Prof. Loving then gave a short and practical talk to the graduates on behalf of the faculty, after which the address of the evening was delivered by Dr. J. W. Conklin, of Dayton. After the distribution of the flowers, the benediction was pronounced, and the class and faculty, with their friends, proceeded to the residence of Dr. Loving, where they were elegantly entertained by the Doctor and his wife.

The number of matriculates and of graduates at this college, for the present session, was larger than for several years past.

The four prize men had all received the benefits of collegiate training before commencing the study of medicine. Such training will always tell.

Dr. Hoyt, who took the first prize, makes the fourth "honor man" who has reflected credited upon our personal sanctum. If all physicians would resolutely refuse to admit to their offices students who were not adequately qualified by previous training to advantageously pursue the study of medicine, we would hear no more about any necessity for elevating the standard of education; it would elevate itself. Such a refusal strikes at the root of the entire evil.

Miami Medical College graduated 27. Its number of students was about the same as during the previous session.

The Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery graduated 25. Its class was considerably larger than that of the previous year.

The Ohio Medical College graduated 58. This college had a decided falling off in attendance. Its faculty attribute it to the "hard times;" but if this were the real cause, it should have affected its neighbors as well, which was not the case. The falling off, in our opinion, and in the opinion of numbers of other outsiders, is due to two causes: 1. The inimical attitude of the school toward the Board of Examiners' Bill, as evinced, for instance, at the last meeting of the State society. This school has not been noted for the stringency of its examinations and requirements in the past, and its attitude toward that Bill tended strongly to confirm the suspicions as to the sordidness of its motives. 2. It has relegated too much of its teaching to its "associate faculty" and assistants. Students who pay their fees for instruction by professors, do not usually care to be taught by "kids."

We have received no word as to the classes of the Cleveland Colleges, or those at Toledo.

The Columbus Medical College seems to have about collapsed. Its matriculation list, for the last three sessions, has stood as follows: '82-3, 123; '83-4, 77; '84-5, 48. Its graduates, for the same years, have numbered, respectively, 46, 35, 18. The other medical college of this city, on the contrary, has steadily gained in numbers during the same period, although its fees and requirements were much higher that those of the former school, until during the last session it outnumbered it almost exactly two to one. He must be blind, and inexpressibly stupid, who cannot see, and interpret, the hand-writing on the wall.

"Bossism" cannot long prosper, either in medicine or in politics.

Dr. D. N. Kinsman, of the Columbus Medical College, has resigned; and just as we go to press, we are in receipt of well authenticated reports of two or three other resignations.

TRICHINOSIS.-Dr. Z. F. Guerin, of this city, has been having two cases of this disease in his practice. Both occurred in one family, the mother, aged about 36, and a boy, aged 12, being affected. None of the pork could be secured for examination. The diagnosis was made from the history and symptoms, and was confirmed by securing a bit of the deltoid from the boy's arm, which, on examination, was found to be swarming with trichinæ. The mother was not seriously ill, and recovered. The boy died in the seventh week. Portions of the psoas, rectus abdominis, deltoid, and biceps muscles, and diaphragm were secured at the autopsy, and found literally filled with the worms,

These are, so far as known, the only cases ever diagnosticated in this vicinity.

IF DR. GAILLARD were still alive, the next issue of his journal would probably call attention to the following sentence from page 321 of the Journal of the American Medical Association:

"The frightened subject pulled on his penis and manipulated it in such a manner as to cause its total passage into the bladder.'

We hasten to relieve our readers by stating that the context shows it was a foreign body, and not the penis, that thus passed into the bladder.

RESIGNATION OF DR. JAMES E. REEVES.-Sanitary Science, not only in his own State, but throughout the country, has met with a severe loss in the resignation of Dr. Reeves, the Secretary of the West Virginia State Board of Health. For more than a year his friends have known that his constant ill-health would render such a step imperative, but had hoped for a change for the better. But at last he has felt that further delay was impossible, and the step has been taken.

Dr. Reeves was the prime mover in securing the passage of the original Act establishing the Board. It was largely in recognition of his efficient services in this regard that he was that year made President of his State Society. Since the Board was organized, he has been indefatigable in his efforts in its behalf, and much of the very important work which it has accomplished is very properly placed to his credit. The Board quickly assumed, and has uniformly maintained, a very high position among similar Boards throughout the country; a position which it will doubtless maintain, as the most difficult and delicate part of its work is already done, and well done.

In accepting his resignation, Gov. Jackson replied:

"I really regret that the condition of your health compels you to take this step. You have been identified with the Board from its organization until the present time. Its objects have been not only by investigation and proper action based thereon to promote the public health, but also to elevate the standard of the medical profession in the State. Το these objects I am aware that you have devoted a large share of your valuable time, aided by a ripe experience in medical and sanitary science. Your labors in conjunction with the other members of the Board have raised the standard of the medical profession to a higher plane than before attained by it, and through the operation of our health laws placed the State on advanced ground in the development of sanitary science.

"I had hoped that your valuable services would have been continued, at least, until the end of your term and until this department of the State's service had become so firmly established as not to be endangered by the loss of so efficient an officer.

"In accepting your resignation, it is with the hope that your health may be speedily restored, and that you may from time to time, by your counsel, aid the Board in carrying forward the great work for which it was created, so that the objects which you have had so much at heart may be fully realized and result in lasting good to the people of West Virginia."

At the next meeting of the Board, Dr. T. A. Harris, of Parkersburg, was elected Secretary, and Dr. C. T. Richardson, of Charleston, President of the Board. The Governor appointed Dr. L. D. Wilson, of Wheeling,

to succeed Dr. Reeves. The following resolution was adopted by the Board:

Resolved, That this Board is fully sensible of the eminent services of its late Secretary, Dr. James E. Reeves, which have contributed so materially in directing its successful labors, and we regret exceedingly that ill health has compelled him to resign a position which he has held with so much advantage to the State and credit to himself.

COCAINE AND ITS SALTS.-A very essential point in connection with a new drug is the assurance of its conformity to a recognized standard of purity and strength. Frequently a really meritorious drug has been brought into disrepute through the inferiority of the preparation of it employed. A demand has been created for it through the reports of physicians who have employed the preparation issued by a reliable house, and other houses essay to supply this demand without the knowledge necessary to the production of a preparation embodying a proper proportion of its proper constituents. Fortunately in the case of cocaine and its salts the market is now being supplied by Messrs. Parke, Davis & Co., and the physician who specifies their preparations in his prescription, has ample assurance of their reliability. This firm furnishes the alkaloid and the various salts, viz., the hydrochlorate (on which the reputation of the drug as a local anesthetic is chiefly based), the citrate, the oleate and the salicylate.

A QUEER TALE.-The editor of the So. Clinic, relates the case of a man who fell upon his buttocks and drove a conical shaped wooden tumbler up his anus. It was removed with forceps, and no untoward symptoms followed. The editor of the Miss. Valley Med. Mo. quotes this case, and relates one of a milkman who, by the sudden starting of his horses as he was standing in his wagon before the doctor's office, precipitately sat down on his bell, "driving the handle through his breeches into his rectum as far as it would go. The ludicrous picture he made as he wildly jumped about in a semi-erect posture in a vain endeavor to extract the bell, whose clatter was as vigorous as that of an aution crier's, is still remembered and forms the subject for many a hearty laugh among the residents of that neighborhood."

REDUCTION IN PRICES.-H. D. Justi announced a reduction in the prices of his surgeon's case for the administration of nitrous oxide gas. Parties interested should address him at Philadelphia.

TOLEDO BOARD OF HEALTH.—The citizens of Toledo are actively engaged in an effort to get the Legislature to pass a Bill for the establishment of a Board of Health in that city. At present the police board is also the board of health, and, we suspect, does not possess the confidence of the people when acting in its latter capacity. Ex-mayor Dr. W. W. Jones seems to be prominent in the new movement.

Death of Prof. Ellerslie WALLACE.-Dr. Ellerslie Wallace, who, up to two years ago, was Professor of Obstetrics in Jefferson Medical College, died on March 9th, after a long and painful illness. Dr. Wallace was born in Philadelphia, June 15, 1819. He claimed to be a direct descendant of Robert Bruce. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1843.

MANSFIELD has just organized a Sanitary Society. Dr. Harvey Reed can be trusted to attend to such matters in Richland county.

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CUYAHOGA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

Reported for the Journal by L. B. Tuckerman, Corresponding Sec'y.

Dr. CUSHING presided.

In the absence of Dr. CARPENTER, Dr. BAHER was chosen Secretary pro tem.

The subject of discussion was Trachoma, and was opened by Dr. MILLIKEN, followed by Drs. SHERMAN, BAKER and VANCE. Dr. ALLEN gave a very full report upon the progress of abdominal surgery during the past year. His report was not fully written out, and was so exhaustive that no abstract could do it justice. Dr. GILL reported the history of the case from which the specimen shown at the last meeting was taken. Dr. VANCE presented two specimens; one of an excised spine of the scapula together with the acromion process, and the other, an unusual form of fracture of the radius, with histories of the cases.