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■was chairinan, made the following report, 

 ■which was adopted: 



In view of the general excellence of all the ex- 

 hibits, your committee found great difficulty in 

 deciding as to their relative merits. It wishes to 

 recommend highly the exhibits as a whole and the 

 very effective manner in which the demonstrations 

 were made. 



The committee has awarded the gold medal to 

 Dr. C. C. Bass, of Tulane University, for the ex- 

 hibit of the "Cultivation of Malarial Plasmodia 

 in Vitro." 



As exhibits to be distinguished by certifi- 

 cates of merit, the committee recommends the 

 following : 



"Cancer in Plants," Erwin F. Smith, United 

 States Bureau of Plant Industry. 



"Intestinal Parasitic Diseases," LOlian H. 

 South, Kentucky State Board of Health. 



"Histology of Goiter," L. B. Wilson, Mayo 

 Clinic. 



' ' Studies in the Physiology of Anesthesia, ' ' W. 

 D. Gatch, Frank Mann and Dowell Gann, Indian- 

 apolis. 



"Exhibit of Fetal Peritoneal Folds by Means 

 of Specimen Photographs and Drawings," Joseph 

 Eilus Eastman, Indiana University School of 

 Medicine, Indianapolis. 



"Blood-vessel Suturing and Transplantation of 

 Blood-vessels and Intestines," J. S. Horsley, St. 

 Elizabeth Hospital, Eichmond, Va. 



' ' Rontgen-ray Plates of Lesions of Various In- 

 ternal Viscera," D. H. Carman, Mayo Clinic. 



In the Journal of the American Medical 

 Association there is some further information 

 as to the International Medical Congress 

 which will meet in London in August. In the 

 section of the history of medicine a wide inter- 

 pretation has been given to the subject. In 

 some cases the papers will be more or less of 

 an anthropologic nature. A paper on the his- 

 tory of. the relations of medicine and vivisec- 

 tion is among these to be presented. That 

 the artistic side of the subject will be well 

 represented is shown by the following titles : 

 " Relations between Art and the History of 

 Medicine," Hollander ; " Physiology of Vision 

 and Impressionism in Art," Leonard Hill, and 

 " Painting in Relation to the History of 

 Medicine," Corsini. Sir Shirley Murphy has 

 promised a paper on the origin and growth of 



public health l^slation. Sir WiUiam Osier 

 will, give an illustrated lecture on the earliest 

 printed medical books. Dr. Sambon will dis- 

 cuss the light thrown by the healing practises 

 of animals and savage men on the study of 

 primitive medicine. In the section of psychi- 

 atry, over which Sir James Crighton Browne 

 will preside, Janet will discuss psychanalysis ; 

 Dr. Adolf Meyer will read a paper on the 

 psychiatric clinic, its aims, educational and 

 therapeutic, and the results obtained in the 

 promotion of recovery. Dr. Morselli will dis- 

 cuss the psychology of crime. In the section 

 of anatomy Dr. C. IJ. Ariens-Kapper, of Am- 

 sterdam, will read a paper on cerebral cir- 

 culation and the precise function of the fur- 

 rows of the brain. In the section of physiol- 

 ogy there will be a debate on the correlation of 

 the organs of internal secretions and their dis- 

 turbances. In the section of pathology shock 

 is one of the subjects to be discussed, and there 

 is a special subsection devoted to chemical 

 pathology. In the section of bacteriology and 

 immunity, among the subjects to be discussed 

 are theories of immunity and anaphylaxis, 

 the nature of virulence, filter passers, leprosy 

 and allied bacteria. In the section of thera- 

 peutics there are many novelties, such as non- 

 bacterial toxins and antitoxins, the compara- 

 tive value of heart remedies, and thermal 

 treatment. In the section of surgery there will 

 be a special subsection devoted to anesthesia, 

 general and local, and recent methods, such aff 

 spinal analgesia, and there will be a discussion- 

 of recent special methods of general anesthesia. 

 Professor Yandell Henderson, of New Haven, 

 Conn., will contrast the immediate and after- 

 effects of spinal and local analgesia with in- 

 halation anesthesia, particularly with regard 

 to shock. Postoperative shock will also come- 

 under review. In the section of ophthalmol- 

 ogy Professor Carl von Hess, of Wiirzburg, 

 will read a paper on " Affections of the Eye 

 produced by Undue Exposure to Light." In- 

 the section of hygiene and preventive medi- 

 cine, the following subjects will be discussed: 

 the effect of dust in producing diseases of the 

 lungs, infant mortality in the first weeks of 

 life, the factors that determine the rise, spread-- 



