The E. B. Yordy Co., Printing and Blank Book Making.

1920.

PREFACE.

With the publication of Vols. XIX and XX in 1913 the Transactions of the Luzerne County Medical Society were temporarily suspended owing to the fact that the Society was about entering upon a larger project-the erection of a building for its library and for general uses and felt the necessity for conserving its finances. Later during the world war, with the Society still in debt it was deemed inadvisable to incur the expense of an annual volume. Happily the new building is an accomplished fact and the debt on same has been paid and Vol. XXI of our Transactions for the year ending December 31, 1919, appears. It has been impossible to collect and publish all of the excellent papers that were read between 1912 and 1919, but some of them may appear later. Owing also to the size of the present volume, occasioned partly by the desire to preserve the war record of our members, the biographies of our deceased members are omitted until a subsequent volume is issued.

We regret exceedingly that we could not make the war record complete. This is due to the indifference on the part of members in responding to request for information. The new ByLaws recently adopted by the Society appear at the end of this volume.

LEWIS H. TAYLOR, Editor.

EDWARD WELLES BIXBY,

RAYMOND LYNDE WADHAMS,

Publication Committee.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES FOR 1920...

PREFACE

PRESIDENTS OF LUZERNE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ADDRESS OF THE RETIRING PRESIDENT (1913). Dr. E. U. Buckman

ADDRESS OF THE RETIRING PRESIDENT (1916). Dr. Richard P.

Taylor

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3

4

5

7

13

25

ADDRESS OF THE RETIRING PRESIDENT (1917). Dr. E. L. Meyers 18

SOME OF THE PROBLEMS OF THE INDUSTRIAL PHYSICIANS

IN THE ANTHRACITE COAL FIELDS. Dr. James W. Geist......

THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY TWENTY-FIVE

YEARS AGO AND NOW. Dr. Richard P. Taylor..
31

DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF STERILITY. Dr. Alfred E. Foster 41

INTERNAL SECRETIONS. Dr. G. L. Howell.....

46

MY EXPERIENCE DURING THE RECENT EPIDEMIC OF INFLU-

ENZA IN MASSACHUSETTS. Dr. S. M. Wolfe...

EXPERIENCES IN THE RECENT EPIDEMIC OF INFLUENZA IN

MASSACHUSETTS. Dr. E. Richards.

54

60

DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASE OF THE LUNGS, ESPECIALLY TUBER-

CULOSIS. Dr. W. J. Davis...

TRANSMISSIBILITY OF BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS TO THE HUMAN

BEING. Dr. George A. Clark.

63

71

THE EFFECTS OF INJURIES TO THE HEAD WITH SPECIAL

REFERENCE TO SCALP, SKULL AND BRAIN. Dr. X. K. Collman 76

DIARRHOEA IN CHILDREN. Dr. Thomas F. Fleming..

REPORT OF A CASE OF FOREIGN BODY IN THE LUNG, AND ITS

REMOVAL. Dr. Homer B. Wilcox..

SYMPOSIUM ON

TUBERCULOSIS-MECHANISM

PRODUCTION. Dr. A. T. McClintock...

X-RAY IN TUBERCULOSIS. Dr. Lewis L. Rogers Jr..

THE RELATION OF THE PHYSICIAN ΤΟ THE

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OF DISEASE

89

102

CORONER'S

OFFICE. Dr. Charles L. Ashley..

III

THE PRESENT METHOD OF TREATING FRACTURE OF THE

PATELLA. Dr. Charles D. Schaeffer.....

..119

BARANY TESTS IN THE LOCALIZATION OF LESIONS IN THE

BRAIN STEM AND CEREBELLUM. Dr. P. M. Kerr....

A STUDY OF THIRTY-SIX CASES OF EPIDEMIC CEREBRO-

SPINAL MENINGITIS. Dr. D. F. Daley......

EXPERIENCES WITH THE 109TH ARTILLERY IN THE LATE

WAR IN FRANCE. Dr. E. W. Bixby.

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142

THE TREATMENT OF FRACTURES AS SEEN IN THE BASE

HOSPITALS OF THE BRITISH ARMY. Dr. H. A. Smith..

ANESTHETICS IN OBSTETRICS. Dr. F. Kleintob.

PYELITIS. Dr. J. J. McHugh.

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DRUGS IN TREATMENT OF HEART DISEASE. Dr. H. W. Deibel...169

LUZERNE COUNTY PHYSICIANS IN THE WORLD WAR..

CHARTER OF THE LUZERNE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

BY-LAWS OF THE LUZERNE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

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