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ACT OF INCORPORATION,	
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MEDICAL POLICE,	
BY-LAWS AND RULES, i	
! OF THE	
RHODE-ISLAND MEDICAL SOCIETY.	
	
PROVIDENCE:	
JOHN F. MOORE. PRINTER.	
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ACT OF INCORPORATION,
together with the
MEDICAL  POLICE,
BY-LAWS  AND RULES,
OF THE
RHODE-ISLAND MEDICAL SOCIETY,
    PROVIDENCE:
JOHN F. MOORE, PRINTER.
      1849. 
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STATE  OF RHODE-ISLAND, A. D. 1812.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CERTAIN  PHYSICIANS AND SUR-
 GEONS, BY THE NAME OF  « THE RHODE-ISLAND MEDICAL
 SOCIETY."
  As  the Medical Art  is important  to the health and happi-
ness  of society, every institution  calculated to further its im-
provement is  entitled to  public  attention:  and  as Medical
Societies, formed on liberal principles, and encouraged by the
patronage  of the  laws, have  been  found conducive to this
end : —
  Section 1.  Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly,
and by the authority thereof it is  enacted, That Amos Throop,
William  Bowen,  Pardon  Bowen,  Levi  Wheaton, Rowland
Greene, Samuel Hudson, Daniel Barrus, Joseph Comstock, Niles
Manchester, John Wilkinson, John M. Eddy, Thomas M. Bar-
rows, Charles  Eldredge, Jacob Fuller,  Moses  Mowry,  Peleg
Clark, John  Mackie,  Jeremiah Williams, William C. Bowen,
Joseph B. Pettes, Walter Wheaton, Stephen  Harris, Sylvester
Knight, Abraham Mason, Ezekiel Comstock, Augustus Torry,
A.  Waldron, Caleb  Fiske,  Solomon  Drown,  Comfort A. Car-
penter, Thomas Nelson, Thomas  Warren, John W. Richmond,
William G. Shaw, Cyril Carpenter, Thomas Carpenter, Gorton
Jerauld,  Chillingsworth Foster,  Lemuel W. Briggs, John Al-
drich, Eleazer Bellows, Eleazer Bellows, Jr., Jonathan Easton,
Benjamin Waite Case, Enoch Hazard, David King, William
Turner, Edmund Thomas Waring, and Jonathan Easton, Jr., 
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be and they hereby are  formed into, constituted and made, a
body politic and corporate, by the name of " The Rhode-Island
Medical Society ;;' and  that  they and  their successors, and
such other persons as shall be elected  in  the manner hereafter
mentioned, shall  be  and continue a body politic and corporate
by the same name forever.

  Sec  2. And be it further enacted, That the members of said
society may, from time to time, elect a President, two Vice-Pre-
sidents, one or more  Secretaries, with such other officers as they
shall judge necessary and convenient; and they, the members of
said  Society, shall have  full power and authority, from time to
time, to determine and establish the names, number and duty of
their several officers, and the  tenure they shall respectively have
in their offices.

   Sec  3.  And be  it further  enacted, That the  members of
said Society shall have  a common  seal,  and power  to  break,
change, or renew the same at their pleasure.

   Sec 4.  And  be  it further enacted, That the  said Society
may sue and be  sued,  in all actions, real,  personal  or mixed,
and prosecute  and defend the same unto  final judgment and
execution.

   Sec 5.  And be  it further enacted, That the   said  Society
shall have full power and authority to  make and enact such
rules and by-laws,  for  the better  government  of said  So-
ciety, as are not repugnant to the laws of this State, or  of the
United States, and  to annex reasonable   fines  and penalties to
the breach of them, not exceeding the sum of fifty dollars, to
be  sued for and recovered by said Society, and  to their own
use,  by action  of   debt,  in any  court having  cognizance of
the same ;  and also to determine the number requisite to consti-
tute a quorum for the transaction of business ;  and to establish
the time, place and manner of convening  the said  Society. 
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  Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That said  Society, at any
stated legal meeting of the same, may, by a majority of the votes
of those present, elect any suitable person or persons to be a mem-
ber or members  of the said Society:  Provided, That all practis-
ing  Physicians,  or  Surgeons,  resident  within this State,  who
shall be so elected, shall within one year after such election, sub-
scribe the by-laws  of the  said  Society, or otherwise  declare in
writing their assent  to  the same, or such election shall be void :
and all  persons,  not practising Physicians or Surgeons, or not
resident within this State, who shall be so elected, may be deemed
honorary members of the said Society ;  and at any such meeting,
the said Society shall have power, in like manner,  to suspend or
expel for improper conduct, any member of said Society.

  Sec  7. And be it further enacted, That the President and
members of said Society, or such officers or members as  they
shall specially appoint for that purpose,  shall have full power and
authority to examine all candidates for the practice of Physic and
Surgery, who shall offer themselves  for examination respecting
their skill in their profession; and if  upon examination, the said
candidates shall be found skilled in their profession, and fitted for
the practice  of it, they  shall receive  the approbation of the said
Society, in  letters testimonial, under the  seal of  said Society,
signed by the President or such other person or persons as shall
be appointed for that purpose.

  Sec 8. And be it further enacted, That the said Society  may
and shall forever be  deemed capable  in law, of having, holding,
and taking,  in fee-simple or any less estate, by gift, grant or de-
vise, or otherwise, any land, tenement or other estate, real or
personal, provided that  the annual income of the whole real es-
tate, that may be given, granted or devised to, or  purchased by
the said Society, shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars,
and the annual income or interest of said personal estate shall not
exceed fifteen hundred dollars, and the annual income or interest 
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of the said real or personal estate, together  with the fines and
penalties paid to said Society, or recovered by them shall be ap-
propriated to such purposes  as  are  consistent with the end and
design of the institution of the said Society, and as the members
thereof shall determine.

   Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That a meeting for the or-
ganization of the said Society, shall  be held in some convenient
place within this  State, and that  Dr. Amos Throop be  and  he
hereby is authorized to appoint the time and place of holding the
said meeting, and to give notice of the same in two or more
newspapers printed in the towns of Newport and Providence.
   Passed February Session, A. D. 1812, 
MEDICAL POLICE,  BY-LAWS, &c.
  Whereas it is granted and declared, in and by the Charter for
incorporating a Medical Society in the State  of Rhode-Island,
that the Fellows may enact such By-laws, Rules and Regulations,
relative to the affairs, concerns, and property of said Society, and
relative to the  duties of their several officers, as they may think
proper; it is therefore  ordained that  the  following be the Medi-
cal  Police, By-laws and Rules of the said Society :

            CHAPTER I.—Of Meetings, &c.
          ANNUAL AND SEMI-ANNUAL MEETINGS.
  Sec 1. There shall be an annual meeting of the Rhode-Island
Medical Society, to be held in the city of Providence, on the last
Wednesday  in June, at 10 o'clock, A. M., at  such place as the
President may appoint; fourteen days'  notice  being previously
given in some paper, having the greatest circulation, printed in the
city of Providence, and also by a written notice  addressed to
each Fellow of the Society by the Recording Secretary; at which
meeting ten Fellows shall constitute a  quorum for transacting
business.
  There shall also be a semi-annual meeting, held on the third
Wednesday in December, at 10 o'clock, A. M., at such town or
city as the Society at its previous annual meeting may appoint;
fourteen days' notice being given to each Fellow of the Society
by the Recording Secretary. 
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                   ORDER OF BUSINESS.
  Sec 2. At the annual meeting, the Recording Secretary shall
read the records of the  last annual and  semi-annual meetings,
and the proceedings of the Censors, and of the Trustees of the
Fiske fund, and shall receive the Reports of the Treasurer, Libra-
rian and  Cabinet-keeper  of  the  Southern District,  Librarian
and Cabinet-keeper of the Northern  District, and of any com-
mittee or committees.    A  discourse or  dissertation on some
medical subject shall then be delivered by the person appointed
for that purpose.  The Society shall then make such alterations
in the By-laws as may be judged expedient; after which the elec-
tion of officers for the next ensuing year shall take place, in which
a majority of voices shall constitute a choice.  The Society shall
then proceed to the admission, by ballot, of candidates, as Fellows
or honorary  members of the Society; and no person shall be ad-
mitted a Fellow, or  an honorary member, unless he shall obtain
two-thirds of the votes of the  Fellows  present.  After which the
Society shall attend to such communications as it shall be thought
proper to make, and to any propositions which may be considered
conducive to the welfare of the Society, or the  general interests
of medical science, and shall close the meeting by a vote naming.
the place of  the next semi-annual meeting.
  At the  semi-annual  meeting, the records  of the  last annual
meeting, and reports of the Censors shall be read ;  the reports of
any committees shall be received; any  communications or pro-
positions shall be attended to  ; and the Society shall appoint del-
egates to the next National Medical Convention.

                  ELECTION OF FELLOWS.
  Sec 3. Every person elected a Fellow of this Society shall be
notified thereof by the Corresponding Secretary,  and upon declar-
ing his assent in the manner required by the act of incorporation,
and paying three dollars to the Treasurer  for the use of the So-
ciety, shall  receive  from  the Recording  Secretary  the usual
Diploma. 
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                         ASSESSMENT.
    Sec. 4. Every Fellow of this Society shall annually contribute
 one dollar to the funds of the Society, and shall pay the same to
 the Treasurer thereof, and no Fellow shall be allowed the loan of
 any book or other article belonging to the Society, nor be allow-
 ed to vote at any meeting, nor hold any office  in the gift of the
 Society,  until  he  shall have made such payment, and subscribed
 his name to the By-laws, or expressed his assent in writing, di-
 rected to the Corresponding Secretary.

                        RESIGNATION.
   Sec 5. The Society may,  for  satisfactory  reasons, permit a
 Fellow to resign his fellowship, on his showing a certificate from
 the Treasurer  that he has paid all  dues.

                         EXPULSION.
   Sec 6. No  Fellow of the Society shall be expelled therefrom,
 but by a  vote of two-thirds, at least,  of  the Fellows present, at
 the annual meeting of the Society.

                       CONSULTATION.
   Sec  7. To promote the laudable designs for which the Society
 was formed and incorporated, to prevent, as far as may be, all un-
 qualified persons from practising medicine or surgery, and in or-
 der to discourage empiricism, it shall be deemed disreputable, and
 shall be unlawful for any Fellow or Licentiate of this Society, in
 the capacity of either Physician or Surgeon,  to advise or consult
 directly, or indirectly, with any person whatever, who shall here-
 after commence the practice of medicine or surgery within this
 State, until  he shall  have been examined and approved by the
 Censors of the  Society;—and any Fellow of the Society, who
 shall assist any person not so qualified, by affording him advice
 or by consulting directly  or indirectly with him, in the capacity
of physician  or surgeon, shall for  each and  every such offence,
be fined ten dollars, shall be disqualified from giving his vote at
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any meeting of the Society for two years, shall be liable to the
censure and reprimand of the Society, and in aggravated cases, to
expulsion.  And any Licentiate who shall be guilty of the above
offence, shall be liable to be deprived of all the rights and privi-
leges which he derives from the Society.  And it shall be the
duty of the Censors ex officio, to examine into every case of vio-
lation of this  law, that may come to their knowledge ;  and if they
neglect to do so, they shall be liable to  a fine of  ten dollars for
every case.

                         QUACKERY.
   Sec 8. Whenever any Fellow of the Society shall publicly ad-
vertise for sale, or sell, or prescribe  any medicine, the composi-
tion of which is kept a secret,  or shall offer to cure any disease
by any such  secret medicine, he shall be liable to expulsion, or
such other penalty as the  Society, at their annual meeting, may
think proper to inflict.
            CHAPTER II.—Of Medical.Police,.

                     CONSULTATIONS.
  Section  1. Consultations should be encouraged in difficult and
protracted cases, as they tend to produce confidence, energy, and
more enlarged views in practice.   On such occasions no rivalship
or jealousy should be  indulged; candor, justice, and all due re-
spect should be exercised towards the Physician who first attend-
ed ; and as he may be presumed to be best acquainted  with the
patient and his family, he should deliver all the medical directions
as agreed upon in the presence of the  consulting Physician.  It
should be the province, however, of the senior consulting Physician 
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to propose the necessary questions to the sick.   The consulting
Physician is never to visit without the attending, unless by the de-
sire of the latter, or when, as in sudden emergency, he is not to be
found ; nor is he to discontinue his visits without the knowledge
and approbation of the patient or family at the time.  No discus-
sion of the case should take place before the patient or his friends;
and no prognostications should be delivered, which were not the
result of previous deliberation and concurrence.   Theoretical de-
bates,  indeed, should generally be avoided in consultations, as
occasioning perplexity and loss of time; for  there may be much
diversity of opinion on speculative points, with perfect agreement
on those modes of practice which are founded not on hypothesis,
but on experience and observation.  Physicians in consultation,
whatever may be  their private resentments or opinions of one
another, should divest themselves of all prejudices, and  think of
 nothing^but what will most effectually contribute to the relief of
those  under their care.  If a  Physician cannot lay his hand to
his heart, and say that his mind is perfectly open to conviction,
from whatever quarter it may  come,  he should in honor decline
the consultation.
   All discussions and debates in consultation are to be held confi-
dential.   Many advantages may arise from two consulting togeth-
er, who are men of  candor, and  who  have mutual confidence in
each other's honor.   A remedy may occur to one, which did not
to the other;  and a  Physician  may want resolution or confidence
in his own opinion, to prescribe  a powerful but precarious remedy ;
on which, however,  the life of his patient may depend; in this
case, a concurrent opinion may fix his own.  But when such mu-
tual confidence is wanting, a consultation had better be declined,
especially if there is reason to believe, that sentiments  delivered
with openness are to be communicated abroad, or to the family
 concerned; and if, in consequence of this, either gentleman is to
be made responsible for  the  event.   The utmost  punctuality
 should be observed in consultation visits. 
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                      INTERFERENCES.
   Sec 2. Medicine is a liberal profession ;  the practitioners are,
or ought to be, men of education;  and their expectations of busi-
ness and employment  should be founded on their degrees of
qualification;  not on  artifice,  intrigue and  insinuation.   A cer-
tain undefinable species of assiduities and attentions, therefore, to
families  usually employing another,  is to be considered beneath
the dignity of a regular practitioner, and as making a mere trade
of a learned profession; and all officious interferences in cases of
sickness  in such families, evince a meanness of disposition, un-
becoming the  character of a Physician and a gentleman.   No
meddling inquiries  should be  made concerning them, nor hints
given relative  to their nature and treatment, nor any selfish con-
duct pursued,  that may directly or indirectly tend to weaken con-
fidence in the Physicians or Surgeons  who have the care of them,
   It shall be the duty of the Physician who may be called to a
family usually attended  by another gentleman of  the faculty, to
ascertain whether he is so called  from an  actual preference, or
in consequence of the absence or  inability of the family physi-
cian to attend ;  and if the latter should prove to be the case,  it
shall be  his duty to inform them of the propriety of repeating
their call upon him as soon as his services may be procured.
   When a physician is called to a patient, who has been under
the care  of another gentleman of the faculty, before any exami-
nation of the  case, he should ascertain whether that gentleman
has discontinued his visits, and whether the patient does or ought
to consider himself as under  his  care ; in which  case, he is not
to assume the charge of the patient,  nor to give his advice (ex-
cept in instances of sudden attacks)  without a regular consulta-
tion ; and if such previously attending gentleman has been dis-
missed, or has voluntarily relinquished the patient, his practice
should be treated with candor, and justified so far  as truth and
probity will permit; for the want of success in the primary treat-
ment of  the disorder,  is  no  impeachment of professional  skill
and knowledge. , 
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  It frequently happens that a physician,  in  incidental commu-
nications with the patients of others, or with  their friends, may
have their cases stated to him  in  so direct a manner, as  not to
admit of his declining to pay attention  to them.  Under such
circumstances, his observations should be  delivered with delicacy,
propriety and reserve, and with the greatest care that they shall
not interfere with the curative plan pursued.

                DIFFERENCES OF PHYSICIANS.
   Sec 3. The differences of  physicians, when they end  in  ap-
peals to the public, generally injure the contending parties ;  but
what is of more consequence, they discredit  the profession, and
expose the faculty itself to  contempt and ridicule.   Whenever
such differences occur, as may affect  the  honor and dignity of
the profession, and cannot immediately be terminated, or do not
 come under the character of violations of the special rules of the
 Society otherwise provided  for, they  should be referred to the
 arbitration of a sufficient number of members of the Society,
 according to the nature of the dispute;  but  neither  the  subject
 matter of such references, nor the adjudication, should, if it can
 be avoided,  be communicated to the public,  as they may be per-
 sonally injurious  to  the  individuals  concerned, and  can hardly
 fail to  hurt the general credit of the faculty.

               DISCOURAGEMENT OF QUACKERY.
    Sec 4. The use of quack medicines should be discouraged by
 the faculty, as disgraceful to the  profession, injurious to health,
 and often destructive of life.  No Physician or Surgeon, therefore,
 should dispense a secret nostrum, even  if it be  his invention or
 exclusive property;  for if it is of real efficacy, the concealment
 of it  is  inconsistent with beneficence   and professional liber-
 ality ; and if mystery alone give  it value and importance, such
 craft implies disgraceful ignorance, or fraudulent avarice. 
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CONDUCT FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE MEDICAL CHARACTER.
   Sec 5. The esprit du corps is a  principle of  action founded
in human nature, and when duly regulated, is both rational and
laudable.  Every man who enters into a fraternity, engages by
a tacit compact, not only to submit to  the  laws, but to promote
the honor and interest of the Society, so far as they are consist-
ent with  morality and the general good of mankind.   A physi-
cian, therefore, should cautiously guard against whatever  may
injure the general  respectability of the  profession,  and  should
avoid all contumelious representations of the faculty at large, all
general charges against  their selfishness or improbity, or the in-
dulgence of an affected or jocular scepticism, concerning the  effi-
cacy and utility of the healing art.
               CHAPTER III.—Of Officers.

                         OFFICERS.
   Section 1. Annually there shall be chosen, by ballot, a Presi-
dent and  two Vice-Presidents,  a Recording  Secretary, Corres-
ponding Secretary, Treasurer, Librarian and Cabinet-Keeper for
the Southern, and Librarian  and Cabinet-Keeper for the  North-
ern District, and eight Censors.   The President and Vice-Pres-
idents shall be ineligible to the same offices for the next ensuing
year.   And should either of these three officers  refuse or neglect
to attend the  next annual meeting after his  election, he shall be
fined ten dollars, unless excused therefrom  by a unanimous vote
of the Society.
                        PRESIDENT.
   Sec 2. The President shall have power to call a special meet-
ing of the  Society, whenever he  shall deem  it  expedient,  or 
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whenever five Fellows shall request it in writing — shall preside
at all meetings of the Society — shall call for reports of commit-
tees — shall regulate all debates thereat —  shall state  and put
questions — shall enforce an observance of the By-laws and reg-
ulations— shalfhave custody of and use,'on proper occasions,
the seal of the Society — shall have  a casting vote — and shall
perform all such duties as may  be assigned  him.

                     VICE-PRESIDENTS.
   Sec 3.  The first Vice-President, in case  of the  death, resig-
nation, disability or absence of the President, shall have and ex-
ercise  all  his powers, until a  new choice  shall be made ;  and  in
the absence of those two officers, the second Vice-President shall
officiate as President.

                  RECORDING  SECRETARY.
   Sec 4.  The Recording Secretary  shall  have charge  of the
Charter, By-laws and Records  of the Society—shall notify all
meetings  of the Society — shall keep a fair record of their pro-
ceedings — shall receive and  record the proceedings of the Cen-
sors, which he shall read at the next regular meeting, and also
such communications as have been made since the last meeting —
shall, after any person  is  elected a fellow or honorary member,
transmit information thereof, together with a copy of the charter
and by-laws  of the   Society,  to the  Corresponding  Secretary
within ten days from the time of said election— shall notify the
chairmen of all  committees,  furnish  the  names of  the commit-
tee, shall within ten days after  every annual meeting, certify to
the cashier of the  Union Bank  by a written notice, that the
Rhode-Island Medical Society has  continued to hold its annual
meetings as authorized by charter — who  its President and Vice-
Presidents are — and also, if such  be the fact, that the Society
is constituted of more than twenty members exclusive  of hon-
orary  members, and  perform  any other services which  may be
assigned him. 
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                 CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
    Sec 5. The Corresponding Secretary shall have  the  charge
 of all letters  and communications transmitted to the Society —
 shall cause papers written  in any foreign language to be trans-
 lated  into  English — shall prepare and  transmit answers  to
 correspondents, in such language  and  form ras the Society
 shall direct — shall within thirty days from the time of receiving
 the requisite information from  the  Recording Secretary, notify
 every person elected a fellow or  honorary member of his election,
 and the time when it was made, and at the same time transmit
 him a copy of the Charter and By-Laws, and perform such other
 duties as  may be assigned  him.  If, at any time, either of the
 Secretaries should be absent, the one  attending  shall perform
 the services of both, but shall, as soon  as may be,  arrange  and
 deliver over the papers  of their respective departments.  The
 Secretaries may also, with the consent of the President, furnish
 attested copies of papers and transactions belonging to their  re-
 spective departments, for which  such fees  may be demanded as
 the Society shall establish.
                        TREASURER.
   Sec 6. The Treasurer shall give security for the trust reposed
 in  him, whenever the Society shall judge it  requisite, and the
 funds will admit a compensation for his services — shall demand
 and receive all moneys  due to the same, together with all be-
 quests and donations — shall demand, and if  necessary, sue for
 and recover all fines due to the Society — shall, under the direc-
 tion of the Society, sell or  lease any estate belonging to them,
 and execute the necessary papers — shall,  in  general, have the
 care and management of all  fiscal concerns, and keep an accu-
 rate statement of all  receipts  and  expenditures — shall pay no
 money out of the Treasury,  but  by an order from the  President,
and shall  make a report of  the  state of the Treasury, at every
annual meeting.  His  accounts  shall also  be examined and re-
ported  annually to the  Society, by a committee  appointed for
that purpose. 
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            LIBRARIANS AND CABINET-KEEPERS.
   Sec 7. The  Librarians  and  Cabinet-keepers shall  have in
their charge and custody, the books, instruments and apparatus
of the Society — shall keep an accurate register of and arrange
them  in  a  proper manner — shall  make  such disposal of them
from time to time as the  Society may direct, and  make an annu-
al statement of the business of  their departments to  the Society,
and shall carefully record all donations made thereto.

 RESIGNATION, REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT OF OFFICERS.
   Sec 8. Every officer of the  Society may,  for sufficient rea-
sons,  resign his office, or may be removed therefrom by order of
the Society, for neglect,  inattention, or malconduct;  in either of
which cases, or on the death of any officer, the  President shall
appoint a fellow  to  the  office so vacated, who shall serve until
the next  annual  meeting.
                      CHAPTER IV.

          Of  Censors, Examinations, and Licenses.

                   CENSORS' MEETINGS.
  Section 1. There shall  be two  meetings of the Censors for
the examination of candidates for the practice of medicine, sur-
gery and midwifery, and  for the  transaction of such other busi-
ness as may come before them, to be held on the morning of the
days of the annual and semi-annual  meetings of the Society.
Ten days at least previous to these meetings, notice thereof shall
be given  in one public paper printed  in the City of Providence,
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 specifying the place and time of the day at which such meetings
 are to be held, and also by individual notice from the Secretary.
   Three  Censors  shall constitute a  quorum;  and the Senior
 Censor present shall preside, and may appoint either of the other
 Censors present to officiate as  Secretary, whose duty it shall be
 to keep a faithful  record of all the proceedings of the Censors,
 and from time to time transmit a copy of the same to the Record-
 ing Secretary.   Whenever any Censors neglect their duty in at-
 tending these meetings, if there be not sufficient  to  form a quo-
 rum, each of those absent shall be fined five dollars, unless ex-
 cused by the Society ; but if a quorum be formed, no fines shall
 be  imposed.
         CANDIDATES AND THEIR QUALIFICATIONS.
   Sec. 2.  No person educated  within this State, shall be admit-
 ted to an  examination by the Censors of the Society, unless he
 shall have  the following qualifications: 1st.  He shall have such
 an acquaintance with the Greek and Latin languages as is neces-
 sary for a medical and  surgical education.   2d.  He shall have
 studied three full years under the direction, and attended the prac-
 tice of some one or more of the fellows or hmiorary members of
 the Society; during which time, he shall have studied the most
 approved authors  in Anatomy, Physiology, Surgery, Midwifery,
 Chemistry, Materia Medica, Botany and  the  Theory and Prac-
 tice of Medicine.
  No person educated out of this State,  shall be  admitted  to an
 examination by the Censors  of  the  Society, unless he shall have
 the qualifications specified in the first of  the articles above  men-
 tioned ;  and instead of those required in the second, shall have
 studied three full  years  under  the direction and attended the
 practice of some reputable  Physician or Physicians, Surgeon or
 Surgeons, as the case  may be.  The Censors of the  Society, be-
fore examining any candidate,  shall demand  and  receive from
him,  a  satisfactory certificate  of his being qualified as  above
mentioned;  and such  certificate shall be recorded by the Secre- 
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J-.iry of the meeting, and be afterwards delivered to the Recording
Secretary, whose duty it shall be to put it on file, and make a re-
cord thereof.
                      CENSORS' DUTY.
   Sec 3. It shall be the duty of the Censors to act as a commit-
tee, ex-officio,  or  court of inquiry, for the purpose of receiving
charges of any unprofessional conduct of the members and licen-
tiates ; and if they should consider them as sufficiently substan-
tiated, to  report the  same to  the  Society at the next annual
meeting; and should  such  charges  be  preferred  at the semi-an-
nual meeting, it shall be incumbent  on  the Censors to notify the
person implicated, of  the existence of such charges, at least with-
in one month after said semi-annual meeting, in order that he
may be present and prepared to defend himself at the next suc-
ceeding annual meeting.
   The Censors of the Society shall examine candidates, qualified
as spscified in the preceding section.  They shall previously agree
on the mode  of examination,  and having approved a candidate,
shall, on receiving by  their Secretary, ten  dollars, to be paid to
the Treasurer for the use of the Society, furnish the person, so
approved, with a certificate thereof, which  shall be recorded by
the Recording Secretary.
   The Censors of the Society, upon application from any person,
who has been educated  in,  or who shall come  from any other
State, or foreign country, shall examine such evidence or letters
testimonial, as he shall offer for the purpose of proving himself to
be duly qualified to practice Medicine, Surgery  or Midwifery;
and  if, upon  due inquiry,  they shall deem him to be properly
qualified therefor, they shall certify the same ; and the person so
licensed, shall bs entitled to all the privileges of those who have
been regularly examined and approved, and for every license so
granted, the Censors shall receive  the sum of three dollars, to be
paid to the Treasurer for the use of the Society.   And the person
^o licensed may be  received into the  Society without paying any
other admission fees. 
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                       NOMINATION.
  Sec 4. It shall also be the duty of the Censors to receive ap-
plications for the admission of any person or persons, as Fellows
or honorary members  of  the Society, to make a report of the
same, if approved, to be transmitted by the Secretary of the Cen-
sors t'o the Recording Secretary; which report shall have the ef-
fect of a  nomination, and be acted upon at the next regular meet-
ing of the Society:  Provided, the  application for the admission
of^any candidate into  the Society shall have been made three
months previous to such meeting; and  no  application shall be
received  by the Censors and  reported for consideration, unless it
is in writing and signed by one or more of the Fellows of the So-
ciety.
                         DISCOURSE.
   Sec 5.  At every annual meeting,  it shall be the duty of the
Censors, with the concurrence of the President, to appoint an
Orator, who shall read a Discourse on some medical subject at the
next annual meeting.  They shall also appoint a second Orator
to fulfil  this duty in case the first named Orator be prevented
from performing it.  The first Orator, if he find himself unable
to prepare and deliver such a Discourse, shall give  sufficient no-
tice thereof to the second Orator. A copy of every such Discourse
when read shall be deposited in the archives of the  Society.

             REGULATIONS FOR THE LIBRARIES.
   Sec 6.  The first applicant for a book or  books shall have the
 preference.
   No member of the  Society  shall be allowed to take out more
 than one folio, one quarto, two octavos, or three of smaller size,
 (including pamphlets,) at any one time.
   A folio  or quarto may  be kept out six weeks, octavos four
 weeks, books of smaller size,  (including pamphlets) two weeks.
   For detaining the books beyond the time permitted, the fines
 are thus:  for a folio or quarto twenty cents, octavos fifteen cents, 
21
smaller size, (including pamphlets) ten cents, and for every week
after the first, the same fines to be added.
  No member shall be allowed the  privilege qf taking out any
other book until the return of those which he may have in his
possession.
  The Librarian shall keep an account of all books taken out of,
and returned to the Library, shall notice the condition of every
book returned, shall make a memorandum of any damage that the
books may have sustained in the hands of any member, and shall
present a catalogue of the books at every annual meeting.
  For injury or loss of books, such compensation shall be made
as the Librarian shall adjudge equitable,  subject, however, to the
revision of the  Society. 
)■)
       FISKE   FUND,

FOR  PRIZE DISSERTATIONS.
  The late Dr. Caleb Fiske, formerly President of the Rhode-Is-
land Medical Society, with a munificence that does honor to his
memory, bequeathed in his last will for the benefit of the Society,
the sum of Two Thousand Dollars, directing the proceeds thereof
to be applied to the payment of premiums for the Prize Disserta-
tions, and for  contingent expenses, as set forth in the following
extract from his will:

  Item.  " I give and bequeath to the  President and two Vice-
Presidents of the Medical  Society of the State of Rhode-Island,
for the time being, and to their successors in office, the semi-an-
nual dividends arising from forty shares of stock Avhich I own in
the Union Bank  in Providence, the amount thereof two thousand
dollars, in trust for the uses herein limited; Use the first; nine-
twelfths of  said dividends shall constitute a fund to  be applied in
the manner following, to wit: The  said  Trustees or  either two
of them, shall select at  every annual meeting of  said Society,
such subject or subjects for investigation as they may judge most
conducive to  the  advancement of Medical Science, and give no-
tice thereof in one of the newspapers published in Newport, and
one published in  Providence, for the term of six Weeks, offering
such premium or premiums, as the annual product of said funds
will justify, to be awarded and paid  out, by said trustees, for the
best Treatise on the subject proposed by  them  for investiga-
tion, to be  communicated to said  trustees  one month previous
to the next Annual Meeting of said Society.   And in order that
a laudable  spirit  of emulation may be excited and maintained, the
trustees shall not only suitably  reward the  authors of the fortu-
nate productions, but also prescribe  such rules for receiving the
communications and  deciding on the merits of the several perform-
ances as will shield  the unsuccessful competitor from obloquy or
reproach;  Use the second; two-twelfths of the profits  or divi-
dends of said stock are  to remunerate said trustees for their ser-
vices, in the  execution  of the  several trusts  herein confided to
them. 
23
   " Use the third; one-t\vi.llth of the profits of said stock is to be
appropriated to printing and  supplying each member of said So-
ciety with a  copy of such Treatise for which premiums have
been awarded.   It is believed however, that the copyright of the
productions may be so disposed of by said Trustees, as not only to
furnish the members of said Society with copies gratis, but also to
make some addition to the aforesaid Fund; and it is also believed
that said Trustees, in consideration of advantages which said So-
ciety may derive from a discreet  management of said  fund, will
frequently, if not uniformly, render their  services gratuitously,
whereby a further addition may be made to said fund.  If these
anticipations  should be realized  in part or in whole, whatever
sums remain unappropriated  shall be added to said fund  for the
uses aforesaid.   And my will further is, and I hereby ordain, that
the aforesaid forty shares of  stock, the nominal amount whereof
is two  thousand dollars, shall remain registered in my name, in
the books of  said Bank, but the dividends or profits arising there-
from,  shall be  subject from  time to  time  to  the order  of  said
Trustees, for the uses above limited;  but every order drawn on
said Bank, shall express the uses to which the money is to be ap-
plied.   Furthermore, the said Trustees shall cause their proceed-
ings in the premises to be recorded in a  book or books, from year
to year, and deposited in the archives or cabinet of said Society
for safe keeping, inserting therein the annual amount of said fund
and the additions if any made thereto, the subject or subjects pro-
posed for investigation, the amount of premiums offered, the names
and place of abode of persons to whom premiums are awarded,
with such  other facts and remarks relative  to the application
of said dividends as they may  judge expedient, and the pro-
ceedings or such parts thereof as shall have  accrued each pre-
ceding year shall be audibly read before said Society at their
annual  meeting, and also be subject to the  inspection of any
member of said Society, and also be free for examination by my
heirs at law;  provided nevertheless, and I do hereby order, that if
the said dividends or profits  arising from the  aforesaid stock, or
any part thereof, should at any time hereafter be used for any oth-
er purposes than those before limited, or applied in any other man-
ner than is above  directed, or if  said Trustees, or either two of
them for the time being, shall neglect or refuse to execute the a-
foresaid trust in manner and  form before specified, sickness, and
other unavoidable incidents  excepted, for the term of one year,
then in either of these cases,  this bequest shall thenceforth cease
and determine, and said stock and the dividends arising therefrom
shall thenceforth descend to, and vest in, my heirs at law.   Provi-
ded also, and I do hereby ordain, that if at any time hereafter, said
Medical  Society  shall discontinue its  Anniversary Meetings. 
24
authorized by its Charter, or in case its members (fellows,) exclu-
sive of honorary members, should decline in number and at any
time hereafter be reduced to twenty, then, and in either of those
cases, this bequest  shall thenceforth  cease and  determine, and
said stock and the dividends or profits arising therefrom shall de-
scend to, and vest in, my heirs at law. "

  The foregoing bequest having increased in amount, by interest
and otherwise, enables the Trustees to  offer two premiums annu-
ally,  of Fifty Dollars each, for the  best essays on the questions
they propose.
                      RULES.
  1, No fellow shall speak in any debate, without rising and ad-
dressing himself to the President.

  2. No fellow having spoken once in any debate, shall speak, to
the  prevention of another, who has  not spoken, and manifests a
desire to speak.
  3. Every fellow, as soon as he has done speaking, shall sit down.
  4. No fellow shall interrupt another while speaking, unless it
shall be to  call him to order, or to correct a mistake.
  5. No motion shall be considered, unless seconded.
  6. No fellow shall nominate more than one person for the same
Committee, provided the first person nominated by him  be chosen.
  7. No vote  shall  be reconsidered  at the same meeting by a
smaller number than were present at its passing. 
25
                      ©fit ceru.
At the Annual Meeting of the  Rhode-Island Medical Society,
  held at  the State House,  Providence, June 28, 1848, the fol-
  lowing gentlemen were elected Officers for the ensuing year:

David King, Newport,  President.
S. Augustus Arnold, Providence, 1st Vice-President.
George Capron, Providence, 2d Vice-President.
C. W. Parsons, Providence, Recording Secretary.
HrnAM Allen, Cumberland, Corresponding Secretary.
Hervey Armington, Providence, Treasurer.
Oliver C. Turner, Newport, Librarian and Cabinet-Keeper for
     the Southern District.
Sylvanus  Clapp,  North-Provide?ice,  Librarian and Cabinet
     Keeper for  the  Northern District.
                       CENSORS.
JoSBPH MAURAN,
Usher Parsons,
Theophilus  C. Dunn,
Richmond Brownell,
Ariel Ballou,
Ezekiel Fowler,
Lewis L. Miller,
Leander Utley.
iF
Addison, Robert,
tAldrich, John,
Allen, Hiram,
t*Allen, Stephen,
Allen, William H.,
*Allenton, Goodwin,
*Ames, J. Fisher,
Andros, James T.
Angell,  George M.,
* Anthony, John H.,
Armington, Hervey,
Arnold,  S. Augustus,
* Baker, Daniel,
Ballou,  Ariel,
Ballou,  Asa W.,
^Barrows, Thomas M.,
J^Barrus, Daniel,
^Bellows, Eleazer,
* Bellows, Eleazer, Jr.
JBicknell, Howland V.,
J^Bowen, Horatio G.,
Bowen,  Israel M.,
    ' Deceased.
clloiuQ.
Providence,
South-Kingstown,
Cumberland,
West- Greenwich.
Providence,
Warwick,
Providence,
    Cranston,
    Cumberland,
    Smithfield,
    Providence,
    Warren,
    Glocester,
    Burrillville,
    Warwick,
    Providence,
    Johnston,

Removed from the State.
   admitted 1848.
Original Member.
           1832.
           1812.
           1826.
           1818,
           1827.
           1832.
           1847.
           1840.
           1826
           1822.
           1842.
           1832.
           1823.
        Original.
        Original.
        Original.
        Original.
           1836.
           1812.
           1842.

     ' Resigned 
2G
 f*Bowen, Joseph,
 *Bowen, Pardon
 * Bowen, William
 *Bowen, William C.
 tBrainard, Austin,
 tBrewster, John M.
 *Brayton, Lloyd B.
 t*Briggs, Lemuel W.
 Briggs, Lemuel W.
 =*Brownell, Pardon,
 Brownell, Richmond
 ^Bucklin, Hiram
 Bullock, Otis,
 Butler, Samuel W.
 Capron George,
 ^Carpenter, Comfort A.
 ^Carpenter, Cyril,
 ^Carpenter, Thomas O.
 Carpenter, Thomas O. H
 tCartee, Cornelius S.
 =*Case, Benjamin W.,
 Church, George H.,
 Clapp, Sylvanus,
 tClarke, Peleg,
 Cleveland, Hiram,
 Clifford, Lewis W.,
 *Cole Jeremiah,
 tColegrove, Bela H.,
 Collins, George L.,
 Colwell, Francis,
^Comstock, Ezekiel,
tComstock, John L.
tComstock, Joseph,
*Cook, Dennis
ICotton, Charles
*Crook, William,
Dickinson, Samuel F.,
=*Drown, Solomon,
Dunn, Theophilus C,
^Easton, Jonathan,
tEaston, Jonathan Jr.,
*Eddy, John M.
^Eldredge, Charles
 Eldredge, James H.
 Ely, James W. C.
Fabyan, Charles W.
Glocester,	1813.
Providence,	Original.
u	Original.
(I	Original.
(1	1826.
11	1843.
"	1834.
Bristol,	Original.
k	1845.
Providence,	1817.
a	1817.
Smithfield,	1838.
Warren,	1838.
Newport,	1847.
Providence,	1823.
Cranston,	Original.
Coventry,	Original.
H. «	Original.
. Jr., Foster,	1824.
Providence,	1838.
Newport,	Original.
North-Kingstown,	1825.
North-Providence,	1842.
Coventry,	Original.
North-Providence,	1824.
Providence,	1847.
u	1812.
Coventry,	1819.
Providence,	1847.
u	1819.
South-Kingstown,	Original.
u	1813.
i<	Original.
Tiverton,	1813.
Newport,	1816.
i<	1826.
Cumberland,	1846.
Foster,	Original.
Newport,	1824.
((	Original.
u	Original.
Providence,	Original.
East Greenwich,	Original.
u	1838.
Providence,	1847.
"	1847.
 
27
 tFabyan, George,
 tFales, Joseph J.
 Fearing, Joseph W.,
 Fellows, John
 Fisher N. Augustus,
 *Fiske, Caleb,
 tFlagg, J. F. B.
 ^Foster, Chillingsworth,
 Fowler, Ezekiel,
 fFuller, Asa W.
 ^Fuller, Jacob,
 tFuller, John P.
 Fuller, Joseph B. F.
 Gallup, Lewis F.
 Gardner, Johnson,
 tGilbert, George O.
 ^Greene, Rowland
 ^Griffin, Stephen F.
 Grosvenor, William
 Gushee, Almond,
 Hammatt, G. A.
 ^Harris, Stephen
 Hartshorn, Isaac,
 Haszard, Albert A.
 Hathaway, Edmund V.
 I^Hazard, Enoch,
 tHazard, Jonathan E.
 tHolden, Levi H.
 ^Holmes, David,
 Holmes, Jabez,
 ^Holmes, Thomas D.
 Hubbard, Henry,
 Hubbard, William A.
 £*Hudson, Samuel,
 James, Silas,
 t*Jerauld, Gorton,
 ^Johnson,  Peleg,
 Keith, John M.
 King, Absalom P.
 tKing, Dan,
 *King, David,
 King, David
 Knapp, Ephraim,
 ^Knight, Addison,
 Knight,  Elam C.
^Knight, Sylvester,
frovidenee,	1839.
Newport,	1831.
Providence,	1827.
Smithfield,	1844.
Providence,	1839.
Scituate,	Original,
Providence,	1840.
Bristol,	Original.
Smithfield,	1818.
Wanoick,	1847.
Providence,	Original.
<<	1838.
u	1838.
Neivpo/'t,	1840.
Seekonk, Mass.	1830.
Providence,	1823.
Scituate,	Original.
Charlestoivv,	1813.
Providence,	1838.
Warren,	1840.
Newport,	1842.
Providence,	Original.
a	1832.
(i	1847.
"	1847.
Newport,	Original.
North-Kingstown,	1812.
Providence,	1839.
u	1844.
Bristol,	1816.
Smithfield,	1830.
Warwick,	1847.
u	1840.
11	Original.
Providence,	1819.
Warwick,	Original.
South-Kingstoim,	1820.
Portsmouth,	1S36.
Warwick,	1848.
Cumberland,	1842.
Newport,	Original.
u	1834.
Cumberland,	1819.
it	J 841.
Smithfield,	1848.
Providence,	Original.
 
28
tLee, Henry S.
Leonard, John P.
Le Prohon, Edward P.
^Mackie, John,
Manchester, Charles F.
^Manchester, Niles,
Marsh, Metcalf,
*Mason, Abraham,
Mauran, Joseph,
McGregor, John,
Millar, James,
tMiller, J. Leland,
Miller, Lewis L.
Miller, Nathaniel,
tMoore, Alexander B.
t*Moore, William B.
*Mowry, Moses
Mowry, Samuel,
Needham, John G.
^Nelson, Thomas,
Newhall, Thomas K.
^Nichols, Benjamin,
Nutting, Thomas,
Olney, Jeremiah W.,
tOsgood, Charles
tPaine, Zina G.
Parsons, Charles W.
Parsons, Usher,
tPeck William,
t^Peckham, Hazael,
^Perrin, Nelson,
Perry, Christopher G.
Perry, George H.
$*Pettes, Joseph B.
Potter, Allen,
Potter, Allen Jr.
Potter, Hazard A.
# Potter, Nehemiah A.
Pratt, Henry P.
Richardson, William,
Richmond, John W.
Rivers, Henry W.
Robinson, Josiah W,
Satterlee, Richard S.
tSexton, Jotham,
tShaw, Joseph L.
Smithfield,	182o.
u	1844.
Providence,	1844.
Providence,	Original.
North-Providence,	1838.
u	Original,
Smithfield,	1832.
Cumberland,	Original.
Providence,	1819.
Coventry,	1847.
North-Providence,	1838.
Providence,	1840.
i<	1827.
i<	1847.
t<	1831.
k	1827.
Johnston,	Original.
Glocester,	1838.
Cranston,	1836.
Bristol,	Original.
Scituate,	1848.
Warwick,	1840.
Smithfield,	1840.
Cranston,	1842.
Providence,	1834.
North-Providence,	1826.
Providence,	1846.
u	1823.
u	1823.
Glocester,	1812.
Smithfield,	1838.
Newport,	1837.
Hopkinton,	1825.
Providence,	Original.
Glocester,	1823.
Providence,	1845.
Cumberland,	1846.
d	1812.
Providence,	1847.
Johnston,	1819.
Providence,	Original.
n	1S39.
u	1832.
Newport,	18 IS.
\Attle-Comp1on,	1825.
Providence,	m-2.
 
29
 Shaw, William A.
 Shaw, William G.
 tSimmons, Thomas H.
 Slack, David B.
 Smith, David S.  H. C.
 Smith, Jarvis J.
 tStone John,
 tSumner, John N.
 Streeter, J. H.
 ^Thompson, William,
 *Throop, Amos,
 t*Tibbits, John W.
 Tillinghast, Allen,
 JTillinghast, George H.
 tTillinghast, Thomas,
 ^Tillinghast, Wilbor,
 Tobey, Samuel B.
 tTorrey, Augustus,
 ^Turner, Henry  E.
 Turner, Henry E.,
 Turner, James V.
 Turner, Oliver C.
 ^Turner, Peter
 ^Turner, William,
 JTyler, George W.
 Utley, Leander,
 JWadsworth. John A.
 *Walcott, Halsey D.
 *Walcott, Micah,
 IWaldron, A.
 *Waring, Edmund  T.
 Warren, Joseph E.
 *Warren, Thomas,
 tWebb, Thomas H.
 ^Webber, Richard M.
 Wells, William R.
 tWest, Benjamin  H.
 *West, Samuel,
 West,  Samuel,
 Wheaton, Francis L.
 Wheaton, Levi,
 tWheaton, Walter V.
 Wheeler, L. Marcellus,
Whitman, Almon  C.
Whitney, James 0.
t*Whitridge, William,
North-Kingstown,
     u
Netvport,
Providence,
     u
Glocester,
Providence,
     u
Smithfield,
Warren,
Providence,
Warwick,
Coventry,
Providence,
East-Greenwich,
West-Greenwich,
Providence,
Glocester,
East- Greenwich,
Newport,
East- Greenwich,
Newport,
Providence,
 Cumberland,
    it
 Glocester,
Newport,
 Cumberland,
 Bristol,
 Providence,
 Tiverton,
 Newport,
 North-Providence,
 Tiverton,
   <<
Providence,
East- Greenwich,
Scituate,
Smithfield,
Tiverton,
    1834.
 Original.
    1819.
    1826.
    1848.
    1834.
    1819.
    1836.
    1842.
    1813.
 Original.
    1816.
    1847.
    1818.
    1812.
    1812.
    1830.
 Original.
    1812.
    1837.
    1812.
    1835.
    1812.
 Original.
    1823.
    1827.
    1819.
    1838.
    1812.
 Original.
Original.
    1841.
 Original.
    1826.
    1816,
    1835,
    1839.
    1814.
    1840.
   1832.
Original.
Original.
    1839.
   1840.
   1848.
   1812. 
30
tWhitridge, William C.
Wiggin, Chase,
t*Wilkinson, John
^Williams, Jeremiah,
fWood, Robert C.
^Wylley, Aaron C.
   Tiverton,
Providence,
Scituate,
Warren,
Newport,
New-Shoreham,
   1814.
   1847.
Original.
Original.
   1821.
   1812.
onoratg ifUemfccrs.
       1813.
*Nathan Smith,
James  B. Mason,
P. L. Armand Auboyneau,
       1814.
William Ingalls,
       1815.
*John  P. Mann,
       1816.
^Thomas Hubbard,
       1820.
*James Thatcher,
John C. Warren,
Walter Channing,
Nathaniel Miller,
       1825
* Samuel L. Mitchell,
       1826.
^Wright Post,
^Philip Syng Physick,
       1831.
William Clift,
*George McClellan,
Zaccheus Bartlett,
       1835,
Joshua B. Whitridge,
       1836.
* Andrew Harris,
       1838.
^Thomas Miner,
George C. Shattuck,
       1839.
James Jackson,
Jacob Bigelow,
Samuel Jackson,
John D. Fisher,
T. Romeyn  Beck,
Hanover, N. H.
Providence.
La Rochelle, France.

Boston, Mass.

Newport.

Pomfret, Ct.

Plymouth,  Mass.
Boston, Mass.

Franklin, Mass.

New York.


Philadelphia, Pa.

London, England.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Plymouth, Mass.

Charleston, S. C.

Canterbury, Ct.

Middletown, Ct.
Boston, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
      it
Philadelphia, Pa.
Boston, Mass.
Albany, N. Y. 
31
 Alexander H. Stevens,
 William E. Horner,
 ^Thomas  Sewall,
 George B. Wood,
       1840.
 Zadoc Howe,
 Lyndon A. Smith,
 John B. Beck,
 William B. Stephens,
       1841.
 Daniel Drake,
 Valentine Mott,
 Samuel B. Woodward,
       1842.
 Amariah Brigham,
       1844.
 Elisha Bartlett,
       1845.
 Henry H. Childs,
       1847.
Josiah  Bartlett,
Isaac Ray,
       1848.
Abel L. Person,
 New York.
 Philadelphia, Pa.
 Washington, D. C.
Philadelphia, Pa.

 Billerica, Mass.
 Newark, N. J.
 New York.
 Savannah, Ga.

 Cincinnati, Ohio.
 New York.
 Worcester, Mass.

 Utica, N. Y.

Lowell, Mass.

Pittsfield, Mass.

Stratham, N. H.
Providence.

Salem, Mass.
iPrestirents
 Amos Throop,  -
 William Bowen,
 Pardon Bowen,
 Caleb Fiske,
 Levi  Wheaton,
 David King,
 Charles Eldredge,
 Usher Parsons, -
 Richmond Brownell,
 Theophilus C. Dunn,
 Lewis L. Miller,   -
Joseph Mauran, -
David King,
 1812-1814
 1814-1815
 1815-1823
 1823-1824
 1824-1829
 1829-1834
 1834-1837
 1837-1840
 1840-1843
 1843-1846
1846-1847
1847-1848
1848- 
 
       Jttoht-Ififatth   Mectcal   fowttj.

     Annual Meeting,     Providence, June 27th, 1849.


                 OFFICERS  ELECTED.

 S.  Augustus Arnold, Providence, President.
 George Capron, Providence, 1st Vice President
 HmAM Allen, Cumberland, 2d Vice President
 James W. C Ely, Providence,  Recording Secretary.
 Charles  W. Parsons, Providence, Corresponding Secretary
 Lewis W. Clifford, Providence, Treasurer.
 Oliver C. Turner, Newport, Librarian and  Cabinet Keeper
                            for Southern District
 Sylvanus Clapp, North Providence,  Librarian  and  Cabinet
                              Keeper for Northern District-

 Joseph Mauran, Providence,
 Theophilus C. Dunn, Newport,
 William A. Shaw, North Kingstown,
 James H.  Eldridge,  East Greenwich,
 Jabez Holmes, Bristol,
 Hervey Armington, Providence,
William Richardson. Johnston,
 Ezekiel Fowler, Smithfield,


  Drs. U. Parsons,  D. King,  and Mauran were appointed
Delegates  to the next National  Convention  for  revising  the
Pharmacopoeia.
s  Censors. 
  Drs. Mauran, U.  Parsons, and L. L. Miller, were appointed
a Committee to confer with a Committee of the General Assem-
bly, on a proposed law for the registration of births, deaths, and
marriages, and report at the next semi-annual meeting.
  Drs. U. Parsons,  D.  King, Bullock, W. A.  Shaw,  Arnold,
Clapp, and Hiram  Allen, were re-appointed Committee on  the
recent history of the Cholera.

                 FELLOWS  ADMITTED.
             Drs.  James E. Roberts,  Scituate.
             Edward  G. McCormick, Providence.
             Selim A. Stanley, Smithfield.


           HONORARY  MEMBERS ELECTED.

   Professors George  Hayward, and John Ware,  Boston.
  A Discourse  was read by David  King M. D., on the history
and necessary conditions of the progress of Medical Science.
  The Committee on the recent history of the Cholera, presented
their report, parts of  which were read by Dr. C.  W." Parsons.
  Dr. James H. Eldridge of East  Greenwich,  was  appointed
Orator for 1850; and Ariel Ballou of Cumberland, substitute.
        FISKE  FUND PRIZE DISSERTATION,
  The Trustees announced that the  Premium of fifty dollars
offered in 1848, for the best Dissertation on  the subject "Ship
Fever, so called, its history, nature, and best mode of treatment,'
was awarded to Henry  Grafton Clark,  M. D., of Boston,
     Subjects for 1850;
 1.  The History of Medical Delusions, of the present and former
times. 
 2. Asiatic Cholera, its  history, nature,  and  best  mode  of
treatment.

  Dissertations  must be  sent, free of expense, to  either of the
Trustees, by the 1st Wednesday ■...  Tlay, 1850.  Each Disser-
tation  should  bear a motto or device, and be accompanied by a
sealed  packet, containing the same motto on its outside, and the
writer's name and residence inside.
  It is desirable that the semi-annual meetings be mostly occupi-
ed by communications, and that some at least of these communi-
cations be prepared beforehand.

  Fellows of the Society who will furnish any of  the  results of
their  experience, will  contribute to the value and interest of
these meetings.