Meter presided in the absence of the president. Dr. C. F. Brown, of Lamar, was elected to membership. Dr. H. C. Jarvis, of Schell City, presented an excellent paper on "Electricity as a Therapeutic Agent," in which he brought out some interesting facts regarding the efficiency of this agent in certain conditions. In this paper the remarks were confined to galvanism, but at the next meeting, Dr. Jarvis will take up faradism, and complete his reports of cases. In the evening the members were the guests of the Barton County Medical Society, at a banquet served in superb style at the Pickwick. Here the doctors and their wives regaled themselves with all the good things of life, and listened to the flow of oratory, until a late hour. It was the consensus of opinion of those present that events of this kind contribute much to the cultivation of good fellowship, and should be encouraged as a fitting finale to a hard day's work in the realm of science. A vote of thanks was extended to the hosts of the evening for the delightful entertainment. Adjourned to meet in Nevada, first Thursday in April. E. F. MILLER, President. S. A. JOHNSON, Secretary. MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 3 The semi-annual meeting at Omaha, March 21 and 22, promises to be largely attended, and if the papers already promised are taken as an indication, the program will be fully up to the standard of this progressive body. The Arrangement Committee is composed of Drs. W. H. Milroy, J.E. Summers, Jr., and J. P. Lord, which insures a pleasant blending of the good fellowship and scientific work for which the profession of Omaha is noted. The sessions will be held in the spacious auditorium of Creighton Institute, 210 South Eighteenth street, while the headquarters will be at the Paxton. The preliminary program includes the following papers: "Thyroid Surgery" (oration on Surgery), Dr. Alex. Hugh Ferguson; Oration on Medicine, Dr. R. T. Sloan; 'Acute Ascending Paralysis," Dr. Fred. S. Clinton; "Membranous Croup, "Dr. E. T. Shelly; "Popliteal Aneurism, Dr. W. J. Frick; "Hereditary Degeneracy," Dr. L. L. Uhls; "Nephrolithiasis Urica," Dr. A. C. Croftan; "The Morphine Habit," Dr. W. F. Waugh; "Non-Poisonous Emblaming Fluids, "Dr. Frederic Clift; "A Clinic," Dr. F. E. Coulter; "Hernia," Dr. David C. Hilton; "Echinacea," Dr. C. S. Chamberlin; title not announced, Dr. J. E. Moore. A pleasant feature of the program will be the presence at this meeting of nearly all of the presidents of the various State medical associations. in the Missouri Valley, a number of whom will contribute papers. Regular program will be issued March 1st. EXCURSION TO ATLANTIC CITY. The secretary is pleased to announce thus early that plans are well under way for the annual excursion to the meeting of the American Medical Association at Atlantic City. The trip outlined briefly will be entirely different from the usual route to this resort, and has been chosen for the purpose of showing our members (those who have never travelled East this way) the most picturesque and interesting portion of famous old Virginia, at a time when historical events bring her prominently into the public eye. The plans contemplate a special train over the "Big Four" and "C. & O." railways, stopping en route at White Sulphur Springs and Hot Springs, Va., and including a visit of several days at the Jamestown Exposition. Full particulars will be given in these columns from time to time. MEDICAL SOLONS.-Among the members of the Maine legislature are six physicians. MOTOR AMBULANCE.-Cook County (Ill., hospital is to have an automobile ambulance. REGISTRATION OF THE TUBERCULOUS.-The Maryland law requires that all cases of tuberculosis shall be registered with the State Board of Health. A GOOD LAW.-There is now what practically amounts to a law in New York, prohibiting the use of any liquid of a poisonous nature for an embalming fluid. FOR STATE SANITORIUM.-The Kansas legislature is asked for an appropriation of $235,000 for the establishment of a state sanitorium for the treatment of consumptives. NEW NAVAL HOSPITAL.-The government is about to have turned over to it the new naval hospital at Annapolis which has recently been completed at a cost of about $250,000. FOR AN ANTI-COCAIN LAW.-The New York legislature is to be asked to pass a law similar to the one in operation in Illinois, prohibiting the sale of cocain except on a physician's prescription. IN the presence of a hard, diffuse chronic swelling in the neck having some of the appearances of a malignant growth, the possibility that the tumor is a so-called "woody phlegmon of Reclus" must be considered. SPECIAL CITY PHYSICIAN.-The city council of Augusta (Ga.) has added to its regular corps of city physicians, one who is to be known as special physician for the treatment of contagious and infectious diseases. TO HELP CELESTIALS.-With the object in view of maintaining a branch medical school in Canton, China, the medical students of the University of Pennsylvania are going to raise one-tenth of the $20,000 necessary. A NEW JOURNAL.-The Medical Mirror is the name of a monthly paper published by the students of the medical department of Fort Worth (Texas) University. It will be the official organ of the student's medical society. Concerning the Doctor His ups and downs; incomings and outgoings; haps and mishaps. DR. F. F. CARTER has removed to Iatan, Missouri. DR. CLAY SPENCER has located in Newmarket, Mo. DR. S. F. KESSLER is now located at 6143 Francis street. DR. WM. M. WALLIS has removed from St. Joseph, and located in Maryville, Mo. DR. C. B. SIMCOE has opened an office at 613 Francis Street, in the Geiger Block. DR. JAS. W. HEDDENS and wife will leave shortly for California, where they will spend the remainder of the winter. DR. EMIL RIES, of Chicago, returned recently from a trip to Jamaica, leaving Kingston three days previous to the earthquake. DR. H. COULTER TODD, of Oklahoma City, has been honored by the presidency of the Central Oklahoma Medical Association, which met at Enid, January 9th. DR. H. W. STILES, formerly of St. Joseph, who is now professor of anatomy at Ann Arbor University, was presented with a silver loving cup recently by the members of the class of 1910, who have studied under his direction this semester. REMOVALS. Dr. W. L. Kenney to the Commercial Building, corner Sixth and Edmond streets; Drs. Davis and Humfreyville to 518 Francis street, Tootle Block; Drs. J. H. McCoy and J. W. Ferguson to No. 710 Felix street; Dr. C. A. Good to the Logan Block; Dr. E. C. Davis to the Ballinger Building. DR. B. F. CRUMMER, one of the best known practitioners in Ne braska, and an ex-president of the Medical Society of the Missouri Valley, died at his home in Omaha, on January 24, of endocarditis. Dr. Crummer was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1869, and from the Univeristy of the City of New York in 1857. He had practiced for eighteen years in Omaha, was a member of the American Medical Association, and had served as president of the Douglas County and the State Medical societies. He occupied the chair of Internal Medicine in Creighton University, and always took great interest in all measures looking to the uplifting of the profession of medicine. DR. SILAS WEIR MITCHELL of Philadelphia, the widely-known neurologist, who at the age of seventy-six is bringing out his eighteenth book of fiction, is one of the busiest men in America today. Literature was his choice when a young man, but on the advice of a litterateur he dropped letters for materia medica. Later, when he became a pathologist of renown, he considered his own case and advised Doctor Mitchell to become Novellist Mitchell. The result is a novelist-physician recongized everywhere that the science of medicine and neurologist is known, while the phyiscian-novelist has a reputation wherever the American novel can hope for place. He now has eighteen novels to his credit, besides several books of poems, short stories without number and over one hundred works on scientific and professional topics. 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