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comes numb on the left side and is dizzy. During the spells she can not talk plainly, her tongue becomes stiff, her hands tremble, and although she says she does not lose consciousness, it appears from the statement of her sister that she is slightly dazed. Since the appearance of these spells, which come on almost every day, she has had fewer headaches and has noticed that she has never had a headache on the same day with one of these seizures. As the patient has only come in today, we have not had time to thoroughly examine her, but I believe this to be one of the cases, which are not so very rare, of transition of migraine into epilepsy. I have seen a considerable number of such cases. That is, cases in which migraine spontaneously ceased and was replaced by epilepsy, or cases in which epilepsy spontaneously ceased, the epileptic seizures being replaced by attacks of migraine, or cases in which the two alternated.

In this case we shall first treat the patient for migraine with canabis indica and, that failing, we shall treat her as we would any other case of epilepsy, by means of the bromides.

From that sage exponent of medical lore, The Chicago Tribune, we have a discussion of the relative health of babies fat and babies skinny, and the morning penny dispensary holds firmly to the exalted position of the latter. It quotes a "prominent Chicago physician" in saying, "When I see a fat baby, I say 'artificial baby food baby,' just as I say 'alcoholic' when I see an obese man." The corpulent infants of the land must feel the finger of shame pointed at them for their artificial lives just as the per-oxide blonde feels the scorn of her critical sisters and the rotund leaders of total abstinence must hie them to the anti-fattery unless they wish to be classed as among the goats who are parading in the eyes of the W. C. T. U. as wolves in sheep's clothing. The depth of the layer of fat over your bones is in direct ratio to the depth of your shame in alcoholism or artificial food, to have the matter in a nutshell in strictly scientific terms.

In an operation on the throat on a man at Racine, Wisconsin, the patient came out from the narcosis and attempted to jump from the table. In so doing he struck the surgeon's knife, which inflicted a dangerous wound to the neck. Fortunately, every means was at hand to repair the injury at once.

The Mississippi Gulf Coast Medical Society, incorporated under the laws of the state of Louisiana, has disbanded.

The Battle Creek Sanitarium has just opened the magnificent new building constructed to take the place of the one recently lost by fire. The opening was made a great occasion.

A quasi-medical paper in Ohio called attention to the fact that lettuce eaten daily was a cock sure preventive of smallpox. As an indication of the fruitful soil in the United States for all kinds of freakish notions, it is reported that in some vicinities where this statement has been quoted the supplies of lettuce were exhausted by the people who dread that disease. Fortunately, the prophylactic measure is harmless-even beneficial-and it may be said that the story actually did good in getting the people to eat more green stuff than had been their custom.

We are advised that one of the publications of the Abbott Alkaloidal Company promulgated the treatment of diphtheria with Castoria. The laxative effects of this preparation might be beneficial, but-tut! tut! tut! Why not the alkaloid "diphtheriene" or do you have one?

Dr. Wm. Flegenheimer, of Richmond, Virginia, reports that he has successfully grafted the skin of the pig onto denuded surfaces of a patient. Comparative anatomists tell us that we resemble the hog very much in many particulars, why not in the skin? It may be in the future that we shall change the old saying to "you can make a new hide out of a sow's ear."

A Salt Lake doctor reports that a patient of his cured himself of general oedema by abstaining entirely from food for forty days and using only water. That is nothing to what starvation will do, if we believe some of the physicalculturists in the East.

President Harper, of the University of Chicago, is back from New York, where he had a heart to heart talk with Mr. Rockefeller. He went East to tell them of the raising of the million dollars for the Rush Medical College and to claim about six million from Rockefeller with which Rush is to be made a whirlwind of a medical school. While the million gotten up here included some odds and ends which were not exactly cash, it is stated that they were accepted at par by the New York end of the combination.

We are advised by a special correspondent that the grave diggers in New York have gone on a strike. This is of no interest to medical practitioners.

The Maltine Company has issued a most artistic booklet entitled "Quarantine Sketches," consisting of a number of interesting pictures showing the methods of handling the emigrants at New York. This will be sent, we understand, to any physician upon request.

Mrs. Martha M. Allen, Superintendent of the Department of Non-Alcoholic Medication for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, has issued a circular letter asking the medical men of the country whether there are many American physicians who have but limited, if any, use for alcoholic liquids in their practice. It would seem that the American Medical Temperance Association could give all of the desired information upon this point. We are unable to do so. The Association is distributing to the doctors of the country a reprint of the article by Dr. Max Kassowitz, of the University of Vienna, entitled "Is Alcohol a Food or a Poison?"

Dr. Quitman Kohnke, president of the New Orleans Board of Health, who went to Havana to study the quarantine and mosquito question, presented a report to the board strongly indorsing what has been done in Havana, and recommending the adoption of the Cuban methods for New Orleans and other Gulf ports. He asserts that yellow fever has been completely exterminated in the island, and that there is no chance of its revival under the effectual quarantine and sanitary conditions now in force there. The same methods against infection by the mosquito has resulted in reducing the number of cases of malarial fever 90 per cent. He attributes the improvement to the good work done in getting rid of mosquitoes. He

said that the chief sources of yellow fever had been shifted from Cuba to Mexico and Central America.

Dr. Frank A. Bigelow, of New York, in charge of the Koch Lung Cure Company, has been arrested for filing a false death certificate.

Our ideas of reform for the code of ethics of medical editors are given a set-back when we notice that our old friend, The Maryland Medical Journal, has plucked one of our gems of thought and poesy without crediting us with the deed. The "Ills of this Latter Day" is the flowerlet they gathered in from that rose-bed of the "Aire Caliente."

We can understand how a medical editor may omit to give credit for matter "borrowed" from other publications occasionally through accident, but when matter is published repeatedly without offering the slightest recognition to the originators it seems time to call a halt. We had occasion some time ago to gently chide The Western Medical Journal, of Fort Scott, Kansas, for having published some verses from our "Aire Caliente" without mentioning us in the matter, and now the same journal is being called to time for having "borrowed" a complete article from Northwest Medicine and giving no credit. We can not understand the necessity of clipping complete articles, but clipping them and sending them forth as original is certainly to be strongly condemned. As an indication of the extent of this practice, we may say that some verses from this journal, "Something Just as Good," were published in over twenty journals, and in only about half was credit given. Maybe they didn't think there was any particular credit to give.

IN our next number will be found a thoughtful article by Dr. Levi B. Salmans, a successful medical missionary in Mexico. During Dr. Salmans' stay in Chicago he organized and incorporated the Chicago Medical Missionary Training School, with Dr. W. E. Quine as President and Dr. E. S. Pettyjohn as acting Secretary. Dr. Salmans is President of the American Medical Missionary Association, which held a recent session at Clifton Springs, and desires correspondence with those intending to devote their lives to medical missionary work.

Waukesha and the Fountain Spring House.

WAUKESHA. After the fashion which has gained some following in this new land of ours, after the fashion which caused our northeastern states to be known as New England, and the Empire state as New York, there has been a disposition to apply to Waukesha the name of the "Saratoga of the West." That this is complimentary to Saratoga is unquestioned; but Waukesha is not a Saratoga, either in the nature of her mineral waters, the character of her surroundings, or the character of her inhabitants. It is enough that Waukesha is Waukesha; the one Waukesha of the nation, and the one Waukesha of the world.

Built as was Rome, upon her seven hills, Waukesha lies in the very garden spot of Wisconsin. The hills and the valleys, the natural forests, the dreamy flow of the Fox river, and the modern improvements through which comfort for the physical man is added to the beauty of surroundings and the health to be secured-these are what make Waukesha the resort of health and pleasure which never goes out of fashion and which is always inviting to him who is seeking health or rest or pleasure.

The situation of Waukesha is most convenient. It is but sixteen miles from Milwaukee, whence it may be reached by electric car service, while the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, the Chicago &