Tuberculosis of the Respiratory Organs: "The Early Diagnosis"-O. T. Osborne, New Haven. "The Sanitation of the Tubercular Patient"-F. W. Wright, New Haven. "The Home Treatment"-C. E. Munger, Waterbury. "Some Newer Aspects of Heredity in Tuberculosis and the Sanatorium Treatment"-C. R. Baldwin, Saranac Lake, N. Y. "Congestion of the Prostate"--E. S. Moulton, New Ha ven. "Erythema Induratum Serofulosorum"-E. D. Chipman, Waterbury. "Symphyseotomy"-Nicola Mariani, New Haven. Uterine Displacements-"The Causes and Results"-C. A. Tuttle, New Haven. "The Surgical Treatment"-H. G. Anderson, Waterbury. "The Non-Surgical Treatment"-E. P. Pitman, New Haven. "Potts' Fracture"--L. C. Sanford, New Haven. "Report of an Epidemic of Dysentery"-L. M. Gompertz, New Haven. Surgery of the Gall-bladder with Presentation of Cases -M. M. Johnson, Hartford. The origin of the New Haven County Medical Association-Gustavus Eliot, New Haven. List of Members of the Medical Society of New Haven County with Biographical Notes-J. H. Townsend, New Haven. The Banquet at the Tontine Hotel in the evening was fairly well attended and was a very pleasant affair. It was presided over by Dr. F. H. Wheeler, Anniversary Chairman. The toasts and speecehes were as follows: Our City-Mayor J. P. Studley. Our University-President A. T. Hadley. Our Society-President J. H. Granniss. The Teacher-Superintendent F. H. Beede. The Minister-Rev. W. J. Mutch. The Doctor-G. A. Shelton, M.D. Dr. Parker Syms, of New York, also being called upon made some impromptu remarks. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. THE RELATION OF THE PHYSICIAN TO GROWING CHILDREN. Realizing my inability to write interestingly on any special subject, and following a time-honored custom which has obtained in this Society that the President's Address should be on some general subject, I have chosen The Relation of the General Practitioner to Growing Children. When our duties as obstetricians have been performed, does our responsibility cease? I say emphatically, No. In fact, it is the writer's belief that our responsibility begins when we are informed of the fact of pregnancy and that we are expected to attend at the confinement. In the first place the family history of both father and mother should be carefully elicited (if not already known to the physician), searching thoroughly for any bad hereditary tendencies. If so be that we find evidence of gouty, rheumatic, tuberculous, syphilitic or neurotic diathesis, these should be guarded against to the best of our ability; the gouty and rheumatic by strict attention to the eliminative functions, especially the kidneys and liver, a simple diet and free ingestion of water; the tuberculous by an out-of-door life and as much of the most nourishing food as is consistent with the free elimination of effete products. The syphilitic should certainly be treated with mercury or iodine, or both, as in such cases we can accomplish more with drugs than usually falls to the lot of the medical man. The neurotic woman certainly has come to be a large factor in the civilization of to-day, and when she is about to assume the duties of motherhood should receive the most careful and intelligent attention of her physician; a cheerful (not maudlin) |