Cartledge, of Louisville. The simple mention of the names of these distinguished gentlemen is sufficient guarantee of what awaits those who are fortunate enough to hear them. PLACE OF MEETING. The general sessions and the meetings of the surgical session will be held at the Gayoso Hotel. The medical section will hold its sessions at the Peabody Hotel, and the exhibit hall will also be located at the Peabody. ENTERTAINMENT. The general arrangements are in the hands of Dr. Jno. L. Jelks, and an able corps of associates. The ladies who accompany the members will be nicely cared for by the ladies' committee under the chairmanship of Mrs. B. F. Turner. A reception will be given on the first afternoon at the 19th Century Club, and a trolley ride and luncheon at Raleigh Inn on the second morning. A reception and ball will be tendered the association on the first evening at the Gayoso Hotel. On the second evening the members will be treated to an old-time Southern barbecue at East End Park. RAILROAD RATES. Railroads have granted a rate of one and one-third fare for the round. trip. Members should take receipt from railroad agent when purchasing ticket. The Frisco System from Kansas City and the Burlington, in connection, with their superb train appointment and equipment, offer splendid service for this meeting, and we urge our readers who contemplate attending the meeting to make reservation of berths at once. Those desir. ing to join the party from the northwest, should address Dr. Chas. Wood Fassett, St. Joseph, Mo., at once, stating how many berths in sleeper will be required. THE PRESIDENT. Dr. Edwin Walker was born in Evansville, May 6, 1853, his parents. having settled there in 1822. Dr. Walker received his early education in the public schools, graduating from the Evansville High School in 1869, and receiving the degree of Ph. D. at Hanover College in 1874; he entered at once into active practice, lecturing on anatomy in his Alma Mater for nine years. Dr. Walker was graduated from the University at New York City in 1879, and during this time studied under Dr. Edwin C. Sequin, taking the Wm. Hammond prize for proficiency in nervous diseases. After returning from a year's study in Europe, Dr. Walker took up gynecology and surgery as a specialty, founding the Evansville Sanitarium in 1894. Dr. Walker brought the first trained nurse to Evansville in 1887, founding a training school for nurses in connection with the city hospital, and later transfering it to the sanitarium. This is the first school of nurses to introduce the study of literature into its curriculum. Dr. Walker is a member of the American Medical Association and a number of other scientific bodies, and was president of the Indiana State Society in 1891. His contributions to literature have been numerous, the most important of which are those relating to the dry method of dressing in surgery, of which method he is an ardent advocate. Dr. Walker is loyal to his profession, and is possessed of a genial nature that has won for him many friends. He will make a dignified presiding officer. The HERALD was fortunate in securing an excellent portrait of Dr. Walker, which appears in this issue. DR. JAMES F. HIBBERD, One of the organizers and early presidents of the Mississippi Valley Association, died at his home in Richmond, Indiana, on September 8th. Dr. Hibberd was born at Monrovia, Md., on November 4, 1816, and after being graduated from Yale University, began the practice of medicine August 14, 1840. Dr. Hibberd was an honorable gentleman of the old school, bearing the love and respect of every one who knew him. He was honored with the highest gift in the medical profession, the presidency of the American Medical Association, in 1894. He was president of the Mississippi Valley Society when it was known as the Tri-State, in 1878. We are indebted to the Journal of the American Medical Association for the excellent portrait of Dr. Hibberd, which graces the front cover of this issue. DR. ISAAC NEWTON LOVE was born in Barry, Pike county, Illinois, in 1850: and was graduated from the St. Louis Medical College in March, 1872. Dr. Love was one of the best known medical men in the United States, and was blest with a happy, cheerful disposition and a generous, sympathetic heart, that beat true to the medical profession and to his friends. Dr. Love was especially fond of the Mississippi Valley Association, and he often declared it was his favorite society. He rarely missed one of its meetings. Dr. Love died very suddenly on board the steamer Aurania, as it was approaching the New York harbor, July 18, 1903. While making one of his characteristic speeches, in the midst of his admiring fellow-passengers, his eloquent tongue was touched by the sceptre of death. The chief of the Chutmucks has gone to his eternal reward. He has left a vacant chair. As Dr. Geo. F. Butler has expressed so beautifully in his tribute to Dr. Love: "The realm of death has never been enriched by a man more sympathetic, more loving or more charitable. He possessed the genius of friendship and of kindness, and spanned with loving sympathy the abyss that separates the weak from the strong. He looked through pitying eyes upon the sorrows of mankind, knowing only too well the scorching grief that stifles many a heart, the shadows that fall on many a life, and his great responsive soul was touched by the pathos of human experience " Dr. Love was president of this association in 1887, the meeting being held at Crab Orchard Springs, Ky. He leaves a widow and two children, Hodgen and Delphine. |