PACIFIC MEDICAL JOURNAL. WINSLOW ANDERSON, A. M., M. D., M. R. O. P. LOND., etc. W. F. SOUTHARD, A. M., M. D., Managing Editor. JOSEPH LECONTE, A.M., M.D., LL. D. ond. SAM'L O. L. POTTER, A.M. M.D., M.R.C.P.Lond. A. K. OSBORNE, M D., Ph.D. W. L. ADAMS, M.D. CARL O. HANSEN, M.D. W. F. WIARD, M.D. O. W. NUTTING, M.D. P. O. REMONDINO, M.D. W. E. TAYLOR, M.D. W. S. THORNE, M.D. GEORGE H. POWERS, A.M., M.D. WILLIAM S. WHITWELL, A M., M.D. JOHN W. ROBERTSON, A. B., M.D. C. A. RUGGLES, M. D. FRANK HOWARD PAYNE, M.D. K. 8. HOWARD, M.D E. M. PATERSON M.D. O. K. BONESTELL, A.M. GEORGE ADAM, M.D. O. H. ROSENTHAL, M.D. A P. WOODWARD, M. D. JOHN H. HEALY, M.D. GEO C. MACDONALD, M.D., F.R.C.S.Ed. H. D'ARCY POWER, L.S.A.Eng.,L.R.C.P.Ire. OF BUCKLEY, BA, M D., L.R.O.P. Edin. J. BURRIS WOOD, B.S, M.D. E. S. PILLSBURY, M.D. A. C. BOTHE, A.M., M. D. WM. J. JACKSON, Ph.G., M.D. F. F. KNORP, M.D. SOPHIE B. KOBICKE, M.D. WILLIAM EDWARDS, Ph.G., M.D. A. F. WERNER, A.B., M.D. J. L. ASAY, M. D. THOS. MORFFEW, D.D.S. CORYDON B. ROOT, M.D., D.D S. A. C. HART, D.D.S, M.D. WILLIAM A. BRYANT, M.D., D.D.S. J. F. DILLON, A. M., M D WALTER F. LEWIS. D. D.S. A. W. MORTON, MD CHAS. W. MILLS, M.D.,D.D.S. The Editors are not responsible for the views of contributors. All matters relating to the editorial and business departments should be addressed to the PACIFIC MEDICAL JOURNAL, 1025 Sutter St., San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, SEPTEMBER, 1900. Editorial. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH MAKES A TOUR OF INSPECTION. The following members of the State Board of Health of California, namely, Dr. R. W. Hill, of Los Angeles, Dr. W. P. Matthews, of Sacramento, Dr. C. A. Ruggles, of Stockton, Dr. W. J. Hanna, of Sacramento, Dr. D. D. Crowley, of Oakland, and Dr. Winslow Anderson, of San Francisco, made a tour of inspection through the southern counties of the State last month. They inspected the Los Angeles Normal School, which was found to be in good condition, excepting the faulty construction regarding lavatories. Curiously enough, in a public institution in which there are hundreds of students, the very center of the building is devoted to lavatory purposes without any light and without proper ventilation. Whittier State School was pronounced to be in excellent sanitary condition. Mrs. Mitchell deserves high praise for her energy and ability in managing the girls' department. The girls all gave evidence of neatness, and each one had something to do. The children are very fond of Mrs. Mitchell, and she certainly deserves their affection. San Bernardino Insane Asylum was also visited and found in a healthy condition. The Quarantine Station at San Diego was inspected and everything seen to be in excellent order for disinfecting cargoes and taking care of passengers. Dr. McKay, in charge of the Station, is doing excellent work with his limited facilities, and it is hoped the United States Marine Hospital Service will furnish ample quarters, as proposed, at an early date. One of the best buildings in the State from a sanitary point of view is the Normal School at San Diego, which is simply perfection itself in the way of ventilation and cleanliness. Altogether, the Board feels much gratified with the results of its investigation in the south. THE AMERICAN PHYSICIAN VERSUS OTHERS. The plain, unassuming American physician, the best allround physician on earth, has many disadvantages against which to contend. Not in literature, for he has on his table the latest and most approved; not in schools, for these are numerous, and to the highest degree thorough and practical; but in many other ways, and especially in professional opposition and rivalry which are often notoriously unfair. Our liberal government and our too liberal laws have worked and do work for the advantage of the imported upstart and to the detriment and chagrin of the native born. It is an old story that foreign governments treat American physicians with discourtesy and unfairness, withhold from them the privileges of practice, and ignore American degrees. The only rights an American physician can enjoy on foreign soil are to pay out American money and listen with open-mouthed wonder to foreign gabble. On the other hand not only are foreign physicians admitted here unreservedly to all the rights and privileges which Ameri cans enjoy, but often they are given what is withheld from them at home. In the State of California there is many a foreigner practicing medicine upon paper which is absolutely worthless for such a purpose where it was obtained, giving no right except it be to apply for examination. These papers are presented to our licensing board with characteristic impudence, and later the practice of medicine engaged in with characteristic arrogance. Then with peacock stride and asinine countenance, this imported superior bids for American business. The injustice to the American physician does not stop there. Foreigners are clannish. In San Francisco every colony has its daily and weekly papers. For Americans to advertise is unprofessional. Take up any German paper published in this city, and every German physician will be advertised in it; in the French papers the French physicians advertise; in the Italian the Italian physicians, and so on all along the line. In other words these gentlemen expect to corral the business of their own people, they reach out for American business and do these things by methods which Americans cannot pursue and retain their professional standing. The foreigners and the foreigners alone have their hospitals and their hospital associations, supported by their own people who are guaranteed treatment and nursing by the payment of one dollar a month, and whose physicians, as a necessary qualification, must be foreign. If these things are cause for complaint against the foreign physician who is treated with such liberality by his American confreres, what shall we say of the decorations from time to time being exploited before the American public. Within easy memory one of the extinguished physicians of French extraction had himself photographed and displayed before the public because of questionable honors from some obscure potentate of some obscure province across the pond, with a view of impressing the gullible Americans, and within the last month another of the same blood and brood heralds himself and his microscopic greatness, because some benighted official or some silly queen chooses to bestow a title as common as "Colonel'' and representing about as much study as a four months' medical course. Were these advertised decorations a thousand times more valuable than they are, it were better taste and more in keeping with the dignity of the medical profession to receive them modestly and treat them with reserve. The cheap title, bestowed upon the unworthy, is the one most glaringly displayed. THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH proposes to start a vigorous campaign against illegal practitioners. At a recent meeting a resolution was adopted requesting the district attorneys of the various counties to be more vigorous in enforcing the lawS against those practicing medicine without a license, and the various county medical societies of the State were asked to cooperate with the district attorneys to bring illegal practitioners to conform to the laws. REMOVAL NOTICE. THE PACIFIC MEDICAL JOURNAL has moved into its new and commodious quarters in St. Winifred's Hospital Building, 1025 Sutter Street, and extends a cordial invitation to all medical men to call at the editorial rooms when desirous of consulting recent medical works or any of the many medical journals. PERSONALS. DR. S. H. BUTEAU, of Oakland, is now in Europe. DR. H. R. OLIVER, of Suisun, has moved to this city. DR. W. L. ADAMS, of Palo Alto, has located in this city. DR. G. F. HANSON, of this city has returned from Europe. DR. WM. PETERS, of San Francisco, has located in Mendocino City. DR. F. S. Cook, of Crockett, has gone to Durango, Mexico, to locate. DR. ROTTANZI, of this city, has returned from abroad after a year's absence. DR. J. B. ROGERS, son of DR. ROGERS, of Marysville, has located at Forbestown. THE Mississippi Valley Medical Association meets in Asheville, N. C., October 9, 10, 11. DR. E. B. HARRIS died at his home in this city August 7. The doctor was 75 years of age. A local board of health was organized in Ukiah August 1. Dr. S. L. REA was elected health officer. DR. F. H. PAYNE, of Berkeley, has been chosen President of the new Berkeley Hospital Association. DR. E. A. BRYANT, resident physician of the county hospital in Los Angeles, has returned from Europe. DR. E. H. SAMUELS, of Mayfield, who has been quite ill with inflammation of the bowels, is convalescing. DR. A. B. BUTLER, of Madera, has moved to Oakland. Dr. W. C. Reid has taken his practice in Madera. DR. G. I. CASON and MISS VIRGINIA BEVILLE, both of Colusa, were married at the home of the bride, Sunday, July 22. DR. G. W. MALLORY, who graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in July, has located in Santa Rosa. DR. W. O. SMITH has returned to his home in Alameda after an extended visit in the far eastern part of the United States. DR. and MRS. J. W. CLARK, of Santa Rosa, have returned from their wedding tour which was spent in Seattle and Portland. DR. LOLITA B. DAY, of Stockton, has moved to this city and has opened offices in the St. Winifred Building, 1025 Sutter Street. DR. C. L GREGORY, of Yreka, has been dangerously ill for the past week, and his physicians fear he is afflicted with appendicitis. DR. C. W. WEAVER, of Healdsburg, who has been making an extensive European tour, will return to his home about the first of October. DR. A. P. RUEDI, of Forest Hill, committed suicide at the Hotel Glenwood, Glenwood Springs, Col., August 5, by shooting himself through the heart. IT is reported that DR. A. M. GARDNER, of Napa, has purchased the Ralston mansion at Belmont, and will establish there a private asylum for the insane. DR. W. A. McCORNACK, of Fort Bragg, has gone to Point Arena Hot Springs for his vacation. During his absence, Dr. Peirsol has charge of the hospital. DR. J. S. O'BRIEN, of Petaluma, has been quite ill with appendicitis, and is slowly recovering. Dr. E E. Reed is attending to his practice during his illness. DR. DIXON, who has been in Davisville for some time, has gone to Knights Landing to succeed Dr. Wesley Carpenter. The latter physician has located in Woodland. DR. ELIZABETH M. YATES, of Woodland, has gone to Europe. During her absence Dr. Foster, who has been practicing in San Rafael for the past year, will have charge of her practice. |