THE MEDICAL EXAMINER.
PHILADELPHIA, JUNE, 1853.
A considerable portion of our space in this number of the Examiner
is occupied with Reports of the Proceedings of the American Medical
Association and of our State Medical Society, both of which held their
annual sessions within the past month. We have no doubt that the de-
tailed accounts of their Proceedings which are presented to oui’ readers
will be acceptable, for we are satisfied that the interest which is felt in
the working of our professional organization is strong and universal.
Our reports of both the National and State Proceedings will be found,
we think, a full and faithful record of everything of any interest that
transpired at either meeting. In the preparation of the Report of the
Proceedings of the American Medical Association, we have had the op-
portunity of completing our own notes from the excellent reports of the
New York Daily and Medical Times, and of the New Jersey Medical
Reporter, to all of which our acknowledgments are due. The Report of
the Proceedings of the State Medical Society was prepared from notes
taken for the Examiner.
It was the privilege of the editors of this Journal to be present at the
late meeting of the American Medical Association at New York, and
we are indeed at a loss for language to express our sense of the mag-
nificent public reception and cordial private hospitality which the dele-
gates to that body received from their professional brethren in New
York. We can only say that it was a reception worthy of the great
metropolis of the nation and of her high-toned physicians.
The transactions of the Association were characterized by the great-
est harmony and discretion, and in interest and importance the scientific
reports and other papers presented and read were not inferior to those of
previous meetings. As regards the proposed amendments to the Con-
stitution, which came up from last year’s meeting, they were indefinitely
postponed, with the exception of the amendment in favor of a represen-
tation from the Medical Staffs of the Army and Navy.
The Proceedings of our State Medical Society were characterized by
the zeal and spirit which they have always elicited. Eighty-five mem-
bers were in attendance, and a very large number of highly valuable
reports from the County Medical Societies were presented and read.
The meeting was in every respect a most satisfactory and agreeable one.