THE

TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

AMERICAN

MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

INSTITUTED 1847.

VOL. VI.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED FOR THE ASSOCIATION,

BY T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS.

1853.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH

LIBRARY

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1869. July 10
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Sam. A. Green, cs (AC, 1851.)

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.

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MINUTES OF THE SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIA-

Address of Beverley R. Wellford, M. D., President of the Association

Report of the Committee on Medical Education

Report of the Committee on Medical Literature

On the Agency of the Refrigeration, produced by upward Radiation of Heat, as an

Exciting Cause of Disease

On the Results of Surgical Operations in Malignant Diseases

Report on the Epidemics of Tennessee and Kentucky

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On Acute and Chronic Diseases of the Neck of the Uterus. By CHARLES D.
MEIGS, M. D., of Philadelphia .

365

An Inquiry into the Nature of Typhoidal Fevers, based upon Considerations of

their History and Pathology. By HENRY F. CAMPBELL, Chairman of the

Committee on Typhoid Fever

On Coxalgia, or Hip Disease. By ALDEN MARCH, M. D., of Albany, New York 479

On the Surgical Treatment of Morbid Growths within the Larynx, illustrated by

an Original Case and Statistical Observations, elucidating their Nature and

Forms. By GURDON BUCK, M. D., Surgeon to the New York Hospital

On the Sympathetic Nerve in Reflex Phenomena. By HENRY F. Campbell, of

Georgia

PRIZE ESSAY.-The Surgical Treatment of Certain Fibrous Tumours of the

Uterus, heretofore considered beyond the Resources of Art. By WASHING-

TON L. ATLEE, M. D., of Philadelphia

PRIZE ESSAY.-The Cell: its Physiology, Pathology, and Philosophy; as deduced

from Original Investigations, to which is added its History and Criticism.

By WALDO J. BURNETT, M. D., of Boston, Massachusetts

645

OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR 1853

833

LIST OF PERMANENT MEMBERS.

884