"Is There Ever a Serous Iritis Without an Involvement of the Ciliary Body, or Chorid, or Both?" by William Cheatham, M. D., Louisville, Ky., reprinted from the Ophthalmic Record.

"A Brief Study of the Ophthalmic Conditions in a Case of Cerebellar Tumor; Autopsy," by Charles A. Oliver, A. M., M. D., Philadelphia, reprinted from the University Medical Magazine.

"The Position or Posture of the Patient During Parturition, with Special Reference to the Merits of the Walcher Position," by Andrew F. Currier, M. D., New York, N. Y., reprinted from the Medical News.

"The Cure of Tuberculosis by Oxytuberculine, with Experiments on Patients, Animals and Cultures," by J. O. Hirschfelder, M. D., San Francisco, Cal., read before the Medical Society of the State of California.

"Increase of Insanity and Consumption among Negro Population of the South Since the War," by Thomas J. Mays, A. M., M. D., Philadelphia, reprinted from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal of June 3, 1897.

"Description of a Successful Operation for Blepharoplasty, Embracing the Outer Halves of Both the Upper and Lower Lids by a Single Split Flap Taken from the Forehead for Epithelioma," by Charles A. Oliver, A. M., M. D., Philadelphia, reprinted from the University Medical Magazine.

Professor of Emergency Surgery and Clinical Surgery, and Registrar, Ohio Medical

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We quote the following from the Indiana Medical Journal, regarding the action of a certain judge of Akron, Ohio:

A conviction which was had January 27, 1897, of an osteopath for violation of the Ohio medical law has been reversed by the Court of Common Pleas of Summit county, as per report in the Ohio Legal News of June 19, 1897, the case being styled Eu

gene Eastman v. The State of Ohio. The accused was a graduate
of the American School of Osteopathy of Kirkersville, Mo., who
had located at Akron, Ohio. For pay he undertook to treat a case
of paralysis, without describing, directing or recommending the
use of any drug or medicine. This raised the question whether
the act of kneading and rubbing the body with the naked hands,
for compensation and for the treatment and cure of bodily disor-
ders, is a criminal act under such a law regulating the practice of
medicine as that of Ohio. It was contended, on behalf of the
State, that the act within the term "or other agency," in the provi-
sion of the Ohio law that "any person shall be regarded as prac-
ticing medicine or surgery who shall, for a fee, prescribe, direct or
recommend for the use of any person any drug or medicine or
other agency for the treatment, cure or relief of any wound, frac-
ture or bodily injury, infirmity or disease." But the court holds
that the words "other agency," although comprehensive, must
mean something in the same general sense that medicines or drugs
is an agency, and that if it was the intention of the General As-
sembly to prohibit the practice in the State of osteopathy, clair-
voyance, mind-healing, faith-cure, hypnotism, massage and Chris-
tian science, it should have been specifically mentioned, and not
left to mere inference from the general words "other agency."
Consequently, it holds that in the particular acts set forth there
was no violation of the statute mentioned.

The action of this judge should cause every member of the
medical profession, who has its real interest at heart, to blush with
shame. At the same time we believe that the majority of the legal
profession of the great State of Ohio will share their chagrin, when
they see a member of their profession who is dignified with the
title of judge, reverse a decision on the most flimsy alleged tech-
nical grounds, which revision recognizes the lowest grade of medi-
cal practitioners that may present themselves for legal recogni-
tion. How inconsistent is the action of this judge with that of the
elevation of the medical and surgical sciences, and yet this same
judge would not hesitate to ridicule the medical profession because
of their ignorance if they were brought before him as medical ex-
perts, and yet he is willing to use the power of his office to allow
parties to practice medicine who are a disgrace not only to the
medical profession of the State of Ohio, but who furnished abund-
ant material for the ridicule of this self-same judge.

How in contrast with this judge's decision are the words of Governor Hastings of Pennsylvania in his address of welcome to the members of the American Medical Association at Philadelphia, when he said: "There is a code of honor in the medical profession in this country which should challenge the admiration and sympathy of humanity. The lawyer's work, whether in the office or the forum, is subject to the revision and correction by courts following well-established precedents. The Christian teacher, as well as the lawyer, is continually in the glare of public opinion, and more or less controlled by public judgment. It is different with the doctor. His client has no opponent but disease or accident. The testimony is all on one side; there is no judgment to scrutinize his diagnosis; there is no appeal to a higher court in this world; the doctor is judge, jury, and, sometimes, executioner. The lawyer's contention is for goods and chattels, the doctor's for human life. The quack, the crank and the fraud have here a wide field."

Notwithstanding the words of Governor Hastings, this judge would open wide the doors, by his decision, for the quacks, cranks and frauds whom he would allow to deal with human life whether they are prepared to do so or not. In the Governor's address, he said:

"The medical profession, like the other liberal professions, is overcrowded. The best information I have on the subject reveals the fact that there is one doctor for every 450 inhabitants. The doctor's sign is found in every section-found more frequently than the lawyer's-and he outnumbers the clergy. He is as constant and necessary a factor of every community as the postoffice, the grocery store, the inn or the cemetery."

And yet this Akron judge would open the doors still wider, and put down the bars of competency until even those without education, and without knowledge of their profession, may enter without money and without price.

AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS IN GERMANY.

The report comes from Berlin that the governments of Prussia and all the other German States having universities have altered the conditions under which medical students in the future will be admitted to the clinics. Under the new rules many Americans will be barred, and the Board of Physicians of Berlin and