The names of Pasteur and Koch and Klebs and Loeffler and Behring have been rendered immortal by this line of research. The discovery and application of antitoxin for the cure of diphtheria has been a direct result of the development of bacteriology, and thus one of the most dreaded and one of the greatest scourges of early life has been almost eliminated. Scarlet fever and tuberculosis still remain as problems yet to be solved.

In thus hastily glancing over the pages of history, we see that, with the onward march of civilization, the great discoveries in medicine become more and more frequent. As the nineteenth surpassed all preceding centuries in the advances made in every department of learning, so the twentieth will surpass that which has so brilliantly drawn to a close.

New truths, new inventions and new discoveries still remain to be revealed. Unknown diseases will develop, requiring new methods of treatment, and man's inventive genius will ever be taxed as long as death remains. his enemy.

Ladies and gentlemen! The origin of the medical profession is beautifully accounted for by an old Hindu legend.

Woodbury, N. J., has at least one couple who literally fulfill the scriptural injunction. The wife of Daniel Newshafer, a young farmer four miles from that village, recently became the mother of three daughters, as the report states very small, but very strong of lung. She is improving. The year

An Indian prince long ago sought a temple of Buddah, and prostrating himself, prayed fervently, and asked "How best can I serve my Maker?" A beautiful angel appeared and touched him on the arm and said: "Arise! Dost thou serve thy God?" and he replied, "Yes." "Then go serve thy fellowman, administer to the sick, heal the afflicted, help those in distress."

Men and women of the class! You are about to be received into the ranks of this noble profession, the noblest of all professions. It is a great, active, progressive, enlightened profession, although a most exacting one; one requiring courage to face unseen dangers; one requiring industry and integrity; one calling for all the higher attributes of man; one calling for many sacrifices, and one with but few rewards, the greatest being the consciousness of work well done. I can say to you, ladies and gentlemen of the graduating class, as the good angel said to the Indian prince. Thou canst serve thy Maker best by serving thy fellowman. "Arise! Go forth! Administer to the sick, heal the afflicted, help those that are in distress." "Act well thy part, there all the honor lies.”*

before, the family was blessed by the appearance of twins. Mr. and Mrs. Newshafer have been married just two years.

The pleasure of addressing you on behalf of the alumni of this school has been accorded to me; and it is my privilege to extend to each one of you a most cordial greeting as you become one of us.

The form of initiation through which you have passed has been far from easy, as you yourselves can bear witness. However, I trust that the circle into which you are being admitted will be as agreeable to you as I have found it. I say the initiation is hard, for I myself was not slightly impressed with the trials of a medical student. "Illness" as an excuse from quizzes was always an object of suspicion in the eyes of our dean, and my "hospital work" was always in conflict with the chapel hour.

By this I do not wish to imply that our experience here has been in the least unpleasant, nor would I lead you to believe that the life into which you are about to enter is entirely free from minor perplexities. However, when you have once chosen the medical profession and have progressed thus far, you need have no fear of obstacles. Believe me, the work is one of ever increasing interest; the profession is practical and one that promotes intellectual development. Dealing continually with science prepares the mind for bold and original speculation, constant engagement in

following and observing the operation of natural laws produces in the individual a reliance upon their unfailing regularity which inspires confidence and assurance.

The pursuit of medicine and surgery supplies a discipline in mental heroism which cannot be claimed for any other profession. Accurate training in positive science combined with habitual contemplation of suffering and contempt for danger is the best possible preparation for noble studies and arduous discoveries.

The work is fascinating; you will almost lose yourself; at least, it is quite possible that, with so much of surpassing interest before you, you may at times be forgetful of other matters well worthy of your consideration. Things which now seem to you as matters of importance may soon become unattractive and irrelevant; and, while perhaps this is well, yet do not allow your alma mater and your obligation to her to be included in this catalogue. Let these have a first place in your program. Do not consider it a matter of sentiment, sentiment does not go hand in hand with science. Do not regard it merely as a matter of gratitude. Gratitude you owe, but this is not sufficient. In considering this matter, we come face to face with a great principle of

life. Within these walls you have been becoming what you are to be. In the warp and woof of your life are combined associations which have been incorporated as a part of the history and progress of this institution. Without the events of the past four years, the finished history of the University of Colorado would be incomplete.

The passing events of every four years are so many bricks which are necessary to complete the structure which our alma mater is rearing. The events of the last four years are part of your mental experience during that time. Then, in a peculiar manner, you are a part of this school. If you are permanently changed even by passing each other on the streets, how vastly more must you have been modified by the associations of four years of close student life. In childhood, the little one looks to its mother for care and support; but as the years pass by and the child becomes a man, the same relation exists, but much modified in point of view. The child of years, having come to recognize its own inherent strength, thinks no more of being supported and shielded from the cares of life, but grows stronger with the thought that he is able to support and aid one who has grown old and feeble in the conflict.

Unless you have within you the feeling that the medical school of the University of Colorado is bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh, you are

A bill is before the legislature of New York to make vaccination compulsory. It will probably pass, amended so as to

untrue to the instinct of the best, regardless of the high and noble spirit with which you have been endowed. Your profession leads you to a close study of the physical well-being of your patient; you are compelled to recognize that you are studying matter directed by mind, and, therefore, it behooves you to be a student of the laws of that mind. You are compelled to be broad men, men of varied and diverse sympathies. You touch men in high and low stations in life, the rich and the poor, the successful and the unfortunate, the learned and the unlearned, men of varied dispositions and ever changing moods. In short, you have an opportunity to know men and women, you hold a relation to the home such as no other class of men holds, you see life at its best and under the most unfavorable circumstances, yet you are observing life and life only.

In a measure, you are to be more than the physician of the home, you are to be its advisor and counselor. If, then, you are a party of the university and it is a part of you, how can you be otherwise than true to your obligation and awake to her interests.

In behalf of the alumni of the University of Colorado, I welcome you to a place among us, and sincerely hope that in the coming years the students of this school may point, with a feeling of pride, to you as one who has conscientiously served his day and generation.

give the State Board of Health, instead of the local boards, power to determine when compulsory vaccination is needed.

Complete prolapse of the uterus, in this day of advances in gynecological work, is comparatively rare, and yet not so rare but that every gynæcologist can call to mind cases occurring in his own practice, most of which were probably encountered in the earlier years of his work. A few years hence a case of this kind should be a curiosity, owing to the fact that displacements are now usually corrected before they reach such an advanced stage. The name "sacropubic hernia," as applied to this condition by some writers, is expressive in so far as the location of the tumor is concerned. The hernia sac, the outer portion of which is the inverted vagina, usually contains not only the uterus but also the bladder and portions of all the other pelvic organs. The name pelvic hernia might be used as indicating the contents of the sac.

Complete prolapse is rarely, if ever, found in women who have not borne children. Subinvolution of the uterus with a lacerated or over-distended pelvic floor, together with the patient having too early assumed the erect position after parturition, is probably the most frequent exciting cause of this trouble. The uterus first becomes slightly prolapsed and retroverted and then in regular order it is found in the various forms and degrees of displacement, un

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til the cervix, and later the whole uterus is seen protruding at the vulva. use of corsets or anything that will contract the waist and bring pressure on the abdomen from above may act as a cause. Also, whatever interferes with the general nutrition of the body will tend to produce relaxation of the pelvic floor and thus favor prolapse.

As a preventive measure, the obstetric patient should be kept in bed at least two weeks. This period should be lengthened provided there have been any lacerations of the pelvic floor or if the labor has been difficult. If there has been laceration of the perineum or the pelvic floor there should be immediate and thorough repair. It is necessary that the lacerations be thoroughly repaired if repair is attempted. "A stitch or two," as we have so often heard mentioned, is of little or no value. In cases where operation was not performed at the time of injury and where there is a displacement as a result of the lacerations, early plastic operation should be performed. Mechanical appliances, such as pessaries, I consider to be of questionable value. They frequently cause much harm.

Of the more radical operations for the correction of this condition in the early stages, either the Alexander operation for shortening the round liga