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SECTION VIII. 



PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCE, 



Address before the section, by the Chairman, Gen. W. C. Gorgas. 



SUBSECTION 1. 

 PUBUC HEALTH. 



A historical resume of the investigations of yellow fever leading up to the. 



findings of the Reed Board, by Geo. M. Sternberg. 

 Antirahic vaccination in Havana with statistics compared with those of other 



nations, by Juan Santos Ferndndez. 

 Beri-heri, estudio epidemiologico y experimental, by Mario G. Lebredo. 

 Carlos Finlay on the house m.osquitoes of Havana, by Frederick Knab. 

 Concepio que ha guiado en la creacion del Instituto Modelo de Clinica 



Medica, by Luis Agote. 

 Concerning the chemical nature of the "vitamines," by Robert R. Williams. 

 Considerations sur la fikvre dite "fievre de fruits," by Charles Mathon 



and L. Audain. 

 Discovery and identification of the stages in the asexual cycle of the causative 



organism of Peruvian Verruga, by Charles H. T. Townsend. 

 Dr. Ernesto Liceaga and yellow fever, by T. C. Lyster. 

 Immunity to yellow fever, by H. R. Carter. 

 Infantile scurvy, by Alfred F. Hess. 

 La fievre typhoide en Bolivie, by Nestor Morales Villazon. 

 La nutricion en la altiplanicie de Bogota, by Calixto Torres Umana. 

 La profilaxia de la fiebre tifoidea por medio de la vacunacion, by Justo F. 



Gonzalez. 

 Medical preparedness for campaign, by Edward L. Munson. 

 Metodo de Ascanio para la coloracion de los pardsilos del paludismo, by 



Rafael Gonzalez Rincones. 

 Metodos modernos para la prevencidn de la mortcUidad infantil, by Arturo 



L. Guerra. 

 Observaciones sobre parasitosis iropicaies, by Rafael Gonzalez-Rincones. 

 On the inhibitory properties of magnesium sulphate and their therapeutic 



application in cases of tetanus, by S. J. Meltzer. 

 Present views in respect to modes and periods of infection in tuberculosis , 



by Mazyck P. Ravenel. 

 Public health measures in relation to venereal diseases, by William F. 



Snow. 



