I have the highest respect for the nurse, who, with a spirit of self-denial which the profession demands, enters upon her calling, imbued with a lofty impulse, a noble purpose, in order that for the many who fall in the battle of life there shall not be a lack of woman's nursing or dearth of woman's care.

The young man entering the medical profession, in casting about him, must certainly see that few legitimate practitioners ever amass large fortunes. He must also see that physicians as a class are a short-lived body of men, and that few are alive at the allotted period of three score years and ten. It is not alone for the hope of gaining that this young man enters the medical profession. Beyond the ambition to win distinction in his chosen profession, above all hope of competence for himself and family, the true physician is imbued with the desire to benefit his fellow man. The physicians perform more acts of real charity than any other class of our citizens.

One of the marvels of the day is the unostentatious and loyal devotion, the dedication of time and money, to the private charities throughout our entire country. Millions on millions year by year are devoted to this purpose-and by whom? By the almost countless thousands of wealthy people, people of moderate means, and people who can illy afford the annual donations they so freely make. The rich man's check, the laborer's wage and the widow's mite are represented in the maintenance and upbuilding of all these splendid institutions. The people who so willingly and with such Christian fortitude bear these burdens are people whose voices are rarely heard in public. They are the same class of people who are doing the world's work, doing things in industrial, business and professional life as they do in the cause of charity. In these days of outcry, and clamor, and impugning of motives, their voices are not heard. They do not belong to that class; they do not assume to be the keepers of the consciences of the people, but they make possible, by their industry and fidelity to all the duties of life, the existence of many, "Who toil not, neither do they spin," and who from the housetops assume to conduct and control all the affairs of life. not enter into their methods.

Hatred, jealousy and revenge do Their way is the Master's way. The philanthropists and charitably inclined of our people should feel themselves at all times charged with duties toward

the maintenance of our hospitals. When they are disposed to do something to show their gratitude for the success or fortune which has come to them, how can they better accomplish it than by giving of their bounty to these worthy institutions that are so often called upon to be the refuge and the comfort of those who are neither successful nor fortunate?

I share with you, my friends of Marion, the best wishes and highest hopes for the long and useful life of this splendid hospital. May it never lack, as I am sure it never will, as indicated by the character of those who have created it, the most patriotic and unswerving support. God speed the physicians, the nurses and those in charge of it, to the end that it may be as the donor intended it-a blessing to the living and a benediction to the dead.

We are informed that a young man, styling himself as X. W. Wittman, was arrested on the complaint of a member of the local profession, with the concurrence of a majority of the practitioners of the town and fined twenty dollars in a magistrate's court in Lebanon, recently, for practicing medicine without a license. The charge was made that the young man diagnosticated and treated diseases for pay, while he contended he had not exceeded the rights of a street vender. He also claimed that he simply did what the local druggists were constantly doing.

Mortality report for Columbus during the month of March: Pneumonia, 44; tuberculosis, 32; typhoid fever, 30; organic diseases of the heart, 12; Bright's disease, 10; cerebral congestion and hemorrhage, 9; cancer, 8; paralysis, 8; senile debility, 7; diarrhoea and enteritis, 6; convulsions of children, 4; grippe, 3; purulent infection and septicaemia, 3; bronchitis, 3; lack of care of babies, 3; accidental traumatisms, 3; diseases of the nervous system, 2; affections of the arteries, 2; peritonitis, 2; suicide by poison, 2; unspecified or ill-defined causes. of death, 2; rheumatism, 2; deaths from other causes, one each, 18; total, 215.

Society and Association Proceedings.

COLUMBUS ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.

Regular Meeting, April 3, 1905.

F. F. Lawrence, President.

Chas. J. Shepard, Secretary. Members present, forty-three. Cases were reported by Drs. Clark, Harris, Kinsman and Loving.

Dr. C. O. Probst read a paper on "Addison's Disease," and presented a patient with this rare affection. Discussion by Drs. Loving, Kinsman, Upham, Rutter and Chas. J. Shepard. Dr. Brown read a paper on "Embolism of the Central Artery of the Retina, Star-Shaped Lesions at the Macula, Sub-Hyaloid Hemorrhage, Parinaud's Conjunctivitis." Discussion by Drs. Timberman, Clark and Davis.

Dr. J. A. Thorne was elected to membership.

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES.

The annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges met in Chicago, April 10, at the Great Northern Hotel. There were present about fifty delegates from colleges, members of the association. The occasion for the meeting at this time was two-fold. Heretofore the meetings were held on Monday of the week of the meeting of the American Medical Association. Other organizations and committees such as the Confederation of State Boards of Examiners, the Academy of Medicine and others met on the same day and at the same hour; it was therefore impossible to co-operate with them in any work that was of mutual interest. Another factor in changing time was the place of meeting of the American Medical Association. To send delegates to Portland will entail considerable expense and it was doubtful if colleges would care to go to the expense to be represented at the annual meeting. For these reasons the date of the meeting was changed to April 10.

The meeting was interesting and the results will no doubt be far reaching in their effect on medical education.

A new constitution and by-laws was adopted. It embodied resolutions passed at former meetings, with several amend

ments.

The most important amendments were made in Article III. which we quote in its entirety.

II.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO THE MEDICAL COURSE. Section 1. Every college holding membership in this association shall demand of each student, under the condition hereafter stated, as a minimum requirement for admission to the medical course:

(a) A bachelor's degree from an approved college or university.

(b) A diploma from an accredited high school, normal school, or academy requiring for admission evidence of the completion of an eight-year course in primary and intermediate grades, and for graduation not less than four years of study embracing not less than two years (4 points) of foreign language, of which one must be Latin, two years (4 points) of mathematics, two years (4 points) of English, one year (2 points) of history, two years (4 points) of laboratory science and six years (12 points) of further credit in language, literature, history or science.

(c) An examination in the following branches: A. Required (18 points): Mathematics (4 points); English (4 points); history (2 points); language (4 points-2 must be Latin); science (taken from physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, 4 points). B. Opional (to 12 points): English (2 points); history (6 points); language (6 points); manual training (2 points); mechanical drawing (1 point); natural science (botany, zoology; 2 points); physical science (chemistry, physics; 2 points); trigonometry (1 point); astronomy (1); civics (1); geology (1); physical geography (1); physiology and hygiene (1); political economy (1)-not more than 3 points accepted.

(One point in any subject in a high school or academic course demands not less than five periods per week of fortyfive minutes each for eighteen weeks.)

(d) Certificates from reputable instructors recognized by the superintendents hereinafter to be mentioned, or by any state board of medical examiners duly authorized by law, may be accepted in lieu of any part of this examination.

Section 2. This examination must be conducted by or under the authority of the superintendent of public instruction of the city or state in which the college is located or by boards of examination and registration legally authorized. In no case shall it be conducted by any person connected with the faculty, medical or otherwise, of the institution to which the student is seeking admission.

Section 3. A student may be allowed to enter on his medical work conditioned in not more than six points, and these conditions must be removed by satisfactory examination before he is allowed to enter on the second year of his medical

course.

Section 4. Colleges in membership in this association may honor the official credentials presented by students from other colleges having the standard requirements maintained by members of this association, excepting for the fourth year of their course, but no member of this association shall admit a student to advanced standing without first communicating with the college from which such student desires to withdraw, and receiving from the dean of such college a direct written communication certifying to the applicant's professional and moral qualifications, and to the exact work he has done in said college.

Section 5. Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine shall have attended four courses of study in four calendar years, each annual course to have been of not less than thirty teaching weeks' duration, and at least ten months shall intervene between the beginning of the preceding course.

Section 6. Time credits may be given to students who have the necessary entrance requirements, and who are graduates or students of colleges of Homeopathic or Electic medicine, for such courses of instruction of the required duration as they have successfully fulfilled, excepting in the course of the fourth year, provided they pass satisfactorily examination in materia medica and therapeutics. Credit may be given to the holder of a Bachelor's degree from an approved college or university for any work in the medical branches which he has successfully completed in his college course, only so far as it is the full equivalent of corresponding work in the medical curriculum. The holder of such Bachelor's degree may also be given time. credits of not exceeding one year, provided that such student