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Society Meetings for the Coming Week: MONDAY, October 3rd.-New York Academy of Sciences (Section in Biology); German Medical Society of the City of New York; Morrisania Medical Society, New York (private); Brooklyn Anatomical and Surgical Society (private); Corning, N. Y., Academy of Medicine; Utica, N. Y., Medical Library Association; Boston Society for Medical Observation; St. Albans, Vt., Medical Association; Providence, R. I., Medical Association; Hartford, Conn.; Medical Society; South Pittsburgh, Pa., Medical Society; Chicago Medical Society.

TUESDAY, October 4th.-New York Neurological Society; Buffalo Academy of Medicine (Section in Surgery); Elmira, N. Y., Academy of Medicine; Ogdensburgh, N. Y., Medical Association; Syracuse, N. Y., Academy of Medicine; Hudson, N. J., County Medical Society (Jersey City); Androscoggin, Me., County Medical Association (Lewiston); Baltimore Academy of Medicine; Medical Society of the University of Maryland (Baltimore).

WEDNESDAY, October 5th.-New York Academy of Medicine (Section in Public Health); Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital; Harlem Medical Association of the City of New York; New York Genitourinary Society; Medical Microscopical Society of Brooklyn; Medical Society of the County of Richmond, N. Y. (New Brighton); Penobscot, Me., County Medical Society (Bangor); Bridgeport, Conn., Medical Association. THURSDAY, October 6th.-New York Academy of Medicine; Brooklyn Surgical Society; Society of Physicians of the Village of Canandaigua, N. Y.; Boston Medicopsychological Association; Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia; United States Naval Medical Society (Washington); Medical Society of City Hospital Alumni, St. Louis, Mo.; Atlanta Society of Medicine. FRIDAY, October 7th.-New York Academy of Medicine (Section in Surgery); Practitioners' Society of New York (private); Clinical Society of the New York Postgraduate Medical School and Hospital; Baltimore Clinical Society; the Manhattan Clinical Society. SATURDAY, October 8th.-Obstetrical Society of Boston (private).

NEW YORK.

Changes of Address.-Dr. Charles G. Kerley, to 132 West Eighty-first Street, New York; Dr. Jay William Dounce, to Ardsley Hall, 320 Central Park West, New York; Dr. DeSantos Saxe, to 214 West Forty-fourth Street, near Broadway; telephone number, 5577-38.

Infectious Diseases in New York:

We are indebted to the Bureau of Records of the Health Department for the following statement of new cases and deaths reported for the two weeks ending September 24, 1904:

Week end'g Sept. 24. Week end'g Sept. 17.

PHILA. MED. JOURNAL.

Dr. A. T. Mitchell, whom we reported last week as missing, is, we understand, a patient in a New York hospital and has communicated with his relatives in Vicksburg, Miss.

Eastern Medical Society.-The first open meeting for the season of the genitourinary section of the Eastern Medical Society will be held on Tuesday, October 4th, at 8 p. m., at Clinton Hall, 151, 153 Clinton Street. The paper of the evening will be Ureteral Catheterization-with Special Reference to the Treatment of Pyelonephritis Catarrhalis, by Dr. Winfield Ayres. Discussion by Dr. W. G. Pulley. Dr. Follen-Cabot, Dr. Frederic Bierhoff, Dr. Ferdinand C. Valentine, and others. Cases will also be presented.

New Yorker to Found a Consumptive Camp in Rhode Island.-Mr. J. B. Stokes, of New York, has offered to give twenty-five acres of land, or money with which to purchase it, for the establishment of a permanent camp at Pine Ridge, in northern Rhode Island, for the outdoor treatment of consumptives. Mr. Stokes stipulates that Newport residents shall provide five cottages, that not less than three be given by other than summer residents of Newport, that Newport shall have first call on these cottages for pay patients, and that the cabins shall be built or the money for them subscribed on or before October 20th.

A New Boat for Sufferers from Contagious Diseases. Mayor McClellan has approved an ordinance authorizing an issue of corporate stock to the amount of $67,000 to pay for the construction of a new steamboat for the transportation of patients suffering with contagious diseases. The old Franklin Edson has been doing service for many years. Health Commissioners under all administrations for years have asked the board of estimate to appropriate money for a new boat. At the hearing of the budget last year some of the foremost medical men in the city stated that the conditions under which patients with contagious diseases are carried to North Brother Island were a disgrace to the city. The health commissioner will advertise for proposals at the earliest possible date.

Contagious Diseases in the Schools.-Dr. Thomas Darlington, president of the health board, spoke before the County Medical Society at the Academy of Medicine on September 26th on Precautions Used by the New York City Department of Health to Prevent the Spread of Contagious Diseases in the Schools. He said that the recently instituted system of having a nurse to take care of the children at schools had reduced the number of exclusions from about 25,000 in three months to 500. Children who, in times past, were kept away by minor diseases, are now allowed to attend and are treated by city nurses. Dr. Darlington spoke of the proper care of children's outer garments at school; the aeration of the class room; establishment of baths in public schools; proper lighting of the class rooms; exclusion of nervous diseases from class attendance. and other matters which did not come within the control of the department, but which in his opinion ought to be governed by it. Dr. John J.

Cronin, assistant chief medical inspector of the board of health, read a paper on The Work of the Summer Corps, and Dr. Robert J. Wilson, assistant bacteriologist, read one on Disinfection as Practised by the Department.

Medical Appointments at New York University. The following new appointments for the university and Bellevue Hospital Medical College are announced for the coming year: Dr. George P. Wallace, to be assistant professor of pharmacology; Dr. Herman A. Haubold, to be clinical professor of surgery. Both of these have been occasional lecturers, and are now given the rank of professors. A lectureship on pathological chemistry, recently endowed by Dr. Herter, has been awarded for the present year to Dr. Phœbus A. Levene, of the Pathological Institute on Ward's Island. The university medical faculty of a few years since admitted no one to teach who was not a physician. The faculty for next year contains three professors who have never become doctors of medicine, but are doctors of science or philosophy, and two who, although doctors of medicine, have never engaged in practice.

The New York Academy of Medicine, Section on Laryngology and Rhinology.-A complimentary dinner will be given, under the auspices of the Section on Laryngology of the New York Academy of Medicine, to Sir Felix Semon, the distinguished laryngologist of London. who is now visiting this country. With the desire of avoiding conflict with his other engagements, it has been decided to hold the dinner, Tuesday evening, November 1st, at 7.30 o'clock, at Delmonico's. The price of dinner tickets will be ten dollars. Our readers are cordially invited to be present. Those desiring to attend will kindly notify the treasurer of the committee, Dr. Emil Mayer, of 25 East Seventy-seventh Street, New York. No seats can be reserved unless payment therefor is made by October 20th. An address before the Academy of Medicine will be delivered by Sir Felix on the evening of November 2nd.

The Late Dr. Victor Steinberger.-Whereas, We feel that in the untimely demise of our esteemed coworker, Dr. Victor Steinberger, we have lost a genial companion, an arduous worker, a progressive physician, and an earnest and sincere colleague. Therefore, Be it resolved, That we medical inspectors, and trained nurses of the department of health of the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, at a special meeting held. on July 23, 1904. extend to his widow and to his family our hearfelt sympathy in the hour of their bereavement. May the remembrance of his affable personality, his conscientiousness in his duties, his devotion to his beloved ones, and his uprightness of character serve to lighten their grief. to strengthen them in their affliction, and be a blessed memory in the future. And be it furthermore resolved, That these resolutions suitably engrossed. be presented to his widow and that a copy be published in the city medical journals. Jacob Sobel, M. D., Edward M. Thompson, M. D., E. Helen Knight, M. D., Otto A. Jahn,

M. D., L. Marcus, M. D., Henry J. Blumenthal, M. D., Thomas W. Neapsey, M. D., committee.

Vaccination and Birth Certificates in Brooklyn. The feature of work at the Brooklyn health office on September 13th was the rush for vaccination. No less than seven doctors were busy, and the halls, areaways, and sidewalks were crowded with children and their parents desirous of securing the necessary certificate for admission to the public schools. It is not at all unlikely that some measures will be taken to house the people while they are waiting for attention. Another rush was for birth certificates. The new rule of the school board that children under the age of 6 years shall not be admitted to the public schools has necessitated the production of birth certificates and about 500 persons applied for certificates showing when their children were born. The records of the department are kept in a vault, and entrance to the vault is so small that only two clerks can work there at a time. The consequence is confusion and congestion, such congestion as has never been seen at the local health office before. Although the officials at the bureau of records are doing all they can to facilitate work and get rid of the people, they find it very hard to accommodate everybody. Another source of confusion is the fact that only a small percentage of the births have been recorded.

PHILADELPHIA.

Change of Address.-Dr. W. L. Rodman, to 1904 Chestnut Street.

Meetings of Medical Societies for the Week Ending October 8th.-Wednesday, College of Physicians.

Death. Dr. Henry Ridgely died at Dover, Del., on September 17th. Dr. Ridgely was born in 1817; he graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1839. He was interested in agriculture, in the financial. institutions, and in the politics of Delaware.

Dr. John B. Chapin, President.-The Association of Superintendents and Trustees of Institutions for the Insane of Pennsylvania met at the State Asylum for the Chronic Insane, at South Mountain, near Reading, on September 22nd. Dr. John B. Chapin, physician in chief to the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, Philadelphia, was chosen president for the coming year.

The Health of the City.-The following contagious diseases have been reported for the week ending September 17th:

Typhoid fever.. Scarlet fever.. Smallpox Diphtheria

Cases. Deaths.

The total death rate for the week was 408 in an estimated population of 1.408,154. corresponding to an annual death rate of 15.07 per 1,000. There have been the following deaths from other contagious diseases: Malarial fever, I; whooping cough, I; tuberculosis of the lungs, 50; other forms of tuberculosis, 5; pneumonia, 21; erysipelas, I; puerperal fever, 3; cholera morbus, 1; diar

rhoea and enteritis in children under two years of age, 36.

On the afternoon and evening of the 14th and in the early morning of the 15th the city was visited, first, by a thunderstorm with unusually heavy rain, and, second, by a windstorm of hurricane proportions, during which the wind reached a velocity of over 60 miles an hour. During both these storms, 5.67 inches of rain fell and during the latter much damage was done by the uprooting of trees, etc. The maximum temperature on the 14th before the first storm was 76° and the humidity was 98.

The Woman's Medical College. The fiftyfifth annual session of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania began on Wednesday, September 21st, with an address by the dean, Dr. Clara Marshall, at the college building, Twentyfirst Street and North College Avenue. In her address, Dr. Marshall paid an eloquent tribute to the memory of Dr. Frances Emily White, who died during the past academic year. The resignations of Dr. Elizabeth R. Bundy, Adjunct Professor of Anatomy, and of Dr. Hirschler, Dr. Hildrup, and Dr. Schetky, assistant demonstrators of anatomy, were announced. Dr. Henry Morris has been elected to the chair of anatomy, made vacant by the death of Dr. W. H. Parish, and the subordinate positions in the department of anatomy have been filled by the election of Dr. Harriet I. Noble to the position of demonstrator of anatomy, and of Dr. Margaret L. Noyes, Dr. Blanche B. Wunderle, and Dr. Mary Louise Dixon Bickings to the positions of assistant demonstrators of anatomy. Dr. Amelia Weicksel assumes the duties of instructor in medical gymnastics and director of physical training. is the first regular medical school to create the position of instructor in medical gymnastics and to make that branch a part of the regular curriculum. Dr. Marshall also announced the beginning of a college hospital, directly under the control of the college, consisting of wards for both men and women patients, at present with 20 beds. This, with a dispensary for men and women, a maternity department, located at 335 Washington Avenue, with 12 beds, an out obstetrical service of 400 cases annually, and the Amy E. Barton Dispensary, it is thought will give a fairly large amount of clinical material, until such time as the college hospital shall have increased in capacity. The freshman class is quite as large as usual in this institution, in which women from all parts of the world study.

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The Use of Copper as a Purifying Agent for Polluted Potable Water.-Early in the summer the newspapers discovered that experiments were being made by the Department of Health and Charities of Philadelphia concerning the use of copper and its salts as a method of purifying polluted drinking water. Much useless and inaccurate discussion ensued, mixed with some authoritative statements.

Recently a symposium was arranged by the Franklin Institute for the discussion of the subject at which Dr. Hobart A. Hare, Dr. A. H. Stewart, Dr. Mary E. Pennington, Dr. George Meeker, and Dr. Edward Martin,

and Mr. Williams, chemist to the Frankford Arsenal; Mr. John C. Trautwine, former chief of the water bureau; Mr. Hill, the present chief of the water bureau; and Mr. P. H. Maignen, the inventor of the Maignen filter, spoke. At times, according to reports, the discussion grew quite animated. The Department of Public Health and Charities authorizes the following statement concerning the subject: "The department is not yet in a position to fully advocate the use of copper. The department is now engaged in studying the question experimentally. The results, so far as they go, though not yet conclusive, lead the department to expect that copper in very high dilutions may prove serviceable in ridding polluted water of typhoid bacilli. The experiments also indicate that in such dilutions copper sulphate has very little action on any of the other organisms commonly found in polluted water. The department has in mind neither the substitution of copper sulphate for filtration nor its use as a supplement thereto; but regards it as possibly a useful agent to be employed in the purification of our water supply until the filtration plants are completed. when the copper treatment will be abandoned. The department has made a careful study of the literature of the subject. and fails to find any evidence that copper sulphate in the amounts in which it is proposed to use it has any poisonous properties whatever, either as an acute poison or as a cumulative one."

The Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department.-A new arrangement of the faculty of the medical department was recommended to the board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on April 18, 1904. The purpose sought to be accomplished includes both the idea of recognizing the long continued and meritorious service of a number of men connected with the institution, and also the hope that by including in the new faculty a number of the instructors of lower grade than full professor, a more intimate and exact knowledge of the need of the students and of the various departments may be had. Thus far the faculty has included only those full professors whose subjects have been required in the promotion or graduation of the students.

There have been unquestioned advantages in the small size of the faculty, especially in matters demanding prompt and fully concerted action. And probably, too, in times past, it was necessary to limit the size, because of the fact that comparatively few men remained any great number of years in connection with the school, save as they were admitted to this body. The vast growth of the school, however, and the widening of its field of instruction in the more recent years have led to the development of a large group of men in the position of assistants, or in full charge of special subjects, who are brought in close contact with the students, and whose laboratories and hospital departments thoroughly demand some representation in the governing body. After careful consideration, the faculty as outlined in the change adopted, will include all of the full professors, clinical professors, associate professors, assistant professors, demonstrators, associates, and lecturers. Those members of the teaching staff lower than the above grades, viz., instructors, assistant instructors, assistant demonstrators, and assistants, each year elect from among their own number one person from every ten, to represent them in the faculty for the next current academic year. According to such composition, the faculty will hereafter number more than sixty members. Inasmuch as so large a group is

necessarily more or less unwieldy, it was arranged that, for those types of business which are more or less routine in character, as well as those in which direct responsibility is required, in the matter of academic standing and promotion of the classes, and for nomination to the board of trustees for membership on the teaching staff, a smaller group, to be known as the council, should be constituted, very much of the same personnel as the old faculty group. The council will consist of seventeen members, of whom the following hold their positions ex officio: The provost, viceprovost, dean, and the professors of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, therapeutics, pathology, anatomy, chemistry, physiology, hygiene, and bacteriology. The two clinical professors of medicine will alternate annually, as will also the two clinical professors of surgery. Each year one professor will be chosen by ballot by the professors or clinical professors of the special branches from among their number as a representative upon the council; and similarly, one representative is annually chosen by ballot from among the teachers below the rank of clinical professor. It is understood, however, that the present faculty representatives of specialties shall, until the vacation of their respective chairs, be ex officio members of the council; thereafter, one additional successor will be chosen from the special branches, giving these subjects in all two representatives upon the council. In the working, it is hoped to give the new members of the faculty a special importance in the various committees dealing most closely with the relations of the school to the student body. For example: In matters of discipline, students' welfare, the general curriculum, and postgraduate instruction.

GENERAL

Japanese Cough Cure.-In Japan coughing children, according to the Medical Herald, of Athens, Greece, are kept in a room in which naphthalin and camphor are vaporized, until the cough is cured.

Dr. William Osler, recently elected regius professor of medicine of Oxford University, was expected to return to Baltimore about September 23rd. He returned to this country from Europe on August 12th, and was with his family in Toronto, where he remained until he returned to his former home.

Dr. Lewis A. Palmer, of South Framingham, has received from the Massachusetts State board of health an appointment in connection with chap. 99, resolutions of 1904, which provides for an investigation as to the sanitary and other conditions affecting the health or safety of employees in factories and other establishments, and has begun his duties.

Savannah Hospital.-Dr. W. R. Dancy, who for the last six months has been acting resident physician of the Savannah Hospital, has tendered his resignation and Dr. H. Paul Adams has been appointed resident physician. Dr. Dancy took the position with the understanding that he would be relieved as soon as a suitable physician could be found to fill the place permanently.

Consolidation of Medical Journals.-With the October issue, Gaillard's Medical Journal and Southern Medicine will be consolidated and published under the title of Southern Medicine and Gaillard's Medical Journal. The New York publication was founded nearly forty years ago and was read much by Southern practitioners. On the death of Dr. Gaillard the publication was continued by his sons.

The Montreal General Hospital has decided to allow foreign graduates in medicine, including

those from the United States, to occupy positions on its resident staff. Formerly only graduates of institutions in the British dominions were eligible. This broadening of the field cannot but be helpful to this excellent institution, which offers. remarkable opportunities to clever young physicians, being situated in a large city which is also a busy port.

Naval Medical School.-The Naval Medical School will open in Washington on October 1st with twenty student officers. There are now sixteen vacancies in the medical corps of the navy, and examinations are going on all the time with the hope of filling them. The faculty of the school will be the same as at the last course, with the exception of Medical Director J. W. Ross. who has been assigned to duty at Panama and will be succeeded by Surgeon W. E. Lovering, who recently returned from the Asiatic station. The latter officer will give lectures on tropical diseases and their treatment.

At the Denver Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, held on August 24, 25, and 26, 1904, the following officers were elected: President, Dr. H. W. Loeb, of St. Louis, Mo.; first vice-president, Dr. D. T. Vail, of Cincinnati, Ohio; second vice-president, Dr. Robert Levy, of Denver, Colo.; third vicepresident, Dr. Eugene Smith, of Detroit. Mich.; secretary, Dr. George F. Suker, of Akron, Ohio; treasurer, Dr. Otto J. Stein, of Chicago; council. Dr. H. W. Loeb, Dr. Edward Jackson, Dr. W. L. Ballenger, Dr. Casey A. Wood. and Dr. J. M. Ray, of Louisville. The next place of meeting will be decided upon by the council and will be announced shortly.

Statement of Mortality in Chicago, Ill., for the Week Ending September 24, 1904, compared with the preceding week and with the corresponding week of 1903. Death rates computed on United States Census Bureau's estimated midyear populations of 1,932,315 for 1904 and of 1,873,880 for 1903:

The American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists held its annual election of officers at the Monticello Hotel, St. Louis, on September 15th. Dr. Henry W. Longyear, of Detroit, Mich., was chosen president. Dr. Longyear is surgeon at the Harper Hospital in Detroit. He

is about 50 years old and was a pupil of the noted Mr. Lawson Tait, late of London. The two vicepresidents are: Dr. David Tod Gilliam, of Columbus, Ohio, and Dr. John Young Brown, superintendent of the St. Louis City Hospital. Dr. William W. Potter, of Buffalo, N. Y., was reelected secretary, and Dr. Xavier O. Werder, of Pittsburgh, Pa., treasurer. For members of the executive council for three years, Dr. Walter B. Dorsett, of St. Louis, the retiring president, and Dr. James F. W. Rose, of Toronto, Can., were named. The association will meet in New York city next year during the second week in September.

The Association of Military Surgeons of the United States will open the International Congress of Military Surgeons at the Hall of Congresses at the St. Louis World's Fair on October 10th.

By the courtesy of the local committee, several representatives will be at a central point in the vicinity of the bureau of information of the railway depot, to direct members and delegates to their destination. In case any arrival should be overlooked it should be remembered that the Laclede Avenue and the Market Street cars, which pass in front of the depot, run within a few yards of the entrance to the Inside Inn. During the meeting, the register of attendance will be found in the committee room adjoining the assembly room in the Hall of Congresses. Members are urged to register here immediately upon arrival, when badges and other matters of interest will be furnished them. For the opening session, to which the general public is invited, the hour of two o'clock on Monday afternoon has been fixed. The other sessions will convene at the Hall of Congresses at nine o'clock in the mornings of October 11th to 15thTuesday to Saturday-inclusive. Generally-and at all business sessions of the meeting-fatigue or undress uniform will be worn. Full dress uniform or civilian evening dress with the association button or insignia should be worn at evening functions. Officers not now in active service should wear the uniform of the highest grade previously held by them as worn at the time of their withdrawal from active service.

Medical Society of Virginia.-Announcement of the thirty-fifth annual session to be held at Richmond, Va., October 18 to 21, 1904. The Medical Society of Virginia will convene in the hall of the Masonic Temple, corner of Broad and Adams Streets (known as 101-105 West Broad Street), Richmond, Va., at 8 p. m., Tuesday, October 18, 1904. This night session will be open to the public as well as to the profession. All west bound street cars marked either Broad Street or Laurel Street, or Main, Eighth, and Broad Streets, pass the Masonic Temple. All other street cars at some junctional point connect with the Broad Street lines. But passengers immediately on boarding any other than the Broad Street cars referred to, should ask conductors for transfer tickets to cars that pass Masonic proper Temple. In the ample hallway adjoining the Hall of Session in the Masonic Temple, spaces have been reserved for Exhibits of Medical and Surgical Supplies, etc., by a number of the leading manufacturers of the country. This promises

to be a very interesting feature. Dr. McGuire Newton is chairman of the subcommittee of the general committee of arrangements in charge of this department. Doctors having interesting pathological specimens, x radiographs, etc., which they can loan for exhibition during this session are earnestly requested to bring or send them in advance by express, addressed to the care of either of the committeemen having such matters in charge-Dr. Ennion G. Williams, 315 East Grace Street, or Dr. E. Guy Hopkins, 1112 East Clay Street, Richmond, Va. Descriptions of these pathological specimens should be given on the labels of the containers.

Order of Presentation of Papers.-Practical Points in the Interpretation of Sanitary Water Analyses, from the Physician's Standpoint, by Dr. Ernest C. Levy, of Richmond, Va.; Early Recognition of Hypertention, by Dr. Henry Wireman Cook, of Richmond, Va.; Surgical Shock, by Dr. J. Shelton Horsley, of Richmond, Va.; Bowel Repair in Accidental and Pathological Lesions in Pelvic and Intraabdominal Operations, by Honorary Fellow, Dr. Joseph Price, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Postoperative Femoral Thrombophlebitis, by Dr. Lewis C. Bosher, of Richmond, Va.; Analysis of Twenty-five Cases of Strangulated Hernia Operated On, by Dr. George Tully Vaughan, of Washington, D. C.; The Appendix and Its Relation to Abdominal Hernia, by Honorary Fellow, Dr. W. B. DeGarmo, of New York, N. Y.; Surgical Treatment of Cirrhosis of the Liver, by Dr. Southgate Leigh, of Norfolk, Va.; Treatment of Chronic Ulcers of the Leg, by Dr. O. F. Blankingship, of Richmond, Va.; Metastasis from Cancers of the Breast, by Dr. Greer Baughman, of Richmond, Va.; Operative Intervention in Cases of Typhoid Perforation, by Dr. Hugh M. Taylor, of Richmond, Va.; Diagnosis Between Gonorrhoeal and Streptococcic Pelvic Infection, by Dr. G. Brown Miller, of Washington, D. C., invited guest; Remarks on the Two Routes for Prostatectomy, by Dr. J. W. Henson, of Richmond, Va.; Conservative Treatment of Affections of the Uterine Annexa-Its Indications and Limitations, by Honorary Fellow, Dr. George Tucker Harrison, of New York, N. Y.; Curettage and Perinæorrhaphy in a Case of Uterine Sepsis, Three Months' Pregnancy, by Dr. Edward T. Hargrave, of Norfolk, Va.; Is Gynecology a Specialty? by Dr. Charles R. Robins, of Richmond, Va.; My Last One Hundred Hysterectomies, by Honorary Fellow, Dr. George Ben Johnston, of Richmond, Va.; Etiology and Treatment of the Uncontrollable Vomiting of Pregnancy, by Dr. J. Whitridge Williams, of Baltimore, Md., invited guest; A Plea for the Clinical Study of Insanity, by Dr. E. N. Brush, of Baltimore, Md., invited guest; Etiology of Tuberculosis Considered in Relation to Its Therapeutics, by Dr. Louis F. High, of Southern Pines, N. C.; Pneumonia-from the Practitioner's Standoint, by Dr. William E. Anderson, of Farmville, Va.; Treatment of Digestive Disorders, by Dr. James Wilson Hunter, of Norfolk, Va.; Notes on Psoriasis, by Dr. Thomas W. Murrell, of Richmond, Va.; Use of Sodium Bisulphate in the Treatment of Typhoid Fever-Report of Cases, by Dr. John Egerton Cannaday, of Paint Creek, W. Va.; Pott's Paraplegia, with Report of Cases, by Dr. A. R. Shands, of Washington, D. C.; Importance of Early Recognition of Nervous Instability, as Differentiated from Actual Pathology in Diseases of Women, by Dr. J. Allison Hodges, of Richmond, Va.; Abscess of the Brain of Otitic Origin, by Dr. George F. Keiper, of La Fayette, Ind., invited guest; Mastoiditis, with Report of Cases, by Dr. William F. Mercer, of Richmond, Va.; Headache from Nasal Causes, by Dr. Joseph A. White, of Richmond, Va.; Some Suggestions to the General Practitioner as to the Care of Certain Eye Cases, by Dr. James L. Kent, of Lynchburg, Va.; Eye Strain, by Dr. Clarence Porter Jones, of Newport News, Va.; Importance of Urinary Examinations, by Dr. B. Lawrence Taliaferro, of Richmond, Va.; Reports on Surgical Uses of X Rays, by Dr. A. L. Gray, of Richmond, Va.; Present Status of the X Rays, by Dr. Ennion G. Williams, of Richmond, Va.; Virginia Laws Relating to Poisons, by Dr. George E. Barksdale, of Richmond, Va.; The County Medical Society-Its Use and Abuse, by Dr. Lucien Lofton, of Emporia, Va.