National Eclectic Medical Association quarterly . t Dr. G. D. Hewitt,of Carthage, and Dr. Baker have answered the last summons. Outside of district school training he attended the Evans Mills Academyand the Jefferson County Institute. He was really country born and bred,having in early boyhood lived on a farm. The time in which he livedselect schools were common and an uncle being a noted teacher, he washighly favored by attending his classes. He attended two terms of theSyracuse Medical College, graduated and was valedictorian of his class>.At a regular meeting of the trustees of this coll


National Eclectic Medical Association quarterly . t Dr. G. D. Hewitt,of Carthage, and Dr. Baker have answered the last summons. Outside of district school training he attended the Evans Mills Academyand the Jefferson County Institute. He was really country born and bred,having in early boyhood lived on a farm. The time in which he livedselect schools were common and an uncle being a noted teacher, he washighly favored by attending his classes. He attended two terms of theSyracuse Medical College, graduated and was valedictorian of his class>.At a regular meeting of the trustees of this college he was given thechair of Theory and Practice of Medicine and served in that capacity twoyears. He also attended the Eclectic Medical College of New York Cityin 1872-73 at which time he also served as a member of the faculty. In1884 and 1885, the Florida University, which had not been operated duringthe Civil War, was reorganized with a full faculty of teachers, he beingappointed to the chair of Practice of Medicine and Medical Clinics, which. VINCENT A. BAKEE, EDITORIAL. 73 he held three years, his services ceasing on the removal of the medicaldepartment to Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Baker is a charter member of the National Eclectic Medical Asso-ciation and has donated his entire set of volumes of the N. E. M. A. tothe library of Carthage, N. Y. At the meeting held at Niagara Falls, N. Y.,he was elected to occupy the chair to be made operative at the 25th annualmeeting to be held at Waukesha, Wis., June 18, 19, 20, 1895. The publicaddress was delivered in the evening of June 18, by the writer, who waspresident for that year. The Michigan State Eclectic Medical Society was organized early inthe sixties and experienced a wonderful growth but was made up largelyof the dregs of the society, finally necessitating reorganization which wasdone. No applicants were eligible to membership except they pass anexamination of censors. The preliminaries to a renewed membership being


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