Obituary.

DE SAUSSURE FORD, M. D., Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, 1856; the Nestor of the medical profession of Augusta, surgeon on the staff of General Humphrey Marshall and later in charge of the Third Georgia Hospital, Richmond, during the Civil War; professor of anatomy in his alma mater for seventeen years and then professor of surgery; three times dean of the faculty of the college and occupying that position at the time of his death; one of the founders of the Augusta City Hospital and repeatedly chairman of the governing board; president of the State Medical Association and chief surgeon of the Georgia Railroad; identified in a marked degree with many educational, charitable and municipal institutions of Augusta, died at his home in Augusta, February 5, after an illness of ten days, aged 71. At a special meeting of the faculty of the Medical College of Georgia resolutions of respect and regret were unanimously adopted.

DR. JULIAN C. FEILD of Denison, Tex., died on January 31, of Bright's disease. Dr. Feild was born in Pulaski, Tenn., in 1841. After being graduated from the medical department of Tulane University, New Orleans, he served as surgeon in the Confederate Army. When Denison was first laid out as a town Dr. Feild located there and had since then served in many official positions. For thirty years he was local surgeon of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad.

DR. FRANK ANTHONY WALKE died July 12 at his home in Norfolk, Va., aged seventy-three years. He was a graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in the class of 1852, and served in the medical corps of the U. S. Navy. During the Civil War he was active in the naval medical service of the Confederacy.

W. H. WALTHALL, M. D., Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, 1861, surgeon in the Confederate service throughout the Civil War, died at his home in Roanoke, Va., October 18, from paralysis, after an illness of one year, aged 70.

Editorial.

TENNESSEE STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

THE time for the seventy-third annual meeting will soon be at hand. Keep the dates well in mind - April 10, 11, and 12,- and begin to make your preparations for attending. A few days off from your daily round of duty will be valuable in the way of rest and recreation, and the time spent in association with your confreres from different portions of the state will be a benefit to you and those depending on you for medical and surgical aid. It is a most excellent time for a visit to the city of Memphis, and the members of the State Medical Association have always been most courteously and hospitably entertained by the physicians and citizens of that prosperous and enterprising metropolis.

The following "Circular Letter" has been sent out by the Secretary of the Association, Dr. Geo. H. Price, of Nashville:

"DEAR DOCTOR: The time for the annual meeting of the Tennessee State Medical Association, which convenes in Memphis, is April 10 to 12. We are exceedingly anxious to have a full and attractive programme, and to that end extend you an invitation to be present and present a paper.

It is our aim to arrange the programme in such a manner as to bring papers on related subjects into groups, so that they can be read and discussed together, believing that in this way we can derive the greatest good, for the largest number, in the shortest possible time.

"Remember that the time limit for the reading of a paper is twenty minutes, consequently it will be of great advantage to you as well as the other members present to come within this limit, and thus avoid the leaving out of important points you desire to make.

"We have delayed sending out this notice and request until this time, for when sent early it is often laid aside and forgotten.

"Your Committee on Scientific Work will attempt to arrange the subjects so as to get the very best results for the meeting, and to this end we ask the earnest co-operation of every member, and especially urge you to respond as soon as possible to this communication, so that we can

issue a preliminary programme. Now is the time to act, and we hope to have a prompt response.

"Yours very truly,

"GEO. H. PRICE, M. D., Secretary."

DENTAL SURGEONS IN THE U. S. ARMY.-Among the bills now before Congress is one for the reorganization of a corps of dental surgeons of the army, not to exceed in number actual requirements, nor proportion of one to one thousand in the regular army. Appointees must be citizens, between twenty-two and thirty years of age, graduates of standard American dental colleges, of good moral character and professional repute. They must pass physical and professional examinations, which shall include tests of skill in dentistry. Dental surgeons attached to the medical department of the army at time of passage of act may be eligible to appointment, three to rank of captain, and the others to rank of first lieutenant, on the recommendation of the surgeon-general, subject to examination; professional examination may be waived in case of dental surgeons whose efficiency reports and entrance examinations are satisfactory to the surgeon-general. The right to promote shall be limited to the tank of captain after five and major after ten years' service; number of majors shall not at any time exceed one eighth, nor the number of captains one third of the whole number in the dental corps. The surgeon-general is to organize a board of three examiners to conduct the professional examinations - two civilians, whose qualifications are certified by the Executive Council of the National Dental Association, and the third from the contract dental surgeons.

A PLEA FOR THE TABLET.-"In the first place, compared with pills, tablets have no insoluble coating, nor, when properly made, have they any insoluble excipient added to their composition. For example, Antikamnia Tablets are made by simple compression, and therefore, if the secretions of the human system affect the medicine administered, it is bound to be absorbed in the quickest possible time, which is always an advantage. Comparing tablets with capsules, greater accuracy in dosage is assured, as experiments have proven. For example, forty tablets of bisulphate of quinine, made on a machine, adjusted to five grains each, weighed 19934 grains on a torsion balance, The most careful druggist knows it would be impossible to do this in filling capsules. The objections some have to tablets is readily overcome by crushing them before administration, and we are glad to know that the Antikamnia people take the precaution to state that when very prompt effect is desired the tablets should be crushed or chewed.

Antikamnia itself is not unpleasant to the taste, and the crushed tablet can be placed on the tongue and washed down with a swallow of water. It so frequently happens that certain unfavorable influences in the stomach may prevent the prompt solution of the tablets, that this suggestion is well worth heeding. This, however, does not apply to Antikamnia Tablets, for they disintegrate at once, as soon as they come in contact with

moisture. Drop a tablet in a glass of water and be convinced of this. Proprietors of other tablets would have better success had they given more thought to this question of prompt solubility. Antikamnia and its combinations in tablet form are great favorites of ours, not because of their convenience alone, but because of their prompt and uniform therapeutic effect."-The Journal of Practical Medicine.

IN THE SPRING the eliminative functions do not present their usual activity owing to the torpor and locked-up secretions which have existed during the winter months when the skin neglects its duties and the kidneys are overworked.

If this condition remains neglected, the probable result will be a pronounced attack of rheumatism, neuralgia, or grippe in one or another of its forms, hence the necessity of a powerful eliminant is self-evident.

While antipyretics and antiperiodics may slightly stimulate the excretions and relieve congestion, thereby controlling certain features of the disease, a complete cure cannot be expected until the poisons are thoroughly eliminated from the system and the diseased organs enabled to resume normal functions.

Tongaline, by promoting the absorptive powers of the various glands which have been clogged and by its stimulating action on the liver, the bowels, the kidneys, and the skin, will relieve the pain, allay the fever, eliminate the poisons, stimulate recuperation, and prevent sequelæ.

TYREE'S ANTISEPTIC POWDER.— Many leading specialists and general practitioners, at home and abroad, are employing Tyree's Antiseptic Powder because they find it efficient, convenient, economic; of general utility, without injurious effects, immediate or remote, local or constitutional; healing, as well as antiseptic and germicidal; and equally well suited for use by patient as by medical attendant.

One part in fifty of water, or smaller quantities, is rapidly germicidal to the most resistant bacteria. Weaker solutions are still valuable antiseptics. That makes Tyree's Antiseptic Powder highly economic. One ounce, cost not over fifteen cents, prepares one gallon of standard antiseptic solution, for injections, washes, douches, sprays, etc.

Tyree's Antiseptic Powder was prepared originally to treat diseases of the genital mucous membrane, not to displace older antiseptics. The latter it has, however, already done in the practices of thousands of American physicians and surgeons, owing to its superior efficacy, general utility, and absolute safety.

As was to be expected, Tyree's Antiseptic Powder has imitations. Only worthless articles escape the schemes of counterfeiters. It is important to use only the genuine, therefore insist always upon obtaining original packages.

CYSTOGEN-LITHIA EFFERVESCENT TABLETS.-The many indications for the use of lithia in combination with cystogen have resulted in the preparation of cystogen-lithia effervescent tablets. Physicians will find these tablets of special value in the treatment of many conditions suggesting the addition of lithia as increasing the efficiency of cystogen. In rheumatism, gout, urinary deposits, ammoniacal urine, cystitis, etc., cystogenlithia hastens the excretion of urates and uric acid and prevents the formation of calculus. These tablets are composed of cystogen, three grains, and lithium tartrate, three grains; usual dose, one to two tablets three or four times daily, dissolved in half a glass of water. Samples will be sent to physicians addressing the Cystogen Chemical Company, St. Louis, Missouri.

CRITICISM. A reader, well versed in French, takes exception to my le's and la's, and calls attention to an error which he believes he has caught me taking with my genders when saying Vive la Mariani! which, by his interpretation, makes Mariani of the feminine gender. But nothing could have been further from my wish, for Mariani is of all men an exceptional type of manhood, and fully entitled to be so engendered. In this expression of long life to Mariani, the individual was not intended, but the subject which he qualifies was in mind, that is, Coca. For all the world knows that Mariani has made Coca synonymous with his name. Mariani, then, stands for Coca, and Coca means Mariani. The rest is with the French lexicographers, who, having made Coca of the feminine gender, enable us to rightly express the heartfelt wish - Vive la Coca! implying also Mariani, or Coca, as you will, and thus affording a pretty play on terms by way of courtesy. So then, I say, Vive la Coca Mariani! Vive Mariani! - Editor of Coca Leaf, January, 1905.

Beviews and Book Notices.

LECTURES ON TROPICAL DISEASES, Being the Lane Lectures for 1905, delivered at Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, Cal., August, 1905, by SIR PATRICK MANSON, K. C. M. G., M. D. (Aberdeen), F. R. C. P. (London), F. R. S. Hon. D. Sc. (Oxon.), Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office, Lecturer London School of Tropical Medicine, St. George's Hospital Medical School, etc. 8vo, cloth, illustrated, pp. 230. W. T. Keener & Co., Publishers, 90 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill, 1905. $2.50.

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This is one of the most interesting books of the day. The experience and ability of its author give it more than ordinary