trustful sort of way and asked me did not remove the President from what it was. When I told him what it was he said 'All right,' very quietly, but pleasantly. "We counted his pulse every five minutes all night, and, of course, that kept us at his side almost continuously. "It was so pathetic," said Miss Morris, "when he was on the table before the anesthetic was given. He seemed to feel so badly that anyone should shoot him because of a personal hatred. That seemed to be the thought that pained him most. He lay there, so white and still, never uttering a complaint, and seemed to be trying to comprehend what prompted his assailant to the deed. "Once he said gently: 'He didn't know, poor fellow, what he was doing. He couldn't have known.'" "We had a rather exciting time going down to the Milburn house," said Miss Barnes. "The automobile broke down and we were delayed. I don't know what time it was when we got there. Some one said it was about 7:30 o'clock, but I lost all track of the time. What surprised me when we arrived was the utter stillness of the house. There wasn't a person in sight who wasn't needed and there wasn't a sound any place. Owing to the guard stationed about the house there was not a sound from outside, save the chirping of the crickets. It was a hard night for us, for we had been up all day previously and we had a great deal to do. We had no orderlies to help us." The point we notice in this that looks dangerous to us is that they the stretcher but left him in the ambulance stretcher during the operation. This would indicate that there was a possibility of a lack of thorough aseptic precautions. We may misjudge the conditions, but it is difficult for us to see how it could have been justifiable to have left the patient on an ambulance stretcher during a major operation of this character. LOS ANGELES COUNTY MEDICAL ASSOCI. The meeting of September 6th was given up entirely to the discussion of Tuberculosis. Drs. John R. Haynes and John McCoy, both eminently qualified, gave fine papers on the subject. Both papers were handled from such a similar standpoint that to particularize seems unnecessary. The cottage plan was favored and general plans were outlined for them. The care and disposition of patients in every detail of Hygiene, was dealt with in a manner both entertaining and helpful to the audience. The present unsatisfactory condition of the County Hospital tubercular wards, was deplored and at the close of the last speaker's remarks, Dr. Geo. L. Cole made a motion that the members express themselves in favor of the cottage plan at the County Hospital. It was carried. The second meeting of September was a very instructive one, Dr. O. O. Witherbee, exhibiting a patient, one-half of whose tongue he had removed for cancer with an excellent result. Dr. Silas Johnson then talked on the The Redlands Medical Society convened in regular session, in the parlors of the Y.M.C.A. Building at 2:30 o'clock p.m., September 18, 1901, President Geo. H. Scott in the chair. Minutes of last regular meeting were read and approved. The first order of business was the reading of a very interesting paper by Geo. H. Scott, M.D. Subject, "Hemorrhage and Hemostatic." The doctor in his paper made special mention of the use of gelatin as a hemostate, both internally and by subcutaneous injections. Immediately following there was a lively discussion of the subject in which all present took an active part. Our society is growing in interest, as well as in number, Very respectfully, J. E. PAYTON, M.D., Secy. The death of Dr. J. H. Wythe of Oakland, Oct. 14, takes from us one of the really historic physicians and surgeons of the Pacific coast. Dr. Wythe was a wonderfully versatile man. For twenty-five years he was professor of histology and microscopy in Cooper Medical College, San Francisco. He was for three years president of the Willamette University at Salem, Oregon. Dr. Wythe was a native of Manchester, England, and was seventy-nine years old. He was author of the very valuable text book on microscopy, which, although now out of date, was a very useful work at the time of its first publication. He was a very religious man and was an ordained clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was an excellent surgeon and was among the first of the Pacific coast to do successful laparotomy. He was a noble, charitable and unselfish citizen. The Rio Chemical Co., manufacturers of "Celerina," "Aletris Cordial" (Rio) and S. H. Kennedy's "Ext. Pinus Canadensis" (white and dark) have moved to New York and will have no office at St. Louis or any place in the United States except New York. Their address in New York City is 56 Thomas street. Their reasons for moving were that their business had grown to such proportions that they desired to be where they could have better facilities for procuring the variour ingredients that enter into the composition of the goods they manufacture. They say that their foreign business has grown to such proportions that there is scarcely a country in the world where educated physicians do not use their goods. Dr. W. S. Muir of Truro, Nova Scotia, president of the Maritime Medical Association, has been visiting for some weeks his brother, Hon. J. A. Muir of Los Angeles. Dr. Muir besides being an able surgeon, has a most genial personality, which shone forth most delightfully at a banquet that was given in his honor at the California Club. At the recent meeting of the Maritime Medical Associa tion the members of that society presented Dr. Muir, in recognition of his valuable services as secretary of the medical society of Nova Scotia for the past fourteen years, a handsome oak and silver spirit stand, and presented to Mrs. Muir a set of handsome vases. Away out here in California we forget about Nova Scotia, but there are in that province 476 medical men, while in Prince Edward's Island there are 90, and in New Brunswick 243 Dr. Muir carries with him to his far-away home the friendship of all the members of the profession of Los Angeles with whom he came in contact. Dr. Franklin R. Pitner, aged 89 years, is probably e oldest practicing physician in the State of California. He came recently to Los Angeles from Clay City, Ill. He is here visiting his son, rev. John L. Pitner, pastor of the Westlake Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Pitner looks e a healthy, energetic man of about 65. He told a Los Angeles reporter that he remembered Gen. Jackson very well. He said: "The Jackson hermitage was twelve miles west of my birthplace, in Wilson county, Tenn. Gen. Jackson was a Cumberland Presbyterian, and he regularly attended the camp meetings that were held near my home." Dr. Pitner began teaching school in, 1833, and then attended medical lectures at the Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky. He quit using tobacco in 1860, and has always been a total abstainer from spirituous liquors, and in spite of all that is still in excellent health. We have received from Dr. J. W. Kime of Fort Dodge, Iowa, a work on the Actinic Rays of Sunlight in the treatment of tuberculosis. The author says that sunshine to be of greatest value must fall upon the man himself and not upon his clothing. Ordinary sunshine falling upon the surface of the body penetrates the tissues to a considerable depth. He also has a number of illustrations showing the photographs that were taken from light thrown through the body. He says the rays of light pass through the integument with considerable difficulty, more readily through muscular tissue and much more readily through bone. He used as a reflector a compound, circular mirror, thirty inches in diameter, overlaid with blue glass. This mirror is so constructed that all the light which falls upon it is focused upon a spot six inches in diameter at a distance of eight feet in front of it. Thus a very powerful blue light is brought to bear upon the parts. In treating tuberculosis of the lungs the patient is stripped to the waist and the light is thrown upon the chest and sides. He is seated comfortably in a chair in front of the reflector at a distance of eight feet from it. Drafts are avoided, and, after the conclusion of the treatment, an attendant dries him with a towel, as there is usually some perspiration. The usual length of each seance is thirty minutes, and is repeated twice daily when the sky is clear. The immediate effects of treatment are seen in reddening of the skin, fullness or slight swelling of the parts; there is also a sensation of heat or slight burning. This irritation does not pass on into a true inflammatory state. After continuing the treatment for several days or weeks, the chest becomes copper-colored or brown, due to an increased deposit of pigment in the skin. The first change noted in the majority of cases is the cleaning up of the tongue and a corresponding increase in appetite and power of digestion. The temperature declines, pulse becomes slower, night sweats diminish and finally disappear, and there is gain in the body weight. This idea of Dr. Kimes is certainly worth following up, and especially in Southern California where the shine constantly provides means for the treatment. sun Dr. Thomas M. Markoe of New York City died, Monday, August 26th, at his summer home in East Hampton, L. I., age eighty-two years. He was born in Philadelphia on September 13, 1819, and graduated in arts from Princeton College in 1856, and in medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, in 1841. At the time of his death he was Emeritus Professor of Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. The New York Medical Record says: "As an operator he was conservative rather than brilliant, though by no means devoid of originality in his methods. Outside of his professional life he was a man of deep culture, a lover of books, a connoisseur of pictures, and a musician of no mean ability. He was a man of conscience and devotion to duty, and one of those through whose lives the world is enriched, and an example is set for succeeding generations." Archdeacon A. G. L. Trew of Epiphany Church, Los Angeles, wrote to his parish from Idyllwild, Riverside county, as follows: "I am enjoying the light, dry, pure air of beautiful Strawberry Valley, and feel that it is doing me good-I wish you all could share it with me. I wish it could get control of some of those wonder-working powers, such as we read of in the Arabian Nights, and put a huge elevator floor under the whole city of Los Angeles and then hoist it up to the fifth floor. We are at the fifth floor here, 1000 feet for each floor, 5000 feet exactly above the level of Los Angeles." The government printing office at Washington has, through the Treasury Department, issued for the United States Marine-Hospital Service, Walter Wyman, Surgeon-General, a very valuable pamphlet "Viability of the Bacillus Pestis." By M. J. Rosenau, Passed Assistant Surgeon, United States Marine Hospital Service. This pamphlet is of special interest to all who are following up the subject o the plague, and any physicians who desire it can get it by addressing United States Marine Hospital, Washington. The Zeitschrift fur Tuberkulose Und Heilstattenweson, published in Leipzig, is a very valuable publication and shows the great interest that is being taken in fighting consump |