Chap. 8. 



EDUCATION AND LITERATURE. 



167 



ALUMNI AND HONORARY GRADUATES. 



MEDICAI, SO"^CIETIES. 



William B. Hatch 

 Cassander F. Ide 

 George F. Ingalls 

 Sylvester Mason 

 Peter S. Smith 

 S. Horace Smith 

 Sam'l VV. Thayer, Jr 

 Magloire Turcot 

 Henry L. Watson 

 Waldo C. Williams 

 J.W.Woodburn. IS 



HONORARY. 



Theophilus Clark 

 William Bridgman 

 George W. Darling 



1830. 

 Josiah P. Barber 

 James C. Briggs 

 Milo L. Burnham 

 W. W. Carpenter 

 Jolin M. Currier 

 William O. Fisk 

 James Fulton 

 Charles B.Holbrook 

 Joseph Knowles 

 John W. Miles 

 Lewis Morrill 

 James R. Morse 

 Joseph B. Murray 

 Cyrus Porter 

 Edward Vail. 15 



HONORARY. 



Ptolemy Edson 

 Timothy J. Gridley 

 Otis Jenks 

 Joseph Morrin 



1840. 

 John W. Barney 

 Asa Bigelow 

 Joiin C. Bolles 

 Josiah H. Grenell 

 Benjamin F. Grosh 



Alfred Guillou 

 Nathan B. Chase 

 Lewis Clarke 

 John A. Cummings 

 Horace Douglass 

 Adolphe Dugas 

 Rollin Eaton 

 Erastus N. Foote 

 Lenora Foster 

 Daniel J. Hoyt 

 Isaac B. Marshall 

 Lawton C. Slye 

 James M. Stickney 

 Hugh Tagert 

 M. G. J.Tukesbury 

 Charles M. Tuttle 

 Wm. W. Van Buren 

 Jos. E. Warren. 23 



HONORARY. 



Samuel S. Butler 

 Caleb N. Butler 

 Oilman Kimball 

 Samuel St. John 



1841. 

 Abiathar W. Annis 

 J. C. Butler 

 Lathrop R. Charter 

 Chas. D. Cleveland 

 Daniel A. Dorman 

 Jacob G. Elliot 

 Leland J. Graves 

 Ch"ncey B.Goodrich 

 Sylvanus H. Haynes 

 George A. Hinman 

 Osman L. Huntley 

 John Ives 

 Joseph D. Mansfield 

 Jajues M. Nye 

 Joseph H. Streeter 

 Isaac Tabor, Jr. 

 Orville Terry 17 



Whole number of Alumni, 207 



•' " of Honorary graduates 16 



Section VII. 

 Medical Societies. 



The first incorporated medical society 

 in Vermont was organized on the 19th of 

 August, 1784, and consisted of most of 

 the physicians residing in the counties of 

 Bennington and Rutland. The act of in- 

 corporation was dated October 25, 1784, 

 and its corporate name, " The First Med- 

 ical Society in Vermont." The next 

 medical society was formed in Windham 

 count}r, in 1704, and incorporated on the 

 21st of October of that year, by the name 

 of "The Second Medical Society in Ver- 

 mont." On the Cth of February, 1804, 



another society was incorporated, in the 

 county of Franklin, denominated " The 

 Third Medical Society in Vermont," and 

 on the 27th of October, 1812, a county 

 medical society was incorporated in the 

 county of Windsor; but no state society 

 was formed till the year 1813. 



On the 6th of November of this year, 

 an act was passed, declared, in its ])re- 

 amble, to be for "the improvement of the 

 tlieory and practice of the different branch- 

 es of the healing art." This act author- 

 ized the physicians in the several counties 

 to form themselves into county societies, 

 conferring upon them, when thus formed, 

 corporate powers. It also established a 

 general society, to be composed of three 

 members from each county society to be 

 chosen by ballot, and declared these, 

 when duly organized by the choice of a 

 president and other officers, to be a cor- 

 porate body, by the name of " The Ver- 

 mont Medical Society."' 



Under the provisions of this act, which 

 subsequently experienced some modifica- 

 tion, several count}' societies and a state 

 society were organized. These societies 

 were sustained, for several years, with 

 considerable spirit and ability, and exert- 

 ed a favorable influence throughout the 

 state, in correcting the evils and eleva- 

 ting the practice and standard of the med- 

 ical profession. But at length the atten- 

 tion of many of the leading physicians in 

 this state was diverted from the interests 

 of the medical societies to the establish- 

 ment of schools for medical lectures, in 

 consequence of which the societies lan- 

 guished ; and, for several years previous 

 to 1841, the state medical society hardly 

 had a name to live. 



This state of things was deeply lament- 

 ed by many of our first medical men, and 

 through their exertions during the early 

 part of this year, the attention of the med- 

 ical faculty was pretty extensively awa- 

 kened to the subject of resuscitating tlie 

 Vermont Medical Society ; in conse- 

 quence of which, on the 15th of October, 

 1841, the day of the annual meeting 

 of the society, members from different 

 parts of the state assembled at the state 

 house in Montpelier, and, after partially 

 remodeling their constitution, and giving 

 to the society a more efficient organiza- 

 tion, elected the following officerslfor the 

 ensuing year: John Burnell, President; 

 James Spalding, Vice President; Z. P. 

 Burnham, Recording Secretary; Joseph 

 Perkins, Corresponding Sccrcturii ; Wal- 

 ter Burnham, Treasurer ; Edward Lamb, 

 John Fox, H. H. Miles, Seth Cole, Chas. 



Hall, — Redfield, E. Alexander, J. 



A.Allen, Frederick Story, Melvin Barnes, 



