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decided to lengthen the College term to seven calendar months. A four years' course was also established and took effect at the opening of the coming term. The only exemptions from this course. were those applicants who had taken a four years' course in a literary college or high school. These were given credit for one year's time.

March 31st, at a meeting of the Board of Trustees, Rev. George R. Leavitt offered his resignation as a member of the Board as its vice president. In his letter he expresses a regret that ill health forces him to take this step, as he had enjoyed the relationship into which he had been brought with this body of gentlemen in the trusteeship and in the College faculty. The Board of Trustees accepted the resignation and passed resolutions of regret and regard.

May 9th, 1894, the finance committee, consisting of Drs. Biggar, Phillips and Pomeroy, tendered their resignation to the Board of Trustees as a committee, and the Dean with the Board of Trustees assumed the entire government of the University, financial and otherwise. The probable cause for this action was the dissatisfaction prevalent particularly among the younger professors of the University, who were not willing to continue under the restrictions contained in the rules adopted in 1890. These, as will be remembered, constituted the foundation of the dissatisfaction which led to the resignation of the professors at that date and were so despotic as to finally result in a demand by at least three-fourths of the members of the faculty for a new code. It was more than a year, however, before the Board of Trustees adopted a new form of rules and regulations which gave to the University practically a democratic form of government.

The following composed the faculty for the year 1894-1895:

OBSTETRICY.

John C. Sanders, M. D., LL. D., Dean, Professor of Preternatural Labor, Instrumentation, and Maladies of the Lying-in; H. Pomeroy, M. D., Professor of Gestation and Natural Labor.

GYNOPATHY.

H. F. Biggar, M. D., LL. D., Professor of Surgical Diseases of Women; Martha A. Canfield, A. M., M. D., Professor of Medical Diseases of Women. SURGERY.

H. F. Biggar, M. D., LL. D., Professor of Gynopathical and Clinical Surgery; J. Kent Sanders, A. M., M. D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Surgery, Surgical Pathology and Clinical Surgery; Kent B. Waite, A. M., M. D., Registrar, Professor of Genito-Urinary and Operative Surgery; C. D. Ellis, M. D., Professor of Minor Surgery; W. E. Wells, M. D., Professor of Surgical and Medical Diseases of the Rectum; H. L. Frost, A. B., M. D., Professor of Surgical Anatomy; G. E. Turrill, M. D., Professor of Surgical Diseases of the Nose and Throat.

OPHTHALMOLOGY AND
OTOLOGY.

W. A. Phillips, M. D., Professor of Didactic and Practical Ophthalmology and Otology; T. P. Wilson, M. D., Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Otology.

MATERIA MEDICA.

W. B. Hinsdale, M. S., M. D., Professor of Principles of Homeopathy, Materia Medica and the Organon.

ANATOMY.

H. L. Frost, A. B., M. D., Professor of Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy; C. D. Ellis, M. D., Professor of Osteology.

PHYSIOLOGY.

T. P. Wilson, M. D., Professor of Physiology, Psychology and Psychiatry.

SANITARY SCIENCE.

D. H. Beckwith, M. D., Professor of Sanitary Science; W. G. Meredith, M. D., Professor of Hygiene.

CHEMISTRY.

M. E. Kleckner, A. M., Professor of Geology and Biology, Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio, Professor of Chemistry: Thos. W. Ranson, Ph. G., M. D., Lecturer on Chemistry, Toxicology and Director of Laboratories; Chas. L. Mosher, Assistant.

THEORY AND PRACTICE.

W. B. Hinsdale, M. S., M. D., Professor of General and Clinical Medicine and Pathology; D. F. Baker, M. D., Deputy Treasurer, Professor of Paediatrics; G. E. Turrill, M. D., Professor of Diseases of Nose, Throat and Lungs H. D. Champlin, A. M., M. D., Lecturer on Nervous Diseases; H. G. Pyle, M. D., Lecturer on the Medical Diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder; A. F. Baldinger, M. D., Lecturer on Normal Histology; E. O. Adams, M. D., Lecturer on Microscopy and Pathological Histology.

PHARMACY.

F. O. Reeve, A. M., M. D., Instructor in Pharmacy.

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.
A. W. Barber, A. M., Lecturer.

STEREOPTICON.

W. H. Price, Jr.

DEMONSTRATORS OF
ANATOMY.

F. O. Reeve, A. M., M. D.; A. D. McElroy, M. D.

PROSECTORS.

C. W. Ginn; E. B. Kaple.

DENTAL FACULTY.

S. B. Dewey, M. D., D. D. S., Professor of Dental Histology, Pathology and Embryology; J. E. Robinson, M. D., D. D. S., Professor of Operative Dentistry; H. Barnes, M. D., D. D. S., Professor of Dental Anatomy and Dental Technics; L. P. Bethel, M. D., D. D. S., Professor of Dental Medicine and Therapeutics; W. T. Jackman, D. D. S., Professor of Prosthetic Dentistry and Metallurgy; Grant Mitchell, D. D. S., Professor of Crown and Bridge Work and Orthodontia.

The session of 1894-1895 was attended with but little outside of the regular systematic filling of the scheduled hours by the professors under appointment. The class in attendance was counted one of the liveliest that had been in College for years. It was during this session that the students, being unoccupied for an hour, laid violent hands upon the manikin and leather baby used by Prof. Sanders in his demonstrations of obstetricy. These they tore completely to pieces, nearly breaking the heart of the good professor. Several poems resulted from the catastrophe, all sympathetic and expressing appreciation of the great loss which had befallen the College, but as these are quite long and our space is limited we must defer publishing them. until the history is issued in book form.

At the graduating exercises the following ladies and gentlemen received. their degrees:

MEDICAL.

Braden, David Henry, Bishop, Alice L., Close, Daniel J., Colton, John Glazier, Corell, H. Olivia, Cox, Howard D., Cooper, Anna Rebecca, Cauffield, J. Edwin, Cameron, George Dana, Casey, Lee Edward, Cruise, Mary E., Davis, J. H., Finch, Frank F., Guile, Earle B., Ginn, Curtiss Whitmere, Fisher, Brilla J., Gaston, Sarah Phylinda, Hilliard, Louis

William, Johnson, Cliffe U., Koch, Wm., Kaple, Edward Bela, Kroll, Sarah Albertia, Luton, C. Randolph, Livermore, Frank Bates, Laser, Webster Louis, Merriam, Walter Walter H., Marquart, Carl Albert, Meyer, William D., Mansfield, William Amos, Mosher, Charles Leonard, Peffers, Ida Bell, Quayle, John Harrison, Smith, Howard Hamliton, Snyder, Raye S., Thornburg, Rolla W., Van Buren, Emma A., VanHyning, Jane Chamberlain, Wright, Ernest S., Young, Charles Herbert.

DENTAL.

Stevens, Samuel Howard, Keller, Louis Amedius, Newton, Jay Thorne, Kiplinger, Edwin Stanton, Chambers, James Milford.

The speaker of the evening was Prof. L. H. Jones, Superintendent of Public Schools of this city. He said in part:

"In one of his mystic utterances the celebrated Novalis said, 'philosophy can bake no bread; she can only find for us God and immortality.' I quote this sentence from the great German idealist chiefly for the purpose of calling attention to its essential untruth as usually interpreted, and its substantial truth when interpreted as the very irony of philosophy, as it was undoubtedly intended by its epigrammatic author.

"You have chosen a profession and not a truth, under 'Noblesse Oblige,' therefore you are bound to hold yourselves worthy of membership in a profession. It is worth while, perhaps, to examine into the nature of a profession a little in order to see what are the obligations assumed in entering one. this I do by no means refer to those little technicalities by which the doors to a profession are usually guarded, such as examinations as to intelligence, technical fitness, or some such test; but rather to those high moral qualities composed

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in the notion of a profession as distinct from any occupation in which selfish ends predominate.

"John Ruskin, who is my patron saint in morals if not in art, has said that there are five great intellectual occupations open to men in any true station; and that the member of each has a duty which he may not abdicate though death be the penalty of loyalty. These five occupations are those of physicians, lawyers, teachers (or preachers), soldiers and merchants. Under the term physician and the function of the physician in the nation is to keep the people in health; of the lawyer to enforce justice among the people; of the teacher (or preacher) to teach the truth to the people; of the soldier to defend the people of the nation in their national rights; and of the merchant (or manufacturer) to feed, clothe and shelter the people of the nation. The physician must die rather than desert his patients during a plague; the lawyer rather than countenance injustice; the teacher rather than teach untruth; the soldier rather than desert his post in battle; the merchant must lose his all-i. e. die—as to business interests, rather than adulterate, misrepresent or in any way deteriorate the quality of his goods or fail in any way to serve the true interests of his patrons as to their food, clothing and shelter. And it is because the public in general believe that the lawyer, the teacher, the soldier, the physician will, in extremity, die rather than belie their trust; that the callings that they represent are in a way ennobled into professions. It is because professionally, as a body, these men-soldiers, teachers, lawyers and physicians-can be trusted to subordinate private ends to public duties, that their professions are held in high honor. It is in this view, therefore, that you meet the first great issue

and come face to face with the first great fact of your profession."

In conclusion he said, "Keep your finger on the pulse of humanity, as well as on that your profession is in itself. very exacting. The new developments in your own profession come with such startling rapidity that it is difficult to keep up with them. The curriculum of the modern medical college contains whole subjects whose terms even had not been invented when thirty years ago I began and abandoned the study of medicine. But it will not do to confine yourselves to medical and scientific studies and leave out the world of man. Busy as you will be in your profession, there will still be time for you to be a good citizen. You must take your place among the spirited people of the community in which you live. The habit of being busy creates the leisure for future duties."

Perhaps the best idea of these exercises which were held on the 26th of March, can be had by quoting the remarks of the Argus. They are as follows:

"Never in the history of the University has there been a finer body of graduates. Association Hall was crowded with interested spectators and admiring friends.

"The exercises of Laureation were presided over by Judge Barber and nothing was lacking to add dignity and impressiveness to the occasion.

"The Dean made one of his characteristic addresses. After the exercises of Laureation a great many adjourned to the University building where a good social time was had.

"The University has taken the lead in Cleveland in the matter of their laureating exercises and many of the citizens. have come to look on that occasion as one of the standard events of the year."

MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

Written by FRANK KRAFT, M. D.

Born at Cincinnati, Ohio, January 8, 1851.

Public schools until breaking out of

war.

Removed to Decatur Co., Indiana, attending village school.

Returned to Cincinnati, 1862-3. Engaged in a number of occupations. Eventually became clerk of U. S. Hotel there.

Remained until 1869, then

Went to St. Louis into life insurance office.

Studied short-hand.

In 1876 became associate in shorthand firm, Weller & Kraft.

Shortly after began study of law.
Didn't like it.

Was graduated from Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri, March 4, 1886.

Joined American Institute of Homeopathy same year at Saratoga Springs. Practiced six months in St. Louis. Had one case of toothache. Received fifty cents therefor. Patient recovered.

Removed to Ann Arbor to help edit The Medical Advance.

Reached Sylvania, Ohio, 1887, and began practice in dead earnest.

Called to Cleveland, fall of 1890, to take materia medica in Homeopathic Hospital College.

Next fall joined Cleveland Medical College as Professor of Materia Medica. Resigned some time after. Again appointed in 1896.

Remained until I again resigned. No further connection with medical college since.

Became editor of American Homeopathist, 1887. Am so still.

Was editor of The Argus.

Also, later, of The Argonaut.
Married. Have three children living.
I pay taxes in Cleveland.
Where my wife lives.

And me, too.

Sir?

(Dr. Kraft, in his autobiography, stamps his own character. He says much with few words. His conclusions

are quick and usually correct. As a teacher of materia medica, he stands second to none. He has a faculty of condensing and concentrating which compels the student to comprehend and remember.

He has prepared and presented before the American Institute of Homeopathy and the Ohio State Homeopathic Society valuable papers on materia medica. As an editor of the American Homeopathist for the past fourteen years, he has proven his ability as a writer and a thinker. Dr. Kraft is up with the times; his office is filled with new medical books and medical journals. He is not a debator, but an attentive listener. He is rarely absent from the meetings of National or State Medical Societies. He believes in vacations to give rest to body and mind. Therefore, he spends a portion of each year with his family in visiting different parts of the world, thereby storing his brain with knowledge gained from associating with prominent medical and scientific men. D. H. B.)

ENDOCARDITIS.

By F. C. CRAWFORD, M. D., Toledo, Ohio.

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the heart occurs in two forms: Acute, -characterized by the presence of vegetation, with loss of continuity, or of substance in the valve tissue; Chronic,-a slow, sclerotic change resulting in thickening, puckering and deformity. It is

one of the most common affections of the heart, and one which is productive of serious consequences. Usually limited to the valves of the heart, it occasionally involves more or less of the cardiac cavities. After birth it is almost exclusively confined to the left side of the organ, and in the majority of cases. it commences in, and rarely extends beyond, the aortic and mitral valves and their orifices. It is those portions of the valves which come into contact in the act of closure and are thus most exposed to friction, which are especially involved and in which the changes usually oc

cur.

Etiology.-Endocarditis appears especially in acute rheumatism, also in pyemia, puerperal fever, gonorrheal rheumatism, scarlatina, and typhoid fever. It is also met with in diseases associated with loss of flesh and progressive debility, cancer, diabetes and Bright's disease. The papillary form is by far the most common. The ulcerative form may occur primarily, but as a rule supervenes upon the papillary or chronic form. The relation of endocarditis to the above diseases, and the course of the ulcerative forms, suggest an infectious origin. The structure of the endocardium is the chief constituent of the valves of the heart, consequently no serious inflammation of this membrane can exist without changing in some way the structure of the valves. This membrane is similar to, though not strictly a serous membrane, and its diseases are quite similar to those of the serous membranes. We 'first get hyperaemia, swelling, redness and other symptoms of inflammation. get here, too, a deposit, consisting of albumen, fibrin and other blood constituents as we get in peri-carditis, but owing to the constant motion of both the blood and the valves, this deposit is picked up

We

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