enridge, Virginia; A. M. Buchanan, North Carolina; J. C. Crawford, Pennsylvania; J. W. Crawder, Alabama; J. M. Cunningham, Louisiana; W. T. Dodds, Virginia; R. B. Dunn, Mississippi; R. L. Graham, Texas; J. O. Grove, Pennsylvania; E. C. F. Grumly, New Jersey; L. B. Heimer, Pennsylvania; G. W. Hooker, W. F. Hyde, Virginia; F. V. Jordan, Louisiana; Victor Keidel, Texas; N. W. Lawless, New Jersey; G .W. Lehman, Pennsylvania; J. E. McCreery, West Virginia; H. S. McGowan, Georgia; R. C. Meals, Pennsylvania; E. A. Murray, Massachusetts; Samuel Nicholas, Pennsylvania; D. W. O'Leary, Indiana; D. E. Pierce, Virginia; A. J. Pope, Mississippi; McClure Scott, Virginia; W. J. Schmidt (Faculty Honor), Louisiana; E. C. Seawright, Georgia; W. W. Serrel, Pennsylvania; J. R. Sheldon, Illinois; W. D. Simpson, North Carolina; A. S. Spangler (Valedictorian), Tennessee; Morris Weinberg, Pennsylvania; and S. T. Yoho, West Virginia.

The next session of the Medical Department will begin in April next.

DR. MAYO IN NASHVILLE.

Nashville was honored recently by the visit of Dr. Wililam J. Mayo of Rochester, Minn., and his party.

This great surgeon has come to be more widely and favorably known through his work and writings than almost any other American surgeon, and his visit to this city was the occasion of many courtesies which were extended to him. He was the guest of Dr. W. D. Haggard while in the city, and had been to the Mississippi Valley Medical Association at Cincinnati, O., where he delivered the address on surgery, and also to the Tri-State Meeting at Chattanooga. Accompanying him were his wife and Miss Alice Magaw, his anæsthetist. Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Ochsner of Chicago, and Dr. G. Frank Lydston and Joseph B. De Lee of Chicago. A handsome luncheon aws tendered the party by Drs. Fort and Haggard at the Hermitage Club and by Drs. Eve and Witherspoon at the University Club.

Dr. Mayo addressed the students of the University of Tennessee on Saturday morning, Oct. 15. Many physicians from the city and adjoining towns crowded the large amphitheatre to do honor to the distinguished visitor. He lectured upon Surgical Conditions of the Stomach. His large experience and unquestioned authority on this subject added interest to a most practical and instructive discourse, which was illustrated by several very elaborate drawings.

The physiological anatomy of the stomach was described, and attention directed to the many pathological obstacles to its motility and function. Painful digestion was shown to be due to mechanical conditions more often than chemical disorders, and chronic dyspepsia was said to be the name for gastric ulcer sometimes and for the resulting obstruction at the pylorus. The question of drainage of the stomach by gastro-enteros

tomy was discussed as curative of ulcer and a very certain method of relief in the incurable cases of "dyspepsia" due to pyloric obstruction from chronic ulcer.

A plea was made for early diagnosis of cancer of the stomach by exploratory incision, and the claim advanced that this was the only certain way of diagnosing them sufficiently early for a radical operation on the stomach with hope of permanent cure. Sixteen per cent. of Miculicz's cases remained well and he believed that cancer of the stomach should yield surgically as good results as cancer of the breast.

He said he had seen ten cases of gastric cancer in a medical ward of a large hospital, and that he remonstrated with the internes for treating those cases palliatively, as medicine could not benefit them, but that surgery might and could if diagnosis had been made earlier. Cancer of the breast was not treated in the medical ward, nor cancer of the uterus, or lip, or rectum. The question: Why should cancer of the stomach be so treated? was asked, and the statement made that early diagnosis in suspected cases by exploratory incision was sometimes discouraged by the medical man, but rarely if ever declined by the patient when he was told that if he waited until the diagnosis could be made without incision, surgery would be too late, that incision offered little or no danger; if cancer was found in its incipiency, operation could be done, if too far advanced, the closure could be made with strong buried sutures of linen or silk and the man would be up and away from the hospital in a week, and with little risk, expense, loss of time, or absence from home.

Dr. Ochsner, who was expected to lecture upon diseases of the gallbladder, had been compelled to leave for Chicago the day previous, and in his stead Dr. De Lee spoke briefly but entertainingly upon the vomiting of pregnancy.

Following the addresses at the University of Tennessee, a clinic was held at the city hospital at the invitation of Dr. Duncan Eve. The surgical amphitheater was filled with students of the three colleges. Dr. Mayo lectured upon gall-stones, using a patient of Dr. Haggard's for demonstration and illustration. The etiology was brought out in a most ingenious way, and symptomatology of their various locations was impressed by drawings and charts. The various complications of gallstone disease were described and the lack of importance of jaundice as a symptom of cholelithiasis was stressed.

The practical and convincing manner in which the facts and truths comprising the natural history of gall-stones was presented was a rare delight. The interesting problems were unraveled as only a man of his vast experience of over 1000 operations could.

Dr. De Lee, through the courtesy of Dr. Altman, described in most pleasing way the methods of external palpation of the gravid uterus, illustrating every detail of the findings.

Dr. Mayo and his immediate party, after spending three days in Nashville left for a short visit to Philadelphia and Boston.

SIR WILLIAM ROBERTS ON DIGESTION.-This great London authority on digestion says: "The digestive change undergone by fatty matter in the small intestines consists mainly in its reduction into a state of emulsion or division into infinitely minute particles. In addition to this purely physical change, a small portion undergoes a chemical change whereby the glycerin and fatty acids are disassociated. The main or principal change is undoubtedly an emulsifying process, and nearly all the fat taken up by the lacteals is simply in a state of emulsion."

This eminent authority is confirmed in the foregoing views by various experiments by which it has been ascertained that fat food passes from the lacteals into the circulation by way of the thoracic duct in the form of an emulsion.

Emulsified cod liver oil as contained in Scott's Emulsion appears in a form so closely resembling the product of natural digestion as it occurs within the body that it may well be administered as an artificially digested fat food of the very highest type. In combination with the other ingredients mentioned-glycerine being an emollient of inestimable value-Scott's Emulsion offers to the physician a valuable, exquisite, and rare accession to his prescription list.

REAPING PTOMAINES.— A great many people seem to think that it matters little what kind of material goes into the building of the human structure! They feed on thorns and expect to pick roses!

Later, they find they have sown indigestion and are reaping ptomaines! It's a wonderful laboratory, this human body. But it can't prevent the formation of deadly poisons within its very being.

Indeed, the alimentary tract may be regarded as one great laboratory for the manufacture of dangerous substances. 'Biliousness" is a forcible illustration of the formation and the absorption of poisons, due largely to an excessive proteid diet. The nervous systems of the dyspeptic are often but the physiological demonstrations of putrefactive alkaloids. Appreciating the importance of the command, "Keep the Bowels Open," particularly in the colds, so easily taken at this time of the year,coryza, influenza, and allied conditions, Dr, L. P. Hammond of Rome, Ga., recommends "Laxative Antikamnia & Quinine Tablets," the laxative dose of which is two tablets, every two or three hours, as indicated. When a cathartic is desired, administer the tablets as directed and follow with a saline draught the next morning before breakfast. This will hasten peristaltic action and assist in removing, at once, the accumulated fecal matter.

LISTERINE DERMATIC SOAP is an exceptionally meritorious article which will, we believe, be extensively prescribed by physicians for use in the treatment of diseases of the skin, as the antiseptic and detergent properties of Listerine "Dermatic Soap prove beneficial in the treatment of the various cutaneous inflammations and eruptions, in combating all vegetable and animal parasitic diseases, in diseases of the sudoriparous and sebaceous glands and hair follicles, as well as for the relief of excessive and offensive perspiration. Have your druggist order it from Lambert Pharmacal Co., St. Louis, Mo.

SOUTHERN MEDicine, and GailLARD'S MEDICAL JOURNAL, beginning with the October issue, are to constitute a consolidated journal. Whatever features in each journal were specially appreciated by its readers will be continued, and no effort will be spared to institute such new ones as experience, coupled with constant observation of the profession's needs, may indicate as being called for.

The consolidated journal will be published at Savannah, Ga., Wm. E. Fitch, M. D., 8 Liberty St., West, of that city being the editor.

EMPYROFORM. In an article dealing with some of the newer remedies, Dr. F. Behring, First Assistant in Professor von During's Royal University Dermatological Clinic at Keil, says the following concerning it :—

Empyroform, a condensation product of tar and formalin, manufactured by Schering of Berlin, is a remedy calculated to displace all the other tar preparations. It can be employed even in comparatively recent and still oozing eczemas, and we have also used it in the very troublesome and obstinate infantile forms of the disease.

After the most acute stage of eczema has passed under the influence of the usual dessicating remedies, we regularly employ Empyroform salve. We always obtained the very best results and saw no deleterious effects, even in cases where other preparations were entirely useless. Our results were entirely in accord with those obtaind in Neisser's Clinic. The effect of the salve was striking in a number of cases of scrofulous eczema of the face that had withstood every other variety of local treatment. It was an important aid to the healing process, though of course betterment of the general condition had to be striven for. Lichen scrophulosorum and prurigo were also favorably inflenced by the drug. In very chronic eczema we found it somewhat too mild and sometimes had to have recourse to pure tar and combinations of this latter with other powerful remedies.

We used Empyroform in the form of five to ten per cent. ointments; and the almost absolute absence of odor deserves especially favorable mention. Intoxication from the drug never occurred.- Die Therapie der Gengenwart, July, 1904.

GRAY'S GLYCERINE TONIC COMPOUND is invaluable in all chronic and wasting diseases, such as pulmonary tuberculosis, nephritis, gastro-intestinal catarrh, and bowel troubles of children. We have been using it for over twenty-five years, and regard it as one of the best compounds we have ever tried. In the convalescence from any of the infectious diseases, pneumonia, typhoid fever, malaria, etc., its palatability and efficiency have brought it into highest repute.

CRANIO-MUSCULAR ORIGINS OF BRAIN AND MIND, by Philip H. Erbes, is a book which proceeds from the unignorable evolution bases, and yields a new guide for the successful treatment of the multiplying nervous and mental disturbances. Illustrated, cloth binding. Price, $1.20, postage 10 cents. For sale at booksellers, or The Promethean Publisher, 622 North Rockwell St., Chicago, Ill.

A CORRECTOR OF IODISM.- Dr. W. H. Morse reports (Southern Clinic for May) success in the use of bromidia, which he says has proved corrigental of iodia. Discussing his results he says: "Vomiting is so frequent and troublesome a symptom in many diseases besides irritation and inflammation of the stomach, as to demand much practical attention from the physician. So, although the causes are so various, and although we are actually treating a symptom, for this symptom bromida is remarkably effectual. We have all employed the remedy for colic and hysteria, two disorders where nausea and vomiting are as pronounced as they are persistent, and almost the first evidence of relief is shown by the disappearance of these disagreeable symptoms. It is quite as efficacious for the nausea and vomiting from ulcer or cancer of the stomach. There is nothing that will more quickly check the vomiting, and the hypnotic effect is quite in order.

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.- The officers elected at the 30th annual meeting of this Association, held at Cincinnati, O., Oct. 11-13, are as follows: President, Bransford Lewis, M. D., St. Louis; First Vice-President, Frank Parsons Norbury, M. D., Jacksonville, Ill.; Second Vice-President, J. H. Carstens, M. D., Detroit, Mich. ; Secretary, Henry Enos Tuley, M. D., Louisville, Ky.; Assistant Secretary, John F. Barnhill, M. D., Indianapolis, Ind.; Treasurer, S. C. Stanton, M. D., Chicago, Ill.

Next place of meeting, Indianapolis, Ind., October, 1905.

KENNEDY'S EXTRACT OF PINUS CANADENSIS is a valuable agent in chronic diseases of the mucous membranes, and admirable for the removal of morbid discharges of every kind.