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Public Session of the Ohio Committee
on Medical History and
Archives, 2:00 P. M.,
April 7, Ohio State Museum Library,
Jonathan Forman, Presiding
The public session of the Ohio Committee
on Medical His-
tory and Archives was called to order by
Dr. Jonathan Forman,
its chairman, at 2:00 P. M. on April 7, 1939,
in the Library of
the Museum. The program was concerned
with "The Pioneer
Physicians of Ohio: Their Lives and
Their Contributions to the
Development of the State,
1788-1835." The first paper in this
series was written by Dr. D. D. Shira
and was entitled "An At-
tempt to Regulate by Law and the Purpose
behind the Move-
ment." Dr. Shira was not present
and his paper was read by
Dr. Robert G. Paterson.
(paper)*
DR. FORMAN: I think it is
well to call attention to the fact that
in these early days county prosecutors
reluctantly prosecuted cases
against unlicensed practitioners until a
new law provided that
half of the fine should go to the county
where the case was tried.
Now, it seems that there is a penalty
because of holding this
meeting on Good Friday, as Dr. Waite of
Cleveland cannot be
with us. The next paper will be that of
Dr. Howard C. Dittrick
of Cleveland, speaking on "The
Equipment, Instruments and
Drugs of the Pioneer Physicians of
Ohio."
(paper)
DR. FORMAN: To go on now with the
discussion of "The Method
of Treatment of Some of the More Common
Diseases of the
Times by the Pioneer Physicians of Ohio"
by Dr. David A.
Tucker, of Cincinnati.
(paper)
DR. FORMAN: I will try to tell you
something about "The Med-
ical Journals of the Pioneer Physicians
of Ohio" of this par-
ticular time.
(paper)
* Because of the educational
and historical value of these papers it
is planned
to publish them in
the July, 1939, issue of the Ohio State
Archaeological and His-
torical Quarterly. By this means
the full proceedings of the 1939 Ohio
History Con-
ference can be preserved.
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DR. FORMAN: We will now go to "The
Part That the Pioneer
Physicians Played in Getting Certain
Institutions for the Citizens
of Ohio, Such as the Commercial
Hospital, the Schools for the
Deaf and Blind," by Dr. Robert G.
Paterson.
(paper)
DR. FORMAN: We will now pass on to the
seventh paper "The
Part That the Pioneer Physicians of Ohio
Played in the Com-
munity as Exemplified in the Church and
Lodge" by Dr. James
J. Tyler, of Warren.
(paper)
DR. FORMAN: We come now to "The
Beginning of Formal
Dental Education at Bainbridge,
Ohio," by Dr. Edward C. Mills,
of Columbus.
DR. MILLS: It is with real pleasure that
I note the importance
that this organization has given to
dentistry. During the reading
of the papers I was very much pleased to
find Chillicothe so
prominently mentioned. That is my native
heath and the region
of which I am going to speak lies twenty
miles west of Chillicothe,
near Bainbridge.
(paper)
DR. FORMAN:
This brings to a close the program which
Dr.
Lindley, possibly wisely, called to ask
me about--as to whether
we were going to give it in one
afternoon or two days. Our
program has been lengthy but I think it
has been very worth while
and I hope that it will be agreeable
with the group next year to
go on and build up another period of
about twenty-five years.
We should like to get the history of the
part that the doctor has
played in Ohio. Do you have any
announcements, Dr. Lindley?
DR. LINDLEY:
Dr. Forman, I want to say that it is
disconcerting
to try to be at three different places
at the same time in one after-
noon. I was indeed sorry that I could
not have been here at the
opening of the session to have given you
a word of welcome to
the Ohio State Museum. We are proud of
this movement that
has been carried forward in such a fine
way by Dr. Forman and
Dr. Paterson. I have concluded that the
medical profession is
much better balanced than I had thought
it was. You do cer-
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tainly have an interest in historical
background. I hope that each
of these papers will be deposited with
the secretary of this sec-
tion and I want to say that from what I
have heard we will want
to publish as nearly all of them as
possible. I would like to have
at least abstracts so that in the course
of the year we can carry
this out and make the discussions a
matter of record. The Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical
Society was organized and is
supported by the state of Ohio with one
specific function and
that is to collect and preserve Ohio
history in every way.
We appreciate very much the sort of
experiment that we have
had this year--a united historical
interest of various types into
this one historical conference. This is
no longer the meeting of
the Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society--this is the
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical
Society, the historical
society of the medical profession, the
Columbus Genealogical
Society, and the general session of the
history teachers of colleges
and universities of the State. As you
know, the annual dinner of
the Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Society is to be held
at six-fifteen at the Faculty Club of
the Ohio State University
and all of those participating in the
conference are invited. Fol-
lowing the dinner will be an address by
Mr. Grove Patterson,
editor of the Toledo Blade. Tomorrow
morning there will be a
joint session of the Columbus
Genealogical Society and the Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical
Society in the Auditorium of
the Museum. Those of you who can get
away from your pro-
fession and be present are most
cordially invited to attend.
DR. FORMAN: Is there any other business to
come before the
group? Will all those appearing on the
program kindly turn
their papers over to Dr. Paterson?
The session adjourned.
Annual Dinner Session of the Ohio
State Archaeological and
Historical Society, 6:15 P.
M., April 7, Faculty Club,
O. S. U., H. C. Shetrone, Presiding
The Annual Dinner of the Ohio State
Archaeological and
Historical Society, held at 6:15 P. M.,
April 7, at the Faculty Club