Anniversary oration delivered before the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, September 26, 1866 / by J.M. Toner.
- Joseph Meredith Toner
- Date:
- 1869
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Credit: Anniversary oration delivered before the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, September 26, 1866 / by J.M. Toner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![improvements in the science of medicine, and the wants of the profes- sion. Five conventions for the revision of the United Slates Pharma- copoeia have already sat in Washington. The sixth will meet here on the 1st of January, 1870. The Medical Society of the District of Columbia early and warmly advocated the organization of the American Medical Association, and elected three delegates to the first meeting, which was held in Phila- delphia in May, 1847, under the name of the National Medical Con- vention. The organization M as fully completed at this meeting, a pre- liminary one baving been held in the city of New York, May 12, 1846. The name was changed in Philadelphia to the American Medical Association, which held its first meeting under that name May 2, 1848, in the city of Baltimore, in which our Society was represented by live delegates. The Medical Society of the District of Columbia has rarely failed to he ably represented in each of the annual meetings of the American Medical Association • and in 1858, when that influen- tial bod}7 sat in this city, our worthy associate, Dr. Harvey TAndsly., was elected and served as President. In 1825 and 1826, during a period of the most active discontent among the members of the Medical Society of the District of Colum- bia, a very determined effort was made by a few physicians of Wash- ington and Georgetown to form a new medical society, which should supersede the chartered organization. The profession was thoroughly canvassed, and several meetings were held in the interest of the move- ment, which at first promised to be successful. The following is a copy of a call for a meeting, whieh appeared in the National Intelli- gencer of the 5th April, 1826 : Notice.—A meeting of the physicians of Washington and Georgetown who have agreed to form a medical association, is requested at the City Hall, on Tuesday, the 6th instant, [April, 1820,] at 12 o'clock M. The project was encouraged by the presence of Drs. F. May and T. Henderson, the former of whom was elected Chairman, and the lat- ter Secretary, of the meeting. Two subsecpient meetings were held at the same place, one on the 10th and the other the 11th of April.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2115983x_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
