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clear  the  purpose  of  the  change  proposed  in  the  present  title  of 
the  Committee  of  Revision  it  is  hereby  announced  that  the  Board 
of  Trustees  will  submit  to  the  Convention  propositions  to  amend 
the  By-Laws  as  follows :  to  increase  the  number  of  members  on 
the  Committee  of  Revision,  hereafter  to  be  known  as  the  "  General 
Committee  of  Revision,"  from  twenty-five  to  fifty,  said  General 
Committee  of  Revision  to  create  from  its  own  membership  an 
Executive  Committee  of  Revision  of  fifteen  members,  to  have 
immediate  charge  of  the  work  of  revision,  and  also  giving  to 
said  General  Committee  of  Revision  certain  advisory  and  super- 
visory powers  over  the  work  of  the  Executive  Committee  of 
Revision. 
Murray  Galt  Motter, 
Secretary. 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
special  lectures  for  i9o9-i9io. 
The  Typhoid  Organism  and  Its  Relation  to  the  Public 
Health. — Dr.  A.  C.  Abbott,  Director  of  the  Laboratory  of  Hy- 
giene, University  of  Pennsylvania,  gave  the  fourth  lecture  of  the 
course  on  Friday,  November  19,  at  3.30  p.m.,  his  subject  being  "  The 
Typhoid  Organism  and  its  Relation  to  the  Public  Health."  The 
speaker  was  introduced  by  Mr.  M.  I.  Wilbert,  who  remarked  on  the 
importance  which  is  coming  to  be  attached  to  the  question  of  the 
economic  value  of  health,  and  spoke  of  the  fact  that  Dr.  Abbott  is 
a  former  student  and  follower  of  Dr.  William  H.  Welch,  one  of  the 
greatest  minds  devoted  to  medicine  in  the  world. 
Dr.  Abbott's  address  furnished  an  excellent  resume  of  the 
subject. 
He  stated  that  typhoid  fever  should  be  of  peculiar  interest  to 
Philadelphians  for  two  reasons  especially : 
First,  that  it  was  in  Philadelphia  that  a  Philadelphia  physician, 
Dr.  Gerhard,  demonstrated  in  1836  that  it  was  a  distinct  disease 
from  typhus  fever,  with  which  it  had  heretofore  been  confused, 
and  made  it  clear  to  the  m  Jcal  world  that  typhoid  fever  must 
be  regarded  as  a  pathologic  i  entity.  This  demonstration  was  made 
in  the  Philadelphia  Hospital. 
Second,  that  by  the  adoption  of  common-sense  methods,  thor- 
