Transactions of the National Eclectic Medical Association of the United States of America for the Years ...

TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

National Eclectic Medical Association

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
FOR THE YEARS 1888-89.

INCLUDING THE

PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEET-
ING, (AS REORGANISED), AT DETROIT,
MICHIGAN, JUNE, 1888;

TOGETHER WITH

ADDRESSES, THE MEDICAL SYMPOSIAC,

AND

PAPERS AND REPORTS

SUBMITTED.

EDITED BY ALEXANDER WILDER, SECRETARY.

VOL. XVI.

PUBLISHED IN BEHALF OF THE ASSOCIATION.

ON

Every man is indebted to his profession, to elevate its character, increase its efficiency, and
to elevate its usefulness and prosperity. Every physician should bear in mind that the Hip-
pocratic Art is superior to the narrow sphere of a wage-earning craft.

ATHENT

ORANGE, N. 1.:

CHRONICLE BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFfice,

1889.

3. WILLIAM A. MONTGOMERY, M. D., Newbern, Tennessee.

SECRETARY:

ALEXANDER WILDER, M. D., 565 Orange street, Newark, N. J.

TREASURER:

JAMES ANTON, M. D.,

Lebanon, Ohio.

TAKE NOTICE.

THE NEXT ANNUAL MEETING WILL BE HELD AT NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, ON TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY,

JUNE 18th, 19th AND 20th, 1889.

CONTENTS, 1888-89.

Portrait of William M. Durham, M. D., President,

PART I. Journal of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting, 1888,

Letter of Mayor Pridgeon,

Treasurer's Annual Report,

Papers Accompanying the Annual Report,

Schedule A.-Annual Address by President Durham,

C.-ANNUAL MEETING FOR 1889 AT NASHVILLE,

D.-Constitution, By Laws, and Standing Resolutions,

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PART II.-MEDICAL SYMPOSIAC- Arena of Debate,"

I. Asiatic Cholera, Address by J. V. Stevens,

II. Specific Medication as a Characteristic Feature of Medical Practice,

III. Eclectics in Surgery. Address by Milton Jay,

IV. Why Physicians Should be Liberally Educated. Address by K. O.

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VI. Treatment of the Insane. Address by J. D. Crum,

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VII. Possibilities of Uniting the Several Schools of Medicine.

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by E. Younkin,

Response by G. E. Potter,

Discussion,

Anna E. Park,

PART III-tapers upon Scientific and Professional Subjects,

The Eclectic Practice; its Office and Future. By Charles Band,

Former and Latter Eclectics. By S. B. Munn,

Medical Legisla ion in Pennsylvania: a College-Enactment Fraudulently

Obtained and Iniquitously Enforced. By Lemon T. Beam,

How to Make our Profession Successful. By J. C. Burlington,

Surgical Problems Demanding Attention. By A. J. Howe,

The Sweating Disease." By A. B. Whitney,

Typhoid-Fever; Some Thoughts upon its Chronic History, and the Dif-
ferential Diagnosis between it and Certain Other Forms of Disease.
By C. E. Miles,

Yellow-Fever. By Alexander Wilder,