Dr. H. S. Munro, Omaha, Neb., closing.

"In reference to the apparent apathy of the medical profession as regards the employment of psychotheraupeutic principles, I desire to say in conclusion that, in a purely altruistic spirit, I devoted eight years to giving to the medical profession an explanation and elucidation of the practical methods of employing this valuable therapeutic adjunct. The measures advocated by me received the endorsement and commendation of the representatives as well as that of hundreds of thousands of well qualified physicians, in various sections of the country. In this work, I found many physicians who had studied psychotherapy in the great medical centers of Europe, who said to me in perfect candor that it was a shame that our medical schools are not prepared to equip their students to make employment of this important therapeutic adjunct, so as to give the people at large the benefit of this important measure, in the hands of men who are prepared to comprehend its limitations, and not to allow it to be used in disguise, in a haphazard and unscientific manner, by all the forms of quackery, to the detriment of the best interest of the medical profession and in open antagonism to other sane, rational, therapeutic expedients."

BLACK INJUSTICE.

A negro farmhand entered the office of a lawyer in a southern town. "What is it?" demanded the lawyer.

"Jedge," replied the negro, "ef a white man owes a niggah a dollah is they any law in them books up on them shelves dat say he gwinter to pay it?"

"No; not a thing," replied the lawyer.

"Ain' they one line whut says so, jedge?"

"Not a line."

"Well," announced the caller, "al I gotter say is dat ef a niggah owned er white man a dollah evah leaf in dem books would say: 'Niggah, pay dat dollah.'"

"As to the humors of medicine," said Dr. Ben Trovato reminiscently, "there is an old story about a woman who had an abdominal tumor which was found to weigh over eighty pounds after its removal, while the patient herself scaled only some sixty-four pounds. When she was recovering from the anaesthetic she is said to have remarked faintly to the surgeon that she might die happy if she was sure that he would save the growth. This is as remarkable an instance of wit and humor in our professional archives as 1 can recall at the moment."

A peaceable resident of West Sixty-fifth street was rudely awakened from sleep last week, at about 2:30 a. m., by a loud ring at his doorbell. Throwing open the window, he stuck his head out in no very pleasant manner demanded to know what was wanted.

"'Scuse me, sir," answered a muddled voice. "Does Jones-his-hiclive here?"

"Jones" said the party addressed angrily. "Of course not. What the devil do you mean by ringing people's bells at this time of morning? Who are you, any way?"

"Who'm I?" asked the disturber, apparently surprised at not being recognized. "Why, I'm Jones."

A Painless Method of Giving 606.

Kromayer (abst. in Centralblatt f. Bact. 48, 23-732), praises liquide paraffin as the best vehicle for giving 606. In the proportion of o.1 of 606 to 1 ccm. of the paraffin oil, it can be injected with little or no pain, and the simplicity of the method recommends it highly. Kromayer says that the clinical results of the method are fully as good as with the more complicated and painful procedures. GIFFORD (Omaha).

Brain Abscess Simulating Eclampsia.

Every month or two one sees the report of a case which widens the scope of the possibilities to be considered in diagnosing brain abcess or meningitis. Now it is eclampsia. Brat. (Monatschrift f. Ohrenheilkunde) 1, 1911, 51) reports the case of a woman of 40 years, with chronic right sided otorrhoea, who developed on the day before confinement, general convulsions, vomiting, conjugate deviation to the left, nystagmus, temp. 99.6, pulse 140. In the evening all brain symptoms had disappeared. Next morning a healthy child was born. From this on, the ear and brain symptoms became more pronounced and after a few days a radical mastoid operation was done, and a temporal-lobe abcess opened with resulting recovery. GIFFORD (Omaha).

Pregnancy Liver and Atypical Eclampsia.

The author, Dr. G. Schickle, (Archiv fur Gynakologie, December 17, 1910), has become convinced by his clinical experience and study of the literature that eclampsia occurs in various forms and degrees, ranging from the typical manifestations with convulsions, through the atypical form without convulsions and the severe, sometimes fatal, uncontrollable vomiting of pregnancy, to a condition in which there may be only a few symptoms showing that something is wrong. These symptoms are peculiarly violent, including salivation, exanthems, peripheral neuritis, vomiting, disturbances in vision, "pregnancy disturbances," etc. Jaundice may occur alone or with any of the above conditions. The liver may be specifically pathologic without any of these symptoms. It is probable, he thinks, that the changes in the liver and other organs in eclampsia are the result of an intravital autolysis of the liver due to some still unknown eclampsia toxin. Chemical research on urine, etc., has not afforded any basis for better knowledge of the nature of eclampsia, to date. (SOMERS.)

Anterior Poliomyelitis-Methods of Diagnosis from Spinal Fluid and Blood in Monkey and in Human Beings.

Frederick P. Gay and William P. Lucas in Archives of Internal Medicine for September 10, 1910.

The experimental work of Gay and Lucas is interesting and if corroborated, has added a couple of diagnostic points to our knowledge of anterior poliomyelitis, which should help us at the time we need help i. e., before the appearance of paralysis. Observations were made on inoculated monkeys and on humans. They found a consistent fall in leucocytes-a relative leukopenia in the acute stages. Morphologically, a slight lymphocytosis and eosinophilia were noted. In normal monkeys it is almost impossible to get fluid by lumber puncture. If one obtains a drop it contains about two cells in the ordinary Thoma Zeiss counting chamber, which are apparently large mononuclear or plasma cells. There is a marked increase of fluid during the incubation period and in the acute stages. The fluid contains 100-300 cells per cubic m. m. In the prodromal and early acute stages there is often a fibrinous clot which disappears early in the acute stage.

Four human cases were examined and they showed increase in cellular content of the spinal fluid. There was a marked increase of the number of cells varying from a few cells to 580 per cubic m. m. Lymphocytes and small mononuclears predominated on the first examination, later being replaced by large mononuclears and still later polymorphnuclears appeared. DUNN (Omahah.)

Among "Universal Hair Growers" the most recently discovered is a trip to the Artic regions or (failing time and inclination for such a jaunt) employment in a cold storage company. It is Sir Ernest Shackleton, who thus recommends extreme cold as one of the best means of strengthening the hair. He found that almost all who went with him on his Antarctic expedition possessed stronger crops of hair on their return to civilization; as his party neared the south pole their hair grew more slowly but became thicker and stronger. An official of a London cold storage company, questioned on this subject by the ubiquitous interviewer, stated that he had not a bald-headed employee; his men worked all day in a temperature of 20 degrees of frost and the cold undoubtedly made their hair thicker.

Dr. Holden of Norfolk has disposed of his practice to Dr. Walters. Dr. Ayres of Jensen, Neb., has disposed of his practice to Dr. Bishop. Dr. Frank, formerly of Monroe, Neb., has recently located at Holdrege, Neb.

Neb.

Dr. J. H. Kalar of Verdigre, Neb., has decided to locate at St. Edwards,

Dr. Rachel Watkins of Peoria, Ill., is a new physician recently located in York, Neb.

Dr. Neilson, formerly of Belden, Neb., has returned from a protracted European trip.

Dr. George A. Mathews, who was located at Harrison, Neb., for a short time, has removed to Lusk, Wyo.

Dr. C. M. Schindel of South Omaha, Neb., is taking a post-graduate course in Chicago for a short time.

Dr. J .L. Sears of North Loup has disposed of his practice and office effects to Dr. O'Neill of Baltimore.

Dr. R. L. Malster of Stromsburg, Neb., has removed to southern Colorado, where he will take a new location.

Dr. C. H. Root of Bassett, Neb., is taking post-graduate work in Chicago and Baltimore and will afterwards seek a new location.

Dr. and Mrs. Rudolph Rix of Omaha have gone to Baltimore, where the Doctor will spend the summer in post-graduate work.

Dr. I. H. Lockwood of Storm Lake, Ia., has accepted a position as head surgeon in the Green Gables sanitarium in Lincoln, Neb.

Dr. Luke Fox of Roseland has purchased the practice of Dr. McGee of Nelson, Neb., whom he will succeed in professional work.

The new N. P. hospital for Montana and North Dakota will be located at Mandan, and work upon the buildings will soon be begun.

Dr. W. E. Doane of North Bend, Neb., was married April 15 to Miss Lucy Carroll of Salem, Ill. They will reside in North Bend.

The medical inspection of schools in Vermont after September, 1911, is required by a recent act of the legislature of that state.

Dr. Zoll of Marquette, Neb., has sold his home and practice to Dr. Paxton of St. Paul, Neb., to take effect about the first of July.

Dr. Walker of Endicott, Neb., was reported seriously ill the latter part of April and was removed to a hospital in Omaha for treatment.

Dr. C. H. Vogt of York, Neb., was married April 26 to Miss Marie Strehlow of Hampton, Neb. They will make their home in York.

Dr. J. J. Evans, recently of Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Dr. White have formed a medical partnership to practice medicine in Ainsworth, Neb.

Dr. A. J. Clark of Albion, Neb., died April 11 at his home in that city, following a brief attack of pneumonia. Dr. Clark was 60 years of age.

The report of a new case of pellagra at Menlo, Ia., has renewed interest in this disease. Three deaths from pellagra were reported in Iowa last year. Dr. Shoemaker, a pioneer physician of Furnas county, died at his home in Holbrook May 5 at the age of 60 years. He had been ill for a considerable time.

The Mann bill, changing the name and adding to the scope of the Public Health and Marine Hospital service, passed the last congress. It is now the Public Health Service.

Dr. A. M. Faught of Scotts Bluff, has recently purchased a half interest in the hospital there and it is planned to erect a new modern building for hospital purposes.

Dr. G. A. Huntoon of Des Moines has been apopinted a member of the state board of health. He is a graduate of the State University of Iowa, homeopathic department, 1896.

Dr. John B. Murphy, president-elect of the American Medical association, and Dr. E. Fletcher Ingals, well known to all former students of Rush Medical college, are both sick in Chicago with typhoid fever.

By a vote of 34 to 11 the senate of New York defeated the Bayne bill creating a commission to inquire into the nature and practice of experimentation on living animals and the status of the present laws regardng vivisection.

The Hall County Medical society recently adopted resolutions calling upon all newspapers of the county to rid their pages of all medical advertising of a "fraudulent or quackish nature." Most of the papers have agreed to do so.

The forty-fourth annual meeting of the Canada Medical association will be held in Montreal June 7, 8 and 9. Sir James Barr, Liverpool, England, will deliver the address in medicine and Dr. Alexander Primrose, Toronto, the address in surgery.

Milian, at a meeting of the Paris Medical society, has reported a case of reinfection with syphilis after an apparent cure by 606. This is one of the strongest arguments yet advanced to show the completeness of the cures worked by this remarkable remedy.

The emperor of Germany has conferred upon Dr. William H. Welch of Baltimore the Order of the Crown, second class, in appreciation of his services in propagating German medical science in the United States and in spreading the use of the German language in the medical schools of America.

Dr. A. P. Fitzsimmons of Tecumseh, Neb., was recently chosen mayor of his home city and has also received notice from the medical department of the United States army stating that the Surgeon General would be very glad to recommend him for appointment as captain and assistant surgeon in the medical service.

Governor Burke of North Dakota vetoed house bill No. 436, which passed the legislature in its closing hours with little or no discussion. This was the bill that required physicians operating in hospitals to file a diagnosis of the case before operating and to have such diagnosis confirmed by a disinterested physician or surgeon.

The corner stone of the Children's Orthopaedic hospital, in Seattle, Wash., was laid with suitable ceremonies on March 15, before an audience of nearly three thousand persons. The estimated cost of the building is $100,000. It will have accommodations for fifty patients, and will be equipped with all modern appliances.

Dr. Edward F. Ashley, bacteriologist at the quarantine hospital, New York harbor, died March 21 of spinal meningitis, contracted while assisting in the work of investigating the cases of spinal meningitis among Greek immigrants. Dr. Ashley was 35 years old and a graduate of Yale university and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York.

The Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis will be held in Denver June 20 and 21. Members of the American Medical association may find it convenient to attend the meeting in Denver on their way to the Los Angeles meeting. Denver may be reached by the way of the regular trains previous to the national tuberculosis meeting, and then the Missouri Valley special train for the Los Angeles meeting may be joined at La Junta, leaving Denver at 3:30 p. m. June 22 via "Santa Fe.".