tuberculosis, but essential to life. The way to render such an unfortunate man a true charity is to put him into surroundings where the climate will not only raise his lowered resistance, but enable him at the same time to find occupation for mind and body. The very hope which such treatment would inspire in the breast would act as a tonic and tissue builder, the like of which no earthly chemist could compound. If our rich men and women, while they are bequeathing large amounts to colleges, libraries, monuments, art galleries and the like, would place a certain sum aside for the temporary relief of consumptives in a camp or farm bearing the name of the giver, what more worthy monument could be erected? The Outlook well says that the plan we propose deserves wide publicity, and accords with our reasonable suggestion that a burden is imposed on Colorado which should be shared by the communities whence it comes, and by the humane and wealthy especially. Worthy as are the many public interests to which large gifts are constantly being made by public benefactors, there is equal merit in the appeal which our associations of Colorado make for the means to establish the proposed health farm for the invalids contributed to our state from here and elsewhere and everywhere. From reading the Outlook's approval of the proposed philanthropy, Dr. Edward P. George of Hanover, Germany, became interested and instituted correspondence, making inquiry which, after several letters had passed, resulted in a cablegram from Dr. George contributing outright two lots and improvements thereon located at 2430 Market street, Denver. These lots and improvements are to be used by the state executive committee of the Colorado Young Men's Christian Association in furtherance of the fund needed. The property is not salable at present, but is bringing a monthly rental of $40 per month, which, after paying fixed charges of the property, is deposited to the credit of the fund. Our present need is sufficient funds for a beginning. We ought to have $100,000 as a minimum, but the enterprise should not be compelled to wait longer. If we could secure $35,000 by spring the work could be undertaken without the loss of another entire year. The coming harvest-tide ought to mean bread and hope and one sure step toward health for scores of young men. The ground ought to be ready for the seed in the early spring. The young men ought to be at work in March or April, if not before. All this winter the burden will increase. We cannot proceed without help. Our own sons and the sons of our friends are hieing hither for health and help. What shall be done with Colorado's burden? The carrying of this proposed philanthropy to a successful issue was one of the last desires and plans of the lamented D. L. Moody. A few weeks before that lingering illness which called him away, Mr. Moody became deeply interested in this work and proposed a personal canvass on its behalf by the Colorado state secretary and himself. Mr. Moody, with his tender, sympathetic nature, was quick to comprehend the urgent need of Colorado in this matter, and he was melted to tears on hearing some of the pleas that come to Denver from young men whose lives depend on some such aid as is herein proposed. We must find some way of helping to bear Colorado's burden. Mr. Moody's interest sprang from a thorough personal knowledge of existing conditions in Colorado. He gave that state a much longer visitation than was customary for him. He was in Denver three weeks, and spent an equal period in other portions of the state. He studied this question closely and was eager to assist in finding immediate and practical relief. With some such fund as mentioned we could secure a tract of land, fertile and well watered; construct suitable buildings thereon, and supply the farm with necessary stock and implements. At the present time if we had the money in hand, a very desirable site of sixty acres west of Denver could be secured at a very special price. Such standard labor as might prove actually necessary beyond the labor of beneficiaries might be employed. A competent board of advisors would be in charge, with the full authority of a governing board. John S. Anderson, assistant surgeon of the United States Marine Hospital Service, has been detailed by the 'president to go to Liverpool and investigate the outbreak of the plague there. Small-pox has greatly increased in Vienna since the onset of cold weather. If The wisest management would be necessary to make the enterprise fully successful. Farming under the most favorable conditions by standard labor seldom nets the land owner above a fair annual interest on money invested. To make the farm a source of revenue, therefore, would not be possible. properly launched and wisely managed, however, it would certainly be of great assistance in relieving Colorado of this burden and would be, too, a sure blessing in time to the lives of thousands of young men. As long as a young man has any capacity for labor and hope of cure, he is entitled to a fighting chance for life. The health farm would afford this opportunity. It would give labor, bread and hope and make possible the ultimate cure of ́many a deserving young man. This is our appeal. What more shall I say? Great credit is due the Outlook for what has been done through its friendly columns. friendly columns. Dr. George in far away Germany has helped. May it be that many nearer home will soon come to the rescue and help to bear Colorado's burden. Yours very truly, W. M. DANNER, State Secretary Y. M. C. A. During the first eleven months of 1901 the State Hospital at Rock Springs, Wyo., accommodated 405 patients. Of these 166 were medical and 239 surgical. A Virchow institute is to be established in Moscow. THE COLORADO MEDICAL JOURNAL AND WESTERN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL GAZETTE A Monthly Journal for the Medical Profession of Colorado and Adjoining Invited from the Western States of Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, Arizona, but particularly from Colorado. All matter intended for publication in the next issue should reach the editor by the first of each month. Each contributor of an article will receive ten copies of the Journal containing his article, upon appli. cation. A reasonable number of illustrations will be furnished by the Journal free of charge if suitable drawings or photographs are supplied by the authors. Address all communications to VOL. VIII. THE COLORADO MEDICAL JOURNAL, Physician's Building, Denver, Colo. Denver, ColoRADO, JANUARY, 1902. No. I favors and cheering words. To others we owe nothing. Some have been collaborators in the true sense of the word. They have favored our readers with the good work of their fertile brains. Others have been practically non-esistent so far as any evidence of their vitality has appeared in these pages. The JOURNAL has no place for the drone. A collaborator is of value to it only in so far as he gives evidence of his worth. The name of no man, no matter how able he may be or high a position he may occupy, is of the slightest importance to the JOURNAL or its readers simply as a name. On the other hand, an active support and interest of the members of the profession from the proudest to the humblest is of great value. discussions, comprehensive reviews and editorial comments. In organizing a staff of local editors the JOURNAL is more distinctly reaching out to localities outside of Denver and the state of Colorado than has A characterized its policy heretofore. broader field and a broader interest will mark its future efforts. Each local editor will be expected to advance, so far as lies within his power, the interests of the profession in the district falling under his jurisdiction. Experimental is the change. Improvement is the purpose. DENVER EMERGENCY HOSPI- There are two movements under way in Denver which give promise of permanent and not inconsiderable benefit. These are the organization of the so In most journals the list of collaborators is a delusion and a snare. A great majority of them are willing to have their names published for advertising purposes pure and simple. An examination of the files of a great number of our medical publications will show that for the past year, perhaps for years in succession, their pages do not reveal the slightest production of the pen or brain of those ostensibly standing as its godfathers. This is so well known that comment is scarcely needed. With this number the list of collabo-ciety for the establishment of an emerrators is supplanted by a list of editors, departmental and local. These are men representative in their own community and in their special lines of work. Without exception they have accepted their editorship with a distinct expectation of taking active part in the manage ment of the scientific pages of the JOURNAL. They are editors in the full sense of the word. In the conduct of the department of progress of medicine some deviation will be made from the plan usually pursued. Simple abstracting, valuable as it is, will give way to that which is more. Its place will be taken by critical gency hospital in the city of Denver, and the agitation having as its purpose the founding of an industrial sanitarium for consumptives in the neighborhood of that city. Such institutions have long been needed here. Denver has a fair quota of general hospitals. That they fill an existing need is shown by the fact of their being constantly crowded to their utmost capacity. They do not, however, cover the entire field of hospital needs in their locality. But one of them accepts consumptives who are able to pay, and these are not especially desired by its managers. The other two hospitals accepting indigent pulmonary invalids have their capacity taxed to accommodate even a portion of the deserving sick. In one, the Arapahoe County Hospital, a residence of sixty days in the county is a prerequisite for admittance in any case except accidents. This leaves a vast field open for hospitals to be devoted to emergency cases. Acute medical cases, obstetrical cases, surgical cases of not extreme urgency and yet such as can scarcely be called minor all of these among the poor fail to find adequate provision for their care at the present time. It is hoped that at not too long a time from the present this provision will be made. An association for the establishment of such an emergency hospital has been formed with the following directors: Dr. W. W. Grant, president; Mrs. S. A. Wheeler, vice president; Thomas Keely, treasurer; Dr. Frank Whipple, secretary; Charles Thompson, Dr. J. T. Eskridge, Dr. W. K. Robinson, Dr. Frank Dulin and Dr. J. N. Thomas. The need of an industrial sanitarium in a district so sought by chronic partial invalids as the Rocky Mountains is so well set forth in a communication from the state secretary of the Y. M. C. A. that attention is called to that article. It is a matter of congratulation that the need for such an establishment has been recognized as indicated therein, and that the work of furtherance has been undertaken by such a man and such an institution. It leads us to hope that the fulfillment will not be so very far distant. THE FIGHT AGAINST CARCINOMA. It has been shown by statistical evidence from those zones where malignant disease is exceedingly prevalent that carcinoma is slowly increasing. In view of this fact the vigilance of the surgeon must not be relaxed. The only hope of prolonging life is in early recognition of the disease and prompt surgical intervention. In the issue of this number of the JOURNAL attention may be called to the Beatson operation as applied to Abbe's cases, quoted in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 1896 Beatson of Glasgow made. his first suggestion regarding the treatment of inoperable mammary carcinoma by oophorectomy. He was informed that milch cows were spayed by certain farmers, the result being a more permanent maintenance of their milk supply. It has been shown that in lactation. the mammary epithelium rapidly multiplies the cells undergoing a fatty degeneration, breaking down and appearing in the milk. In carcinoma there is a rapid multiplication of the mammary epithelium, but it fails to undergo any degeneration and is not cast off, remaining to distend the acini and penetrate the lymphatics. Beatson reasoned that as oophorectomy in the cow maintains fatty degeneration of the epithelium of the lactating breast, such a change might be brought about in the epithelium of the breast undergoing carcinomatous |