Dr. J. RICHEY HORNER has at his office, No. 659 Rose Building, the microscope and surgical instruments, the property of the late Dr. Charles A. Wilson, with authority to dispose of the same at very reasonable rates.

THE OHIO STATE BOARD OF HEALTH has been investigating the Mahoning River. Much sewerage has been poured into this stream, resulting in an increase various diseases in towns on its banks.

MR. AND MRS. CHARLES E. EMERY announce the marriage of their daughter Mabel to Rev. Asa Zadel Hall, M. D., on Thursday, July the 29th, 1909, Colorado Springs, Colorado. At home after September 1st, Saguache, Colorado.

SALEM, O., is experiencing an epidemic of typhoid fever, the source of which has been traced to a milkman's well. Our good friend Dr. T. T. Church and his daughter are at this writing both down with the fever.

THE Chicago Daily Tribune, issue of August 28th, printed an interesting interview with Dr. H. F. Biggør, Sr., in regard to the condition of Mr. E. H. Harriman.

THE AUTHORITIES of Columbus, O., forgetting that there is a comprehensive State law aimed at the distribution of samples of medicines, cosmetics or disinfectants containing ingredients deleterious to health, are talking about framing a city ordinance to abate the nuisance.

DR. WALTER H. MERRIAM, class '95, C. H. M. C., was married August 14th in Chicago to Miss Cliffe Updegrafft Johnson, of Oberlin, O. Dr. Merriam but recently returned from a two years trip to European medical centers. The doctor and his bride returned to Europe for a stay of several months.

There are unfilled positions as house physician in some Cleveland hospitals. A physician who wishes to "brush up" and get a good post-graduate course free with board and a salary can certainly do not better than consider taking one of these appointments. Write to Dr. George W. Quay in regard to a position if you are interested. THERE IS A MOVEMENT on foot to establish an American Association of Clinical Research for the purpose, first, of ascertaining the present exact status of clinical medicine and surgery, and, secondly, of advancing clinical medicine and surgery, by the conjoined clinical method or any other method that will insure exact and abiding results.

THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD has made an innovation in medical diplomas by instituting a special diploma in ophthalmology. The advisability of this step The ques

is questioned, as it is thought that it is carrying specialism too far. tion is asked, if there is to be a special diploma in ophthalmology, why not one in laryngology, otology, dermatology, etc.?

THE VITAL STATISTICS of Columbus, Ohio, show a decided improvement in the city's health since the inauguration of a filtration plant for the city water. Last June there were 159 cases of typhoid. This year there were five cases up to the 20th of the month. Every month so far this year there has been a general decrease in the number of deaths.

THE UNIVERSITIES OF TENNESSEE AND NASHVILLE have recently formed a union of their medical departments. The combined university has adopted the entrance requirements, curriculum, and graduation requirements suggested by the association of American Medical Colleges. The building formerly used by the University of Tennessee is being converted into a hospital.

"GIVE US A UNIFORM pure food law which may be accepted or rejected by the individual States, each according to its needs. A national law should attempt no more than the regulation of interstate commerce." This was the slogan for the thirteenth annual convention of the association of State and national food and dairy departments at Denver the past week.

DR. PERCY VESSIE, one of our last year's graduates, but now house physician at the National Homeopathic Hospital, Washington, D. C., writes that he is having a successful experience and that he appreciates the training he received at the Cleveland College. Vessie writes that he appreciates especially the courses given in physical diagnosis and materia medica as they have been a great help to him in his new field of work.

WHAT APPEARS to be a severe epidemic of anterior poliomyelitis is at present prevalent in St. Paul, Minn. Up to August 7, twenty-two cases had been reported in the city. After that the epidemic increased in severity, as on August

10 and 11 twenty new cases appeared and two deaths were reported. The Minnesota State Board of Health is taking active steps in the investigation of the epidemic.

THE INTERNATIONAL HAHNEMANNIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS elected the following officers at the annual meeting of the association held in Pittsburg, Pa., recently: President, Dr. S. H. Stanton of New York; vice-president, Dr. E. A. Taylor of Chicago; treasurer, Dr. P. A. Kirchbaum of Montclair, N. Y.; and secretary. Dr. J. B. S. King of Chicago, Ill. The conention will meet next year in Kansas City.

IN A WARNING against the great summer pest and menace-mosquitoesThe Department of Health of Philadelphia says: "Mosquitoes, as a rule, deposit their eggs in stagnant water, which hatch out with great rapidity in the form of small animals called 'wrigglers,' named from the manner in which they propel themselves through the water, which in a few days become full-fledged mosquitoes. A sufficient number of mosquitoes to annoy an entire neighborhood can be developed from a very small quantity of water.

DR. JOHN P. SUTHERLAND, of Boston, in the September Gazette, writes as follows: "The Gazette is very glad to learn that Dr. J. Richey Horner of Cleveland has finally consented to act as associate editor of the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy. We understand that Dr. Horner will have charge of the editorial part of the Journal. This information gives us much pleasure as we are familiar both with the Doctor's personality and with his pre-eminent ability along journalistic lines.''

THE new Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital since the opening day has been comfortably well filled. The Editor has operated a few times and has experienced all of the surgical luxuries the market affords. The ladies in charge have certainly done their part towards providing the profession with a perfectly fitted hospital. We trust physicians visiting Cleveland will go over the building. There ought to be a united effort on the part of physicians of our school to limit their support to homeopathic hospitals and also homeopathic specialists. In other words let's get together and stay together.

THE INDEFATIGABLE Dr. George Matson, Secretary of the Ohio State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, caused the arrest of an itinerant faker at Circleville. Two men, giving the names of A. Bauer and Dr." Robert Allen, claiming to be of Columbus, where they said they had a hospital, were bunkoing farmers out of money on an eye treatment scheme. "Dr." Allen was apprehended, but Bauer escaped. The mayor of Circleville fined the "doctor" $25 and costs, and gave him thirty days in jail. The latter was remitted on condition that he leave the State immediately.

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DR. ELEANOR HANDMACHER, C. H. M. C., Class '09, died August 24th, at St. Alexis Hospital. She would have been twenty-four years of age on September She was the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. David Handmacher, of Columbus, O. Stricken with disease while in the midst of her studies, she submitted to an operation last December, and after apparently again regaining her usual good health, returned to the Cleveland Homeopathic School, from where she was uated with high honors last June. After taking her degree she decided to take a vacation before beginning the practice of medicine.

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About three weeks ago she again became ill and was taken to a hospital a week ago. A second operation was deemed necessary, but was not successful. Dr. Handmacher possessed an unusually attractive personality, and her untimely death will be regretted by all who knew her.

GEORGE FRANCIS SHEARS, M. D. Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, 1880; president and senior professor of surgery in Hahnemann Medical College; and one of the most prominent homeopathic practitioners of the middle west; consulting surgeon to the Cook County, Streeter and Silver Cross hospitals, attending

surgeon to Hahnemann Hospital, director of the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, and assistant editor of the Clinique; died at his home in Chicago, August 27, from paresis, aged 52.

PLINY BRETT MORGAN, M. D., Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, 1881; of Berkeley, Cal., a specialist on tuberculosis; and for many years professor of physical diagnosis and diseases of the lungs in Hahnemann Medical College, San Francisco, died at the home of his son in Ben Lomond, Cal., July 29, from heart disease, aged more than 70.

MARKWELL SEWARD CURDY, M. D., Chicago Homeopathic Medical College. 1884; in 1893 and 1902, health officer of Corning, N. Y.; formerly attending physician to Corning Hospital and for many years proprietor of the Highland Pines Sanitarium, died at his home in Ithaca, N. Y., July 25, from paralysis, aged 50.

WILLIAM R. WALL, M. D., Homeopathic Hospital College, Cleveland, Ohio, 1887; died suddenly at his home in Willoughby, Ohio, August 7, from cerebral hemorrhage, aged 68.

JAMES C. HARRINGTON, M. D., Cleveland University of Medicine and Surgery, 1865; of Brooklyn, N. Y.; died at the home of his daughter in Bellevue, Pa., July 15, aged 72.

WESLEY G. MATCHAN, M. D., College of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1899; formerly surgeon of the Northern Pacific Railway, and the Soo Line, and physician to the North Dakota State Penitentiary; died at his home in Bismarck, July 21, aged 33.

LINNAEUS D. WITHERILL, M. D., Geneva, (N. Y.), Medical College, 1866; for 24 years supreme medical examiner of the Knights and Ladies of Honor; a member of the Binghamton Academy of Medicine; died at his home in Union, N. Y., July 22, aged 64.

JONATHAN KAY WRIGLEY, M. D., Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Philadelphia, 1877; died at his home in Altoona, Pa., July 18, from cancer of the liver, aged 54.

SARA L. VALENTINE, M. D., Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, 1887; died at her home in Chicago, July 25, from chronic nephritis, aged 66.

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TRYPSIN IN CANCER.-Bainbridge has, in a very comprehensive paper in the Medical Record, given his final report concerning the enzyme or trypsin treatment for cancer. After discussing the subject in much detail, he summarizes by giving a number of deductions. Among these the most important are the following:

That the internal medication with Holadin and oxgall aids digestion and increases elimination.

That lotic pancreatis applied locally clears the ulcerating surface by removing organisms, thus aiding in diminishing the absorption of their products.

That the regime by increasing resistance may in some cases decrease the rapidity of the malignant process.

That control cases given injections of glycerin and water or sterile water alone, plus the regime, did as well as those on the full enzyme treatment.

That injectio trypsini, in some cases, seems to cause more rapid disintegration of (to "liquify," according to Beard) cancerous tissue.

That because of the tendency of injectio trypsini to disintegrate the tis sues, it may be a direct menace to life (a) by eroding large blood vessels (when the disease is contiguous to these structures, as when deep in the neck or in the pelvis), thus causing death from hemorrhage; (b) when given in large doses, over considerable periods of time, by overwhelming the system with toxi products (tumor toxin), thus, in some cases, hastening death.

That injectio amylopsini seems to diminish cachexia in some cases, in accardonce with the claims of Beard and others.

That the enzyme treatment as administered in the cases herewith reported, and according to the suggestions of Dr. Beard, plus important details of regime, does not check the cancerous process.

That it does not prevent metastasis.

That it does not cure cancer.

DIPHTHERIA CARRIERS.-Cohen in the Journal of the A. M. A. draws the following conclusions concerning this subject:

"1. Persons coming in contact with a diphtheria patient frequently have virulent Klebs-Löffler bacilli deposited on their mucous membranes.

2. Such infected contacts' may later develop diphtheria or, remaining healthy, may act as diphtheria 'carriers,' transmitting the bacilli to others who thereupon may develop the disease or may themselves become diphtheria 'carriers.' "3. To prevent their becoming a source of danger to others, diphtheria 'carriers' should be isolated until bacteriologically clean.

"4. Recognition of the infected 'contacts' must precede their control. This can be brought about only by taking cultures of the throats of all inmates of a house where diphtheria exists.

"5. Little progress need be expected in the prophylaxis of diphtheria so long as we neglect the animate carriers of the contagion."

CHINA OFF.-EXPECTORATION.-A lady, aged thirty, had abscess at bottom of right lung, with expectoration of gray, white, stringy, tenacious mucus, full of lumps of white granules, blood and pus (shown by the microscope), cough loose, causing vomiting of food, with loud whooping spasms three or four times in succession. After the above symptoms had been cured, had occasional cough, expectorating lumps of whitish phlegm, full of black grains, size of a small pinhead. China 30x removed this expectoration in two days; no return, patient convalescent.

ZINC METAL.-URINATING.-A gentleman about forty-five cannot pass his water standing, but only when sitting down. Zincum, twelfth trituration, immediately removed the trouble. It had been generally brought on or increased by

ZINC ARSENIATE, 3x.-Chorea. For this condition of trophic disturbance of the blood and nervous tissues of the organism, this is a remedy of promise, combining, as it does, a specific influence over the destructive tendency in the one and the instability in the other. Conditions especially calling for its use are marked deterioration of the general health with anemia in children, especially in chlorotic and nervously overtaxed school girls. Exhaustion, profound on the slightest exertion, is a predominating characteristic. There is also a great depression of spirits and marked involvement of the lower extremities. It corrects the anemia and exerts a tonic effect in restoring the exhausted nerve cells.

SABAL SERRULATA.-General and Sexual Debility. In the Saw Palmetto we have a remedy with valuable properties for promoting nutrition and tissue building. In sexual neurotics-those debilitated from sexual excesses, natural or from pernicious practices-it is of positive service. The appetite is increased and digestion and nutrition promoted. The languor, apathy and indifference, with appearance of debility, give way to vigor and alertness under the spur of its positive tonic properties. It is of especial value in young female neurotics, who from suppressed or perverted sexual inclinations, become anemic and run down. Often a valuable remedy ip supplementing the good work of phosphoric acid in these 15 to 20 drops of the tincture are given two or three times a day. Larger doses should not be given.

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Book Reviews.

Kerley's Treatment of Diseases of Children. By C. G. Kerley, M. D. Professor of Diseases of Children, New York Post Graduate School. Published by W. B. Saunders Co. Cloth, $5.00. Dr. Kerley has supplied a practical book, planned and written for the practitioner's daily use. There is a large chapter devoted to therapeutic measures other than drugs, and an excellent chapter on Gymnastic therapeutics. It is a splendid work.

Bier's Hyperemic Treatment. By Willy Meyer of New York. Published by W. B. Saunders Co. Cloth, $3.00. Four prints of this work have been required in ten months. The reader will be surprised and interested to learn of the numerous lesions to which it can be applied. The book is well illustrated, and the reader gets a good idea of the practical points in this valuable treatment.

Myomata of Uterus. By Howard A. Kelly, M. D., and Thomas S. Cullen, M. D., of Jeans Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. Published by W. B. Saunders Co. This book is up to the usual high standard usually attained by these famous authors. It is the fruit of over ten years of labor. The authors have brought the operative treatment of uterine myoma to such perfection that the mortality is now less than one per cent. A careful reading of the book will enable one to improve his own operative technique and so increase his personal number of cures The book is a work of art.

Ritchie's Human Physiology. World Book Co., Yonkers, N. Y. This is a new and timely work on the subject with special reference to hygiene and sanitation in accordance with the present movement for bettering and fostering public health.

Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. By R. A. Witthaus, M. D., of New York, and T. C. Becker, of Buffalo. Publishers, Wm. Wood & Co., New York. This subject covers widely different field of human study. In the present work the needs of the legal profession are recognized as well as those of the medical. The various specialities have been treated of by gentlemen who have devoted study and research particularly to the subject on which they write. Recommended.

American Practice of Surgery. Editors: Joseph D. Bryant, M. D., LL. D., and Albert H. Back, M. D., of New York City. Complete in eight volumes. Publishers, William Wood & Co., New York City. Volume six of this series keeps up the most excellent reputation secured by the preceding five. It is profusely illustrated and attractively bound. The present volume considers Surgical Diseases of and wounds of the nasal cavities, accessory sinuses of the mouth, tongue and salivary glands, surgical diseases of the neck and of the thyroid and thymus, thorax, spinal column, female breast, external genitals, vagina, jaws, urethritis and chancroid. Each article has been written by an expert. There is just enough of the text and not too much. Every surgeon will need this book. One of the interesting chapters is Killian's operation on the frontal sinus.

Physical Diagnosis. Richard C. Cabot, M. D., assistant professor of medicine in Harvard University. Published by Wm. Wood & Co., New York City. This book has already gone through four editions. It has been revised and enlarged. There are two hundred and forty illustrations. The writer's style is pleasing. It is a good book for students and general practitioners.

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The eradication of a hypersensitive area in the nasal mucosa oftentimes will an obstinate hay fever.-American Journal of Surgery.