to be at the same old stand for years, teaching and studying the same branch of his profession, taking a constant pride in his work, both public and private; we all like such a man. And yonder is another; he is a writer whose words have weight and whose articles appear in the leading literature of today; we know he is a good man, a man who is a recognized leader, and one in whom we have confidence.

But of the others we know but little and we will commit to their care the young man or woman that is seeking a medical education, and from whose report will we judge of their merit and worth; yes, from the student whom we send will we judge of the value of the college, and determine if we will send any more, if we will become more interested or if we will drop that school from our minds.

The new professor has a wide field before him; will he enter and conquer, will he be wise, dignified, courteous, tolerant and tactful.

. Will he gain for himself, and the work he does, respect, possibly admiration and signal success? Will his lectures be to his hearers a pleasure as well as a profit?

Or will he be a failure? Will he imagine himself "It" and have in his work more of self and self importance than anything else; will he claim honor before he earns it? Will he be a gossip and a retailer of all the things that happen to come to his ears? Will he perchance even criticise his associates who have been in the harness for years, and faintly praise those who support his institution or quietly listen to the grumblings of those who have no use for it? Unless he is whole-souled, whole-hearted in his work and efforts, with the good of his college at heart, he will be a failure and a reflection to the school that gives him a seat on its rostrum.

REGARDING GALL STONES.

In a most interesting article, published in the "Brooklyn Medical Journal," Dr. Richard Ward Westbrook, deduces the following conclusions:

1st. We cannot anatomically or physiologically place the gall-bladder in the same category with the appendix. 2nd. It is still too early to assert that the loss of the gall-bladder may not be a detriment to the individual, although we cannot assign any function to it, the theories of storage reservoir, flush-tank and tension-bulb all falling short. 3rd. It may be held solely responsible as the starting point of gall-stone disease. 4th. Cholelithiasis, like appendicitis, cannot be cured by medical treatment, only prevented or palliated. 5th. When diseased, the gall-bladder would be better out than in, did it not form for the surgeon a natural drainage channel to the infected bile-ducts, safe and easy of access, and to be preferred to more dangerous methods of drainage now being advocated by some geons. 6th. When the gall-bladder can no longer be utilized as a drainage tube, i. e., when the cystic duct is closed, extirpate it. 7th. When bile is found in it, retain it and drain through it, unless gangrenous cancerous. 8th. Gall-stones will not recur after a complete operation.

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The practical application of our discussion is simply this: thiasis, like appendicitis, is a surgical disease, and, as in appendicitis, early and uncomplicated operations are devoid of risk. Patients whose gallstones are not readily set at rest by medical and hygienic treatment should be sent to the surgeon before the outlying ducts are involved. In that stage, whether the surgeon elect to do cholecystectomy or cholecystostomy, the results will be extremely good, although in the light of our present knowledge, cholecystostomy should be the operation of choice.

PULTE MEDICAL COLLEGE.

We learn from the Medical Century that at a meeting of the faculty of Pulte Medical College that some few changes were made in the personnel of the teaching body and that Dr. D. J. Buck for so many years an officer and hard worker in the college interests has retired from the "Officers list" but will still be a member of the teaching body.

The result of the election at this meeting was as follows:

Dean, C. E. Walton; Registrar, S. R. Geiser; Treasurer, C. A. Pauly and Secretary. W. H. Smith.

Prof. P. T. Kilgour was advanced from the Department of Histology to the Department of Practice.

Drs. C. N. Cooper and W. F. Reilly were elected to full professorships in the Departments of Materia Medica and Laryngology, respectively.

Dr. Chas. E. Geiser was made Lecturer and Demonstrator of Histology.
Dr. Charles R. Buck Lecturer on Physiology.

Dr. Ida E. McCormick was advanced to Demonstrator-in-chief in Pathology and Bacteriology, with Dr. Florence Pollock as assistant.

Dr. E. S. Wiggers was advanced to a Lectureship in Practice of Medicine.

A few other changes are in contemplation to reward workers already in the ranks, and to add to the staff of assistants in the various laboratories and clinics.

The following are elected as officers of the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Society for 1904:

H. V. Halbert, M. D., President; Chicago.

N. Starr, M. D., First Vice-President; Charleston, Ill.

M. M. Goodrick, M. D., Second Vice-President; Jacksonville, Ill.
Burton Haseltine, M. D., Secretary; Chicago.

E. C. Sweet, M. D., Treasurer, Chicago.

It is reported that an investigation of the cause of pneumonia by the bacteriological department of the board of health of New York shows that contagion is of comparatively little importance in the spread of the disease. The board is inclined, therefore, to attributed the excessive death rate from pneumonia to the cold of last winter.

Professor Galloway strongly advocates rest and elevation of the lower extremities as a therapeutic measure for the cure of chronic eczematous eruptions of these parts.

Dr. Bunte recommends Tr. Echinacea Angustifolia (Black Sampson) applied locally in full strength to chronic varicose ulcers as a very efficacious remedy.

Balsam Peru, sterilized, is a useful and efficacious protection when painted over the suture line of a primary perineorrhaphy.

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Is a most valuable dressing for burns of all degrees. It should be sterilized by heat and may be used ad lib. Y.

Remember that you can find specialists thoroughly qualified in the Homeopathic school-the strength of the pack is the wolf and the strength of the wolf is the pack.

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Call consultation promptly when you need it.

Call in your competitor occasionally. If he is worthy to be your competitor he is probably a pretty bright fellow

Insist that your consultant be of the Homeopathic School.

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Get a reputation for being on time-punctuality is the courtesy of kings.

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If you are a successful physician give some of the credit to your Alma Mater. "As the twig is bent the tree is inclined."

Continuous bloody discharge from the vagina, or intermittent discharge other than the normal menstrual flow, demands that careful examination be made and the cause definitely determined. Many a case of polypus, carcinoma, fibroid or other surgical disease of the uterus has, without examination, been labeled with that scintillatingly brilliant diagnosis "change of life." The number of cases of cancer of the uterus past all hope of benefit by operation-that finally reach the surgeon in which this diagnosis has been made and examination neglected is astonishing.

It isn't because we don't know Doctor, it's because we don't look.

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The number of registered pharmacists in the United States is estimated at 43,000.

The Cleveland Homeopathic College conferred the degree of doctor of medicine upon twenty-two candidates the 4th of May.

Dr. S. Wier Mitchell, announced at the recent meeting of American Physicians, at Washington, that Dr. Noguchi, of Japan, had discovered a positive antidote for the venom of the rattle-snake.

How to Kill a Baby with Pneumonia.-Crib in far corner of room with canopy over it. Steam kettle; gas stove (leaky tubing). Room at 80 F. Many gas jets burning. Friends in the room, also the pug dog. Chest tightly enveloped in waistcoat poultice. If child's temperature is 105 F. make a poultice thick, hot and tight. Blanket the windows, shut the doors. If these do not do it, give coal tar antipyretics and wait.-Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery.

A marble tablet, perpetuating the name of Dr. Egbert Guernsey, was erected at the Metropolitan Hospital, on Blackwell's Island, May 5th.

Pennsylvania is to have a new Homeopathic Hospital for the Insane. The estimated cost is $2,000,000.

Dr. F. C. Thornburgh, class of 1904, has located a Macon, Mo. He has married a wife, but we are unable to learn the name of the happy lady.

An English dentist, strongly recommends the use of Ethyl Chloride, as

a general anaesthetic for operations of short duration.

The Medical Century for June, contains the likeness of nine lady physician contributors. A fine frontispiece and fine faces; some fine articles in another part of the paper.

We are very sorry to learn that Dr. W. E. Reily, of Fulton, has been indisposed for some time. At present he is rapidly recovering, we are pleased to say.

Dr. Neumeister further announces to his friends and patrons, that he is hereafter permanently located, winter and summer, in Kansas City, strictly for the practice of Medicine and Surgery, as he has been for the past eighteen years.

Doctor, do you sit down on the first of the month and send out a statement to every one who owes you a bill? The following dealer around the corner does this. An old bill is a bad bill.

HIS DAY OFF.

He was the boss; was the first to come

When the day began-and he made things hum,

He would hustle 'round with impatient jerks

And instill some life in the lazy clerks.

It was fine to hear how he'd scold and scoff

At the thought that he ought to take a day off.

Why, he'd doubt the clock when it chimed at noon;
And he'd swear that the hour had come too soon!
Go out to eat? Waste that time at lunch?

Not he! He would sit at his desk and munch,
And sputter the crumbs when he took a bite
And told the stenographer what to write.

Year in, and year out, he was on the go.
He said: "Too busy to rest, you know."
And the dollars grew to a wonderous pile,
But still he would wear that sarcastic smile
When some one suggested a time for play
Or told of the need of a holiday.

It was yesterday that we met him last

We were on the street, he was riding past.

And we stopped and looked as we turned to go,
For the wonder was that his pace was slow.
But the rig was new and the horses trim-
It was his day off, for they buried him.

W. D. N., in Chicago Tribune.

DEMAND FOR HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS.

Seventy-five years ago Dr. Abernethy, on entertaining a crowded class room in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to give his introductory lecture, looked around the attentive throng of students and exclaimed: God bless you! What is to become of you all? If the ranks of medical practitioners were overstocked then, we might reasonably expect a greater surplusage would exist today. But it is not so in the homeopathic field. There is a clear and distinct call for more physicians. Instead of a surplus there is a deficit, and not all of the twenty colleges are able to fill the demand which comes from every State in the Union for more practitioners of the law of similars. Any college dean will attest that he has openings for physicians which he cannot possibly fill, notwithstanding the increased number of graduates every year.-Exchange.