Publisher's Department. In order to facilitate our business dealings with our clients and also with publishers in this country and abroad, we deem it advisable to make the name of our agency more comprehensive, as our business relations now extend to all parts of the world. On and after April 1 our agency will be known as the Morse International Agency. Although we have occupied our present offices for eighteen years and regret leaving our old stand, we have been obliged through the increased volume of business and consequent increase in our clerical force to engage more commodious and more convenient offices, where our client's interests can be handled to the best advantage. We hope that you may soon be as familiar with our new address as with the old, and would be pleased to welcome you after May I at our new offices, Revillon Building, 18 West Thirty-fourth Street. This change of name and address does not change the personnel, nor affect the clientele, policy, nor interests of the agency in any way; it is solely due to the growth and development of the longest established agency in the world, which for fifty-seven years has endeavored to represent the better element and most approved business methods in the development of trade through advertising. GRIPPE. An eliminant in the treatment of grippe is self-evident, for the sooner the germ of the disease is expelled, the more rapid the recovery and the less liklihood of any sequelæ. Tongaline presents an ideal remedial agent in grippe because it relieves the pain reduces the fever eliminates the poison and stimulates recuperation. SPRAYING FOR DISEASES of the RespiratORY PASSAGES. Dr. David Walsh, senior physician to the Western Skin Hospital, London, writes: Glyco-Thymoline was brought to my notice as an excellent lotion for nasal and oral sprays and washes. On due inquiry it was found to fulfill the two conditions usually recognized by medical men in the United Kingdom as vouching for the character, so to speak, of such a preparation. First, its advertisements are accepted by our three leading journals, the Lancet, British Medical Journal and the Medical Press and Circular. Secondly, its composition is not a secret, its formula being freely published. Under these circumstances I determined to try the effect of this preparation in a few suitable cases. As a general antiseptic fluid that does not coagulate albumen, and is non-irritating, deodorant and practically non-poisonous, Glyco-Thymoline has clearly a wide range of usefulness. My own observations, however, have been practically confined to its use in the nose and mouth, with results that have proved satisfactory in every instance, especially in acute coryza, pharyngitis, influenza and septic conditions of the mouth. Contents for April, 1906 ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS Items of Interest, by D. E. S. McKee, M. D., Cincinnati, O. 145 SELECTED ARTICLES The Operative Treatment of External and Internal Hemor- EXTRACTS FROM HOME AND FOREIGN JOURNALS— 153 Scalp Isolation as a New Treatment for School Ringworm.. 177 CHARGE TO GRADUATING CLASS DELIVERED BY W. H. WITT, M. D., PROFESSOR OF MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS IN THE MEDICAL Department oF THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, MAY 1, 1906. The hour to which you have so eagerly looked forward for four years has arrived, and this audience has assembled to signalize their deep personal interest in you, and this faculty has met here to attest to the world their belief in your ability to take up the practical work of your profession. I congratulate you upon what you have done, upon your having thus far met the requirements of success. By some of you this hour has been reached with comparative ease; to others it represents the conquest of grit and determination over many obstacles. I extend my especial congratulations to any in this class whose heart's desire is fulfilled tonight after long and depressing struggle with cruel limitations imposed by poverty. It is no mean achievement and should be to him an earnest of success in that wider life he enters upon from this time. It is in accordance with Medical College Custom, that your faculty has designated one of their number to represent them on this occasion, and to say some word to you in their behalf, as you sever your connection with this institution. The honor of addressing you has been conferred upon me, and I take this occasion to thank my colleagues for this expression of their esteem. It is an undertaking that does not fall gracefully into the routine of my daily life, and it has required some courage on my part to take up what should be a labor of love and an opportunity for service. I confess that as I lay my manuscript upon this familiar lecture stand, there comes to me a well nigh irresistible impulse to talk to you again upon the virtues of cod liver oil and calomel; warn you again as I have done so often not to put too much faith in drugs, and to tell you some of those indifferent jokes that you were wont to be afraid not to laugh at. There are many things in our special field of work that I might say that would be really interesting and instructive to you-but these things may not be. However strong the temptation to address you upon a subject of which I have some knowledge, the exigencies of the occasion will not permit me to do so. I am the agent of cruel taskmasters, and nothing less than can be characterized as a speech will comply with their wishes. How best to meet their expectations and yours has given me no little concern. I might follow a somewhat beaten track, and after assuring you that you are the best class we have ever graduated, and contrasting your preparation with what we had in our school days, I might dwell with the usual detail upon the rich inheritance of learning that is yours, by reason of the date of your birth and graduation, how you are debtor and assignee of all scientific achievements, past and present, how you are heir of all the ages, and add a few remarks, about your being found somewhere in the foremost files of time, and speeding along its highway without either "pushee" or "pullee" as Tennyson would say. I might also offer you our felicitations that after mature deliberation and a full accounting of the cost, you have chosen the highest and noblest of the secular professions; how doctors are |