VOLUME XXX.

TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

State Medical Society

OF WISCONSIN.

FOR THE YEAR 1896.

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS

AND

LIST OF MEMBERS.

MEDICINA NUSQUAM NON EST.

MADISON, WIS.:

TRACY, GIBBS & CO., PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPERS.

1896.

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NOTICE.

The next meeting of the Society will be held at Racine, on the First Wednesday of May, 1897, beginning at 11:00 o'clock A. M.

The next meeting of the American Medical Association will be held in Philadelphia, Pa., June 1-4. 1897.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Officers and Committees for 1896-7.

Transactions for 1896-Fiftieth Annual Session...

Announcement by Committee of Arrangements.

Address of Welcome by Mayor Dye of Madison

Reply by President Epley................

Letters: From New York State Medical Society

From Michigan State Medical Society...

From Surgeon-General of the United States.

Reports: Of Rush Monument Committee

Of Secretary..

Of Treasurer.

Of Finance Committee..

Anniversary Banquet

List of New Members Admitted during Session.

Register of Members in Attendance

President's Address, Dr. F. W. Epley, New Richmond..

Reminiscences, Dr. B. O. Reynolds, Lake Geneva...

HYGIENE:

Of Public Conveyances, Dr. J. F. Pritchard, Manitowoc..

Of the Physician Himself, Dr. H. B. Tanner, Kaukauna..

Duty of Governments toward the Individual, Dr. Walter Kempster,

Milwaukee..

Hindrances to Health, and the Advancement of Sanitary Science, Dr.

B. O. Reynolds, Lake Geneva

100

The Necessity for a General Knowledge of what Bacteriology Means,

Dr. W. C. Bennett, Milwaukee.....

105

The Care of Well People in Houses in which there is Diphtheria, Dr.

A. B. Grider, Milwaukee..

Measures used at the Bedside to Prevent the Spread of Diphtheria,

Dr. W. B. Metcalf, Lake Geneva..

116

Measures to Prevent the Spread of Diphtheria by the Physician, Dr.

Charles Schaper, Franklin..

119

Measures to be Adopted by Nurses to Prevent the Spread of Contagious

Diseases, Dr. E. E. Loomis, Janesville.......

123

Prevention of Insanity, Dr. M. J. White, Wauwatosa..

124

QUARANTINE:

The Rights of the Individual and of the Public, Dr. W. H. Washburn,

Milwaukee

131

Local, Dr. G. J. Kaumheimer, Milwaukee

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DISINFECTION:

Of Rooms after Contagious Diseases, Dr. U. O. B. Wingate, Milwaukee, 159

Of House, Dr. Geo. V. Mears, Fond du Lac.

VITAL STATISTICS:

164

The Problem-A Remedy, Dr. U. O. B. Wingate, Milwaukee....

A Plea for Better Regulation of, Dr. W. Coon, Milwaukee...

SCHOOL HYGIENE:

169

178

The Schoolhouse Attic a Breeding Place for Bats and Vermin, Dr. H.

P. Wenzel, Milwaukee.

184

School Hours too Long, Dr. Wm. Meacher, Portage.

190

Routine Cleanliness, Isolation and Watchfulness of Schools and Chil-

dren, Dr. S. H. Friend, Milwaukee.....

192

198

The Schoolroom, Dr. R. M. Wigginton, Waukesha..

Heating and Ventilating Schoolrooms, Dr. D. C. Beebe, Sparta...... 202

Effects of Foul Air, Overcowding, and Improper Heating in School-

rooms, Dr. J. H. Voje, Oconomowoc ....

208

Effects of Foul Air in Schoolrooms, Dr. T. W. Nuzum, Brodhead.... 213

Effects of Foul Air in Schoolrooms, Overcrowding and Improper Heat-

ing, Dr. L. B. Collier, Merrill....

216

Lighting of Schoolrooms and its Relation to Anomalies of Refraction,

Dr. J. A. Bach, Milwaukee....

222

HYGIENE OF CHILDHOOD:

Dr. C. M. Gould, West Superior....

General Care of Infants from Birth to Childhood, Dr. H. D. Fuller,

Seymour.....

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Nursing and Food of Childhood: Dr. C. F. Dougherty, Muscoda..

Clothing, Dr. J. A. René, Superior....

Notable Instances of Successive Cases of Phthisis, Dr. James Mills,

Janesville......

292

Instances of Successive Cases of Phthisis, Dr. John Binnie, Poy-

nette..

Factors Causing Phthisis: Bacilli, Dampness, Heredity, Dr. Wm.

F. Whyte, Watertown

298

Transmission of Tuberculosis, Dr. F. R. Garlock, Racine

Disinfection of Sputa in Tuberculosis, Dr. E. F. Woods, Janesville.. 307

Best Means of Protecting the Healthy of the Household against

Phthisis. Dr. C. R. Feld, Watertown..

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