TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

AMERICAN PEDIATRIC SOCIETY

SEVENTEENTH SESSION

HELD AT HOTEL SAGAMORE, LAKE GEORGE, N. Y.,
JUNE 19, 20 and 21, 1905

A. G. SHERWOOD & CO., PRINTERS.

47 LAFAYETTE PLACE,

NEW YORK.

CONTENTS

List of Presidents..

List of Officers for the Year 1905

List of Meeting Places..

List of Officers for the Year 1906......

List of Members......

List of Deceased Members....

Obituary. WALTER S. CHRISTOPHER, M.D.....

Minutes of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting..

I. Presidential Address. The Medical Supervision of Schools and

the Progress of School Hygiene. By CHARLES GOODWIN

JENNINGS, M.D..............

II. Congenital Laryngeal Stridor—A Contribution to the Pathology

of the Affection with Report of an Autopsy on a Case. By

HENRY KOPLIK, M.D..

III. Sclerema Neonatorum. By J. P. CROZER GRIFFITH, M.D........ 27

IV. Case of Sepsis in a Newly-Born Infant. By A. JACOBI, M.D., LL.D. 31

V.

A Case of Stenosis of the Pylorus in an Infant. By J. CROZER

GRIFFITH, M.D...

...

37

VI. Two Operative Cases of Pyloric Stenosis in Infants. By THOMAS

MORGAN ROTCH, M.D., and MAYNARD LADD, M.D..

41

VII. The Use of Citrate of Soda in Infant Feeding. By HENRY Larned

KEITH SHAW, M.D...

50

VIII. Fat Indigestion from a Mother's Milk. By W. P. NORTHRUP, M.D. 59

IX. Acid Autointoxication in Infancy and Childhood. By JOHN Lovett

MORSE, A.M., M.D......

63

X. Eye Symptoms of Infantile Scurvy. A Case of Infantile Scurvy

with Extreme Protrusion of the Right Eyeball, Shown by

Autopsy to be Due to a Large Retrobulbar Hematoma. By

IRVING SNOW, M.D..

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78

XI. Temperature, Pulse and Respiration Relationships in Infancy and

Childhood. By MYER SOLIS COHEN, A.B., M.D.....................

83

XII. Notes of a Case of Acute Leukemia. By A. D. BLACKADER, B.A.,

M.D., and B. D GILLIES, M.D.

96

XIII. A Case of Acute Aleukemic Leukemia in a Boy Two and One-half

Years Old. By ALFRED HAND, Jr., M.D......

106

XIV. A Study of Leukocyte Counts in Fifty Cases of Bronchopneu-

monia, Lobar Pneumonia and Empyema in Children. By

HENRY HEIMAN, M.D.................

112

XV. An Unusual Case of Tuberculosis in an Infant. By CHARLES W.

TOWNSEND, M.D.......

123

XVI. A Plea for the More Timely Use of Intubation in Laryngeal

Stenosis, and for the Use of Tracheotomy in Certain Neglected

Cases. By E. W. SAUNDERS, M.D.......

133

XVII. A Case of Acute Yellow Atrophy of the Liver in a Child Five

Years of Age. By A. H. WENTWORTH, M.D.......

140

XVIII. The Results of Decapsulation of the Kidneys for Nephritis in

Children, with Report of a Case in a Child of Twenty-six

Months. By EDWIN E. GRAHAM, M.D.

...

149

XIX. A Case of Uncinariasis in a Child. By SAMUEL S. ADAMS, M.D. 163

XX. Costal Synostosis about Drainage Tubes in Empyema. By

FRANCIS HUBER, M.D.......

171

XXI. Case of Porencephalus. By G. N. ACKER, M.D..

177

XXII. Case of Congenital Exstrophy of the Bladder. By A. C. COT-

181

ΤΟΝ,

M.D......

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XXIII. Multiple Abdominal Tumors, Due to Cystic Kidneys, with Double

Hydronephrosis and Great Dilatation of the Ureters, Hyper-

trophy of the Bladder, Etc., in a Child Dying at Fourteen

Months. By L. EMMETT HOLT, M.D.............

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XXIV. Examinations of the Urine of Infants. By HENRY DWIGHT

Chapin, M.D.....

XXV. Hodgkin's Disease with a Milky Non-Fatty Pleural Effusion. By

DAVID L. EDSALL, M.D.....

183

191

197

XXVI. An Analysis of 145 Cases of Typhoid Fever in Children. By

ALFRED HAND, JR., M.D., and J. CLAXTON GITTINGS, M.D..... 216

MEETING PLACES.

1888. WASHINGTON, D. C. (Organization), September 18.
1889. WASHINGTON and BALTIMORE, September 20 and 21.
1890. NEW YORK, June 3 and 4.

1891. WASHINGTON, September 22 and 25.

1892.

BOSTON, May 2, 3 and 4.

1893. WEST POINT, N. Y., May 24, 25 and 26.

1894. WASHINGTON, May 29 and June 1.

1895. VIRGINIA HOT SPRINGS, May 27, 28 and 29.

1895. MONTREAL, May 25, 26 and 27.
1897. WASHINGTON, May 4, 5 and 6.

1898. CINCINNATI, June 1, 2 and 3.

1899. Deer Park, June 27, 28 and 29.
1900. WASHINGTON, May 1, 2 and 3.

1901. NIAGARA FALLS, May 27, 28 and 29.

1902. BOSTON, May 26, 27 and 28.

1903. WASHINGTON, May 12, 13 and 14.
1904. DETROIT, May 30, 31 and June 1.

1905. Lake George, N. Y., June 19, 20 and 21.
1906. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 30, 31 and June 1.