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Society News.
—Dr. Edwin Laurence Scott, Birmingham, addressed the Pike County Medical Society, October 13, on bone diseases.—At a meeting of the Baldwin County Medical Society at Bay Minette, September 3, Drs. Horace J. Sims, Daphne, spoke on colitis, and Jesse F. Bryars, Bay Minette, anterior poliomyelitis.—Dr. William H. McCaslan, Union Springs, among others, addressed the Bullock County Medical Society recently on "Summer Diarrheas in Infants and Young Children."—A barbecue featured the meeting of the Cullman County Medical Society, September 17.—At a joint meeting of the Marshall County Medical Society and its northeastern division, September 9, Drs. Irwin P. Levi, Anniston, among others, spoke on "New Causes of Fracture of the Patella," and Cecil D. Gaston, Birmingham, "Diagnosis