all the samples were found to be in good condition. In addition to the examination just indicated, the samples of peas were submitted to a test for copper. Traces of copper were found in two of the samples. Mr. McGill further says: "I have no evidence to show that these traces mean any intentional addition of copper for the purpose of intensifying color. A sample of French peas gave sixty parts of copper per million. I may add that the question of the wholesomeness of peas greened with copper is yet unsettled, but the general weight of opinion in English-speaking countries is adverse to the practice.

Butter-Milk as a Food for Young Children Affected with Gastro-Enteritis.--Dr. Arraga, of the Buenos Ayres hospital, Argentina, has experimented with butter-milk as a food for children affected with gastro-enteritis. The following instructions were given for the preparation of the butter-milk used in his experiments: "The butter-milk is taken from a cream which has not been exposed for more than twenty-four hours to the lactic acid formation. When obtained in this condition, it is treated in the following manner: to one litre of butter-milk add twenty-five grams of wheat flour and thirty-five grams of cane sugar. This mixture is then heated for two minutes at least, stirring it continually, and letting it boil three or four times. It is then put into sterilized bottles, which are kept on ice. Before serving it, the butter-milk is placed on a water bath at the temperature of the body." This product has given Dr. Arraga the very best results in serious cases of gastro-enteritis.

The Use of Salicylic Acid as a Food Preservative.-In the Lancet, March 14th, 1903, Drs. Macalister and Bradshaw report on the employment of salicylic acid as an agent for preserving foods. They think that the objections made to the use of moderate quantities of salicylic acid for this purpose are not defensible, and they challenge those who maintain the contrary opinion to publish a single case in which an accident has arisen from such use. They declare that the employment of this substance-harmless in their opinion, when mixed with food in quantities, such as are used in industrial purposes-enables manufacturers to put on the market foods which are healthful, agreeable, and inexpensive, and of such a nature as to render the greatest services in the alimentation of people in moderate circumstances. The authors

declare that their conclusions have been reached "after mature consideration, and with an adequate sense of responsibility."

Action of Bitter Substances on the Small Intestines.-Dr. A. Jodlbauer, in Arch. de Pharmacodynamie, t. x., p. 201 1902, gives the results of his studies on the absorption of a solution of sugar from an isolated coil of intestine, under the influence of different bitter substances: hop, quassine, absinthine, and sulphate of quinine. He shows that these bitter substances did not exercise a constant action on the absorptive power of the intestine. They have a weak secretory action. In general, however, secretion and absorption are increased when the bitter substance remains in the intestine for an hour. This increase may be observed even after the lapse of four days. bitter substances in the alimentary canal is local, be specific.

The action of and appears to

Does the Farmer Skim the Milk? - Out of 760 samples of milk and cream analyzed in the Laboratory of the Chicago Health Department, for the week ended August 15th, 1903, sixty were found below grade. Among these 760 samples from all sources, 112 were taken at the trains before the milk had come into the possession of the city dealer. Out of these 112 samples, four were found below the standard of butter fat, and forty below the standard of total solids. Thus, while the percentage of samples below grade from all sources was only 7.9, the proportion of samples below grade in the milk and cream direct from the farmer, and before the wicked city dealer had an opportunity to tamper with it, was nearly 40 (39.2) per cent. Dr. Reynolds very properly remarks that: "If the State Pure Food Commission will take care of the farmers, the Bureau of Milk Inspection of Chicago will continue its care of the city dealers."

J. J. C.

PERSONALS.

DR. J. E. ELLIOTT is moving this month from Church Street to 69 Bloor Street East.

CONGRATULATIONS are in order to Dr. J. M. MacCallum, of 13 Bloor Street West, on his marriage to Miss McMaster, of Toronto.

DR. and MRS. J. H. COTTON, of Spadina Ave., returned from the Old Country two weeks ago.

DR. J. T. CLARK, of this city, was married last month to Miss Jessie Malcolm, of Kincardine, Ont.

DR. W. H. PEPLER removed last week to his new, brown stone residence recently purchased, 600 Spadina Avenue.

DR. J. J. CASSIDY is removing this week from 69 to number 43 East Bloor Street, which he recently purchased.

DR. J. J. CASSIDY's daughter, Miss Dolorosa Cassidy, was married at St. Basil's Church, St. Joseph Street, on September 9th, to Mr. Doherty, of Guelph. The bride and groom left immediately on a six weeks' trip to Winnipeg, and through the West, and will settle down in Guelph the end of this month.

THE LATE DR I. N. LOVE.

THE following tribute was paid to the memory of Dr. Love by the editor of the Alkaloidal Clinic, in the August number of that publication:

"I. N. Love is dead. Stricken down while making an address at a banquet, he may be said to have fallen in the most congenial of his pursuits, the one for which he was most admirably fitted by nature. He will be sorely missed. There was that about his buoyant, happy, optimistic nature that was irresistible, that made one condone any faults that might be seen. No man in America had more devoted friends; for everyone who knew him, knew that Isaac was ready to share his purse with you, or heave a brick at your enemy at the slightest intimation.

"Some of our readers may remember the brilliant group that collected nightly in the hotel at Newport, when the A. M. A. held its meeting there. Wood is gone, and Davis, and Rohe, and Owen, and now Love has joined the rapidly increasing majority on the other side. Well, it is one of the merciful provisions of Nature, that as we approach the river the ties that bind us to this side weaken, and those that attract us yonder grow stronger. Good-bye, Love. Surely, in the great Beyond that happy spirit is not wasted."

News of the Month.

THE OPENING OF TORONTO'S NEW MEDICAL BUILDING.

THE opening of the new building of the Toronto Medical College in Queen's Park, on the first of this month, is a red-letter day in the history of medical education in Canada. The event marks the practical consummation of the federation of the two great medical colleges in the city, Trinity and Toronto. Their united. staffs of professors will make one of the largest and strongest medical faculties on the continent, and the registration of students will, it is expected, total over 600-by far the largest attendance at any medical college in Canada, if not in America. The event further marks the gathering of some of the best known medical men in the world to be present at the opening of what is generally regarded as the completest and most up-to-date medical college building on the continent. It is the auspicious inauguration in Toronto of the best and most efficient accommodation for the teaching of scientific medicine that can be provided.

On Friday afternoon, the 2nd inst., at three o'clock, there will be a meeting in the large new lecture theatre, when the new laboratories will be formally declared open, and the inaugural address will be delivered by Professor Sherrington of the University of Liverpool, England. Other distinguished guests will be present and will take part, of whom may be mentioned Professors Welch and Osler, of Johns Hopkins; Professor Keen, of Philadelphia; Professors Minot and Bowditch, of Harvard; Professor Chittenden, of Yale; Professor Roddick, of McGill; Professor Lee, of Columbia; Professor Barker, of Chicago; and Professor McMurrich, of the University of Michigan.

The accommodation of the new lecture theatre will of necessity be limited, and the invitations will therefore be restricted to individuals to whom the Committee think wise to issue such.

The opening lecture of the seventeenth session since the reestablishment of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto, will be given in the University Gymnasium, on Thursday evening, October 1st, at 8.30 o'clock. This lecture will be mainly a students' function, and whilst a considerable number of guests will be invited, all students will be admitted on presentation of their registration tickets.