The ninth annual meeting of the American Medical Union was held, as per announcement, on May 26, at the Sherman House. In the absence of our President (Dr. Carr), Eugene Hubbell, M. D., President of the Minnesota Medical Union, presided. Your letter explaining your regretted absence, and also announcing that you would not be a candidate for re-election, was read at the meeting and was received with deep regret. Under the regular order of business the Union proceeded to the election of officers, resulting in the election of O. W. F. Snyder, M. D., of Chicago, as President; Eugene Hubbell, M. D., of St. Paul, Minn., as First Vice-President; Dr. C. T. Elder, of Franklin, Ill., as Second Vice-President; E. R. Booth, D. O., of Cincinnati, Ohio, as Third Vice-President and for Secretary and Treasurer Hon Harry L. Strohm. Acting Secretary Dr. M. C. Bland read reports from the various state branches of the A. M. U., showing an increased demand for and interest in our work. 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In writing to advertisers, please mention THE COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL. Cut In and See. W. L. Rodman, Philadelphia (Journal A. M. A., January 18), insists on the importance of early correct diagnosis of the pathologic conditions of the stomach and the more frequent resort to exploratory operation in doubtful cases. The risk, he says, is inconsequential and altogether out of proportion to the benefits derived. He especially emphasizes the danger of cancerous change in gastric ulcer which occurs far more frequently than was formerly believed. Few admit or realize that one-third of all cancers occur in the stomach, that 80 per cent. of gastric cancers are situated at the pylorus, and that certainly more than one-half of them have their origin in ulcer, which in its chronic form is amenable only to surgical treatment. Rodman thinks that it would be well if all the literature on gastric diseases prior to the time when the stomach fell under the domain of the surgeon, could be obliterated. While it contains much truth there is more of error in what was written before the lesions were exposed and inspected and submitted to microscopic examination. As it is now, operation is too often delayed and most gastric cancers are inoperable when they come to the surgeon. He quotes from Moynihan, Mayo, Robson, the Mayo brothers, Jedlicka and other authorities as to the frequency of cancer from gastric ulcer and the importance of early exploratory operation and calls particular attention to the fact that pyloric ulcers are the ones that especially undergo malignant change, those situated elsewhere rarely causing cancer. Hence the advisability of pylorectomy (cutting into the stomach) in these cases, preferably supplemented by a posterior gastrojejunostomy (another way of cutting into the stomach) to correct existing functional disorders of the stomach. Gastroenterostomy (still another way of cutting into the stomach) itself is, he thinks, insufficient, though it may relieve many cases of simple ulcer. The danger of pylorectomy, he believes, has been exaggerated and, considering its advantages, should not prevent its more frequent performance were it twice as great. Its mortality in 130 cases collected by him, has been only 6.9 per cent., while that from perforation is 13 per cent., from hemorrhage, 8 per cent., to say nothing of the indefinite but ever increasing mortality from malignancy. That is to say, if the doctor does not know what is the matter with a fellow's stomach "cut in and see." No danger and it's easy done. It is the other fellow anyway who cares. He might die anyway.-(ED.) "CREATIVE AND SEXUAL SCIENCE" BY PROF. O. S. FOWLER We have received several inquiries for this book and announce that we supply it in cloth, 1052 pages, by express for $1.25 or with THE COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL one year for $2.25. 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