Editorial.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STATE MEDICAL
SOCIETY.

The Sixtieth Annual Meeting of this now venerable and timehonored institution will be held in this city April 11th, 12th and 13th. The Committee of Arrangements have made every necessary preparation for a most enjoyable meeting, and it is confidently expected that there will be an unusually large attendance. Every member of the regular profession in the State should join in the useful and practical work of the State Society. The time spent in the Capital, mixing with your fellows in the profession, the interchange of thought and ideas will well repay the few days devoted to its sessions, to say nothing of the more valuable mental pabulum afforded by the essays and discussions thereon. Come, then, physicians of Tennessee, and take part in this most worthy movement to advance the interests of the profession of your choice. You will be benefitted thereby as will your patients and patrons in the days to come.

The Secretary has issued his usual circular letter. Railroad rates at one and one-third fare from any station in the State. Get your ticket and a certificate from your Railroad Agent, setting forth the fact that you are visiting Nashville for the purpose of attending the Annual Meeting of the State Medical Society, paying full fare one way for it. On presenting the certificate, countersigned by the Secretary, at the ticket office here you get your return trip at one-third rate. Our hotels also make reasonble reductions to the members, and all the citizens of the Capital will endeavor to make your stay pleasant and enjoyable. The following is Dr. Nelson's circular letter:

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TENNESSEE STATE

MEDICAL SOCIETY, CHATTANOOGA, March 2, 1893. Dear Doctor:-Your presence at the next meeting of the Ten

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nessee State Medical Society, which will be held in Nashville, April 11th, 12th, and 13th, is desired. I am assured by the Committee of Arrangements that everything for the comfort and convenience of those in attendance will be properly arranged. Reduced railroad rates, on the certificate or round trip plan will be given. All information concerning railroad rates can be gotten from your agent at the station from which you start.

Dr. O. H. Menees, of Nashville, is Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements. Write to him or me for any information

about our meeting and we will promptly answer you.

Yours cordially,

D. E. NELSON, Secretary.

We are also pleased to submit the following programme, to which will be added other volunteer papers, reports of cases, etc:

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PROGRAMME.

Human Life," President's Address.-By C. W. Beaumont, M.D., President, Clarksville.

"Monkeying with Microbes."-By A. B. Tadlock, Knoxville. To open discussion, G. W. Drake, M.D., Chattanooga, and Richard Douglas, M.D., Nashville.

"Genital Reflexes."-By C. Holtzclaw, M.D., Chattanooga. To open discussion, W. Frank Glenn, M.D., Nashville, and Charles M. Drake, M.D., Knoxville.

"What Relation Does Dentition Bear to Disease?"-By T. P. Davis, M.D., Alexandria.

To open discussion, W. D. Haggard, M.D., Nashville, and D. F. Banks, M.D., Jordonia.

Report of a Case of Extensive Scalp Wound."—By G. B. Gillespie, M.D., Covington.

To open discussion, G. A. Baxter, M.D., Chattanooga, and J. B. Murfree, M.D., Murfreesboro.

"Maritime and Interstate Quarantine."-By G. B. Thornton, . M.D., Memphis.

To open discussion, J. Berrien Lindsley, M.D., Nashville, and P. D. Sims, M.D., Chattanooga.

"Typhoid Fever in Young Children.”—By L. P. Barbour, M.D., Tracy City.

To open discussion, T. L. Maddin, M.D., Nashville, and J. A. Witherspoon, M.D., Columbia.

"Wounds of the Eye Ball."-By N. C. Steele, M.D., Chattanooga.

To open discussion, T. H. Wood, M.D., Nashville, and W. C. Bilbro, M.D., Murfreesboro.

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Whooping Cough."-By Wm. B. St. John, M.D., Bristol. To open discussion, W. G. Ewing, M.D., Nashville, and J. F. Byrn, M.D., Murfreesboro.

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Traumatic Empyema."-By N. T. Dulaney, M.D., Bristol. To open discussion, Duncan Eve, M.D., Nashville, and R. J. Trippe, M.D., Chattanooga.

Paper, the title of which I have not yet learned. By A. D. Scruggs, M.D., Knoxville.

"The Indications and Methods of Treating Uterine Fibroids." -By Richard Douglas, M.D., Nashville.

To open discussion, W. L. Nichol, M.D., Nashville, and R. B. Maury, M.D., Memphis.

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Report of a Case of a Tumor Complicating Delivery.”—By T. J. Crofford, M.D., Memphis.

To open discussion, Thomas Menees, M.D., Nashville, and J. B. Cowan, M.D., Tullahoma.

"Retro-Flexio Uteri."-By J. R. Buist, M.D., Nashville. To open discussion, W. G. Bogart, M.D., Chattanooga, and J. Bunyan Stephens, M.D., Nashville.

"Recurrent Pelvic Inflammation."-By W. W. Taylor, M.D., Memphis.

To open discussion, A. W. Boyd, M. D., Chattanooga, and W. M. Vertrees, M.D., Nashville.

"Uterine Displacements."-By J. A. Witherspoon, M.D., Columbia.

Το open discussion, T. H. Marable, M.D., Clarksville, and J. C. P. Walker, M.D., Dyersburg.

"Report of an Interesting Case of Vaginal Hysterectomy.”—By W. D. Haggard, M.D., Nashville.

To open discussion, W. T. Briggs, M.D., Nashville, and C. E. Ristine, M.D., Knoxville.

"Post-Partum Hemorrhage."-By J. H. Warmuth, M.D., Smyrna.

To open discussion, W. D. Haggard, M.D., Nashville, and Charles H. Brooks, M.D., Knoxville.

Pyæmia."-By C. W. Womack, M.D., Chapel Hill.

To open discussion, J. S. Cain, M.D., Nashville, and C. Deadrick, M.D., Knoxville.

"Report of a Case of Congenital Fistula, Operation, and Cure." By W. A. H. Coop, M.D., Dyersburg.

To open discussion, Richard Cheatham, M.D., Nashville, and S. S. Crockett, M.D., Nashville.

'Report of a Case."-By Duncan Eve, M.D., Nashville. "Treatment of Indolent Buboes."-By W. B. Rogers, M.D., Memphis.

To open discussion, W. K. Vance, M.D., Bristol, and W. K. Sheddan, M.D., Williamsport.

A paper by R. J. Trippe, M.D., Chattanooga.

"Aids to Digestion." By L. C. Chisholm, M.D., Orlinda. Το open discussion, J. W. Penn, M.D., Humboldt, and A. J. Swaney, M.D.. Gallatin.

"Progressive Medicine and Surgery."-By John P. Blankenship, M.D., Maryville.

To open discussion F. H. Sim, M.D., Memphis, and T. R. Moss, M.D., Dyersburg.

Diphtheria." By T. J. Happel, M.D., Trenton.

To open discussion, George R. West, M.D., Chattanooga, and Thos. M. Woodson, M.D., Gallatin.

"Report of the State Board of Medical Examiners."-By T. J. Happel, M.D., Secretary.

To open discussion, J. G. Sinclair, M.D., Nashville, and Deering J. Roberts, M.D., Nashville.

"Report of a Case of Tuberculosis of the Kidney, Ureter, and Bladder." By W. B. Young, M.D., Bon Air Coal Mines. To open discussion, G. W. Moody, M.D., Shelbyville, and S. R. Boyd, M.D., Knoxville.

"What the General Practitioner Should Know of Eye Diseases." By F. T. Smith, M.D., Chattanooga.

To open discussion, Geo. H. Price, M.D., Nashville, and G. C. Savage, M.D., Nashville.

"Disease of the Prostate Gland." By J. W. Handley, M.D., Nashville,

To open discussion, T. C. V. Barkley, M.D., Chattanooga, and C. S. Briggs, M.D., Nashville. "Hypnotism and its Evils."

Nashville.

By T. P. Crutcher, M.D.,

To open discussion, W. C. Townes, M.D., Chattanooga, and Paul F. Eve, M.D., Nashville.

It is not intended, in appointing only two members to open discussion on papers, to limit the discussion, but to see that each paper is properly discussed. All parties should see that the reading of their papers does not consume more than twenty minutes, as prescribed by the by-laws, so that all papers on the programme may be read, properly discussed, and that time may be given for any volunteer reports of cases or papers.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF GRANT UNIVERSITY-CHATTANOOGA MEDICAL COLLEGE.-The annual commencement of this young and flourishing institution was held in the Opera House on the evening of March 15th, the large auditorium being completely filled by the elite of Chattanooga's population. A class of thirty received the degree of M.D., conferred on them by Capt. H. S. Chamberlain, President of the Board of Trustees of U. S. Grant University. Prof. G. A. Baxter, M.D., delivered a chaste and scholarly charge to the graduates, and Dr. C. L. Guice, one of the graduates selected by the class acquitted himself most meritoriously in his valedictory address. Prizes were awarded to H. McC. Harrison, of Tennessee, first prize, gold medal; O. M. Slater, of Illinois, received the second, and Wm. H. Harrison, of Alabama, the third prize. Rev. J. P. McFerrin delivered the annual address. The exercises were interspersed with appropriate musical selections by the Opera House orchestra. Prof. Baxter, Dr. Guice, and many of the students were handsomely remembered by their friends as the floral offerings testified.

THE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE.-While writing with all the scientific knowledge of a great astronomer, Camille Flammarion in his marvellous story "Omega: The End of the World,"