says: "The ignorance of the laity in the most fundamental rules governing the care of their own ears, and especially those of their children, is not surprising when we recall the empiricism that has surrounded the organ of hearing and its treatment throughout the history of medicine." He further says, regarding the training of students: "I, for one, regard it as a disgrace and an injustice, both to the embryo physician and to the public, to confer the honored degree of doctor of medicine upon any candidate who is not able to diagnose and properly treat acute diseases of the tympanic cavity." Under "Treatment," he has the following to say: "In considering the treatment of acute suppurative otitis media it must be assumed that every effort has been made to arrest the progress of the disease before the formation of pus. If, however, pus formation has already taken place, there is, of course, nothing to do but evacuate it in the manner above stated," which is, "when the middle ear, as well as other cavities, is filled with pus, it must be thoroughly evacuated; this, however, can not be accomplished by a simple puncture of the membrana tympani. The membrane, consequently, must be incised freely, the chief requisite being to carry the incision from the most bulging point downward to the lower border of the canal, said incision to be continued either in an anterior or posterior direction until about the sixteenth part of a circle has been formed. This will not only provide for good drainage, but will insure the opening remaining patulous long enough to admit of after treatment."

Dr. Richardson's paper was on "The Etiology, Pathology and Symptomatology of Chronic Suppurative Otitis."

Dr. McKernon's paper dealt with the "Treatment of Complications of Otitis Media Suppurativa," and is one of the most interesting papers in the collection. One, however, should read it all to appreciate it thoroughly.

Dr. Edward Bradford Dench described the "Technique of the Radical Operation for Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media." To attempt to extract from his paper would be an injustice to the author, as each step fits in to the one preceding.

These five articles alone are worth a year's subscription to the Laryngoscope.

The writer recently spent a few weeks in New Orleans, and while there visited daily the clinics at the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital. They are treating on an average, daily, about 150 to 200 patients, and will soon erect a handsome new hospital with every modern equipment.

A grandson of our immortal Stephen F. Austin was in the hospital and had been operated on by Dr. Gordan King, chief of clinic of the Ear, Nose and Throat Department, for a large benign tumor of the naso-pharynx. Recovery was complete, and the young boy returned to his home in Lindale, Smith county, Texas, while the writer was still there.

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DEATH OF DR. HADRA.

Dr. B. E. Hadra, of Dallas, one of the most famous physicians and surgeons of Texas, was found dead in his office in Dallas Sunday afternoon, July 12th (inst.). It is supposed that he died from the excessive heat of the day. He was very frail, and his friends had been anxious about him for many months past.

The remains were sent to Austin, and were interred in the family lot in the city cemetery. Dr. Hadra resided many years in Austin. The funeral was from the home of ex-Senator Walter Tips. and was attended by a large concourse of friends.

At Dallas, before the shipment of the remains, friends gathered at the family residence, and Dr. H. K. Leake, of that city, a warm friend of the deceased, paid a beautiful tribute to his memory.

The address delivered by Dr. Leake was as follows:

"My friends, we are gathered around the bier of one who was a good man, a good father, husband, citizen and a valiant soldier in ranks of the great medical army; a veteran who ever followed the flag of medicine-nay, planted that flag upon the highest ramparts of the enemy. He was my friend. I knew him for over twenty years. Oft, in the quiet retirement of friendly intercourse, we communed together, and I found him sincere and true, just as he would have been to any man in whom he placed his trust. He was ambitious, but humble; aggressive, but just and generous. He was a sensitive man, because he never indulged in raillery, nor violated the claims of propriety or courtesy, and expected that consideration

which he always meted out to others. He was a fearless man in his work, which was based upon the highest scientific attainment and close application to his studies. His interest in his profession never

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failed him; to the day of his death he rivaled the younger men of the profession in zeal and research. He cared not for the sordid influence of money, nor groveled at the feet of the political machine;

but he climbed the dizzy heights of fame only to realize the uncertainty of life and the illusory character of its emoluments.

"The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,

And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Await alike the inevitable hour-

The paths of glory lead but to the grave."

What lessons do this man's life and death teach the medical profession? "If they only knew," but we who do know the trials borne and the sacrifices made by the physician in the cause of suffering humanity and the disappointments that await each one of us at many points on our checkered careers, should be strongly cemented in the bonds of an unselfish and helpful brotherhood. We who do know that ofttimes we struggle against fate, nor can stay the hand of death, should pursue our calling free from strife and ostentation. Let us, then, realize our limitations; let the "white light of truth" guide our footsteps; let prudence and forbearance toward each other rule our actions; let devotion to morality and science be our guiding star, as it was that of our departed brother, who had no creed beside that of intelligent and unremitting application to his life's work and to his duties in all the relations of life. Let us be true to ourselves, and then we shall not be false to any man or creed.

My friend despised not religious creeds; he respected them, but his instincts were broad and unselfish. He preferred to live without them, but he lived and died with a pure and unsullied character, as a gentleman and physician. Surely, this were comprehensive enough for one whose instincts and education had molded him as the potter hath power over the clay, without its knowledge or consent.

We shall inscribe his name upon the memorial page of the historical annals of the medical profession of our State; we shall enshrine his virtues in our hearts; had he faults, we recall them not. for

"Who knows the heart? "Tis he alone decidedly can try us;

He knows each chord, its various tone; each string, its various bias.
Then at the balance let's be mute, we never can adjust it;
What's done we partly may compute, we know not what's resisted."

At the grave there was no religious ceremony, in accordance with the well-known wishes of the deceased, but Judge Julius Schutze delivered an eloquent and touching tribute to his life-long friend and compatriot, after which Dr. F. E. Daniel spoke a few brief words and touchingly referred to Dr. Hadra's life and services. Dr. Daniel said:

"It is my privilege and honor and a meloncholy pleasure to pay the tribute of a few poor words to the memory of him whom in life I loved and honored, and to testify to the high esteem in which Dr. Hadra was universally and justly held, not only by his colleagues, but by all who had the honor of his acquaintance. I knew him well; and for the brilliance of his genius, his splendid attainments as a

physician, surgeon and general literary scholar I admired him, and for the excellence of his gentle heart and genial character I loved him. Dr. Hadra was no ordinary man. Indeed, he was a most extraordinary man, a rare man. Brilliant in his profession, his qualities amounted almost to genius. His strongest forte, perhaps, was the power of diagnosis. He seemed to have an intuitive knowledge of pathological conditions, and with remarkable insight he could detect what was wrong in a patient, and with great precision he could often relieve it by surgical means. His reputation as a surgeon was not local, nor confined to the State, nor to America; it was international. As a writer on those branches of medical and surgical science to which he devoted himself-operative surgery and gynecology-he was known and recognized as an authority throughout Europe and America. Moreover, he was a man of high literary attainments, and wrote several works of fiction which possessed real merit, but which he was too modest to publish. It was my privilege to see them in manuscript, but they have never been given to the public. I said he was 'too modest.' He was a very modest and unassuming man, as true merit ever is. It amounted at times to real embarrassment. When he was unanimously chosen by his colleagues to be President of the State Medical Association in April, 1899, at Waco, his embarrassment was almost painful, and he would have declined the honor but for the insistence of friends that he should not. He wanted to let the vice-president be president. The presidency of the State Medical Association means that the one so honored is recognized as the head of the profession. Honor was thrust upon him; it was never sought. He was appointed a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas and served four years. He filled the Chair of Surgery in the Medical Department of the University of Texas four or more years. At the time of his death he was one of the faculty of the Medical Department of the Southwestern University of Georgetown, at Dallas. Dr. Hadra was a Prussian. He was born near Breslau in 1842, and was in his sixtyfirst year. He served as surgeon major in the Prussian army in the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, and came to America shortly after that war. He had been thoroughly educated in the German universities, acquiring a good knowledge of the English language and its classical literature, and this knowledge he cultivated constantly, until he spoke and wrote it with a fluency and correctness attained seldom by any foreigner. Dr. Hadra was as guileless and gentle as a child and almost as improvident. He practiced surgery con amore. He never refused his services because there was no fee forthcoming; but he received many large fees, and he gave it away or wasted it. He was a somewhat eccentric man, and shrunk from notoriety. He wrapped himself around with a certain reserve, as to the general public, and few persons were permitted to break through it and get close to him. Those whom he admitted to the intimacy of his friendship, only knew and appreciated him. I was one of the favored few, and I say in all candor, there was not among my acquaintances one for whom I had a higher regard and real affection than Hadra-dear, delightful old Hadra! Yet, at the annual meetings of the State Medical Association he was a leader in