Dr. Scott Parsons spent the summer in New England; during this time he visited the Hospitals in Boston, also in New York and Baltimore, devoting a part of the time to the study of spinal work.

Contrary to his custom for the past number of years, Dr. T. G. Comstock spent the greater part of the season in St. Louis, making only a short trip in August. Dr. Comstock says he likes this city better than any other.

Dr. L. S. Luton announces that he is prepared and ready to do laboratory and bacteriological work for the purpose of diagnosis, and will upon short notice make examinations for clinical diagnosis.

Dr. Henry Klostermann of the class of 1902, Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri, is now practicing in Oklahoma, and reports that he is well pleased with the country and his business prospects.

Drs. W. E. Jones and H. A. Uhlemeyer who spent the summer in Europe have returned to St. Louis. They report themselves as well pleased with their trip and are enthusiastic regarding the advantages to be gained by a season spent in the European Medical Schools.

ABSTRACTS.

HOW THEY SUCCEED.

The following notice clipped from an exchange shows how students of the Homeopathic Medical College succeed before state boards all over the country. Whenever they have been tried they are not found wanting. reference to our own Dr. Lowe it says:

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"Dr. G. E. Lowe, the Homeopathic physician, who recently located here has, according to the Indiana law, been before the State Medical Board for examination. He received good grades and a letter of congratulation on his good work from the State Board. The Dr. graduated from a St. Louis college one of the best in the country, but the Indiana law requires all physicians who graduate outside of the state, to pass the State Board's examination. After 1905 even all graduates in this State will have to be examined by the Indiana Board. Too many safe guards cannot be thrown around the practice of medicine."

THE OHIO BRANCH REJECTED.

Pursuant to an invitation to join the "Regular" medical society, the Homeopathic Medical Society of Polk County, Iowa, adopted the following resolutions:

Whereas: In accordance with the plan devised by the American Medical Association, the Polk County Medical Society invited the members of our society to attend one of their meetings at which the substance of the new constitution and by-laws of said society was given, and the statement made that "Every reputable and legally registered physician who is practicing or

who will agree to practice non-sectarian medicine shall be eligible to membership" and welcomed to such membership in their society.

Therefore, be it resolved, that we, the members of the Des Moines Homeopathic Medical Society, give the public and profession the following reasons why we can not accept the proffered membership:

First-That such a union or so-called "amalgamation" can not be a real one, because we, the members of the homeopathic school, are governed in our practice by a scientific therapeutic law whose existence and application the dominant school of medicine has always denied and still continue to deny.

Second-That because in the past, the dominant school of medicine has always bitterly opposed and fought every attempt of our school to establish any state medical college, hospital or asylum, we feel confident that the proposed union would mean the extermination of all such institutions, not only public but private, now under homeopathic control.

Third-That although for over a century our law of therapeutics has been in daily and effective use, yet never in all that time has the dominant school assented to the teaching of that law in its colleges or the application of it in its hospitals. Therefore we are convinced that such a union would forever silence all discussions and teachings of the truths of homeopathy.

Fourth-That the pledge which, either openly or tacitly, we are required to give in order to obtain membership would cause us to stultify ourselves and lead to dishonesty in our lives and practice.

WISDOM LIKE SOLOMON'S.

The Medical Age is responsible for the following:

A Major and surgeon of the army stationed in the Philippines writes that recently, when the chief nurse of a small base hospital in Southern Luzon was sent away, there was a great struggle among the five nurses remaining for the vacant position, which meant a distinct increase in pay. Each one of the five came to the office of the surgeon in charge to show cause why she should be appointed chief nurse, and why none of the others were entitled to that distinction. The young Solomon in charge was "up against it," but gave the following decision: "Each one of you must write on a piece of paper her exact age, and send it sealed to me. The oldest woman will be made chief nurse." There is still a vacancy as chief nurse in a small base hospital in Southern Luzon.

MANAGEMENT OF LABOR.

1. Absolute asepsis as regards the puerperal woman, lying-in-room, and the person of the accoucheur.

2. A careful diagnosis of the position of the child should be made before the completion of the first stage of labor.

3. Watch expectantly the progress of the labor.

4.

5.

Non-interference during the labor except for cause.
A clean delivery of the placenta.

6. Be assured that there is a good contraction of the uterus before leaving the patient.

7. After the delivery, examine carefully by ocular inspection, and see if there is any laceration of the perineum.

8. If a laceration be discovered, repair at once.-Medical Visitor.

THE HOMEOPATHY THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT.

In the North American Journal for April A. R. Carmichael, A. M., discusses the teaching as a primary requisite to the support of the homeopathic college and the student, in whom rests all hope of success of the New School as a distinct body. "The law of similia, which is the controlling influence of our school, has possibilities limited only by the knowledge of those who represent it." As a system of therapeutics all will agree that its imperfections are mainly in the application of the law, not in the law itself. This system of therapeutics is not one of guess-work or empericism, but of exact and positive details, and unless these are mastered failure is the result. The doctor thinks that the most important factor in the success of teaching lies in the demonstration of the value of our system above all others, not only by four years of didactic instruction, but also by clinical evidence as well. In other words, the graduate requires more than theory. But who should we rely on to teach homeopathic therapeutics? Should we intrust this important work to those who are pessimistic about the future of Homeopathy, who believe in the use of an allopathic prescription to tide over an emergency, who openly advocate and practice allopathy in its most dangerous and offensive form? "It is well known that in our faculties many such are to be found." A teacher's homeopathy should be the first consideration, all other qualities secondary. We cannot profess one thing and teach another without sacrificing our principles. "If students come to us for Homeopathy it is their right that they should receive it in its purity without any apologies." Materia medica and therapeutics should be left entirely to one chair, which would cover the entire range of disease conditions. The methods required for the study and choice of remedies for all diseased conditions are identical. Such an arrangement would avoid the conflicting theories usually given by the various chairs and tend to strengthen rather than shatter the student's faith. Dr. Carmichael believes that the school of the future will be based on the law of similars, but that a reproving of our drugs is absolutely necessary, not according to "crude methods. of Hahnemann," but positive details from every standpoint must be insured by chemistry, the X-ray, the blood-tests, etc. Work of this character would command the respect and confidence of the "regular," and of scientific men of every class.

To place Homeopathy on such a basis would be very well and good, and undoubtedly would appeal to the unbelieving materialist, but is it possible to do so? Leave out subjective symptoms, which are obtainable only by "the crude methods of Hahnemann," and you omit the most indispensable of the "exact and positive details."-Medical Advance.

their use.

CONCERNING SUTURES.

1. The use of sutures should be avoided save where necessity demands Many wounds in which sutures are now commonly used, may be coapted more perfectly, more speedily and more safely without the use of sutures.

2. Tension and moisture are the only conditions making sutures

necessary.

3.

When sutures are necessary, buried absorbable sutures should be used in all cases where there is no infection.

4. The necessity for drainage does not contra-indicate the use of adhesive plaster for purposes of coaptation.

5. It is doubtful if non-absorbable suture material should ever be used with a view to its remaining permanently.

6. Non-absorbable sutures are not necessary nor advisable save in intestinal work and in the presence of sepsis.

7. In those cases in which non-absorbable sutures are necessary that method of applying them should be chosen which will subject the tissues to the least possible trauma, produce the fewest possible avenues for infection through the skin, and permit of their being removed when they have fulfilled their mission -Brooklyn Medical Journal.

SPEAKING OF BURNS.

1. Never use a dry dressing.

2.

Never forcibly remove the skin or deeper tissues; prevent their removal if possible. Keep the wound free from pus with a liquid antiseptic, and nature will remove the dead tissue by healthy granulations beneath. The skin is a protection.

3. Never use any oils or salves. If these are used, pus will form. 4. Never change dressings too frequently. A perfectly antiseptic liquid dressing will keep the wound clean and odorless; hence change is not necessary.

The earlier a burn is dressed the better for the comfort of the patient, but it can be treated at any stage with equal success. After months of faulty treatment the pus has been seen to disappear in four or five days and a healthy granulation appear, healing perfectly and leaving no scar. patient has been in good health previously, constitutional treatment is seldom needed-no stimulants, no cathartics, no sedatives, after the first hypodermic to allay the sensory nerve irritation. Antiseptic dressing prevents further constitutional disturbance.-North Amer. Journal of Homeopathy.

A Case of Addison's Disease cured by supra-renal extract is reported by Deeks in the Montreal Medical Journal where, after a continued treatment for some time with other remedies without benefit, three grains of the suprarenal extract were given three times daily, after meals, and improvement commenced at once, and in less than a month the patient was able to be up and about.

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AN INTERESTING CLINICAL CASE. *

X, a white woman, 22 years of age, was taken into the hospital on account of syphilitic skin disease [roseola papula]; a blennorrhagic vaginitis of most violent description with strong congestion of the mucous membranes of the vagina. The latter was of violet hue, somewhat brittle, and yielded abundant secretion of greenish yellow pus, which showed under bacteriological examination abundant colonies typical of gonococcus, diplococcus and other varieties of bacteria. The gonococci infection reached to the neck of the uterus whose tissues suffered from the same degeneration as the vagina. Above the mouth of the neck,-from which a greenish yellow and somewhat thick pus oozed-was a syphilitic ulcer of the size of a dime, clean at the bottom, livid in color and rather deep.

Upon careful examination, the patient was found to be pregnant in the third month; and, from the start, was subjected to energetic treatment as a serious case.

Under the treatment employed she improved rather well; but, though the blennorrhagia was not cured, the syphilitic manifestations of the skin. disappeared, and the ulcer at the neck improved somewhat, until cor finement which took place at the eighth month, five months after her admission.

The confinement was normal. However, the patient was attacked by a great flux and suffered a complete laceration of the right side of the neck; an incomplete laceration of the left side; an incomplete laceration of the rear wall of the vagina; and a two-thirds laceration of the perinæum. The placenta was removed at once; ample warm washes of a 1 per cent. solution of permanganate of potash were applied and the uterus was stimulated by massage, but remained inert. All this was reported to me by the house

*The son of the patient suffered from blennorrhagia in the eyes. He was treated with 4 per cent. solution of permanganate and instillations of pure Hydrozone twice daily, alternating with cauterizations of 40 per cent. solution of nitrate of silver; and he kept his sight.