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    Report of Semi-Centennial  Meeting of the Burlington County Medical So-
ciety, held at the City of Burlington, June 17,  1879.
    The meeting was called to order in the City Hall at 11:30, a. m., by  Dr. Cbas.
Ellis, of Burlington, the only surviving Charter Member.   In addition to delegates
from other County Societies in the  State, a number of invited guests and leading
citizens were present.
 
ADDRESS   OF   WELCOME.
                   BY R. H. PAGE, M. D., OF COLUMBUS
     Gentlemen :—In welcoming you  as  guests of the District  Medical
 Society of Burlington County to participate  in  the  celebration of its Semi-
 Centennial Anniversary, I trust you will not think me egotistical in briefly
 alluding to the history and character of the Society.  Having its inception
 in the minds of a few earnest members of the  profession  of the  county, its
 birth in their labors, and its continued growth in the love  and zeal of their
 successors, it has passed through infancy  and youth and arrived at the full
 growth of maturity—not in numbers—probably not in the talent and reputation
 of its members, but in their zeal and love of their profession, and their loyalty
 to all its ethical laws and requirememts, and to-day we have met to celebrate
 its Fiftieth Anniversary.  Fifty years past—what a history  in the very sen-
 tence when we think of the " now and then ; " wisdom, genius, and learning,
 acting and reacting one upon the other, have erected in the fleeting years of
 that period enduring monuments in the material progress of the intellectual,
 moral, and practical affairs of life that no prior period parallels.   And while
 this is true of all other departments, the science of medicine and surgery has
 emerged from the partially illumined shades of doubt, uncertainty  and em-
 piricism, and stands to-day the  peer of the progress in all other departments
 of knowledge, and, may we not  claim, occupies a  height  above and beyond
 others as it has had to  deal with the  hidden mysteries  of life in the most
 wonderful and complex work of God.
    This Society we believe has acted well its part in this advancement, not
in planning campaigns, not as a commander of the forces, but as a subaltern
in the ranks, always willing and ready for  the advance  and attack, and in 
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assisting to hold the positions gained,  whether in the broad fields of new
theory and practice, correcting the errors of the past and present, or against
the ignorance and credulity of the deluded followers of quackery, or opposed
to empircism in all its protean forms, either within or without the profession
and our proudest boast to-day is that upon our banner the one word, "loyalty,"
is inscribed, which in the future as the past will be our watchword.  In thus
referring to our society it is not for the purpose of self-laudation, or in a spirit of
false pride whose boasting is based upon the shifting sands of assumption, but
in the knowledge of having acted our part to the best of our ability, and in
a true spirit of pride based upon the firm rock  of our love.  And this love
that we feel for our Society, while not  as  sacred, is almost as  natural as
that of  the child for its mother who gave  it birth, for most of its present
members have passed the whole of their professional lives within its protecting
arms.
     Its meetings have always been  replete with pleasure, instruction and
support: pleasure in the social reunion of its members; instruction from dis-
cussion  of medical topics, and in rich gleanings from the ripe experience of
those whose lives from youth to old age had been dedicated to a conflict with
disease, not alone for the thrift of gain, but  as oft  by the lowly cot of the
indigent as by the silken-draped couch of the  opulent;—a free-will offering
at the shrine of our common humanity ; the reward of a clear conscience and an
empty pocket: and support in our conflict with quackery by the mandate of
its laws, which have always been in accord with our venerable State Society,
and the certainty of the infringement bringing reproach and disgrace.  When
her portals are passed there must be no dallying  with the  " unclean thing,"
and " no variableness or shadow of turning from our watchword "Loyalty" to
the code of ethics.
     But this picture that I have so inadequately presented to you  of our
love for and pride in our societv by reason of the high character it has always
sustained, has at times been clouded by sorrow and regret, not of opportunities
neglected, not of acts committed to be repented of,—although they  may  be
many—but as the years have rolled on in their ceaseless course death has oft
been in our midst and many of our  predecessors and compeers have been
called from among us by its imperious mandate that all must sooner or later
hear and obey.  We sorrow for their  loss ; miss their cordial greeting, words
of counsel,  and the amenities of professional intercourse; but regrets are vain, 
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 they have been called from their  work  here, we trust, to its happy fruition
 above.  But there is one chair empty at our board ; one voice hushed in our
 councils;  one presence gone from among us whose  absence will  always be
 felt with regret commensurate with the love and esteem his life  inspired as a
 valuable and active member of the  society for  more than forty-six years ; a
 skilful, conscientious physician and a true, warm hearted, honest man.   The
 memory of Dr. Benjamin H.  Stratton will ever  be cherished by his associates
 in this society;  and on this occasion, the celebration of which was a favorite idea
 of his, it is meet we should entwine a few branches of cypress with the laurel
 in our festive wreath.  In memory's gallery hang many other portraits of
 those departed whose virtues  we could  record  with a willing pen that want
 of time forbids us to even name, with one exception—that of Dr. Isaac P.
 Coleman,—and when we recall his virtues as a man and  his excellence as a
 physician, again we feel deep, lasting, yet  unavailing regret for a life cut off
 in the fulness of its promise.  The death of Dr. Stratton, who was one of the
 five charter members, all  of whom our essayist, Dr. Parrish, will fully notice,
 left but one of the five among the living, who, we are  happy to state,  is yet
 with us as an honorary member ;  and it is with unalloyed  pleasure that I
 present him to you to-day in the person of our presiding officer—Dr. Charles
 Ellis, of Burlington city, whom the Committee of Arrangements most appro-
 priately selected to preside over this meeting.   We all hope that his life may-
 be long spared and that the  years to come will be as peaceful and happy as
 those that are  passed have been useful and honorable ; and may we have the
 further  satisfaction  of  seeing  the  society  he helped to  organize  evolve
 from  the maturity of  the present,  the  elixir  of perpetual life without the
 decrepitude of old  age coming on to mar her  usefulness.   And  can  we not
 hope a few of its younger members will be spared to join  in  the celebration
 of its centennial anniversary  and  find her then, as now, having kept even
 pace  with the advanced profession of that period and a vigorous co-laborer in
 a yet further progress.
     Gentlemen, on behalf of the  Committee of Arrangements,  it is a  plea-
 sure to most cordially welcome you here to-day to participate with the mem-
 bers of our society in this, to them, pleasing event of the celebration of the
 Fiftieth Anniversary of its natal day, and in our greeting of the distinguished
members of the profession, who have honored us by their presence, we extend
the right hand  of  fellowship  as co-workers with us in placing  our beloved 
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profession in the vanguard of all the material  progress of the age.   And to-
the laity present  (if I may be  allowed the use of the word) we  extend an
equally warm welcome and greet them with  our warmest thanks for their
loyalty to our honored profession, whose foundations were laid in an almost my-
thical age, while its superstructure has been advancing to completeness through
the centuries ;  and by their faith, where so many have been and are faithless,
assisting us of the profession to strike many a lusty and telling blow  against
the marshalled  cohorts of empiricism  and quackery,  consisting of a motley
crowd; the credulity of ignorance, the education  of imbecility, unblushing
mendacity, the  over-nice palates of those  clothed in purple and fine  linen ;
the assumption  of that immense mass  to whom " a little learning is a dan-
gerous thing," and all that innumerable throng who absorb the strange and
wonderful as greedily as a sponge absorbs water, and all commanded  by self-
seeking men, whose every oblation is offered  upon the altar of the golden
calf.  These springs all tend to one common centre, the fceted stream of ;' ism
and schism," which soon flows into the broad sea of spiritualism, communism.
nihilism, and charlatanry, the deadly poison of whose  waters,  unlike the
lethean draught, not alone destroy memory but all  the powers of health and
life.
    Gentlemen, one and all, I again welcome you, and  when we see those
with you whose names are inscribed upon the loftiest pinnacle of the beautiful
temple of our art, and who have added so many shafts and columns wreathed
with  the chaplets  of their genius,  to strengthen, beautify, and adorn itT
and remember that by their labors the streams that are  flowing  in  ever-in-
creasing volume from its many founts of knowledge  are becoming  impreg-
nated more and more with the elixir of life, we feel how  little cause we had
to laud our predecessors and our own labors, except  for their fealty to its
ethical laws, and can only claim to be faithful dispensers and  filterers of
these healing waters.   And in welcoming  you to-day, we  greet you with
thanks for so kindly accepting our invitation to join with us  for a brief sea-
son in the review of the first fifty years of our society's  career, not  for the
purpose of trumpeting its name and deeds to  the world, but simply to learn
lessons from the successes  and  failures of the past, for guidance in  the at-
tainment of greater usefulness in the future, and for social enjoyment of its
closing hours;  and ere the hand-shake and farewell of departure, we trust
you will unite in the benediction,  " God speed," as it steps upon the threshold
of its second half century. 
HISTORICAL    ADDRESS.
                        BY JOSEPH PARRISH, M. D.

      Gentlemen of the Society and Fellow Citizens :—The task that
 has been assigned to me, as a participant in these exercises, is one of mingled
 pleasure and disappointment.  At best, the memorials of a physician's life
 are few and brief.  They may  be interwoven with  the memories, and often
 with the affections of the sick and suffering, at the  bed side, but are seldom
 found upon the roll of public fame.   A half century more than suffices to
 trace his first and last foot-prints as he makes his daily rounds among the dreary
 homes of the poor, as well as in the abodes of the rich.  His services being per-
 sonal to his patients, do not always outlive the generation for whom he labors.
 At least I have found it so, in attempting to  glean the scattered reminiscences
 of those who have gone before  us, in this Society.  The records are imper-
 fect, and yet there  is sufficent  material to  demonstrate the  existence of a
 good degree of  earnest work for the profession, and a noble purpose to main-
 tain its honor and purity.
     In bringing you the result  of my researches into the history of this So-
 ciety for the past  fifty years, I  do so  with feelings somewhat  akin  to  those
 which might be attributed to a  confused artist, who is about  to offer for in-
 spection to critical  experts, a novel  picture which he had been selected to
 paint, with a most unique back-ground, a  varied outline, and a rude group-
 ing of strange characters and colors.   You may recognize  grotesque figures,
 iu the picture I shall present to you, as I am sure you will a very un-artistic
 arrangement and shading, but if it be true to life, or even partially so, I feel
 that your considerate judgment will accept  it as the best that I can do.
     The law regulating  the practice of " physic and surgery " in New Jersey
 at the commencement of this century, required that a license  should be ob-
 tained from the State Medical Society, whether the applicants  had diplomas
 from Medical Schools or not, and imposed  a penalty of twenty-five dollars
 for every prescription given by a non-licentiate ;  and unless such license was
 properly recorded, either in  the  office of the County Clerk, or of the Chief
Justice of the State, no fees could be legally demanded for professional ser-
vices.
     The year previous to the organization  of the society (1828), an incident 
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occurred which demonstrated the efficiency  of this law, and led to the union
of the few physicians  then in the county, for their own  protection.  The
scene was laid in the little town of Columbus, at that time known as  Black
Horse.  The parties immediately concerned were Dr. Asahel Page and Prince
Murat, a relative of Joseph  Bonaparte, then residing as ex-King of  Spain,
at his beautiful seat in  Bordentown.   The  prince and the doctor were both
fond of horses, and each kept several  trained for  the course.   They were to
have a race through the street of Columbus, which had been well advertised.
The prize was to be one of the racers.  The prince and the doctor appeared
in due  time,  and  the  race was accomplished in the presence  of a  goodly
crowd.  The prince came off the winner, and demanded his prize.  The doc-
tor said there had been  foul play and refused to surrender his steed.  The
prince was angry, and declared in a menacing manner that he would not
pay the doctor's bill for professional services.  Suit was brought by the doc-
tor to recover the  amount of his bill.  The Hon. Garret D. Wall,  late of
this city, was  one  of the  counsellors.  The case  was tried, and the  doctor
non-suited—the evidence in the trial showing that, though he had passed an
examination and had received a license,  he had neglected to comply with
the provision of the law,  which required the filing of his  certificate  in the
office of the Chief Justice of the State.   Hence the loss of his case.
     The story of this horse race and trial,  created considerable  excitement,
and the discovery was  made that there were  but  few  authorized  medical
licentiates  in  the county—Drs. Nathan  W. Cole, of this  city, and John L.
Stratton, of Mount Holly, were two of the number. There were,  however,
three younger men, fresh from the halls  of the University of Pennsylvania,
with  their diplomas, who  took advantage  of the  occasion and proceeded
immediately to Freehold for the purpose of an examination before the Cen-
sors, which having passed, certificates  were  furnished and legallv registered;
so that  there was added to the list of regular licentiates, the names of Charles
Ellis, of Burlington, Benjamin H. Stratton, of Mount Holly, and  John C.
Davis, of Pemberton.  These, with their seniors already named, constituted
the legal number for a District Medical Society ;  and on the 30th of April,
1829, they met at  the house of Griffith Owen, in  Mount Holly, to  consider
the situation.                    v
     At this meeting they  agreed to ask the State Society for authority to
organize according to the provisions of the  law.   On the 12th of the follow- 
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ing month, authority was formally granted, and in one week after, being the
19th of May, these five gentlemen again  met and took the preliminary steps
that were  necessary  to  effect their  organization.  They agreed upon their
officers, and appointed Drs. B. H. Stratton, Ellis and Davis to " draft rules
and regulations for their government," and to  report on the third Tuesday
of June—just fifty years ago this day.
     At that time  they  met at  the  house of Stacy B.  Campion, in Mount
Holly, adopted their  constitution, appended their signatures, and  each paid
two  dollars  into  the  treasury,—the   officers  being Dr.  Cole, President,
Dr. Ellis,  Secretary, and Dr. John  L. Stratton, Treasurer ; the latter being
authorized to procure suitable books for the society.
     The ivth and xvith Articles of  their Constitution furnish the keynote of
the spirit which animated them. The  ivth Article makes the fee-table of
the State Society the standard for regulating charges for professional services,
and contains the following words :   " It shall be dishonorable for any mem-
ber to charge less than the rates fixed, for the purpose of injuring his fellow
practitioners, or to secure business for himself."
     The xvith Article declares  it to be " dishonorable and worthy of censure
for any member to hold professional intercourse with expelled members,  or
with those of notoriously bad characters."
     Mutual  protection  and aid—each standing by the other  on a common
platform, and all together endeavoring to maintain the purity of the profes-
sion, seems to have been the corner-stone which these five physicians carved
and laid beneath the superstructure which we now enjoy.
     A few moments may be spent just here to acquaint ourselves with these
men, as they stand prominently  before  us.
    First—Dr. N.  W.  Cole :—He was  born,  it is believed,  in Middlesex
County, on the 1-itli of December, 1777, and died July 18th, 1848.   He came
to this city as an assistant teacher in the old Academy, which stood on the very
spot now occupied by St. Mary's Church.  Under whose  preceptorship he was
guided in his medical studies is not known ; but that he attended lectures at
the University of Pennsylvania, and afterwards was presented  with an hon-
orary degree from the  University—in  1829—through the intervention  of
friends, is no doubt true. I remember  him well as a prominent practitioner
of this  city, and knew him intimately.   He was a man of commanding pres-
ence and enjoyed a large share of the confidence of the people.   As a practi- 
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tioner, Mercury and  the Lancet were his chief reliance in many, if not in
most forms of disease; and there are  a few people now living who can  bare
their arms and point to  countless scars, as trophies of his heroic routineisra.
I remember, as a youth, being sick with what was commonly called bilious
fever, and Dr. Cole was  my physician.  The first thing was blood-letting and
a mercurial cathartic, and the  next  was salivation,   I shall never forget a
certain visit he made to my room, when he  saw me with a basin under my
chin, and a rivulet of saliva  flowing from my mouth.   I felt as  if I was cer-
tainly dissolving, and looked anxiously to the doctor for relief, or, at  least,
encouragement.  He sat for a few moments at my side, threw  wise glances
over his spectacles into the pool in the basin, smiled, scattered his  snuff
freely, and addressed my kind attendant thus :   " Betsy, there is a complete
dissolution of the disease, and the patient will recover." This was certainly
gratifying—to know that it  was the  disease, and not I, that was undergoing
dissolution.
    On  the  first  night of  his  last  illness I was summoned  to  his  bed-
side, and as I approached him, his  arm  was already extended  and  made
bare,  and  he called out in  a positive  tone—"Bleed  me! bleed me!!"
I saw no urgent cause for doing it, and so expressed myself, but  he was the
more urgent, and seemed relieved, in mind, at least, when the current began
to flow.  His hatred of quackery was intense, and I might narrate numerous
examples of this strong characteristic.   Suffice it to say, that it  was his  habit
never to cross the threshold of a patient of his after his own  services had
been substituted for those of an irregular practitioner ; and though his custom
was to keep very  loose  accounts against his patients, he  could always find
sufficient data for  large bills against those who had  abandoned him for any
charlatan.
     After nearly fifty years of practice in Burlington, he was followed  to his
resting place, in Si, Mary's church-yard, at the age of 71 years.
     Dr. John Leake  Stratton appears next on the roll.   He was born in
Deerfield, Cumberland County,  N. J., on the 2:>d of February, 1777.  His
father was a farmer, who could not  afford to give to  his four sons more than
a common school education.
     The subject of our  sketch was, however, naturally studious, and in addi-
tion to the education of his neighborhood school, he acquired some knowledge
of Latin, and on the 12th of May, 1797, commenced the study of medicine with 
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his cousin, Dr. James Stratton, of Swedesboro', in this State.  After attend-
ing the required course of lectures at the University of  Pennsylvauia, he
was licensed to practice medicine and surgery, on the  27th of March, 1800.
He commenced practice at once  in  Mount Holly, and continued to reside
there, with a single intermission of short duration, until his death.
     As early as 1808  he drove from Mount Holly to New Brunswick, to
attend a meeting of the State Medical Society, at which there were present
twenty-five members.  Dr. John L. Stratton was a fine specimen of manly
comeliness.  Affable, amiable  and  affectionate,  he sympathized  earnestly
with his patients of  all classes and conditions ; and after a life of self-sacrifice
and devoted usefulness to his  profession  and his patients, died  as he  had
lived—an honored Christian gentleman—on the  18th  day of August, 1845.
     His son and successor, Benjamin H. Stratton, was  known to many of us,
as his remarkable life terminated  but a short time since.   In many respects
he was  a rare man.  He was born a  doctor, and though  he may not have
studied books  as closely as some men, he studied disease at the bedside as few
meii do.   His memory of cases was unusual,  and  his practical ability in their
management quite as striking.  During all the years  of his membership of
this Society there v. as probably no one else who contributed more instructive
matter  at its meetings  than did Dr.  Stratton.  He  looked forward with
intense interest to this day, and had he lived, would  doubtless have  occupied
the place  which  your kindness has assigned to me on this occasion.
     He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1827, and died ou
the 29th of December, 1875, having practiced medicine in Mount Holly dur-
ing all the time,  with great credit  to the Doctorate, and comfort to  the com-
munity.
     Dr. John C. Davis, of Pemberton, was young and ambitious.   I remem-
ber visiting him at his office in Pemberton, soon after his graduation in 1826.
I do not know that it would be too much to say of him that he was naturally
a brilliant man.  His father  was a physician  in Cranberry, of this State,
where the son  was born.  After a very short career he passed away, leaving
but little behind him.
    Of Dr. Ellis it is needless to say  much; his presence  to-day is a token
of his long attachment to the profession, and though for many years  his re-
lation to the Society has been an honorary one, we are gratified and grateful
because of his presence  as its only surviving charter  member.
    We turn  to you our venerable friend, with the salutation of fraternal 
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greeting.  As you  have kindly consented to be with us to-day and preside
over this  meeting,  we recognize that  you represent a generation that has
passed away, and that while  you still linger with  this, we  seem to be with
those with whom you lived and labored half a century ago.
    They were men as we are,  and we laud  them not  where praise is not
due; but not one of them lived in vain.  They lived for the profession of
which we are a part, and their voiceless appeal comes to us to-day, to stand
fast by its purity and honor.  It is true also of us, that
                 " We are such stuff
                 As dreams are made of, and our little life
                 Is rounded  with a sleep."
but yet we may be permitted  to repeat as our wish for you, what the poet
wished for another,
                 " The Heavens hold firm
                 The walls of thy dear honor; keep unshaked
                 That temple, thy fair mind."
     It will be impossible to go far beyond this limit in the  narration of per-
sonal characteristics of members, but it is especially appropriate to have  be-
fore us the figures  of the five  founders  of the society, though they are so
faintly given.   A few more must be named.
     The next figure is that  of the courteous  and cultured  Wm.  S.  Coxe of
this city, who  graduated  at  the University of Pennsylvania in  1811—and
was duly elected a  member of this society in  February 1830, and  who on
the very  day of his election,  moved  that a  circular letter be addressed to
every practitioner of medicine in this county, giving information of the exist-
ence of a law making it obligatory upon the county society  to prosecute every
person practicing medicine in the county, without a license, and  urging all
physicians to obtain their credentials in compliance  with the law  as soon as
practicable.
     This action, taken together with the publication of the law  in the Xew
Jersey Mirror  resulted in the accession of fourteen new members  during the
time we are considering.  Their names are as follows :
     Asahel C. Page, Rockefeller Dakin, Hugh H. Higbee,  Samuel Woolston,
 Chas. Ridgway, Jno. Stokes, Jonathan J. Spencer, John Chapman, Edw.  L
 Dubarry,  Chas.  F. Lott, Isaac P.  Coleman, Zachariah  Read,  Alexander
 Brown and John Perdue.
      With a single exceptien, all these have died, though  some of them re- 
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 moved from the county before their death.   The single exception is known
 to most of us.
     Dr. Zachariah Read  still stands in the foreground, and  though  un-
 consciously to himself,  is  an  important factor  in  the early history  of the
 society.  With the exception of Dr. Ellis of the preceding group, he  is the
 one solitary figure that is left from among  the fourteen associates by whom
 he was surrounded in the first decade of our society life.
     He would be here to-day if it were possible, and because it is impossible,
 it is due to him that mention should be made of his name, and his days of
 active usefulness recalled.
     As a cloud that is poised on the verge of the horizon, balancing itself in
 the evening vapor, unconsciously waits to be dispelled, that the glory behind
 it may become visible,—so the flimsy shadows that envelop the physical be-
 ing of  our friend, and conceal the nobleness and  gentleness of his real nature,
 are only lingering for a space that  they  may be scattered at last, to  reveal
 the true, but hidden man, as he shall  appear in  the atmosphere of celestial
 skies in the companionship of those who  have gone before.
     Dr. Read graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in  1830, was an
 active worker, and ardent lover  of the profession, and had a large place of
 usefulness in the society.*
     The business done at the meetings during the first ten years, so far as the
 minutes show, was chiefly to perfect the organization and  increase the  num-
 ber of members.  The Treasurer's account  was always examined by a com-
 mittee, and was  always correct,  and the  society  wTas never without funds to>
 pay  the expenses of delegates to the State  Medical Society, who were  ap-
 pointed regularly every year, and who never failed to go and report.  There
 was also money enough to  pay for dinner and horse feed on the days of meet-
 ings.   Sometimes the bills  did not  exceed the sum of two or three dollars
 and  at the November meeting, 1832, in a paroxysm of generosity it was
     Resolved,  That at each stated meeting of the society, the tavern keeper
 shall be ensured a minimum consideration of five  dollars, and  that for this
 amount the funds of the society shall be responsible.
     If  this resolution could be now revived  with the consent of the " tavern
 keepers,"  our Treasury would suffer from a  plethora that  would call for ac-
tive depletion.
    All along the decade over which we are now passing, it is very evident
   *While this address was undergoing revision for the press Dr. Read died at his home in Mount
Holly, July 28th, 1879—aged 71 years. 
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 that in whatever other respects our predecessors may have differed, they were
 a positive unit in one  thing.  They meant to secure the co-operation of each
 other, in  counteracting if not in suppressing charlatanism.  The article of
 the constitution already referred to, the urgent call upon brother practitioners,
 and the publication of the  law on the subject, furnish abundant evidence of
 this.   There is one noteworthy instance of action in a special case,  which il-
 lustrates the tenacity with which the society adhered to its principles in this
 regard.
     There was a physician in the county, of considerable practice and local
 influence, who  was unscrupulous in his disregard of ethical  rules.   At  a
 meeting in  1832, his case was  considered, and a resolution  unanimously
 adopted, that no member of the society should  hold consultation with him
 on account of "ungentlemanly conduct in relation to his professional brethren,"
 and the secretary was directed to furnish  the offender with a copy of the
 resolution.  Further than this, they meant to  protect  other portions  of the
 State from his offences, and at the next meeting,  resolved to transmit a copy
 of  their action " to the several  Boards of  Censors in the State, and to the
 President of the State  Society."
     Quackery, as understood by this society, means all boastful pretentions to
 knowledge or skill that is not posseessd ; all undignified means  of attracting
 public attention or  securing business ; in fact, every departure from the line
 of professional probity.  Indeed the  mere pretender, with no stock  in hand,
 but ignorance and  presumption, who practices  upon  the  credulity of the
 people, is less blame-worthy, than the educated graduate who has passed, not
 only the technical curriculum of the  schools, but who, from association and
 habit of thought, has been reared and cultured in  the department of  ethics
 and good breeding, who stoops to dishonorable methods to promote his own
 agg ra nd izement.
     It may be that now is a fitting  time to revive and cultivate the noble
 sentiments of our predecessors in this respect.  With the advance of medical
science, its wonderfully increased  scope  of domain, its penetration  into the
 revelations of hitherto remote and allied sciences,  and especially its adven-
 tures into psychological research, have made it easy to separate and classify
 its departments, so  as  to  constitute what are known as distinct specialties,
 wherein lies the risk of which we are now  speaking.   One of the dangers of
 this new classification  is, that it is an open door to the most concealed and 
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dangerous  form of  empiricism.  There are distinguished specialists, who,
with an apparent innocence that is remarkable in men of such learning and
eminence, will take  our patients from us, if they can, without  scruple or
inquiry, and will ride scores of miles to confer with practitioners, with whom
our regulations  forbid  our holding consultation.  I have said that this is
done with apparent innocence of harm, but such gentlemen, however  exalted
their positions, cannot claim immunity from obligations which are recognized
as sacred ;  nor have  they  any right to  be blinded by a self-asserted  pre-
eminence that obscures their  moral vision,  and causes  them to stumble in
their professional walk.
     From  charlatanism, outside of the profession, we have nothing to fear.
It soon finds  its own  level, and the people who patronize it, in any of its
forms, are  alone responsible  for its influence upon  themselves and upon
society at large.  Whilst we cannot  affiliate with irregular practitioners, we
need enter  into no controversy with them ; but when they profess to practice
according to  a special law, and at the same time to  occupy our field, they
discredit and invalidate themselves.
     For example, we can  respect and honor a conscientious and intelligent
homoeopathist; but when he pretends to practice on the law that "like cures
like," and also upon the comprehensive basis of true medical  science, which
eschews and disdains all  exclusive dogmas, he displays an ignorance for
which he's  to be pitied, or  a lack of  principle for which he  is to be avoided.
     Let us continue to steer clear of these irregularities as our predecessors
did;  and let  us  educate  our  patients  in the truth that nature does  not
provide one  class of remedies  for  us, and  another for different schools  in
medicine.
     The rocks, the  earth, the vegetation, the animal life, with which  the
world has been blessed and adorned, are alike tributary to scientific researchr
and each yields its quota of medicinal product for the welfare of the race.
There is no remedy in  the whole domain of medicine that is  not  equally
available to all of us ; and when physicians of any name, be they ignorant
or learned, assume that such and such remedies belong exclusively to them-
selves, they assert  what the common  sense of the common people is beginning
to appreciate as a statement that has  no foundation in fact.  A decision of
the Supreme  Court  of New  York, some  time  since, is reported to be as
follows :  " Whoever offers to practice either  homoeopathy or allopathy, as 
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 his  patients  may wish, is practically  a quack  in  his  profession.   This is
 doubtless true, and applies equally to all who pretend to practice any system
 that may suit the whims of their patients ; and all  such persons,  whether
 they belong to our  school  of practice, or to any other, are unworthy mem-
 bers of the profession.
     In matters  that concern  the  public weal—such as temperate living,
 sanitary reform, the care of the poor and the insane—our society has always
 taken  an active part.
     As early as  1831 Dr.  William S. Coxe, of Burlington, introduced the
 following resolutions :—
     " Resolved, That we are convinced that the use of distilled  liquors as a
 drink  is always unnecessary to persons in good health, and injurious generally
 in proportion  to  the amount  consumed ; that  they increase the liability to
 disease, and render them less amenable to medical  treatment;  that  they are
 much  less frequently  indispensable  in  the practice of medicine than has
 heretofore been  supposed; and when  the necessity occurs,  it has,  in  a
 majority of cases, originated in a pre-existing habit of using them.
     "  Resolved, That we deem  it our duty to discountenance, by  precep't and
 example, the consumption  of ardent spirits by men in health, and to abstain
 from  their exhibition  as medicine, when  less  dangerous stimulants can be
 conveniently substituted, and may be expected  to prove equally  efficacious."
     This resolution was  considered so important—involving  such a wide
 scope of domestic and social habits, as well as of professional practice—that
 it was  laid over  for consideration for six months.  When the  society  met
 again,   however,  Dr. Cole offered  the  following resolution,  which  was
 adopted:—
    "  Resolved, That the propositions submitted by Dr. Coxe, at  the last
 meeting of this society, for  the consideration of its members, be adopted, and
 that we individually pledge ourselves to use  all  proper influence in the
 support and practice of temperate habits."
    The society  thus committed itself forty-eight  years  ago, on the great
 question which to-day,  more perhaps than  any other, occupies  the public
 mind.   It gave  utterance to  no uncertain or indifferent statement,  but
defined with distinct minuteness its position.
    It is a common impression among the people, that  medical men  as  a
class, are unfavorable to temperance.  This is not so.   I  doubt if there is a 
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medical society on the continent where the resolution  of Dr. Coxe would be
voted down.
     Alcohol is  recognized as an  essential  solvent in  the  departments of
Chemistry and  Pharmacy, and as a  useful therapeutic agent,  having its
proper place and function; but outside of its legitimate place, and used when
it should not be used, it is believed by medical men to be dangerous to health ■
and happiness.
     At this point, I am sure you will allow me to enrich my  narrative by
the mention of a few of the departed, who participated in these proceedings,
and whose eccentricities, or other qualities, made them somewhat conspicuous
in the communities where they labored.
     First—Rockefeller Dakin.  He was a singular character; I remem-
ber Dakin as a student. He came from Ohio  with  a  drove of cattle, and
entered the office of my father, as a green  and awkward  novice  to  study
medicine.  He was  exceedingly quaint, even grotesque  in  his personal  ap-
pearance,  and yet  his proficiency was remarkable, and he  was  soon re-
garded  as  a prodigy  for a first course student.   He did  not  however
immediately  disclose  the  fact, that  he  had  already  taken a course  of
private study in  his  native state,  which accounted for  his  unusual facility
in  acquiring elementary branches.   He  graduated  at  the University
of Pennsylvania in 1827, the subject of his thesis being " Vitality."   Imme-
diately after  graduating he settled in Columbus in this county, and true  to
himself,  and in  quite consistent  accord with his thesis, he did quite an exten-
sive practice in an agricultural district on foot.  A friend says of him " He
flourished about forty years ago, in brogans and saddle-bags strapped to his
back and used shanks mare in  preference to jackass  or  horse."  He joined
this society in 1830, and read before it, the first paper of which there is any
record, the title  of which is as follows : " On the application of similar medi-
cines to similar tissues,  be they located externally or internally."
     Unfortunately for those of us who are left, and for the medical literature
of the period, this paper has not  been preserved.   From its title, the suspi-
cion is allowable that it was more eccentric than orthodox.
     In striking  contrast with Dakin, was the polished and genial Jonathan
J. Spencer,  of Moorestown, a kind and good physician, and a public spirited
citizen.   He  was born in Moreland, Montgomery Co., Pa., in 1792, (Aug. 18),
studied medicine with Dr. Moore of Abington,  Pa., and took  his degree  of 
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historical address.
M. D. at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1813.  He at once joined  the
army as surgeon and remained with it in active service till the  close of the
war, known as the " war of 1812."  His health was impaired by his exposure
and he remained delicate for several years.  In 1817 he settled in  Moorestown,
as the successor of Dr. John Stokes,  and  enjoyed a fine practice, and a
large share of public esteem and confidence.
     In 1837 he went to Europe, and after his return,  did much less practice
than formerly.  He was at one time the Whig candidate for Congress.  In
1844 was delegate  to  the Constitutional Convention,  and in  1845 was pro-
posed as candidate for Governor, but he declined the nomination.  About
this time he was chosen one of the Judges of the Court  of Errors  and Ap-
peals, which office he held four years.   He was also one  of the  Directors of
the N. J. Lunatic Asylum and of the Bank at Camden.  In 1868 he died
aged 75 years.   He was President of this Society in 1834.
     John Stokes, who is here referred  to, died  before  this society was or-
ganized, being born 1764; graduating in 1786 ;  and deceased 1817.
     John H. Stokes, his son, was elected a member of this society in ----
but never signed the Constitution.  Born 1808,   Died 1872.
     Charles Ridgway, was a remarkable man, stout, short, slow of speech,
positive in opinion, and yet genial and firm in friendship.  He was born in
Burlington 1791, died  1871 ; he had one strong  peculiarity.  He felt it his
duty always to inform  his patients if he considered the disease dangerous or
fatal.  The warning or the doubt it was his province to foreshadow, as it was
to relieve or cure if possible.
     Edmund Lewis Dubarry, was  one of the early  members, graduated
at the University of Pennsylvania, 1822.  His birth place is unknown,  bur-
geon in U. S. Navy, settled in Bordentown ; was attending physician to Jo-
seph Bonaparte; moved  to Washington City  and remained till his death.
He translated a French  work by Guilluame Tell Poussin, entitled " The
United States, its Power and Progress."
     Charles Francis Lott, born in Princeton 1781, studied medicine with
Dr.  Moses Scott; graduated  in Philadelphia in 1805 ; settled in New Mills,
(now Pemberton) 1806 or 1807;  practised  medicine  there for thirty years;
Ass't Surgeon, with rank of Captain in  Major Reed's regiment, 1812.  His
practice extended to the furnaces in Speedwell, Hanover and Batsto, and to
the County  Almshouse.  Retired in 1835  and lived  in  Trenton.   In 1837 
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 went to St. Louis, where he practiced for several years and  returned to  the
 East, residing in Quakertown, Bucks Co., Pa., till his death.
     * James P. Coleman, was known to most of us.   He graduated in New
 York City and was elected a member of this society in 1836,  while a resident
 of Juliustown, but  soon afterwards removed to Trenton, where he remained
 till his death.
     While at Juliustown he composed and published a satirical poem, entitled
 " Number Six, or the Thompsonian conferring the degree of Steam Doctor
 on Sam  Simons, with practical advice."  This  was  intended to bring  into
 discredit  a notorious empiric, and  tradition tells us  that it  was so effectual
 as to cause his removal from the county.
     Dr.  Samuel C.  Thornton, Sr., was  known  to  some of  our elder
 members  as a laborious and faithful practitioner in Moorestown—the associate
 of Spencer and Stokes.  He came from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where
 he was born in 1791, having received his  medical degree from the University
 of Pennsylvania in  1816.  He resided in  Moorestown from 1818 till the time
 of his death  in  1858 and  was highly  esteemed  as a physician.  He was
 elected a member of this society, in 1848.
     Among  the  physicians who were  not members  of this society, but  yet
 were honorable licentiates of the State, may be mentioned the following:  Dr.
 Thomas  Page, who was born in this county in  1798, practiced at Cross
 Roads for a number of years; but  health failing he was  obliged to abandon
 active duty and confine himself to consulting practice.   He  was  a man of
 progressive character, adopting remedies years ago,  which were in advance of
 his time.   He died in 1876.
     Dr. Charles D. Patterson, the predecessor of our honored colleague
 Dr.  Goodell, of Plattsburg, (now Sykesville) was distinguished in his day as
 a man of scientific culture and practical skill. He  excelled as a surgeon, and
 was well supplied with the most approved surgical  instruments of his time.
 He was the son of Judge Patterson, of Monmouth County,  where he  was
 born, and  died at his home in this county  in 1839, aged 35 years.
     Charles Parry, brother to the Hon. Wm.  Parry, one of the Associate
 Judges of this county, was a student of Dr. John H.  Stokes,  and  graduated
at the University of Pennsylvania, in  1835.   He settled in Camden, where
 he remained for a short time,  and then removed  to  Columbus.  He was pro-
posed as a member of this society soon after settling in Columbus, but before
      •For Isaac read James, on page 10. 
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his name was brought forward for  election he removed again ; this time his
destination being Indianapolis,  Ind.   He  settled  there, grew up with that
thriving city, and took a prominent place in his profession.  He was distin-
guished as a surgeon, and was among the first, if not the first surgeon  west
of the Alleghenies to perform Barton's  operation for anchylosis of the knee-
joint.  An account of his operation was published  in  Hay's journal and
republished in Europe.   He also published in the  same journal an essay on
Pernicious Fever, which is referred to by Dr. Wood in his work on Practice,
and  otherwise  distinguished himself  as an  able  practitioner of medicine
and surgery.   He died in 1861, aged 48 years.
     The indisposition of the members at that time  to read essays or lectures
at the society meetings, seems to have  been even  more  decided  than at the
present time.   With  the  exception of the paper by  Dr.  Dakin, already
referred to, there were but two others during the first decade, and they were
by Dr. Cole, the President, on the " Importance of Medical Science," and by
Dr. Coxe, on " The  Treatment of Fever."
     The record of the meeting of May 2, 1837, is the last that was made by
our  honorable friend, the chairman of this meeting.  There were found in
the trunk however, loose minutes,  covering all the meetings to May 5, 1840,
making  an interval of three years.  At this meeting Dr. Z. Read acted as
secretary, there being but three members present, namely : Woolston, Strat-
ton, Jr., and the secretary.
     During this period, the records are so fragmentary, that nothing can be
gleaned from them  to throw any light upon the  nomination  or election of
members.  From May 1840  to  November 1846, there are no records pre-
 served, though it appears from those of a meeting held in November 1846, that
 meetings must have been held during the interum, as Dr. Parrish reported on
 behalf of a delegation previously appointed, that he had attended the State
 Society  meeting.   It also appears that the treasury was not only equal to the
 demands of the occasion, but was able  to honor an additional draft to meet a
 certain  new regulation concerning the expenses of the  Censprs.  At the
 organization of this meeting, the only  members present were Ellis, Stratton,
 Read and Parrish.   Delegates were appointed for the first time to the Amer-
 ican Medical Association, and Dr. Isaac S. Haines, who had been  previously
 proposed for membership, wes elected a member, and being  present, was at
 once enrolled.
     Thus commenced a new era in  our history.  The elder Stratton was 
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 enfeebled in health, Dr. Cole, was relaxing his  interest  in  the society, Dr.
 Ellis was contemplating retirement, and it devolved upon the few  younger
 men who were left in the ranks, to take the reins,  and guide  the  society in
 the  way of prosperity and usefulness.   From six or seven members in 1846,
 the  roll was increased during the next decade to thirty-four, and there was a
 corresponding evidence of  renewed zeal in professional  affairs  The society
 was now, by reason of its connection with the American Association, as well
 as by its relation to the State Society, a part of the organized profession of the
 entire continent, and under the  inspiration of this new  order of things, it
 renewed its work with  fresh earnestness and zeal.
     One of the first things it did was to direct the secretary to write to each
 of the township clerks of the  county, call his attention to the new registration
 law, and urge  a  compliance  with  its provisions.  Similar  action, in  this
 respect, was  subsequently  repeated, and the society may be  congratulated
 upon having contributed  by its persistency, to the final consummation of this
 act in its present improved and practical form.
     In 1848 the New Jersey Medical Reporter was originated  and  conducted
 by one of our members, as the first effort at Medical journalism in the State.
 It soon came into favorable  notice, its  subscription list  increased rapidly,
 and  on the recommendation of this society, the State Medical Society adopted
 it as the medium for publishing its transactions, and as an endorsement of its
 authority, furnished the imprint of its seal for the title page.   As you know,
 the  journal  is still in existence under a  modified title,  being published in
 Philadelphia, and is reported to have as a large a circulation, as any Medical
 Journal on the continent.
     In 1849, Dr. Zachariah Read offered a resolution  instructing the dele-
 gates to the State Society to request "said society to petition the Legislature
 of this State to pass a law requiring every vender of secret nostrums  or
 patent medicines to'place a label upon the  bottle or package  containing it,
stating its ingredients and their proportions in relation to each other, in  the
English language, and  to append such penalties  for  non-conformity,  as  the
importance of the subject may seem to require ;" and at  the  same meeting
Dr. Evans offered a resolution, further instructing the delegates to ask  the
State Society to call the attention of the legislature to a more  complete  sys-
tem of law in respect to public health, particularly regarding  vaccination.
     The progress that has since been  made in  these respects is worthy of 
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note.   Whether the Legislature ever seriously considered  the subject  of
patent nostrums, I do not know; but it is believed to be a fact that they are
not now used so freely as they were a quarter of a century since.  There are
fewer millionaires, who build palaces with the money gained by fraud,  and
damage to the race.  The health of the people is improved, the death  rate
lessened, and the longevity increased, as the  masses have become more in-
telligent in  respect to sanitary laws,  and  as  the  researches of  advanced
chemistry have revealed the ingredients of the compounds that have been
vaunted for  their all-healing properties.
     In 1849 Dr. Woolston presented for  inspection a  splint of  his own in-
vention, for  the treatment of fractures of the femur, and  a committee  was
appointed to examine into its merits.  At a subsequent meeting Dr. Wools-
ton read a letter from Dr. Stanley of London, approving the splint, and the
society adopted a resolution  recommending it to the notice of the profession.
     At the  spring meeting of 1852  the subject of  representation in the
American Medical  Association,  was  considered, and  the  society  declared
itself emphatically in favor  of county delegates, as a means of counteracting
the influence of schools and colleges in said Association, and transmitted a
copy of its resolutions, one of which is here  presented as indicative  of the
spirit of the movement.
     " Resolved, That we  heartily repudiate the distinction made between pro-
fessors and laymen ; that we will use our  influence to equalize the rights and
privileges of  all properly educated and recognized physicians."
     This was an important step at the time, as  some of you may remember,
for there was a  period in  the history of the American Association when there
was  danger  of its being controlled in the interest  of the  schools,  which
calamity has however been averted by  the action of the county societies
throughout the country.
     At the  same meeting the initial st<~p was taken to procure a  historical
record of the members of our society, by the appointment of a committee to
report a " chorographical and medical history of the county of Burlington."
Dr. B. H. Stratton was chairman of the committee, and all that appears af-
terwards on the subject is a report of progress.   His associates were  Read and
Haines.   Had  the important service to which they were appointed  been sys-
tematically  commenced,  I could have presented you with a  more interesting
and complete record to-day.
     At the  October meeting in 1853, an  important movement  was inaugu- 
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 rated to which attention is directed afresh, as applicable to the present  time.
 It related to the collection of fees for professional service,  and was laid over
 for three months for deliberation, and the secretary was instructed to notify
 every member, in order to secure a full  attendance.  At the next  meeting,
 there was a larger attendance than there had ever been before, fifteen  mem-
 bers  being present; and the following resolutions were freely discussed, and
 adopted.
      "Resolved,  That after the first of January, 1854, the  physicians of this
 county will consider their bills due  at the termination of each  individual
 case  of sickness,  and will present them at that time, or within one month."
      In addition to  this, it was revived  to publish this action of the  society,
 three times, in each of the county  papers.
      Gentlemen, this is a subject of equal moment to-day.  The medical men
 of Burlington county are proverbial  for their carelessness in respect to col-
 lecting bills for services.  It has always been so, and the result is, that the
 people have learned to be indifferent in this regard.  This is notably so with
 county and township officials.   They feel  themselves  at liberty  to tax the
 time  and skill of physicians, at their pleasure.   Coroners, in the execution of
 their official functions,  may find it  important to seek professional skill to de-
 termine causes of death.  Post-mortem dissections must be made, poison tests
 employed, and much valuable time expended  by  physicians,  adequate  com-
 pensation for  which, may be withheld, or not,  according  to the whim or ca-
 price of the officers.  Township  Committees  and  Chosen  Freeholders take
 upon themselves also, to determine  the value of medical services,  if they see
 fit.   Such was the case within the  last three years.   A  small-pox  epidemic
 occured in one part  of  the county,  and many  of the sufferers  were poor, and
 might have been removed to the hospital wards of the County House.  For
 fear of spreading the disease among the  inmates  of the  house, the  patients
 were  kept at their own homes, and faithfully attended to by local physicians,
 who to this day, have received  no compensation from the proper authorities.
 Had physicians declined to attend these  small-pox cases  in their own homes,
and refused to institute such methods of isolation,  and arrest of contagion, as
 best   they could, our county  might  have been overrun  with this loathsome
disease.   But  the genius of  our profession forbade any  such course, and our
 members were prompt and true to  the calls of suffering.  By their  efforts,
the spread of the disease was diminished, and many lives were saved, though
their own families were  exposed to danger and death.
    Public officials though  applied to, have declined to honor the claims 
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 physicians for attending upon these poor, and in a recent trial before the court,
 a member was refused due compensation for his invaluable services, by the
 estate of a person in good  pecuniary circumstances.  Gentlemen, this is  a
 reproach, not only to the county, but to ourselves.   We should  assert and
 maintain our true position and claim adequate compensation, as  a duty.  If
 we look over the list of heroic  men who have preceded  us as members of this
 society, and if we could count the number of  miles they have traveled, the
 risks to which they have been exposed by day and night,  the toils they  have
 endured ; and then turn to their descendants, and count the discomforts and
 embarrassments to which some of them have been exposed in their widowhood
 and orphanage, the  picture would not be flattering to the  custom which we
 have allowed to grow into an established rule.  Let us renew, or republish
 the resolution of 1854 and  adhere to it, and we shall be more esteemed in
 the community, and  more bound to each other.
    As an evidence  of the desire to maintain relations  of concord with the
 profession at large, the secretaiy was directed in 1854,  to invite members of
 all other county societies in the state, to attend the  ensuing  annual meeting,
 which was done, and several counties responded by sending visiting delegates.
    During  this period of revival in the society, the amount of work
 done was quite surprising, as compared with the years  previous.  Not  only
 were the subjects  which pertain to self-protection as  prominent as ever before,
 but the  meetings were made  interesting and instructive  by the discussion of
 medical subjects.  The first pathological specimen that was ever offered to
 the society, was a complete membrane, taken in  an autopsy from a child, who
 died of  pseudo-membranous croup ;  and this was the text for the first  really
 medical discussion that is reported.  This specimen,  I believe, is still preserv-
 ed in the museum of Jefferson Medical College.  The subjects discussed dur-
 ing this period were, Erysipelas,  Sympathetic  Uterine Affections,  Uterine
 Hemorrhage, Uterine Anaesthesia, Vaccination, re-Vaccination,  Low Diet,
 Puerperal Fever,  Functions of the Skin, Hysterical Mania, Congestive Fever
 Spasmodic Croup, Dysentery, Cholera, Paralysis, Salivation,  Remittent Fe-
 ver, Rupture of the  Uteris, Placenta Previa, Medullary Sarcoma, with speci-
men ;  Tuberculated  Liver  and  Stomach, with  specimen ; Schirrus  of the
Liver, Ossification of Semi-Lunar and Mitral valves, Ergot, Measles, Scarlet
 Fever, Contagion, Hydrothorax, and Lead Poisoning.
    In addition to these, which are noticed in the minutes, informal conversa- 
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tions on all medical subjects were always in order, and were  participated  in
freely by  most of the members.   One practical feature in the discussions is
worthy of note.  They  were mostly illustrated by  cases, and  the remarks
were the  result of careful clinical observations.   Country  physicians  are
supposed by some, to possess but little knowledge, and it is said that they have
a way  of skimming over the surface of things, of prescribing carelessly, and
of taking a general and superficial view of their cases.  Indeed, a distinguished
teacher recently  remarked, that country  doctors  had but  few books and
were poor students.
    If it were possible for me to bring out the discussions of this society, even
as they are imperfectly  recorded on the minutes, there would be an exhibition
of research and  skill in the  management of some  very  grave  disorders, of
which even public teachers need not be ashamed.  To speak  in praise of the
now living and active members, would not be in good taste; but could I reveal
the debates by Stratton, Read, Coleman, Haines, Butler and others, as they
discoursed upon the doctrine of contagion, for example ;  or as they revealed
the clinical discoveries that they had made in some anomalous forms of dis-
ease, or as they described surgical cases which had been  successfully  treated
by themselves, it would  be in pleasing  contrast with  the declaration just
referred to.
     The amount of surgical practice that is done, and well  done, by  physi-
cians in retired and even remote  rural districts, is very considerable.  It
does not appear in the journals, it is not exhibited in amphitheatres, or in
hospital wards, but it is nevertheless done successfully.
     The number of strange and unusual cases that occur in the practice of
many country physicians, is not always known to the exponents and teachers
of medicine in  cities, but they  are, nevertheless, studied, treated and cured,
under circumstances of embarrassment and difficulty, which would be consid-
ered serious complications in city practice, or in the wards of a hospital.
     During  the period  we  are now traversing, the first reporter for  this
county was appointed, and a series of questions agreed upon and circulated
among the  physicians of the county.   From  that date (1850) till now,  the
society has not been without a reporter, who, I believe, has made his  returns
to the  Standing Committee of the State Society  every  year.   The  present
incumbent of that important office has reason to  congratulate himself that
he fills the position with unusual  satisfaction, inasmuch  as  his own  prolific 
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brain supplies the deficiencies of his medical brethren, of whom he complains,
as not taking  sufficient interest in his  enquiries.   His complaints  are just,
and our omissions are  without  excuse.  We have no  right to withhold any
of our experiences, the publication of which would contribute to the  common
good.
     From 1856 to this time, there  is but  little on the  minutes, except the
usual routine business, and a much more extended record of cases, showing an
increased interest in the strictly scientific aspect of the profession.
     Here and there spicy hits at irregular practice are noticed, but most of the
time was occupied with papers and  discussions. • One, on the contagiousness
of scarlet fever, was  very interesting ; Stratton taking the view that it is not,
and Spencer  that it  is, contagious.  Surgical operations are  reported for
strangulated hernia, one  by Coleman and two by  Goodell;  and  one of
lateral operation for renal  calculus, by Coleman.
     The  change in  the  types of disease, and the  comparative  necessity for
bleeding and other antiphlogistic treatment, constituted a topic  for interest-
ing discussion at one of the meetings.  At another period, between 1863 and
1865, an  epidemic of  spotted or typhus fever, was  the occasion for much
research and  able, discussion.  The use of alcoholic  stimulants in cases of
syncope, or prostration following child-birth, was  discussed.  Dr.  Strattnn
disapproved of their use, preferring  other cardiac stimulants.   He  believed
alcohol overwhelmed the nerve centres and hindered reaction.
     A striking case of" cystic  ovarian tumor," of four years duration, under
the care of Elwell and Coleman, was reported, during which time over four
hogsheads of  water  had been  taken.  Townsend, and  Thornton, Jr., each
reported a case of uterine rupture, which elicited much discussion on the use
of anaesthetics in parturient cases; the opinion being in favor of their use.
     A remarkable case of abscess near the umbilicus was reported by Dr.
R. H.  Page, from  which were taken forty calculi ;  and by Dr. Goodell, a case
of stricture of the esophagus, which he was able to relieve.
     Interesting discussions were had on the differentiation between Apopletic
and hysterical convulsions in the  puerperal state, and on the use of chloro-
form  in puerperal  eclampsia,  which was  recommended.  But among the
most noticeable reports in the whole history  of the society  is  one  by  that'
popular family doctor, our worthy treasurer, who  presented the history of
three living children,  at  one birth,  each  a breech presentation, and  each 
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weighing four-and-a-half pounds, and all of them were living at the time the
report was made.
     I find myself lost in an attempt to do justice to the  records  of the last
years of the society.  They are full of practical suggestions, and give evidence
of deep research and wisdom.  To continue to select from  the  cases  that
have been reported, or to attempt a description of the pathological specimens
exhibited, would occupy more time than I dare claim.
     Suffice it to say, that, though of necessity, the minutes  are  incomplete,
they are a credit and honor to the profession of the county.
     At this point, we may pause a moment over the graves of Haines, Evans,
Coleman, Cook, Spencer, Ridgway, Butler, Heintzleman, Bryan,  Woolston,
and perhaps others ; and while we mourn them all, we can  only  tarry  long
enough to speak  of  the sudden  removal by accident of Heintzleman while
yet in his prime ; of Evans, the scholar and stateman, as well as physician, and
of  Issac P. Coleman, who  may  be aptly spoken  of, as one whom  we all
delighted to know, and  whose acumen as a physician, and virtues as a man,
we should all  do well to emulate.  He was brother to James already referred
to,  and after a short residence, at Juliustown, as  successor  to his  brother,
removed to Pemberton,  where he  remained  till his death. For the  benefit of
those who in after years may read these lines, I shall copy from  the marble
shaft which covers his remains in the cemetery at Mount Holly, the following
inscription :
     On one side of the monument are these words :—" The Medical Society
of Burlington County, N. J.,  with the family and friends of Dr.  Coleman,
erect this monument as a memorial  of the high professional standing and
social character of their late member and friend.
     On the other side, the following is  written :—" Issac Pearson  Coleman,
of Pemberton, N. J.   Died Nov. 4, 1869 in the 65th year of his age."
     " As for me I will  behold thy presence  in righteousness, and when  I
awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it."
     And now, after fifty years have passed away, and we stand by the graves
of these men, we should renew our pledges  of fraternity to  each other, and
our high obligation to the noblest and best of all  professions; noblest and
best, because without ostentation or display, it carries balm to the  wounded,
relief to the sick, and comfort to  the sorrowing.   This is our daily  task, and 
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to do it well, is to  do the noblest and  best thing  that  mortals  can do for
humanity.
     Hereafter, I shall speak of the labors, of living members in  the society,
as being done  by  the society itself, for we are now in a period when to refer
to each by name would be unbecoming, and perhaps invidious.
     The service done by the representatives of our society has been marked
by distinction.   In the domain of philanthropy it has always held its place.
As far back as 1831 it declared itself in favor of temperate living,, and thus
took its position on the side of sound morals in  this regard.  It  has several
times been represented in the Legislature of the State, and in one case, for
four consecutive years.   It was during this time that  the strongest speech
ever made in that  hall, in favor of a lunatic asylum, was made by Dr. J. W.
C. Evans ; and the passage of the bill at that time, was accredited to him by
general consent.
     The county has furnished  Philadelphia and Jefferson Medical College
With  one of its most eminent  professors—Dr. Joseph Pancoast—and the
society has furnished  four  presidents for  the  State Society, each of whom
acted  his part  well.   We have  been in Congress also, and if nothing else
may be said here of our Congressional record, it can  be said  with truth,
that it is not stained by corruption, or dishonored by fraud.
     The  condition  of  the  insane, in  poorly  kept departments of county
alms-houses, has occupied the attention of our society, and  a committee was
appointed to lay the  subject before the Chosen  Freeholders, with a  view to
the removal of the insane to Trenton ;  at least till  suitable accommodations
should be provided within the county.  This application—originating as it
did in the society—was approved by the Freeholders, and the necessary steps
taken to accomplish the  purpose ; at the same time the society  resolved  to
influence the Legislature, as far as it had influence in that direction, in favor
of extending  the  capacity  of the asylum  at Trenton, for the purpose  of
accommodating the additional  patients from the  counties.  It  is said that
the  first  proposition to  erect a State  Lunatic  Asylum, originated  in this
society, but there is  no record of such action having been taken.  If it was,
it doubtless occurred during the  six years of which  there is  no record of
meetings.
     Its influence  has also been felt in foreign lands in  connection with this
subject of insanity.  It has  penetrated the enclosures of the  Vatican  at 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
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Rome, and plead for  the insane of the Holy City, securing the appointment
by the Pope, of a medical commission  to enquire into alleged abuses of the
hospital, and resulting, not only in subsequent removal of said abuses, but in
the supply of many additional comforts to the inmates.
     During the late  war our society was found in many a hospital, and on
many a field of blood.  From  Washington, along the Atlantic Coast to the
Carolinas; on the Potomac and the James to Fredericksburg, City Point and
White House; in the west, at Look-Out Mountain, Chickamauga, Chattanooga
and JSashville ;  and finally at Gettysburg, as well as in hospitals at home, the
Burlington County Society was present; not in a hostile  attitude, but as the
messenger of consolation to the sick and wounded ; and its deeds were always
deeds of cheer and comfort.
     It supplied an active  element in the U. S. Sanitary  Commission, and
aided the government in its struggle for life,  more than will ever be known.
     It has been active in other departments of medical  philanthropy, as is
witnessed by a  law in this state, by which imbecile children are provided for
at public  expense in  an  institution  in Pennsylvania, that was resuscitated
and finally established, as one of the permanent charities of that Common-
wealth by  this society ; and is now  conducted by a son of Burlington, who
received his first professional impulse, and learned his first medical lessons in
this city.
     It  has established an institution for  the  cure of inebriates, which
has had remarkable success in this  new field of medical  research ;  and has
been summoned by the British  Government to appear as evidence before a
committee of its Parliament, in the interest of this grave and solemn subject,
the Parliament having passed a bill, which in its definition of  a " Habitual
Drunkard," and the provision made  for his custody and treatment, comports
with the testimony and counsel of the commission referred to.
     During the legislative term of  a now living member  of  the society, a
bill was introduced into our  State Legislature by  him,  and passed by his
influence, authorizing the establishment  of an  inebriate asylum  in  New
Jersey, which, however, was never consummated, because the state was not
prepared at that time  to render the necessary pecuniary aid.
    One thing  more it has done ; one of the last things and one of  the best.
Now, at the very close of  our first half century, we have commenced  work
again in the field of journalism ; not because our  first effort failed, for it has 
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 not.  It still  bears fruit in another soil, whither it  was transplanted years
 since; but now  the  Country Practitioner  begins.  Its first  number has just
 greeted us.  It is  a new seedling from a thriving  stock.  It was budded in
 the  genial mould of this society, and is  now a living fragrant plant.  Its
 fruit time is not yet, but it will soon come, if we stand by  our brother the
 editor and aid him in his work.  Its pages should be the medium for publishing
 the history of Burlington County  medicine for the  next half century ; and
 not an  honorable name nor a  worthy deed of our  profession  should fail of
 record.
     May the  Country Practitioner become a power for good  among us.
     And yet one more good  thing has  been done, which  I now have  the
 pleasure of exhibiting.   It has come into  my hands this very  day, and has
 not yet been generally  introduced to the  profession—as it soon will be.  It
 is the  " Adaptable Metric  Gauge,"  a neat little  instrument  for the accurate
 measurement of urethral, uterine, rectal and other instruments.  It has been
 devised by an  honorary  member*, whose name it bears, and who has permitted
 me to present  it to you for inspection, with the  promise that each member
 shall be presented with it.   As it will soon become known to you and to the
 profession, I shall not describe it.
     Now, gentlemen, I  have finished the  imperfect  record  of the doings of
 our society.   Had I attempted to tabulate from the  minutes of the one hun-
 dred and forty meetings that have been held, anything like a full report, my
address would have been extended  far beyond suitable limits ; and  yet I
 must  say  that  such a tabulation of medical subjects  discussed, and  of
 opinions expressed, would have been highly creditable  to the profession.
     Our duty now is to appreciate the demands of the age in which we are
 living, and to  prepare ourselves to  meet  the questions that are certain  to
arise in the course of medical enquiry.   One to which allusion has just been
made, viz: the treatment of inebriety as a disease, will soon  be  of absorbing
interest to every physician who keeps pace with the discoveries and advanced
views of medical science.  It must  be met, as other questions  of pathology
and therapeutics are met.  We mu|fc study them at home, in the quiet of our
own  retirement, and with regard to  the increased and absorbing demands of
our civilization in this respect.
     Insanity has been  referred to,  and idiocy.  These  are grave subjects
       ♦Charles H. Thomas, M. D„ of Philadelphia, 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
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about  which  but little—very little—is  known.   They  have been  left to
specialists and experts, but we meet them constantly in our private practice,
and as citizens are taxed in their behalf.  As political economists, as  well as
physicians, we must accept and master these subjects.  Before the centennial
anniversary of this society shall  be held, there will be a strange revolution
in both public and professional opinion  about them.   Our large and costly
asylums of which we are  now  so  proud, will  have had their day, and more
rational and successful modes of treatment will  have been adopted, as the
product of the patient and silent ministries of our profession.
    The science of law, and the science of medicine, are discovering affinities
toward each other which have  not been appreciated before; and the relation
between crime and  cerebral  pathology, will claim more  of the attention of
jurists and physicians than it has hitherto  done.   There should be in every
judicial district in  the commonwealth, a  medico-legal society, composed of
competent jurists and physicians, whose joint researches into penology and
pathology would doubtless result in a wiser jurisprudence, than that which
controls the courts of law in  this day.
    Now is not the time to enlarge upon the  subject, but the field  is  wide
and the harvest rich in this department of medico-legal enquiry.
    Let me say to our visiting delegates from other counties of New  Jersey,
that from this time onward, we should all  renew  our interest in historical
researches.
    The recent publication of  our State Historian, Dr. Wickes, has given us
the clue  to  the  medical  history  of the  centuries  preceding  this,  and  we
should not accept a member  in any county society  hereafter, who does  not
at the time of his admission attach to his signature the  date and place of
his birth, his medical instructor, the school at which he graduated, the title
of his thesis, the date of his  graduation, residence,  etc.,  and he should  be
followed in his history from year to year, so long as  this  life shall  last.   So
also  should every older member, go back in his record to its  beginning, and
thus bring up from the year 1800, as complete a history  as Dr. Wickes, has
furnished  of the long and darker years previous to that time.
    A word to Philadelphia and  the adjacent parts  of Pennsylvania..  More
than two hundred years ago, ships from foreign lands were anchored in our
harbor at this place, and the port of entry  at old  Burlington was the first
commercial centre of this region of the new world. Philadelphia was not known
\ 
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HISTORICAL ADDRESS,
 or thought of.   Burlington had an existence, however, and also its  eminent
 physician, Dr. Daniel Wills, who came in the good ship Kent, with the first
 settlers.   He was the father of medicine in this county, and when a few years
 after, the little town of brotherly love arose as our first suburb, the old doctor
 extended his visits to that young community, and van. entry in his journal
 notes the fact that during one of his visits he purchased there a leathern apron.
 If you could see his journal as  I have seen it, with his unique prescriptions,
 and could examine his herbarium, amputating saw, and  suture needles, all
 of which I had hoped to be able to exhibit on this occasion, you would pro-
 bably reach the conclusion  that the apron was an  operating apron, to be
 brought  into requisition with his huge  saw, and other appliances.
     To-day Philadelphia and Pennsylvania come to us  in  the persons  of
 some of their honored physicians, not  with leather aprons and amputating
 saws, but with words and deeds of fraternal greeting.
     Philadelphia was  at first our  little suburb, looking to us for aid.  Now
 she is our metropolis, and her medical  men and schools, do us, as well as her-
 self, honor.   Philadelphians, you  are  welcomed by our society, and by this
 attractive audience  of our citizens, not  only as one  with us, but one of us.
     Finally, I must acknowledge to you with whom  I am associated in this
 society, my thanks for your kindly aid in furnishing much of the material
 for this record.   It would have been impossible without.it, to have introduced
 anything like a history of the worthy  physicians  who  have lived  in our
 county, in this address; but I invoke your  further aid in  the completion of
 the Historical Archives in  which shall be placed, if possible, a brief notice
 of every physician in good standing,  who  during the last  fifty years, has
 been a practitioner in the county, with a view of continuing it in all coming
 time.   Then future historians, whoever they may be, shall have but little to
 do, but to chronicle under the name of each member, the noteworthy acts of his
 life, and, as the turn of each comes along, to mark  the dark necrological line
 where it  may be required, and when the  century  shall be rounded out, and
 most, if not all of us, shall  have gone to sleep for the last time, this historical
 book shall be the heirloom of the society, and  will be cherished in memory
of the men who have made  it historic.
                           ------tot------
    At the close of the Historical Address, Dr. Franklin  Gauntt  advanced
to the plattorm, holding in his hands a handsomely  engrossed and framed
certificate, which he presented to Dr. Ellis, with the following remarks: 
PRESENTATION ADDRESS.
31
    Mr. President :—I have the honor of being chosen by my confreres to
present to you this proof of their appreciation and esteem.  In the discharge
of this very pleasant duty, and in behalf of the District Medical  Society of
Burlington County, I return thanks to the citizens  who have so kindly
favored us with their presence on this occasion, and to the numerous visitors
from distant towns, both laymen and doctors who have thus honored us. We
indulge the hope that  not one of our guests or visitors to this historic old city
will have any cause  to  say,  "Is  there  no  balm  in Gilead?" is there  no
physician there ?
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BURLINGTON, N. J., JUNE 17, 1879. 
32          DELEGATES,  INVITED GUESTS AND MEMBERS.
     To this Dr. Ellis responded in feeling terms, congratulating the  So-
ciety, not only upon its growth and usefulness, and  wishing it abundant suc-
cess for the future, but upon  the high  personal  character  of its  members,
most of whom he had known; and he also gave expression  to  his  sense  of
gratitude for the preservation of his own life and health for  so many  years,
and that he was thus enabled to join in the ceremonies of this uccason.
     At the conclusion of Dr. Ellis' response short congratulatory  addresses
were made by the President of the State Society, delegates from  correspond-
ing societies and invited guests.  After  adjournment, the society conducted
its guests to Beldin's Hotel, where it maintained its ancient reputation in pro-
viding for their physical wants.  After dinner happy speeches were  made by
J. L.N. Stratton, Esq., andG. S. Cannon, Esq., on behalf of the legal fraternity.
The following is a list of delegates, invited guests and members present:
  DELEGATES.         COUNTY.
Dr. A. W. Rogers,     Passaic.
    (Pres. State Med. Society.)
H. A. Hopper,
E. B. Silver,
G. H. Larison,
H. G. Cooke,
W. A. Newell,
W. A. Newell, Jr.,
H. W. Coleman,
I. W. Condit,
C. Y. Swan,
B. R. Bate.nian,
Wm. Elmer,
R. L. Disbrow,
D. P. Pancoast,
J. V. Schenck,
H. G. Taylor,
 Bergen.
 Union.
 Hunterdon.
 Monmouth.

 Mercer.
    u
 Morris.

Cumberland.

 Ocean.
 Camden.
          INVITED GUESTS.
Dr. Wm. Goodell,     Philadelphia.
 "  Chas. H. Thomas,
 "  J. H. Packard,
 "  Wm. B. Atkinson,
 "  Wm. Hunt,
 "  Wm. B. Ulrich,    Chester, Pa.
 "  Jos. W. Taylor,   Burlington.
Gen. Gersham Mott,  Trenton.
Col. Loder,               "
G. S. Cannon, Esq.,   Borden town.
J. L. N. Stratton, Esq., Mount Holly.
A. S. White,
D. L. Woolman,       Vincentown.
Col. J. K. Haffey,     Beverly.
  BURLINGTON COUNTY MEMBERS.
Dr. Chas. Ellis,        Burlington.
 "  J. Howard Pugh,
 "  Franklin Gauntt,       "
Dr. Joseph Parrish,
 "  L. Van Rensselaer,
 "  Wm. E. Hall,
 "  H. H. Longstreet,
 "  I. D. Young,
 "  L. Jamison
 "  R. H. Page,
 "  D. G. Van Mater,
 "  A. W. Taylor,
 "  E. P. Townsend,
 "  S. C. Thornton,
 "  N. Newlin Stokes,
 "  A. E. Budd,
 "  Wm. C. Parry,
 "  R.E.Brown,
 "  F. Ashurst,
 "  A. Elwell,
 "  Geo. Goodell,
 "  J. Reeve,
 "  Theo. T. Price,
 "  E. Hollingshead
BURLINGTON COUNTY PHY
          YET MEMBERS
Dr. I. Grigg,
 "  U. P. Melcher,
 "  E.D.Maine,
 "  Amos Shaw,
 "  E. B. Woolston,
Burlington.
Bordentown.
Columbus.
 Beverly.
     u

 Moorestown.

Mount Holly.
Vincentown.
Sykesville.
Medford.
Tuckerton.
Pemberton.
  <ICIANS NOT

 Pemberton.
     «
 Plattsburg.
 Jacobstown.
 Marlton.
       PRESS REPRESENTED.
Med. and Surgical Rep.   Philada.
Country Practitioner,
Evening Bulletin,
Gazette,
Enterprise,
Banner,
Herald,
Beverly.
Philada.
Burlington.

Beverly.
Mt. Holly. 
ROLL OF MEMBERS.
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                COMPLETE ROLL OF  MEMBERS.

    Those marked with a * were elected members but did not sign the con-
stitution.  Those marked with a f resigned.
ELECTED.
  1829    Nathan W. Cde.
          John Leake Stratton.
          Charles Ellis.
          John Cox Davis.
          Benjamin H. Stratton.
  1830    William S. Coxe.
          Asahel C. Page.
          Rockefeller Dakin.
         *Hugh H.  Higbee.
          S-unuel  Woolston.
          Charh s Ridgway.
         *John H. Stokes.
          Jonathan J. Spencer.
          John Chapman.
          Edmund L. Dubarry.
  1833   ^Charles F. Lott.
          James P. Coleman.
          Zachariah Read.
  1886   Mohn Per.lue,
         "Alexander Brown.
  1844    Joseph Pan-ish.
  1845    I.-aae S. Haines.
          Andrew E. Budd.
  1847   *George S. Duer.
          Job Haines.
          Franklin Gauntt.
  1848   *Sarnuel C. Thornton.
         *John H. Stokes.
         * Joseph H. Cook.
          H. H. Longstreet.
         J. W. C. Evans.
         Aaron Reid.
         Isaac P. Coleman.
         Alexander Elwell.
         George Haines.
         Isaiah S. Reeves.
 1850    David B. Trimble.
         Edwin A. Heintzleman.
         William S. Challis.
 1851    Irene D. Young.
         Samuel W. Butler.
         R. H. Page.
 1853    William  L. Martin.
        *W. H. Worthington.
  "      William  Bryan.
ELECTED.
  1853
  1854
         James J. Wright.
         Samuel C. Thornton, Jr.
         George Goodell.
         E. R. Den by.
         J. Howard Pugh.
        *T. E. Waller.
         E. B. Woolston.
        *L. Bailey.
         WilliamCook.
         T. T. Price.
        * James Bean.
 1855    William Cook.
 1856   *S. D. Harvey.
 1858    N. Newlin Stokes.
         Joseph  Warrington.
         Geo. S. Shively.
 1860    Eugene Schum.o.
         Abner Woodward.
 1864    Ellis P. Townsend.
         Lewis P. Jemison.
 1866   *William Woolsev.
         F. B. Lippincott.
         John W. Webb.
 1867    Richard E. Brown.
         Lewis L. Sharp.
 1868    Enoch Hollingehead.
         David B.  Vanslyke.
 1869    Alfred C. Stokes.
         Jos. H.  Horner.
 1870   *S. B. Irwin.
         John H. Firman.
 1872    A. W. Taylor
         Phineas K. W.  Hilliard.
  "      Ledyard Van Rensselaer.
 1878    Stanley G. Clark.
         Charles A. Baker.
         Isaiah Reeves.
 1876     D. G. Van Mater.
         W. C. Parry.
        A. H. Paterson.
       +H. M. Harvey.
1878     William H. Shipps
         Walter E. Hall.
1879     Frank Ashurst. 
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NAMES OF PHYSICIANS.
Names (	>f physicians practising in the	county previous to lozy, as tar
can be found		
1677	Daniel Wills, John Gosling,	Burlington,
1683	Robert Dimsdale,	Mount Holly.
1699	Francois Gaudonet,	Burlington.
1709	Samuel Marmion,	u
1723	Joseph Brown,	Bordentown.
1724	John Rodman,	Burlington.
1745	Dr. Baker,	Tuckerton.
"	Thomas Shaw,	Burlington.
1752	Alexander Ross,	Burlington and Mount Holly,
1755	Alexander Moore,	Bordentown.
1761	Stacy Budd,	Mount Holly.
1765	Ralph Assherton,	Nottingham Township.
1766	John Ross,	Mount Holly.
1772	Jonathan Smith,	Burlington.
1777	Daniel Bancroft,	n
1783	John Brognard,	Burlington and Columbus.
1784	Daniel De Benneville,	Moorestown.
1786	Samuel Treat,	Burlington.
U	John H. Stokes,	Moorestown.
i	Edward Taylor,	Pemberton.
1787	Daniel Greenman,	Burlington.
K	Lewis Morgan,	t<
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1792	Benj. Say Budd,	Mount Holly.
1793	Wm. Mcllvaine,	Burlington.
1795	Edward Shippin,	u
1796	John Blackwood,	Mount Holly.
1797	Ephraim Standish Sawyer,	Tuckerton.
1800	Samuel Tucker,	Burlington.
1803	Francis Brognard,	Columbus.
"	Lewis Morgan,	Burlington.
1811'	Wm. K. Mason,	Tuckerton.
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