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distribution of the fluids, or "humors," of the body, viz.: blood, 

 phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. Hippocrates, Galen (" Humor- 

 alists"). 



(8) Disease due to changes in the form, number, arrangement, or 

 movement of the "atoms" of which the body is composed. Ascle- 

 pias (" Solidists " or " Methodists "). 



(9) Disease due to the abnormal action of the dynamic or vital 

 force ("Spirit," " pneuma," " Archaeus "). Athenseus, Paracelsus, 

 I Lihnemann (" Vitalists "). 



(io) Disease considered only with respect to its manifestations or 

 "symptoms," regardless of causes. Philenus, Sydenham, Hahne- 

 mann (" Empiricists "). 



(il) Disease due to various and complex modifications of normal 

 structure and function, resulting" from the conditions of environment 

 or inherent tendencies. Modern scientific medicine. 



Smithsonian Delegates 



Doctor James B. Angell, President of the University of Michi- 

 gan and Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, represented the Insti- 

 tution at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the first com- 

 mencement of the University of Wisconsin, held at Madison during 

 the week beginning June 5, 1904. 



Mr. William H. Holmes, Chief of the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology has been appointed delegate of the Institution at the Four- 

 teenth International Congress of Americanists to be held at Stuttgart, 

 August 18-23, 1904- 



Messrs. Leonhard Stejneger and Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., of the 

 United States National Museum, will represent the Institution and 

 the Museum at the Sixth International Congress on Zoology to be 

 held at Berne, Switzerland, August 14-19. 



Dr. Marcus W. Lyon, Jr., of the United States National Museum, 

 was delegate from the Smithsonian Institution at the meeting of the 

 International Congress on Education, held at St. Louis, June 28 to 

 July 1. 



Professor Paul Haupt, Honorary Curator of the Division of 

 Historic Archeology, United States National Museum, has been 

 appointed representative of the Smithsonian Institution and the 

 National Museum at the Fourteenth International Congress of 

 Orientalists to be held at Algiers in April, 1905. 



