COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS. J. A. SUTCLIFFE, M. D., CHAIRMAN. T. N. BRYAN, M. D. JOSEPH EASTMAN, M. D. J. R. FEATHERSTON, M. D. HENRY JAMESON, M. D. COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION. ALLISON MAXWELL, M. D., CHAIRMAN.. JOHN CHAMBERS, M. D. THAD. M. STEVENS, M. D. E. S. ELDER, M. D. G. W. H. KEMPER, M. D. Contents. I. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS-PROBLEMS IN RELATION TO THE PREVEN- EMPYEMA: REPORT OF A CASE-A. A. Hamilton, M. D., Marion... VII. GALL STONES-C. B. Stemen, M. D., Fort Wayne........ VIII. ERGOT: ITS USE AND ABUSE-Wm. Commons, M. D., Union City.. 63 IX. HUMAN LONGEVITY—W. S. Haymond, M. D., Indianapolis............ 73 XI. A CASE OF OVARIOTOMY, WITH RECOVERY- Wm. Lomax, M. D., XII. DISEASES OF THE CERVIX UTERI—James Lamb, M. D., Aurora.................... 119 XIII. CASE OF UMBILICAL HERNIA-A. A. Hamilton, M. D., Marion........ 128. ERRATA. Page 59, in the first three prescriptions, the periods, after the figures expressing Page 59, third line from bottom, for " grams 13." read "grams .13" Page 193, in foot note, for "applies" read "apply." Page 204, tenth line from bottom, for "appearances" read "appliances." Page 271, the resolution beginning at the bottom of the page was adopted by Page 285, eighteenth line from top, for "Mr." read “Dr.” ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. PROBLEMS IN RELATION TO THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE. J. R. WEIST, A. M., M. D., RICHMOND, IND. A custom of this Society requires of its President a public address at its annual meeting, and I am here to discharge the duty thus imposed on me. Neither the constitution of this Society nor custom places a limit to the choice of a theme, and I have been much embarrassed in reference to the selection of a subject. I have been led to believe, however, that a departure from the line of thought, usually followed by my predecessors on occasions of this kind, would be acceptable to you, and that to a subject involving some of the problems formulated by modern scientific thought a higher interest would attach, than to one dealing only with questions that are daily considered. While we, as physicians, must continue to give our chief thought to what are called the "practical questions of medicine,” that we may relieve the suffering, and thus lessen the sum of human sorrow, we will fail in the discharge of our whole duty if we do not recognize that outside of the sick chamber and beyond the limits of hospital wards lies our highest work-work that has for its object the prevention of disease, not its cure. The happiness and the progress of mankind are the end at which |