BOSTON MEDICAL JUL J 362 LILRARY By a Resolution passed at the Session of 1851, the Committee of Publication were instructed to print conspicuously, at the beginning of the volume of the Transactions, the following disclaimer : : "The American Medical Association, although formally accepting and publishing the Reports of the various Standing Committees, holds itself wholly irresponsible for the opinions, theories, or criticisms therein contained, except when otherwise decided by special resolution." CONTENTS. PAGE 95 Report of the Committee on Medical Literature. By CHARLES A. LEE, M. D. Diatheses: their Surgical Relations and Effects. By E. ANDREWS, A.M., M.D., Prof. of Surgery in the Medical Department of Lind University The American Method of Treating Joint Diseases and Deformities. By HENRY 139 183 219 An Inquiry into the Physiological and Medicinal Properties of the Veratrum Viride together with some Physiological and Chemical Observations upon the Alkaloid Veratria obtained from this and other Species. Being the Prize Essay to which the American Medical Association awarded the Gold Medal for MDCCCLXIII. By SAMUEL R. PERCY, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the New York Medical College Laryngoscopal Therapy, or the Medication of the Larynx under Sight. By LOUIS ELSBERG, A.M., M.D., Lecturer on Diseases of the Throat in the Uni- versity of New York, Fellow of the N. Y. Academy of Medicine, Delegate Plan of Organization of the American Medical Association MINUTES OF THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, HELD AT CHICAGO, JUNE 2, 1863. THE Association convened in Bryan Hall, and was called to order, at 11 o'clock A. M., by the Acting President, Dr. WILSON JEWELL, of Pennsylvania, supported by Vice-President Dr. A. B. PALMER, of Michigan. Secretaries Drs. S. G. HUBBARD, of Connecticut, and H. A. JOHNSON, of Illinois, were also present. Prayer was offered by the Rev. R. L. COLLIER, of Chicago, after which Dr. N. S. DAVIS, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, welcomed the delegates in an appropriate address, and made the following report: Report of the Committee of Arrangements to the American Medical Association, June 2, 1863. The unusual duties and responsibilities which have devolved upon the Committee since the meeting at New Haven, in 1860, seem to require a brief explanation, in addition to the usual report, on this occasion. Early in the year 1861, the usual notices for the regular meeting on the first Tuesday in June, of that year, were issued, and the Committee had made all the preliminary arrangements for its accommodation, when the sectional animosity and wickedness which had been threatening the peace of our country for several years, culminated in an open, unjustifiable, and monstrous rebellion. VOL. XIV.-2 |