Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates:May I ask you to stand with me as a silent tribute to the memory of our friend and brother who has gone. I give you this sentiment: God rest your soul, dear old Mac! You were a good soldier and made a brave fight! May your spirit descend and ever abide with us to inspire and bless us as we journey on! Respectfully submitted, FRANK K. HALLOCK, Chairman. (7) Report of the Committee on Medical Examinations and Medical Education, by Dr. Charles A. Tuttle (New Haven): REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL EDUCATION. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: The Committee on Medical Examinations and the Committee on Medical Education presents herewith their Twenty-fifth annual report. There have been examined during the past year ninety candidates for certificates of qualification in General Practice of whom sixty-one or 67.7 per cent have been found qualified and to whom certificates have been granted. Certificates also have been issued to five without examination, they having been in practice in other States when our law went into effect on May 25, 1893. Thus a total possible addition to our numbers of sixty-six. The work of the Board has been carried on with some considerable difficulties during the year because of the absence of Drs. Hyde, Rowley and Hynes, all of whom are in Service. Respectfully submitted, CHARLES A. TUTTLE, Secretary. (8) Report of the Committee on Scientific Work, by Dr. Ernest A. Wells (Hartford): REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENTIFIC WORK. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: Your Committee on Scientific Work has held three meetings, one in New Haven, one in Willimantic and one in Hartford. At these three meetings we have arranged programmes for the fall and spring meetings of this Society. We have attempted, for the first time in Hartford, to hold clinical sessions in our hospitals. The Hartford Hospital and the Retreat for the Insane have made the attempt and the result will be for you to judge to-morrow morning. The programmes which we have submitted are as follows: At Willimantic, Thursday, October 18, 1917, Semi-Annual Meeting; SCIENTIFIC SESSION. 1.30 P. M. Address of Welcome.-Dr. Ernest R. Pike, East Woodstock. For the Connecticut State Medical Society.-Dr. Edward K. Root, Hartford. For the Connecticut Society of Social Hygiene.-Dr. Thomas N. Hepburn, Hartford. For the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene.-Dr. Whitefield N. Thompson, Hartford. Early Syphilis as a Public Health Problem.-Dr. Walter J. Heimann, Adjunct Professor of Dermatology, New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, New York. The Problem of Venereal Diseases in its Relation to Penal Institutions.— Dr. Edith R. Spaulding, Director of the Psychopathic Hospital of the Laboratory of Social Hygiene, Bedford Hills, New York. Syphilis in its Relation to Mental Disease.-Dr. William C. Sandy, Assistant Superintendent of the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane, Middle town. ANNUAL MEETING, HARTFORD, MAY 15-16, 1918. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM. WEDNESDAY Afternoon, May 15, 2 O'CLOCK. Reception of Visiting Delegates. Acute Appendicitis with Observations of Fifty Consecutive Cases.-Dr. John F. Shea, Bridgeport. Discussion: Dr. Daniel Sullivan, New London. The Enlarged Thymus Gland in Childhood.-Dr. Howard W. Brayton, Hartford. Discussion: Dr. Joseph I. Linde, New Haven. Tuberculosis of the Lungs with Especial Reference to the Importance of Adenopathy. Dr. James A. Honeij, New Haven. Discussion: Dr. George Blumer, New Haven. Life Insurance from Points of Medical Interest.—Dr. Robert L. Rowley, Hartford. Discussion: Dr. E. K. Root, Hartford. Report of the Chairman of the State Committee of National Defense, Medical Section, and Observations Relative to Physical Examination by Exemption Boards.—Captain D. Chester Brown, Medical Aide to the Governor, Danbury. CLINICAL SESSION. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 16, AT THE HARTFORD HOSPITAL. 10.00 The Hartford Hospital, its History and Present Activities.—Dr. Louis A. Sexton, Superintendent. 10.00-12.00 Gynæcological Operations.—Dr. P. H. Ingalls and Staff. Treatment of Hæmorrhage in the Newborn by Injections of Whole Blood.-Dr. H. G. Jarvis. 10.10 10.20 Exhibition of X-ray Plates.-Dr. A. C. Heublein. 10.30 Demonstration on Patient of the Use of the Esophagoscope.—Dr. William Dwyer. 10.40 Urological Cases. (1) Essential Hæmaturia, (2) Congenital Quadruple Kidneys and Ureters, (3) Sarcoma of Bladder.—Dr. T. N. Hepburn. 10.50 Demonstration of Pathological Specimens. (1) Chorio-epithelioma, (2) Carcinoma and Tuberculosis in the same Testis.-Dr. Henry C. Russ. 11.00 Congenital Pyloric Stenosis.—Dr. E. R. Lampson. 11.10 Unsuspected Foreign Bodies in the Eye. Demonstration of Apparatus and Methods for Localization and Extraction.-Dr. E. Terry Smith. II.20 Treatment of Fractures of the Neck of the Femur and of the External Condyle of the Humerus. Treatment of Sarcomata of the Long Bones.-Dr. Paul P. Swett. 11.30 Hereditary Hæmorrhagic Telangiectasia.-Dr. Walter R. Steiner. 11.40 Pediatric Cases.-Dr. Charles A. Goodrich and Staff. 11.50 Medical Cases.-Dr. E. K. Root and Staff. AT THE HARTFORD RETREAT FOR THE INSANE. (In Auditorium. Entrance via Retreat Avenue, One Block from the Hartford Hospital.) 12.15 Demonstration of Cases.-Dr. W. N. Thompson and Staff. 1.00 Luncheon and Garden Party on the Grounds of the Retreat.— Courtesy of the Hartford Retreat for the Insane. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 16, 2.30 O'CLOCK. Reception of Visiting Delegates. President's Address. The American Physique.-Dr. Edward K. Root, Hartford. Some Relations of Diet to Disease.-Prof. Lafayette B. Mendel, New Haven (by invitation). Discussion: Dr. Wilder Tileston, New Haven. Laws Governing the Commitment of the Insane. The Importance of Early Hospital Treatment for Manic-Depressive Cases.-Dr. Whitefield N. Thompson, Hartford. Discussion: Dr. C. Floyd Haviland, Middletown. The Medical Profession and the New Public Health.-Dr. Eugene R. Kelley, Boston, Director of the Division of Communicable Diseases of the State Department of Health of Massachusetts (by invitation). Discussion: Prof. C.-E. A. Winslow, New Haven (by invitation); Dr. John T. Black, Hartford. The Federal Campaign Against Venereal Diseases.-Prof. C.-E. A. Winslow, New Haven (by invitation). The Work of the Connecticut State Department of Health in the Prevention of Venereal Diseases.—Dr. John T. Black, Hartford, Respectfully submitted, ERNEST A. Wells, Chairman. (9) Report of the Committee on Honorary Members and Degrees, by Dr. Max Mailhouse (New Haven): REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HONORARY Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: The Committee on Honorary Members and Degrees begs leave to report that it has considered the name of Dr. Harvey Cushing of Cambridge, Mass., nominated as candidate for honorary membership at our last meeting, and that his election is recommended. Respectfully submitted, MAX MAILHOUSE, Chairman. (10) Report of the Committee on Arrangements, by Dr. George R. Miller (Hartford): REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: The Entertainment Committee reports that they have made arrangements for the Scientific Sessions, Meeting of the House of Delegates and Meeting of the Council at the Hunt Memorial. Also that on Wednesday evening, May 15th, at 8 o'clock, a Smoker, at the Hunt Memorial, will be given by the Hartford Medical Society, to which all are cordially invited. The Annual Banquet will be given in the Banquet Hall of the Hartford Club, Thursday evening, May 16th, at 6.30 o'clock. I wish at this time to call the attention of all the members to the fact that the Annual Banquet is designed to be a patriotic demonstration in honor of those members of the Society who are now in the service of the Government, and it is hoped that all who can possibly do so will be present, as a large attendance is desired, and it will be, in a sense, an opportunity for the members to express their appreciation of the patriotic sacrifices which |