Issued with THE PHILIPPINE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 
Vol. XIV, No. 1, January, 1919. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE MANILA MEDICAL SOCIETY 
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING, OCTOBER 7, 1918 
MINUTES OF THE MANILA MEDICAL SOCIETY 
The meeting was called to order at 8.40 p. m. in the Philip- 
pine General Hospital by President F. W. Vincent. 
Twenty members were present. The minutes of the previous 
meeting were read and approved. Dr. Miguela Gemil was 
elected an active member of the society. 
The following resolution, presented by Dr. R. B. Gibson, was 
adopted: 
Whereas the National Guard of the Philippine Islands is urgently in 
need of medical officers at the present time. 
Therefore, be it resolved that the Philippine Islands Medical Association 
and its component organization, the Manila Medical Society, in joint 
session, urge those available individual members thereof, who have not 
yet offered their services to the Guard, to at once apply for service with 
the Guard as a patriotic duty and for the honor of the medical profession 
of these Islands, and to use what personal influence they may command 
to persuade other medical men to this end. 
The following papers from the surgical department of the 
College of Medicine and Surgery were read and freely discussed: 
1. A Study of a Series of Cases of Splenectomy, by Dr. Poten- 
ciano Guazon. 
2. Report of a Case of Schistosoma in the Appendix, by Dr. 
Potenciano Guazon. 
3. Ureteral Obstruction, by Dr. José Eduque. 
4. Demonstration of Some Important Cases of Fractures, by 
Dr. Ricardo Fernandez. 
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned. 
D. DE LA PAZ, 
Secretary-Treasurer, 
Manila Medical Society. 
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 
A STUDY OF A SERIES OF CASES OF SPLENECTOMY 
By Dr. PorenciANo GuAZON 
Several cases on whom splenectomy was performed by the 
department of surgery were described. The technic and special 
precautions to be observed were given in detail, and the post- 
operative treatment and prognosis were discussed. 
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