NOTES. Dr. A. H. Schott has fully recovered after an annoying illness of several weeks. Dr. Francis Kirsch has recently assumed the duties of interne at the Christian Hospital. Dr. Willis Young has foresworn the horse for the auto this fall and drives a neat roadster. Mrs. W. L. Galloway, wife of Dr. Galloway, is convalescent after a severe and prolonged illness. Dr. E. D. Neer, of Cleveland, Ohio, is visiting in St. Louis, with a view to making this city his home. Dr. John W. Higson has returned from Salt Lake City and established an office at 1607 South Jefferson Ave. Dr. Robert Y. Henry who suffered a severe fracture of the surgical neck of the humerus, is about and attending to all except the surgical part of his practice. At the annual election of the St. Louis Homeopathic Medical Society the following officers were elected: Dr. Willis Young, president; G. N. Seidlitz, vice-president; Dr. L. E. Bunte, secretary and treasurer. Outlines of a novel plan for the winter's work were submitted by the President at the meeting of November 7. Lloyd G. VanScoyoc, M.D. Homeopathic Hospital College, Cleveland, 1876; formerly dean of Hahnemann Medical College of the Kansas City University; died from heart disease at his home in Los Angeles, September 9, aged 55. The Surgical Department at the Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri presented the following clinical cases to the Senior class during the month of October, under the direction of the various professors. The doctor, it would seem, is not in high repute with Paddy. A man in Limerick went to the undertaker to order a coffin for Mike Connell. "Dear me," said the undertaker, "is poor Mike dead?" "No, he's not dead yet," answered the other "but he'll die to-night, for the doctor says he can't live till morning, and he knows what he gave him."-Mass. Med. Jour. 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