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SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
Min utes of last meeting were read and on motion adopted. 
The essayist of the evening, Dr. Charum, then read a paper 
on Insolation, which more particularly spoke of those cases of 
sunstroke that had come under Ids notice, giving the result of his 
particular treatment in each case, some of winch he had treated 
with sedatives, others with stimulants. The paper did not seem 
to satisfy Dr. L. McLean, who wanted to know what real or 
special disease the essayist had reference to, what was his reason 
of giving in one case sedatives, and in another the opposite, and 
with his usual persistency, pressed him for minute particulars of 
the disease he had reference to, wanting the pathology in the diff¬ 
erent stages, etc. Dr. Charum gave a general answer, in which he 
stated he had not had the opportunity to make post-mortems in the 
cases he had treated, and so was unable to give the lesions ; he had 
simply treated symptoms. Where there was excessive prostration 
and loss of vital power, he had used sedatives, and were the pulse 
hard and there was threatened congestion, he had used stimulants. 
Dr. Coates said he had one case where the temperature was 
over 110° F., which recovered under his treatment, which was 
always stimulants; they were certainly indicated, as there was 
exhaustion. 
Dr. Burden mentioned two cases he lost where the temperature 
was respectively 110 and 109. He had generally found the tem¬ 
perature very high; his treatment, which was generally successful, 
was stimulants and injection of cold water. In reply to Dr. 
McLean, said the disease he had reference to was sunstroke. 
Dr. L. McLean said, he considered the term altogether too 
general. He congratulated the essayist on his successful treat¬ 
ment of “symptoms,” and did appear willing to accept his ideas on 
the subject under discussion as scientific knowledge of the trouble 
he had been called upon to treat. 
In reply to. Dr. Bretherton, the essayist said that he would 
give sedatives where he found the temperature high and the pulse 
full. In treating cases of sunstroke, he relied mostly on aconite, 
whiskey and liquor ammonia aeetatis, applying cold water to the 
head and lower extremities ; although he had never seen laminitis 
follow sunstroke, yet he had always found the lower extremities 
