physical diagnosis at the same institution since 1889; chief of staff at Erlanger Hospital, Chattanooga; member of the Chattanooga and Hamilton County Medical Society, Tennessee State Medical Association, Tri-State Medical Society of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, American Public Health Association, and American Medical Association; for nine years physician of McMinn County, Tenn.; for one year secretary of the Chattanooga Board of Health, and for four years member of the local board of pension examiners, died at Erlanger Hospital, Chattanooga, November 29, after a short illness, from a complication of diseases. He had practiced in Chattanooga since 1887, and made a success by indefatigable study, untiring activity, and a natural adaptability for his vocation. Resolutions of respect were adopted by the faculty of the Chattanooga Medical College, the student classes of the college, and the Chattanooga and Hamilton County Medical Society.

Editorial.

THE BEGINNING OF OUR TWENTY-EIGHTH VOLUME. In commencing our editorial labors for 1906, we can point with a pardonable degree of pride to the seven hundred and thirty-two pages of choice, select, and fresh reading matter presented to our many readers in the year just closed. While we have endeavored to give a record and resume of all the important features having a bearing on our art and science derived from the entire world, we have endeavored to give special attention to all that pertains to our own particular section, so that we may keep in full accord with our cognomen assumed nearly three decades ago. Southern medicine and surgery has been no laggard in the field, and the workers therein are well worthy association and comparison with their co-laborers in any section or clime. In this number we have given a large part of our space to the recent meeting of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association, founded by a citizen of our own goodly city of Nashville, whose son now holds and for some years has held the responsible position of Secretary, having taken up and discharged most faithfully and commendably the work laid down by the lamented Davis.

In the preceding twenty-seven volumes of this Journal will be found a faithful record of the advances of medical and surgical science during

the years of its existence, our own State Medical Society and affiliated local organizations coming in for the greatest share of our attention, although kindred organizations have claimed so much of our space as we could afford to accord them. In this period our science and art has been almost completely remodeled and rewritten. Preventive medicine has come well to the front; sanitary measures, local, municipal, State, and National, although not yet arrived at full fruition, have greatly added to the triumphs and effectiveness of general medicine; while “Asepsis,” almost unknown when our first number was issued, has so perfected the work of the surgeon that operative measures for the saving of life and prolongation of days before undreamed of, have opened wide vistas of usefulness to the glittering scalpel that would have aroused the greatest degree of astonishment and highest award of praise from a Gross, a Lister, or any of their compeers and predecessors. Gynecology, at its infancy when our first editorial was penned, the joint child of surgery and obstetrics, has assumed a prominence and a precision, to which may be added the wonderful results of abdominal surgery, a part and parcel of this particular special field, that at that time would have been regarded as belonging alone to the domain of the mirabilaries" or the result alone of miracle.

While much that has proven most useful and beneficent has been added in all lines of our art and science since the first number of this journal was issued, many fads, fallacies, and fancies have also had their little day and hour, and have dropped into oblivion and now scarcely remain as a memory. Thus has it ever been, and doubtless always will be, the members of our profession, early imbued with an innate desire to benefit their fellow-man, often hastily jump at conclusions, and without carefully weighing all points, rush into print with a new measure or device, which if not founded on rational and correct lines soon is relegated to that wide, wide field of unsatisfied desires and unaccomplished hopes. With a number of these, it has been our province to early sight a flaw or point out a fallacy.

We cannot attempt at this time to enumerate or even briefly specify the marked advantages we of to-day have over our predecessors of a generation ago. Having passed my threescore years, two thirds of the time modestly and humbly engaged in the practice of the "healing art." I can but wonder with both awe and astonishment at my efforts to arrest disease, relieve pain and suffering, and prolong life in my earlier days. The standard text-books of that day- Watson, Wood, Stokes - in medicine; and Druitt, Erichsen, and even Gross, in surgery, while containing much that is both useful and invaluable to-day, and will be so long as mortal man shall live; but how could one practice medicine or surgery to-day with such authorities or their predecessors alone?

Ah, but these recollections of by-gone days are only too tempting to our editorial pen, and are apt to lead off into realms of thought

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quite at variance with what we had in view in commencing this article. In the past year we have placed before our readers a larger amount of matter than in any preceding year, well printed, on first-class paper, making we think the best volume we have yet been able to issue. Beginning in 1879 with a monthly issue of 32 pages, we have steadily and gradually increased, our last number comprising 76 pages of reading matter exclusively, with an average of 61 pages each month during 1905. have been enabled to do this through the loyal and liberal support of our many friends and readers, to all of whom, subscribers and contributors, our most sincere acknowledgements are due. Some few of our friends are yet left who began with us in 1879, and a larger number who have permitted the enrolment of their names on our subscription lists subsequently, some of whom we have never had the pleasure of meeting face to face, yet with whom we can feel a personal acquaintanceship, due to the regularity with which their annual letters arrive, some of them limited to a brief statement of the enclosure and its purpose; others, adding a few words of acknowledgement and encouragement, which have been most sincerely appreciated. And now as to our editorial efforts for 1906, we take great pleasure in thanking kindly and sincerely our many friends and readers, who have been so steadily and regularly increasing during these years, for their constant, steady support; and to assure them that as each year but adds to our indebtedness to them, it is also a material stimulus to more and more earnest efforts in the future to urge us on to the utmost of our ability in giving them the best medical journal possible.

Our subscription list for 1905 shows fewer unpaid subscriptions than any preceding year, while the list has been greatly enlarged over any year of the past. There are yet, however, a few, and good friends in nearly every instance they are known to be, who have failed to recognize the verity of the old adage, that "any time is no time," and have put off from day to day sending in their remittance. Furthermore, a large number of subscriptions expired with our December issue, and it is respectfully requested that each one who receives this number will look at the outside of the mailing wrapper and see the date to which his subscription has been paid. Yes, kindly look at the mailing wrapper and “make a note thereon." It is painful to have a tooth extracted, and it is both painful and unpleasant to erase the name of a subscriber from the list. You are all Doctors, and know how pleasant it is to receive. Need we say more?

INTESTINAL PARASITES.-We have just received from Messrs. Battle & Co., 2001 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo., the 8th of their series of twelve illustrations of the intestinal parasites. They will send them free to physicians, on application, by mail or otherwise.

VIRTUE RUNNING WILD.-The sentiment which underlies the present efforts of certain worthy medical men, to protect the profession from imposition and to make our therapy clean, reliable, and trustworthy, is entirely laudable and commendable. The extent to which some of these gentlemen are permitting their enthusiasm to carry them is lamentable. The judgment passed upon many of the pharmaceutical preparations which have stood the test of time for years in the practice of thousands of successful medical men, has seemed hasty and ill-advised. To one who is prejudiced in neither direction, who endeavors to look at the matter with perfect fairness, it is very questionable if it is right that a small faction of the American Medical Association should use the organ owned by all of the members to condemn or detract from the reputation of long-established pharmaceutical preparations, many of which are used regularly by a large part of the membership of the Association. The manufacture and sale of pharmaceutical preparations is and must be commercial in its character. It can never be strictly professional. The average preparation which has been used by medical men of intelligence for years with good results must have something in its favor, even if its manufacturers are not willing to conduct their business exactly as we may wish to dictate. I have no desire to uphold in any way the secret medical nostrum, but I question, as a matter of fairness, the propriety of attacking any well-tried preparation until it is demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that the members of the Association are opposed rather than being users of the preparation in question. Those who have been placed in positions of power- which may be used for the accomplishment of evil as well as good should appreciate that such an office is one of trust, and there should be an effort to carry out the will and wish of the majority rather than to be led by personal prejudice or petty motives.-G. T. F., Chicago Clinic and Pure Water Journal.

PNEUMONIA.

The pneumonia season is rapidly approaching. Soon the various journals will be full of the statistics of past years in regard to the prevalence and fatality of this disease. The pathology and etiology will be thoroughly gone over, but, judging by the past, most writers will have very little that is encouraging to say as regards treatment.

Several points, nevertheless, must be kept in mind. Whatever drugs are used internally (and this depends very much upon the individual case), the patient must have plenty of fresh air. Do not be afraid of his taking cold on account of the cold air blowing across his face. It is now considered that this is impossible. Also, whatever drugs may be used, keep the body warm with suitable clothing, and use externally some preparation which will cause a comparative lessening of blood-pressure in the lungs. Cold applications, besides lowering the vitality of the patient, cause a depletion of the superficial vessels and consequently increase the

hyperemia in the lungs themselves.

Our attention then would be drawn, per contra, to hot applications. To the most of these there are very great practical objections, such as their inconvenience, their tendency to grow cold very rapidly, and the fact that they must frequently be renewed, thereby disturbing the patient's rest to his manifest detriment.

We have found but one form of hot application which seems to us to entirely fill the bill, and that is Antiphlogistine. By its means the vitality of the body is conserved, the blood is attracted to the surface and away from the lungs (its hygroscopic action remarkably enhancing this effect), and the tone of the heart's action is maintained. Besides this, its frequent renewal is not necessary, and the patient's rest is not thereby disturbed. Practically we know that by its use the patient is made much more comfortable, the fatality is much decreased, and if abortion of the disease is possible, we believe it can be accomplished better by this means than by any other.- Kansas City Medical Record, October, 1905.

ACUTE NASAL CATARRH.-The conditions obtaining in acute nasal catarrh are especially those of an inflammation of any mucous membrane; first, an engorgement of the capillaries, then an exudation of serum, into the tissues, then a further exudation on the part of the mucous or serous membrane.

To attempt to terminate the trouble or alleviate the discomfort by an astringent or any wash of an acid nature, is simply to temporarily lessen the secretion without in any degree reducing the congestion or stimulating the local circulation, thus actually rendering the condition worse than before.

A remedy to be effective must first empty the mucous membrane, and then prevent a re-engorgement by stimulating the blood-vessels into increased action, and compelling them to resume their normal functions. This is pre-eminently the province of Glyco-Thymoline.

By its power of promoting exosmosis, it purges the mucous membrane as soon as it is brought into contact with it.

By its anesthetic property it soothes the pain, and by its power of stimulating the circulation it relieves the capillaries of their local congestion and restores the normal circulation.

The immediate cause of a catarrhal discharge is an engorged mucous membrane. Empty by exosmosis and you relieve it instantly.

In the general treatment of nose and throat troubles, especially when inflammatory conditions prevail, and palliative treatment is called for as a preliminary to operative interference, no other remedy gives the immediate relief and establishes the aseptic conditions afforded by GlycoThymoline.