TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

National Eclectic Medical Association

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
FOR THE YEARS 1890-91.

INCLUDING THE

PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEET-
ING, HELD AT NIAGARA FALLS, NEW
YORK, JUNE, 1890,

TOGETHER WITH THE

Journals of the Sections, Phonographically Reported,

AND THE

PAPERS CONTRIBUTED.

EDITED BY ALEXANDER WILDER, SECRETARY.

VOL. XVIII.

PUBLISHED IN BEHALF OF THE ASSOCIATION.

"The physician owes it to his profession and his fellow beings to know and do what is best.
He may not be like Humboldt's parrot which talked as if it knew all, but nobody understood it be-
cause it spoke only in the language of a tribe many years extinct."

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THE CHRONICLE PRESS,

1891.
W

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Constitution, By-Laws, etc., of the National Eclectic Medical Association, I

Statute Incorporating the Association,

2

By-Laws of the National Eclectic Medical Association,

5

63

Treasurer Anton's Annual Report for 1890,

Papers Accompanying the Annual Report.

Schedule A.-Annual Address by Willliam T. Gemmill, M. D., President,

Schedule B.-ANNUAL MEETING FOR 1891, at Hot Springs, Ark., June 16, 1891, 71

Schedule C.-The Mutual Aid Society,

Schedule D.-Reports on Status of Eclectic Medicine,

PART II.-MEETINGS of the SECTIONS, reported phonographically by A. B.

Weaver, Buffalo,

87

89

93

III

Section A.—Public Hygiene, State Medicine, Med. Jurisprudence-proceedings, 111

Papers.-Medical Jurisprudence, by L. E. Russell,

Section B.-Practice of Medicine and Clinic Medicine-proceedings,

Address by Dr. H. Wohlgemuth,

Discussion,

Papers.-Remedies, by Dr. H. Povall,

46

66

122

128

135

135

139

140

Eruptive Fevers: their Symptoms and Incubation, L. T. Branch, 156

What Constitutes the Physician, by T. Mulligan,

Remedies at Hand, by Anna E. Park,

Malaria: is it a Disease or an Agent? by D. E. Evans,

Temperament as a Factor in Diagnosis, by George Covert,

Section C.-Obstetrics, Gynecology and Diseases of the Pelvic Viscera, .

Paper: The Porro Operation vs. the Cæsarian Section, by A. J. Howe, .

Discussion on Ovariotomy, etc.,

Papers. Delirium during Pregnancy, by F. Ellingwood,

Notes upon Abortion, by E. H. Stevenson,

Intermediate Trachellorrhaphy, by W. H. May,

Section D.-General and Orthopaedic Surgery-proceedings,

Paper.-Hernia, by Milton Jay,

Discussion,

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167

174

180

180

195

215

224

227

233

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237

Papers.-Litholopaxy, by Lee H. Smith,

Science, Art and Progress of Surgery, by J. W. Pruitt,

Anæsthesia, by Henry Long

Section E.-Ophthalmology, Otology and Laryngology-proceedings,

Paper.-Extraction of Cataract, by J. B. McFatrich,

Section F.-Electro-Therapeutics and Nervous Diseases—proceedings,

Paper.-Nervous Disorders, by T. J. Batcheider,

Discussion,

Papers. Why does Electrolysis so often Fail in Electric Therapeutics?

248

252

255

261

260

264

268

271

279

280

284

289

Electricity in Painful Diseases, by G. W. D. Patterson,

Electro-Therapeutics in Nervous Diseases, by H. Povall,

Chorea, by J. R. Borland,

304

Mental Therapeutics, by H. Wohlgemuth,

306

309

66

66

Section G.-Materia Medica, Medical Botany and Medical Chemistry,

Therapeutic Influence of the Mind upon Disease, J. M. Peebles, 312

Tetanus; a Case in Practice, by J. Tascher,

Diphtheria, by G. Edward Potter,

320

323

331

Papers.-Survey of the Field by a Veteran, by H. C. Gazlay,

Therapeutics of Alkalies and Acids, by J. R. Borland,

336

The Examination of the Urine-its Diagnostic Value, by J. R. Borland,

NECROLOGY.-D. B. Williams,

351

375

Pneumonitisin Children Simulating Cerebral Meningitis, by

379

389

INDEX.