MEDICAL GLEANER. New Series. Vol. III. JANUARY, 1907. No. 1. Edited by HARVEY WICKES FELTER, M. D., Chase and Pitts Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio, to whom all communications in reference to articles and matters for publication should be addressed. Published at THE LLOYD LIBRARY, 224 West Court Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, to which all subscriptions, advertisements, and matters of business should be addressed. Subscription price, 81.25 per year. EDITORIAL. ELAM HENSLEY STEVENSON, M. D.-Again has the National Eclectic Medical Association bestowed her highest gift-the presidency-upon a son of the South. Dr. E. H. Stevenson, of Ft. Smith, Arkansas, has been a zealous and aggressive Eclectic in his State. His election following so closely upon the incumbency of President Harvill, also from the South, will prove a master stroke in massing the forces of Eclecticism in the South and Southwest and in augmenting the membership of the National from the large and loyal Eclectic following below Mason and Dixon's line. Elam Hensley Stevenson was born July 22, 1856, near Pulaski, Tennessee. His father was Willis McKendree Stevenson, a goodliving Tennessee farmer, of Giles County; his mother, Eliza Tilman Stevenson. The subject of our sketch had but few educational advantages, the limited savings frugally laid up by the parents sufficing only to carry their children through the high school. Young Stevenson worked upon the farm and attended school at Bryson each year after the crops were harvested. Finishing the course at Bethany High School, he began reading medicine under Dr. Wyatt Slaughter, of Kerville, Tennessee. In 1877 he matriculated in the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1879. Returning South, he was united in marriage the same year with Miss Cleopatra Slaughter, the daughter of his preceptor in medicine. Dr. Stevenson began the practice of his profession in Kerville, Tennessee, in 1879. From 1880 to 1882 he practiced at Beebe, Arkansas; from 1883 to date he has unin |