The following officers were elected for the coming year: President, Dr. A. D. Rockwell, of New York, N.Y. First VicePresident, Dr. Willis P. Spring, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Second Vice-President, Dr. William W. Eaton, of Danvers, Mass.; Treasurer, Dr. Richard J. Nunn, of Savannah, Ga.; Secretary, Dr. Clarence E. Skinner, of New Haven, Conn.; Members of Executive Council, Dr. Francis B. Bishop, of Washington, D.C.; . Dr. Daniel R. Brower, of Chicago, Ill.; Dr. Maurice F. Pilgrim, of New York; Dr. Frederick H. Morse, of Melrose, Mass.; Dr. Charles O. Files, of Portland, Me.; Dr. Ernest Wende, of Buffalo, N.Y. A HOSPITAL FOR TORONTO UNIVERSITY. at Ar the conferring of the five degrees of LL.D. honoris causa, the special convocation of the University held last month, the Government was urged by the visiting scholars to go a step further in its support of the medical faculty, and provide, in addition to the magnificent building, admittedly the finest in America, a university hospital. Prof. W. W. Keen, of Philadelphia, started the agitation. He congratulated the faculty on the building, but added that medical science has not reached its limit. There are other worlds to conquer. There is the question of immunity from disease, the prevention of cancer, of typhus, of typhoid, of measles. It was not enough to stop at these new laboratories. The university must teach the students how to apply the remedies. "You must, therefore," says Prof. Keen, "provide a complete university hospital under your own control, so that students may learn not only the different phases of disease, but the means of cure." He went on to say that wards were wanted not only for the sick, but for those afflicted with diseases of a special character, and for whom an occasional visit, say once a week, might suffice. In reply to the common objection that students should not be allowed to practise to the injury perhaps of the patients, he said that in forty years' experience at half a dozen hospitals he had never known a single patient who was injured or whose chances of recovery were lessened by the students at the bedside. The fact was that a poor patient in a public ward had often a better chance for proper treatment and for recovery than had a rich patient in the seclusion of a private ward. A college, a hospital, outdoor patients, a laboratory, are all parts of a great university. He referred to the progress of science in Germany and other European countries, and to the post-graduate courses taken there by Canadians, and asked, "Why should not that familiar label, 'Made in Germany,' be changed to read, 'Made in Canada?"" Prof. Welch, of Johns Hopkins, emphatically endorsed the importance of a university hospital, and pointed out that it was due to such an institution largely that Johns Hopkins had reached its excellence. "Toronto University," he declared, "will not reach the height of its endeavors unless it has a hospital under university control.” Prof. Osler, of Johns Hopkins, Prof. Chittenden, of Yale, and Prof. Sherrington, of Liverpool, the other three receiving degrees, also spoke briefly. RESULTS OF TORONTO UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE EXAMINATIONS. Fourth Year. The following have passed: J. W. Cook, D. Evans, W. S. Fawns, C. H. Gilmour, R. Hacking, R. B. Harris, L. R. N. Hess, C. F. A. Locke, C. M. MacKay, N. F. Sutton, D. M. Sutherland, A. L. W. Webb. The following are required to pass supplemental examinations before completing the examination of the fourth year: Medicine -W. D. Beaton, J. A. Kane; Clinical Medicine-D. J. Cochrane. Third Year. The following have passed: R. W. Anderson,. J. H. Bennett, F. E. Chalmers, J. W. Cook, E. G. Evans, W. S. Ford, P. J. McCue, F. F. McEwen, J. K. McGregor, R. Vansickle. The following are required to pass supplemental examinations before completing the third year: Clinical Medicine-M. Galbraith, J. B. Swanston; Pathology-J. H. Cascaden, T. R. Henry. Second Year. The following have passed: Miss E. Beatty, F. E. Chalmers, H. H. G. Coulthard, W. G. Evans, R. Hacking, J. J. Hamilton, F. V. Hamlin, C. W. Murray, D. F. McLachlan, J. H. McPhedran, W. J. O'Hara, A. E. Schultz, G. Stewart, D. M. Sutherland, J. B. Swanston, R. W. Tisdale, S. Traynor, R. Vansickle, F. J. Walker, F. E. Watts, H. G. Willson. The following are required to pass supplemental examinations before completing the second year: Anatomy-M. Galbraith, A. J. Gilchrist. First Year. The following have passed: D. Black, E. George, J. J. Hamilton, V. S. Kaufinan, D. E. Robertson, II. T. Royce, F. J. Walker. The following are required to pass supplemental examina tions before completing the first year: Theoretical biology-D. C. Balfour, K. Campbell, Miss E. A. Ewen, C. V. Jamieson, W. C. Pratt, R. W. Tisdale, R. E. Humphries; Physics-J. H. Jackson, J. A. Kane. TRINITY TAKES ITS FINAL STEP FOR FEDERATION. Ar a largely attended meeting of the Corporation of Trinity University on October 1st, presided over by the Bishop of Toronto, the final step was taken, so far as Trinity is concerned, towards the federation of Trinity University and the University of Toronto. That step was the execution of the instrument containing the terms of agreement for federation. The instrument was ten days later submitted to and adopted by the Senate of the University of Toronto and the Lieut.-Governor in Council, and the Provincial Secretary issued a proclamation that federation had been accomplished. At a meeting on October 1st, a report of the recent litigation was submitted, along with the judgment of Mr. Justice MacMahon, dissolving the injunction. Then, upon the motion of Dr. . J. A. Worrell, K.C., and Provost Macklem, a resolution was submitted setting forth briefly the steps already taken, stating that the terms of the agreement had received the sanction of the Bishops of Toronto, Niagara, Huron, Ottawa, Algoma and Ontario, and that the instrument embodying the terms of agreement had been executed by the trustees of the University of Toronto, and, therefore, instructing the Vice-Chancellor, Provost Macklem, to execute the instrument on behalf of Trinity University, and forward it to the Senate of the University of Toronto and to the Lieut.-Governor in Council. Rev. Dr. Langtry and Mr. Wm. Ince opposed the resolution, and Lieut.-Colonel Halliwell, of Sterling, pleaded for delay. Dr. Langtry's was, however, the only vote finally recorded against it. POST-MORTEMS ON BODIES OF INSANE. A DEPUTATION of medical men asked Premier Ross a week or two ago to establish an institute of pathology with a laboratory attached, in connection with the asylum for the insane in this Province. The idea is to provide accommodation for such an institute in one of the asylums, say Toronto, and appoint a director who would have jurisdiction over all the asylums in the Province in this particular phase of the work. One or two rooms would be all that would be required, and the deputation figured that about $6,000 a year would support the enterprise. It is claimed for the scheme that by it a mass of information could be collected which would do much to solve the causes of insanity. On the deputation were Dr. Arthur Jukes Johnson, Dr. Cassidy, Dr. Burkhardt, Dr. Herbert Bruce, Dr. Grasett, Dr. Ryerson, and John Richardson, M.P.P., who introduced the others. Dr. Johnson explained the need of the institute. The bodies of inmates who die in asylums are now not subject to post-mortem examinations, excepting in rare cases. Dr. Johnson said that those inmates who were cared for at public expense should contribute something to the advancement of science after their death. Even in other cases, friends of insane people would not object to post-mortems, and they would be most anxious to learn, if possible, the causes of the derangement. The belief was becoming more firmly established that insanity was accompanied by structural changes in the brain. There was an undisputed demand for further investigation into insanity, and while there was lots of material in Canada to investigate upon, it was going to waste. Dr. Burkhardt and others argued that Ontario ought to contribute its share to the cause of this department of science. Neighbouring States had departments similar to the one proposed. The Premier said in reply that he would lay the matter before his colleagues, but that nothing could be done until a vote from the Legislature had been secured. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. THE following are the names of the officers elected by the Canadian Medical Association for the ensuing year: President, Dr. S. J. Tunstall, Vancouver, British Columbia. Vice-Presidents-Prince Edward Island, Dr. S. R. Jenkins, Nova Scotia, Dr. Dewett, Wolfville. New Brunswick, Dr. Blair, St. Stephen. Quebec, Dr. F. G. Finley, Montreal. Ontario, Dr. A. McPhail, Toronto. Manitoba, Dr. J. A. McArthur, Winnipeg. North-West Territories, Dr. T. A. Patrick, Yorkton, Assa. British Columbia, Dr. R. L. Fraser, Victoria. Provincial Secretaries-Prince Edward Island, Dr. A. E. Douglas, Hunter River. Nova Scotia, Dr. C. D. Murray, Halifax. New Brunswick, Dr. Crawford, St. John. Quebec, Dr. J. Olmstead, Hamilton. Manitoba, Dr. W. Rogers, Winnipeg. North-West Territories, Dr. Love, Regina. British Columbia, Dr. W. Bryhtonjack, Vancouver. General Secretary-Dr. Geo. Elliott, Toronto (re-elected). Executive Committee-Dr. W. J. McGuigan and Dr. Lefevre, Vancouver, and Dr. Gibbs, Victoria. A committee of six was appointed to arrange with the railways for the Vancouver meeting, and it was also resolved to ask the Dominion Government for an appropriation for the gathering. A CHAIR OF ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY. ACCORDING to a New York despatch, it is stated on the authority of a gentleman who is in a position to know that Armour, of Chicago, whose daughter Lolita was said to be permanently cured of congenital dislocation of the hips by Dr. Lorenz, of Austria, is to establish a chair of orthopedic surgery after the Lorenz school in at least one hospital in the leading cities of every State and territory of the United States and several in Canada. Mr. Armour is so enthusiastic over the recovery of his little girl, and is so greatly angered at the attitude of some of the surgeons in his own country for the adverse position which they take on the subject of the restoration of Lolita Armour, that he is anxious to enable every parent in the country to secure for his children the opportunity that his own child had. The method of founding the Lorenz chair, or, more properly speaking, beds, in the various hospitals has not been determined as yet, but it is thought that it will be in the shape of a donation of sufficient money first to have a surgeon taught in the specialty, and then to pay his salary thereafter at each hospital. ITEMS OF INTEREST. $200,000 for a Sanitarium.-Pietro Cartoni, a well-known land owner, has given $200,000 to found a sanitarium for consumptive patients in Rome, in memory of his only two sons, who succumbed to tuberculosis. Polk's Medical Register.-The eighth revised edition of this well-known work is now under way, and will appear in due time. Send for descriptive circulars, and do not be deceived by imitators. Polk's Medical Register and Directory has been established sixteen years. R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, Detroit, Mich. Recently Appointed Coroners. The following appointments as coroners were lately gazetted: Dr. J. A. Dickson, Hamilton, to be associate coroner; Dr. J. A. Hamilton, New Liskeard, to be associate coroner; Dr. E. T. Kellam, Mazura Falls, to be associate coroner; Dr. W. W. Thompson, Mazura Falls South, to be associate coroner. |