21. Septicemia, with Report of a Most Interesting Case - R. J. McFall, M. D., Cumberland City.

22. Circumcision: Its Technique, Anæsthesia, Operation, and After-Treatment E. A. Timmons, M. D., Columbia.

23. Some Anomalous Cases of Appendicitis-Jno. A. Gaines, M. D., Nashville.

24. Appendicitis: Its Etiology and Pathology, with a Report of Laboratory Findings in Twelve Cases Walter Lenehan, M. D., Nashville. 25. Amputations of the Thigh-J. B. Murfree, M. D., Murfreesboro. 26. Laryngeal Diphtheria-O. H. Wilson, M. D., Nashville.

27. Osteo-Myelitis-Jere L. Crook, M. D., Jackson.

28. Locomotor Ataxia - G. P. Edwards, M. D., Nashville.

29. Alcoholic Inebriety-I. A. McSwain, M. D., Paris.

30. The Importance of More Perfect Teaching of Physical Diagnosis in Our Medical Schools - Hazle Padgett, M. D., Columbia. 31. Treatment of Diffuse Peritonitis-M. C. Mc Gannon, M. D., Nashville.

32. "Unprofessional or Dishonorable Conduct," to which reference is made in Section 3 of the Medical Practice Act-T. J. Happel, M. D., Trenton. This paper will be made the Special Order for the Evening Session of the Second Day. (Limited to 20 minutes.) Another most important item, which will doubtless form an interesting feature of the Evening Session of the Second Day, held in Watkin's Hall, will be a discussion on the Prophylaxis of Tuberculosis, or "Pulmonary Consumption" to be participated in by prominent and representative members of the medical, legal, and theological professions, and representatives of the commercial and transportation interests, of the municipal and State authorities and the secular press. To the exercises of the evening of the second day the general public, especially the ladies, are most cordially invited.

THE RAILROADS, with their usual liberality, have made a reduced rate of one and one-third fare (plus 25 cents) for the round trip. Please bear in mind that when you purchase your railroad ticket you must ask for a certificate showing that you have purchased a full-fare railroad ticket to Nashville, to attend the Annual Meeting of the Tennessee State Medical Association. Immediately on reaching the Hall, place your certificate and ticket coupon, if accompanying or attached, in the hands of the

Secretary of the Association, that it may be properly and promptly attended to, thus affording you the opportunity of returning to your home any day at one-third the regular fare (plus 25 cents). You pay full fare at starting point, and with due attention to this apparently minor point, you will have no delay or trouble in getting your return ticket prior to, or at the close of the meeting.

Members, on reaching the Hall of meeting, will register at once at a desk, convenient and of easy access at all times, where they will receive their badges.

Members of the House of Delegates, or their Alternates, on arrival, will at once present their credentials to the Secretary so that they may receive the proper badge.

Please do not forget the time and place of meeting, and kindly keep this preliminary announcement accessible and convenient until you reach the Watkins Institute, Cor. Church St. and Sixth Ave. N. (High St.)

DEERING J. ROBERTS, M. D.,

SECRETARY.

THANATOPSIS: EUTHANASIA FOR SEXAGENARII!!!

"Peu de gens savent etre vieux”—“ Valeat quantum valere potest."

We have given a large amount of space this month to the Valedictory of Dr. Osler, reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association, it having attracted no little "talkee-talkee" at the fireside, the dining-table, on the street, and everywhere that men and women too, for that matter- most do congregate for gas, gabble, and gossip, as well as for other purposes. The large number of our readers who receive the Greatest Medical Journal of the World each week from the "windy city by the lakeside," will, we hope, bear with us, in behalf of that still larger number of their less favored contemporaries living on the hills, in the hollows, on the mountain, or on rural plain, who are content with our monthly, mental, medical "menu." These have seen the matter mentioned in the local daily or weekly secular columns, have had it thrown time and again in their teeth, and have been quizzed and questioned time and again as to this New Departure - Oh no; not that by any means, but a return to savage and barbarous aye, now universally ac

cepted in all civilized and enlightened sections as inhuman customs that have long been relegated to the shades of the past, even in the benighted regions and nations or tribes, where it once had sway. The Spartans were bad enough, when they destroyed- or rather let us put it more mildly, tested-the "weaklings" at their entrance on this mortal stage, this test resulting in getting rid of those who might prove a burden on their more vigorous brothers.

Well, he said he did, and yet, he says he didn't! We have read much that has emanated from the fluent pen of Dr. Osler. And shall we say it? Yes, we say it now, and we have said it before, We have never been satisfied with the productions of his pen, nor the utterances of his lips. Everything that we have been able to lay our eyes upon, or that has fallen upon our tympani from Osler has seemed to us—possibly we were not sufficiently erudite; yet, that may be granted as our misfortune, and yet the fact remains-here has been much sound and but little substance.

Having been engaged in the study of the "healing art and science" for more than four decades, and we do not think our many friends are so exceeding kind as to desire our easy taking off;" and it is not that the shoe pinches," for we have had our say long ere he made his last remarkable "play to the galleries," having oft been asked by students of medicine of late years, we being yet "in the harness" as a teacher of medicine, having worn the yoke longer than Dr. Osler, as to the character of what has been regarded as his best production, and would we advise them to get his work "On Practice"? Our answer has universally been that if they only wanted, or their means would only allow one book on practice, there are many better works -Tyson, Anders, French, and others of contemporaneous issue would afford them far more satisfaction, and yield far better results to them, either as student or practitioner. But, if you want to begin accumulating a medical library, and can purchase more than one book on this branch, oh! yes, get Osler, it may afford you food for thought, for it does not say much—but words. Words, nicely arranged, yes indeed, glowing sentences, glittering periods -but only words. And yet with all his words, he could never reach the point of a Master of English as did the great and good Thomas Watson, who received his accolade from the glittering blade of his sovreign queen on whose domain the "sun never sets for all," after the age when Osler would- and wouldn't (?) - have had him shuffle off his mortal coil. I wonder if Dr. Osler will receive like honor from the son of that mother who attained to such greatness and became greater and greater long after Dr. Osler would have administered to her the anesthetic! It is quite likely that both he and his present sovereign would have to inhale the lethal dose before he can attain the honor as did good Sir Thomas who could paint such pictures of the various phases and forms

of dread disease that they became indelible pictures on the grey matter of his students. The one was sound and rational in his teachings, with original ideas of his own, and well versed in the views of predecessors and contemporaries; Dr. O., so far as we have been able to gather, and we have read him by and large, long and well, hoping to find some germs of original thought, and at last, he has gone and done and done it! Yes, as the milk-maid said to her visitor-"Now, look! you have trod in it."

With glittering generalities, with his somewhat gifted tongue, he has obtained much character and renown from the coinage of other brain cells than his own. He has been playing to the galleries from start to finish, and there was never such a "grand stand" effort as this last suggestion of a return to savagery and barbarism.

Forsooth, he has been a trimmer from his first entrance before the footlights of public opinion, only a follower, and a "camp follower" at that, and never a leader. Born in "No Man's Land," barnacled on the Dominion of Canada, by his much and many-sided speech, all things to all men, foisting himself into the lecture field there, transferred to the University of Pennsylvania -fortunately for but few years, these two fields were relieved when his "gift of gab" brought him to Johns Hopkins in its juvenile days, getting now, and none too soon, like relief by his shift to the halls of Oxford. Yes, we agree with him, in that such a teacher should not stay too long in one place it is not good for the place!

He makes his bid for popularity to the young men, those coming on, they being by far in the majority, just as the quadregenarii exceed in numbers the sexagenarii, and the men of forty being in greater numbers apparently have achieved more than those who are left to carry on the good fight for two decades more. His teaching is not sound. On the other hand, we may not have achieved as much renown in the few more years that have been allotted to us than he, but we cannot help but believe that more good results will follow if the men at forty and before are taught and impressed with the idea to carefully protect, preserve, and conserve their forces so that the decades that follow, even after sixty and seventy, or still yet, fourscore may be reached, and may find them mentally, if not absolutely as physically strong, and the greatest benefits might accrue from their ripened and well-matured experiences. Oh! indeed, shall we lose the increment of that grandest of schools, so costly ofttimes and yet so incalculably valuable?

Bah! We were never in favor of or an admirer of the "quarterhoss," and the blue-blooded “kings and queens of the turf" of to-day are not so fit to "race for a man's life or a king's ransom as in the good old days of yore - those days of "Haynie's Maria," "Gray Eagle," "Henry Perritt," and their contestants on many a hardly contested

field of mile heats, 2 out of 3, or 3 in 5 with full cards; 2, 3, and 4mile contests of speed and endurance. We are a stayer-never yet a quitter until the flag falls.

He has uttered his valedictory to these shores and this people, with a pitiful bid for the popularity of the young, and a slur on the old, whom the highest teachings of both Christianity and civilization bid us alike with divinely endowed woman, to love, respect, and honor; and we do not believe it would have done this country much harm, or greatly benefited Albion had he said it quite a number of years ago. A native of "No Man's Land," he looks more like an "almond-eyed Celestial" than a thoroughbred Caucasian, and judging from the shape of his head, his general contour of craniological and physiognomical development, even to the hirsute adornment of his upper lip as last observed, if asked from what race or people did he spring, we would be forced to call him a-a-yes, a Touranean. As to Bill's sournoun," though suggestive of Turcism, it is neither Saxon, Norman, nor good Low Dutch, and we will not cast a slur on our Hiberno-Celtic ancestry by pronouncing it "O'Sler." Array him in a kimona with its flowing sleeves and with the industry, energy, and perseverance of a "Jap," and the guilelessness of a "Heathen Chinee" with the "smile that is bland and tricks that are vain," and he could with the avidity and treachery of a Malay most readily and quickly garner in “four aces” if he ever "stood in the game."

We will not attempt "to point a moral or adorn a tale," not being at all deft by "hand or mouth" in the delicacies and intricacies of embroidery or persiflage; nor do we think our critisism is at all in the lines of a preached sermon, we being more given to "general practice," yet we will in taking leave of one who has made a venomous snarl and sneer at a great people —a viper, cold-blooded and vindictive, wounding the bosom that warmed him into vigorous vitality, refer him to the law as laid down by the great Lawgiver in Lev. 19:32, or the inspired exclamation of that grand singer also of Israel in the ninth verse of the seventy-first Psalm.

O thou, who hast obtained so much profit on so little real and inherent, intrinsic, or acquired capital and worth, Vale, Vale, Vale! Vague indefinite, and erratic in your teaching; ever wavering, vacillating, and uncertain in your practice; and most unsatisfactory and platitudinous in person or by letter, as a consultant, it is thus we "speed the parting guest." He may say that the gun is a "small bore," but it has brought down far bigger game, and has " silenced" greater guns that he will ever be, though peradventure, he may not take his own medicine, and may reach "fourscore" or the century mark in the classical halls he will not adorn or e'er illuminate as has been done by more than one of threescore and ten."