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January December 1923

Volume XXX

Numbers 28-39 of New Series

Edited by
VICTOR ROBINSON, PH. C., M. D.

1923
MEDICAL LIFE PRESS

New York

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Original Articles and Original Translations

BAKETEL, H. Sheridan

The History of Syphilis, 623

BARKLEY, A. H.

Transylvania Medical Library, 173

CASTIGLIONI, Arturo

Antonio Maria Valsalva, 467

De LINT, J. G.

Champollion and Egypt, 115

DORBECK, Franz

Origin of Medicine in Russia, 223

EBSTEIN, Erich

In Memoriam: Iwan Bloch. With Bibliographia Blochiana, 57
Gall in Defence of His Theory, 369

The Historical Age, 424

Anecdotes About Schonlein, 463

A Forgotten Romantic Physician, 538

The Seventieth Anniversary of Karl Sudhoff's Birth, 547
On the Development of Intravenous Therapy, 601

EICHLER, Hans

Therapeutics of Gentile Da Foligno, 21

GALDSTON, Iago

The Half Brain, 51

Impressions of Iwan Bloch, 169

Medical History and the Radio: With a Radio Talk on Tru-

deau, 401

JOHNSON, Charles Beneulyn

Aesculapian Society of the Wabash Valley, 185

LEVINSON, Abraham

Metchnikoff, the Philosophic Optimist, 235

The History of Acidosis, 343

MEYER-STEINEG, Theodor

Thessalus of Tralles, 9

NEUBURGER, Max

Vis Medicatrix Naturae-IV, 33

The Anatomical Collection in the Josephinum, 544

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INCORPORATING THE

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY MEDICAL JOURNAL
MEDICO-HISTORICAL BULLETIN

DETROIT MEDICAL JOURNAL

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF UROLOGY AND SEXOLOGY
NASHVILLE JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY

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On the third floor of the New United States National Museum at Washington there is a large room that is given over to the work done by those connected with the Division of Birds. Professor Robert Ridgway, the curator, long worked there, while at the present writing it is occupied by the assistant curator, Dr. Charles W. Richmond; Mr. J. H. Riley, his assistant, and Mr. Bradshaw H. Swales, the ornithologist, who is the custodian of the Section of Birds' Eggs.

Hanging to one side on the otherwise bare north wall of this room there is a life-size oil painting, with a rather deep, old-fashioned gilt frame, of Dr. Elliott Coues, famous for his work in ornithology, and the author of a long list of other writings in various departments of science and general literature. Several years ago I made an attempt to discover the history of this painting, but no one seemed to know how long it had hung there; who hung it there; who painted it, or where it came from. On the twenty-third of October, 1920, by the kind permission of Dr. Richmond, I was permitted to take the picture down. Upon turning it about, I found inscribed upon its back that it was painted by one J. E. Barclay, in 1898, but no other history; and no one seemed to have any knowledge as to who Mr. Barclay was. I am sure I do not, although I have made hundreds of visits to the building since it was built, and, indeed, have shot over the ground where it now stands.

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