Scientific Transactions of the Medical Society of City Hospital Alumni (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tween meetings, being obliged to assume duties that, of right, fall within the province of individual or committee. As a general policy of the Society, in its sessions, the Chair recommends that the members make special efforts to be present promptly at 8 o'clock, and that they so seat themselves that they may form a compact body in front of the platform; that guests be welcomed and conducted to desirable seats; and, further, that Rule 2, relating to limitation of discussions to five minutes unless by unanimous consent otherwise, be more strictly upheld. Appeals from the decision of the Chair in cases of faulty ruling, are not only desirable in the interest of right, but will be accepted in the spirit of courtesy. The success of the work of this Society for the year 1901, if striven for by the individual member, rather than being left to the efforts of the officers or committemen, may be taken as an assured fact. Meeting of January ij, 1901; Dr. Norvelle Wallace Sharpe, President, in the Chair. Report of a Case of Articular Rheumatism with Fatal Heart Complications in a Child. By HUDSON TALBOTT, M.D., ST. LOUIS, MO., LECTURER ON EMBRYOLOGY, MARION-SIMS COLLEGE OF MEDICINE. WHILE to-day the nervous system is claiming the attention of physicians more than ever before, and perhaps more than any of the other various systems of the human body, we are none the less excused from treatment and investigation of other organs, and almost daily do we come upon interesting, if not, indeed, almost surprising cases. The circulatory system, I believe, furnishes as many such cases as any other. Barring one case, which came under my observation in the City Hospital, I believe the following one is the most interesting that it has been my fortune or misfortune to treat: Lester S...