a farm.

It is their intention to use the farm to give employment to the ablebodied patients of the institution.

George W. Perkins, president of the Cigarmakers' International union, addressed that body February 17th at Chicago, advocating union consumption farms to be established by labor organizations. The farms would be distributed among the states and supported by labor unioins.

The Edinburgh Medical Journal celebrates its centenary with the year 1905, since it was founded in 1805. It has lived to see many changes and advances in medicine. The January issue is devoted to a series of articles on notable contributions to medicine, surgery and ther subjects found in back numbers of The Journal.

It is said that of 2,100,000 children born each year in the European dominions of the Czar of Russia, more than 1,200,000 die under the age of one year. The principal causes of this great mortality are stated as being the low state of civilization and the bad material condition of the peasants.

Mayor Neff has the appointment of two or more delegates to the American Anti-Tuberculosis League, which will meet in Atlanta, Ga., April 17, 18, 19. The mayor says he will name any physicians as delegates who are sufficiently interested in the subject to wish to attend the convention.

The Iowa Medical Journal, at a considerable expense and a great amount more work, prepared a directory of the Iowa physicians and published it in the Januaary issue. This is most valuable information and represents an immense amount of labor and money expended in its preparation.

The fourth free public lecture under the auspices of the Kansas City First Aid Society was given February 1st at the Central High School by Dr. W. F. Froehling. The subject was, "Drowning and Sunstroke." The fifth lecture

was given February 15th by Dr. I. J. Wolfe on "Tuberculosis, Its Causes and Its Prevention."

According to the British Medical Journal the German Empire at the end of September, 1904, had 30,457 active medical practitioners. The number of medical students in all the German students in all the German universities was 6,049, as against 6,072 in the previous year. In the corresponding period of 1894 the number was 7,796.

Dr. John Punton delivered an address before the Kansas City Teachers' association. His subject was "Nervous Diseases of Children." This address was so well received by the Kansas City, Mo., teachers' association that he received an invitation to deliver the same lecture before the Kansas City, Kas., teachers' association, which will be held March 18th.

The meeting of the French Congress of School Hygiene will be held in Paris this year. The program comprises the sumbjects of (1) the medical inspection of primary schools; (2) the education of families in school hygiene; (3) vacations and holidays; (4) tuberculosis and teachers; (5) the over-loading of school courses and competitions for admission to large schools.

opened in January at Nineteenth and A free dispensary and bath house was McClure place. It was founded by the United Jewish societies, but is opened for the benefit of any one unable to pay for treatment. It is the intention of the society to add a depot for the sale of sterilized milk to the poor, furnishing a pint bottle of pure milk for two cents. The medical staff of the dispensary is non-sectarian.

The first district branch of the Kansas Medical Society met in Kansas City, Kans., February 9 and 10. It was closed by an election of the following officers: President, Dr. P. D. Hughes; Kansas City, Kans.; vice president, Dr. H. L. Alkire, Topeka; secretary, Dr.

Jas. Waismith, Lawrence; treasurer, Dr. C. G. Goddard, Leavenworth; executive and judicial committee, Dr. G. A. Hamnan, Lawrence; Dr. R. A. Roberts, Kansas City, Kas.; Dr. F. F. Green, Olathe, Kans

The Salina Hospital and Training School for Nurses has been incomorated and established in Salina, Kans. Twelve physicians of the city of Salina are stockholders, five of whom are elected to the Board of Directors, who have the management of the institution.

The physicians interested in the enter prise are, up to the present time: Drs. W. H. Winterbotham, N. D. Tobey, W. S. Harvey, M. J. Brown, J. R. Crawford, J. H. Winterbottham, Howard N. Moses, A. G. Anderson, F. G. Lagerstrom, E. R. Tuttle, George Seitz and O. R. Brittain. The staff, medical and surgical, is made up of the stockholders. TThe hospital will receive all classes of cases excet those of contagious diseases. All licensed and ethical physicians complying with the rules of the institution may take to and attend at the hospital their cases. A training school for nurses will be operated in connection with the hospital.

A movement has been on foot for some time relative t othe presentation of a testimonial to Professor Osler, of Baltimore, Md., prior to his departure for England, and subscriptions have been solicited from the general medical professiion from all ver the country. The editor is just in receipt of a letter from Dr. Henry Barta Jacobs, acknowledging his contribution, and in which he stated he would like to have the medical profession of Kansas City creditably represented among the cities of the country in erecting this testimonial to Professsr Osler. If there are any physicans in this community desiring to contribute to this worthy movement the editor will be glad to contribute to this etaoinn m glad to accept subscriptions and forward them to the proper authorities.

Professor Osler has many warm personal friends in Kansas City and we sin

cerely hope that there will be no difficulty in raising an amount sufficient to properly show the appreciation of the local profession of one so worthy.

ARMY MEDICAL CORPS EXAMINATION.

Preliminary examinations for appointment of assistant surgeons in the army will be held on May 1 and August 1, 1905, at points to be hereafter designataed.

Permission to appear for examination can be obtained upon application to the surgeon general, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C., from whom full information concerning the examination can be prosecuring an invitation are that the applicant shall be a citizen of the United States, shall be between twenty-two and thirty years f age, a graduate of a medical school legally authorized to confer the degree of doctor of medicine shall be of good moral character and habits, and shall have had at least one year's hospital training or its equivalent in practice. The examinations will be held concurently throughout the country at points where boards can be convened. Due consideration will be given to the localities from which applications are received, in order to lessen the traveling expenses of applicants as much as possible.

In order to perfect all necessary arrangements for the examinations of May 1, applications must be complete. and in possssion of the surgeon general on or before April 1, and for the examination of August 1, on or before July 1. Early attention is therefore enjoined upon all intended applicants.

There are at present twenty vacancies in the medical corps of the army.

PARALYSIS OF LEFT RECURRENT
LARYNGEAL NERVE.

J. G. Sheldon describes a case of a woman of thirty-eight suffering from mitral stenosis with well-marked physical signs. The lesion was well compensated, but on overtaxation incompe

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tency was produced, which readily responded to treatment. During such an attack the patient could speak only in a whisper, and it was found that the left vocal cord was in the cadaveric position and immovable. There was no sign of inflamation in the larynx. After a week of cardiac treatment she had recovered control of both cords and could speak in a normal tone. The presence of the mitral stenosis, the intermittent paralysis of the left recurrent laryngeal nerve, synchonous with the cardiac incompentency, and the absence of signs or symptoms of aneurysm, tumor, or adhesions, led the author to make a diagnosis of temperary paralysis of the left auricle pressing the nerve against the aorta and pulmonary artery.-Medical Record, Nov. 5, 1904.

TACHYCARDIA AND ITS RELATION TO INJURIES.

U. F. Martin terminates an extended exposition of the lierature of tachycar dia by the report of a case of his own. The patient was caught by his coat in a rapidly revolving wheel and whirled about till the throwing out of a cog stopped the machinery. He was deeply asphyxiated when cut down, though he had not lost consciousness, both feet were crushed, and several ribs were fractured. Amputation of both legs was necessary, and during the operation the pulse varied from 144 to 175. He was delirous for over a week, during which his pulse remained at 150. In the course of the next four weeks it gradually dropped to 112-120, but rose again to 150 after a secondary operation on the flaps, and was still 112 on discharge over seven weeks after the injury. During his stay in the hospital no murmurs or abnormal signs other than the rapidity and slightly accentuated second sound could be detected about the heart. The author places the case under the head of the pure cardiac neuroses following injury to the neck and chest.Medical Record, December 3, 1904.

THE MORTALITY AMONG PHYSICIANS
IN 1904.

During 1904 we recorded the deaths of 2,142 physicians in the United States and Canada, a mortality of 17.14 per 1,000. The average age at death was over 60 years. The average length of practice was over 30 years.

Notable among the dead are the following:

Dr. Hamilton Atchison West, Galveston, vice president of the merican Medical association in 1888, for twelve years secretary of the Texas State Medical association, and an especial authority on malaria, typhoid and yellow fever Dr. Edmund Andrews, Chicago, medical education.

Dr. William Barton Hopkins, Philadelphia, authority on fractures.

Dr. Roberts Bartholow, Philadelphia, whose "Practice of Medicine" and "Therapeutics" are standard works.

Dr. John Milton Duff, Pittsburg, chairman of the Section on Ostetrics and Diseases of Women, 1894, widely known as a gynecologist, lecturer, teacher, writer, diagnostician and operator.

Dr. Rolph N. Isham, Chicago, one of the oldest and best known physicians of the west, and one of the founders of the Nrthwestern University Medical School.

Dr. Frantz H. Coe, Seattle, president of the State Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases in 1904, and one of the the East.

most prominent young neurologists of Dr. Alferd S. Wolff, for twenty-five years inspector and quarantine officer of the Texas State Health Departrment at Brownsville; expert on yellow fever. -Ex.

REVIEW OF RECENT PAPERS ON
PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY.

E. G. Ballenger gives the history of the development of prostatic surgery and the indications for,, and technique. of, the different modes of operative treatment in vogue at present. Suprapubic drainage of the bladder is advised