MEDICAL GLEANER.

New Series. Vol. VIII.

JANUARY, 1912.

No. 1.

Edited by HARVEY WICKES FELTER, M. D., Chase and Pitts Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio, to whom all communications in reference to articles and matters for publication should be addressed.

Published at THE LLOYD LIBRARY, 224 West Court Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, to which all subscriptions, advertisements, and matters of business should be addressed. Subscription price, $1.25 per year.

EDITORIAL.

FINLEY ELLINGWOOD, M. D.-The journalistic publications and text-books of the Eclectic school make a fairly good-sized and creditable collection. A few years ago such a collection, notwithstanding the age of the school and the limited number of adherents as compared with the whole profession, took the gold medal at the Paris Exposition. Moreover, the Eclectic publications represent the efforts of men who were well qualified to teach the newer materia medica and its application in a kindly method of treatment of disease. Whoever possesses a good Eclectic library owns a collection marked by useful contributions for the every-day practice of medicine to the exclusion of ultra-scientific efforts to present the rare and the unusual. This is particularly noticeable of the journals, while the text-books compare favorably in point of scholarship, literary value, and adaptability to the physician's every-day needs, with any that have been published by the rival schools. Of the many who have distinguished themselves in the capacity of editor and author we may mention Drs. Morrow, Jones, Buchanan, Powell, King, Howe, Scudder, Thomas, Mundy, Webster, Watkins, and Professor Lloyd. Another who has contributed largely and creditably to Eclectic literature as editor and author it is our pleasure to present in this issue-Professor Finley Ellingwood, M. D., of Chicago, Ill.

Finley Ellingwood, son of Elijah and Mary Abigail (Rice) Ellingwood, was born in Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana, September 12, 1852. His early education was acquired in the schools of Kankakee City, Illinois. From the age of fourteen until twenty he worked at the carpenter's trade. From 1872 to

1875 he served as Deputy County Clerk of Iroquois County, Illinois, and at twenty-three he was offered the office of County Treasurer if he would relinquish the study of medicine, in which he had then engaged. Having quit school at the age of fourteen, it was not his privilege to acquire the full course of higher education. in the advanced schools or to graduate from any of them. He had, however, three months in an academy when seventeen, and he supplemented this with night and early morning study at home in the sciences, and in French and Latin. This enabled him to secure a first grade teacher's certificate, when he taught school for three years. Dr. Ellingwood began the study of medicine July 10, 1871, and carried it on with his other science studies until September 1, 1875, when he matriculated in Bennett Medical College, from which he graduated March 23, 1878. Between college terms, in 18761877, he practiced medicine at Braidwood, Illinois. On April 1, 1878, having graduated, he settled in Manteno, Kankakee County, Illinois, remaining there until June, 1884, when he went to Chicago to become professor of chemistry in his alma mater.

For nearly a quarter century Dr. Ellingwood served with distinction on the Faculty of Bennett Medical College, first as Demonstrator and Professor of Chemistry, and lastly as Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics (about ten years). He also served on the hospital staffs, and for thirteen years was on the Faculty of the Chicago Veterinary College, lecturing for one year on Comparative Physiology. Dr. Ellingwood has for many years been a member of the Illinois State Eclectic Medical Society, the National Eclectic Medical Association, and an honorary member of a score of State societies. He was three times elected president of his State society, and has served as corresponding secretary of the National (four or five years) and recording secretary for several terms, during which time he edited the National Transactions. As an editor and author he has distinguished himself. He published a "Synopsis of Medical Chemistry" (two editions), “Manual of Urinalysis" (three editions), "Materia Medica and Therapeutics" (several editions and now a leading text-book and practitioner's guide), and the "Treatment of Disease" (two volumes). He originated the "Annual of Eclectic Medicine and Surge" and conducted it through three years, until his health failed, when it was continued by Dr. J. V. Stevens. For nearly a quarter century he ably edited the Chicago Medical Times, and is now the editor of

Ellingwood's Therapeutist, which he also originated. Besides these publications he has contributed largely to most of the Eclectic periodic publications and to some journals of the regular school.

Outside of medicine Dr. Ellingwood has held but few positions. He was for many years a member of the I. O. O. F., the Ancient Order of Foresters, and of the Modern Woodmen. Broken health compelled him to retire from these, though he served as hospital president for two years, and as an examiner for several insurance companies.

Dr. Ellingwood was united in marriage, in 1880, with Jennie S. Elliott, of Chicago. To them were born seven children, one of whom is deceased.

Dr. Ellingwood is tall and slender and has the bearing of a scholar and man of affairs. Exceedingly energetic, he is capable of an immense amount of work. Whatever he undertakes he pushes vigorously, with an enthusiasm which is bound to win. As a writer he has done an enormous amount of editorial and other work, touching almost every topic in medicine, surgery, and medical sociology. He is a fluent speaker-impulsive, earnest, and always enthusiastic. It is the enthusiasm he throws into his work that enables him to accomplish so much. His text-books are wellwritten and widely popular, and his journalistic publications hold a first rank. Dr. Ellingwood is a Methodist and glories in the fact. Almost every year since the age of twenty he has been the superintendent of a Sunday school. A lover of music, he has arranged and conducted many musical entertainments, and is particularly interested in Sunday school music. In his own family he maintains a musical orchestra. Dr. Ellingwood is widely known for his enthusiastic Eclecticism, and while secretary of the National he visited several of the State societies in the interest of the National and Eclecticism. That he may continue to be a living force in Eclecticism is the ardent wish of the GLEANER and his many friends.

ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS AND UROTROPIN. For the last year or more unusual interest has been manifested in the study of so-called poliomyelitis. Whether this be the exactly proper cognomen or not, we leave to those who are investigating the disease anatomically. In this issue we reproduce two papers, one of which we regard as of more than ordinary interest. The first is by Dr. Frost, the expert who is investigating the disease in Cincinnati,