THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RAILWAY SURGEONS. Report of the Third Annual Meeting LANE LIBRARY CHICAGO, ILL., SEPT. 23, 24 AND 25, 1896. PREFACE. With the rapid advancement of the medical and surgical sciences new developments and discoveries have created a demand for new departments. It is only a few years since the birth of bacteriology, the regeneration of pathology and the advent of asepsis and antisepsis. It is scarcely a decade since the rejuvenating of Military Surgery and the evolution of its twin sister, Railway Surgery. Each year brings them into a higher state of development and with each year's experience it has been demonstrated that "The higher the order of railway surgery, the greater the protection to the employé, the passenger and the company." With the Third Annual Report of the Transactions of the American Academy of Railway Surgeons, the Editor has the pleasure of presenting its Fellows with over fifty pages more of reading matter than was contained in the last volume and a hundred and fifty more than was contained in the previous one. For this you are indebted to the authors who contributed so liberally to the proceedings and the Fellows who partook in the various discussions. In presenting this, the Third Annual Report, the Editor feels that his ambition is being gratified in so much," that each succeeding volume of the Transactions has excelled its predecessor." This he attributes to the increasing experience of the Fellows of the Academy and the special pains they have taken in the |