CONTENTS. ANNUAL DISCOURSE FOR 1837. On some of the Diseases of the Knee-Joint. By GEORGE HAYWARD, M. D. . . Observations on the Influence of Stagnant Water and Air upon Health. By DANIEL OSGOOD, M. D. ANNUAL DISCOURSE FOR 1838. Historical Sketch of the Origin A Report, founded on the Cases of Typhoid Fever, or the com- mon continued Fever of New England, which occurred in On the Treatment of Delirium Tremens. By JOHN WARE, M. D. 175 333 Tables of Fractures in the Mass. General Hospital, . ANNUAL DISCOURSE FOR 1841. On the Present Condition, APPENDIX. Proceedings of the Society at the Annual Meeting, May, 1837, Honorary Members elected, and Fellows admitted, from June, Honorary Members and Fellows, June, 1838, to June, 1839, ARTICLE I. ON SOME OF THE DISEASES OF THE KNEE-JOINT. BY GEORGE HAYWARD, M. D., Professor of the Principles of Surgery, and of Clinical Surgery, in Harvard University. [Delivered before the Society, May 31, 1837.] MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE SOCIETY: A PRACTICAL Subject seems to be the most suitable for this occasion. The design of the annual discourse is not so much to impart information as to elicit it; and this can be best effected by treating on some obscure point connected with our profession, and thus exciting farther inquiry and observation. There is not time for a full treatise on any subject; and if there were, I do not feel that I could offer one, that would be either new or instructive to those whom I have the honor to address. But it may be in my power to suggest some topics, that may be thought worthy of farther investigation; and I do not hope to do any thing more than this. Such, unfortunately, is the condition of the healing art, even at the present day, that there are many points, in all its departments, in which the pathology |