Transactions, Volume 31

Front Cover
"List of members of the American Medical Association, by states, from its formation in 1846 to and including 1880. Compiled from the annual published minutes. By J. M. Toner, M.D.": 131 p. at end of v. 31.
 

Contents

Artificial Inflation as a Remedial Agent in Diseases of the Lungs By
169
The Electrical Treatment of Exophthalmic Goitre By A D Rockwell
177
On the Use of Sulphur and its Compounds in Diseases of the Skin
185
DietCure of Rheumatism By E N Chapman A M M D of Brook
197
The Strong Galvanic Current in the Treatment of Sciatica The results
205
The Use of Chrysophanic Acid in the Treatment of Diseases of the Skin
215
The Treatment of Scrofulous Disease of the Skin By John V Shoe
221
with Notes of Autopsies By H R Hopkins M D
231
A Further Contribution to the Local Treatment of Pulmonary Cavities
239
Ether HydrobromicusBromide of Ethyl Formula C H Br Molecu
261
Three Cases of Progressive Muscular Degeneration By I N Kerlin
325
The Salisbury Plans in ConsumptionProduction in AnimalsRationale
339
Restoratives By J R Uhler M D of Maryland 409
409
Minutes of the Section on State Medicine
420
Address in Medical Jurisprudence Psychology Chemistry State Medi
420
The National Board of Health and National Quarantine By John
435
The Deathrate of the Rich and Poor By Charles Robert Drysdale M D
457
The Relation of the Medical and Legal Professions to Criminal Abortion
465
Unsanitary Engineering and Architecture By A N Bell A M M D
473
The Temperature of LivingRooms By R C Kedzie M D of Michigan
479
The Personal Factor in the Etiology of Preventable Disease By Alfred
491
Moral Treatment of the Insane By Charles W Page M D of Con
497
Intervention of the Physician in Education By R J OSullivan of
507
On the Criminal Use of Chloroform By J N Quimby M D of
519
Report of Committee on Sanitaria and on Mineral Springs
537
Humane Societies By William F Thoms M D of New York
567
Minutes of the Section on Obstetrics and Diseases of Women
581
On the Management of the Third Stage of Abortion with Retention
603
A New Instrument for Dilating the Cervix Uteri and Restoring the
613
StillbirthResuscitation after Two Hours and Five Minutes By Robert
637
A Case of Congenital Occlusion and Dilatation of the Lymph Channels
727
Case of SupraPubic Lithotomy By A Jacobi M D of New York
733
Minutes of the Section on Surgery and Anatomy
745
A New Appliance for the Treatment of Club Foot and other Deformities
753
A Plea for the Preventive Trephine By W T Briggs M D of Ten
755
Section of the InfraOrbital and Inferior Dental Nerves for Neuralgia
773
The Mechanical Treatment of some of the more Common Abnormal Con
779
Spinal Extension its Modes Means and Motives By Benjamin Lee
793
Surgical Treatment of NasoPharyngeal Catarrh By D H Goodwillie
803
Thoracentesis By Charles A Leale M D of New York
815
Laparotomy and Colotomy with Formation of Artificial Anus for Obstruc
831
A Case of Torticollis Cured by Division of the SternoCleidoMastoid
837
Aspiration in Pericardial Effusions By John B Roberts M D
861
On SkinGrafting with a Report of some Interesting Cases By Laurence
869
On the Treatment of Syphilis at the Commencement and End of the 19th
877
Treatment of Fractures of Long Bones involving Joints By James
883
Some Points in the Treatment of Hemorrhoids By William R D
891
Pennsylvania
899
The Development of the Osseous Callus in Fractures of the Bones of
907
HipJoint Disease Illustrated By De Forest Willard M D of Penn
925
Report of one of the Delegates of the American Medical Association to
943
Report of Laurence Turnbull M D Pennsylvania Secretary of
961
Report of Dr Laurence Turnbull Secretary of the Foreign Delegation
977
The Abuse of Medical Charities
987
Report on American Medical Necrology By J M Toner M D
1003
Plan of Organization for a National Medical Association
1105
Ordinances
1117
Code of Medical Ethics
1123
Catalogue of the Officers of the American Medical Association
1139
Index
1149

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Page 1088 - Each State, county, and district medical society, entitled to representation, shall have the privilege of sending to the Association one delegate for every ten of its regular resident members, and one for every additional fraction of more than half that number; Provided, however, that the number of...
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