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Arch Dermatol. 1998;134:1074.

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VOL. XVI.
SEPTEMBER, 1898.
No. 9

Society Transactions.

TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN DERMATOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.
HELD IN PRINCETON, N. J., MAY 31 AND JUNE 1, AND IN NEW YORK CITY, JUNE 2, 1898.
JAMES NEVINS HYDE, M. D., OF CHICAGO, President.

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS.

GENTLEMEN OF THE AMERICAN DERMATOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: It is my pleasure and duty to extend to each of you, in the name of all, a greeting on the occasion of the opening of the twenty-second annual meeting of our Association.

. . . We live in a land where the purveyors to this artificially created and health-endangering habit of promiscuous drug-swallowing have amassed millions of money. . . . It has been charged against us that many of our women chew gum; that some of our men chew tobacco; that enormous numbers of both sexes swallow deleterious drugs, solely at the bidding of an advertiser. Who . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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