MITCHELL — StrLEHITE S . 
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Ifhe Secretary was desired to communicate the motion to 
Dr. Leotaud. 
Tuesday, 11 th September , 1866. 
The Association met at Mr. Lechmere Guppy’s house, 
St. Ann Boad. 
Horace Deigiiton, Esq., M.A., F.B.A.S., President, in 
the Chair. 
The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Thomas Law, con- 
veying his resignation as a Member of the Association. 
The following donation was announced : — “ Sugar Mak- 
ing in the West Indies.” By Alexander William Ander- 
son. Presented by the Author. 
The following communications were read : — ■ 
1 . . On the Use of Sulphites in Medicine . 
By the Hon. Henry Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen, 
The paper I am about to read is perhaps more 
exclusively professional than is usual at the meetings of 
our Association, and 1 should not have introduced it to 
your attention now, but at the request of a fellow-member 
who seemed to think its subject-matter might interest some 
of you in a sanitary point of view. The remarks will be 
short and devoid of technical obscurity. They refer to 
the use of alkaline sulphites, both -as prophylactic and cu- 
rative of those maladies usually termed zymotic, arising, or 
supposed to arise, from peculiar ferments acting on one or 
more elements of the blood. Of the nature of these fer- 
ments wo know little or nothing except through their re- 
sult, with which you are all more or less familiar. Ty- 
phus, Typhoid, and Paludal fevers, Small-pox, Scarlet fe- 
ver, Cholera, &c., are some of the well-known features under 
