Connecticut’s Medical Beginnings

Research show colony’s medical men first organized in 1767

By Lawrence D. Nizza, reprinted with permission from The Hartford Courant (The Courant Magazine, June 2, 1957)

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The 110th Annual Convention of the Connecticut State Medical Society was held in New Haven, Connecticut on May 28 and 29, 1902.

Past Officers of CSMS:

1902:

Gould A. Shelton, MD, of Hartford, CT, President

Vice Presidents, ex-officio:

Nathan Mayer, MD; Frederick B. Tuttle, MD; Newton P. Smith, MD; Nathaniel E. Wordin, MD; Frank H. Coops, MD; Jerome S. Bissell, MD; Frank E. Potter, MD; Eli P. Flint, MD

W. W. Knight, MD - Treasurer

N. D. Wordin, MD - Secretary

Committee on Matter of Professional Interest in the State:

E. K. Root, MD; P. W. Street, MD; F. K. Hallock, MD

Litchfield County Fellows:

Edward H. Welch, MD; George H. Knight, MD; John W. Johnson, MD; Elias Pratt, MD

1902 Total CSMS Membership By County:

Hartford - 164

New Haven - 209

New London - 51

Fairfield - 130

Windham - 35

Litchfield - 51

Middlesex - 43

Dr. E. K. Loveland of Watertown, Connecticut, a member of Litchfield County Medical Association, gave a report on "Small-Pox and Vaccinations". Dr. Loveland touched on areas including vaccination, the spread of small-pox by pests and pets, and rhe elimination of the disease through the agency of another disease.

Dr. W. S. Randall of Shelton, Connecticut gave a report titled "The History, Etiology, and Mode of Infection of Typhoid Fever." Dr. Randall stated that the four main modes of infection are: 1st Through drinking water - 2nd Through milk supply - 3rd Through sick room contamination - 4th Through ice. Dr. Randall addressed the Plymouth, Pennsylvania Typhoid Fever epidemic of 1885 in which over one thousand cases developed and nearly one hundred deaths occurred. In this case, a single patient infected a mountain stream miles away, and was the cause of the epidemic.

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