The building itself, it is estimated, will cost $75,000. To this gift Mr. Wesson will add the proper furnishings and supply the complete outfit necessary for the hospital work, a further expense of from $10,000 to $25,000. The building will be done by a superintendent selected by him, and the completed structure turned over to the hospital corporation.

Bids will be asked for on the estimates within a short time, and work on the foundations will probably be begun before fall.

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The National Society of Electro-Therapeutists will hold its annual meeting at Niagara Falls (by arrangement with the American Institute of Homœopathy) on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 21st and 22d. In addition to electro-therapy, the program will include papers on other branches of physical therapeutics. The first morning session will embrace "Electricity in General Diseases and in Gynecology;" the afternoon of the same day will be given up to Mototherapy (Including a Consideration of Osteopathy), Hydrotherapy and Thermotherapy." In the evening there will be three addresses, with demonstrations "Static Electricity and the Static Machine,' "Treatment of Deformities According to the Principles of Physical Therapeutics," and "RadioActivity." The following morning will be given up to papers on "Light, Radium and the X-Ray in Therapeutics;" and in the afternoon will be taken up "Electricity in Nervous Diseases and in Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat." It is expected that this last section will be held in conjunction with the Ophthalmological, Otological and Laryngological Society.

The Homœopathic Medical Society of Ohio.--The Fortieth Annual Session of the Homœopathic Medical Society of Ohio will be held at the Great Southern Hotel, Columbus, on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 10th and 11th, 1904.

The society will not convene until Tuesday at 1 P.M. This hour is chosen so that every physician in the State may be present at the entire meeting, with but two days' absence from home.

Doctor, take advantage of this-if you are a member of the society do your duty by being present and taking an active part in the meeting-if you are not a member come to this meeting and join it. The secretary will furnish you, upon your request, with an application blank and any information you desire. Every homoeopathic physician in the State should attend this meeting to aid the cause of homoeopathy, as well as for his own good.

We are promised an especially valuable program, which will be of benefit to all who attend. In addition to this, you are cordially invited to attend a banquet at the Great Southern Hotel on Tuesday evening, May 10th, given by the homoeopathic physicians of Columbus.

A program of the meeting will be mailed to the members of the society and to any other physician on request. Sincerely yours,

W. B. Carpenter, M.D.,

President.

C. E. Silbernagel, M.D.,
Secretary.

The Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of Michigan.— The Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of Michigan will be held in the Hotel Cadillac, Detroit, May 17 and 18, 1904. Your attention is called to the enclosed program, which is an especially good one, and we think will be interesting to every physician who may be present. Several prominent men of our school have expressed their intention of being present to address the Society. Among these are Dr. DeWitt G. Wilcox of Buffalo and Dr. O. S. Runnels of Indianapolis. The physicians of Detroit have made elaborate preparations for the entertainment of the Society. Opportunity will be given the members to visit the large pharmaceutical in

stitutions, as well as other places of interest to physicians. On the evening of May 17th, the Detroit profession will entertain the visiting physicians at a banquet, for which a very fine program has been prepared. If you are not a member, we urge you to take this opportunity to become one. The following hotel rates have been made to those attending the meeting: Hotel Cadillac: American plan, $3.00 per day and up; European plan, $2.00 per day and up. Russell House: American plan, $3.00 per day and up; European plan, $1.50 per day and up. Griswold House: American plan, $2.00 per day and up; European plan, $1.00 per day and up.

L. R. Marvin, M.D.,

President.

Fraternally yours,

J. H. Ball, M.D.,

General Secretary.

The Minnesota State Homœopathic Institute meets at Minneapolis May 17th, 18th and 19th for its Thirty-Eighth Annual Session. The following are the bureau chairmen Pathology, etc., G. G. Balcom, Lake Wilson; Homoeopathy, H. M. Halvorson, Garrettson, S. D.; Skin and Venereal, Thomas Lowe, Slayton; Obstetrics, B. H. Ogden, St. Paul; Pædology, H. M. Luftan, St. Paul; Surgery, A. E. Comstock, St. Paul; Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, G. M. Haywood, Minneapolis; Mental and Nervous, A. P. Williamson, Minneapolis; General Medicine, A. S. Wilcox, Minneapolis; Electro-Therapy, T. J. Gray, Minneapolis; Materia Medica, W. E. Leonard, Minneapolis; Gynæcology, A. E. Booth, Minneapolis; Sanitation, etc., P. M. Hall, Minneapolis.

Henry C. Aldrich, M.D.,

President.

E. L. Mann, M.D.,
Secretary.

Dr. Conrad Wesselhoeft's Seventieth Anniversary.-On the evening of March 23, 1904, surrounded by more than 200 of his professional associates and intimate friends, Dr. Conrad Wesselhoeft celebrated at the Hotel Somerset, Boston, the seventieth anniversary of his birth. It would be closer to the truth, perhaps, to put it that these 200 and more professional associates and intimate friends insisted on celebrating the anniversary for him and with him. The distinguised leader of the homoeopathic school really had very little voice in the matter. He was dragged into the affair, willy nilly, protesting his own unworthiness of the honor being shown him.

Incidentally, the doctor was presented with a magnificent loving-cup of silver and a purse of over $2000 in gold. The committee in charge of the affair planned the presentation of the cup and purposely limited each contribution to a very low figure, as it was evident at the outset that in this way enough would be secured to obtain a very beautiful memento of the kind desired.

But after the design for the cup had been accepted, and after the necessary funds had been accumulated, colleagues, students and friends from all parts of the world got wind of the affair and insisted on sending contributions. The committee could not with good grace return these manifestations of good will, and yet they could not obtain a loving-cup big enough to use up all of these contributions. It was decided, therefore, in order to disappoint no one, to transform these overflow contributions into a purse of gold.

The birthday party was held in the ballroom of the hotel. Dr. John P. Sutherland presided and had at his right hand at the head table Dr. and Mrs. Wesselhoeft. The congratulations of the faculty of the Boston University school of medicine were extended by Dr. Herbert C. Clapp, who recalled the fact that Dr. Conrad Wesselhoeft and his brother were the only present members of the original faculty which founded the homoeopathic school.

Dr. Howard P. Bellows spoke for the alumni of this school, Dr. Arthur B. Norton, of New York, for the American Institute of Homoeopathy, and the Rev. William F. Stearns, of Norfolk, Conn., for the friends and patients of Dr. Wesselhoeft. Dr. George B. Rice presented the loving cup.

Dr. Wesselhoeft's response was characteristic. He reviewed some of the happy experiences of his professional career-incidents of his teaching and hospital work-and said he must be allowed to appropriate of what had been said regarding him what he felt he could honestly find, if anything, that really belonged to him because of any service he had rendered.

During the dinner several fine musical selections were given by members of the Orpheus Musical Society in honor of their former associate.

Announcement. -The Ninth Post-Graduate Course in Orificial Surgery will be held at the Chicago Homœopathic Medical College, corner Wood and York Streets, Chicago, Illinois, during the week beginning May 16, 1904. The course consists of a four hours' daily session. Doctors are requested to bring cases. Operations free.

Particulars of the course can be had by addressing E. H. PRATT, M.D., 100 State Street, Suite 1203, Chicago, Ill.

Arkansas State Homœopathic Medical Association.-At the Second Annual Meeting of the Arkansas State Homœopathic Medical Association held in Little Rock on April 12th, the following officers were elected: President, V. H. Hallmann, M.D., Hot Springs; Vice-President, D. B. Neal, M.D., Little Rock; Treasurer, P. C. Williams, M.D., Texarkana; Secretary, Zuber N. Short, M.D., Hot Springs.

American Medical Association Convention.-The Deimel LinenMesh Co. will again have an attractive exhibit at the American Medical Association meeting at Atlantic City in June. Dr. Deimel Underwear is deservedly popular with the physician who knows that the Linen-Mesh is a delight to the skin and that its absorbent qualities quickly remove all bodily moisture, giving a perpetual feeling of cleanliness and comfort.

The American Confederation of Reciprocating, Examining and Licensing Medical Boards has issued the following letter to the members of the various State Examining Boards:

Sault Ste. MARIE, MICHIGAN, April 12, 1904.

My Dear Doctor: A meeting of the American Confederation will be held at the Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, Tuesday, May 24th, next, beginning at 9 A. M. A cordial invitation is hereby extended to your board to be represented at this meeting by one or more of your members.

Several eminent members of the profession interested in interstate reciprocity have been invited to be present and will deliver addresses on practical subjects connected with the objects of the Confederation. An official program of the meeting will be sent you in a few days.

At the present time the following States are reciprocating under Qualification Nos. I. or II., or under both such Qualifications (a copy of which is enclosed): Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, Maine, Maryland, Indiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan.

If it is impossible for your board to send delegates to this meeting and it is in sympathy with the objects of the Confederation, you can in a practical manner assist very materially the cause of interstate reciprocity by signing and returning to me the Constitution and membership blanks which are enclosed, and which do not commit your board to anything further than the principles involved in the Constitution. Even if your State law does not provide for reciprocity, or provides for it only in a limited degree, membership in the Confederation will not only aid your board in obtaining reciprocity legislation, or a fuller measure of it, but will also very materially assist the cause of reciprocity in other States.

Will you kindly notify me at once if your board will be represented at the coming meeting in Chicago, May 24, 1904?

Yours very truly,

B. D. Harison,

Secretary.

The Annual Reunion and Banquet of the Alumni Association of the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, will be held on Saturday, May 21, 1904.

The Business Meeting will convene at 6 P.M. in the Assembly Hall of the Bullitt Building, Fourth Street, below Chestnut. The dinner will be held at 7 P.M. in the Banquet Hall of the same building.

The Trustees and Faculty of the College extend a cordial invitation to all the members of the Alumni and their friends to attend the Fifty-sixth Annual Commencement, to be held on the same day at 2 o'clock in the Academy of Music, southwest corner Broad and Locust Streets, Philadelphia.

Banquet cards, at a cost of $5.00, can be secured by notifying the Secretary, W. D. Carter, M.D., 1311 South Broad Street, Philadelphia. Requests received after Friday, May 20, 1904, cannot be considered. You are at liberty to invite a guest.

The officers of the association are as follows: President, Wm. B. Van Lennep, M.D., '80, Philadelphia. Vice-Presidents, John B. McClelland, M.D., '79, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Herbert L. Northrop, M.D., '89, Philadelphia; T. M. Johnston, M.D., '78, Pittston, Pa. Treasurer, William H. Keim, M.D., '71, Philadelphia. Permanent Secretary, Woodward D. Carter, M.D., '94, Philadelphia. Provisional Secretary, D. Bushrod James, M.D., '96, Philadelphia. Necrologist, George B. Moreland, M.D., '93, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Executive Committee.-One Year: George D. Woodward, M.D., '84, Camden, N. J.; O. S. Haines, M.D., '82, Philadelphia; H. B. Ware, M.D., '86, Scranton, Pa. Two Years: H. P. Leopold, M.D., '96, Philadelphia; J. Ross Swartz, M.D., '79, Harrisburg, Pa.; J. W. Hassler, M.D., '92, Philadelphia. Three Years: H. S. Weaver, M.D., '92, Philadelphia; L. P. Posey, M.D., '83, Philadelphia; Clarence Bartlett, M.D., '79, Philadelphia.

Literary Note.-In printing all the copies of Deaver's Surgical Anatomy so far demanded by its most successful sale, there will have been used 2340 pounds of ink, 188,002 pounds or 84 tons of paper, and the printing press will have made 3,455,000 impressions.

On and after July 1, 1904, the price of this work will be advanced to $30.00 in Half Morocco, and $33.00 in Half Russia binding.

Aural Congestion With Threatened Abscess.-By C. L. Steenson, A. M., M.D., Professor of Materia Medica, New York; Author: "NasoPharyngeal Disorders," etc. I would like to mention to my confrères that, in the treatment of acute attacks of aural congestion, with every indication of suppuration, both internal and external, and seriously jeopardizing the tympanum, and not infrequently with evidences of threatening abscess accompanied with the most lancinating pains, I have prescribed Antikamnia and Salol Tablets with most satisfactory results. The congestion, fever and pain promptly yield to the persistent use of these tablets, and to attain this I ordered two tablets to be given every two hours. I am firmly convinced that with careful ablution and syringing of the external aural cavity with a mild antiseptic and anodyne solution, and the administration of this remedy, I have aborted the threatened attack and thereby undoubtedly saved the patient from a suppurative sequela,

and no doubt, in many instances, from operative interference, necessitating the trephining of the sphenoid, or the opening of the antrum to save life. As every practitioner knows, the operation is not infrequently fatal, particularly if the case be an advanced one and the patient an aged one.

As to the local application, I simply resort to tepid water, to which may be added a mild antiseptic, say five grains boric acid to each ounce and a little tincture opium. This makes an admirable application. This solution carefully injected from two to four times daily to warm and cleanse the vestibule of the ear, and with the administration of Antikamnia and Salol Tablets, or Antikamnia and Codeine Tablets, the practitioner will be rewarded with most gratifying results.

Supreme Court, State of New York,

COUNTY OF NEW YORK.

FAIRCHILD BROTHERS AND FOSTER,

a Corporation,

Plaintiff

against

MORRIS DLUGASCH

and

HERMAN FINKELSTEIN,

doing business under the firm name or style of Broadway

Drug Company,

Defendants.

The summons in this action, dated the 20th day of October, 1903, and the complaint herein, verified the 20th day of October, 1903, having been duly served on the defendants on the 21st day of October, 1903, together with an order to show cause, containing a preliminary injunction against the defendants and each of them, dated the 21st day of October, 1903, and an undertaking having been filed by the plaintiff herein and duly approved by the Court, and an order of injunction pendente lite having beeen granted and entered herein on the 30th day of November, 1903; and the defendants having answered by their answer verified the 9th day of November, 1903, and having on the 23d day of March, 1904, offered in writing to allow judgment to be taken against them to the effect that "the said defendants and each of them, and their servants, agents and employees, and all persons acting in their behalf, be prohibited, restrained and enjoined perpetually from selling, dispensing, advertising or displaying at the drug store of said defendants at No. 177 Broadway, Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, or elsewhere, any chemical or pharmaceutical preparation of any sort or kind whatsoever bearing signs, labels or wrappers marked 'Fairchild' or 'Dr. Fairchild,' or any similar word or words, or purporting to be made by 'Dr. Fairchild,' or 'Fairchild,' which said preparations are not manufactured by plaintiff;" and the plaintiff, on the 23d day of March, 1904, the same being within ten (10) days after service of said offer of judgment having accepted said offer, as appears by the affidavit of Arthur F. Gotthold, duly verified the 23d day of March, 1904, and hereto annexed; and the parties herein having adjusted the money damages and costs as prayed for in the complaint;

Now on motion of Gould & Wilkie, attorneys for the plaintiff herein, it is ADJUDGED that the defendants and each of them and their servants, agents and employees, and all persons acting in their behalf, be and they hereby are prohibited, restrained and enjoined perpetually from selling, dispensing, advertising or displaying at the drug store of said defendants at No. 177 Broadway, Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, or elsewhere, any chemical or pharmaceutical preparations of any sort or kind whatsoever bearing signs,