It was ordered that the regular meetings be resumed on Wednesday, January 13th.

Wednesday, January 13.-The President, Dr. E. A. Balloch, presided; about 100 members present.

Dr. D. S. Lamb, Chairman of Committee on Editing the Transactions, read the following report of the work of his committee for 1908:

"The Committee on Editing and Publishing the Transactions of the Society respectfully submits the following report for the year 1908.

"During the year Dr. M. G. Motter resigned from and Dr. Charles S. White was added to the committee. Dr. White has charge of the advertisements. Dr. Motter is entitled to the thanks of the Society for his efficient work as a member of the committee. "The number of the ANNALS for January, 1909, completes Volume VII, six bimonthly numbers, making a total paging of 492 plus an index of 9 pages, in all 501 pages. This is 59 pages less than in Volume VI. The explanation of this less number of pages is the fact in part that the papers read before the Society, taken altogether, are shorter papers than in previous years. A number of papers, also, have been published elsewhere than in the ANNALS; in some cases abstracts have been received, in others not, although the Society requires that such abstracts be furnished. Some papers and cases reported have not been published at all. The reason seems to be that the readers and reporters do not care to take the trouble to revise the papers or write out the reports.

"There has been no change in the plan of publication; but much attention has been given in this last volume to abstracts from other journals, preferably those which are less likely to be seen by the members of the Society generally.

"The committee at present has no recommendations to make.” Respectfully submitted,

(Signed) D. S. LAMB,

CHAS. S. WHITE.

An appropriation of $162.75 was made for the January number of the ANNALS.

The President announced the following appointments to committees for 1909:

Standing Committees for 1909.-Executive Committee-To serve 5 years: W. C. Woodward, D. P. Hickling, D. K. Shute. To serve 1 year (to fill vacancy): R. W. Baker. Public Health -J. W. Chappell, Truman Abbe, G. W. Wood, R. S. Lamb, H. S. Dye, Ida Heiberger, J. B. Briggs. Essays-T. C. Smith, P. C. Hunt, N. P. Barnes.

Special Committees for 1909.-Editing the Transactions-D. S.

Lamb, C. S. White, B. G. Pool. Directory for Nurses-T. A. Groover, Ada R. Thomas, Monte Griffith. Library-E. L. Morgan, Robert Reyburn, J. T. Howard. Microscopy-Collins Marshall, D. W. Prentiss, W. W. Wilkinson. History of the Society-D. S. Lamb, R. T. Holden, C. W. Franzoni, L. Eliot, G. Wythe Cook. Milk Commission-W. M. Sprigg, D. P. Hickling, H. H. Donnally, Elmer Sothoron, J. S. Wall.

Reviewer in Surgery, November, 1909 (to fill vacancy): E. M. Hasbrouck.

Dr. Geo. Ben Johnston, of Richmond, Va., addressed the Society upon Fibroids of the Uterus Complicating Pregnancy." Discussed by Drs. Bovée, I. S. Stone, J. Thos. Kelly, Glazebrook, Sprigg and W. P. Carr.

Wednesday, January 20.-The President, Dr. Balloch; presided; about 75 members present.

The following preambles and resolution, offered by Dr. T. C. Smith, were referred to the Executive Committee for consideration and report:

RESOLUTION IN REGARD TO THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC.

"1. WHEREAS, the people of Washington, stimulated by the Tuberculosis Congress, are eagerly searching for veracious information about taking care of their health;

2. And WHEREAS, an individual physician is necessarily less capable of advising than the collective profession of Washington:

3. And WHEREAS, many of the public are ill-advised enough to believe the affirmations of charlatans made for their own profit, failing ready access to collective medical opinion;

4. And WHEREAS, the newspapers of Washington have declared their willingness to cooperate in an effort to enlighten the public, countenanced by the medical profession;

"5. And WHEREAS, a recognition of this need has eventuated in a fruitful cooperation between the medical profession and the public by means of the press, in other cities, especially Chicago, San Francisco and lately Baltimore;

"6. And WHEREAS, such mutual understanding not only helps to fulfill our function as guardians of the public health, but redounds to our credit individually as well as collectively, besides furnishing a means of combating charlatanry and puffery, as well as the anti-scientific spirit as shown in the anti-vivisection and anti-vaccination movements; therefore be it

Resolved: That this Medical Society of the District of Columbia deems itself a fit and proper body to inaugurate and maintain a plan of instruction of the people by means of simple, sufficient and attractive official bulletins, circulated with the help of the local press or by such other means as after due consideration seems best."

The following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That we tender to the members of the Cosmos Club a vote of thanks for their favor of the thirteenth instant in extending the courtesies of the Club to the Medical Society for the purpose of giving a complimentary Smoker to Dr. Geo. Ben Johnston.

The death of Dr. Frederick E. Maxcy was announced, and the Chair appointed Drs. E. L. Morgan, Jenner and J. T. Cole a committee to prepare and present suitable resolutions of respect to his memory.

The resignation of Dr. D. J. Kelly was accepted.

Dr. Harrington reported a case of Peculiar Delirium in Typhoid Fever. Discussed by Dr. Chappell. See p. 64.

Dr. Kebler made an address upon the subject of "Nostrums: a Menace to the Public Health," with stereopticon illustrations. Discussed by Drs. D. S. Lamb, Kober and T. C. Smith.

A vote of thanks was given Dr. Kebler for his address, and an expression of the sympathy of the Society with the efforts of the Department of Agriculture to combat the nostrum evil was tendered.

Wednesday, January 27.-The President, Dr. Balloch, presided; about 100 members present.

Dr. E. L. Morgan, for the committee, reported resolutions of respect to the memory of Dr. Frederick E. Maxcy, which were adopted. See p. 71.

Dr. Prentiss Willson, from the committee, reported resolutions of respect to the memory of Dr. Wm. E. Rogers, which were adopted.

See p. 72.

Dr. Mackall, Chairman, read a report from the Executive Committee; the recommendations contained therein were considered seriatim :

1. That the medical practice Act now pending before Congress be approved. Discussion of this recommendation emphasized that the approval recommended referred to the Act as originally proposed. This recommendation was adopted.

2. That the President of the Society appoint a committee of three to attend the Pharmacopoeial Convention. Objection being made that no request had come for the appointment of delegates, the letter asking for the appointment of a committee to make recommendations to the A. M. A. committee on Pharmacopoeial Convention, was read. The matter was referred to the President, with power to appoint a committee.

3. That it is not desirable to take final action at this time upon the request of Dr. Wm. A. White that a number of the ANNALS be set aside for the publication of the papers read at the series of meetings of the staff of the Government Hospital for the Insane. Dr. Kober expressed the opinion that it would be highly desirable to publish these papers and moved that Dr. White's propo

sition be accepted. The motion was seconded. On motion of Dr. Franzoni, action was deferred until the next meeting of the Society.

The names of Drs. Theo. Y. Hull, Chas. H. James, Jr., and Carlisle P. Knight were dropped.

A letter from Gen. Sternberg, President of the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, addressed to the President of the Medical Society, was read, calling the attention of the members of the Society to the work of the Tuberculosis Association and asking for the active support of the profession.

Dr. J. D. Morgan moved that the Society extend an expression of its good will for the work of the Tuberculosis Association. Seconded and carried.

Dr. F. Fremont-Smith briefly outlined what the Association had undertaken and what it hopes to accomplish.

Dr. S. Ruffin presented a typhoid fever chart, showing the effect of the Administration of a Bacterial Vaccine.

The chart was the temperature record of a case of typhoid fever of moderate severity and of average duration of fastigium, but which, instead of undergoing the usual termination by lysis, assumed what might be called a chronic phase, with intermittent fever, the daily excursions ranging from below normal to as high as 101 F. The febrile disturbance continued for a number of weeks without any evidence of tendency to spontaneous cure of the condition; the probable explanation of the phenomenon was that the normal defensive processes had been incomplete and that something more was needed to establish immunity. He therefore inoculated the patient with a vaccine containing 800,000,000 dead typhoid bacilli; there was a prompt and sharp reaction, with high fever of short duration, followed by a satisfactory subsidence of the temperature and the establishment of convalescence.

Dr. Hagner said that the case was highly instructive and interesting. He had had no experience with inoculations in typhoid fever, but bacterial vaccines had been used by him in the treatment of chronic cystitis, making the vaccines from the identical infective organism in each case. He had at present under treatment an old man with a severe cystitis following prostatectomy; Dr. Nichols had prepared a vaccine from the colon bacilli responsible for the condition, and inoculations of this vaccine had been attended with most gratifying results.

Dr. Ruffin then read a Review of Internal Medicine. Discussed by Drs. Russell, Wood, Lochboehler, Ramsburgh, G. L. Magruder, Neate, Acker, Macatee. See p. 30.

Wednesday, February 3.-The President, Dr. Balloch, presided; about 100 members present.

The Treasurer presented his report for January, showing receipts, $416.25; disbursed, $167.75.

The Chair announced the appointment of Drs. G. L. Magruder, Claytor, Barton, Barnes and Fremont-Smith a committee to consider and make recommendations upon matters suggested by the A. M. A. Committee on Revision of the Pharmacopoeia.

An invitation to the Society to attend a meeting of the City of Washington Branch of the American Pharmaceutical Association was presented by the President, who urged members to attend the meeting.

Dr. Wood presented the following resolution: That the Medical Society discuss the advisability of examining the stools and urine of persons having had typhoid fever in order to ascertain if they are chronic germ carriers, and to take such steps as will prevent their contaminating others. Referred to the Committee on Public Health.

Dr. Vaughan presented two specimens: a Lumbricoid Worm in an Appendix, and a Prostate Gland.

Lumbricoid worm in an appendix.-Woman 30 years old; referred to him by Dr. Gott, with the provisional diagnosis of appendicitis. She had been sick eight days, with the usual train of symptoms. This was the fourth attack in two years. The pain in this attack was not exactly typical, because it began in the back on the right side and by its character was suggestive of ureteral colic. At the operation the appendix was easily found and was seen to project upward in two coils, like a snake preparing to strike. The appendix was cut off in the usual way and the stump was sewed over. A bystander, examining the appendix, found that it contained a lumbricoid worm. The patient made a good recovery. This was the first case he had heard of in which a lumbricoid was found in the appendix, although the oxyuris has been often encountered.

Had had trouble in

Prostate gland.-White man, age 72. emptying the bladder for four years, and at the time of operation his residual urine measured 2,000 cc., or two quarts. The prostate was not unusually large, but projected three quarters of an inch above its normal level. The suprapubic operation was done, and on opening the bladder the third lobe could easily be seen projecting, encroaching upon the urethral orifice on three sides. The patient made a good recovery.

Dr. Barton read an essay entitled "Internal Hemostasis; Its Physiological and Pharmacological Aspects." Discussed by Drs. Carr, Harrington, Williams, Nichols, Lochboehler, Roy, Willson and Barton. See p. 10.

Dr. A. F. A. King read a paper upon the Bryce-Teacher Early Human Ova." Discussed by Drs. I. S. Stone, R. D. Adams, Wood, Borden and King. See p. 1.

Wednesday, February 10.-Dr. Balloch, the President, presided; about 75 members present.