ed for-shall be organized at every annual meeting, for preparing, arranging, and expediting business for each next ensuing year, and for carrying out the objects of the Society, not otherwise provided for, namely, a Committee on Ethics, a Committee on Arrangements, a Committee on Practical Medicine, a Committee on Surgery,a Committee on Obstetrics, a Committee on Finance, and a Committee on Publication. The Committee on Ethics shall be composed of nine members who shall be nominated by the President, and elected by the Society. Three of the number shall serve for a term of three years, three for two years, and three for one year after the first election; thereafter three shall be elected annually for a term of three years. They shall consider all cases for discipline of members. All charges made shall be referred to them without discussion; all evidence shall be presented to them, when they shall report their conclusions to the Society. The Committee on Arrangements shall provide suitable accommodations for the meeting, and for the members from abroad, and, in general, attend to the wants of the Profession while attending the meetings of the Society. The Committee on Practical Medicine shall make an annual report, embodying the recent and most practical improvements, discoveries, and advancements in the practice of medicine. The Committee on Surgery shall make an annual report on the subject of surgery, and give a summary of the recent improvements, discoveries, and progress in this department of medicine. The Committee on Obstetrics shall make an annual report on the subject of obstetrics and the diseases of women and children, giving a summary of the recent discoveries and improvements in this branch of medicine. The Committee on Finance shall be the Executive Committee of this Society, to whom all accounts must be referred, and who shall make an annual report on the financial condition of the Society, and on all matters usually falling to the consideration of executive committees. The Committee on Publication shall be composed of the Secretary, Treasurer, and President, who shall have charge of all matters. intended for the press, and superintend their publication. The reports of all Standing Committees shall, on their reference to the Publication Committee, be published in the Transactions of the Society. All other, or voluntary reports or papers, shall be referred to the committee under which the report or paper would properly fall, and such committee shall decide upon the publication of papers so referred. The publication of any paper is not to be understood as necessarily an endorsement by the Society of the views contained therein. MEMBERS TO REPORT CASES. ART. VI. Every member of this Society who is neither appointed to read an essay, or to the chairmanship of a committee, shall give a complete detailed written history of one case of disease occurring under his own observation, comprising everything touching its etiology, pathology, syptomatology, nosology, diagnosis, prognosis, therapeutics, and hyigenics. AMENDMENTS. ART. VII.-These By-Laws may be altered, added too, or repealed by a three-fourths vote at any annual meeting. |