TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

AMERICAN PEDIATRIC SOCIETY

TWENTIETH SESSION

HELD AT THE WATER GAP HOUSE, DELAWARE WATER GAP, PENNA.,
ON MAY 25, 26 AND 27, 1908.

EDITED BY

LINNÆUS EDFORD LA FÉTRA, M.D.

VOLUME XX.

REPRINTED FROM

ARCHIVES OF PEDIATRICS

1908-1909

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1909

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1. Presidential Address. "Public School Education." By CHARLES

GILMORE KERLEY, M.D.......

II. "An Analysis of Four Hundred Cases of Epidemic Meningitis

Treated with the Anti-Meningitis Serum." By SIMON FLEXNER,

M.D., and JAMES W. JOBLING, M.D.............

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III. The Serum Treatment of Meningococci Meningitis. By FRANK S.

Churchill, M.D................

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IV. The Serum Treatment of Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis, Based

on a Series of Forty Consecutive Cases. By CHARLES Hunter

DUNN, M.D.....

V. Hydrocephalus of Meningococcus Origin with a Summary of

Recent Cases of Meningitis Treated by Antimeningococcus

Serum. By J. H. MASON KNOX, Jr., Ph.D., M.D., and FRANK

J. SLADEN, M.D.............

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VI. The Diagnostic Value of the Chemical and Bacteriological Exam-

ination of Cerebrospinal Fluid. By Alfred Hand, Jr., M.D... 43

VII. The Serum Treatment and the Prognosis, Under Various Forms

of Therapy, of Cerebrospinal Fever. By HENRY KOPLIK, M.D. 47

VIII. A Case-Apparently of Tuberculous Meningitis-in which the

After History Makes it Probable that the Diagnosis Was Mis-

taken. By EDWARD W. BUCKINGHAM, M.D..

57

IX. A Report upon One Thousand Tuberculin Tests in Young Chil-

dren. By L. EMMETT HOLT, M.D., LL.D.....

66

X. A Simple Method of Circumcision in the Newborn. By W.

REYNOLDS WILSON, M.D.......

80

XI. Congenital Hypertrophic Stenosis of the Pylorus in an Infant-Re-

port of a Case. By JOHN DORNING, M.D....

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XII. Congenital Malformation of the Esophagus with the Report of a

Case. By J. P. Crozer Griffith, M.D., and R. S. Laven-

SON, M.D.

XIII. A Case of Spasmodic Stricture of the Esophagus. By SAMUEL S.

ADAMS, M.D.....

XIV. Report of a Case of Congenital Heart Disease.-Defect of the

Ventricular Septum and Absence of the Pulmonary Artery.—

Symptoms of Angina Pectoris. By ALFRED HAND, JR., M.D... 101

XV. Modern Laboratory Feeding and the Wide Range of Resources

Which it provides. By THOMAS MORGAN ROTCH, M.D....... 105

XVI. The Hard Curds of Infant Stools; Their Origin, Nature and

Transformation. BY THOMAS S. SOUTHWORTH, M.D., and

OSCAR M. SCHLOSS, M.D.....

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XVII. Fresh Air in the Treatment of Disease. By W. P. NORTHRUP, M.D. 128

XVIII. Fresh Air in the Treatment of Disease. By EDWIN E. Graham,

M.D.........

131

XIX. A Plan of Dealing with Atrophic Infants and Children. By HENRY

DWIGHT CHAPIN, M.D...

138

XX. Acute Poliomyelitis (An Epidemic). By HENRY KOPLIK, M.D.... 151

XXI. Early Symptoms in Sixty-three Cases of the Recent Epidemic of

Anterior Poliomyelitis. By L. E. LA FÉTRA, M.D............................... 158

XXII. The Need of Post-Graduate Instruction in Pediatrics. By

AUGUSTUS CAILLÉ, M.D......

171

XXIII. An Inquiry into the Status of the Kindergarten. By ISAAC A.

ABT, M.D..

174

XXIV. Recurring Empyema. By Francis Huber, M.D....

198

XXV. Abscess of the Lung Due to Wire Nail Two Inches Long in Right

Bronchus.-Operation.-Recovery. By FRANCIS HUBER, M.D.,

and HENRY MANN SILVER, M.D....

201

XXVI. Pyelitis Terminating in Suppurative Nephritis-Case and Speci-

mens. By J. PARK WEST, M.D........

213

XXVII. An Unusual Type of Acute Nephritis in Childhood. By JOHN

Lovett Morse, A.M., M.D..............

217

XXVIII. The Urinary Findings in a Series of Infants Suffering from Intes-

tinal Infection. By J. H. MASON KNOX, Jr., M.D., and J. C.

MEAKINS, M.D....

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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.

1896. 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.

DETROIT, May 30, 31 and June 1.

1904.