OF THE

CONNECTICUT

STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY

1918

126th ANNUAL CONVENTION

HELD AT

HARTFORD, MAY 15th and 16th, 1918

EDITOR

JOHN E. LANE

PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY

PRINTED, JUNE, 1918

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The Connecticut State Medical Society does not hold itself responsible for the opinions contained in any article unless such opinions are indorsed by special vote. All communications intended for the Connecticut State Medical Society should be addressed to the secretary, John E. Lane, M.D., 59 College Street, New Haven, Conn.

The next annual meeting of the Connecticut State Medical Society will be held in Bridgeport, May 21st and 22d, 1919,

The next semi-annual meeting of the Connecticut State Medical
Society will be held in conjunction with that of the New London County
Medical Association at New London, Thursday, October 3, 1918.

THE T. M. & T. PRESS

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1918-19,

COMMITTEES OF THE SOCIETY, 1918-19,

MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF Delegates,

COMMITTEES OF THE SOCIETY, 1917-18,

MINUTES OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATER

(1) Report of the President,

(2) Report of the Secretary,

(3) Report of the Chairman of the Council,

(4) Reports of the Councilors, .

(a) Fairfield County,

(b) Hartford County,

(c) Litchfield County,

(d) Middlesex County,

(e) New Haven County,

(f) New London County,

(g) Tolland County,

(h) Windham County,

(5) Report of the Treasurer,

(6) Report of the Committee on Public Policy and Legislation,

(7) Report of the Committee on Medical Examination and

Medical Education,

(8) Report of the Committee on Scientific Work,

(9) Report of the Committee on Honorary Members and

Degrees,

(10) Report of the Committee on Arrangements,

(11) Report of the Committee on a Sanatorium for the Nervous

Poor,

(12) Report of the Committee on a State Farm for Inebriates,

(13) Report of the Committee on Medical Inspection of Schools,

(14) Report of the Committee on National Legislation, .

(15) Report of the Delegates to the American Medical Associa-

tion,

(16) Report of the Committee on Hospitals,

(17) Report of the Committee on the Maryland Plan,

(18) Report of the Delegate to Pennsylvania, .

(19) Report of the Committee on Medical Defense,

Minutes of Business Transacted in the Scientific Sessions,

The Smoker and the Banquet, .

President's Address,

Scientific Papers.

Acute Appendicitis with Observations of Fifty Consecutive Cases.

John F. Shea, M.D., Bridgeport,

DISCUSSION,

Tuberculosis of the Lungs with Especial Reference to the Importance

of Adenopathy. James A. Honeij, M.D., New Haven, .

DISCUSSION,

The Medical Profession and the New Public Health. Eugene R.

Kelley, M.D., Boston, .

DISCUSSION,

The Federal Campaign against Venereal Diseases. Prof. C.-E. A.

Winslow, New Haven,

The Work of the Connecticut State Department of Health in the

Prevention of Venereal Diseases. John T. Black, M.D., Hart-

ford,

DISCUSSION,

Some Relations of Diet to Disease. Prof. Lafayette B. Mendel, New

Haven,

DISCUSSION,

The Enlarged Thymus Gland in Childhood. Howard W. Brayton,

M.D., Hartford,

DISCUSSION,

Life Insurance-Some Points of Medical Interest. Robert L.Rowley,

M.D., Hartford,

DISCUSSION,

Laws Governing the Commitment of the Insane. The Importance of

Early Hospital Treatment for Manic-Depressive Cases. White-

field N. Thompson, M.D., Hartford,

DISCUSSION,

The Physician's Part in the War. Major F. F. Simpson, M.R.C.,

Obituaries.

Jerome S. Bissell, by Abram J. Barker,

Patrick J. Cassidy, by L. F. LaPierre,

Papers Read at Semi-Annual Meeting,

Early Syphilis as a Public Health Problem. Walter J. Heimann,

M.D., New York,

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The Problem of Venereal Disease in its Relation to Penal Insti-

tutions. Edith R. Spaulding, M.D., Bedford Hills, N. Y., . . 175

Syphilis in Relation to Mental Disease. William C. Sandy, M.D.,

Middletown,

PROGRAMS OF COUNTY MEETINGS,

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