROSS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Decatur, Morgan county.
DUBOSE, WILDS SCOTT, Columbiana, Shelby county.
FLETCHER, RICHARD MATHEW, Madison, Madison county.
FRANKLIN, CHARLES HIGGS, Union Springs, Bullock county.
GAINES, VIVIAN Pendleton, Mobile, Mobile county,
GOODWIN, JOSEPH ANDERSON, Jasper, Walker county.

HILL, SAMUEL HENRY, Carrollton, Pickens county.
JAY, ANDREW, Evergreen, Conecuh county.
PHILLIPS, WILLIAM CRAWFORD, Selma, Dallas county.
SHOLL, EDWARD HENRY, Birmingham, Jefferson county.
SLEDGE, WILLIAM HENRY, Livingston, Sumter county.
SMITH, DANIEL EDGARLY, Mobile, Mobile county.
STOVALL, Andrew McAdams, Jasper, Walker county.
Thetford, William Fletcher, Talladega, Talladega county.
THOMAS, JAMES GRAY, Mobile, Mobile county.

WARD, HENRY BASCOM, Cuba, Sumter county.

JUNIOR COUNSELLORS.

BALDWIN, BENJAMIN JAMES, Montgomery, Montgomery county.
BINFORD, PETER, Somerville, Morgan county.

BRAGG, SHIRLEY, Lowndesboro, Lowndes county.

HILL, LUTHER LEONIDAS, Montgomery, Montgomery county.
HUGGINS, JACOB, Newberne, Hale county.

INGE, HENRY TUTWILER, Mobile, Mobile county.

JONES, JOHN Culbreth HezekIAH, Fairfield P. O., Stone, Pickens

county.

KENDRICK, JOEL BEDER, Greenville, Butler county.

MCWHORTER, ABBOTT MILTON, Gaylesville, Cherokee county.

WHEELER, WILLIAM CAMP, Cherokee, Colbert county.

WHELAN, CHARLES, Birmingham, Jefferson county.

WILKINSON, JAMES ANTHONY, Flomaton, Escambia county.

DELEGATES.

Autauga County Medical Society-E. A. King, Autaugaville; James E. Wilkinson, Prattville.

Baldwin County Medical Society-Edwin Lesley Marechal, Stockton; Joseph Dunlap Trammell, Bay Minette.

Bibb County Medical Society-Frederick Fannin Gage, Briarfield. Bullock County Medical Society-Henry Mitchell Hunter, Union Springs.

Butler County Medical Society-Charles Alston Thigpen, Greenville. Calhoun County Medical Society-John M. Crook, Jacksonville; John C. LeGrand, Anniston.

Chambers County Medical Society-William Henry Hudson; Charles Franklin Perry, La Fayette.

Cherokee County Medical Society-Thomas N. White, Spring Garden. Choctaw County Medical Society-Daniel McCall, DeSotoville. Clarke County Medical Society-Henry George Davis, Gainestown. Conecuh County Medical Society-Hugh Thomas Fountain, Burnt Corn.

Covington County Medical Society-William J. Head, Andalusia. Crenshaw County Medical Society-Joseph Robert Horn, Luverne; Felix M. T. Tankersly, Argus.

Cullman County Medical Society-M. L. Johnson, Cullman.

Dallas County Medical Society-James Marion Donald, Marion Junction; Samuel Gilbert Gay, Selma.

DeKalb County Medical Society—Andrew J. Vann, Collinsville. Elmore County Medical Society-James Knox Rushing, Tallassee. Escambia County Medical Society-James L. Bass; Stephen Cary Henderson, Brewton.

Etowah County Medical Society-Daniel Harris Baker, Gadsden; John Pope Stewart, Attalla.

Fayette County Medical Society-John Harvey Duncan, Fayette Court House.

Geneva County Medical Society-Thomas Jefferson Ward, Geneva. Hale County Medical Society-William McNeil Wedgeworth, Newberne.

Jackson County Medical Society-Andrew Boyd, Scottsboro.

Jefferson County Medical Society-Edward Powell Riggs; B. Leon Wyman, Birmingham.

Lamar County Medical Society-Dixie D. Hollis, Sulligent.

Lauderdale County Medical Society-Perry Isaac Price, Florence. Lowndes County Medical Society-Charles Taliaferro Weatherly, Benton.

Macon County Medical Society-William Buchanan Arbery, Notasulga.

Madison County Medical Society-Charles A. Robinson, Huntsville. Marengo County Medical Society-Charles B. Thomas, McKinley; Charles Boaz Whitfield, Demopolis.

Mobile County Medical Society-Charles A. Mohr; William Barnesmore Pape, Mobile.

Monroe County Medical Society-William Wallace McMillan, Monroeville.

Montgomery County Medical Society-Glenn Andrews; George Wilkins McDade, Montgomery.

Morgan County Medical Society-Howell B. Gwin, Decatur. Perry County Medical Society-Charles A. Wilkerson, Marion. Russell County Medical Society-Zachary William Williams, Glennville.

St. Clair County Medical Society-Oliver M. Steadham, Easonville. Sumter County Medical Society-Mathew Bunyan Cameron, Sumterville; John McKenzie Henson, Coatopa.

Talladega County Medical Society-Barklay Wallace Tool, Talladega. Tuscaloosa County Medical Society-Eugene DuBose Bondurant; Frank Herndon Sims, Tuscaloosa.

Winston County Medical Society-Thomas P. Deweese, Nauvoo, Walker county.

Forty-two county societies, represented by fifty-seven delegates.

The counties of Barbour, Blount, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coffee, Colbert, Coosa, Dale, Franklin, Henry, Lawrence, Lee, Limestone, Marion, Marshall, Pickens, Pike, Randolph, Shelby, Tallapoosa, Walker, Washington and Wilcox, sent in their reports, but failed in representation.

The following Health Officers were present:

Baldwin county-Edward Lesley Marechal, Stockton.
Choctaw county-Robert Bryant Carr, Pushmataha.
Jackson county-Andrew Boyd, Scottsboro.

Jefferson county-John Calhoun Dozier, Birmingham.
Lowndes county-Shirley Bragg, Lowndesboro.

Mobile county-Thomas S. Scales, Mobile.

Monroe county-William Wallace McMillan, Monroeville.

Sumter county-William Henry Sledge, Livingston.

MEMBERS OF COUNTY SOCIETIES VISITING.

Clarke county-Benjamin Shields Barnes, Suggsville; George Washington Files, Gosport.

Choctaw county-William F. Kimbrough, Bladen Springs.
Jefferson county-William Locke Chew, Ruffin Coleman, John D. S.
Davis, William E. B. Davis, Robert T. Jones, Thomas J. Nixon,
Birmingham; James C. Curry, Bessemer; Edward Parish Lacy,
Dolomite; Thomas Jefferson Brown, Russell McWhorter Cunning-
ham, John Frederick Huey, Pratt Mines.

Mobile county-Angelo Festorazzi, James Jefferson Henderson, Henry
P. Hirshfeld, Samuel Holt Hodgson, James F. Heustis, William
Jackson, Charles LeBaron, Samuel Rutherford Oliphant, Calvin N.
Owen, Dudley Crawford Randle.

Montgomery county-John Howard Blue, Montgomery.
Morgan county-James Enoch Conyngton, Decatur.
Sumter county-Alexander Menzes Garber, Livingston.

FRATERNAL MESSENGERS.

Dr. Landon B. Edwards, of Richmond, secretary of the Medical Society of Virginia, and Morris J. Thompson, of Meridian, delegate from the Mississippi State Medicial Association,

were officially recognized and offered the privileges of the floor and debate.

Mr. Richard Hines, Jr., city editor of the Mobile Register and special correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune, and Mr. James W. Sharpe, special correspondent of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, were present and received the usual courtesies due them as representatives of the press.

SUMMARY.

Grand Senior Counsellors...

Senior Counsellors...

Junior Counsellors..

Delegates....

Health Officers....

Members of County Societies and others visiting.....
Visitors from other States and representatives of the

Press..

Total....

15

16

12

57

7

24

4

135

George Augustus Ketchum, of Mobile; Edward Henry Sholl, of Birmingham; Samuel Dibble Seelye, Job Sobieski Weatherly, of Montgomery, ex-presidents; Benjamin Franklin Cross, of Decatur; Richard Mathew Fletcher, of Madison; James Myers Godfrey, of Sumterville; Lucius Ernest Starr, of Camden, ex-vice presidents, were present, and were accorded the honors due them.

There were present of the Board of Censors and Committee of Public Health, Drs. Jerome Cochran (Senior Censor), Charles Higgs Franklin, George Augustus Ketchum, William Henry Sanders, Samuel Dibble Seelye, Job Sobieski Weatherly.

The Association was called to order by the President, Dr. Milton Columbus Baldridge, of Huntsville, at 12 o'clock, noon, and opened with prayer by the Rev. J. R. Burgett, D. D., of the Government Street Presbyterian Church.

After which the Hon. Joseph C. Rich, Mayor, on behalf of the city and citizens of Mobile, delivered the following