Transactions, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Transactions, Vol. 1 In 1875 the Tri-State Medical Society was organized at Vincennes, Ind., with Dr. B.F. Swafford, of Terre Haute, Ind., as President, and Dr. G.W. Burton, of Mitchell, Ind., as Secretary. The society was composed of physicians in the States of Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois. From the date of its organization this society has had a successful career, and the vigor of its early and subsequent life is in no small degree due to the zeal and fidelity of the two officers above mentioned, and Dr. F.W .Beard, of Vincennes, who was the first Treasurer. Drs. Burton and Beard held the offices of Secretary and Treasurer from the date of the organization of the society until the Indianapolis meeting held in 1883, at which time the Tri-State Society had drawn to its membership physicians from many other States than the three originally included. At the Indianapolis meeting in 1883 the name of the society was changed to the Mississippi Valley Medical Association. The society had grown so rapidly that two years prior to the changing of its name the meeting was held in St. Louis, Mo., and indeed from that date it ceased to be a Tri-State Society. Although now it is nominally composed of physicians residing in States located in the Mississippi Yalley, it is really national in its scope. Its field of greatest activity, however, is within the Mississippi Yalley. Meetings have been held in the States of Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Arkansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Tennessee. The Mississippi Yalley Medical Association is not a delegated body. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.