Transactions of the first Pan-American Medical Congress v.1, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 |
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Page 87 - America, he boasted that he had called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old...
Page 32 - Spanish, as a part of this report. Since the publication of this preliminary announcement an organization has been effected in Paraguay. Your committee is therefore pleased to state that an organization of the Pan-American Medical Congress, exists in every State and Territory of the United States, and in every remaining country and colony of the Americas, including the West Indies and Hawaii. A provision has been adopted since the foregoing publication whereby every medical society, national, colonial...
Page 91 - So striking, indeed, is this likeness, that different races, in similar stages of development, often present more features of resemblance to one another than the same race does to itself in different stages of its history.
Page 209 - As tubercular ulceratiou often runs, as in these cases, transversely round the bowel, it may be as well to draw attention to the fact that the villi in tubercular ulceration are enlarged and infiltrated and the circular muscular fibres swollen and enlarged.
Page 32 - ... very actively engaged in carrying out the practical ends of the Congress. The Senate and House of Representatives at the first session of the last Congress adopted a joint resolution, authorizing the President to extend an invitation to the Governments of the Western Hemisphere to send official delegates to the meeting, and to appoint similar delegates on behalf of our own Government. This official invitation has been issued through the Department of State and all replies so far received have...
Page 34 - ... is necessarily very heavy and must be met at once. The members of the profession are therefore again urgently requested to register at once by paying the fee ($10) to the treasurer, Dr. AM Owen, Evansville, Ind. Those who thus become members of the Congress but who may be prevented from attending the meeting will receive a set of the transactions, which, of themselves, promise to be worth more than the amount of the registration fee. In submitting this, its final report, your committee begs leave...
Page 612 - If pressure is made with the same force on the common carotid above the " carotid tubercle " (ie, the anterior tubercle of the transverse process of the sixth cervical vertebra), the space below that tubercle being left free, the jet from the internal carotid wholly ceases.
Page 10 - Committee shall consist of one member for each medical society or one for each considerable center of population in each of the constituent countries of the Congress. Nominations for the Foreign Auxiliary Committee shall be made to the Chairman of the Committee on Organization by the members of the International Executive Committee, each for his own country, except that in the country in which the Congress is to be held nominations shall be made by the Committee on Organization. Appointments on the...
Page 12 - INCORPORATION. 4. The Chairman of the Committee on Organization shall cause the Congress to be incorporated under the laws of Ohio, and fifteen trustees shall be elected in accordance therewith, who by by-laws and through the Executive Committee shall supervise all receipts and disbursements by the Treasurer in accordance with the laws of Ohio. The President, Secretary-General, Treasurer, the member of the International Executive Committee for the United States, and Chairmen of Sections shall be...
Page 12 - Papers and discussions will be printed in the language in which they may be presented. All papers read in the Sections shall be surrendered to the Secretaries of the Sections; all addresses read in the General Session shall be surrendered to the Secretary-General as soon as read ; and all discussions shall be at once reduced to writing by the participants.