geons, which is subjoined, though we have made an effort to do so, of whose result, had it been successful, we are assured.

It is not only gratifying to note an improvement in the character and value of these transactions, but they also present an appeal to the studious part of the profession, which cannot fail to meet with a hearty response.

I. REPORTS.

1. Annual Report of Section on Practice of Medicine (one paper).

"B.

2. Annual Report of Section on Surgery (three papers: A,"*"Strictures of Urethra and Rectum;" Electro-Therapeutics of Surgery;" C." * Staphylorraphy and Uranoplasty' with exhibition of gag and models).

3. Annual Report of Section on Pathology (two papers: A, Pathology of Nervous System;" "B," "Pathology of Ovarian Tumors ").

4. Annual Report of Section on Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (two papers: “A,"*"Diseases of Women;" "B," "Diseases of Children ").

5. Annual Report of Officers of the Society.

6. Report on the Literature of Cholera; with Abstracts from the Later Authorities.

III. REPORTS OF CASES.

1. Cases of Cholera, occurring near the Southern Limits of the City of Chicago, Endemic of 1873.

2. Additional Cases, in same general place and time (with exhibition of map of locality). 3. Additional Cases, in same locality, somewhat later.

4. Cases of Cholera in Louisville, in 1856. 5. Twelve Cases of Cholera in the City of Chicago, in 1873.

6. Case of Criminal Abortion, resulting in Death from Hæmorrhage.

7. Cases of Intra-laryngeal and Tracheal Medication.

8. Case of Chronic Inflammation of Stomach, simulating Cancer (with Report of Necroscopy, and Microscopic Pathology, and exhibition of Stomach, in gross, with illuminated and magnified Sections).

9. Cases of Uterine Fibroids, relieved by the hypodermic injection of Ergotine.

10. Case of Foreign Body in the Urethra. II. Case of Death from Gunshot Wound of the Cerebral Sinuses.

12. Case of intense Sciatic Pain from Suppressed Menstruation, relieved by the Thermo-Electric Bath.

13. Case of Destruction of the Epiglottis, from Syphilis, with retention of power of perfect Deglutition (with exhibition of patient).

IV. SPECIMENS PRESENTED.

1. Semi-calcareous tumor, removed from the arm of pregnant female (with report of case).

2. Monster, with complete visceral ectrophy, four mammary glands, and no genitourinary or intestinal apertures.

3. Heart, ruptured from muscular degeneration (with report of case).

4. Perforation of right auricle by pistolball (with report of case).

5. Ossified cardiac valves (with report of case).

6. Cancer of uterus (with report of case). 7. Cholera dejections (rice-water), mounted on microscopic slides, and illuminated (with report of case).

V.-EXHIBITIONS.

1. Anatomical models, purchased in Germany for the Chicago University.

2. Reproductions of photographs of cutaneous diseases, in colored crayon.

3. Models of invalid and operating chairs, close stools, etc.

4. Spectroscopic and other scientific appa

ratus.

Number of meetings during the year 1873, 22; total attendance at meetings, 436; average attendance at each meeting, 19.8.

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FTER repeated asking, and long | waiting, those engaged in medical teaching in this State have finally secured the passage of a law authorizing dissections, and providing a legal mode of obtaining the necessary material. We tender the thanks of the profession to Drs. Wilcox, Mitchell, Rice, Collins, Rogers, and other members of the Legislature, who efficiently and perseveringly worked for the passage of the bill. The following is a correct copy of the law as it passed both branches of the Legislature and received the signature of the Governor :

A Bill for an Act to Promote the Science of Medicine and Surgery in the State of Illinois :

SECTION 1. Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, Represented in the General Assembly, It shall be lawful, in cities and counties whose population exceeds one hundred thousand inhabitants, for superintendents of penitentiaries, wardens of poorhouses, coroners and city undertakers, to deliver to the professors and teachers in medical colleges and schools in this State, and for professors and teachers to receive, the remains or body of any deceased person, for purposes of medical and surgical study: Provided, that said remains shall not have been regularly interred, and shall not have been desired for interment by any relatives or friends of said deceased within forty-eight hours after death: Provided, also, that the remains of no person, who may be known to have relatives or friends, shall be so delivered or received without the written consent of said relatives or friends: And, provided, further, that the remains of no one detained for debt, or as a witness, or on suspicion

of crime, or of any traveler, or of any person who shall have expressed a his or her body may be interred, shall desire, in his or her last sickness, that

be delivered or received as aforesaid, but shall be buried in the usual manner: And, provided, also, that in case the remains of any person so delivered or received shall be subsequently claimed by any surviving relative or friend for interment: Provided, further, that notice shall be given to friends or relatives of any deceased person, if such friends or relatives are

known to the authorities.

§ 2. And it shall be the duty of the said professors and teachers decently to bury, in some public cemetery, the remains of all bodies, after they shall have answered the purposes of study aforesaid; and for any neg lect or violation of the provisions of this act, the party so neglecting shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than six or more than twelve months, or both, at the discretion of the court; such penalties to be sued for by the health or school officers, or any person interested therein, for the benefit of the school fund or health department, as the case may be.

§3. The remains or bodies of said persons as may be so received by the professors and teachers, as aforesaid, shall be used for the purposes of medical and surgical study alone, and in this State only; and whoever shall use such remains for any other purpose, or shall remove such remains beyond the limits of this State, or in any manner traffic in the same, or in any manner aid or assist in the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year in a county jail.

§4. Every person who shall de

liver up the remains of any deceased person, in violation of or contrary to any or all of the provisions contained in the first section of this act, and every person who shall receive said remains, knowing them to have been delivered contrary to any of the provisions of said section, shall, each and every one of them, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be imprisoned for a term not exceeding two years in a county jail.

WOMEN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE. The Commencement exercises of the Women's Hospital Medical College took place on the evening of February 24, at the First M. E. Church. The exercises were opened with music on the organ by Prof. L. Falk, followed with prayer by Rev. Mr. Chamberlain. After a vocal selection by the choir, Prof. Byford addressed the audience, as follows: "Ladies and Gentlemen: Fifteen or twenty years ago, but few women studied medicine. The few who did found it almost impossible to gain admittance into any medical school, and were sneered at by friends and the world. Now, we have ten or twelve colleges that admit them to their halls, and give them all the advantages granted to the male sex. I am glad to see the women taking advantage of these opportunities. There are now about one hundred and twenty students of this sex in the United States. Public prejudice is yielding, and they are being acknowledged as equal to the brothers of the profession. (The six members of the graduating class were called forward.) It gives me pleasure, ladies, to bestow the Degree of Medicine upon you, because it opens up a field heretofore closed to you; and it gives me pleasure, because I think you will be an honor to the profession you have chosen."

He then presented them with their diplomas.

Mrs. Carr, of the graduating class, delivered a short valedictory, speaking in honor of the faculty, and regretting that the many pleasant days they had spent together had drawn to a close. Music by Prof. Falk. Dr. Earle then addressed the graduates in behalf of the faculty. His address consisted of a review of anatomy, physiology, and words of encouragement to the graduates. Rev. Mr. Chamberlain then addressed the audience regarding the appropriateness of women entering the medical profession; and pronounced the benediction. ediction. Two of the graduates go to China as medical missionaries; some of them are now the wives of physicians; others entered to make. for themselves a name in their chosen profession, alone and unaided.

CHICAGO MEDICAL COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT.- - The Commencement exercises of the Chicago Medical College (Med. Dept. of N. -W University) will take place on Monday and Tuesday, the 9th and 10th days of March, 1874. On Monday, the exercises will consist in the reading of theses, and the public examination of the candidates for graduation. The exercises on Tuesday will consist in the conferring of the degrees by the President of the University, a charge to the graduates, and a response by Mr. Kenny, as the representative of the class, and the formal valedictory address by Prof. W. P. Merriman. The exercises will commence at 2 o'clock, P. M., on both days, in the lecture room of the college. Members of the profession, and the community generally, are invited to attend.

RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT. The thirty-third annual Commencement of the Rush Medical College was held on the evening of February 17, at the Michigan Avenue Baptist Church. The church was well filled with friends of the institution. The President, Dr. Freer, gave a brief history of the College since its organization, previous to the presentation of the diplomas Degrees to the graduating class. were conferred upon seventy-six graduates. Dr. Bennett delivered the valedictory in behalf of the class.

Professor Miller then delivered the closing address. Dr. Mitchell, in behalf of his fellow-graduates, presented to Prof. Powell a handsome watch and chain. The exercises were pleasantly interspered with music by a band.

ALUMNI OF THE CHICAGO MEDICAL COLLEGE. The members of the Alumni Association of the Chicago Medical College will hold their annual meeting at the college, on Tuesday, March roth, at 10 o'clock, A.M.

THE

HE Society met, as ususal, in the parlor of the Grand Pacific Hotel, the President, Dr. A. Fisher, in the chair.

Drs. J. H. Hollister, and W. T. Montgomery, were unanimously elected to membership.

Dr. Hyde read the following communication:

CHICAGO, ILL., Feb. 9, 74. Dear Sir:-I have the pleasure of presenting to the Chicago Society of Physicians and Surgeons, in behalf of Assistant Surgeon John S. Billings, U. S. A., the Librarian, the accompanying two volumes of the catalogue

of normal and pathological intestines, which he had prepared. These were projected on a screen, by means of a solar microscope. The instrument used was one of Browning's spectroscopic lanterns, with microscopic attachment. The lantern had been recently presented to Rush Medical College by Mr. A. C. Thomas, and kindly loaned to the Society by the College.

A vote of thanks was given to Dr.

Danforth for the paper and exhibition of microscopic illustrations.

The following resolution was adopted:

Resolved, That the report be given to the Secretary for publication in some medical journal.

As the hour was late, the discussion of the paper was made the business of the next meeting.

The meeting then adjourned.

PURSUANT

URSUANT to adjournment, the seveententh semi-annual meeting

of the Military Tract Medical Association was held in Galesburg, on Tuesday, January 13th. Thirty members were present, Dr. M. A. McClelland, of Knoxville, in the chair; Dr. Herbert Judd, of Galesburg, Secretary.

The minutes of the last meeting having been read and approved, Drs. Phillips, of Galesburg, Smiley, of Kewanee, and Marshall, of Hopper's Mills, as censors, reported Drs. Welch, of Galesburg, Williamson, of Rio, Miller, of Gilson, and Alvord, of Randolph, as candidates for regular membership; A. B. Clark, Jr., of Galesburg, as an honorary member. They were all regularly elected. Dr. M. Reece, from the Publishing Committee, reported what papers had been published that were read at the last meeting; also, upon the manner of publishing the future papers and transactions of the Association in THE CHICAGO MEDICAL EXAMINER, with the following resolution:

Resolved, that we the members of the Military Tract Medical Association, having selected THE CHICAGO MEDICAL EXAMINER as the medium for the publication of our transactions and papers, do agree to support it by our subscription.

This resolution was adopted by the Association.

The Committee on Necrology had no report to submit; nor had the Standing Committee on Surgery, nor that upon the Practice of Medicine.

Dr. D. McMarshall read a paper on Delirium Tremens, reporting cases from his practice, with a treatment modified by his own judgment; results showing favorably.

Dr. J. C. Copesake, of Wyoming, read a very interesting paper upon the Physical Degeneracy of American Women. This paper was well received by the Association, and deserves popular attention.

Adjourned to half past one o'clock