THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. INSTITUTED 1847. VOL. XII. PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED FOR THE ASSOCIATION. 1859. 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. Report of the Committee on Criminal Abortion Report on a Uniform Plan for Registration Reports of Births, Marriages, and Deaths. By W. L. SUTTON, M. D., of Kentucky Report on the Topography and Epidemic Diseases of Michigan. By J. H. Observations on some of the Physical, Chemical, Physiological, and Patho- logical Phenomena of Malarial Fever. By JOSEPH JONES, A. M., M. D., Pro- fessor of Medical Chemistry in the Medical College of Georgia, at Augusta 215 |