New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-03
MEDICAL TOPICS DISCUSSED.
PROCEEDINGS OF TIE AMERICAN SOCIETY.
orAcK MEDICINES IN TIE MAYA PAPFR BY DR.
LYNCH on YELLOW FEVER CONSUMPTION, ETC.
LII y ,r1nNA1 mann OF HEATH.

The second days session OF the American
Medical Aesociaton o. eued Rt 10 A. m yeSerua'
in Association Hail. DR.. Lewis a. Sayre presided LUG
attendance .Sas even larger than ON Tuesday many
nbvsicians having arrived the meantime y hS' "l
the Committee On Nominations was READ Dy tne heoIe
tary No representative Of the Un'td STATES navy ap
nearing on the list Dr. Albert H. GihOn' MNd'ca DIro
tor OF the NAVY moved that It have re f''enl"lio
The chairman stated that charge Of using qu'ck nie
c,ucs had been preferred against thc Navy M"cleal D'
,rrcut and that no representation was 10 bc allowed
# until the Judcilry Committee had rendered tS uee
sion on tha suhrc. Dr. Glh"n SAID tha' mo ch'RcS
had Il zen unsigned and ma been preferred IN malice
mud that some one hal ihc Navy box OF quack
medicines hut h"y had never been used Dr.. Gross OF
Philadelphia, moved That. p'nlinE the investigation,
ac Navy should be represented on the committee ana
the resolution adopted.
Dr. A. Ctcndencn. OF Fort Lee, " j introduced reS-
olution accompanied 10y the diait If bill TO IcorGanze
tlc present National Board OF Health, which was
adnptd and referred to no sccto on Medical JuTspru
dre The reasons for the resolution stated to he
mat "fhera have been many complaints TO the cen
trIlcd, imperial character Of the present NAloIai
Board VI HEALTH anu thar ono bills winch have been
prndny before Congress for the Increase OF th' eXccu
I'VE power Of the present board have becn wiihdrawn
Tn, report on state NJ, deal societies and Medical
Journals prepared by DR. Samuel d. Grass. OF Phadr
la WAS read by DR.. Pratt. III the opinion ~ the writer
# was nos vet time for the establishing of weekly med
zeal Journal rs mmrndrd Dy President eyre III his
!drrss. The report zOnr. which Wa 10 De read ~
Dr. y. s. DAVIS. OF Chicago hal not been complete" o
account illness. On the mo ion OF D.. White, OF Bul
alu Dr. DayoS par,al report accepted by the an
soriaOn, ana II was re- Owed To continue the commit
tee and furnish The iund> asked for.
An interesting ndircss WAS then read hy DR.. J. =
Lynch. of Brlnore. cha rman ~ the section oi the
Practice Of Medicine, N ltcra Mcica and Ply iooGy
X rrring t. yellow fever the speaker sand: Il the
Investigations made last year fact, have been de
Ia ]. mr. Ia inn # 4
low fever laJ dormant tor many montns Of cold OF
even freeing weather and SIN retain il yialuy.r.adY
to Lrcumc cnrTccticaly actiYc H-iu "hrGc' r aF r.
able condition, occur; and secondly, iuai tn lowest
temper rXp-iirdccd IN the southern Region Z" oar
own country VIII; chtck IL tnr growth Hnt spread OF
the lerms 81 the fever. Incapable OF destroying in
wcn other conditions tavorl"c 10 their pr scrVAtIon
arc present. Tie long ntrVal between exp sure ana
attack can only be explained upon the hpnihc>, mt
fine yellow fever GERM Ike that Of iyph0 j. not cap1-
bic OF producing tIc ,vr n first, but mus, and does
undergo a certain development or grow aiicrWaid hy
wLchl acquires malignant rnpcrty not hc:ore pos
ssstd TINS satisfactorily accounts for he fact That the
fever can Lc tran sportcd from place pace hut l. yet
not elson lily contiguous. This shows MS that upon the
Introduction OF "a tie fever have abundance
OF time to destroy the germs by destroying all thr be
longing, Oi yellow fever patient, ana by thoroughly
puii yiaS and dsec cling him and al MS SURROUNDINGS
al ger propagation can he nlA"ut ~ prevented
But otncr d-c..s,s are silently destroying every
year an u hmtcy greater number o oir race thunycl.
tow fever chu.crit combined In $50. "i tie 1O3C9
deaths III Boston. N"w-Y"rk Phlid %. ha. BIO rhn u
and 81 timorc, lisp rom consumption. @GJG
from scarciina ana 2357 nom lipihcrm. TIC two Las
are prey, u able sousc-. With VINO Ia, Thought
ulv obs, rvcd the class 81 people who furnish ic
largest nuu'cr oil "outin deaths fran consun tior
can doupi t.a' the mortality from II ma lat uiatr
ally diminished By improved hyHc III dwD rs.
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AID alley, ~ q cur larger cite, fou Il. ya~lns 90
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