TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

State Medical Society

OF

WISCONSIN,

FOR THE YEAR 1887,

WITH ITS

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS

AND A LIST OF ITS MEMBERS.

MEDICINA NUSQUAM NON EST.

APPLETON:

PRINTED BY THE POST PUBLISHING COMPANY.

1887.

The next meeting of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin will be held in the City of Milwaukee, commencing on the first Tuesday in May, 1888, at 8 o'clock P. M.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I. Transactions for 1887; 41st Annual Session.

Page.

9

II. President's Address. DR. S. C. JOHNSON, Hudson. 82

III.

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Fractures of the Skull-Reports and Observations of

Three Cases. DR. S. MARKS, Milwaukee.

IV. Concussion of the Brain from Traumatic Causes. DR.

HUGO PHILLER, Waukesha.

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88

V. Report of the Committee on Obstetrics and Gyno-

cology. DR. G. M. STEELE, Oshkosh.

96

103

VIII. Membranous Croup. DR. F. W. EPLEY, New Rich-

mond.

124

IX. Cerebral Rheumatism. DR. G. W. HARRISON, Ashland. 127

X. Report of Committee on Nervous System. DR. J. H.

MCBRIDE, Wauwatosa.

133

XI. The Study of Bacteria. PROF. E. A. BIRGE, Madison. 145

XII. Entropium: A Farther Modification in the Operation

for its Cure. DR. EDWIN W. BARTLETT, Milwaukee. 160

XIII. Therapeutic Notes: A Preliminary Note on Hypoder-

mic Catharsis; Bergeon's Treatment of Phthisis :

Antifebrin. DR. J. M. DODSON, Madison. - - 165

XIV. Rational Therapeutics. DR. C. M. GOULD, River Falls. 172

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XV. Spinal Irritation; or Rachialgia. DR. MARGARET

XVI. A Nasal Cutting-Forceps and Bloodless Nasal Operating. DR. A. C. FARNHAM, Milwaukee.

XVII. Obituary Sketch of W. Thorndike, M. D. DR. J. K.

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177

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BARTLETT, Milwaukee.

186

XVIII. Obituary Sketch of Charles G Strong, M. D., of Eau

189

Claire. DR. E. S. HAYES, Eau Claire.

XIX. Obituary Sketch of John P. Bading, M. D., of Milwaukee. DR. D. L. SAUERHERING, of Wausau.

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