purveyors and convincing to the uninformed by the reason of the media of their advertisements, which include periodical literature of all description, not only in the daily press and magazines, but also religious and otherwise reputable medical journals and many counterfit imitations of the latter, to some of which an income practically amounting to a subsidy is plain; and,

Whereas, Physicians frequently aid in the propogation of the evil by prescribing them, by giving testimony in favor of them, or indirectly by their failure to prescribe according to the needs of their individual patients; therefore, be it

Resolved, That this academy urge most strenuously on its fellows and on all other physicians never under any circumstances to sanction the use of any preparation, the nature and quantity of whose ingredience are unknown to them, whether it appear in the guise of a medicine. a food, or as an application for external use; and to this end to prescribe definitely, exactly and in writing for every patient who needs any drug or combination of drugs; to diffuse among the laity as widely as possible a knowledge of the potential evils residing in the preparation of drugs of unknown constituents; to second as far as possible the efforts of the American Medical Association in its attempt to combat this evil through the agency of its council of pharmacy and chemistry, whose duty it is to investigate unofficial preparations and to publish the truth about them; and to use all proper influence to have advertisements of them removed from medical journals.

Resolved, That pending repressive legislation which is likely soon to take place in many state legislatures and also in congress, the attention of the State Board of Health be respectively directed to the admirable chemical work which has been conducted for years by the Massachusetts State Board of Health, and which has resulted in the filing in the Massachusetts State House of a long list of conspicuous fraudulent preparations, with a statement of the exact amount of their noxious ingredients; and that the department of health of the city be respectfully urged to exercise its power to protect the public against dangerous preparations of all sorts which are known to be noxious, or which by chemical analysis be shown to be so, by absolutely prohibiting their sale within the limits of its jurisdiction. Resolved. That wide publicity be given to these preambles and resolutions under the di

rection of the council and that attest of copies of them be sent to the Board of Health of this state and of this city.

Resolutions.

April 3, 1906. Mr. President-The committee appointed to report upon the death of Dr. Jessie MacGregor beg to submit the following memorial:

Dr. Jessie Maclaven MacGregor was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and received her medical degree from the University of Edinburgh. She afterward lectured upon pathology and gynaecology in that university, and for twelve years successfully practiced her profession in Edinburgh.

Dr. MacGregor studied from time to time in the great medical centers of Europe.

In the summer of 1905 Dr. MacGregor came to Denver, that she might be near her brother and sisters. She became a member of the Medical Society of the County of Denver, and took part in the teaching and in the clinical work of the Denver and Gross Medical School. She was particularly fitted for an instructor and inspired her students with her own enthusiasm. Her success as a teacher was marked and immediate.

Dr. MacGregor brought to her work here a well trained mind, a highly developed technical skill, and a fascinating personality.

She entered upon the practice of medicine in Denver under the most favorable conditions. We mourn the loss of this gifted woman and grieve that a career so full of promise has been cut short.

After a sickness of four days Dr. MacGregor died of cerebro-spinal meningitis on March 22, 1906..

We would have this memorial inscribed upon the minutes of this Society and copies sent to Dr. MacGregor's brother and sisters.

ELEANOR LAWNEY, Chairman.
LAURA L. LIEBHARDT.

M. ETHEL FRASER.

HENRY SEWALL.

RESOLUTIONS.

Denver, Colo., March 20, 1906.

Mr. President-The committee appointed to take some action upon the death of Dr. Donald Kennedy beg leave to submit the following memorial.

Dr. Donald Kennedy was born at Shelbyville, Ind., in 1870, and died at the Oakes Home in this city of tuberculosis, on March 7, 1906.

Dr. Kennedy came of a family of physicians.

His father was a physician, and his four brothers were all members of the same profession. His parental grandfather was the first physician to settle in Indiana, and was the Dr. Kennedy of Charles Major's well known story. After graduating from the Shelbyville high school Donald Kennedy entered Hanover College, from which he graduated B. A. in 1891.

His medical education was received at the Kentucky School of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1894. After one year of practice in his native state, he went to New York City and spent twelve months as assistant to Dr. Fred C. Valentine. In 1897 he located in Cincinnati, O., confining his practice to genitourinary diseases.

In the spring of 1898 Dr. Kennedy came to Colorado Springs on account of failing health. After eight months' rest in Colorado he returned to Cincinnati and resumed practice. In October, 1899, another physical breakdown compelled him to return to Colorado. Opening offices in this city he practiced his specialty with marked success until within a few months of his death.

He

While not a voluminous writer, Dr. Kennedy contributed several articles to the literature of his specialty. The most important of these papers were "Suprapubic Cystoscopy," Medical Record, April 19, 1902. "The Genito-Urinary Complications of Pulmonary Tuberculosis." Colorado Medical Journal, March, 1904. was the first surgeon to practice Suprapubic Cystoscopy. For several years Dr. Kennedy was the editor of the Genito-Urinary Department of the Colorado Medical Journal. His death at the early age of thirty-six closes a career which was in the highest sense creditable to himself and his profession. As a physician he was always straight and true, bearing with honor an honored name. As a journalist he was conscientious and diligent, as a gentleman he was modest, unselfish and lovable, living without fear and without reproach. In his passing the medical profession loses a good member and the republic a good citizen. O. LYONS.

DEATHS.

L. B. LOCKARD. E. W. STEVENS.

Dr. D. K. Smith, aged 40 years, died at Colorado Springs March 14, 1906, of pulmonary tuberculosis. He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, 1895, served an interne

Dear Doctor-The following letter has been mailed to the Secretaries of each County and District Society in this state, and it has been thought desirable that it be published in Colorado Medicine in order that it be given as much publicity as possible. While the letter is self-explanatory, it might be well to emphasize that by calling for papers in this way the entire State Society is represented on the program. Each Society is asked to appoint representatives in proportion to the number of their members. The Society of the City and County of Denver has 241 members, El Paso 57, Boulder 44, Pueblo 41, Weld 26, Las Animas 25, Fremont 23, Teller 22, and so on down the line. The most equitable appointment of representatives we can make is to give Denver seven, El Paso, Boulder and Pueblo two each, and the remaining Societies one each. This will make a program of 30 papers, which is deemed sufficient, since the discussions are to be given special prominence. In order to encourage discussions an abstract of each paper will appear in the program, and as the program will be in the hands of each member of the Society thirty days before the meeting, this

Dear Doctor-It is hoped that at the next meeting of the Colorado State Medical Society the program of papers will fully represent the component County and District Societies. In order to accomplish this the Program Committee has decided that each Society shall be asked to nominate a representative to prepare and read a paper. You are therefore requested to present this letter at the next meeting of your Society, at which meeting a committee should be appointed to select a member who shall prepare and read a paper at the coming October meeting of the State Society.

The Program Committee of the State Society believes it advisable to limit the number of papers to ten for each day of the meeting, or thirty in all. By so doing more time can be given to discussions than if the program is crowded.

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There are twenty-one County and District Societies, and according to the allotment your Society is entitled to representative.. on the program. Your representative.. should esteem it an honor to be thus placed on the program and should not fail to be present to read his paper, and be prepared to defend it in discussion. There should be no papers read by title. The time allowed for the reading of papers is fifteen minutes.

The name of your representative should be sent in during the next sixty days. If you are not heard from at the expiration of that time it will be inferred that you do not desire a place on the program.

Your representative will be required to furnish a brief abstract of his paper of from 50 to 200 words. The abstract must be in my hands by July 15, as it is to appear in the program, together with the title of the paper and the name of the writer. The object of publishing these abstracts in the program is to

excite prepared discussion. The complete program will be mailed to every member of the State Society on September 1.

It is hoped that as many of you as possible will attend this meeting and come prepared to support your representative as well as to enter into the general discussions. Very sincerely yours, MELVILLE BLACK,

DR. J. N. HALL,

DR. WILL H. SWAN,
DR. MELVILLE BLACK,

Committee on Scientific Work.

Association News.

It is expected that the meeting of the American Medical Association, in Boston, June 5-8, will attract a larger number of Colorado members than usual. In view of this fact it will be a very easy matter to arrange for a special car from Denver to Boston without change. I have consulted with the Burlington railroad, and with Mr. Erwin Tears, who represents the New York Central, and find that they will run a special car through for us if we can guarantee that it will have thirty occupants. This would be a very decided convenience, and it will not cost any more. The regular Pullman fare from Denver to Chicago is $6, and from Chicago to Boston, $5, or a total of $11. The fare from Denver to Chicago and return will be $31.50, and from Chicago to Boston and return, $23.

The New York Central will run a special train exclusively for physicians attending the Boston meeting, leaving Chicago 10:30 a. m., June 3, and arriving in Boston at 2 p. m., June 4. This special train will be made up of the same class equipment as the "Twentieth Century Limited," and will consist of observation compartment car, sleeping, dining and library car. The special car from Denver will be attached to this train.

All of those who expect to travel from Denver to Chicago by way of the Burlington route can communicate with me and I will make reservations for them on this car. If more than enough to fill one car apply for reservations, we will try and have two cars placed at our disposal.

To those who expect to travel over other roads than the Burlington to Chicago, you may obtain reservations on the special train from Chicago to Boston either through me or through Mr. Erwin Tears, Colorado Passenger Agent for the New York Central Lines, 1017 Seventeenth street, Denver.

I forgot to mention that the return tickets

over the New York Central will be good until June 30th, and over the Burlington still longer, but how much longer I do not know at present. MELVILLE BLACK, M. D., Secretary Colorado State Medical Society. Majestic Building, Denver.

BOOKS.

Hare's Therapeutics. A Text-Book of Practical Therapeutics, with especial reference to the application of remedial measures to disease and their employment upon a rational basis. By Hobart Amory Hare, M. D., B.Sc., professor of therapeutics and materia medica in the Jefferson medical college of Philadelphia, physician to the Jefferson Hospital, etc. New (11th) edition, enlarged and thoroughly revised to accord with the eighth decennial revision of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia, 1905. In one octavo volume of 910 pages, with 113 engravings and four colored plates. Cloth, $4.00 net; leather, $5.00, net; half morocco, $5.50, net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1905.

No word of praise for this work could be more complimentary than the mere statement of the fact that it has passed through eleven editions in fifteen years. To succeed to, and satisfactorily fill, the chair of a Bortholow must be a source of great pride, but to have the results of his literary efforts so eagerly sought for and favorably commented on must be a still greater satisfaction. The rapidity with which each edition has been exhausted has compelled frequent revision of the work and enabled the author to keep it thoroughly up-to-date. proof of this statement it will be found on examination that the book conforms to the recent changes in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia.

As

As a reference book it has no superiors. Fifty-two pages are devoted to the consideration of general therapeutics in which the action of drugs is discussed, followed by a general classification of drugs.

In part second the drugs are discussed alphabetically, in order, as the author states, to facilitate ready reference, because if placed according to the ordinary classification so many drugs belong to more than one class and would necessarily have to be repeated. Part three deals with remedial agents other than drugs, including food, climate, mineral springs, etc.

Part four devotes 266 pages to treatment of diseases alphabetically arranged, giving full but concise directions. This is followed by a table of doses in which both systems are given, then follows a complete index of drugs and remedial

agents and lastly, as though the arrangement were not already perfect there is an index of diseases and remedies. Under the diseases, which are alphabetically arranged are given a list of remedies and a few words explaining how, when and under what circumstances to use them.

It has been said that the usefulness of many good books has been curtailed because of insufficient indexing, but that objection cannot be urged against Hare's Therapeutics.

Nasal Sinus Surgery With Operations on Nose and Throat. By Beaman Douglass, M. D., Professor of Diseases of the Nose and Throat in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. Illustrated with 68 fullpage half-tone and colored plates, including nearly 100 figures. Royal octavo, 256 pages. Bound in extra cloth. Price, $2.50, net. F. A. Davis Company, publishers, 1914-16 Cherry street, Philadelphia, Pa.

The author has given to the medical profession an excellently written and handsomely illustrated work on "Nasal Sinus Surgery with Operations on Nose and Throat." His deductions are based upon his large personal experience as a teacher and surgeon. The anatomy and anomolous conditions are briefly and lucidly described, and well illustrated. Proper emphasis has been placed upon the danger of intra-nasal operations for entering the frontal sinus; "An operation by which the naso-frontal duct shall be enlarged intra-nasally is one which is not justifiable, but is extremely dangercus and uncertain." The various radical operations on the frontal sinus are clearly set forth. The operations upon the antrum of Highmore and the sphenoidal sinus are fully described. In deflections of the nasal septum the different forms are given, and the most approved methods of operation described, including the submucous resection.

The author favors the use of scissors and snare for turbinectomies, over that of the punch and saw, and condemns the use of the "spoke-shave instrument or a sharp ring curette." For tonsillotomy he advocates the tonsillotome. No mention is made of the cold snare, which in the reviewer's experience is one of the best and safest methods for removal of tonsils. The forceps and curette are advocated for removal of adenoids, and the preference is very properly given to the curette. The book is a valuable one and should be read by every practitioner, particularly those doing nasopharyngeal work. WM. C. BANE.

VOL. III.

EDITORIAL COMMENT

REMINDER.

In April "Medicine" an appeal was made to the friends of the late Dr. N. S. Davis for subscriptions to the fund for a memorial suitable to his memory as the founder of the American Medical Association. Up to date the Editor has not received any contributions, and as the report must be turned in before the meeting of the A. M. A. in June, it is to be hoped this matter will not be overlooked.

SAN FRANCISCO'S CALAMITY.

The disaster which visited San Francisco on April 17th must be recorded as the greatest in modern times, for what the seismic shock failed to do the tongue of flame completed, so that the proud and beautiful city has almost entirely been reduced to ashes.

In the great calamity there is only one redeeming feature to contemplate: the loss of life was very small in proportion to the general destruction.

The people of America have responded with a sympathy more substantial than. words, so that the physical suffering may be made as light as possible.

The sympathy of the medical profession must go out to their unfortunate brethren of the ill-fated city. Their condition is certainly a sad one to contemplate. It must be that in a majority of cases their offices are burned, their libraries destroyed, and where are their patients? Many are scattered to other parts of the country, and of those that remain many are bankrupt.

It has been the history of all such disasters in modern time that a city more beautiful and grand has arisen from the

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ashes, and San Francisco already shows signs of following this rule. But it will be impossible for the members of the medical profession to replace their loss. They may refurnish offices and buy new libraries, but there is no physician but who accumulates records, books and papers that to him are valuable, but which cannot be replaced.

Colorado Medicine wishes to express its sympathy to the California State Journal of Medicine, which the Editor has long considered the most ably edited State journal in the country, with the hope that the Editor, Dr. P. M. Jones, may soon find another home for the Journal and resume the good work which the great disaster so suddenly checked.

OBSCENE ADVERTISING.

A bill before the Legislature of Massachusetts proposes to abolish all immoral and obscene advertisements.

If this bill should become a law it will furnish a good example for other states. to follow. It would prove a fatal blow to certain forms of quackery, and also curtail the profits of certain papers which sell their space to any scheme that will bring financial returns.

What would happen to a certain yellow journal of Denver if such a law were passed in Colorado, and what would happen to a lot of harpies that prey upon the ignorant and unsophisticated? Some years ago a certain minister of Denver preached a sermon on the "Purity of the Press," and took occasion to remark that Denver papers were singularly free from objectionable advertisements. The same day the minister praised the Denver press the above "yellow" printed twenty-one obscene ads., which the writer cut out and mailed to the divine, who acknowledged