the Association of the American Medical Colleges and State Examining bodies should refuse also to acknowledge medical colleges whose matriculation examination is conducted by its own faculty. The profession at large has no faith in these examinations. Medical men know that these literary requirements for admission are worthless.

We congratulate the Medical Department of the University of California for the bold step it has taken in the interest of medical education. The abandonment of the entrance examination by the faculty and requiring hereafter all students to matriculate at the academic department of the university, is the most important event that has ever been enacted in the interest of medical education on our coast. our coast. It is to be hoped that before long every medical department of a university will abandon faculty entrance examinations and compel all students to take the academic matriculation. In point of fact the hopes of the medical profession are in the growing interest that our universities throughout the land are exhibiting towards their medical departments. It is to this interest that we owe the great decrease in the number of medical schools from about 300 only a few years ago to half that number at present.

Let us entrust medical teaching and medical education to our Universities, and let irresponsible medical schools die off. Then, and then only, will medical education in the United States be abreast with the medical education of any other country. No irresponsible or independent medical school can impart to its students the spirit, the feeling and the power that they get from the medical department of a university. The former are merely licentiates of a medical school; the latter are graduates of a university. The University influence is always with its Alumni, elevating, dignifying and sustaining them.

DR. D. W. MONTGOMERY has gone East on a visit.

A BILL has been presented to Congress praying for the establishment of a Bureau of Public Health. It is earnestly hoped the bill will become a law, as it is of vital importance that our sanitary measures and quarantine laws should be brought to the highest state of perfection, especially relative to infectious and contagious diseases, such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, small-pox, etc., as well as the less frequent visitors, such as cholera and yellow fever.

Licentiates of the California State Board of Examiners.

At a meeting of the Board of Examiners of the Medical Society of the State of California held May 5th, 1894, the following were granted certificates to practice in this State:

AGNEW, NIVEN, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Univ. Victoria Coll., Coburg, Canada, Oct. 30, 1858.

BUCKLEY, W. L., Stockton; Med. Dept. State Univ. Oregon, April 2, 1894. CECIL, THOMAS, San Francisco; Cincinnati Coll. Med. and Surg., Ohio, March 6, 1891.

CONRAD, DAVID ANDREW, San Francisco; Med. Dept. Univ. California, Dec. 14, 1893.

COWAN, ANGUS BERTRAM, Fresno; Cooper Med. Coll., Cal., Dec. 7, 1893. DILWORTH, WM. D., Pasadena; Coll. Phys. and Surg., Chicago, Ill., April 3, 1894.

EMERSON, F. X., San Francisco; Cooper Med. Coll., Cal., Dec. 7, 1894. FRIZELL, J. P., Escondido; Kings' and Queens' Coll. Phys., Ireland, Aug. 1, 1888.

GARFIELD, LEONARD K., Algona, Iowa; Coll. Phys. and Surg., Keokuk, Ia., June 18, 1878.

GRINDLE, HENRY D., San Diego; Med. Dept. Univ. City of New York, March 1, 1867.

HAILE, JAMES HENRY, Benicia; Bellevue Hosp. Coll., N. Y., March 27, 1893.

JONES, ALBERT M., Redlands; Med. Coll. of Ohio; March 19, 1886. KINNEAR, CLAUDE H., Covelo; Jefferson Med. Coll., Pa, April 3, 1889. MCALLISTER, ELEANOR, Redlands; Syracuse Med. Coll., N. Y., June 13, 1889. NICHOLSON, ISAAC E., Jr., Oakland; Bellevue Hosp. Coll., N. Y., March 26, 1894.

POST, T. EDWARD, Los Angeles; Coll. Med. Univ. So. Cal., May 25, 1892. PRAEGER, EMIL ARNOLD, Los Angeles; Fac. Phys. and Surg., Glasgow, Scotland, July 26, 1883; Society of Apothecaries, England, Sept. 6, 1893. PRICE, WALTER LEE, San Francisco; Missouri Med. Coll., Mo., March 4, 1890.

PRETTIE, WILLIAM H., Pasadena; Harvard Univ. Med. School, Mass., March 11, 1868.

ROSSON, JOHN B., Tulare; Med. Coll. of Ohio, March 1, 1872.

STOCKWELL, W. W., Stockton; Med. Dept. State Univ. Oregon, April 2, 1894.

TAYLOR, GEO. D., Los Angeles; Leonard Med. Coll., North Carolina, March 27, 1890.

THORNE, WALTER M., San Francisco; Cooper Med. Coll., Cal., Dec. 7, 1893. WIRE, HENRY C., Los Angeles; Bellevue Hosp. Coll., N. Y., March 1, 1866. CHAS. C. WADSWORTH, M. D., Secretary.

DR. ALBERT ABRAMS has started for a trip to Europe of some months duration.

THE death is announced of Dr. John H. Rauch, the veteran sanitarian of the Illinois State Board of Health.

PROFESSOR WILLIAM PEPPER, M. D., LL. D., has resigned as Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. He will still continue in the medical department.

Publisher's Department.

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SANMETTO has been found of great service in cystitis.

LYSOL is one of the most powerful and agreeable antiseptics the profession has. We use it extensively.

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PACIFIC MEDICAL JOURNAL.

Vol. XXXVII.

JULY, 1894.

No. 7.

Original Articles.

THE RELATION OF ABNORMAL BIRTH TO CERTAIN CEREBRAL AFFECTIONS IN CHILDREN.

By LEO NEWMARK, M. D.,

Physician to the S. F. Polyclinic; Consulting Neurologist to the German Hospital.

Considering the changes which the doctrines of physiologists concerning the cerebellum have undergone at various times, and the obscurity which still enshrouds its functions, the medical reader of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy" will be inclined to be indulgent toward the elder Shandy in his exaggerated estimation of that organ, in which or near which he located the headquarters of the soul; and even obstetricians will not refuse that amiable gentleman a certain measure of approbation on reading how concerned he was for "the preservation of this delicate and fine-spun web from the havoc which was generally made in it by the violent compression and crush which the head was made to undergo by the nonsensical method of bringing us into the world by that foremost." Let them think not unkindly of him when in the extremity of his apprehensions for the security of the human intellect he exclaims: "By heavens! the world is in conspiracy to drive out what little wit God has given us,-and the professors of the obstetric art are listed into the same conspiracy." All save those incurably affected with furor operativus will join in commending the self-restraint displayed by Mr. Shandy when he refrained from urging on his pregnant wife the propriety of submitting to the Cæsarian Section, although his cogitations had led him to believe that therein lay the best chance of avoiding injury to the "cerebellum and intellectual web."

Mindful of the period in which Laurence Sterne lived, the physician will perceive in these whimsical reflections on the possible disastrous effects of labor on the child's brain humorous VOL. XXXVII-26.