MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS. THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING. ARLINGTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 5, I897. The Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the Society held in connection with the Fourth Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons at Washington, D. C., was called to order by the President, Dr. GEORGE C. HARLAN, at 10 A. M., and the following committees were appointed: Committee on Bulletin -Drs. C. A. OLIVER and MYLES STANDISH.
Committee on Memnbership -Drs. JOHN GREEN, C. S. BULL, SAMUEL THEOBALD, and ARTHUR MATHEWSON.
Auditing Committee-Dr. S. 0. RICHEY. The following-named guests, were, by vote of the Society, invited to attend the meeting: Dr. A. H. Knapp, New York; Dr. A. A. Schloss, Stockton, Cal.; Dr. W. N. Souter, Springfield, Mass.; Dr. E. 0. Belt, Washington; Dr. W. M. Sweet, Philadelphia; Dr. S. H. Dixon, U. S. N.; Dr. J. T. Carpenter, Philadelphia; Dr. W. B. Moulton, Portland, Me.; Dr. W. P. Eagleton, Newark, N. J.; Dr. M. E. Hennessy, New York; Dr. Muncaster, Washington; Dr. T. R. French, New York; and Dr. A. G. Thompson, Philadelphia. The Bulletin Committee reported, and the following papers were read: I. " Enucleation of both eyes owing to Panophthalmitis in a case of Exophthalmic Goitre," by Dr. J. A. Spalding. 2. "A case of Exophthalmic Goitre following Ether an-
aesthesia," by Dr. Wm. F. Aiken.
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3. "Report of cases of pulsating exophthalmos," by Dr. W. H. Wilder. 4. "Double exophthalmos with destruction of the eyes in an infant, starting probably from the dura near the sella turcica " (autopsy), by Dr. S. M. Burnett. Discussed by Dr. J. 0. Tansley. 5. "Pathology of chronic pseudo-membranous conjunctivitis," with presentation of patient, by Dr. L. Howe. 6. "Diphtheritic conjunctivitis," by Dr. Myles Standish. Discussed by Drs. deSchweinitz, Weeks, and Howe. 7. " Why Ophthalmic Societies should approve the Cred6 method for the prevention of ophthalmia neonatorum," by Dr. L. Howe (by title). 8. "A new operation for Prothesis in cases of cicatricial orbit," by Dr. G. C. Harlan. 9. "A case of ivory exostosis of the orbit," by Dr. W. F. Norris. IO. "A supplementary report of a case of ivory exostosis of the orbit," by Dr. R. Sattler. i i. "A unique intra-ocular tumor," by Dr. E. Jackson. 12. "Angio-Sarcoma of apparent retinal origin," by Dr. W. B. Johnson. Discussion of papers 8-12 by Drs. Sattler, Norris, Weeks, Howe, and Risley. 13. "Two cases of removal of steel from the eyeball located by the Roentgen rays, one imbedded in the crystalline lens," by Dr. Wm. Thomson, with demonstration of the locating process by Dr. W. M. Sweet. I4. "Value of repeated and differently placed exposures to the Roentgen ray in determining the location of foreign bodies in and about the eyeball," by Dr. C. A. Oliver.
The Society then went into executive session. The Committee on Membership reported favorably on three of the names referred to them, but on account of the limited attendance at the executive session, it was voted not to ballot upon these names until next year. The Committee also offered a list of candidates which it recommended should be referred to the Committee of Membership for next year. So ordered.
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The Nominating Committee reported the following list of officers for the ensuing year, who were elected: President, Dr. GEORGE C. HARLAN. Vice-President, Dr. 0. F. WADSWORTH. Corresponding Secretary, Dr. J. S. PROUT. Recording Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. S. B. ST. JOHN. Publication Committee, Drs. W. S. DENNETT, R. H. DERBY, and S. B. ST. JOHN. Voted, That the next place of meeting be New London. 'Voted, That the assessment of next year be five dollars. Voted, That the President appoint a delegate to represent the Society at the meeting of the British Medical Society at Montreal in August, I897, and Dr. S. B. ST. JOHN was subsequently appointed. Dr. Howe of Buffalo offered the following resolution: WHEREAS, Purulent ophthalmia of infancy produces more blindness than any other disease, thus necessitating great and often unnecessary cost to the state with life-long misery to the individual, and WHEREAS, A two per cent. solution of silver nitrate dropped into the eyes of children as soon as possible after birth, is one of the most efficient means for preventing that disease, therefore Resolved, That we desire to call the attention of obstetricians to the fact that these cases are unfortunately common in our practice, and to urge the more frequent use of the silver nitrate solution in the manner described by Cred6. Resolved, That we approve of the legislation which would result in the invariable use of this method or of any other equally safe and efficient, whereby the loss of vision from this disease would be lessened. After discussion the Society voted to appoint a committee of three to report upon the subject at the next annual meeting, and Drs. JACKSON, HOWE, and BURNETT were appointed. Voted, To accept the resignation of Dr. A. D. HALL. Adjourned to meet at 9 A. M., on May 6th. MAY 6, I 897. Society called to order at 9.15 A.M., and reading of papers was resumed. 15. "Endothelioma of lower lid," by Dr. C. H. Williams.
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i6. "Congenital Ptosis and Epicanthus," by Dr. R. Sattler. I7. "A new operation for Ptosis."' Dr. W. H. Wilder. i8. "Resection and advancement of the levator-palpebrae muscle in traumatic ptosis," by Dr. C. A. Oliver. Discussion by Drs. Fridenburg, Tansley, Wilder, and Sattler. I9. "Trophic Keratitis," by Dr. Geo. C. Harlan (title). 20. "Law of refraction-change following increase or decrease of body-weight," by Dr. G. M. Gould. 21. "The desirability of a Periscopic quality in correcting lenses," by Dr. C. M. Culver. 22. "Exhibition of cataract glasses, bifocal and achromatic," by Dr. William Thomson. 23. "Two cases of saccharine diabetes with rapid and remarkable changes in the refraction without demonstrable change in the transparency of the lens," by Dr. S. D. Risley. Discussion by Drs. Fridenburg, Theobald, Wadsworth, Gould, and Risley. 24. " A series of consecutive cataract operations," by Dr. R. L. Randolph. 25. "Hemorrhage during or following cataract operation," by Dr. 0. F. Wadsworth. 26. "Cholesterine crystals in the opaque lens of a child," by Dr. L. A. W. Alleman. Discussion of papers 24-26 by Drs. Ring, Howe, Risley, Randolph, St. John, Reeve, Webster, Holt, Theobald, Green, Weeks, Williams, Ray, Buller, Wadsworth, Wilson, and White. 27. "Removal of steel from vitreous, the position of the foreign body being determined by the presence of a scotoma in the field of vision," by Dr. C. A. Oliver. 28. "Taxis in increased intra-ocular tension," by Dr. S.
0. Richey. 29. " Retinitis Proliferans," by Dr. J. E. Weeks. 30. "A Case of retinitis circinata," by Dr. E. Fridenburg. 31. "Additional note on case of tumor of the optic nerve," by Dr. S. M. Burnett (title). 32. "Tobacco-amblyopia with autopsy and microscopic examination of the specimens," by Dr. G. E. deSchweinitz.
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33. "Marked impairment of central vision following prolonged use of the affected eye," by Dr. S. Theobald. 34. "Hysterical or functional blindness," by Dr. A. A. Hubbell. 35. "A Case of mental disease in which amnesic aphasia and agraphia were prominent symptoms," by Dr. H. F. Han-
sell (title). 36. " A Group of four cases of optic atrophy due to sexual excess," by Dr. J. A. Spalding. 37. "A study of some of the ophthalmic changes in chlorosis, pernicious anaemia, and leucocythaemia," by Dr. C. A. Oliver. 38. "Exhibition of water-color sketch of case of embolism of central artery of retina, the region between the mac. ula and the disc appearing normal," by Dr. John Green. 39. "Demonstration of Reed's ophthalmometer," by Dr. R. Murdoch. 40. "An improved form of axometer," by Dr. C. H. Williams. 41. "An electro-magnet," by Dr. John Green. 42. " What standards of form and color vision should be required in railway service," by Dr. C. H. Williams. 43. " So-called accommodation in a lensless eye," by Dr. J. A. White (title). Adjourned. S. B. ST. JOHN, Secretary.
Members present at the thirty-third annual meeting of the American Ophthalmological Society: Dr. S. B. ST. JOHN, Dr.*P. N. K. SCHWENK, GEORGE T. STEVENS, FRANCIS B. LORING, ROBERT SATTLER, JOHN GREEN, C. M. CULVER, J. OSCROFT TANSLEY, JAMES A. SPALDING, NEIL J. HEPBURN, GEORGE C. HARLAN, G. E. DE SCHWEINITZ, *R. J. PHILLIPS, *GEORGE M. GOULD, WILLIAM F. AIKEN, R. A. REEVE,
L. A. W. ALLEMAN, ARTHUR MATTHEWSON, J. M. RAY, PETER A. CALLAN, H. B. CHANDLER, JOHN VAN DUYN,
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Dr. E. E. HOLT, DAVID DEBECK, F. M. WILSON, *A. E. ADAMS, CHAS. STEDMAN BULL, *WILLIAM H. WILDER, JOHN E. WEEKS, HORACE G. MILLER, W. H. CARMALT, SWAN M. BURNETT, *ALVIN A. HUBBELL, MYLES STANDISEH, WILLIAM THOMSON, W. V. MARMION, S. 0. RICHEY, RUSSELL MURDOCH, EDWARD JACKSON, CHARLES A. OLIVER, DAVID WEBSTER,
Dr. WILLIAM F. NORRIS, SAMUEL D. RISLEYY, W. H. WILMER, HOWARD F. HANSELL, J. A. WHITE, F. BULLER, CHAS. H. WILLIAMS, *HENRY W. RING, *H. R. PRICE, WALTER B. JOHNSON, 0. F. WADSWORTH, J. D. RUSHMORE, CHAS. HERMON THOMAS, HARRY FRIEDENWALD, LUCIEN HOWE, SAMUEL THEOBALD, DAVID COGGIN, R. L. RANDOLPH.
Committee on Memnbership -Drs. JOHN GREEN, C. S. BULL, SAMUEL THEOBALD, and ARTHUR MATHEWSON.
Auditing Committee-Dr. S. 0. RICHEY. The following-named guests, were, by vote of the Society, invited to attend the meeting: Dr. A. H. Knapp, New York; Dr. A. A. Schloss, Stockton, Cal.; Dr. W. N. Souter, Springfield, Mass.; Dr. E. 0. Belt, Washington; Dr. W. M. Sweet, Philadelphia; Dr. S. H. Dixon, U. S. N.; Dr. J. T. Carpenter, Philadelphia; Dr. W. B. Moulton, Portland, Me.; Dr. W. P. Eagleton, Newark, N. J.; Dr. M. E. Hennessy, New York; Dr. Muncaster, Washington; Dr. T. R. French, New York; and Dr. A. G. Thompson, Philadelphia. The Bulletin Committee reported, and the following papers were read: I. " Enucleation of both eyes owing to Panophthalmitis in a case of Exophthalmic Goitre," by Dr. J. A. Spalding. 2. "A case of Exophthalmic Goitre following Ether an-
aesthesia," by Dr. Wm. F. Aiken.
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3. "Report of cases of pulsating exophthalmos," by Dr. W. H. Wilder. 4. "Double exophthalmos with destruction of the eyes in an infant, starting probably from the dura near the sella turcica " (autopsy), by Dr. S. M. Burnett. Discussed by Dr. J. 0. Tansley. 5. "Pathology of chronic pseudo-membranous conjunctivitis," with presentation of patient, by Dr. L. Howe. 6. "Diphtheritic conjunctivitis," by Dr. Myles Standish. Discussed by Drs. deSchweinitz, Weeks, and Howe. 7. " Why Ophthalmic Societies should approve the Cred6 method for the prevention of ophthalmia neonatorum," by Dr. L. Howe (by title). 8. "A new operation for Prothesis in cases of cicatricial orbit," by Dr. G. C. Harlan. 9. "A case of ivory exostosis of the orbit," by Dr. W. F. Norris. IO. "A supplementary report of a case of ivory exostosis of the orbit," by Dr. R. Sattler. i i. "A unique intra-ocular tumor," by Dr. E. Jackson. 12. "Angio-Sarcoma of apparent retinal origin," by Dr. W. B. Johnson. Discussion of papers 8-12 by Drs. Sattler, Norris, Weeks, Howe, and Risley. 13. "Two cases of removal of steel from the eyeball located by the Roentgen rays, one imbedded in the crystalline lens," by Dr. Wm. Thomson, with demonstration of the locating process by Dr. W. M. Sweet. I4. "Value of repeated and differently placed exposures to the Roentgen ray in determining the location of foreign bodies in and about the eyeball," by Dr. C. A. Oliver.
The Society then went into executive session. The Committee on Membership reported favorably on three of the names referred to them, but on account of the limited attendance at the executive session, it was voted not to ballot upon these names until next year. The Committee also offered a list of candidates which it recommended should be referred to the Committee of Membership for next year. So ordered.
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The Nominating Committee reported the following list of officers for the ensuing year, who were elected: President, Dr. GEORGE C. HARLAN. Vice-President, Dr. 0. F. WADSWORTH. Corresponding Secretary, Dr. J. S. PROUT. Recording Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. S. B. ST. JOHN. Publication Committee, Drs. W. S. DENNETT, R. H. DERBY, and S. B. ST. JOHN. Voted, That the next place of meeting be New London. 'Voted, That the assessment of next year be five dollars. Voted, That the President appoint a delegate to represent the Society at the meeting of the British Medical Society at Montreal in August, I897, and Dr. S. B. ST. JOHN was subsequently appointed. Dr. Howe of Buffalo offered the following resolution: WHEREAS, Purulent ophthalmia of infancy produces more blindness than any other disease, thus necessitating great and often unnecessary cost to the state with life-long misery to the individual, and WHEREAS, A two per cent. solution of silver nitrate dropped into the eyes of children as soon as possible after birth, is one of the most efficient means for preventing that disease, therefore Resolved, That we desire to call the attention of obstetricians to the fact that these cases are unfortunately common in our practice, and to urge the more frequent use of the silver nitrate solution in the manner described by Cred6. Resolved, That we approve of the legislation which would result in the invariable use of this method or of any other equally safe and efficient, whereby the loss of vision from this disease would be lessened. After discussion the Society voted to appoint a committee of three to report upon the subject at the next annual meeting, and Drs. JACKSON, HOWE, and BURNETT were appointed. Voted, To accept the resignation of Dr. A. D. HALL. Adjourned to meet at 9 A. M., on May 6th. MAY 6, I 897. Society called to order at 9.15 A.M., and reading of papers was resumed. 15. "Endothelioma of lower lid," by Dr. C. H. Williams.
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i6. "Congenital Ptosis and Epicanthus," by Dr. R. Sattler. I7. "A new operation for Ptosis."' Dr. W. H. Wilder. i8. "Resection and advancement of the levator-palpebrae muscle in traumatic ptosis," by Dr. C. A. Oliver. Discussion by Drs. Fridenburg, Tansley, Wilder, and Sattler. I9. "Trophic Keratitis," by Dr. Geo. C. Harlan (title). 20. "Law of refraction-change following increase or decrease of body-weight," by Dr. G. M. Gould. 21. "The desirability of a Periscopic quality in correcting lenses," by Dr. C. M. Culver. 22. "Exhibition of cataract glasses, bifocal and achromatic," by Dr. William Thomson. 23. "Two cases of saccharine diabetes with rapid and remarkable changes in the refraction without demonstrable change in the transparency of the lens," by Dr. S. D. Risley. Discussion by Drs. Fridenburg, Theobald, Wadsworth, Gould, and Risley. 24. " A series of consecutive cataract operations," by Dr. R. L. Randolph. 25. "Hemorrhage during or following cataract operation," by Dr. 0. F. Wadsworth. 26. "Cholesterine crystals in the opaque lens of a child," by Dr. L. A. W. Alleman. Discussion of papers 24-26 by Drs. Ring, Howe, Risley, Randolph, St. John, Reeve, Webster, Holt, Theobald, Green, Weeks, Williams, Ray, Buller, Wadsworth, Wilson, and White. 27. "Removal of steel from vitreous, the position of the foreign body being determined by the presence of a scotoma in the field of vision," by Dr. C. A. Oliver. 28. "Taxis in increased intra-ocular tension," by Dr. S.
0. Richey. 29. " Retinitis Proliferans," by Dr. J. E. Weeks. 30. "A Case of retinitis circinata," by Dr. E. Fridenburg. 31. "Additional note on case of tumor of the optic nerve," by Dr. S. M. Burnett (title). 32. "Tobacco-amblyopia with autopsy and microscopic examination of the specimens," by Dr. G. E. deSchweinitz.
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33. "Marked impairment of central vision following prolonged use of the affected eye," by Dr. S. Theobald. 34. "Hysterical or functional blindness," by Dr. A. A. Hubbell. 35. "A Case of mental disease in which amnesic aphasia and agraphia were prominent symptoms," by Dr. H. F. Han-
sell (title). 36. " A Group of four cases of optic atrophy due to sexual excess," by Dr. J. A. Spalding. 37. "A study of some of the ophthalmic changes in chlorosis, pernicious anaemia, and leucocythaemia," by Dr. C. A. Oliver. 38. "Exhibition of water-color sketch of case of embolism of central artery of retina, the region between the mac. ula and the disc appearing normal," by Dr. John Green. 39. "Demonstration of Reed's ophthalmometer," by Dr. R. Murdoch. 40. "An improved form of axometer," by Dr. C. H. Williams. 41. "An electro-magnet," by Dr. John Green. 42. " What standards of form and color vision should be required in railway service," by Dr. C. H. Williams. 43. " So-called accommodation in a lensless eye," by Dr. J. A. White (title). Adjourned. S. B. ST. JOHN, Secretary.
Members present at the thirty-third annual meeting of the American Ophthalmological Society: Dr. S. B. ST. JOHN, Dr.*P. N. K. SCHWENK, GEORGE T. STEVENS, FRANCIS B. LORING, ROBERT SATTLER, JOHN GREEN, C. M. CULVER, J. OSCROFT TANSLEY, JAMES A. SPALDING, NEIL J. HEPBURN, GEORGE C. HARLAN, G. E. DE SCHWEINITZ, *R. J. PHILLIPS, *GEORGE M. GOULD, WILLIAM F. AIKEN, R. A. REEVE,
L. A. W. ALLEMAN, ARTHUR MATTHEWSON, J. M. RAY, PETER A. CALLAN, H. B. CHANDLER, JOHN VAN DUYN,
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Dr. E. E. HOLT, DAVID DEBECK, F. M. WILSON, *A. E. ADAMS, CHAS. STEDMAN BULL, *WILLIAM H. WILDER, JOHN E. WEEKS, HORACE G. MILLER, W. H. CARMALT, SWAN M. BURNETT, *ALVIN A. HUBBELL, MYLES STANDISEH, WILLIAM THOMSON, W. V. MARMION, S. 0. RICHEY, RUSSELL MURDOCH, EDWARD JACKSON, CHARLES A. OLIVER, DAVID WEBSTER,
Dr. WILLIAM F. NORRIS, SAMUEL D. RISLEYY, W. H. WILMER, HOWARD F. HANSELL, J. A. WHITE, F. BULLER, CHAS. H. WILLIAMS, *HENRY W. RING, *H. R. PRICE, WALTER B. JOHNSON, 0. F. WADSWORTH, J. D. RUSHMORE, CHAS. HERMON THOMAS, HARRY FRIEDENWALD, LUCIEN HOWE, SAMUEL THEOBALD, DAVID COGGIN, R. L. RANDOLPH.
