Excerpt from The Proceedings of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago, 1920-21, Vol. 3 Section 1. The membership of this Institute shall consist of Fellows, Asso ciates, Honorary Fellows, Life Fellows, and Benefactors. Only the Fellows and Life Fellows and Benefactors shall be eligible for office or have the right to vote. In the event of dissolution of the Association the assets thereof shall be distributed only among the Fellows, Life Fellows and Benefactors, pro rata according to payments made. Sec. 2. Fellows shall be physicians who are graduates of at least five years' standing of medical schools, or persons engaged in allied scientific pursuits. Sec. 3. Associates shall be physicians who have been graduates of at least five years' standing of medical schools, and who do not reside within fifty miles of the center of Chicago, or persons engaged in scientific pursuits allied to medicine who do not live within fifty miles of the center of Chicago. In addi tion, physicians and other persons engaged in scientific pursuits allied to medicine, living within the above pre scribed limits, whose income is derived from teaching, or research, or like pur suits, and' who, in the judgment of the Board of Governors, are, because of their limited income, entitled to especial consideration in respect of dues, may be elected Associates. 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.