19th St., on "The Relation of Diseases of the Skin to Internal Disorders."

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The Woodbury County (Iowa) Homeopathic Medical Association at its February meeting heard a very interesting paper on "Progressive Surgery During 1904," by Dr. A. P. Bowman, of Sioux City, Iowa. The paper was received with enthusiasm, as it showed evidence of great care in preparation.

*** The University of Halle, Germany, has conferred upon Dr. Willy Merck, member of the old house of E. Merck, Darmstadt, established in 1668, a very high distinction, namely, the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine, "in recognition of numerous meritorious contributions looking to the advancement of the therapeutic side of medicine."

*** The Pittsburg Homeopathic Hospital has asked the State to appropriate $200,000 towards the building of a new hospital on property recently purchased in the East End of that city. Dr. J. H. McClelland, chairman of the executive committee, has received the promise of subscriptions amounting to $400,000, and the State is asked to make an appropriation contingent upon this latter sum being raised. Certainly the Homeopathic fraternity in Pittsburg is to be congratulated.

*** The Metropolitan Hospital of the City of New York has twenty-two resident physicians. Its competitive examination, open to all graduates in medicine, for the fifteen services of eighteen months each, commencing in June and December, 1905, will be held on April 28th, 1905.

Application should be addressed to Edward P. Swift, Chairman Committee of Examination, No. 170 West 88th St., New York City. This Hospital has over 1,000 beds, and gives unusual opportunity for experience in Surgery, Gynecology, Genito-Urinary Diseases, Neurology, Dermatology, Physical Diagnosis and general medicine, and Homeopathic Therapeutics.

*** Dr. George Royal, the president, has made his first announcement of the coming meeting of the American Institute of Homeopathy. At the recent meeting of the executive committee held in Chicago in January, the date was fixed for June 26th to July 1st. Headquarters will be at the Auditorium Hotel, the management of which have entered into plans for the meeting with unusual enthusiasm. The meetings will be held in Music Hall, adjoining the auditorium, all societies being provided with fine quarters, four large well-lighted, well-ventilated rooms and several smaller ones under the same roof being at their disposal.

its use in an aseptic wound will contribute all of the beneficial effects of calendula in the process of healing.

Within the past month the writer has used it as a part of a moist occlusive dressing in a severe burn. Gauze was saturated with the pure calenduline and the dressing covered with oiled silk to prevent evaporation. The burning ceased immediately upon the application of the dressing. Repair was very rapid and healing took place absolutely without suppuration. H. D. B.

WOMEN MOSTLY,

but very often men, show the effects of the winter's social, climatic or business vicissitudes in a train of symptoms clearly indicative of bankrupt vitality. It is sometimes difficult to classify the condition in any of the well-known disease groups because symptoms of many organs and functions merge into each other and form a complex picture. Impairment of the digestive functions is manifested by loss of appetite, inability to digest food, sometimes gastric pains. Headache, languor, sleeplessness, general exhaustion, constitute the nervous system's methods of voicing its poverty. Loss of flesh and strength and the general state of malnutrition, bespeak disturbances of the functions. of metabolism regulating the proportion of waste and repair of tissue. Here is a strong statement but it is true-every word of it-and is based upon the accumulated experiences of the past twenty years: Gray's Tonic will do more to restore these cases to health than any other tonic or restorative known. Its beneficial effects are noticeable from the start: it engenders appetite, enables the patient to digest. and assimilate sufficient nourishment; it favors the restoration of healthful normal sleep without the use of hypnotics; it gradually but surely brings about normal nutrition and removes the symptoms of nervous irritability. Gray's Tonic is in the broadest sense tonic, restorative, reconstructive. It is an indispensable aid in the treatment of poverty of tissue, blood or vitality from whatever cause.

IRON AS A REMEDY.

Time out of mind, Iron has been leaned upon, as one of the special standbys in medicine, particularly as a builder and reconstructor. But unless Iron be given in proper form, one might as well give absorbent cotton, or chips or wet stones. When we desire to produce any increase in the number of red blood corpuscles, and to make them redder and richer with hemoglobin, we need to be sure of the form

CARD SYSTEM FOR PHYSICIANS' RECORDS.

By Hudson D. Bishop, M. D., Cleveland, Ohio.

Every physician wishes to keep a record of the history of at least some of his cases and it would be well if kept a record of all, but the keeping of histories in books is at best an irksome duty. Such records cannot be arranged in alphabetical, sequence, spaces become overcrowded and histories overrun the space allotted to them, and in looking up a history it is often necessary to refer to several different places in the book.

The card system of keeping records has revolutionized this state of affairs. Each record is perpetual, is never out of date and the cards can be arranged in any classification that is desired. The data can be recorded at the bedside if the physician will carry with him the cards of the patients visited each day. In the office the card is a helpful reminder of symptoms and treatment. An advantage of no small import is the impression made upon the patient by the accuracy which such a method shows.

The expense of a suitable card outfit is at most not prohibitive to any physician. Recently, however, my attention was called to an offer made by the Angier Chemical Co., Boston, Mass., which makes it possible to secure a suitable outfit at a nominal price. I wrote them asking for a cut to illustrate the outfit and herewith present it to the

outfit is $3.50 and it is furnished at this reduced price in consideration of the fact that across the bottom of each card is a single line reminder of Angier's Petroleum Emulsion, which in no way destroys. the efficiency of the card.

Doctor, if you do not have a card outfit, investigate this and you will thank me for calling your attention to it.

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ALUMNI NOTES.

*** A card from Dr. Evelyn S. Pettit-Roberts, '94, gives her new address as Luipaard's Vlei, Transvaal, S. Africa. She is very happy in her work.

*** J. J. Waite, '00, Deerfield, Ohio, reports both business and health as being good. We shall be glad to have him drop in to see us when he comes to the city.

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Dr. G. J. Jones ('72) spent several days in New York City last month in consultation with one of the prominent physicians of that great city in the case of a former patient of his.

*** J. H. Young, '74, is expecting to retire from practice in the near future. He is seventy years old and has certainly earned a rest. We hope he may be thoroughly happy during his declining years.

*** P. M. Webster, '95, is at Long Beach, Cal., where she has "flowers from the garden and fresh vegetables from the Chinaman's cart every day in the year, and needs not wear gloves and veil for fear of the cold." We wish for her a long continuance of this delightful situation.

*** C. C. Taylor, '90, Leetonia, Ohio, is dead, at the age of thirty-eight. The cause of his death was consumption. He had been practicing in Leetonia for ten years, where a widow and one daughter mourn him. He was buried in Tecumseh, Mich. Our sympathy goes out to his family.

*** Lucy I. Pierce, '00, reported in the February number as dead, is very decidedly not dead. She is living at 633 Channing Ave., Palo Alto, Cal. She is not practicing, as she has been quite ill and is still delicate, though better than she has been. We wish for her a return to good health.

*** Dr. Wm. T. Miller, '78, who had charge of the surgical clinic during the first term, reports that the total number of cases treated by him at the Hospital was fifty-five. These embraced a large variety of surgical conditions and diseases, including hernia, mammary cancers, caries, gall-stones, removal of kidney, appendectomies, removal of parotid gland, fracture of the skull, removal of thyroid

gland, cyst of the fourth ventricle, etc. The showing made by Dr. Miller was an exceptionally good one.

*** Dr. H. H. Baxter, '68, has been elected vice-president of the Ohio State Board of Medical Registration and Examination. This is an honor very much deserved, because Dr. Baxter has been a member of the Board since its inception and has rendered vitally important service to its interests. We are hoping that the turn of the wheel will next year give him the honor of the presidency, knowing that the office would be administered with strong executive ability.

*** Dr. and Mrs. D. H. Beckwith, and granddaughter, Miss Eva Beckwith, are spending the months of March and April at Hampton Terrace, Augusta, Ga. Dr. Beckwith has been hard at work all winter, doing an amount of work daily that would tax a younger man. He has also busied himself in the preparation of the history of the College for the History of Homeopathy in the United States, to be published by Dr. William Harvey King, of New York. He is one of those fellows who are never idle. We hope his vacation will do him a world of good.

*** A. B. Schneider, '94, and W. T. Miller, '78, are members of the Board of Trustees of the Anti-Tuberculosis League, which was organized last month. The objects of the League are to combine and unify the efforts made by many charitable associations in this city who are consciously, or unconsciously working along the lines of defense against tuberculosis, accomplishing this by improving the hygienic conditions, lessening the tenement house evil, procuring clean streets and door yards, getting people into the open air, etc., etc. In addition to this the League expects to instruct the tuberculous how to live so that he will be less harmful to his neighbor and stand the best possible chance of recovery. It is a part of a general movement spreading over the entire country, which will result undoubtedly in tuberculosis sanatoria for every State and in many municipalities, with a corresponding reduction of the death rate from this disease even greater than the 40 per cent. reduction which has been accomplished in New York City in a comparatively short time. The paper which we take pleasure in presenting in this number as the leading article was read by Dr. Schneider before a large gathering representing those interested in the work of the League.

*** Dr. F. C. Lee has removed from 427 Oak St., Chicago, to Hawks Park, Florida.

*** T. L. Blackledge, '01, notifies us of the arrival February 19th of Miss Grace Greenwood Blackledge, who we trust will many

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