read a paper, entitled "Clinical Notes on Medical Cases at Sealy and St. Mary Hospitals." Received and referred.

Adjourned.

Approved:

F. E. DANIEL, Secretary, Pro tem.

R. M. SWEARINGEN, President.

[NOTE.-The President's annual address, subject the "Conservation of Forces," was delivered Wednesday evening, April 23d, at the Opera House, to a brilliant audience. Dr. Swearingen says that it was never written out as delivered; that he spoke from notes, and that he has not had the time to prepare a copy for publication, hence its non-appearance in this volume.-PUBLISHING COMMITTEE.]

THIRD DAY.

MORNING SESSION.

THURSDAY, April 24, 1890.

The meeting was called to order at 9:30 a. m., by the President. Prayer by Rev. R. C. Armstrong. A quorum present at roll call. Minutes of yesterday read and approved.

Dr. A. Sims offered a resolution providing for the appointment of a committee by the President to regulate the length of papers and the number of words in each, to be read in any Section, and providing that any paper which would required over twenty minutes in reading, be read by caption only.

Dr. Smith moved to amend by reading such papers by abstract instead of by title. The resolution was adopted as

amended.

Dr. J. W. Carhart offered a resolution to the effect that the Association is remiss in its duty with regard to deceased members, and that the President be required to name a time on the first day of the session each year, for memorial services to be held for deceased members, said time not to ex

* No committee appointed to date.-ED.

ceed one hour, and such services to be the order of the day and take precedence over all business.

Dr. Gilbert offered as amendment that the report of the Committee on Necrology be the order of the hour instead of the order of the day. No second.

Dr. Osborn moved as amendment to Dr. Carhart's resolution that a page in the Transactions be devoted each year to a record of deceased members.

Dr. C. J. C. King moved to amend by making it "a page or more, as required."

The vote was taken and Dr. Carhart's resolution, as amended, was adopted.

Dr. H. K. Leake offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That a Committee on Microscopy and Pathology be added to the standing committees of this Association, to the end that these branches of study be thereby fostered, and the wants of the profession in these directions met by competent investigators. Further, that such committee be known as the Committee on Microscopy and Pathology of the Texas State Medical Association, and shall consist of three members, to be nominated by the Nominating Committee. Adopted.

Section on Medical Jurisprudence and Psychology was called. Dr. A. D. Burroughs, the Chairman, was absent, and the President asked Dr. D. R. Wallace to preside. Dr. Wallace then read a paper on "Psychology, Past, Present and Future." At the conclusion of the paper, and before any action could be had on it, Dr. Wallace stated that it was not intended for publication, and he did not wish it to go to the Publishing Committee. The President stated the law on the subject, which makes all papers presented the property of the Association, but, on motion, Dr. Wallace was permitted to withdraw the paper.

The Nominating Committee, composed of one represen

† No action by the Nominating Committee.

tative from each county as follows, was then called and retired for work:

Drs. S. H. Stout, of Eastland; J. C. Erwin, Collin; P. C. Coleman. Colorado; W. M. Terrell, Montague; T. J. Bell, Smith; W. C. Blalock, Limestone; W. T. Barnes, Rockwall; J. S. Letcher, Dallas; B. H. Vaughan, Hill; E. M. Rabb, Lavaca; Bacon Saunders, Fannin; W. P. Powell, Montgomery; C. B. Raines, Palo Pinto; G. W. Christian, Burnet; L. P. Black, Williamson; O. L. Abney, Victoria; A. W. Fly, Galveston; J. M. Borders, Sabine; A. M. Perkins Jefferson; J. O. Barr, Washington; J. K. Stone, Austin; J. R. Lancaster, Hood; S. B. Kirkpatrick, Hunt; R. E. Moody, Nolan; J. M. Towns, Johnson; F. E. Young, Brown; C. F. Paine, Comanche; R. Rutherford, Harris; D. M. Ray, Grayson; H. S. Fountain, Brazos; F. R. Martin, Hays; J. W. Carhart, Lampasas; L. J. Graham, Rusk; J. D. Jordan, Madison; J. W. Gulick, Navarro: F. D. Thompson, Tarrant; P. B. Tye, Donnelly; B. F. Brittain, Cherokee; R. H. McCall, Ellis; R. S. Kimmins, Bosque; S. S. Gilbert; Hopkins; W. M. Powell, Shackelford; A. D. Bass, Camp; O. Eastland, Wichita; J. D. Fennell, Guadalupe; C. M. Mays, Archer; R. H. L. Bibb, Mexico; Geo. Cupples, Bexar; A. Garwood, Comal; A. M. Terrell, Young; T. D. Wooten, Travis; A. M. Curtis, McLennan; W. S. Savage, Leon; J. M. Fort, Lamar; S. E. Carrington, Robertson; J. W. Cartwright, Porter; J. H. Reuss, DeWitt; R. H. Harris, Sr., Colorado; M. S. Crow, Erath; T. H. Nott, Goliad; H. C. Ghent, Bell; W. H. Monday, Kaufman; J. E. Prince, Howard; M. Johnson, Caldwell; W. G. Brown, Coryell; A. J. Gray, Van Zandt; J. E. Gilchrist, Cook; W. H. Pennington, Denton; T. W. Styles, Bastrop; J. F. Fort, Wise, and M. S. Emanuel, Parker.

They organized by electing Dr. S. H. Stont, Chairman, and Drs. J. E. Erwin and P. C. Coleman, Secretaries.

Dr. J. T. Wilson offered a resolution, authorizing Dr. McLaughlin, in view of the unusual originality and merit of the paper read by him the first day, and that he might

secure priority in the promulgation of his views, to have it published prior to the publication of the Association volume of Transactions. The resolution was adopted.

The Sections, respectively, on Ophthalmology and Otology, Dermatology and Electro-Therapeutics, were called, but the Chairman of each was absent, and no papers were presented in either Section. Adjourned to 2 p. m.

EVENING SESSION.

THURSDAY, April 24, 1890.

Meeting called to order at 2 p. m. Section on Practice recalled, as the time allotted the first and second days was not sufficient to get through the business of the Section. Dr. Ray, the Chairman, presiding, read his address in medicine, the subject being the "Germ Theory of Disease." Paper received and referred. Quite an animated discussion followed, in which Dr. Sears, of Waco, took issue with the writer and denied the influence, in causing diseases, attributed to so-called "germs." Dr. Terhune, and Prof. Cain (of Nashville) participated in the discussion, the latter sustaining the theory. Dr. H. A. West endorsed Dr. Cain and spoke at length on germ causation, and said that until now he did not know that there was an educated physician in Texas who refused to accept the theory.

Dr. Q. C. Smith read a paper on the "Treatment of Consumption." Paper received and referred.

A paper by Dr. T. More Madden, an honorary member, resident of Dublin, Ireland, was read by title and referred, and a vote of thanks to Dr. Madden was recorded. Also a paper by Dr. C. M. Ramsdell, and one by Dr. F. E. Yoakum, read by title and referred. The title of Dr. Yoakum's paper was "Alcoholics in Disease."