Transactions (Volume 38) (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: FIRST DAY. MORNING SBSSION.-May 21,1895. The Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting, of the Medical Association of the State of Missouri was called to order by the president, Dr. J. M. Richmond, of St. Joseph, at 10:30 A. M., in the opera house, Hannibal, Missouri. Prayer was offered by the Rev. S. D. Dutcher, of Hannibal. Hon. C. Albertson, mayor of Hannibal, delivered an address of welcome, on behalf of the city, to the Association. Dr. J. N. Baskett, of Hannibal, delivered an address of welcome to the Association, on behalf of the medical profession of Hannibal. Dr. J. M. Richmond, the president, responded to the welcoming addresses of the mayor and the local profession. Dr. Thomas Chowning, chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, read the announcements of this committee. Dr. J. H. Duncan made the report of the Committee on Scientific Communications. The committee recommended that the readers of papers be limited to twenty minutes each, and that in the discussion of papers the remarks of each participant be limited to five minutes. ! L On motion of Dr. A. J. Steele the report of the committee was adopted. Dr. Hal Foster, of Kansas City, read a paper on "Adenoid Vegetations of the Vault of the Pharynx, and their Relations to Diseases of the Middle Ear." Discussed by Dr. T. E. Murrell, of St. Louis, Dr J. E. Logan, of Kansas City, and Dr. Hal Foster. The Committee on Credentials made a report, showing1 a registration of twenty-eight members at 11 A. M. Dr. Frank R. Fry, of St. Louis, read a paper on "The Signs of Degeneracy in Diseases of the Nervous System." Discussed by Dr. M. P. Sexton, of Kansas City. On motion of Dr. J. H. Thompson, Dr. W. F. Mitchell, of Lancaster, was elected a member by invitation. Dr. W. F. Mitchell, of Lancaster, ...