may result in in retention of secretions, in degeneration, in hemorrhage, and so forth.

In the case above reported there is no doubt that this retention was caused by a stenosis of the cervical canal.

After writing the above I have just read Dr. Rosenwasser's excellent article on post-climacteric conditions that simulate advanced uterine cancer, published in the October Annals of Gynecology, in which he gives an abstract of five cases of pyometra reported within the last seven years, his being the sixth and mine the seventh case placed on record. PHYSICAL TRAINING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE SUBJECT ONE OF GREAT INTEREST AT THE PRESENT TIME.

The care of the body has been, up to comparatively recent years, strangely neglected in the public schools of this country. It has been considered a quite sufficient educational training for the young to cram and overload their brains with a quantity of matter difficult to digest, and in too many instances even when assimilated, of little use in after-life. Numbers of delicate, highly strung children have broken down under the strain, and the dreary daily grind of the monotonous cramming system, undergone in unhealthy surroundings, has developed many of the nervous diseases to which the present generation is so peculiarly susceptible. What does knowledge profit a man, if in the gaining of it he loses the still more precious gift of good health? The nations of the old world, notably Greece and Rome, understood and appreciated much more clearly than do the people of these times the harmfulness of unduly forcing the mind to the lasting hurt of the body. The gymnasiums of ancient Greece probably reached, in their methods of training the young, a higher ideal than have any of the educational system now in vogue. In the face of this condition of affairs, it is pleasing to note that the people of America are rapidly becoming alive to the pernicious effects of developing the mind at the expense of the body. The more rational mode of educating the young would appear to be that of so training the body and min that both advance as far as possible at an equal rate. Thus if a child is of weak constitution but possessed

of unusual mental capacity, it should be the aim of his teacher to strengthen his physical powers, and until that object is accomplished to let the mind take care of itself; on the other hand, if the reverse is the case, to adopt contrary methods. The individuals should be studied separately, and children should not be lumped together in a body and put through the same course without regard to their different temperaments, dispositions, and constitutions. It is now about ten years since German gymnastics were introduced into public schools of this country; since then physical training has held a place in the curriculum of almost all the large cities of the East. The report of the director of physical training in public schools of Washington has lately been published. According to this report the beneficial results of systematic daily exercise have been marked; but, as the writer of the paper truly remarks: "It is impossible to test the full measure of success or failure of our efforts. It is in the remote future, with school days long past, that the lasting influence of such work will be felt by the individual child." However, one thing seems certain, viz., that the introduction of physical training into the public schools of America is a step in the right direction, and if intelligently carried out should result in producing a stronger race mentally and physically. The fact should not be forgotten, though, that physical training may be abused. Gymnastics should not be permitted to take the place of play, but rather the two should go hand in hand.-Medical Record.

A PROPOSED NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF EPILEPSY AND THE CARE AND

TREATMENT OF EPILEPTICS.

The medical superintendent of the Craig Colony, Dr. William P. Spratling, proposes to form such a society, and he indicates the scope of its work as follows:

1. The scientific study of epilepsy.

2. The rational treatment of the disease.

3. The best methods of caring for dependent epileptics, including

a.

The construction of proper homes based upon a study of the epileptic's needs as to classification and environment.

b. The study of the utilization of the epileptic's labor, for economic, scientific, and ethical reasons.

C. The study of the best educational methods to be employed, including manual, industrial, intellectual, and moral forms and forces.

In such a society science, philanthropy, and practical charity may well combine for a common purpose.

With a view to ascertaining, in a measure, the desirability of the organization of such a society, thirty-five circular letters have been sent to physicians and others who might be interested in the matter. To these, thirty replies have been received, as follows: In favor of, twenty-three; neutral, three; opposed, four.

Persons who are disposed to make suggestions on the subject, are asked to communicate with Dr. Spratling, Sonyea, N. Y.

PARALYSIS OF THE LARYNGEAL MUSCLES IN TYPHOID AND TYPHUS FEVERS.

L. Przedborski, of Lodz (selection, Med. Bul., Vol. XX; No. 1, p. 20), in relation to the above, summarizes as follows: 1. Paralysis of the muscles of the larynx in typhoid fever is much more frequent than has hitherto been thought. This fact is unmistakably demonstrated if the larynx be examined in every case in the different periods of the disease, even when no lyryngeal complication is indicated by outward symptoms.

2. This paralysis is equally frequent in the febrile period and in convalescence. In typhus fever laryngeal paralysis is more frequent during the febrile stage than in convalescence.

3. All the muscles of the larynx, adductors as well as abductors, are attacked with the same frequency.

4. The development of laryngeal paralysis occurs with a certain regularity. Only one of the adductors of the glottis is at first attacked, the abductors being afterward involved

in their turn, the picture of complete recurrent paralysis being then presented.

5. The successive appearance and disappearance of recurrential paralysis does not always occurr according to Semon's law. Thus, paralysis which began in the dilators of the glottis sometimes disappears, and the constrictors are then attacked.

6. The progress of typhoid paralysis is most often acute, a cure occurring in the space of from one to three weeks. In typhus fever the affection has a tendency to become chronic.

7. The prognosis is favorable in typhoid fever, even when both recurrents are paralyzed. Complete cure, on the con

trary, is an exception in typhus fever.

8. The virulence of the specific micro-organism and its biological properties certainly play an important part in the advent of typhoid paralysis. As much may be said of the individual predisposition of each patient. Out of seven patients belonging to the same family, who became ill under the same etiological conditions, the writer obserxed laryngeal paralysis only in three cases, twice in the course of typhus fever and ouce iu typhoid.

COMMON SYMPTOMS.

Diseases can no longer be looked upon as distinct entities. It is only for convenience sake that we label them with distinctive names. All diseases, are but parts of the body's method of reacting against forces that interfere with its normal adjustments within itself and to its environment. Every disease has symptoms in common with every other disease, so that within limits there is identity. There can be all degrees of reaction in accordance with the character of the acting agent. Every so-called disease can exist in every conceivable degree of intensity, just as we can have every degree of intoxication in accordance with the amount of liquor drunk and the acquired or inherited resisting power of the individual.-American Medical & Surgical Bulletin.

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THE PHYSICIAN IN THIS WAR.

E Americans, are as a race, of and inquiring turn of mind. We are fond of asking questions, we like to know why things are as they are, and it happens that the results of many of our investigations have been of such nature that the sneer at Yankee inquisitiveness and curiosity is almost obsolete. Delving into forbidden places and venturing boldly along lines where defeat means death, has so long been the prerogative of the medical profession that it is not surprising in stormy times like these, to find the services of the physician of as great necessity as those of the soldier in the great problem offered by starving Cuba. To the physician belongs the responsibility of repairing the damage done by the enemy's bullets and the ravages of disease.

The wonderful advancement made in medical science