DENVER MEDICAL TIMES THOMAS H. HAWKINS, M.D., LL.D., EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. Henry O. Marcy, M.D., Boston. COLLABORATORS: Thaddeus A. Reamy, M.D., Cincinnati. S. H. Pinkerton, M.D., Salt Lake City. Subscriptions, $2.00 per Year in Advance; Single Copies, 20 Cents. Address all Communications to Denver Medical Times, 1740 Welton Street, Denver Colo. We will at all times be glad to give space to well written articles or items of interest to the profession. [Entered at the Postoffice of Denver, Colorado, as mail matter of the Second Class.] EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. Gross Medical College Alumni Association. The annual meeting of this society was held on the evening of May 3d, at the offices of Dr. Keen. A goodly number of representatives of the various classes were present, and also a few members of the faculty. The annual election resulted in the choice of Dr. J. Roberts, of Aguilar, as Honorary President; Dr. D. R. Lucy, President; Drs. Rothwell, Silverstein and Graham, Vice-Presidents; Dr. Claude Cooper, Secretary; Dr. S. G. Mugrage, Historian. Dr. A. E. Grant, "the watch-dog of the treasury," was re-elected, as were also the three members of the board of trustees. A lively discussion took place as to the best means of promoting interest in the society and mutual benefit. It was decided hereafter to follow no formal program, but to have reports of cases and exhibits of pathologic specimens, with free discussion by any or all of the members. The lunch feature may also be utilized to increase the social attractions of the meetings. Taking into consideration the ups and downs inseparable in the nature of things from such a society, this association has done much good work in the past, and has, we believe, a long and prosperous future before it. Denver and Arapahoe Two papers were read at the meeting of May 8. The first was by Dr. W. P. Munn, on "Diseases of the Bladder and Their Diagnosis." He emphasized the importance of the modern instruments of direct examination in urinary troubles, and illustrated the fallacy of ascribing every case of frequent and painful urination to cystitis. "Evasions of the Colorado Medical Statute" was the title of Dr. S. D. Van Meter's paper. The writer contended that, according to a decision by the supreme court of this state, osteopaths and electropaths might be successfully prosecuted for practicing medicine without a license. The paper was discussed by Drs. Mann, Dulin, Hall, Spivak and Wetherill. The consensus of opinion seemed that it would be more practicable and preferable to stringently enforce and amend the existing medical law than to attempt the passage of a new law, particularly any compromise measure. The committee on "dead-beats," as appointed by the president, consists of Drs. Beggs, Mann and Blaine. The committee on the examination of sight and hearing in school children is composed of Drs. Jackson, Levy, Black, Chase, Coover and Eskridge. Denver Clinical and The May meeting was held in the McPhee building, Drs. Stevens, Blaine, Stover and Craig acting as hosts. After a lively discussion, the amendment requiring the notification to members of the names of proposed members was adopted. Dr. Bergtold spoke of the remarkably prompt curative action secured by the conjoint administration of piperazin and urotropin in cases of uric acid pyelitis - the former drug removing the cause, the latter the effect. Dr. R. B. Freeman had delivered in the past month four babies born with a caul, which in one instance reached to the buttocks. Dr. Hall, not to be outdone, mentioned the case, reported to him, of an infant born in a caul without medical attendance, said infant having drowned in the liquor amnii. He had also seen on one day two cases of pulmonary abscess, resulting from extension of appendical infection by way of the liver. A case of severe lymphangitis and phlegmonous cellulitis of the leg, resulting from a small wound on the dorsum of the foot, was described by Dr. Stover. In spite of the fact that nearly all the cellular tissue came away in the discharges, the patient weighed a pound more on leaving his bed than when taken sick. The surface application of iodin seemed to have a pronounced effect in preventing upward spread of the trouble. An interesting example of tachycardia, over 200 per minute, occurring after a nightmare in a patient who had been subjected to Estlander's operation, was reported by Dr. Lobingier. The patient soon recovered under digitalis and bromides. Dr. Hill made brief mention of a case of marked menopausal tachycardia, in which tincture of passiflora appeared to be of value. Dr. Black's case of papilloma of the soft palate, shown to the society last fall, has undergone sarcomatous transformation, the growth nearly filling the pharyngeal vault. Atypical abdominal disease was a subject introduced by Dr Waxham. He related the history of an attack of intussusception of the small intestine in a woman, the only signs or symptoms being obstinate constipation and severe pain. Celiotomy revealed the invagination and about a foot of gangrenous gut, which was removed, and the patient is now convalescent. Similar misleading cases of hepatic and intestinal trouble were presented by Drs. Tyler, Hershey, Whitney and Lobingier. Two instructive autopsies were reported by Dr. Beggs. In one instance an apparently atypical typhoid case, which was not diagnosed after exploratory incision, proved to be multiple hepatic abscess, secondary to ruptured appendix. In the other, a man thrown |