lxxxiv Proceedings of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. [March, '14.] 



The Adjourned Meeting of the Medical Section of the 

 Society was held at the Society's Rooms on Wednesday, the 

 11th March, 1914, at 9-30 p.m. 



Lieut.-Col. L. Rogers, C.I.E., F.A.S.B., I.M.S., in the 



chair. 



The following members were present : — 



Dr. C. A. Bentlev, Mr. J. Coggin Brown, Lieut.-Col. J. T. 

 Calvert, I.M.S., Major E. D. W. Grieg, I M.S., Dr. W. C. 

 Hossack, Dr. A. M. Leake, Surgeon Capt. F. F. MacCabe, 

 Lieut.-Col. E. A R. Newman, I. M.S., Mr. Alain Raffin, Captain 

 C. A. Godson, I.M.S., Honorary Secretary. 



Visitors:— Dr. A. H. W. Baily, Dr. R. H. Marsall and 



others. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Two clinical cases — (1) a case of cervical ribs, (2) a case of 

 transposition of viscera, were shown to the meeting. 



Col. Newman read a paper entitled ' f The Operation of 

 election for the radical cure of inguinal hernia" which was 

 followed by the second portion of Dr. Bentley's paper " Malaria 

 in Lower Bengal, its Origin and Remedy." 



It was proposed by Dr. Hossack and passed that the 

 Medical Section address the Council of the Asiatic Society with 

 a view to arranging a special meeting of the Medical Section to 

 which Engineers and others interested in the subject may be 

 invited to discuss Dr. Bentley's paper, owing to the general 

 importance of the subject and suggested remedy. 





