Every physician in the Mississippi Valley within a reasonable railroad journey from Memphis should ally himself with the Tri-State Medical Association, for he will find this a most excellent opportunity to once a year participate in an exchange of views with the very best practitioners in this region. These meetings are indeed a veritable post-graduate course of instruction, for the papers usually are very much to the point, and the discussions full and exhaustive.

The announcements for the approaching meeting of the association will be mailed within a few days, and the Secretary expresses the hope that every member will coöperate with him in making this next meeting the very best of an unbroken series of successful meetings.

THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. MEMPHIS and her local medical profession are soon to have an opportunity to accord the hospitality of this city to a national medical association. On October 7th, 8th and 9th, the Mississippi Valley Medical Association will hold its annual meeting in Memphis. This occasion is being looked forward to as a chance to demonstrate the well-known hospitality of the "Queen City of the Mississippi Valley” to a large number of distinguished visiting medical men, who will come from all points of the compass to attend this meeting. We are advised that the program prepared is the best that the association has ever had, and the officers of the organization anticipate a very large attendance. The local committee of arrangements, under the chairmanship of Dr. John L. Jelks, has industriously worked to arrange for the comfort and entertainment of the visiting physicians and their wives. The surgical section will meet in the banquet hall of the Gayoso Hotel, while the medical section and exhibits will be provided for in the Peabody Hotel. A number of delightful entertainments are being arranged by the entertainment committee, the exact nature of which we are not at present able to definitely announce. The customary reduction in railroad fare has been offered by all railroads entering Memphis. We hope that this meeting will be looked back to as memorable by the members of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association who are present on this occasion.

EDITOR'S NOTES.

THE AMERICAN ELECTRO-THERAPEUTIC ASSOCIATION will meet at the Hotel Windsor, Atlantic City, New Jersey, on September 22d, 23d and 24th, 1903. An attractive program has been prepared.

A BACTERIOLOGICAL CHART which will be found both ornamental and instructive, is being mailed to physicians on request by the M. J. Breitenbach Company, 53 Warren street, New York. This chart is a work of art, and is realistic to a high degree.

THE MEMPHIS HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE will open for its twenty-fourth annual session on Thursday, October 1, 1903. This college is a great favorite with Southern medical students, it having the largest enrollment of any similar institution in the South.

THE UNIVERSITY OF BORDEAUX will henceforth conduct a clinical course on diseases of the nose, throat and ear, under the direction of Dr. Moure, for the benefit of physicians, either native or foreign. This will be held four days in the week, from 9 to 11 o'clock, and promises to be very complete. Physicians going abroad for clinical instruction in the nose, throat and ear, would do well to acquaint themselves with what is offered by this course. Information can be obtained by writing to the Secretary of the Faculty of Medicine, place d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France.

SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS.

MEMPHIS AND SHELBY COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY. Regular meeting, Tuesday evening, August 4, 1903. President, Dr. B. G. Henning, in the chair.

Present were: Drs. B. G. Henning, Barton, Price, Burns, Huddleston, Johnson, Kane, Anderson, Braun, Heber Jones, Vanhorn, McLean, McCown, Turner, Castles, Black, Ellett, Baldwin, Andrews, Alfred Moore.

Dr. McCown presented two interesting cases in which he had operated successfully for Empyema.

Dr. McLean, in discussing these cases, inquired of Dr. McCown if he always operated without resection of rib. In many cases he had found it necessary to remove part of a rib in order to secure proper drainage.

Dr. McCown said in reply that he had never found this necessary, and one thing very much in favor of operation without resection of a rib was that it could be done with a local anesthetic.

Drs. Heber Jones and Burns participated in the discussion of this paper.

PROGRAM.

Leukemia. William Britt Burns, M.D.
Traumatic Lesions of the Spinal Cord.

(See page 481.)
B. F. Turner, M.D.

(Will be published in a later issue of the MONTHLY.) Report of Surgical Cases. Alfred Moore, M.D.

DISCUSSION OF DR. BURNS' PAPER.

Dr. Turner desired to know if there was any temperature in the cases reported by the essayist.

Dr. Burns said that there was no constant temperature except in the cases combined with malaria. Some of these cases are prone to hemorrhage. They are not good subjects for surgical operation. Many cases of eye and ear diseases result from the blocking up of the blood vessels supplying these organs.

DISCUSSION OF DR. TURNER'S PAPER.

Dr. Johnson reported a case of a negro who was shot, with motor paralysis following the injury. There was no anesthesia.

Dr. Anderson reported a case of spinal injury occurring in a man who was thrown from a horse, in which there was some paralysis, but no anesthesia.

Dr. Braun reported a case of fractured arm with hysterical symptoms.

Dr. Heber Jones said that the most important feature of the paper was from a medico-legal standpoint.

Dr. Black reported a case of a little girl who fell while at play, with almost a general motor paralysis supervening and no pain.

Dr. Andrews reported a case of an acrobat who fell and received an injury in the cervical region, resulting in death twenty-four hours afterward.

Dr. Turner said in conclusion that we should make it a life study to differentiate between real and assumed pain from nerve injury.

FEE TABLE. Dr. Heber Jones suggested that article 2, section 3 of the by-laws be changed, giving the society the right to make a schedule of fees. This proposed change was discussed favorably by many present, and will be brought before the society again in the near future.