CONTENTS.

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Officers of the Institute and Members of Bureaus and Committees for 1881,.

Officers of the Institute and Members of Bureaus and Committees for 1882,

Opening exercises of the Thirty-fourth Session,.

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Report of the Publication Committee, by J. C. BURGHER, M.D.,...

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Report of the Editor of the Transactions of 1876 and 1879, J. C. GUERNSEY, M.D.,.

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Reception tendered to the Institute by the Homœo. Med. Soc'y of City and County of N. Y. 40

Report of the Bureau of Organization, Registration and Statistics,.

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Report of the Bureau of Psychological Medicine,...

41

Report of the Bureau of General Sanitary Science, Climatology and Hygiene,..

42

Report of the Bureau of Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Provings,..

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Invitation to visit the Homeopathic Hospital, Ward's Island,..

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Reports of Delegates from State and County Medical Societies and Clubs,.

46

Report of Committee on Medical Literature..

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Report of the Bureau of Obstetrics,......

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Report of the Bureau of Pædology,.

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Report of the Bureau of Ophthalmology, Otology and Laryngology,.

Report of the Bureau of Gynecology,...

Report of Delegates to the American Public Health Association,.

Report of the Committee on Railroad Fare,......

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Report of the Committee of Arrangements for the International Convention,..

Election of Officers for and Selection of Place for Next Meeting..

Memorial Service,....

Resolution in regard to Memorial Volume...

Remarks of DR. MOHR on the same,....

DR. H. M. SMITH's remarks on the Disposition of the late DR. C. HERING's Library,

Appointment of Committee on same,.

Resolution in regard to the death of DR. IGNATIO BERRIER, of South America,.

Committee on same,....

Report of the Intercollegiate Committee,..

Supplementary Report of same,.....

Pathology added to the Bureau of Anatomy and Physiology,.....

Resolution in regard to the Edinburgh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica,

Resolution in regard to the American edition,....

DR. A. CLAUDE, Paris, France, elected a Corresponding Member,.

New Order of Membership proposed,..

Resolutions of Thanks adopted..

Complete Report of the Board of Censors,.

Report of the Treasurer,............

List of Senior Members present,

Physicians in Attendance,.

Memoirs,...

Social events, (Appendix,).

Presidential Excursion,.

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Banquet,..

Reception by the Homœopathic Medical Society of the County and City of New York,..142

Report of the Bureau of Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Provings.

Introductory Report. A. C. COWPERTHWAITE, M.D.,..............

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Papaya Vulgaris. E. M. HALE, M.D.,....................

.149

Schema of the Provings of same. A. C. COWPERTHWAITE, M.D.,.

..154

Schema of the Provings of Caladium Seg. A. C. COWPERTHWAITE, M.D.,

Observations on the Report of the Bureau. A. C. COWPERTHWAITE, M.D.,

Confirmed Symptoms. E. A. FARRINGTON, M.D.,.

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Physiological Materia Medica. E. A. FARRINGTON, M.D.,..

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Mode of Drug Action in the Cure of Disease. WM. OWENS, M.D.,.

Discussion,.....

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Report of the Bureau of Clinical Medicine.

Prejudice-The chief obstacle to the Scientific Investigation of Posology in Clinical

Medicine. H. C. ALLEN, M.D.......

Remarks on Posology, with cases from the writer's own practice,.

Observations on Dose. W. P. ARMSTRONG, M.D.,..

Mania a Potu. GEORGE F. FOOTE, M.D.,.

Report of the Bureau of Podology.

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Hereditary Syphilis. T. M. STRONG, M.D.,

Infantile Syphilis. W. H. JENNEY, M.D.,.

Infantile Syphilis-Mode of Communication. W. A. EDMONDS, M.D.,

Modified Syphilis in Children. J. C. MORGAN, M.D.,.

The Treatment of Infantile Syphilis. A. S. EVERETT, M.D.,

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.275

To What Extent are we Justified in or Required to Treat Pregnant Women for the

Prevention of Diseases of Children after Birth? C. S. MIDDLETON, M.D.,..........283

Report of the Bureau of Psychological Medicine.

Indispensables in the Cure of the Insane. T. L. BROWN, M.D.,.............

On the Relations of Pulmonary Phthisis to Insanity. S. LILIENTHAL, M.D.,

Discussion,...

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Report of the Bureau of General Sanitary Science, Climatology and

Hygiene.

Recent Progress of Sanitary Affairs. B. W. JAMES, M.D....

Hygiene in its Relations to Medication. B. W. JAMES, M.D.,.

Personal Hygiene as to Dwellings Occupied. T. S. VERDI, M.D.,

Personal Hygiene as to Districts Inhabited. E. U. JONES, M.D.,

Hygiene of Occupation. A. R. WRIGHT, M.D.,.

Personal Hygiene as to Habits Formed. T. P. WILSON, M.D.,.

The Hygiene of Foods-An Experiment. H. W. TAYLOR, M.D.,.

Personal Hygiene as to Fluids Drank. G. M. OCKFORD, M.D.,.

Personal Hygiene as to Clothing Worn. L. D. MORSE, M.D.,.

Personal Hygiene in its Relation to the Sewage Problem. W. M. CATE, M.D.,.

Discussion,...

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Report of the Bureau of Obstetrics.

Puerperal Mortality: A Study. G. B. PECK, M.D.,.

Hæmorrhage. MILLIE J. CHAPMAN, M.D.,..........

Puerperal Mortality: Febrile-Preventive. C. G. HIGBEE, M.D.,.

Postpartum Perils. ISAAC W. SAWIN, M.D.,....

Extra-Uterine Pregnancy: Its Description and Treatment. R. C. ALLEN, M.D.,.

Infant Mortality Due to Parturition. O. B. GAUSE, M.D.,..

Discussion,.....

Report of the Bureau of Gynæcology.

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Practical Observations on Laceration of the Cervix Uteri. R. LUDLAM, M.D..

Laceration of the Cervix Uteri. T. G. COMSTOCK, M.D.,.......

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Treatment of Laceration of the Cervix Uteri. R. C. ALLEN, M.D.,....

Intramural Fibro-Cellular Tumor of Uterus and Removal. C. ORMES, M.D.,

Discussion,.....

Rotary Lateral Curvature of the Spine. J. H. MCCLELLAND, M.D.,

Improvements in the Treatment of Fractures of the Femur in the Aged and Feeble.

Report of the Bureau of Ophthalmology, Otology and Laryngology.

Hyperæmia of the Internal Ear. W. H. WINSLOW, M.D.,.....

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Kali Phosphorica in Suppurative Otitis. H. C. HOUGHTON, M.D.,

Relaxation of the Membrana Tympani. J. H. BUFFUM, M.D.,.

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The Anomalies of Refraction and Accommodation. C. H. VILAS, M.D.,.

.625

Report of the Bureau of Microscopy and Histology.

Pseudo-Membrane, especially the Diphtheritic. W. H. WINSLOW, M.D.,..

Cancer and its Diagnosis. J. EDWARDS SMITH, M.D..

Report of the Bureau of Anatomy and Physiology.

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Medical and Surgical Surface Marks of the Abdomen. A. 8. EVERETT, M.D.........

Analogy of the Eye and Ear. W. H. WINSLOW, M.D....

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A Contribution to the Physiology of Catamenia. WM. VON GOTTSCHALCK, M.D..

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Report of the Bureau of Organization, Registration and Statistics.

PROCEEDINGS

AND

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

OF THE

THIRTY-FOURTH SESSION

AND

Thirty-eighth Anniversary

OF THE

American Institute of Homœopathy.

1881.