A Member.—I move that the two present incumbents be continued in office, if it be the voice of this Society, until the annual meeting.
Seconded and carried.
There being no further business, the Society adjourned.
W. M. Hutchinson, M.D., Secretary.
PROGRESS IN MEDICINE.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE.
BY ELIAS H. BARTLEY, M.D.,
Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology, and Lecturer on Diseases of Children, Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn.
THE GERM THEORY A CENTURY AGO.
Under this caption the British Med. Journal for February 11, 1888, contains an editorial review of a pamphlet of 87 pages, published in 1788, and entitled: “A Treatise on Fevers, wherein their Causes are exhibited in a new point of view, to prevent Contagion; and Putrid Sore Throat, Inflammatory Fluxes, Influenza, Consumptions, as well as the Low Nervous Fevers that terribly affect the Spirits, may be cured with ease.”