Alpin, Floyd M., M. D., Waukesha,
Axtell, Luella E., M. D., Marinette.

Beier, A. L., M. D., Chippewa Falls.
Bellin, Julius J., M. D., Green Bay.
Black, Nelson M., M. D., Milwaukee.
Brown, E. B., M. D., Beloit.

Brown, Lawrason, M. D., Saranac Lake, N. Y.
Bunting, C. H., M. D., Madison.

Carhart, G. A., M. D., Milwaukee.
Connel, D. R., M. D., Beloit.
Cook, F. S., M. D., Eau Claire.
Crownhart, Hon. Chas. H., Madison.

Darling, Walter G., M. D., Milwaukee,
Doege, K. W., M. D., Marshfield.
Drexel, Arnold, M. D., Milwaukee,
Evans, Edward, M. D., La Crosse.

Fairchild, W. E., M. D., Green Bay.
Fiedler, Otho, M. D., Sheboygan,
Fletcher, E. A., M. D., Milwaukee,
Greeley, H. P., Waukesha,

Hammes, E. M., M. D., St. Paul, Minn.
Higgins, Samuel G., M. D., Milwaukee,
Hitz, Henry B., M. D., Milwaukee.
Holbrook, A. T., M. D., Milwaukee.
Hopkinson, Daniel, M. D., Milwaukee.

Ivy, Robert H., M. D., D. D. S., Milwaukee.
Jackson, R. H., M. D., F. A. C. S., Madison.

Longley, J. R., B. Sc., M. D., Fond du Lac. Lorenz, W. F., M. D., Mendota.

Marshall, Victor F., B. S., M. D., Appleton. McBeath, N. E., M. D., Livingston.

Merrill, W. G., Ph. C., M. D., 1st Lieutenant, M. R. C., Grand Rapids.

Newman, John R., M. D., Madison.

Pfister, Franz, M. D., F. A. C. S., Milwaukee.
Phalen, Major J. M., M. C., U. S. A.
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Quick, Edw. M. D., Milwaukee.

Redelings, T. J., M. D., Marinette.
Rodman, W. L., M. D., Philadelphia, Penn.
Rogers, A. W., M. D., Oconomowoc.
Rogers, Philip F., M. D., Milwaukee.
Rosenberry, A. B., M. D., Wausau.

Schiller, Leopold, M. D., Milwaukee.
Sleyster, Rock, M. D., Waupun.
Smith, Eugene A., M. D., Milwaukee.
Sputh, Carl B., M. D., La Crosse.
Studley, Frank C., M. D., Milwaukee.

Tuohy, E. L., B. A., M. D., Duluth, Minn.

Van Valzah, Robert, M. D., Madison.
Warfield, Louis M., M. D., Milwaukee.
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Birch-Hirschfeld, A., On War Injuries
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Brewer, G. E.. A Text Book of Sur-
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Brown, W. L., The Practitioner's En-
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Chemnitz, Velhagen C., The Clinical
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Cobb, J. S., "Speaking of Operations". 370
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Coolidge, Algernon, Diseases of the
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Smith, G. C., What to Eat and Why.. 260
Stargart, Prof., and Oloff, Diagnostics
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Polak, J. O., Students' Manual of
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Cook, F. S., Bone Transplantation in
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Doege, K. W., The Thyroid in Preg-
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Thomas, B. A., and Ivy, R. H., Ap-
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Prophylactically, Diagnostically and
Therapeutically with an Appendix on
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Thompson, Alexis, Manual of Surgery.. 369
Tousey, Sinclair, Medical Electricity
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Trudeau, E. L., An Autobiography..... 485
Uhthoff, W., On the Eye Symptons in
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Van Hoosen, Bertha, Scopolamine-
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Dennet, R. H., Simplified Infant Feed-
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Volume XIV

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

SOME DEDUCTIONS FROM THE MEDICAL EXAMINATION OF FIVE THOUSAND STUDENTS ENTERING THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.*

BY ROBERT VAN VALZAH, M. D.,

MADISON.

The routine medical examinations of students entering the University of Wisconsin during the past four years, and the subsequent observations of the relation of the clinical findings to health and general efficiency of these students, have led to conclusions of value to those interested not only in the prevention of acute diseases, but also of the pathological processes, both immediate and long delayed, secondary to them.

These medical examinations have been made for the purpose of gaining accurate clinical data as to the antecedents, the past medical and social conditions and the present physical condition of individuals in that decade of life between seventeen and twenty-seven. With the exception of a similar compilation of statistics made at the University of California, we believe the statistics on which this study is based, is the first compilation of data dealing with the pathologic conditions found in young adults of both sexes, who are of high mental de velopment and reared in comparatively comfortable surroundings by a generation of intelligent people, anxious to prevent disease and its consequences.

Our observations have been interesting in pointing out that notwithstanding the progress of preventive medicine and the propaganda of educating the public in personal and public hygiene, a very high percentage of preventable conditions appear in the average well born and well reared young adult of the present day. From the Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Wisconsin.

*Read at the Sixty-eighth Annual Meeting of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Oct. 7, 1914.

Number 1

While we recognize more fully each day the relation of structural defects and mal-development to disease, and also the importance of occupational conditions, yet the acute contagious diseases and the so-called minor infections, must still occupy our attention in any attempt to improve the general health of a given community.

The prevention of the diseases of childhood is one of the most important factors in public medicine, yet with the advances in school supervision and public health regulations, we find in our list of cases little to encourage us as to the results of such efforts, except in the case of diphtheria and smallpox.

Accurate data have been collected in 5,735 cases in this series, 3,955 being men and 1,780 being women. The average age of the men was 20.5 years, while that of the women was 20.6 years. The average height of the men was 67.8 inches and that of the women 63.4 inches. The average

weight of the men was 137.9 lbs., that of the women 122.9 lbs. It is interesting in this to note how nearly the average ages of the two sexes coincide and how nearly the height and weight averages coincide with statistical tables for this given age. Therefore, we are dealing, for the most part, with young adults of normal development.

In considering the past medical histories of these individuals, the contagious diseases have been investigated first. The results have been uniform investigated first. The results have been uniform during the four years and are interesting because it is found that both the so-called minor contagious

diseases (measles, parotitis, pertussis and chicken

pox) and most of the major contagious diseases have occurred more frequently in the female than in the male sex as shown by the following percentages:

Measles in men occurred in over 79%, in women in about 92%; parotitis, in men 60%, and in women in about 65%; pertussis, in men 46%, and in women 67%; chicken pox, in men about 40%, and in women over 63%.

These data show first the unusual prevalence and spread of measles in comparison to the other contagious diseases; and second, that to explain