Medical News and Miscellany

JOHN T. HODGEN ANNIVERSARY.-The profession of St. Louis is preparing to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Dr. Hodgen on April 28th.

AN accurate knowledge of the lymphatic drainage of the various regions of the body is absolutely necessary before one can determine the origin of a glandular infection. This is especially important in cancer, when sometimes the glandular involvement offers the first clue to the primary focus.-Amer. Jour. Surg.

DESTROYED BY FIRE.-On March 4th the manufacturing department of the Kress & Owen Co., New York, was almost entirely destroyed by fire. Fortunately, the firm had a duplicate plant available, so that very little delay resulted in filling orders for gylco-thymoline. We congratulate "K. & O." on their remarkable record.

THE PASSING OF THE MEDICAL MIRROR.-With its March number the "Medical Mirror," will cease to exist, following its brilliant founder and former editor, Dr. I. N. Love, into the realm of forgetitude and rest. The Mirror was for many years a signal success, reflecting the personality of the versile and talented Love, who wielded a facile pen; but with his death came decadence to the journal-a loss of the power of its ruling spirit, and to quote a figure of speech so often used by Dr. Love, during his life, the possession of the three 'B's' is essential to the successful life of the individual." The "Medical Mirror" has merged with the "Medical Era," of St. Louis, and will add prestige to that already popular magazine.

MEDICAL LEGISLATION IN MISSOURI.-The following medical bills have passed both houses: The new medical act known as Senate bill No. 123; the abortion bill; Amendment to section 5 known as the penal clause of the medical practice act,-whereby those who were registered prior to the introduction of the State board examinations were by an oversight exempt from the penal clauses for unprofessional conduct as well as from examination and finally a bill was passed authorizing the health department to inspect all hospitals and homes where children are taken charge of, prescribing regulations regarding ventilation, sanitation, etc., and requiring such places to be licensed by the board. This bill is aimed at the so-called "baby farms."

FORTY-SIX DAYS WITHOUT FOOD.-According to the London Mail, Sacco, the fasting man, has succeeded in creating a world's record. He has absolutely abstained from eating for forty-six days and four hours. On February 4th, at Olympia he emerged from the "Hunger House" and swallowed his first substantial meal. Substantial, no doubt, it was to Sacco, but to any ordinary individual it would appear to have little in it to satisfy such pangs of hunger as must have made themselves felt after such a lengthy abstention from food. He partook of a cup of cocoa. Fifty minutes later he had a solid meal, consisting of a slight portion of beefsteak. Sacco has lost 53 pounds in weight during the period of his voluntary imprisonment. He has smoked 1,400 cigarettes and consumed 450 bottles of mineral water.

The Jamestown Exposition

Opens April 26, Closes November 30, 1907

The Jamestown Exposition, to be held on the shores of historic Hampton Roads this year, will serve as a connecting link between the present and the past. It will denote the progress of the world by showing the most perfect and formidable warships of the nations of today and the various types of ships of the present and past three centuries and the methods in vogue in the olden days of the spinning wheel and the hand loom. It will present to exposition visitors the most beautiful and unique of all expositions ever seen in this or any other country, in which the armies and navies of the world will participate and which will be attended by presidents, princes and potentates.

The special features of the Jamestown Exposition will be the great military and naval displays, drills, parades and reviews, but science and art, commerce and industry, agriculture and education will all play important parts in this great celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the first permanent settlement of English speaking people in America, which will open its gates to the public at noon on April 26, 1907.

Turning back the hand of time three hundred years from the opening day of the Jamestown Exposition history, tells that three small vessels arrived and cast anchor off what is now Cape Henry. These vessels, the Susan Constant, the Godspeed and the Discovery, comprising an expedition sent out from England under a charter granted by King James I, to colonize the new territory of Virginia, as defined in this charter, embraced all of America between the 34th degree and 45th degree of latitude and from sea to sea. In addition to their crews these ships contained 105 colonists. They sailed from Blackwall, England, December 19, 1606, and were more than four months crossing the ocean.

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The first land sighted was named Cape Henry, in honor of one of the sons of King James. At this point these pioneers first touched land, April 26, 1607, but were driven back to their ship by hostile Indians. April 30 they landed at Point Comfort, giving the place that name and then proceeded up the river named Charles, and landed May 13, establishing the first permanent settlement of English-speaking people in America. The trials and hardships endured by these early settlers is familiar history, and no event except the discovery of America so greatly influenced the future of the United States as this settlement, so grandly commemorated in the Jamestown Exposition, in which the great nations of the world are to participate and Virginia and her sister states are to have representation. Had the settlement of Jamestown failed, Virginia and the rest of what now is the United States might have been a Spanish colony instead of being the greatest independent nation in the world.

The leading nations of the world and many of the states of the American union will have representation at the Jamestown Exposition. Many of the great nations will have their finest soldiers and most distinguished commanders, their most magnificent warships and best drilled crews.

The states of the union will have their own handsome buildings and comprehensive exhibits of their resources and products and picked regiments of their National Guard to participate with the soldiers of the United States regular army and the soldiers of the foreign armies in the various military maneuvers which will add so much to the attractiveness of the exposition.

Military drills and parades by the finest soldiers of Europe and America will be daily features of the exposition from the early part of May until the closing days, a thirty-acre parade ground having been arranged for this purpose. Americans will then have an opportunity to compare

our own soldiers with those of the kingdoms and empires of the old world.

The great warships of naval powers of the world will be seen in the waters of Hampton Roads, near the mangificent piers leading from the exposition grounds out into the harbor, a distance of 2,400 feet. Naval maneuvers and sham battles will constitute entertaining features and water pageants and carnivals will add to the splendor of the occasion. The great battle between the Merrimac and the Monitor will be reproduced in the same position these old ironclads occupied when they fought their terrible fight.