the pituitary body. Arnold Lorand says, that "diabetes is but a symptom of a disease of the blood glands," but the adenomatous nature of the tumor habitually causes hypertrophy and excess of function. On the other hand, the histological researches of Caselli and de Launois do not enable us to admit that a special glycogenic nervous centre exists at the site of the pituitary body. Without being as affirmative as Loeb and Caselli, the authors adopt the third hypothesis proposed by Lab. (3) Glycosuria is the consequence of compression exercised by the glandular tumor on the neighboring parts of the encephalon: a compression exercised on a glycogenic centre situated in these regions, probably in the "tuber cinereum." Lob's clinical cases go to prove the theory: disappearance of the pituitary tumor by retrogression and simultaneous disappearance of the glycosuria; alternate repletion and depletion of certain tumors, followed by alternate periods of glycosuria and non-glycosuria.

An Historical Study of Plumbism in its Physiological, Clinical and Prophylactic Aspects by Dr. G. Meilliere. - This author writes a thesis (abstracted by Leo MacAuliffe in La Presse Medicale, 9th September, 1903), which is not a mere compilation, but gives the results of several years of study of lead poisoning. It does not suffice, in his opinion, to discover the presence of a poison in an organ, after separating the foreign body from the tissues which hold it. The poison must be followed in its successive migrations, taking advantage of the assistance rendered by histology. A poison must be characterized not only by its physical and clinical reactions, but also by its physiological properties. Henceforth this is to be the main object of toxicology. Dr. Meilliere says that lead is verv generally absorbed by the digestive passages, and that it afterwards passes into the circulation, but does not remain there, for it is soon arrested in the liver, if the functions of that organ are intact. The hepatic gland and all the annex glands of the digestive tube, absorb the poison, no matter how it is introduced into the body and eliminate it through the bile and the other secretions. If the digestive function is normal, or is used at the proper time, the greater part of the lead eliminated by the digestive tube is carried off by the feces, but a portion of it is always absorbed. "In this respect," says Dr. Meilliere, "the analogy between lead and mercury is complete." Lead

localizes itself for a brief period in the blood-forming and lymphoid organs. It fixes itself in a stable fashion in the bony skeleton, and on the gray substance of the encephalon, a fact which appears to confirm the theory based on the central origin of nervous disorders provoked by lead poisoning. Visible parts of the body retain lead from the beginning of the intoxication, and its localization enables the practitioner to discover doubtful or misunderstood impregnations with this poison. Lead is eliminated in small quantities by most of the secretions: urine, saliva, sweat, and the bronchial mucus. Dr. Meilliere thinks that the organs of all persons contain slight, but discoverable, traces of lead. He does not think that lead, like arsenic and iodine, is a constant element necessary for existence, but that it is an element accidentally introduced into the organism, and tolerated more or less by it according to conditions which are not yet understood.

A Campaign against Ankylostomiasis.-Ankylostomiasis, which is not unlike idiopathic anemia, is due to the presence in the intestine of a nematode worm, Ankylostoma duodenale, which sucks the blood from the duodenal walls. The disease occurs chiefly in bricklayers, miners, and navvies. The extract of male fern and thymol are the best specifics. As these preparations have to be administered in rather large doses in order to secure curative effects, the patients taking them require medical supervision. Besides the excreta of the patient should be examined for the parasite. All who have studied the subject agree that the greatest watchfulness and a rigid control of the patient are necessary if a cure is to be effected. In order to obtain the necessary conveniences for making a microscopic diagnosis, and applying scientific treatment in cases of ankylostomiasis, Dr. Malvoz, of the Bacteriological Institute, Brussels, has succeeded in interesting the Provincial authorities, and the powerful industrial association, "The Union of Coal Mines of the Province of Liege," in a project for organizing an hospital for the treatment of ankylostomiasis. This plan works more satisfactorily than the dispensing of vermifuges to the miners, who used to take the medicines at their own homes. The Liege Hospital, which has now been in operation for several months, is established in a villa situated in a large garden in the vicinity of coal mines, where ankylostomiasis has been very frequently observed. It differs from anti-tubercular sanatoria

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in that the patients are only kept in the hospital during the time necessary for the administration and the subsequent supervision of the operation of the medicines required in the treatment of the disease. Already nearly a hundred patients have been treated in this hospital. only is it an indispensable institution for the scientific cure of ankylostomiasis, but it also exercises a prophylactic action as well. As each female ankylostoma lays every day several thousands of eggs, each of which becomes a larva at the bottom of a damp mine—a larva which is capable of becoming an ankylostoma in the intestine of him who swallows it-one understands that in these conditions the isolation of the patient until he is cured is an important preventive work. During their stay in this hospital, the patients learn the nature of the ankylostoma, how the disease is acquired, and, in particular, what measures of cleanliness and what precautions are necessary for them to take in order to be protected against it. After leaving the villa, they naturally become propagandists of the cure, and instruct their comrades.

J. J. C.

PERSONALS.

THE Lady Superintendent of the Toronto General Hospital issued invitations for the graduating exercises of the class 1903, which were held in the amphitheatre of the hospital on Friday evening last, October 30th, after which a reception was held at the nurses' residence.

DR. GEORGE W. Ross, the son of Hon. Geo. W. Ross, left the last week of September for the old country. He will walk the hospitals of Edinburgh and Leipzig for two years. The Premier, Miss Ross, and a number of friends were at the station to say good-bye, and to wish the young physician success.

AT a meeting of Queen's University trustees held on the 16th ult., Dr. J. C. Connell, M.A., Kingston, was appointed Dean of the Medical Faculty in succession to the late Dr. Fife Fowler. Dr. Connell is a specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, throat, and nose, and has an extensive practice in Eastern Ontario.

DR. MACDOUGALL KING, formerly of Toronto, and now of Denver, Colorado, has been appointed instructor in physiology

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in the medical department of the University of Denver. graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1902, and served with the Canadian Field Hospital Corps in South Africa.

DR. WILLIAM BAYARD, the Nestor of the medical profession of St. John, N.B., celebrated his ninetieth birthday on August 22nd. Many called to congratulate him, and he received numerous valuable presents. Telegrams came from Canadian and United States friends, and five congratulatory cables were received from England. Dr. Bayard has been more than sixty years a physician, and is still in active practice and excellent health.

DR. CHARLES R. DICKSON, of Sherbourne Street, attended the thirteenth annual meeting of the American Electro-Therapeutic Association at Hotel Windsor, Atlantic City, N.J., and afterwards enjoyed a two days' cruise from Bordentown, N.J., to New York, via the famed Raritan Canal and Hudson River, as the guest of Dr. Emil Heuel, of New York, on his handsome launch, Amrita. A week was spent in New York, investigating recent developments in radio-therapy, before returning to Toronto.

AT the Hospital Fund meeting recently at the Mansion House, London, Sir Frederick Treves finished a capital speech by a story which elicited from that decorous audience rounds of cheers as if it were Jean de Reszke at the opera. Holding up a 20-groat piece, he told how he had successfully operated at the London Hospital on a Norse sailor unable to follow his calling. The grateful patient found the surgeon's private address, made a polished speech of thanks, and begged him to accept that coin, not as payment, but because his wife, three years before, had sewn it in his belt, to use only when starving. After recovery he had wandered in search of a berth, and really hungered before he found one. Sir Frederick accepted it, and now considers it his choicest memento of a patient's gratitude.

Beds Endowed at Roosevelt Hospital in Honor of Dr. Jacobi. Four beds at the Roosevelt Hospital have been endowed in honor of Dr. Abraham Jacobi, until last year the professor of children's diseases at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Obituary

R. A. BUCK, M.D.

DR. R. A. BUCK, of 195 Dunn Avenue, Public School Trustee, died at his residence, from illness which had its inception about eighteen months ago, when he suffered a paralytic stroke. Though he had been around since then he did not practise. He continued to attend the School Board meetings until two weeks before his demise.

Dr. Buck was about forty years of age, and leaves a widow but no family. He was elected to the Public School Board in 1896, and had been a member continually since. In 1899 he was chairman of the Management Committee, and he held a similar position in the Property Committee in 1901, 1902, 1903. While Chairman Godfrey of the Board was absent in Europe this summer, Dr. Buck was selected to fill the vacancy. He presided at the School Board meeting on September 2nd, and attended a meeting of the Management Committee on September 13th.

He was a Presbyterian by faith, and attended Dunn Avenue Church. In politics he was a Conservative. Some years ago he owned a drug store in Parkdale.

JOHN BOSTWICK LIMDH, M.D.

DR. JOHN BOSTWICK LIMDH, the oldest medical practitioner in Preston, died August 20th, as a result of paralysis. Dr. Limdh was in his seventy-eight year, and was born in the Township of Whitechurch, York County, coming of Quaker stock. He attended school in Picton and Lewiston, and graduated in medicine from Buffalo and Toronto Universities. After practising for a year in Baltimore, he came to Sheffield, Besterly Township, in the early fifties, and soon had a large practice. The confidence he then gained, he enjoyed throughout his life. A quarter of a century ago he moved to Galt, and fifteen years ago came to Preston, where he has since been living a retired life.