24 SUMMARY OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA. VOLUME I.-NEW SERIES. FROM NOVEMBER, 1850, TO APRIL, 1853, INCLUSIVE. NON SIBI SED TOTI. PHILADELPHIA: LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO, AND CO. SUMMARY OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA. FROM NOVEMBER 5, 1850, TO JANUARY 6, 1851, INCLUSIVE. Stated Meeting, November 5, 1850. Dr. Wood, President, in the chair. Present, thirty members. DR. JOHN R. TUFT was duly admitted a Fellow of the College. The following gentlemen were elected the publishing committee for the ensuing twelve months: D. FRANCIS CONDIE, ISAAC PARRISH, SAMUEL JACKSON. PNEUMONIA IN CHILDREN. Dr. J. F. MEIGS read the histories of three cases of pneumonia, as illustrative of the difficulty which often attends the formation of a correct diagnosis in that disease, when it occurs in young children. Inflammation of the lung (Dr. M. remarked) is very easily recognized in early life, when it assumes, as it generally does, its frank and open form. When the rational symptoms of the disease the cough, pain in the chest, rapid breathing, high fever, and great thirst-are present in a marked degree, there is no difficulty in understanding that the patient is laboring under a 1 VOL. I.-NEW SERIES. NO. I. |