DRS. J. F. W. Ross, R. A. Reeve, B. E. McKenzie, and A. H. Garratt, of Toronto, attended the Convention of American Physicians and Surgeons and the American Orthopedic Association at Washington, D.C., on the 12th, 13th and 14th of last month.

WE beg to correct an error made in last month's issue wherein we stated that Dr. Chas. McKenna, of 244 Spadina Avenue, had purchased a house on College Street. This is not the case, the residence referred to having been bought by a dentist bearing the

same name.

DR. W. A. YOUNG, of Toronto, attended the American Medical Association at New Orleans last month, and returned to Toronto on the 14th ult. The Doctor also attended, and was elected an officer of, the American Medical Editors' Association, which held a most interesting meeting at New Orleans on May 4th.

THE Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago is opening its various departments to graduate nurses who wish post-graduate work. The hospital staff are members of the Rush Medical College, and form the lecturing staff to nurses of the hospital. Information regarding the course may be obtained from the Principal of the School at the Presbyterian Hospital.

Carlsbad. - Carlsbad is one of the world-renowned watering places, and as such is of interest to all doctors. It has regular connection with all of the important towns of the continent— Pullman cars, express trains and trains de luxe (Orient express to Paris, Constantinople, and Ostend express to Paris and Carlsbad). Carlsbad, situated in a romantic valley and surrounded by extensive and magnificent forests, is the chief representative of the Alkaline Saline Mineral Baths. Its average yearly temperature is 7.6°C.; average season temperature, 14°C.; sixteen mineral springs, varying from 36.6°C. to 73.18°C.; those used most are the Sprudel and Mühlbrunn. It has large bathing establishments. The new Kaiser Bath is the largest on the continent. In 1902 there were over 52,000 patients, and over 135,000 transients and tourists stopped at Carlsbad. There are four large bathing establishments provided with all modern comforts and under the control of the Town Council-mineral, peat, fresh water and vapor bathsindividual vapor baths, Russian baths, electric light and water baths, cold water cure, massage, Swedish movement (Zander's system), iron baths, carbonic acid baths, river baths in the swimming school in the Eger. Carlsbad has numerous hotels of the first rank and over 1,000 lodging houses and villas provided with all modern conveniences, lighted by electricity and Auer lights, separate drinking and domestic water systems. It has almost entirely asphalt and wood pavements and a new system of drainage. Grand network of magnificent promenades in the mountains and forests surrounding Carlsbad (over 100 kilometers), with commanding outlooks. Information and folder sent on application to Carlsbad Town Council.

Obituary

THE LATE DR. EMILY HOWARD STOWE.

THE death of Dr. Stowe, which took place on the last day of April, 1903, has removed one to whom the honor paid to a pioneer is justly due. Dr. Stowe, who was a native Canadian, was the first woman to practise medicine in Canada. She was born at Norwich, Ontario, and was a member of a Quaker family. At the age of fifteen she began teaching in a small country school near Norwich, and at the time of her marriage to Mr. John Stowe she was principal of a school in Brantford.

The medical education of women has always been favored by the Quakers, who were the founders of the first Medical College for Women in 1849, in Philadelphia. Dr. Stowe, perhaps partly on account of her Quaker ancestry, as well as on account of personal fitness and interest, pursued the study of medicine, undismayed by difficulty or opposition, graduating from the New York Medical College for Women in 1868, as it was then impossible for a woman to obtain medical education in Canada.

Dr. Stowe had a large practice in Toronto, which she relinquished not many years ago, on account of a serious accident. Of late she spent the greater part of the year at her beautiful home in Muskoka, full of interest, nevertheless, in the world and its work and quite in sympathy with modern thought and progress. As a physician she was successful and beloved by her patients. As a woman she was womanly and motherly.

The end of life came suddenly to Dr. Stowe. She was quite well up to a few days before her death. Strangely enough, she expressed more than once a conviction that illness was approaching, though no symptom was apparent either to herself or others. Her attending physicians attributed the fatal termination to uremic poisoning.

The funeral service was attended by a large company of friends, among whom were nearly all the women at present engaged in the practice of medicine in Toronto. Well might they be present to pay a last tribute of honor and respect to her who

had trod that path before them, bearing the heat and burden of the day. Their way is made easy, but hers was made hard. A great English writer has said that the saddest penalty paid by those who are the victims of intolerance, is that they become intolerant themselves. This penalty Dr. Stowe never paid. She was gentle, fair-minded and charitable in her judgments to the end. The Scripture (1 Cor. xiii.) chosen by the officiating clergyman at the funeral bore a singularly appropriate reference to this. "Remember me kindly to him," she said in conversation with a physician a few days before her last illness, referring to some one whom she had differed from in years gone by. "Remember me kindly to him; he made a mistake, but I have forgiven him long ago." For this and other beautiful traits of personal character, for her ability, for her interest in medical education for women (her only daughter, Dr. Augusta Stowe-Gullen, as is well known, was the first woman to graduate in medicine from a Canadian university), and for her work, Dr. Stowe will be long remembered.

Medical Causerie.-Now comes another substitute for argent nit.-Argyrol (silver vitellin). We have tried nearly every silver product which the manufacturers have put on the market, and until a few months ago protargol was the only one we had officeroom for. Argyrol will prove even more satisfactory than protargol, the only objection to it being the dirty black stain, which can be readily removed from linen by hot water. We have used it in 25 per cent. solutions to the throat, ear, and even to the eye, the patient making no complaint of any kind. Wherever argent nit. is indicated the argyrol may be used.

Thoughts on Pyorrhea.-When the destruction caused by pyorrhea can no longer be made good, we need not for that reason speak of incurability. If we succeed in arresting the purulence, the pyorrhea is cured; and this only succeeds when we are able to remove every trace of subgingival tartar deposits. No one will, of course, expect that it is possible to refix a loose tooth the alveolus of which the presence of pus has caused to disappear up to the apex of the root. Loose teeth, however, may become fixed again if a part of the alveolus remains still healthy, if about a third of the tooth still stands in healthy bone, or, in other words, if the last third of the tooth in the direction of the apex of the root has remained free of deposits. In teeth with several roots the conditions are somewhat different if the pathological process has not progressed to an equal extent with all the roots.-Albert Senn, Quarterly Circular.

News of the Month.

BANQUET TO SIR JAMES GRANT, OTTAWA.

IN recognition of fifty years spent in the practice of medicine, during forty-nine of which he was located in Ottawa, Sir James Grant was entertained on April 22nd to a banquet at the Russell House by the medical fraternity of the capital, and presented with an address and a silver loving cup. Covers were laid at the dinner for eighty-five guests, and the medical profession of the Ottawa Valley was represented by its most distinguished members, who vied with each other in showing attention to the honored guest of the evening, who, after half a century of labor in the most arduous of callings, still retains in a marvellous degree the vigor and the elasticity of youth. Sheriff Sweetland, M.D., filled the chair with dignity, having on his right Sir James Grant, and on his left Sir Frederick Borden. The usual loyal toasts were proposed and honored with characteristic heartiness, after which the chairman proposed the toast of "Our Guest," and alluded to his having introduced the first Canadian Pacific Railway bill. The address was read in an impressive manner by Dr. Cousens, and the presentation made amidst enthusiastic cheers. Sir James Grant,

who appeared to be greatly touched by this demonstration of friendship, returned his hearty thanks and favored the company with some reminiscences of his medical career. Proceeding, he said:

In no profession at the present day have greater advances been made than on the lines of surgery and of medicine. At the commencement of the nineteenth century the investigations of Jenner with reference to vaccination for the prevention of smallpox was being vigorously prosecuted. Since that day, notwithstanding the great opposition to this extremely important principle, it is now generally recognized that vaccination is the only safe means that can possibly be adopted to abolish finally the spread of the loathsome disease of smallpox. At that time, and for years afterwards, the study of anatomy was very much interrupted, owing to the want of material. Physiology was then in its infancy, and pathology was very largely a matter of speculation. Chemistry was in stages of possible investigation, and chemical medicine rose up almost in advance of any other department of medicine by the careful scientific investigation of Laen

nec of Paris, who so advanced the history of disease connected with lung tissue that he established a name and reputation recognized throughout the scientific world. In these days peritonitis was a common disease and almost universally fatal. A major operation was considered the equivalent almost of a death warrant. Two great lights in London, Bright and Addison, scientific workers in connection with Guy's Hospital, brought to light knowledge concerning the kidneys and kidney disease of a remarkable character. Bright's Disease was then defined, and dropsy, the result of it, explained clearly and scientifically, and Addison pointed out also the cause of bronzing of the skin. So these two scientific men, in connection with the hospital, accomplished an advance in the profession of a most remarkable character.

Surgery was advanced by Syme and Schopart, who by their careful investigations threw so much light on the whole subject as to make doubtful points at once comprehensible to the general observer, and added greatly to the means of saving life. Shortly afterwards Simpson, of Edinburgh, and Long, of the United States, introduced the principle of anesthesia, which accomplished much towards the relief of suffering humanity under severe operations. The three great advances in the medical profession during the fifty years were: (1) the introduction of anti-toxine for the cure of disease; (2) the germ theory of disease as advanced by Pasteur, and subsequently worked up by Lister; and (3) preventive medicine as largely brought about by the medical profession, notwithstanding that it lessened their prospect of revenue.

Then we had the remarkable investigation from which the discovery was developed of mosquitoes impregnating individuals, and so disposing of the old idea that such fevers spread from marshes and decayed vegetable tissue. Then again tetanus, which was supposed to arise from a rusty nail, is now known to be due to germs in the soil communicating themselves to the system through the wound made by the nail. Furthermore we have the examination of the blood as a means of diagnosis of typhoid fever. Sir William Jenner established an almost world-wide reputation by his investigations with reference to typhoid, supposing that fever sprang from ulceration in the bowels. But Prof. Osler, of Johns Hopkins University, and a Canadian, has thrown great light upon this whole subject, and his researches show that Jenner's idea is not tenable, and that typhoid fever, as regards its origin, rests on a much wider basis. A most important advance is that with regard to X-Rays and its utilization, not only in the investigation and advance of surgical conditions and diseases of the system, but also its application in the treatment of cancer. These are a few of the points to which I shall merely now advert, and from such we can form an idea of the remarkable advance which has been made in medical and surgical science within the