This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: … Hence, articles in medical journals, and resolutions adopted by medical societies, touching the subject, continued occasionally to make their appearance. The following preamble and resolution, offered by Dr. John M'Call, of Utica, were adopted by the Medical Society of the State of New York, at its annual session, in February, 1839, viz.– Whereas, a National Medical Convention would advance, in the apprehension of this society, the cause of the medical profession throughout our land, in thus affording an interchange of views and sentiments on the most interesting of all subjects–that involving men’s health, and the means of securing or recovering the same: therefore, Resolved, That, in our opinion, such convention is deemed advisable and important; and we would hence recommend that it be held in the year 1840, on the first Tuesday in May of that year, in the city of Philadelphia, –and that it consist of three delegates from each state medir cal society, and one from each regularly constituted medical school in the United States, and that the president and secretary of this society be, and they are hereby instructed and required to transmit, as soon as may be, a circular to that effect to each state medical society and medical school in said United States. This proposition was sanctioned by so many of the societies and colleges in other states, that the New York Society, at its next annual meeting, in February, 1840, appointed three delegates, one or two of whom proceeded to Philadelphia at the appointed time, where they met one delegate from Ohio, and one from one of the Eastern states. But, finding no others, not even a local delegation from any of the medical institutions of Philadelphia itself, they returned without accomplishing…