RECIPROCITY TABLE (As compiled by Journal of A. M. A., 1907.)

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Key: 1. Reciproates on the basis of an examination only. 2. Reciproates on the basis either of a diploma or of an examination. *Will reciprocate about January 1, 1908, under No. 1.

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Dr. W. M. Patterson, of Iowa, has located at Egan, S. D.

June 8th to 11th are the dates and Atlantic City the place of the 1909 meeting of the American Medical Association.

The medical men of the four western provinces of Canada propose organizing a Western Canada Medical Association.

Dr. Hanson has bought the practice of Dr. Dugan of Ulysses, Neb. Dr. Dugan will go East for post-graduate study.*

A movement to secure immunization against typhoid by vaccination is on foot among the United States Army authorities.

Dr. I. C. Sutton of Kearney, Neb., has sold his practice to Dr. J. C. Wade. Dr. Sutton expects to relocate in Spokane, Wash.

Owing to an error in the reciprocity table in the March issue it is published again in this issue with the error corrected.-Ed.

Dr. Barr of Blair, Neb., has sold out his drug stock and business to Dr. Brown. Dr. Barr intends to retire from practice.

Henry Bausch of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, died March 2, in Augusta, Ga., where he had gone for his health.

Dr. George H. Stover has been appointed dean of the medical faculty in the Department of Medicine of the University of Denver.

Dr. Wells of Hay Springs, Neb., has left that town and will reside in Michigan. His departure was on account of failing health.

The first class of physicians turned out under the American rule was graduated from the Philippine Medical School, Manila, February 27.

Drs. George F. Hamel, H. M. Roberson, R. H. Fox and A. M. Forney of the staff of the Missouri Pacific Hospital, Kansas City, have resigned.

The March meeting of the Dodge County Medical Society was held in Scribner at the home of Dr. Inches, president of the society, March 11th.

Dr. S. Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia read a paper entitled "The Chorea of Emotion" at a recent meeting of the Philadelphia Neurological Society.

Dr. James P. Warbasse, formerly editor of the New York State Medical Journal, has joined the editorial staff of the American Journal of Surgery.

Dr. Lewis McLouth, former president of the South Dakota College at Brookings, died at his home in New Britain, Conn., recently, at the age of 73 years. Tulane University, New Orleans, has secured the services of Dr. C. W. Duvall, of McGill University, Montreal, to teach pathology in its medical department.

The Box Butte Hospital at Alliance, Neb., which has been in operation for several months, will be closed shortly on account of the failing health of the matron.

A new department of hygiene and physiology has been formally established at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, with Surgeon Charles F. Stokes at its head.

Mrs. Mary A. L. Hunt, of Beloit, Wisconsin, recently died at the advanced age of one hundred and six years. Her mental faculties were intact to the date of her demise.

Dr. H. D. Boyden of Grand Island, Neb., and Dr. Dungan of the Soldiers' Home, near that city, have formed a partnership for the practice of medicine in Grand Island.

The young Cuban republic, having been safely nursed through its recent attack of eruptive fever, comes out with a fully developed executive department of public health.

President Taft has selected Lieutenant-Colonel Guy L. Edie and Captain Matthew A. DeLaney, Medical Corps, U. S. Army, as his physicians during his term in the White House.

The appropriation for the Kentucky Tuberculosis Hospital, now building at Rockville, was increased by the legislature from $153,000, as passed by the house, to $175,000 by the senate.

Dr. C. R. Watson of Sumner, Neb., has purchased the practice and outfit of Dr. E. W. Northorp of Kearney, Neb., and will locate there. Dr. Northorp retires from active practice.

Dr. H. S. Summers of West Point, Neb., who not long ago removed to Utah to engage in fruit farming, has returned to his former home and will again take up the practice of medicine.

Dr. A. L. Lloyd, of Leola, S. D., will move to Custer, S. D., leaving the former place without a physician. The opening is said to be a good one, Dr. Lloyd having practiced there for ten years.

A bill providing against fraudulent medical practitioners has been recently introduced in the Texas legislature. It has already been favorably reported by the house committee on public health.

The mayor of Sioux City has appointed a committee of business and professional men with Dr. Robert E. Conniff as chairman to locate a retreat for consumptives for Woodbury county and Sioux City.

Dr. Kile of Plainview, Neb., had a narrow escape from serious injury March 5th. His buggy was struck by an engine of a passenger train and entirely demolished. The doctor escaped with a few bruises.

The finance committee of the Ohio senate has appropriated $10,000 for the purpose of employing two lecturers on "tuberculosis" to travel throughout the state, each to receive a salary of $2,000 a year and expenses.

There's scarcely a physician in these United States who doesn't feel that his particular community has been singled out for a grievous epidemic of health. The condition is so general, however, that, as stated, no place is exempt.

We learn of a man out West who has willed all his estate to his dog. At the death of the dog the property is to revert to the man's legal heirs. Dogs generally live from twelve to fourteen years; this one will die in about a week.

The President has appointed Colonel George H. Torney surgeon-general of the United States Army, vice Surgeon-General O'Reilly, retired. During the Spanish-American war Colonel Torney was in charge of the hospital ship "Relief."

At the recent annual meeting of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, at Berlin, the Helmholtz medal was awarded to Emil Fischer, the well-known professor of chemistry at Berlin, who was the first to produce albumin by synthesis.

Digipuratum is a preparation of digitalis which is said to be of definite physiological power, acting promptly as a diuretic and heart tonic. It is put up in tablets, each of which is represented to be equal to one and one-half grains of digitalis leaf.

The International Leprosy Congress will meet in Bergen, Norway, this year. The United States representative at the Congress will be Dr. Wm. J. Goodhue, who for the last four years has been resident physician at the Leper Settlement in Molokai, Hawaii.

A bill before the Indiana legislature aims to regulate the vending of medicines by requiring persons selling the same from a wagon to pay a license fee of $100 a month. The fee would be virtually prohibitive of the practice. It is to be hoped it will pass.

The authorities in Russia have organized a censorship for medical advertising, including both proprietaries, apparatus, drugs, hygienic and cosmetic remedies and the professional cards of physicians, dentists, midwives, masseurs and druggists, health resorts and mineral waters.

The bill introduced last week in the Ohio legislature, providing for the sanitary regulation of school buildings and medical inspection of school children under the direction of boards of education, boards of health and competent physicians, was passed without a dissenting vote.

Four hundred physicians of Philadelphia visited Harrisburg March 2 and argued in favor of the proposed Shreve-Herbst medical bill, which was considered by the senate committee on health and sanitation. The delegation was reinforced by similar delegations from almost every town and city in the state.

The Wyoming State Board of Medical Examiners, which met in Cheyenne the middle of March, elected Dr. S. W. Johnson of New Castle as president, Dr. A. B. Tonkin of Riverton vice-president, and Dr. S. B. Miller of Laramie as secretary of the board. The next meeting will be held in Laramie June 23rd.

Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt has purchased a site and has had plans prepared for the construction of three model tenements for poor consumptives of New York which will cost $1,000,000. They will be located on East Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth streets and will be a valuable extension to the facilities of the tuberculosis clinic of the Presbyterian Hospital.

An amendment to the constitution of the state of Colorado has been passed by the legislature which gives permission to the State University to conduct the last two years of the medical course at Denver on account of the larger clinical facilities which obtain there. The bill has to be submitted to and approved by the people at the next general election before it becomes a law.

Tuberculosis causes annually more than 150,000 deaths in the United States at the average age of thirty-five years, and if we assume that the net value of a human life is about $5,000, which is not high, the real loss to the nation re sulting from this disease may be estimated at $240,000,000 per annum. This estimate does not take into account 'the social, mental and industrial value of at least 150,000 lives, which under different conditions might reasonably be expected to continue many years.

The Chicago health department laboratory has examined numerous samples of hamburger steak, and in practically every instance large quantities of sulphites were found. These impart to the meat a rich red color. It is inferred that this chemical is added to preserve meats, that are already partially decomposed, for a few days longer, or until they can be sold to the consumer. Suits have been started against the dealers in all instances where excessive quantities of these preservatives were found.

By a vote of 140 to 2, the legislature of Illinois on March 10 passed the Glackin bill, which authorizes cities and villages to levy a special tax of one mill to construct and maintain public tuberculosis sanatoria. The prime object of this bill is to secure for Chicago a sanatorium for tuberculosis, as the mill tax will amount to about $160,000 a year. The question of the issue of bonds will be submitted to voters at the coming election, and will undoubtedly meet with approval, and result in this good work being undertaken.

Canada is raising the medical standard. The five-year course of study has been adopted in Quebec Province. Henceforth in order to gain entrance to a university in that domain the applicant must possess a degree in arts from a Canadian or British university, or exhibit a certificate of qualification from the medical board of the Province. The extra year will be devoted to clinical study and such laboratory and other work as appertains to this branch. Degrees obtained from McGill and Laval Universities will entitle the holders to practice.

State Board of Health Notes.

The two-year examination of the Nebraska State Board of Medical Examiners will be held in the Capitol building, Lincoln, Neb., on May 17th (evening) and 18th.

The next regular examination of the Nebraska State Board of Medical Examiners will be held in the Capitol building, Lincoln, Neb., on May 27th and 28th.