Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to present to the State Society, at its semi-annual meeting, the importance of urg ing the claims of homeopathy upon the officers of these institutions, to the end that a chair of homoeopathy may be established in each of these schools. Drs. Cornell, Bullard and Paine were appointed such committee. Dr. T. E. Allen, of Saratoga, presented an interesting case to the society, for examination, diagnosis and advice. The committee appointed in the morning reported the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That we fully indorse the provisions of the form of an act, adopted at the late annual meeting of the State Homœopathic Medical Society, which has for its object the elevation of the standard of medical education, and that we recommend the adoption of such measures as may give it legal effect. On motion, adjourned to meet in the village of Saratoga Springs, at ten o'clock A. M., on the second Tuesday in July, 1872. CONTENTS. CIX. Biographical Sketch of Josiah Bowers, M. D. By B. F. Bowers, M. D. CX. Eulogy on J. L. Stoddard, M. D. By B. F. Cornell, M. D. CXI. Biographical Sketch of Durffee Chase, M. D. CXII. Biographical Sketch of James Berry, M. D. CXIII. Biographical Sketch of H. C. Hubbard, M. D. CXIV. Biographical Sketch of H. S. Benedict, M. D. CXV. Biographical Sketch of Charles C. Foote, M. D. CXVI. Biographical Sketch of H. B. Gram, M. D. By A. P. Throop, M. D. By F. Hubbard. By J. M. Cadmus, M. D. By E. T. Foote, M. D. CVII. Biographical Sketch of Arthur Lutze, M. D. By Herman Muhr, M. D. CIX. Biographical Sketch of Josiah Bowers, M. D. By B. F. BOWERS, M. d. Josiah Bowers, M. D., was a native of Billerica, Mass. He commenced the study of medicine with the late Dr. Gordon, of Hingham, Mass. For several years he was the private pupil of the late Prof. Nathan Smith, of New Haven, and was in the habit of assisting him in his surgical operations. He also assisted Prof. Knight in the dissections for his lectures on anatomy. He took his medical degree at New Haven, in the year 1816. Prof. Smith being called to operate on the late Judge Woodhull of Setauket, Long Island, for stone in the bladder, took his favorite pupil with him, who with a fellow student, the late Dr. Joel L. Griffing, remained in charge of the patient until his recovery. Dr. Griffing settled at Setauket. Dr. Bowers was invited to settle at Huntington, Long Island, where he immediately went into an extensive practice with gratifying success as a physician, and a reputation in surgery surgery which gave him almost a monopoly of the surgical practice in that part of the country. About the year 1821, Dr. Griffing having determined to leave Setauket, Dr. Bowers removed to that place, at the urgent request of numerous friends, where he practiced for a number of years, and then removed to Smithtown. He was well known in Queens and Suffolk counties, and perhaps more generally, throughout Long Island, than any other physician. Wherever he was known he gained the public respect and confidence, and the reputation of superior skill was unaniinously awarded him. In his ministrations to the sick he was prompt, attentive, kind, ever more anxious to relieve his patient, than to obtain his fee. To the poor his services were cheerfully given. He did much good as an advocate of temperance. Patriotic in his feelings, public affairs deeply interested him. He was influential in politics, and did much to promote the ascendancy of whig principles. He was appointed surgeon of the regiment, of the brigade and of the division, of the militia of his district; and also one of the commissioners for the county of Suffolk, for loaning the money deposited with the State, by the United States. When about fifty years of age, while enjoying the entire confidence of his patients, and having as much practice as he was willing to attend to, he made trial of homoeopathy and adopted it on his own experience of its superiority. The people, who believed in the doctor, and knew little about medical theories, were pleased to find that he had wonderfully improved, for his treatment was pleasant, and he cured them more quickly. He was one of the original members of the American Institute of Homœopathy, and a vice-president of the Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of New York. He had great influence in introducing and upholding romœopathy; for the physicians, with whom he had long been an acknowledged authority in medical matters, could not now very successfully denounce him as an ignorant pretender. In the year 1850, he opened an office in New York, and had an extensive practice in this city and Brooklyn. About ten years before his death, becoming tired of the labor and exactions of city practice, he retired to his native place, to spend the remainder of his days in the cultivation of his farm. He sometimes wrote poetry, and the following lines written for a friend, whose eldest son was lost in the Pacific, may be taken as a sample. The mourner sits alone, O'erwhelmed in mute despair, And bows before the throne She calls for her lost child, In vain she strives to pray, Thy holy will be done!" Oh, give me back my son. Oft in the sleepless night, And oft she seems to hear His voice, within the hall, And on her startled ear His well-known footsteps fall. Illusive all that face No more may bless her sight, But down her pallid cheek Balm for the broken heart! Peace for the tortured breast! May God his grace impart, And give the mourner rest. |