Geo. W. Finley, Brazil. W. R. Davidson, Evansville. Chas. W. McIntyre, New Albany. E. P. Easley, New Albany. C. A. Daugherty, South Bend. W. H. Stemm, North Vernon. D. Brooks Smoot, Washington. J. G. Nehrbas, Winona Lake. C. T. Hendershot, Cannelton. C. E. Boyd, West Baden. W. R. Cravens, Bloomfield. J. H. Calvert, Milton, Ky. J. C. Trueblood, Loogootee. M. G. Moore, Vincennes. Wm. M. Holten, New Harmony. W. T. Lawson, Danville. CONTENTS. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW IN MEDICAL ENDEAVOR―Jos. D. Bryant, New THE PREVENTION OF POST OPERATIVE PARESIS AND ADHESIONS OF THE MESENTERIC CYSTS-O. G. Pfaff, Indianapolis. MEMBRANOUS CATARRH OF THE INTESTINES-Robt. Hessler, Logansport. 112 ELECTRICAL TREATMENT OF MALIGNANT GROWTHS-J. P. Hetherington, THE ACCESSORY SINUSES OF THE SKULL, WITH A BRIEF REFERENCE TO DISEASES OF THE SAME-John Johnson Kyle, Indianapolis..... ... FOOTWEAR AND ITS INFLUENCE ON FLAT-FOOT-E. D.Clark, Indianapolis. 153 ACUTE DIFFUSE SUPPURATIVE PERITONITIS-S. J. Young, Valparaiso. 176 MALIGNANT PERITONITIS-Etta Charles, Summitville..... CANCER OF THE LARYNX, WITH REPORT of Cases-L. F. Page, Indi- THE EYESIGHT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN AND THEIR FUNCTIONAL RE- FLEXES DUE TO EYESTRAIN-Walter N. Sharpe, Indianapolis...... 227 THE ESSENTIALS OF TREATMENT OF ACUTE INFLAMMATION OF THE MID- 264 THE CARE OF THE INSANE AT HOME-Jennie Jenkins, Assistant Phy- PAGE. THE TONSILS, OR A PLEA FOR TONSILLECTOMY-David W. Stevenson, 308 THE RATIONAL TREATMENT OF HERNIA-Jos. Rilus Eastman, Indianapolis...... 317 FRACTURES OF THE PATELLA-J. H. Ford, Indianapolis. 329 THE DIAGNOSIS OF GALLSTONE DISEASE-M. A. Austin, Anderson..... 348 GALL-BLADDER SURGERY—T. C. Kennedy, Shelbyville......... 361 LUMBAR EXPLORATORY PUNCTURE-J. A. McDonald, Assistant Physician, Central Hospital for Insane. 372 CLINICAL STUDIES IN EUROPE-Edwin Walker, Evansville ...... 383 393 SYMPTOMS INDICATING IMMEDIATE OPERATIVE PROCEDURE IN BRAIN 402 .... THE MINERAL WATERS OF ORANGE COUNTY-John L. Howard, West 413 THE ERYTHEMA GROUP OF SKIN DISEASES AND THEIR VISCERAL LES- 426 REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NECROLOGY-G. W. H. Kemper, Muncie... 438 466 MEDICINE AND HYGIENE-J. N. Hurty, Indianapolis...... 469 REPORT ON PATHOLOGICAL EXHIBIT-F. B. Wynn, Indianapolis.. 474 Wayne. 475 REPORT OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES-F. C. Heath, Indianapolis.... 479 REPORT OF SECRETARY-F. C. Heath... 481 PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE. BY PRESIDENT GEORGE T. M'COY, M. D., OF COLUMBUS, INDIANA. Fellow Members of the Indiana State Medical Association, and Invited Guests: We have assembled upon this occasion to celebrate the fifty-sixth anniversary of the organization of the Indiana State Medical Association, and by the courtesy of my distinguished fellows I have been honored with the presidency of this session. In accordance with time-honored precedent, one of the pleasant duties which falls to me is that of delivering the annual address. To the older members of this association, those who have been active workers in it since the days of its birth, my words must be those of congratulation on its successful history; but to all of us belong anticipations for its future. Perhaps no greater contrast can be pictured than that offered by the retrospect and the outlook of the modern physician. This is an era of action, and the workers are sometimes apt to be so engrossed in their duties and speculations that they fail to give due credit to those who have gone before them, and who have hewn down the forests of darkness and doubt, leaving them the legacy of a vista of refined thought, and of physiological as well as pathological facts. In the hurry and rush of the strenuous life, the struggle for fame and riches, we sometimes fail to appreciate how much we owe to the pioneers of the past, who accomplished far more than they realized, and builded better than they knew. But reverence for age is a fair test of the vigor of youth, and insolence or indifference toward the old and the past, whether in individuals or nations, is a sign of weakness rather than of strength. In celebrating the fifty-sixth year of its existence this association stands tonight upon the record of its past. Its former presiding officers, from Dunlap to Stewart, have been men whose names |