788 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



A card from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, announcing 

 the death of Dr. John Shaw Bilhngs, Fellow in Class II., Section 4, 

 was presented by the Corresponding Secretary. 



Professor R. P. Strong gave an illustrated lecture on the recent 

 Manchurian Epidemic of Pneumonic Plague. 



At the conclusion of this paper, remarks were made by Mr. H. 

 L. Higginson as follows: — 



Ladies and Gentlemen: 



Dr. Strong has told us a deeply interesting tale, and now I will tell 

 you one thing which he cannot tell. He has described his work done 

 under the most difficult circumstances, but has not mentioned the 

 dangers accompanying this work. 



Dr. Strong and his colleague went alone to Manchuria, lived in a 

 very dirty town, and fought the terrible disease which threatened 

 their own lives, through infection or through a possible scratch, and 

 also ran constant risk of death at the hands of the Chinese, who hate 

 all work with dead bodies. Dr. Strong and Dr. Teague worked with- 

 out the usual conveniences of hospitals or the ordinary comforts of life, 

 saved many patients from death, and discovered the means of combat- 

 ing with success this terrible epidemic. It was the work of a hero, 

 and nothing less. One can understand the courage of the fireman as 

 he runs up a ladder to save a woman and her children, or of the soldier 

 in the desperate attack on the enemy. In each case these men have 

 the habit, and perform their work cheered on by the brilliancy of the 

 deed; they do not stop to consider such risks. But in cool blood, 

 through many weeks and under such conditions, to study this fell 

 disease and treat the multitude of patients was a noble act, and we 

 thank Dr. Strong and his colleagues with all our hearts. It was 

 heroism of the highest kind. 



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Professor F. B. Mallory gave an account of the Pathological 

 Lesion in Whooping Cough and the Relation of the Whooping 

 Cough Bacillus to the Lesion. (Illustrated by lantern slides.) 



The following paper was presented by title: — 



"On Certain Fragments of the Pre-Socratics: Critical Notes 

 and Elucidations." Bv W. A. Heidel. 



On motion of Professor Webster, it was 



Voted, That the thanks of the Academy be given to the mem- 

 bers of the Faculty of the ^Medical School who arranged the exhi- 



