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[Entered at the Postoffice of Denver, Colorado, as mail matter of the Second Class.] EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. The greatest gathering of medical practitioners ever held west of the Rocky Mountains will be the meeting of the American Medical Association at Portland, Oregon, on July 11-14 of the present year. Oregon has an ideal summer climate, and the grand scenery of the Columbia river will be a leading attraction to intending visitors. To appreciate nature's charms at her best, it has been arranged to hold one day's session of the delegates on barges. The Portland physicians propose to entertain socially visiting members of the Association on a large and elaborate scale. The general sessions will be held in Festival Hall, a building erected especially for such purposes. This building is within the grounds of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, which will be under way at the time the medical convention meets. A hotel within the same grounds will accommodate 600 people. On account of the exposition the railway companies are offering special rates to Portland— much better rates from distant points than ever before for a similar event. The tickets will be good for 90 days and will provide almost unlimited stopover privileges. Yellowstone Park may be visited en route and it is expected that arrangements will be perfected whereby a person may go one way by a northern route and the other through California. It is thought that at least 2,500 members of the Association, with their families and guests, will take advantage of this unequaled opportunity for combining science and pleasure. VALEDICTORY ADDRESS AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY. The Journal prints in full, March 4, the valedictory address of Dr. Osler of Johns Hopkins University, which has been quoted and misquoted in the daily press. He deals with some of the problems of university life and states that at times the loss of a professor may be of benefit to a university. He stated that to a man of active mind too long attachment to one college is apt to breed self-satisfaction, to foster a local spirit, and to promote senility. He said that much of the phenomenal success of the Johns Hopkins University has been due to the concentration of a group of intellectual men, without local ties, whose operations were not restricted and who were willing to serve faithfully in whatever field of action they were placed. Dr. Osler advised the interchange of teachers, both national and international, and even advised the changing of college presidents now and then “for the good of the exchequer." He said that intellectual infantilism and progeria were two appalling maladies due to careless habits "of intellectual feeding." As a prophylactic measure he advises visiting other universities and colleges, both at home and abroad. He said that it is a very serious matter to have all the professors in a university growing old at the same time, and said that there should be a fixed period for the teacher, either of time of service or of age. He spoke of the comparative uselessness of men above 40 years of age, and said that to modify an old saying, "A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never." He said that the young man should be encouraged and afforded every possible chance to show what is in him, and that the chief value of the teacher, who is no longer a productive factor, is to determine whether the thoughts which the young men are bringing to the light are false idols or true and noble ideas. He said that it would be of incalculable benefit, in commercial, political and professional life if men would retire from work at the age of 60. He said that the teacher's life should have three periods, study until 25, investigation until 40, profession until 60, at which age he would have him retired on a double allowance. He went at some length into the history of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, mentioning the strict entrance requirements and the scientific training in laboratory work especially. He dwelt on the necessity for practical training in the hospital wards as well as in the laboratories and class rooms. He said that the faculty of Johns Hopkins University has been blessed with two remarkable presidents, who had been a stimulus in every department, and that the good fellowship and harmony among the faculty has been delightful. THE COUNCIL ON PHARMACY AND CHEMISTRY OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. The board of trustees of the American Medical Association have created an advisory board to be known as the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry and consisting, in addition to Dr Simmons, of fourteen of the leading American professors of pharmacy and chemistry. The purpose of the Council is to supply to physicians, through the medium of the Journal of the American Medical Association and by means of a book to be published, necessary and desirable information concerning those new and now unofficial proprietary remedies which it considers unobjectionable. This information will comprise composition, indications and uses, dosage, etc., much along the lines of the U. S. Pharmacopeia. The idea seems to us rational, and, if impartially executed, should prove an onward movement both in medicine and in pharmacy. KIDNEY FAILURE FOLLOWING SURGICAL OPERATIONS. At a recent meeting of the Clinical and Pathological Society Wetherill broached this important subject. His experience had shown him that while subjects of renal diseases sometimes bear operations and chloroform anesthesia well, cases in whom previous urinary examinations revealed no lesions of the kidneys would not infrequently develop post-operative albuminuria and suppression of urine, occasionally fatal. As to the causes of these serious complications a number of suggestions were made, including impure anesthetics, prolonged anesthesia, toxins from inflamma |