Excerpt from Transaction of the Section on Practice of Medicine of the American Medical Association: At the Fifty-Sixth Annual Session, Held at Portland, Ore., July 11 to 14, 1905 Page Officers 5 Incidence of Heart Disease in San Francisco, The 9 Effects of Inhalation of Fumes of Nitric Acid 21' Afiections of the Thyroid in California 30 The Nostrum Evil 50 Albuminuria in N ephritis and Bright's Disease 65 Cylindruria 73 The Relation of the Kidneys to Eclampsia 124 Dietetic Treatment of Nephritis 137. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.