This volume contains the proceedings of the one hundred and thirty-second annual meeting, held at Albany Park, N. J., June 28-30, 1898, with papers on the following subjects: "External Esophagotomy," "Case of Lumbar Nephrectomy," "Foreign Body in the Bronchi," "Milk as a Food and as a Means of Contagion," "Milk," "The Umbilic Cord," "Uterine Displacement," "School Hygiene with reference to Production of Ocular Disease," "Regression vs. Progression, Viewing the General Practitioner from a Scientific Standpoint"; "Chronic Cardiac Disease and its Management," "Dangers of Certain Faulty Impressions Regarding the Menopause," "Early Diagnosis of Pott's Disease," "Recent Advances in the Normal and Pathologic Histology of Central Nervous System." There are also papers on the progress of bacteriology, surgery, public hygiene, ophthalmology and otology, and diseases of nose and throat.