Monument to the Memory of DR. BENJAMIN RUSH, erected by the

American Medical Association, at Washington, D. C.

the nation as a whole. We have listened to an interesting study of the life of Benjamin Rush, and it must surely have been brought home to each of us here that his career derives its peculiar significance in part from the greatness of his pioneer work as a physician on this continent, in part from the way in which he combined with arduous and incessant labor in his profession the greatest devotion even outside of that profession to the welfare of his fellow countrymen. Here at the National Capital it is earnestly to be hoped that we shall finally see commemorated, as the services of Rush are henceforth to be commemorated by this statute, all the great Americans who, working in widely different lines, by the aggregate of their work make the sum of achievement of America in the world.

I thank and congratulate you of the medical profession today on what you have done, not merely in commemorating the foremost pioneer in your own profession, but in adding at the National Capital a figure to the gallery of great Americans who should be here commemorated.

As you said, Doctor, Benjamin Rush was not a specialist in the modern sense. He could not be. There were not any specialists in the modern sense, as you poitned out. There was no possibility of there being such. But I would like, in this age of specialization, to say one word in the way of a short sermon to eminent specialists. Today no specialist in a democratic country like ours can afford to be so exclusively a specialist as to forget that one thought of duty, namely, his duty to the general public and to the state.

Where government is the duty of all, it of course means that it is the duty of each, and the minute that the average man gets to thinking that government is the duty of somebody else, that minute the republic will begin to go down. It is a fortunate thing for our country that we should have before us the lives of men like Rush, who could take a part in our public life as distinguished as is implied by having been a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and vet do it without a particle of neglect of the man's own proper duties.

I would earnestly plead, in addressing this audience, and especially the members of the high and honorable profession which has given this gift to the nation, that you never for one

moment allow yourselves to forget that the well-being of the republic ultimately depends on the way in which, as a rule and habitually, the best citizen of the republic does his duty to the state; and that we have a right not merely to expect but to demand from our hardest worked men, from the leaders of the great professions, the full performance of that public service, which consists in a zealous, intelligent, and fearless performance of the ordinary duties of public life by the ordinary private citizen.

In conclusion, I thank you for having presented to the National Capital, to the people of the United States, the statue of a man who was foremost as a leader and pioneer of his profession, who was a great physician and a great American.

At the annual meeting of the Delaware County Medical Society held on Friday evening, December 2, Dr. F. L. Gage read a paper on "Prophylaxsis in Scarlet Fever," and Dr. J. B. Winhorst reported a case of paralysis of the leg from a gunshot wound of the spine. Dr. G. F. Foster of Olive Green was elected to membership. The following officers were elected: E. M. Hall, president; C. W. Chidester, vicepresident; J. B. Woodworth, secretary; Iradell Rogers, treasurer; Helen M. K. Smith, councilor. The retiring president, Dr. W. B. Hedges, delivered the annual address.

A POST-GRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL.-Early in December, last, the Cincinnati Polyclinic and Post-Graduate School of Medicine was opened in Cincinnati in a building at 911 Race street. The faculty is composed of Drs. H. A. Ingalls, Travis Carroll, H. D. Hinckley, F. L. Ratterman, W. E. Kiely, William Gillespit, M. H. Axline, William H. Wenning, Louis J. Krouse, D. I. Wolfstein, O. W. Spark, Th. R. Christen, William C. Harris, A. F. Morgenstern, T. V. Fitzpatrick, C. F. Winton, C. T. Pearce, E. Harlan.

THE CORSET PROHIBITED.-On the ground that the corset is injurious to the health of girls, a society of women in Berlin has petitioned the Prussian Minister of Education to prohibit the wearing of corsets in young ladies' schools.

COLUMBUS ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.

Regular Meeting, December 5, 1904.

G. M. Waters, President.

R. T. Tarbell, Secretary.

In the report of cases, Dr. Carlton reported case of attempted abortion by injection. This was discussed by Drs. Baldwin, Kinsman and Stage. Dr. Baldwin presented specimen, first, of tubal pregnancy, which after four years from the time of the rupture, lighted up again and outside an abscess formed. Second case, woman sixty-two years old, cystic tumor, where he did supra vaginal hysterectomy and double oophorectomy. Third, monstrosity pair of twins, bodies being joined at sternum, syncephalus monoprosopus. Dr. Deuschle's paper Obscession was discussed by Drs. Rutter, Stockton, Kinsman and Tarbell. Dr. C. S. Means' paper, Hypertrophied Tonsils, was discussed by Drs. Linhart, Blake and Kinsman.

On motion of Dr. Blake the executive committee was empowered to act for the arrangement of place and time for holding annual meeting.

Annual Meeting, December 19, 1904.

The annual meeting of the Columbus Academy of Medicine was held at the Neil House, December 19, 1904.

After the banquet the members adjourned to the assembly room and voted for the election of officers for the ensuing year. The result of the election was as follows:

President, Dr. F. F. Lawrence; Vicepresident, Dr. J. D. Dunham; Secretary, Dr. Chas. J. Shepard; Treasurer, Dr. Wm. C. Davis; Delegates to State Association, Dr. G. M. Waters and Dr. Wm. D. Deuschle; Members of Board of Censors, Dr. Charles S. Hamilton and Dr. Charles F. Clark.

The election of officers having been finished the president announced the postponement of program until next meeting. Dr. Blake introduced the following resolution:

Whereas, There has been much public discussion concerning the presence of rabies in the county,

Resolved, That the president appoint a committee of three to investigate nature and extent of rabies in this city.

This resolution was adopted and the president appointed the following: Drs. Rutter, Scott, and Dunham, as such committee.

Regular Meeting, January 2, 1905.

F. F. Lawrence, President.

J. C. Shepherd, Secretary. Members present: Drs. Loving, G. W. Rogers, Clemmer, Fullerton, Fulton, Platter, Ranchous, Dresbach, Rutter, Probst,

Phillips, Thomas, Palmer, Timberman, Tarbell, Kinsell, Frame. Goodman, Waters, Courtwright, Evans, Wolfe, Barnhill, Wardlow, W. J. Means, Carter, McGavran, and Warner.

Papers on Causation, Prevention, and Treatment of Tuberculosis were read by Drs. Spohr, Clemmer, and Probst, and discussed by Drs. Loving, Warner and Fullerton.

The following amendment to constitution was presented by Dr. Waters: Amend Section 1, Article 9, by adding "Press;" insert after Section 4 and make the insertion Section 5. The duties of the press committee shall be to arrange for publication a full report of each meeting to be published in the COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL and in the Journal of the American Medical Association and to furnish the daily papers of the city with such items as may be of public interest or may inure to the good of the Academy.

Drs. D. J. Sanor and F. M. Kent were elected to membership, and the petitions of Drs. O. E. Kline and R. A. Rice were read and referred to the Board of Censors.

The above data was furnished by Dr. Charles J. Shepard, secretary.

President appointed the following committees for the ensuing year: Executive, Drs. Waters, Blake, and Teachnor; Public Health, Drs. Platter, McKendree Smith, and Spohr; Legislative, Drs. Winders, W. J. Means, and Timberman; Press, Drs. Tarbell, J. E. Brown, and Charles J. Shepard, secretary.

JOINT MEETING OF THE BUTLER AND WARREN COUNTY SOCIETIES.

Joint medical meeting of Butler and Warren County Societies was held at Franklin, Ohio, January 3, 1905.

"The Need and Uses of a Physician to Teach Hygiene in Educational Institutions" was the subject of a paper by Dr. H. M. Moore, Oxford. It was discussed by Dr. D. A. Williams, Franklin; Dr. A. C. Roberts, Morrow; Dr. A. W. ardis, Lebanon. "County Infirmaries," by Dr. Herschel Fisher, Lebanon, was discussed by Dr. Mark Millikin, Hamilton; Dr. W. S. Reed, Hamilton.

Dr. Dan Millikin, Hamilton, delivered a very interesting address on "The Curse of Genius." A "Symposium on Pneumonia" drew out interesting talks from several members.

Presidents, Dr. A. L. Smedley, Dr. E. S. Stevens. Secretaries, Dr. Mark Millikin, Dr. T. E. Keelor.

A social hour, including gastric tests at Elite Hotel, concluded a most interesting and profitable meeting.