THE

American Practitioner News

a Semi-monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery.

H. A. COTTELL, M. D., M. F. COOMES, A. M., M. D., Editors. Vol. XXXIV. LOUISVILLE, KY., DECEMBER 15, 1902.

CONTENTS—

EDITORIAL

Doctor J. M. Krim..........................

No. 120.

Page

Falls City Medical Society.....

476

477

New York Academy of Medicine-Section on
Orthopedic Surgery..................................

....453

The Heart in Pneumonia....

477

478

.460

One Thousand One Hundred Cataract Extractions

International Medical Congress at Madrid...... 479
Medical Society of the Missouri Valley.......... 480

478

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