Detention Hospitals," and is contributed by Dr. J. D. Pagé, the medical superintendent of the Quebec Immigrant Hospital. As practitioners all over Canada may be called upon at any time to treat a case of trachoma on account of the fact that the disease may be disseminated through immigrant pedlars who have gotten into the country before the immigration laws were as strong in this respect as at the present time, we would specially commend this article to their attention. That the Canadian Government is now doing good work in this matter through their chief medical officer in the Department of the Interior, Dr. P. H. Bryce, may be seen from the fact that during the navigation season of 1904, 800 immigrants were sent to the Detention Hospital at Quebec, and 300 immigrants deported. During the season of 1905 something like 700 have been deported. So well have the officers of the Government done their work that a case of trachoma is now a rarity in the hospitals of Montreal, though Winnipeg seems yet to have a little more than her share. The following clipping from Scientific American on the eyesight test for railroad men practiced in the United States, may be of interest to our readers as well as to those of them who practice similar tests for the Canadian companies: First, reading test -three-eighths inch type at a distance of twenty feet; secondly, tests for position of form, consisting of models of semaphores placed in various positions at a distance of twenty feet; third, reading test for ordinary text, such as train orders, at an ordinary reading distance; fourth, color sense, which is tested, first in daylight by displaying strands of worsted of over a hundred varieties. of color, and having the men name the colors displayed, and second in a darkened room by displaying glasses of different colors in front of a lantern. Finally, the hearing is tested at a distance of twenty feet by having the men note the strokes of an acumeter and repeat (conversation test) words given by the examiner. The men are re-examined at the end of three years from the last examination, and also after any accident in which they may have been present, after illness and before promotion. This system has been in force in the United States for ten or twelve years on most of the leading roads, and on some, longer, and has given good satisfaction to the railroads. News Items. SEVENTY babies died in Toronto in November. THERE were 411 births registered in Toronto in November. SMALLPOX has developed in Sydney, near the town of Belleville, Ont. DR. THOS. WYLIE, Ex.-M.P.P., has been appointed an associate coroner in Toronto. DR. WM. J. BANNISTER, late of Cork, Ireland, has commenced practice in Winnipeg. THE York County Council will give a large donation to the Toronto General Hospital. DR. MCGIBBON, of Bracebridge, has been appointed an associate coroner for Muskoka, DR. W. E. STOREY, of Walkerville, has been appointed a coroner for the county of Essex. PNEUMONIA and tuberculosis caused the deaths of fifty-eight persons in Toronto in November. DR. Dow, formerly of Fergus, and Dr. Stevens, an old Grand Valley boy, are located in Regina. HAMILTON, Ont., will raise $35,000 by by-law for completing a new wing to its General Hospital. TYPHOID fever in Ontario during the month of October numbered 336 cases with 47 deaths. ANOTHER $5,000 has been contributed to the Toronto General Hospital by three prominent citizens. DR. B. H. LEMON, of Thorold, was found dead in his bed on the morning of the 28th of November. ONLY four deaths occurred in Stratford, Ont., during November. There must be good doctors in Stratford. DR. E. DE ARCY AULT, Acton, Ont., has been appointed an associate coroner for the county of Halton. FROM January 1st to October 31st there were 3,635 patients. cared for in the Winnipeg General Hospital. DR. J. E. GEMMILL, a former resident of Winnipeg, is dead at Rush City, Minn. THE death is announced at Toronto of Dr. Herman L. Cook, formerly of Napanee, Ont. A NEW Maternity Hospital was opened by His Excellency the Governor-General on December 1st in Montreal. DR. W. J. MACDONALD, one of the C Company South African Veterans, has located in practice at St. Catharines, Ont. OF the $250,000 required for the new Alexandra Contagious Diseases Hospital, Montreal, $130,000 has been subscribed. DR. WILLIAM OSLER has been appointed one of ten delegates to supervise the publications of the University of Oxford press. MR. P. C. LARKIN, one of the Trustees of the Toronto General Hospital, has presented the hospital with six wheeled stretchers. THE total number of patients treated in the Winnipeg General Hospital during the week ending the 25th of November, was 369. DR. AUGUSTA-Stowe GULLEN, Toronto, has been re-elected President of the Ladies' Board of the Western Hospital, Toronto. TYPHOID fever is continuing to abate in Winnipeg, the number of cases for November being much less than for the same month in 1904. DR. HARPER WILSON, who has been surgeon to the Crow's Nest Coal Company, at Fernie, B.C., has commenced practice in Winnipeg. DR. NORQUAY, Winnipeg, has been appointed assistant medical superintendent at the Provincial Hospital for the Insane at Brandon Man. DR. ALEX. MURDOCK, of Brucefield, has returned from Scotland, where he has been taking a post-graduate course; he has been away for nearly two years. DR. BRUCE SMITH, Inspector of Hospitals in Ontario, states that fifty per cent. of the inmates of Canadian asylums are drawn from the farming communities. THE Ontario October health report shows that there were 63 cases of smallpox, with no deaths, as against I case and no deaths in October of last year. AT the fall medical examinations of the Ontario Medical Council there were thirty-three candidates taking the primary and forty-five the intermediate and final. THERE were 190 cases of diphtheria in Ontario, in October, with 29 deaths; 93 cases of scarlet fever with I death; and 170 cases of consumption ith 163 deaths. Ar the last meeting of the London Medical Association, Dr. H. A. McCallum presented a case of "Hypertrophic Pulmonary Osteo-arthropathy." Dr. E. Searborn reported on the same night a case of "Essential Dropsy" of unusual interest. Association adopted a tariff of fees. The A COMMITTEE has been formed to take charge of the Toronto New Hospital scheme. Dr. Hoskin and Dr. Reeve will represent Toronto University on this committee. DR. H. ANDERSON, who was associated with Dr. Brien, o Essex, a year ago, has passed the examination before the Medical Council of Manitoba, and will locate in Winnipeg. DR. H. BASCOм and Dr. Walls have decided to form a partnership for the practice of their profession in Uxbridge and vicinity. Dr. Bascom will occupy his own office and Dr. Walls will be found at the office lately occupied by Dr. Clark. AN out-door clinic for consumptives has been established in connection with the Toronto General Hospital, and a nurse has been detailed to visit these patients at their homes and instruct them in the proper disposal of sputum, etc. WHEN the new addition in course of erection, in connection with the Toronto Free Hospital for Consumptives, is completed there will be accommodation for from sixty to seventy patients. Children with tuberculosis, between the ages of six and twelve will be admitted. THE following appointments are announced in the Ontario Gazette: Associate Coroners-Dr. Henry H. Moorehouse, 128 St. Patrick Street, for Toronto; Dr. John A. MacDonald, Markham, for York; Dr. James B. Coleridge, Ingersoll, for Oxford and Middlesex; Dr. Austin H. Speers, Burlington, for Halton; Dr. Anthony Ochs, Hespeler, for Waterloo. AT a recent meeting of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, the President stated that the effect of the General Laurie amendment (1905) to the Medical Act would provide for the Provinces of Canada applying on their own behalf for admission to the privileges of medical reciprocity with the United Kingdom. He further stated that there was reason to hope that before long efforts would be made to obtain from great provinces like Ontario and Quebec a position in relation to the British Register similar to that enjoyed by the States of the Australian Commonwealth. THE Montreal General Hospital thus voices its regret at the death of Dr. Buller: Resolved, That the Board has heard with the deepest regret of the death of their late colleague, Dr. Frank Buller, who was identified with the Montreal General Hospital for many years, first, for eighteen years as ophthalmologist, and then for eleven years as consulting surgeon. Dr. Buller's great abilities, originality and capacity for work did much to advance the science of ophthalmology in Canada. His earnestness of purpose and great sincerity made him a most valuable member of the medical profession, whose interests he was always ready and willing to advance. His death is a great loss, not only to the medical profession but to the community at large. Special Selection. RESPIRATORY AFFECTIONS-SYMPTOMS AND THEIR TREATMENT. BY JUSTIN HEROLD, A.M., M.D. Former House Physician and Surgeon, St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City; Former Coroner's Mathematical precision, it must be admitted, has its place no less in medicine than in its legitimate field in the study of the higher classics. This precision, in the therapeutic sense, applies to the exact dosage of preparations used by the busy practitioner in his every-day experience. How often do we attain proper results from the use of drugs; how often results that are not only improper, but even dangerous? Precision in dosage can only be obtained by constant study on the part of our co-laborer, the pharmaceutical chemist-study embodying experimentation, the comparing of results, re-experimentation, and, finally, the circulation of the decisive product in the hands of the practitioner. The past few months have afforded me, and no doubt others, opportunities to test the efficacy of the therapeutic qualities of the various remedies vaunted as certain to relieve the harassing symptoms attendant on the diseases produced by the bacillus of that nineteenth-century infant, "La Grippe." I refer to this epidemic particularly, because it had not manifested itself in such virulent form since the memorable grippe epidemic of 1889. The author of this paper, in the past few months has had occasion to employ the several preparations recommended for the relief of the distressing respiratory symptoms attendant upon "la grippe." These manifestations, from my view-point, have been characterized principally by cough and dyspnea, in other words, "dyspneic cough." Expectorant mixtures, anodyne solutions, together with hypodermic medication produced in me a disgust; and why? Simply and undeniably for the reason that the ordinary cough mixtures contain the opium preparations in such combinations as to leave a depressing effect, which, especially in cases of the grippe of the "depressing |