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TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

N

ational Eclectic Medical Association,

FOR THE YEARS 1883-84.

INCLUDING THE

PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEET-
ING, HELD AT THE CITY OF TOPEKA,
KANSAS, JUNE, 1883.

EDITED BY ALEXANDER WILDER, SECRETARY.

VOL. XI.

PUBLISHED IN BEHALF OF THE ASSOCIATION.

"Literature is the Immortality of Speech."

ORANGE, N. J.:

CHRONICLE BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFice,

1884.

THE ANNUAL MEETING WILL BE HELD AT CINCINNATI, OHIO, BEGINNING
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1884, AND CONTINUING THREE DAYS.
SEE PAGE 406 FOR PARTICULARS.

CONTENTS FOR 1883-84.

Portrait of Andrew Jackson Howe....

Officers for 1883-84..

Contents of Vol. XI..

Constitution of the National Eclectic Medical Association.

By-Laws....

Standing Resolutions.

Part I., 1883--Thirteenth Annual Meeting.

Governor Glick's Address of Welcome..

President Howe's Reply..

Societies Represented...

Treasurer's Annual Report..

. Frontispiece.

Papers Accompanying the Annual Report..

Schedule A.-Address by A. J. Howe, President.

B.-Reports on Status of Eclectic Medicine..

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Part II.-Scientific Reports, Papers from Sections, etc.

(§ A.) Surgery, General and Special...

Progress of Surgery (Address) by Milton Jay, M. D., Chairman of Section, Chi-

Plastic Operation, by T. Hodge Jones, M. D., Lamar, Missouri....

Notes on Syphilis, by A. J. Howe, M. D..

Rest in Conservative Surgery, by S. E. Martin, M. D., Topeka, Kansas..

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(§ B.) Medicine, General and Special..

Sanitary House-Drainage (Address), by Milbrey Green, M. D., Boston, Mass.,

Chairman of Section..

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Medicine (Report), by J. A. Munk, M. D., Topeka, Kansas, Secretary.

Early Brain and Physical Culture, by Alexander Wilder, M. D..

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Report on Surgical Progress, by L. E. Russell, M.D., Springfield, Ohio, Secretary 83

Thoughts on Surgical Practice, by Charles Band, M. D., Crete, Nebraska..... 90

Fractures Improved Apparatus and Methods in their Treatment, by E. Youn-

kin, M. D., St. Louis, Mo.....

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Bronchotomy, by W. R. G. Samuels, M. D., F. A. S., San Francisco, Cal..... III

Railroad Surgery, by L. E. Russell, M. D., Springfield, Ohio....
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When Shall We Amputate? by J. W. Pruitt, M. D., Russellville, Arkansas............. 122

Antiseptic Wound-Dressing, by David Wark, M. D., New York, N. Y.

Prostatic Calculus, by A. J. Howe, M. D., Cincinnati, Ohio

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Meddling and Mistreating of a Case, by G. C. Chaney, M. D., Independence,

Kansas....

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