Return Good for Evil. have none but the kindliest sentiments of every physician in this audience. He will, we hope, when in physical pain and anguish, call, and not call in vain, for that assistance that our profession never denies to suffering humanity if it be at all within our power to give it. And whether blessed relief is given him through the medium of one of the anaesthetics or analgesics that the good God permitted some plain physician to discover, or whether it comes to him through some swift, sure and painless procedure of modern surgery, due to the researches of our oft slandered fellow workers, let us all hope that when the ministering hand has done its work and he is free from anguish, his mind will revert to that official libel to which he affixed his signature in 1899, and that we will thereafter publicly and manfully withdraw it and apologize to the honorable profession of Medicine. Mr. President, our citizenship, with all its inherent rights and privileges, is as dear to us as to any other class of our people. It should not be incumbent upon us to demonstrate with arguments of set speech and proof as on the witness stand that we value our privileges as citizens or that we are devoted to the welfare of the communities in which we live. Nevertheless, this unwelcome and distasteful duty has been put upon us and we have endeavored to perform it without any semblance of undignified boasting. The rights to which we are equally entitled, with all others of our fellow citizens, we claim without hesitancy and will exercise to their fullest limits. The protection which the laws of the land guarantee to other professions and to the trades we claim also and will continue to claim until our demand results in compliance. In order that that desirable end may be attained, this society, and each and every member thereof, has a right to the honorable exercise of every privilege of citizenship, to the use of every honorable argument and the persuasive effects of every honorable influence that can be exercised. The triumph of righteousness may be delayed, but its ultimate accomplishment cannot be prevented, and I see somewhere in the future an ultimate realization of the measures for which we have hitherto striven in vain. That accomplishment shall be basis of still further striving, of greater effort and of grander attainments. Abstract of Address by Dr. J. N. Hall before Colorado State Medical Society.* The diseases of the bronchial glands have been but little studied, and are generally neglected in our text-books of medicine. English authors have paid much more attention to them than Americans, and it seems probable that the glands in question are more often seriously affected in English children than in those of this country. French and German literature is much more fertile than our own upon this subject. The anatomy and pathology of the glands was entered into at length. The enormous importance of the glands, as protective agencies against general tuberculous infection, was emphasized. One point not generally appreciated is that most cases of tuberculous meningitis arise from the diseased bronchial glands. Most of the glands taken even from healthy individuals dying from accident will cause tuberculosis if injected into the guinea-pig, while the mesenteric and cervical glands of the same persons fail to infect. The great importance of the glands as causes of bronchial obstruction and various obscure chest conditions, dependent upon rupture of abscess of the glands, was pointed out. 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