SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS MISSOURI STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting of this association will be held in the State Capital, Jefferson City, Mo., May 15, 16, 17. The first day will be devoted to the sessions of the House of Delegates and the transaction of routine business. Reduced rates on the certificate plan will be in effect on all railroads. The Missouri Pacific, with its excellent train service, will be the popular route from this city and vicinity. Following is the preliminary program: MEDICAL SECTION SECOND DAY-WEDNESDAY, MAY 16. The Nervous System of the Child.... The Use and Abuse of the Obstetrical Illegal Practice of Medicine. Scott P. Child, Kansas City, ...Davis Forster, St. Louis Forceps....A. L. Gray, St. Joseph . E. P. Davis, Woodruff .H. F. McGinnis, Higginsville R. L. Johnson, Rolla The Best Time to Give Quinine.... Criminal Abortion; A Prevailing Evil Against the Unborn Generation; A National Crime Committed for Mere Social Promotion ...T. F. Lockwood, Butler Malaria..... Broncho-Pneumonia... Afternoon Session, 1:30 P. M. ....T. C. Allen, Bernie T. O. Davis, Maitland The Present Status of Psychotherapy... Dora Green-Wilson, Kansas City Cough...... ..J. C. Buckwalter, St. Louis Gas Bacillus Infection; the Clinical Results of the Development in the Bacillus Aerogenes Capsulatus.. Ernest E. Robinson, Kansas City The Importance of the Sigmoid Flexure in the Production of Enteroptosis, Pelvic Displacement and Reflex Phenomena.. J. M. Allen, Liberty The Treatment of Gastric Ulcer........ Franklin E. Murphy, Kansas City Ectopic Pregnancy SURGICAL SECTION SECOND DAY-WEDNESDAY, MAY 16. Epithelioma of the Lip. Abdomidal Injuries.. O. B. Campbell, St. Joseph .J. J. Claussen, Kansas City .....H. C. Dalton, St. Louis Suprapubic Cystotomy as Preliminary to and as a Route for the Spina Bifida.... W. T. Elam, St. Joseph .....J. D. Seba, Bland Some Remarks on the Treatment of Chronic Joint Disease.... M. M. Edmondson, Kansas City Surgical Aspects of Typhoid Fever..........W. C. G. Kirchner, St. Louis Suppuration of the Superior Maxillary Sinus with Involvement of Ethmoidal Cells and Sphenoidal Sinus... Afternoon Session, 1:30 P. M. ..H. Jurgens, Edina An Unusual Retroperitoneal Tumor in the Mesocolon Simulating a mata..... Rectal Abscesses.... THIRD DAY-THURSDAY MAY 17 Non-Lithogenous Obstruction of the Biliary Ducts... ...A. H. Cordier, Kansas City Lessons to be Drawn from Recent Operations on the Stomach .. Appendicitis. ..... ...W. Bartlett, St. Louis .C. G. Geiger, St. Joseph Why Some Appendectomies are Followed by Prolonged Abdominal Pain...... The Country Doctor and Appendicitis. The Importance of Post-Operative Treatment . Francis Reder, St. Louis M. P. Shy, Knobnoster ... . John C. Morfit, St. Louis ..T. E. Potter, St. Joseph in Diseases of the W. H. Stauffer, St. Louis AFTERNOON SESSION, 1:30 P. M. The Relative Value of the Surgical Procedure Employed for the Relief of Paralysis Following Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis...... ...Nathaniel Allison, St. Louis Surgery of the Liver... . St. Elmo Sanders, Kansas City Do We Cure Diffuse General Peritonitis.... John Young Brown, St. Louis A Method of Radical Relief of Cases of Deafness Long Abandoned as Hopeless, Illustrated by Report from Actual Practice...... ..R. Barclay, St. Louis A Method of Operating in Inguinal and Femoral Hernia When Complicated by Abscesses.... .....Herman E. Pearse, Kansas City Ovarian Tumors, and Presentation of Specimen.. ..J. D. Porterfield, Jr., Cape Girardeau Tuberculous Affections of the Rectum........E. H. Thrailkill, Kansas City Primary Tuberculosis of the Rectum with a Report of Cases.... ...Leon Straus, St. Louis OFFICERS FOR 1906. President-D. C. Gore, Marshall, Mo. Vice-Presidents-C. D. Avery, Troy; J. P. Burke, California; F. A. Glasgow, St. Louis; T. F. Lockwood, Butler; E. Lowrey, Excelsior Springs. Secretary-C. M. Nicholson, St. Louis. Assistant Secretary-E. J. Goodwin, St. Louis. MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY AT ST. JOSEPH. The eighteenth semi-annual meeting of this society was held at St. Joseph on March 22-23, under the presidency of Dr. Joo. E. Summers, of Omaha. There were fully one hundred and fifty in attendance, and the prediction made in these columns a few weeks since regarding the scientific work accomplished by this body was fully realized. Dr. Chas. H. Mayo presented a most timely paper on "The Surgical Treatment of Goitre," detailing results in 200 cases. Dr. L. L. McArthur, of Chicago, delivered the oration on Surgery and handled his subject in a masterly manner. Surgery of Intestinal Tuberculosis was his theme. Other papers read were as follows: S. Grover Burnett, Kansas City, Some Pathology of the Morphine Habit, and My Preferred Method of Treatment. C. O. Thienhaus, Milwaukee, Wis., The Surgical Treatment of Total Prolapse of the Uterus, with a Report of Operated Cases. Palmer Findley, Chicago, Is Vaginal Cesarean Section Justifiable? Wm. Frick, Kansas City, Mo., Blastomycetic Dermatitis, with Reports of Cases. F. E. Coulter, Omaha, Tumors of the Cerebellum, with Report of a Case. M. M. Edmondson, Kansas City, Mo., Club Foot, with Special Refererence to Postoperative Treatment. W. F. Milroy, Omaha, Indirect Effects of Valvular Lesions. Bernard A. McDermott, Omaha, Some Principles in the Treatment of Rupture of the Male Urethra. T. C. Witherspoon, St. Louis, Removal of the Uterus in Certain Inflammatory Conditions. R. D. Mason, Omaha, Some Advances in the Office Treatment of Rectal Diseases. R. C. Moore, Omaha, The County Sanatorium for Pulmonary Tuberculosis. L. J. Dandurant, St. Joseph, Ligation of Common Femoral Artery for Large Aneurism in Scarpa's Triangle; Recovery; Presentation of Patient. John P. 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