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Delivered at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Session of the American Medical Association, in St. Louis, on May 6, 1886. Article II, Section 4 of the By-Laws of the Association prescribes that the "chairmen of the several Sections shall prepare and read, in the general sessions of the Association, papers on the advances and discoveries of the past year in the branches of science included in their several sections." In attempting to discharge this duty it will be well, first, to define State Medicine and the branches of science which it includes. I have been unable to find a definition sufficiently comprehensive to cover what is conceived to be properly embraced within the scope of State Medicine. Dunglison defines it to be "the medical knowledge brought to bear on State objects, as on public hygiene and matters pertaining to medical jurisprudence." In the introduction to his Manual of Practical Hygiene, Parkes, in
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