ble, if the hemorrhage is in the least serious, unless the uterine contractions are so acute and expulsive that the head will be pressed down and soon engage in the pelvic cavity and delivery speedily follow. Version can be performed in premature delivery with as little danger as when at full term. Version is equally applicable in cases of primipara as it is in multipara. The induction of premature delivery from the study given it in this paper, indicate it as a valuable means of averting danger to the mother and extending reasonable hopes for the child, if at a period at which the child is viable. An Memoriam. 1881. LEROY B. WILLIAMS, M. D., MATHEW KEMPF, M. D., DR. CORNELIUS WINBURN MCDANIEL, WILLIAM QUINN INSLEY, M. D., CHARLES E. McNARY, M. D., DR. NORMAN W. BLACK, NATHAN MENDENHALL, M. D.. JEREMIAH H. LONG, M. D., GEORGE T. RICHARDSON, M. D., JOHN HORN, M. D., GILES BEDFORD MITCHELL, M. D., WILLIAM G. ARMSTRONG, M. D. -REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NECROLOGY. JOSEPH R. BECK, M. D. JOHN MOFFETT, M. D., BENJAMIN NEWLAND, M. D., Com. BY JAS. F. HIBBERD, CHAIRMAN. Mr. President: Soon after the death of Dr. Beck, who was chairman of the committee on Necrology, your Secretary notified me that, being named second on the committee, I must take the place of its deceased head and attend to his duties. About the same time there was forwarded to me from Ft. Wayne a large number of blank printed postal cards for notifying the secretaries of the several county medical societies to send in reports of deaths during the year among their members respectively. In January last I filled in blank postal cards, and mailed one to the secretary of each county society, and received seventeen responses. About the first of April I sent another postal to each of the forty-seven secretaries who had not responded to the first request, and received eighteen replies, making a total of thirty-five reports from county societies, still leaving twenty-nine secretaries who have not answered either solicitation for necrological information. Fourteen deaths of members of this State Society have been reported from thirty-five county societies, and it is fair to presume that the twenty-nine secretaries who paid no attention to my repeated request for information were thus negligent because they had no deaths to report among their members. The fourteen obituaries received from the several county societies are herewith presented as they were written by their respective authors, whose names are attached in each case. They are arranged in the order of the date of the death of the decedent, and I have prefixed a uniform heading to each obituary, giving the name, date and place of birth and death as an appropriate preface in each case. Respectfully submitted. AFTER the report on Necrology was read, some consideration was had touching the length of the individual obituary notices, resulting in a motion, which was adopted, to recommit the report to the committee on Necrology with instructions to the chairman to reconstruct the obituaries when necessary so that no one of them should occupy more than one page of the printed Transactions. Accordingly, the obituaries have been re examined and most of them have been re-written from the original report and made to conform to the order of the Society. The exceptions to this are the reports of Dr. C. W. McDaniel, W. Q. Insley, M. D., Chas. E. McNary, M. D., Nathan Mendenhall, M. D., and G. F. Richardson, M. D., which are left as originally reported, except in the style of the heading, which has been altered to conform to a special arrangement which it seemed desirable to make. RICHMOND, IND., May 30, 1881. JAS. F. HIBBERD, Chairman. LEROY B. WILLIAMS, M. D., BORN 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1847, IN CLERMONT COUNTY, OHIO, DIED 31ST OF JANUARY, 1880, IN DEEDSVILLE, MIAMI COUNY, INDIANA. Dr. Williams graduated at the Indiana Medical College, 1873, and soon after began practice in Deedsville, where he remained until his death. He was an active and earnest member of the profession, and gave promise of a brilliant future. At the time of his demise he was President of the Miami County Medical Society. He died of diphtheria. [Obituary prepared by C. B. Higgins, M. D., Peru, Indiana.] |