The new City Directory gives the present population as 435,000, which indicates a population in Hamilton County of about half a million. Covington, Newport, Ludlow and Dayton, on the opposite side of the river, have more than one hundred thousand people-altogether, within twelve miles of the Cincinnati post-office, more than six hundred thousand, making a large centre of population.

Nearly all recently vacant stores are occupied; signs "For Rent" on residence and apartment houses have mainly disappeared. The erection of large apartment houses and residences in the suburbs is going on rapidly.

In taking the school census last month it was found that business houses have greatly lessened the number of families living in down-town wards, while there is a corresponding increase in the suburbs.

The practice of medicine has its business features. The down-town doctor

The

there were in Cincinnati more Germanborn people than all others combined. Hence, it was a real, genuine GermanAmerican city. Within five years after the organization of the North American. Sangerbund all foreign immigration to Cincinnati practically ceased, and the growth of the city became normal to an increase from natural causes. In comparison with some other American cities. this appeared to be very slow. blighting effects of the civil war were nowhere more severely felt in financial circles than in Cincinnati. Nevertheless the city steadily, if slowly, progressed, taking up the burden of constructing a railway to Chattanooga, a distance of more than three hundred miles, and at a cost of about twenty-six millions of dollars. Surely but perceptibly the peculiar German characteristics disappeared, until nearly all are matters of history, and do not live in the present.

The semi-centennial or golden jubilee

of the Bund was held in Cincinnati. The contrast of conditions with those present in its origin were markedly great. The population of the city is four times as large as it was then. Instead of a great majority of the entire number being German-born, there is but a very small percentage of that nationality. All told, men and women, there are not more than twenty-five thousand German-born people living in Cincinnati at this time, which means that there are not near half that many voters. This information is obtained from the clerk of the Cincinnati Board of Elections, and is verifiable by any one who will take the trouble to go there and inquire.

Because of the wonderfully changed conditions, from that of a majority of the entire number being German-born, only one in twenty-five now claims nativity in the German Empire and Austria! No similar change is to be found in any other American city, nor has there been any other foreign immigration of consequence to Cincinnati durthe past half century, so that to-day Cincinnati is peopled by a greater ratio of American-born people than any other city of similar size in the nation.

In this fact may be found a good reason for the lack of enthusiastic demonstration in the interests of the North American Sangerbund. Besides, the twenty-five thousand German-born citizens of Cincinnati are so thoroughly Americanized through long residence and identification with this country that they had very little sympathy with the Bund as a representative of their Fatherland.

With a filling of vacant stores, residences and apartment houses there has already come an advance in prices of all kinds of property. An immediate great boom is not likely to come, but

great and rapid strides will be made in every direction.

Cincinnati offers many attractions for manufacturers, such as cheap power, cheap raw material, and nearness to centre of population; as good railway and river transportation facilities as can be had elsewhere; good climate; suburban residence areas which cannot be equalled or surpassed.

What has all this to do with physicians and the practice of medicine? Just as much as with people engaged in other pursuits.

THE "LOUISVILLE MONTHLY
JOURNAL."

Some exceedingly gratifying occurrences are happening in Louisville. Mathews' Medical Monthly and the Louisville Medical Monthly have been consolidated under the title of the Louisville Monthly Journal, with Drs. J. M. Mathews, H. H. Grant, A. M. Cartledge and H. M. Tuley as editors. and proprietors. The medical profes

sion of Louisville and the State of Kentucky are to be congratulated, as well as the journalists themselves. Without exception the editorial corps is strong, and what greatly adds to their individual strength is their splendid congeniality. There will be no disappointment in looking for a strong publication.

Such unions bode great good from every standpoint. There has been a vast amount of money and professional talent literally frittered away and wasted in efforts energetically made to support medical publications. This sort of policy is surely passing away.

Louisville is not only a historic but a present medical centre of more than ordinary note in the annals of American medicine. With an honest acceptation

and recognition of the trend of the times it will continue in its high rank.

This union of journals indicates a getting together for laudable purposes, a sequence of which, it is hoped, will find an echo in Louisville medical college unifications, as well as elsewhere. These will come as surely as night follows day, and it is the part of wisdom to anticipate the wishes of the general medical profession.

THE CANAL.

An emptying of the canal during the hot season means the creation of a nuisance. Year after year, when this occurs, there is occasioned a small-sized revolt among those who are discomforted by it.

In the new and greater Cincinnati that is to come at an early day there must also come a consideration of the canal question. For some years it has been apparent that something must be done, in which the least amount of harm and the greatest amount of good to the greatest number will receive suggestions and attention.

It is believed that a diversion of the present channel of the canal to one parallel and adjacent to Millcreek from Lockland to the Ohio River is both feasible, practical and largely advantageous. The distance is eight or nine miles. The new channel should be made sufficiently large to carry the largest-sized coal-barges, so that at a small cost for transportation coal could be delivered at the very doors of scores and hundreds of factories. At the present time the canal does not, as a canal, connect with the Ohio River. A connection would greatly add to its commercial value.

Such a change of course and new construction could not be made without a large outlay of money. This could be

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AN IMPORTANT OBSERVATION. - Prof. Burney Yeo, of London, states in his latest work on "Clinical Therapeutics" that many of the most common forms of diarrhea are accompanied by excessive acidity of the intestinal contents, and that they may be promptly cured by antacid remedies without the use of astringents. The therapeutic indications in these cases are clear, viz., check intestinal fermentation, neutralize acidity, and overcome the existing atonicity and catarrhal inflammation of the intestinal mucous membrane. Lauder Brunton speaks highly of the value of glycerine as an intestinal antiseptic. In combination with digestive tonic alteratives and antacids, as it is in Gray's Glycerine Tonic Comp., it fulfills all the existing indications and moreover promotes the digestion and assimilation of food so that the normal nutritive processes are speedily re-established.

A USEFUL PRESENT.-W. R. Warner & Co., of Philadelphia, New York and Chicago, are distributing free to doctors and druggists, a very complete list of drugs, giving apothecary and metric doses. They are arranged in convenient columns and printed on coated linen cloth, size 22x14, for hanging at the prescription counter or in the doctor's office for ready reference. It will be sent to any doctor or druggist upon request. Drop them a postal for it.

Correspondence.

IN RESPONSE TO THE "SUMMER'S RURAL DELIGHTS."

"I'm truly sorry man's dominion
Has broken nature's social union,
And impresses that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle

At us, thy poor, earth-born companions
And fellow-mortals."

Poor, miserable, unenlightened city brother! Can't he really find any of his scorned country cousins whom he can invite himself to visit during the time the city passes through its annual baking? Can it be he is city bred, ignorant of the country and its ways; or a country man, ashamed of his country raising, trying to appear citified?

It can't be he is so far degenerated from the standard of men that he fails to recognize the superiority of our beautiful quiet country over the busy cities in these sizzling months and tries to force himself into believing that he loves the hot "brick and mortar," the paralyzing noise and intense heat and the other luxuries his city affords. No doubt this is true-"Man wants but little here below."

What could be more delightful to the tired-out city doctor than to spend a few recuperative weeks in the country, where the system is filled with pure, invigorating oxygen, giving them the desire to be up with the birds and with them sing anthems to the sky as he witnesses the magnificent sunrise.

Could he resist the temptation of an invigorating walk through green pastures, unless afraid (from habit) to walk on the grass; or stroll through cool, shady forests watching the "kine" taking comfort in the pools and the squirrels darting in and out among the tree tops?

Or who could refuse a lovely ride along country lanes, with a knowledge that at any time you can stop at a spring and drink cold sparkling water or at a farm-house and indulge in a glass of milk? Perhaps this would not satisfy our brother's longing for the "quenchy lager."

"For should you wish a little quaff

Of suthin choice' to cheer.
The same gilt edged' you will not find
Unless you bring it here."

Thus the days are easily filled, and perhaps the reason the brother does not like the evenings any better is due to the fact that he can't find any one to bill and coo to. No doubt 'tis lonesome when not participating in that sport yourself.

Where did he go when he visited the country? To the Sahara? We think so, for there is no place like that and the city where hen fruit ripens so well.

Where is it we get our rich Jersey cream or sweet yellow butter, if not in the country? If he would come to our country he would soon learn to tell the difference between butter and lard.

He's a great fisher, indeed, when he gets bluffed by an angle-worm which is too nervous to go on a hook for bait. He need not think he can cast his line into a duck pond and catch fish.

He ought not be allowed to run at large, for not only is he dangerous to himself but to the farmer when he hangs himself up in a hammock under the hot sun in preference to the shade, which is ever at hand.

No wonder he prefers the pavements that frizzle up his sole as he walks! Where are our city brother's nerves when he becomes frightened at a caterpillar and gallops off to town to the haunts and habitations of poor, starved mosquitos, who, with mosquitos, who, with the desperate strength of the dying, make life worth living(?).

You need not be surprised to hear him want to know if "cowcumbers" grow on a cow, and dog fennel on a dog; or if you have to plant a horse to raise horse radish or cats to get catnip. He also thinks the lightning bugs make all the lightning and wonders why it does not thunder. A man that would pry into a wasps' nest is apt to find how warm they can make it for him, and if he does not want to be courted by a mud-dauber he must not flirt with it.

If he thinks he can sit easier on a bumble-bees' nest with white duck pants on than any other color let him try it.

In the country we do not have signs

such as, "Hands off, dangerous!" We know it without.

The music of katy-dids and treetoads will sound like angel voices after hearing the din of the city intermingled with the organ-grinder's music and the street urchin's screeching. He'll also find the creek banks and beach as sooth

ing syrup in comparison with the city

streets.

Our brother had better not try reading his own verses, or he may wake up to find this on his headstone:

"Light lay the earth on Billy's breast,
His chicken heart so tender;
But build a castle on his head,
His skull will prop it under."

B. G. B.

Comparative Efficiency of Wet and Dry Surgical Dressings.

R. H. Skillern (Philadelphia Med. Journal, May 20, 1899), in comparing the efficiency of wet and dry surgical dressings, makes the following summary:

1. A dry dressing is superior to a wet one in incised wounds.

2. In contused and lacerated wounds a wet dressing should be employed for a week or two, followed by a dry one. 3. In carbuncles, boils, and infected wounds a wet dressing is indicated. 4. When pus has burrowed and sinuses exist, packing and a dry dressing are preferable.

5. In deep punctured wounds with a small orifice, a wet dressing is best.

6. In all wounds of the scalp, whether infected or not, we should use a dry dressing.-Med. Age.

Mouth Breathing in Children, Particularly as a Result of Adenoids.

Dr. Arthur G. Hobbs (Atlanta Med. and Surg. Journal), after a review of the subject of the nasal obstruction, recommends for the removal of adenoids, with or without anesthesia, the use of his own forceps, with small shanks and large fenestræ, so as to rapidly make a number of grasps before withdrawing the instrument. He does not believe that total removal of adenoids is essential, though desirable.-Med. Chronicle.

Obituary.

W. A. DIXON, M.D.

From the Ripley Bee the following tribute to one of Ohio's best known physicians is taken. For many years the writer knew Dr. Dixon well, and knew the life he lived was an objectlesson worthy of study. He lived for others rather than himself. He understood the obligations of the brotherhood of man, and that life was worth living. It is a positive loss to any community to lose a man like Dr. W. A. Dixon.

Dr. W. A. Dixon died at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, June 24, of fatty degeneration of the heart. He had been operated upon the Sunday previous, as stated in our last issue, and was supposed to be getting along very well, when the news came of his death. The remains were brought here Sunday morning, and were met at the train by an escort from the Masonic order and conveyed to his late home.

William Andrew Dixon, whose obsequies brought together such a large concourse of mourning friends yesterday, and whose death cast such a gloom over this community, was born in Union. township, near Ripley, on his father's farm, on the 7th day of June, 1835.

As a youth Dr. Dixon attended the public schools of Ripley, then newly organized and under the efficient control of Prof. Hurtt. Here his advance was so rapid and his acquirement so thorough that he was enabled in the fall of 1856 to matriculate in the university at Delaware, Ohio, and take his place as a sophomore in the classical course. For three years he continued gaining knowledge of books and theories by study, and of men and practice by observation. Selecting the practice of medicine as his ultimate profession he yet deemed it prudent to take a preliminary course in jurisprudence and to that end attended law school in the city of Indianapolis. Returning to Ripley in 1861 he accepted the position of Principal of the High School and for one year continued as an able preceptor