that the foregoing report and schedule exhibit a true and faithful condition of the finances of said Dispensary, and also the whole number of beneficiary patients admitted and treated therein, for whom no other provision had been made, the diseases for which treated and the duration of such treatment. The following is the form of communication received from Comptroller after receipt of the above: STATE OF NEW YORK: COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, { Sir-Your report is received. The amount will be paid when the taxes for the current year are received at this office, which will be in the latter part of the winter. The appropriation was made in April, but was estimated and provided for in the tax to be levied and collected for the fiscal year commencing October 1, 1868, and are a part of the expenses of that year. Respectfully yours, W. F. ALLEN, BROOME COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY. ARTICLE XXI. List of Officers, Delegates and Members, 1868. Officers elected October, 1867. Dr. Stephen D. Hand, President. H. S. Sloan, Vice-President. Titus L. Brown, Secretary and Treasurer. Censors. Dr. Ira W. Peabody, Binghamton, Broome county. The annual meeting is held on the third Tuesday of October; the semi-annual on the third Tuesday of June. CAYUGA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY. ARTICLE 22.-List of Officers, Delegates, Committees and Members. Carbolic Acid. 24.-Case of Tenia Solium. By C. E. Swift, M. D. 25.-A few remarks on Dysentery epidemic in New York, 1865. By C. Dunham, M. D. 26.-Dysentery. By Ad. Lippe, M. D. ARTICLE XXII. List of Officers, Delegates, Committees and Members. Officers Elected June, 1867. Drs. A. J. Brewster, President. George H. Parsell, Vice-President. C. William Boyce, Secretary and Treasurer. Delegates to the Onondaga County Medical Society. Dr. H. Robinson, jr., Dr. A. J. Brewster, Dr. E. P. K. Smith. Delegates to the Oneida County Medical Society. Dr. C. W. Boyce, Dr. H. Barton Fellows, Dr. C. E. Swift. Delegates to the Wayne County Medical Society. Dr. H. Robinson, jr., Dr. P. H. Peterson, Dr. Wm. M. Gwynn. Committees. Materia Medica-Drs. Fellows, Boyce, G. H. Parsell, C. E. Swift, H. Robinson, jr., and Strong. Prevailing Epidemics-Drs. Robinson, Smith, Brewster, P. H. Peterson and Gwynn. Officers elected June, 1868. Dr. C. William Boyce, President. P. O. C. Benson, Vice-President. William M. Gwynn, Secretary and Treasurer. Delegates to the Onondaga County Medical Society. Dr. H. Robinson, jr., Dr. A. J. Brewster, Dr. E. P. K. Smith. Delegates to the Oneida County Medical Society. Dr. C. W. Boyce, Dr. H. B. Fellows, Dr. C. E. Swift. Delegates to the Wayne County Medical Society. Dr. H. Robinson, jr., Dr. P. H. Peterson, Dr. Wm. M. Gwynn. Committees. Materia Medica-Drs. Fellows, Boyce, P. O. C. Benson, C. E. Swift, H. Robinson, jr., and Strong. Prevailing Epidemics-Drs. Robinson, Smith, Brewster, P. H. Peterson and Gwynn. The annual meeting, for the election of officers, is held on the second Tuesday of June. Quarterly meetings on the second Tuesday of September, December, March and June. do Onondaga Co. ARTICLE XXIII. Papers communicated by C. W. BOYCE, M. D. Catarrhus Estivus. Constipation. The Use of Carbolic Acid as a Dressing for Wounds. O CATARRHUS ESTIVUS. McC, in a former number of the Observer, asks for assistance in the treatment of the catarrhus æstivus or hay fever. "Be pleased to suggest something for present use," says McC., like a hungry man at 11 A. M., asking for lunch to stay his stomach until dinner time. Well, McC., here is a small slice "for present use." Mrs. D. M. O————, a lady of 40 years, who has had "rose cold," "hay fever," etc., for several years, even to the prohibition of having a rose in the house, and all through the summer (1866) she was constantly sneezing and blowing her nose, applied to me last summer (1866) for a prescription. Knowing the obstinacy of some of these colds, I took down "The Symptomen Codex," and transcribed all the symptoms of sneezing, coryza, and their concomitants, on blank paper, and then compared them, and under sabadilla I found the following symptom, which was the prominent one in her case: 66 Lachrymation-when walking in the open air, when looking at a bright light, when coughing or yawning." Mrs. O. experienced all the other symptoms, but this one |