TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

ational Eclectic Medical Association

FOR THE YEARS 1880-81.

INCLUDING THE

PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH ANNUAL MEET-
ING, HELD AT THE CITY OF CHICAGO,
ILLINOIS, JUNE, 1880.

Will be held at St. Louis, Mo., beginning on Wednesday, June 15th, 1881. The attention of members is directed to the Call and Appointments-Schedule E, page 78.

CONTENTS FOR 1880-81.

Portrait of MILBREY GREEN, President......

Officers for 1880-81..

Contents of Volume VIII..

Constitution of National Eclectic Medical Association

By-Laws.....

Standing Resolutions...

PART I-1880-Tenth Annual Meeting.....

Address of Welcome from Dr. A. L. Clark, M.D.

Societies Represented...

Report on American Eclectic Pharmacopoeia

Papers Accompanying the Annual Report....

FRONTISPIECE.

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Schedule A.-ANNUAL ADDRESS by Milbrey Green, M.D., President.

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- B.-Treasurer's Report ...

C.-Names of Members in Arrears...

D.-Communication from the Secretary of the Eclectic Medical

Association of Kansas...

Schedule E.-Eleventh Annual Meeting of the National Eclectic Medical

Association, 1881, TO BE HELD AT ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, JUNE 15-17,

1881....

Schedule F.-REPORTS ON THE STATUS OF ECLECTIC MEDICINE..

NECROLOGY.-Death of Doctor John D. Mason....

PART II-1880-SCIENTIFIC REPORTS AND OTHER PAPERS..

113

(S B.)-SURGERY AND ANATOMY....

113

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Recent Progress in Surgery (Special Report), by A. J. Howe, M.D., Cin-

cinnati......

113

Laryngeology (Special Report), by Milton Jay, M. D., Chicago.

Simple Dressing for Fractured Clavicles, by A. J. Marston, M. D., Ply-

mouth, N. H.......

122

127

Diseases of the Bone, by Wm. L. Tuttle, M. D., Harlem, N. Y

A Case of Strangulated Femoral Hernia in which four inches of the Ileum

were dissected off, and the Patient Recovered her Usual State of

Health, by S. P. Taft, M. D., Newark, N. J...........................

134

Syphilis of the Brain, by Henry S. Firth, M. D., Brooklyn, E. D. N. Y.... 150

Diseases and Deformities of the Spine, by R. A. Gunn, M. D., New York.. 158

(§ B).—HYGIENE, STATE MEDICINE AND MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE......... 173

The Economics of Health, by Alexander Wilder

Physiological and Hygienic Instruction of Patients, by C. E. Miles, M. D.,

Boston Highlands, Mass.....

187

Suppression of Syphilis, by J. Tyler Kent, M. D., St. Louis....

Defective Drainage a Cause of Disease (Address), by S. B. Munn, M. D.,

Disposal of Sewage, by James E. Briggs, M. D., New York..

225

Public Baths as a Precaution against Epidemic, by Jas. M. Hole, M. D.,.......... 235

Influence of Inebriety on Vital and Criminal Statistics.....

241

The Physician in the Witness-box-The Post-mortem and the Evidence

(special report), by Henry B. Piper, Tyrone, Penn.........

(SC)-OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY.

Report on Gynecology, by A. L Clark, M. D...

Puerperal Insanity, by P. D. Yost, M. D., St. Louis, Missouri..

Puerperal Septicemia, by J. V. Lewis, M. D., Alliance, Ohio..

Pathology and Therapeutics of Puerperal Fever, by F. L. Gerald, M. D....

The Use of Anesthetics and the Forceps in Obstetrics, by John Perrins, M.

D., Boston, Mass

Questions for Physicians and Answers for Mothers, by Orin Davis, M. D.,

Attica, N. Y......

Uterine Diseases, by H. K. Stratford, M. D.. Chicago, Ill...

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281

286

286

289

301

306

315

321

330

334

(§ D.)-MATERIA MEDICA-PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND CHEMISTRY.

Materia Medica (Special Report), by Charles Band, M. D., Crete, Nebraska.. 334

Positivism in Medicine, by J. M. Scudder, M. D., Cincinnati....

342

Cardinal Points in the Study of Medical Botany, by Richard E. Kunzé, M.D. 359

Is Specific Medication a Fallacy? by E. S. Moore, Bay Shore, N. Y

...... 393

A Study of Old Remedies, by A. B. Woodward, M.D., Tunkhannock, N. Y. 399

Microscopy in Medical Practice, by G. H. Merkel, M. D, Boston...

Nature of Malarial Poisons (Special Address), by W. S. Latta, M. D., Lin-

coln, Nebraska..

407

427

Report on Chemistry, by A. Merrell, M. D., St. Louis..

431

Phenomena of the Human Pulse, by H. W. Buxton, Worcester, Mass

Addison's Disease, by William Jones, M. D., Newburgh, N. Y....

Nervous Diseases Connected with the Male Genital Function, by J. T. Mc-

445

453

Laughlin, M. D., Springfield, Ohio....

457

Typho-Malarial Fever, by Henry Parker, M. D., Berea, Ohio....

Ecchymosis and Other Effusions of Blood Caused by Nervous Influence, by

Henry Wohlgemuth, M. D., Springfield, Ill.....

462

465

Small-pox Successfully Treated, by Henry Povall, M.D., Mount Morris, N. Y. 473

Hemorrhage from the Bladder, by A. P. Taylor, Sunbury, Ohio...

(E.) THE MIND AND NERVOUS SYSTEM, HEREDITY, REGIMEN, SOCIAL

STATISTICS, ELECTRO-THERAPY...

Relation of Sex to Health and Longevity, by V. A. Baker, M. D., Adrian,

Michigan....

447

Hereditary Influence Upon Disease, by R. W. Geddes, M. D, Winchendon,

Mass....

481

Mental and Physical Exhaustion, by Edwin Younkin, M. D., St. Louis.... 493

Care and Education of Children, by A. G. Springsteen, M. D., Cleveland,

Ohio.......

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505

The Influence of Civilization Upon Longevity, by J. R. Borland, M. D.,

Franklin, Penn.....

Sensibility, Intelligence, Instinct and Mind, by A J Howe, M. D., Cin-

cinnati......

507

518

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Reciprocal Influence of the Mind and Body, by B. J. Stow, M. D., Brook-

lyn, N. Y........

529

Electricity in Therapeutics, by J. T. Kent, M. D., St. Louis, Missouri..... 531

NAMES OF MEMBERS..

545

INDEX.....

551