between the lines, I have hurled shot and shell to "draw his fire.” Now look out for my balls. Ye gods, stand back and wonder! I am just going to work!! What wily design to bring on a controversy in the words, "having shown he can be stung into some semblance of reply.” What premeditated cunning to get at and sting one he does not like. Sir, he utterly discounts the great prototype he selected for himself, Turveydrop of "Bleak House;" for while that illustrious individual was credited with being "a selfish, pompous, elderly dandy," our Turveydrop of the Council adds many qualities to these. Among them bombastic swagger and preconcerted design, with a callousness that leads him to boast of what most men would scorn to acknowledge.

In reply to why my "little effort," had importance thrust upon it, he says, not that it contained anything that was not true; not that it was not given in the interests of the Council; not that it was offensive to him or his party, but that it was necessary to unload the doctor," "to draw his fire," "to see if he could be stung into some semblance of reply." A premeditated design to discuss, not Council matters, but a person he dislikes. And this man talks about ethics and honorable warfare !

In the final paragraph of his letter he gives an idea of the bill of fare for his next. He intimates that (he) "proposes to give his promised paragraph elucidating (his) averment that Dr. Williams' want of status in regard to truthfulness and honesty in public discussion was decided more than three years ago." Mr. Editor, allow me to remind the doctor that my reputation for truthfulness and honesty is not in his keeping. I have now been known to members of the Council since 1880. My colleagues have had ample opportunity to judge for themselves as to my reliability in these particulars. To some of the profession, other than the Council, I am known, and I rest confident that many of those who do not know me, do know Dr. Sangster, at least by reputation, hence I have nothing to fear. I invite him to do his utmost. Yours, etc.,

Ingersoll, April 6th, 1897.

J. ARTHUR WILLIAMS.

DR. ALBERT A. MACDONALD was elected President of the Toronto Clinical Society for the ensuing year.

Obituary.

Dr. John Wellington Rosebrugh, Hamilton.

DR. J. W. ROSEBRUGH, one of the oldest and best known physicians in Hamilton, passed away, March 25th. The deceased had been ill for some weeks with influenza followed by complications. He was sixty-nine years of age, and leaves a widow and a daughter, besides his son, who assisted him in his practice, and Dr. A. M. Rosebrugh, of Toronto, a brother. For a great many years he was jail surgeon. He was a valued member of Temple Lodge, A. F. & A. M. John Wellington Rosebrugh was born near Galt, Ont., on the 5th of November, 1828. His father was Thomas Rosebrugh, who fought at Lundy's Lane and Queenston Heights, and his grandfather was a U. E. Loyalist. He was educated at the Galt High School and Victoria College. In 1850 he commenced the study of medicine with Hon. Dr. Rolph and Dr. Workman; he afterward attended the medical department of Victoria College, and took an additional course at the University of New York. He was a licentiate of the Canada Medical Board, 1852; M.D., University of New York city, 1853; M.D., University Victoria College, 1855; member of the Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario; member of the Ontario Medical Association; member of the Canada Medical Association; member of the British Medical Association; member of the International Medical Congress; honorary member of the American Medical Association; fellow of the British Gynaecological Society; corresponding member of the Boston Gynecological Society. Dr. Rosebrugh commenced the practice of his profession in Dundas, afterwards entering into partnership with Dr. Billings, of Hamilton. While residing in Dundas he was appointed a Coroner for Wentworth county, and in that capacity he served at the investigation of the Desjardins Canal accident in 1857. In 1860 he was elected a mem ber of Hamilton City Council, and during his two years as an alderman he gave special attention to the reform of the hospital, acting as Chairman of the Hospital Committee. For a number of years he was a member of the School Board, and was a promoter and Director of the Ladies' College. He was a prominent member of the Centenary Methodist Church, holding the office of trustee and steward for thirty years. In 1887-8 Dr. Rosebrugh was President of the Ontario Medical Association. He was also a member of the Ontario Medical Council as representative of Victoria University.

Personals.

DR. SLOAN, of Dunn Avenue, has left for Seaforth to resume practice there.

DR. J. F. W. Ross was elected President of the Toronto Athletic Club.

DR. P. E. DOOLITTLE has returned to England, to attend to some business interests there. We understand that the doctor has been most successful in his commercial ventures.

DR. BUCKE, of London, has been elected President of the Psychological Section for the meeting of the British Medical Association to be held at Montreal.

Selections.

IODIDE OF POTASSIUM OR IODIDE OF SODIUM.-According to Briquet (Rev. Inter. Med. et de Chir.), the sodium iodide is preferable to potassium iodide in all maladies of the respiratory tract and for certain rheumatic pains. The potassium salt is badly tolerated in many instances in hepatic disease, but is unquestionably good in these He has found that where the patients do not tolerate iodide of potassium well, the iodide of sodium first prepares them for the potassium salt. He has also been able to get the effect of the iodine in many patients by the use of the sodium salt when the potassium was contra-indicated because of its depressant effect.-Therapeutic Gazette.

cases.

M. Sig. A teaspoonful every two hours in one-third glass of water

-North American Practitioner.

Surgeon to General Hospital, Fredericton, N.B. Surgeon to St. John's Hospital for Women

Notes on a Case of Concurrent Scarlatina and
Enterica.*

By FREDERICK FENTON, M. D., C. M.
Demonstrator of Histology, Trinity Medical College.

GENTLEMEN, -The case of which I have notes came under my care during the summer of 1894, but I refrained from publishing it, being unable to find any similar case reported, and inclined to doubt the possibility of two such serious infective diseases developing in any individual at the same time.

In the British Medical Journal of January 16th, Dr. E. MacDowell Cosgrave records five cases of concurrent scarlatina and enterica which occurred in Cork Street Fever Hospital during 1895-96, and mentions some seven cases which have been recorded by other observers.

This patient, a girl of three years, was exposed to scarlatina in company with her sister on June 15th. She became ill with vomiting,

* Read at meeting of Toronto Clinical Society.

sore throat, headache, etc., on June 20th; her pulse was rapid (120), temperature 100°, and tongue coated with white fur.

Next day (21st) throat was still very sore and there was some slight enlargement of the cervical glands; her tongue was beginning to clean from the tip, leaving the reddened papillæ very prominent; the pulse was still rapid but no rash had developed, and her temperature was normal. During the rest of the week no change in her condition occurred other than a gradual return to the normal pulse rate, and a complete clearing of the tongue, leaving prominent the swollen and reddened papillæ.

On the morning of the 22nd her sister was taken ill with the same initial symptoms, and subsequently passed through an ordinary attack of scarlatina.

On the 27th the first child again became ill, being irritable and restless, and having some headache and vomiting; temperature 99.3°. Next morning her throat was sore and pulse rapid (144). The tongue did not become recoated, but retained its red strawberry appearance. Towards evening the typical scarlatinal eruption made its appearance on the chest and quickly extended over the whole body; temperature 103. The subsequent range of temperature and pulse rate are best described on the accompanying chart.

But for very severe cervical adenitis the case was uneventful till the end of the first week, when the temperature, which had fallen to 100.4°, began very gradually to ascend. The child became dull and listless with delirium at night, and the bowels were inclined to be loose.