INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON TUBERCULOSIS.

The most important gathering of the year will occur at Washington, D. C. on September 21, when the International Congress on Tuberculosis will convene. President Roosevelt has accepted the presidency of the Congress, and has entered into the spirit of the work with his characteristio enthusiasm and keen appreciation of its great importance to mankind.

Many states are organizing with a view to sending delegations, and Missouri should be fully represented. We should send at least 400 members. Those who have not joined should send $5.00 at once to the secretary, Dr. Jno. S. Fulton, 714 Colorado Building, Washington, D. C. The volume of transactions will be worth many times the cost, if one cannot attend.

A party is being organized from Missouri Valley states, with a view to securing special train service, low rates, and a pleasant trip to the Congress. Those who desire to join will send their names to Dr. Chas. Wood Fassett, St. Joseph, for full particulars. Telephone your friends about it, and induce them to join a congenial party of doctors and laymen, and attend the greatest Congress ever held in this country.

Who's Who in the Missouri Valley

DR. C. F. WAHRER,

subject of our front cover portrait, is the newly-elected president of the Iowa State Medical Society, and one of the most familiar figures in the medical circles of the state. Dr. Wahrer was born in Baden (near Heidelberg), Germany, July 19, 1850; coming to this country when a small boy, he attended school in Keokuk, and later took a B. S. degree at Whittier College. He graduated in medicine in 1887, holding various professor. ships in the P. and S. College of Keokuk. In 1893 he removed to Fort Madison, where he now resides. Dr. Wahrer served as president of the S. E. Iowa Medical Society, the Tri-State Medical Society, and is now vice-chairman, Section of Pediatrics, A. M. A., and also a member of the "Committee of One Hundred" of the Association for the Advancement of Science. He has taken an active part in the campaign against food adulteration, quackery and frauds, and the State Medical Society has shown both wisdom and justice in honoring him with the highest gift in its power.

INDIANA STATE SOCIETY.-At the fifty-ninth meeting of the Indiana State Medical Association, held in French Lick Springs, June, 18 and 19, the following officers were elected: President, Dr. George D. Kahlo, French Lick; vice-presidents, Drs. Edward D. Freeman, Osgood; Charles H. McCully, Logansport, and Charles Chittick, Frank port; secretary, Dr. Frederick C. Heath, Indianapolis (re-elected); treasurer, Dr. Albert E. Bulson, Jr., Fort Wayne; and delegates to the American Medical Association, Drs. William N. Wis hard, Indianapolis; Edwin Walker, Evansville; Harry C. Sharp, Jeffersonville and George W. Thompson, Winamac.

Concerning the Doctor

His ups and downs; incomings and outgoings; haps and mishaps.

DR. CHAS. M. WALLACE (Ensworth, 1908) has located at Macksburg, Iowa. DR. C. W. BERTRAM is in New York City, taking a post-graduate

course.

DR. D. R. DUNAVAN, the apostle of Horlick's malted milk, is making his periodical pleasant call on St. Joseph physicians.

DR. W. L. WHITTINGTON, late of St. Joseph, has located in Oklahoma City, and will limit his practice to the eye, ear, nose and throat.

MR. WALTER HEMSLEY, of St. Louis, spent a few days in St. Joseph recently, reminding us cf the supreme qualities of apollinaris and apenta waters.

DR. H. A. BEAUDOUX, president of the North Dakota Medical Society, has removed from Fargo, N. D., to St. Paul, where he will practice in special lines, limiting his work to the eye and ear.

DR. LLOYD A. CLARY, representing the house of R. W. Gardner, New York, is interviewing the local physicians in the interests of Gardner's high-class pharmaceuticals.

DR. ORVILLE H. BROWN, physician-in-charge of the Missouri Sanatorium for Incipient Tuberculosis, at Mt. Vernon, has been appointed superintendent of the institution, vice Dr. Wm. Bayliss, resigned.

PROF. H. B. WARD, of the Nebraska State University, Lincoln, was elected to associate membership in the American Medical Association, at Chicago. This was a well-deserved compliment to one of the brightest of our Western educators.

DR. WILLIAM K. CRELLIN, aged 93 years, the oldest physician in the state, died at his home in Chillicothe, Mo., August 2, 1908. Although Dr. Crellin has been blind for ten years he has, with the aid of his children, kept up his medical studies and was a writer of considerable note.

DR. W. H. CHRISTIE, one of the oldest and best known physicians of Omaha, died suddenly in his apartments on May 28th, from cerebral hemorrhage. Dr. Christie was born in Bergen county, New York, on March 31st, 1844, and was therefore 64 years of age at the time of his death. As a young man Dr. Christie served as a private in Company K, Seventyfifth Illinois reigment, in the Civil War and was wounded at the battle of Perryville. He graduated in medicine from the Rush Medical College of Chicago and practiced in several Illinois towns, coming to Omaha in 1887, where he has resided ever since. For twenty years he held a chair in the Omaha Medical College, and was a member of the Omaha School Board for six years, always taking a very active interest in educational matters. He was a member of the A. M. A., Nebraska State, Omaha-Douglas County and Missouri Valley Medical societies. He was well known in Masonic ciroles and had occupied many important positions in that order. He was buried at Forest Lawn cemetery on May 31st, the Masonic

order and the Omaha Board of Education uniting with the medical profession in paying tribute to his memory as a brother, an educator, a physician and a beloved and respected citizen.

DR. FRANK CATLIN GREENE, for many years a member of the firm of Chas. Truax, Greene & Co., Chicago, died in that city, after a long illness, on Monday, July 27th. Dr. Greene was well and popularly known among the members of the American Medical Association, and seldom missed a meeting of this society, although not in active practice. Dr. Greene was 51 years of age, and was graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1880, and from the University of Heidelberg in 1883. His death will be keenly felt by a large circle of friends, who miss his genial companionship. Our sympathy is extended to the wife and other relatives who survive him, and to the remaining members of the company.

Society Scintillations

"True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing." -H. HUMPHREY.

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY.

The twenty-first annual meeting of this association will be held in Council Bluffs, Iowa, September 3 and 4, 1908, under the presidency of Dr. W. F. Milroy, of Omaha. In view of the fact that Council Bluffs was the birth-place of this society, it is peculiarly fitting that we should celebrate in this city the day our society attains its "majority." It is interesting to look back over the records of the society, and read the names of those who have been members and ardent workers in the good cause for twenty years. The "call" for the first meeting was signed by Drs. J. M. Emmert, J. C. Denise and Donald Macrae, and the meeting was held in the Ogden House, Council Bluffs, on September 27, 1588. Dr. Emmert is the only one of the "signers" living. The first officers of the society were: President, Dr. Donald Macrae; first vice-president, Dr. J. M. Emmert; second vice-president, Dr. J. C. Denise; Secretary, Dr. Jas. Carter; treasurer, Dr. T. B. Lacey; chairman credential committee, Dr. F. S. Thomas. Meetings were held three times each year, in September, December and March, but later the December session was omitted. Among the charter members who are yet living and are active in the work of the society, may be mentioned: Drs. J. M. Emmert, J. M. Barstow, H. B. Jennings, A. S. von Mansfelde, J. E. Summers, A. F. Jonas, D. C. Bryant, W. O. Bridges, W. S. Ross, W. F. Milroy, Harold Gifford, A. B. Somers, A. D. Wilkinson, Rebecca Hanna, H. S. Rogers, F.T. Seybert, M. L. Hildreth, J. M. Knott, J. H. Cleaver, R. C. Moore, W. Berry, F. W. Porterfield. All told the society has held forty-four meetings in the various cities, as follows:

At first the society embraced but two states-Iowa and Nebraska, but the membership has steadily grown, until at the present time thirteen states are represented at its meetings.

The list of papers promised for the next meeting embraces a wide range, and will be found interesting, especially to the general practitioner. In the Address on Medicine, by Dr. C. B. Hardin, of Kansas City, those who attend may anticipate a literary treat.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:

Rheumatic Considerations, F. E. Walker.

Demonstration of a New Portable Traction Apparatus for Treating Fractures of the Femur and for Various Orthopedic Operations, Chester M. Echols.

Paper (title to be announced), R. Emmet Kane.
Ectopic Gestation, A. R. Kieffer.

Therapeutic Use of the Induced Hyperemia in Nasal and Aural Affections with a Consideration of the Opsonic Index, Eugene Richards Lewis. The Influence of Nasal and Post-Nasal Obstruction in Childhood, Lee Wallace Dean.

Pyloric Stenosis in Infants, H. M. McClanahan.

Acute Appendicitis Accompanied by Local Suppurative Adenitis, G. G. Cottam.

A Form of Uric Acid Autointoxication, Due to the Non-use of Meat, R. J. Midgley.

The Mechanical Factors in Cold Taking and Their Therapeutic Interpretation, David C. Hilton.

Dystocia in Apparently Normal Conditions, Andrew B. Somers.
Regulation of the Practice of Medicine by the State, Joseph T.

Clegg

Nervous Children, Isaao A. Abt.

Rapid Method of Treatment of Granulating Surfaces Preceding Skin Grafting and its Application to Septic Wounds in General, Jules F. Menestrina.

Some Uses of Thyroid, E. W. Demaree.

The Diagnosis of Coxa Vara, D. T. Quigley.

Care of the Perineum During and After Parturition, J. H. Talboy.
The Use of Morphine in Heart Disease, LeRoy Crummer.

Plague Rat: Ocean Vessels, C. Engel.

Diet in Hyperacidity, J. Malseed Bell.

Congenital Cysts of the Neck-report of Case, L. A. Todd.

At the evening session Dr. E. H. Skinner, of Kansas City, will deliver a lecture on "A Plea for Exactness in the Diagnosis of Kidney and Bone Lesions by the Roentgen Method," illustrated by stereopticon slides and moving pictures.

The profession cordially invited.

If you do not receive copy of program in due time, please notify the secretary. Bear in mind the dates: September 3 and 4. W. F. MILROY,

President.

CHAS. WOOD FASSETT,

Secretary.

MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE SOUTHWEST. The third annual meeting of this association will be held in Kansas City, Mo., October 19, 20, 21, 1908. Dr. T. E. Holland, Hot Springs, Ark., is president; Dr. F. H. Clark, El Reno, Okla., is secretary, and Dr. John Punton, of Kansas City, Mc., is the chairman of the committee of arrangements. Clinics will be held at the various hospitals on Monday morning, and Thursday, Friday and Saturday. No clinics will be held during the sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday. The committee of arrangements is also making ample provision for social entertainments for the visiting doctors as well as their wives. Everyone is expected to bring his wife. Be sure and be in Kansas City during the week of the meeting and have a good time. Please note that the Coates House will be headquarters, and make your reservations early.