history.
."/The Addison County Medical Society " was re-organized by a
convention held at '^"ergenne3 on the 30th day of June 1842,
adjourned from a preliminary meeting held at ^liddlebury two
weeks before. A new Constitution was then formed, by which the
o])ject of the organization is declared to be, " to promote a knowledge
of medical and surgical science, and a friendly intercourse among
the members of the facult^y." The officers of the Society are '"a
President, Vice President, Se«retary, Treasurer, Librarian, and
three Censors, together with the President and Vice President, who
ishall be c.v-ojicio Censors," and they arc elected annnaliy. "Any
regular practicioner of medicine, a graduate of any legally author-
ized medical institution, who resides within the State, and shall
sign the constitution and by-laws, and conform to the objects de-
bigucd, may be a member of thesociety : and any person, who sus-
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tains a good moral cliaractor may become a mcmbeVj who shall
have studied the science of medicine and surgery three years under
the direction of a regular practicioner, and attended at least one
cpurse of medical lectures, in some legally established institution,
and has passed an examination by the censors, and by them recom-
mended." Any person having passed such satisfactory examination
'■'may become a member by signing the constitution and by-
laws, and receive, if he wish, a diploma by paying five dollars."
According to the by-laws, meetings arc to be held " at Middlebury
semi-annually, on Thursday of the first week of the County Court."
The fii'st meeting was held on the day on w hich the Constitution
was adopted, and Dr. J. A. Allen of Middlebury,