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On Some Causes tending to Promote the Extinction of the Aborigines of

America. By JONATHAN KNEELAND, M. D., South Onondaga, N. Y.

Report of Surgical Section

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The Pathology of the Lateral Curvature of the Spine. By CHARLES FAYETTE

TAYLOR, M. D., of New York

Lachrymal Probe Syringe. By E. MACFARLAN, M. D., Surgeon to the New

York Ophthalmic Hospital

On an Iridectome. By Louis ELSBERG, M. D., of New York

Report on Treatment of Congenital Fissure of the Palate by Mechanical Ap-

pliances. By NORMAN W. KINGSLEY, of New York

Report on Puerperal Tetanus. By D. L. McGUGIN, A. M., M. D., Keokuk,

Iowa

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The Yellow Color of the Skin

PRIZE ESSAY.-On the Pathology of Jaundice.

due to the Presence of Hæmatoidine. Being the Prize Essay to which the

American Medical Association awarded the Gold Medal for MDCCCLXIV.

By S. FLEET SPEIR, M. D., Surgeon to the Brooklyn City Dispensary;

Curator and Microscopist to the Brooklyn City Hospital; Demonstrator of

Anatomy in the Long Island College Hospital; Fellow of the New York

Academy of Medicine; Member of the New York Pathological Society, etc. 309

Plan of Organization of the American Medical Association

Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association

OFFICERS AND PERMANENT MEMBERS

MINUTES

OF THE

FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION,

Held in the City of New York, June 7th, 8th, and 9th, 1864.

CONFORMABLE to regulations, the Association convened on the 7th day of June, 1864, in Irving Hall, and at 11 o'clock A. M. was called to order by the President, ALDEN MARCH, M. D., LL. D., of New York, sustained by Vice-Presidents Drs. JAMES COUPER, of Delaware, DAVID PRINCE, of Illinois, and C. C. Cox, of Maryland. The Secretaries, Drs. HOSMER A. JOHNSON, of Illinois, and GUIDO FURMAN, of New York, and the Treasurer, Dr. CASPAR WISTER, of Pennsylvania, were likewise present.

Prayer was offered by the Rev. Dr. DEWITT, of the city of New York, after which

Dr. JAMES ANDERSON, of New York, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, made the following report:

Mr. President, and Delegates to the American Medical Association

GENTLEMEN: In the discharge of the duty devolved upon me, as Chairman of your Committee of Arrangements, it affords me great pleasure, on this the fifteenth anniversary of the Association, in behalf of your Committee as well as the profession in general, to extend to you a cordial welcome.

This organization, whose germ, first developed in the Medical Society of the State of New York, was perfected on the 7th of May, 1847, by the election of the venerable Dr. Nathaniel Chapman, of VOL. XV.-2

Philadelphia, as its first President, since which time its meetings have been held in nearly all the prominent cities of our country.

Its sole object has ever been the elevation of the dignity and usefulness of the profession, in the endeavor to obtain which, it becomes us, individually as well as collectively, by our advice and example to stimulate to higher attainments, and by our conduct to command respect.

It is now eleven years since your last meeting in this city, around which occasion cluster many pleasant reminiscences, saddened only by the absence of some of the brightest names among your ranks, who have passed to their silent resting-place-names which gave dignity to your body, and wisdom to its counsels.

Your Committee of Arrangements, in due time after their appointment in Chicago, organized, and invited a representation from the hospitals, colleges, and medical societies of this city and Brooklyn, the more effectually to elicit a united expression, and procure a more extensive and general welcome to this national reunion, and have matured such plans as it is hoped will render your stay both instructive and interesting. Guide-books will be furnished to each delegate, with a programme comprising a variety of intellectual as well as social amusements.

Among the institutions which have sprung up since your former visit may be noticed St. Luke's Hospital, on the Fifth Avenue, with a full and efficient medical staff; also a medical college under the auspices of the Commissioners of Charity and Correction, and in connection with the Bellevue Hospital and Almshouse; and in time, through the liberal bequest of the late Mr. Roosevelt, another hospital will be added to the list.

There is a feature, Mr. President, in your present assembling, of deep interest and solemn regret-I allude to that profound silence of several, and the diminished response of other States, which will appear upon the calling of the roll. It would not be proper on this occasion, nor becoming the circumstances under which I appear before you, to allude to its cause.

Let us trust, however, that, through the interposition of an allwise and overruling Providence, the time is not far distant when we may again offer to our alienated brethren the hand of professional fellowship, which it is our privilege to extend to you this day. I again welcome you all to this metropolis.

On motion, the report was received and adopted.

Dr. ANDERSON, on behalf of the Committee, suggested that the Association should hold two daily sessions-one in the morning, from ten to half-past one o'clock P. M.; and one in the afternoon, from three o'clock until such time as was the pleasure of the body to adjourn.

On motion, this suggestion was ordered to be embodied in the report.

The roll-call being next in order, Secretary FURMAN proceeded to read the names of such as were registered. The roll having been read, it appeared that the U. S. Army and Navy, the District of Columbia, and eighteen States were represented by 465 delegates and 68 permanent members, divided as follows:

The following list contains the names of all delegates and permanent members in attendance during the session :-*

CONNECTICUT.

Central Med. Assoc. of Middlesex Co., RUFUS BAKER.

Connecticut General Hospital,
Connecticut State Medical Society,
Hartford County Medical Society,
Hartford Hospital,

Litchfield County Med. Society,

Med. Department of Yale College,
Middlesex County Med. Society,

T. BEERS TOWNSEND.
H. N. BENNETT.
S. C. PRESTON.
GEO. B. HAWLEY.
J. G. BECKWITH,
HENRY M. KNIGHT,
J. W. PHELPS.

WORTHINGTON HOOKER.

MINER C. HAZEN,

ALBERT B. WORTHINGTON.

* If any omissions or errors occur in the following list, the Secretary would respectfully state that he should not be held responsible for the same, as all such must have taken place in the REGISTERING ROOM.

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