The centennial celebration of the Hartford County Medical Association, Hartford, Conn., September 26th, 1892.

Date:
1893
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Credit: The centennial celebration of the Hartford County Medical Association, Hartford, Conn., September 26th, 1892. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the next day his jiatient was better, hut the same remedies were re])eated with henelieial residts, ‘and tin's afternoon,' said the doctor, ‘ 1 expeet to find him out of all danger.' Soon alter a rap at the door announced a messenger, who came to say that Dr. bacon need not go to West FDirtford, as his ])atient was dead. Dr. Sumner, in his reminiscences of physicians in Hartford in lS'-20, says of Dr. bacon, that he was always considered 1)\- his friends, and 1 think justly, a strong-minded, shar])-witted man ; but his intellectual powers were not highly cultivated, nor was his wit entirely free from coarseness. He was fond of a joke. He met the Re\'. Dr. Strong one morning at the mar- ket, and tor the sake ot sport gravely inipiired why people calleil a baked hog's head the “minister's face.'' “For the same reason, replied the minister, “that they call the other end bacon. 'I'he laugh of the bystanders, it is said, was not in our doctor's favor. He died in 18o!», aged T-'3. In looking about this county of Hartford for some me- morial or tangilile evidence of the works of men not here now who have labored in this association to ameliorate the ills and infirmities ot human life, we find such noble institutions as the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, the Retreat for the Insane, the Hartford Hospital, the Old People's Home, etc. I have already referred to Dr. Mason F. Cogswell, who estab- lished the first named of these institutions, and now I come to Dr. Fdi 'I'odd ; to whom more than to any one else we are indebted for the Retreat for the Insane in this city, the secontl or third one established in this country. Dr. Cogswell had obtained some statistics through the Ceneral Association of Ministers in ISl-I concerning the num- ber of insane in the State and how they were siqiported. This was not very satisfactory, as only 1-Ki were re|)orted “as in different degrees de])ri\ ed of reason. The matter rested until the sjiring meeting (.April 10) of IS’-il of our association, when the matter was discussed and a resolution passed “that delegates of this county be re-