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the arrangement of the grades shall always consist partly of pro¬ 
fessors and partly of practitioners. 
This was adopted. 
Mr. Hugues moved that in the decision of the jnry, a vote be 
taken of the results obtained by the students during the year, and 
that these be counted for one-third in the examination. 
There being much difficulty apprehended in carrying this suc¬ 
cessfully into effect, Mr. Hugues did not insist upon his motion, 
and the discussion was postponed. The meeting adjourned at 
4:45. 
SEVENTH DAY OF MEETING. 
Mr. Roll, and subsequently Mr. Bouley, Vice President, in 
the chair. 
The meeting was called to order at 8 o’clock. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read by the Secretary, 
and adopted. 
Mr. Hugues presented a paper on “ the transmissibility and 
the action of some morbid products, etc., etc.” 
Upon a comparison of views, it was decided that on account 
of the insufficiency of the time remaining, that question should 
be treated only so far as it applies to the measures to be taken in 
reference to the use of meats. 
The President presented to the Congress for discussion the 
question of pulmonary phthisis, in its connection with that sub¬ 
ject. 
Mr. Lydtin, reporter, then took the floor. He first thanked 
Messrs. Wehenkel and Siegen for the excellent translation they 
have made of his report, and then presented the essential points of 
it. He considered, first, the question of the diagnosis of pulmonary 
phthisis, the difficulties of which have been exaggerated. The 
first object he had in view was to well establish the diagnosis of 
the disease, and to that effect he mentioned all the diseases likely 
to be confounded with it, excluding from the list certain diseases 
frequently considered as of a tuberculous nature, though in noway 
related to it. The diagnosis of phthisis in the living or the 
