Dr. Wм. L. BALLENGER, well known as practitioner, teacher, and author, has been elected by the Faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, to the chair of otology, rhinology, and laryngology, to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Prof. M. R. BROWN. Dr. HERMANN PREYSING, late assistant to Professor Körner's clinic at Rostock, well known to our readers by valuable publications on otogenous brain-abscess and other serious complications of suppurative middle-ear disease, has become a privat-docent at the University of Leipzig, for otology, rhinology, and laryngology. DEATHS. Dr. OSCAR HEIKE, of Breslau, royal Prussian sanitary councillor, otologist of a good deal of reputation, colaborer of the Arch. f. Ohrenheilkunde, died of apoplexy unexpectedly during his vacation in September, 1902. Dr. ANTON SCHWENDT, a capable and esteemed otologist in Basel, Switzerland, and privat-docent at the University, died suddenly in his forty-eighth year. Professor SCHWARTZE, of Halle, announces, in warm and impressive words, the sad decease of one of his pupils, Dr. Anton Cramer, aged twenty-nine, from septic poison in consequence of an injury to one of his fingers during attendance on a patient in the hospital. In spite of all the care and attention bestowed on him at the surgical clinic, the fatal issue could not be averted. In the face of this sad event Professor Schwartze earnestly warns his colleagues not to underrate the danger ever inherent in the handling of patients. |