Illinois State Medical Society Research Articles

RHINITIS IN CHILDREN; ITS VARIETIES, CAUSES AND TREATMENT.Read before the Illinois State Medical Society, May 15, 1893.

The forms of rhinitis which affect children are, in the main, subject to the same classification as when affecting adults. Various phases of the disease, however, both in pathology and clinical history, assume in childhood different degrees of importance, by reason of special tissue proclivities which are incidental to early life, and of unusual damage liable to ensue in a child from neglect of the disease during the developmental period. The treatment also requires special adaptation to the comparative helplessness and timidiy of young children. ACUTE RHINITIS. Acute rhinitis, colloquially termed cold in the head, is an acute inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the nasal cavities from the anterior nares to the naso-pharnyx. It is prone to extend to adjoining mucous surfaces and usually embraces the naso-pharnyx, at least to some degree, and thence not infrequently also the middle ear. Etiology.—Reasoning from analogy, one must regard acute suppurative rhinitis

SQUINT AND ITS TREATMENT.Read before the Meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society, May, 1893.

We understand by squint or strabismus that condition of the eyes in which the visual axis of one deviates from the visual axis of the other, when in a position of fixation upon an object. The normal position of the visual axis is parallel when the eyes are fixed upon a point at an infinite distance, and more or less convergent when fixed upon any object nearer than infinity. Paralysis of any individual or group of the extrinsic muscles of the eye would give rise to a disturbance of this adjustment of the visual axes and cause paralytic strabismus. In this, the movements of the affected eye would be more or less restricted in those directions controlled by paralyzed muscle, and there would be a corresponding deviation of the axis of the eye; while in movements in other directions it would follow the sound eye and the axes would be

ACUTE ULCERATIVE ENDOCARDITIS—A BRIEF RESUME OF THE PATHOLOGY OF EIGHT CASES.Presented with specimens to the Illinois State Medical Society. May 17, 1893

The following eight cases of malignant or acute ulcerative endocarditis, the heart lesion of each of which I have the honor to present to this society, occurred in the Cook County Hospital during the fifteen months ending April 1, 1893. I wish to extend my thanks to all the members of the staff through whose hands these cases have passed from time to time for their gracious permission to utilize the material in this way; individual mention of names would embarrass the necessary concentration aimed at in this report. These cases illustrate well the various forms of acute ulcerative endocarditis from an etiological, clinical, as well as anatomical standpoint and they particularly emphasize the difficulties so frequently encountered in the diagnosis of this affection. The cases are arranged in the following groups: I. One instance of primary endocarditis of a normal value. II. Two instances of acute ulceration developing upon

CONSUMPTION PRIMARILY A NERVE DISEASE.Read before the Illinois State Medical Society, May, 1893.

Professor of Physiology, Nervous and Mental in College of Physicians and Surgeons, Keokuk, Iowa.—Professor of Physiology and Pathology in United States Dental College—Surgeon of the Columbian Accident Company—Attending Physician National Temperance Hospital—Member American Medical Association—Illinois State Medical Society—Chicago Medical Society—Chicago Pathological Society—Chicago Academy of Sciences—Ex-President Chicago Pathological Society, etc. I have for years entertained the idea that the initial lesion or vice causing consumption is in the nervous system. In January 1880, 1 read a paper bearing the title Consumption a Nerve Disease before the Iowa State Medical Society. Causes of all diseases may be divided into internal and external. External causes arise from the patient's environments and are generally called exciting causes. Internal causes are congenital or hereditary defects or vice. This is generally termed predisposing causes. Primary cause here is meant some abnormal condition of the nervous system, which may arise from the patient's environment or heredity

PROFESSIONAL UNIFICATION.

Illinois State Medical Society, Chicago, February 10, 1893. In order to unify the profession of this State and thus greatly increase its power for the general good, as well as to augment its scientific work, we are making an effort to bring into the Illinois State Medical Society all of those interested in society work. There are now enrolled 500 of our best physicians; but this is not enough. There should be a great society in Illinois embracing, as do the Massachusetts and Indiana State Medical Societies, practically all of the representative physicians in the State. The Society has been organized so that any member of a local medical society may become a member of the State society, on the recommendation of the President and Secretary of the local organization and payment of annual dues for the current year. As there are district or county medical societies practically within reach

Criminal Responsibility in the Early Stages of General Paralysis.By F. P. Norbury, M. D., Jacksonville, Ill. (From the Transactions of the Illinois State Medical Society, 1892)

<i>Criminal Responsibility in the Early Stages of General Paralysis.</i>By F. P. Norbury, M. D., Jacksonville, Ill. (From the Transactions of the Illinois State Medical Society, 1892)

Transactions of the Forty-second Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society.

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THE RELATION OF BACTERIA TO DISEASE.An Address read before the Illinois State Medical Society at Vandalia, May 19, 1892.

From the earliest times to our own the mentalbias of physicians has been strongly toward philosophizing. This has been true because of the inherent difficulties of the subject matter with which pathology deals. That it is not due to lack of scientific method in early times, is conclusively shown by the fact that modern theories upon the subject are not in accord. And some theory is just as necessary for a working basis for the doctor of to-day as it was when "The Genuine Works of Hippocrates" contained all the knowledge which a progressive doctor needed to know. And other things being equal, a physician's success and usefulness may be guaged by the completeness of his theories regarding disease, and the thoroughness with which he carries them out in practice. The history of the development of bacteriology gives ample evidence that it has followed the common paths of the progress

ELECTRICITY AS A THERAPEUTICAL AGENT IN THE TREATMENT OF DYSMENORRHŒA AND PELVIC INFLAMMATIONS.Read at the Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society, at Springfield, Ill., May 20, 1891.

As a therapeutical agent, electricity has a wider range of usefulness than any other one agent known to the medical profession to-day. A great deal of good can be done with it when properly and carefully used. The ancients had a limited knowledge of its power to cure disease. Their batteries were furnished them in the form of an electrical fish, the raja torpedo, found in the Mediterranean Sea. Shocks from these torpedoes were often used in the treatment of disease. Since Galvani discovered galvanism in the year 1786, advancement has been made in the study and use of it. The past sixty years and more, especially the past twenty years, it has received much attention at the hands of the medical profession. The past seven years it has especially been used in the treatment of diseases of women. At the present time it is being lauded to the skies

THE OPERATIVE TREATMENT OF EXTRA-UTERINE PREGNANCY AT OR NEAR TERM, WITH REPORT OF A CASE.Read before the Illinois State Medical Society, May 20, 1891.

It is not my intention in this paper to give an exhaustive expose of all the details and the questions that arise in late extra-uterine pregnancy, but merely in connection with a case of this kind, which terminated fatally, to describe the thoughts and reflections that presented themselves to me in connection with the case. I shall, then, first describe the case, the different methods of operation and their prognoses, and later, review the more important points in the management of such cases from my own experience and from the literature as far as I have been able to obtain it. Case.—Mrs. C, 34 years of age, married thirteen years. Healthy as a child; first menstruated at the age of 14; always regular; three days' duration; for the past ten years two days only; never very abundant. A slight leucorrhœa for a few days following menstruation. Married at 21; a

Transactions of the Thirty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society

The work of this Society for the present year is of a very creditable character. In all thirty-four papers, covering a wide range of topics, were read. Much interest was evidently manifested in the proceedings, and the members present were agreed that the meeting was one of the most successful ever held by the Society. The Transactions appear in particularly good form; indeed, it is not too much to say that the volume may well serve as a model for reports of this character. The next meeting of the Society will be held in Chicago, beginning Tuesday, May 20, 1890.

Transactions of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society

Transactions of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PRACTICAL MEDICINE AND EPEIDMICS, OF THE ILLINOIS STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY FOR 1882-3.

[From Advance Sheets of the Transactions of the Illinois State Medical Society.] The By-laws of this Society make it the duty of the Standing Committee on Practical Medicine to report annually concerning such improvements as may have been made during the year in the management of individual diseases, and on the prevalence and special character of epidemics in all parts of this State. Improvements in the management of any given disease may arise, either from a better knowledge of its causes, a more accurate understanding of its special pathology and tendencies, a more perfect comprehension of the action of remedies, and from direct clinical experience or observation at the bedside of the sick. By a full knowledge of the causes capable of producing a disease, the physician is often able to direct such remedies, or adopt such hygienic measures, as will neutralize or suspend their further operation, very much to

Recent Literature Transactions of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society held at Quincy, May 16–18, 1882 . Chicago.

Recent Literature Transactions of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society held at Quincy, May 16–18, 1882 . Chicago.

Bibliographical Notices Plastics: a new Classification and a brief Exposition of Plastic Surgery . A re-print from a Report in the Transactions of the Illinois State Medical Society for 1867. By David Prince, M.D. Philadelphia: Lindsay &amp; Blakiston. 1868. pp. 93.

Bibliographical Notices Plastics: a new Classification and a brief Exposition of Plastic Surgery . A re-print from a Report in the Transactions of the Illinois State Medical Society for 1867. By David Prince, M.D. Philadelphia: Lindsay &amp; Blakiston. 1868. pp. 93.

Fourteenth Anniversary Meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society

Fourteenth Anniversary Meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society

Bibliographical Notices Tenth Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society, held in Paris, May 8th and 9th, 1860 . Chicago. pp. 226.

Bibliographical Notices Tenth Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society, held in Paris, May 8th and 9th, 1860 . Chicago. pp. 226.