sacred character of the trust confided to them, will look carefully after the interest of those who are justly and solely entitled to the State's aid. OBITUARY-Dr. Van Sinderen Lindsley, Professor of Diseases of the Eye and Ear, in the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt University, died at his residence in this city, November 15th ult., after a painful illness of about eight weeks. The following appropriate resolutions were adopted by a representative meeting of the physicians of Nashville, held on the day following, serve in some degree to show the esteem in which he was held by his professional brethren: "Prof. Van S. Lindsley, only son of Silas Lindsley, was born in Greensboro, N. C., October 13, 1840, and died, surrounded by his family and friends, in this city, November 15, 1885. His has been a singular active, and exemplary and useful life. He had been a teacher in North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee prior to becoming Doctor of Medicine and teacher in the Medical Department of the University of Nashville. Having graduated in 1868, his Alma Mater recognizing his ability soon called him to teach Practical and Surgical Anatomy. Subsequently the chair of Physiology was assigned to him. While filling this chair he was transferred to the joint professorship in the Medical Department of the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt University. He was then made Professor of Anatomy in the joint department of these universities. Later still, a special chair was created, embracing the eye, ear and throat, and upon these, as other topics, he lectured with distinguished ability. In 1868 Dr. Lindsley married the only daughter of the Hon. Jeremiah George Harris, who, with four children, survived him to mourn their loss. The Doctor seems to have been animated by a hope that the profession of his choice, the Church and the world should be better for his having lived. We, physicians of Nashville here assembled, therefore have Resolved, That in the death of Dr. Lindsley the medical pro fession loses a devoted, intelligent, painstaking and accomplished physician, an ornament alike to society and to the profession. To the lustre of an honorable and proficient physician he added the still more enduring virtues of an exemplary moral and Christian character. A man well endowed by nature, blessed by education, possessed of large attainments, ambitious in his vocation, fortunate in social relations, discharging with full and liberal hands the good deeds of a noble profession, which he pursued with a singleness of heart and scrupulous professional honor, and which had brought him many trophies of victory from the contests of life. We lament that all these, he and his family can no longer enjoy, and that we too must surrender our friend and brother to the cold embrace of death. For consolation we commend the bereaved family to God and the divine promise " He that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth on me shall never die." Resolved, That in token of our high appreciation of his excellencies as husband, father, citizen, Christian gentleman and Doctor of Medicine, we will together attend his funeral. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be furnished the family; also to the city papers for publication. J. F. GRANT, M. D., Chairman. Appropriate resolutions were adopted by the Medical and other departments of the Vanderbilt University, and the following by the Faculty of the Medical Department of the University of Tennessee. At a called meeting of the Faculty of the Medical and Dental Departments of the University of Tennessee, to take action in regard to the death of Van S. Lindsley, M. D., Professor of Diseases of the Eye and Ear in the Medical Departments of the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt University, the President, W. P. Jones, M. D., appointed a committee to draw up suitable resolutions, consisting of Drs. Deering J. Roberts, J. Bunyan Stephens and Paul F. Eve, who submitted the following, which were unanimously adopted: WHEREAS, It has pleased the infinite wisdom of an all wise Providence to call from the scene of his earthly labors our friend and professional brother Prof. Van Sinderen Lindsley, M. D.; to remove from our midst, we may hope, to the full enjoyment of a blissfull eternity, one who, by strict probity, integrity of character, and all that makes up a true Christian gentleman, and has well earned and justly merited the glorious award of "Well done, thou good and faithful servant!" Therefore, be it Resolved, That in the death of Prof. Lindsley, we sincerely mourn the loss of one whose medical skill, professional attainments, gentle, kind and courteous manners, and high sense of professional honor, has justly won our sincere admiration and esteem. Resolved, That regarding him in life as an accomplished Christian gentleman, refined, modest and courageous; a skillful physician, endowed with a logical, earnest and penetrating mind, we heartily commend his example as one well calculated to advance the progress and uphold the honor of a most noble science. Resolved, That we tender to his bereaved family and relatives, to his colleagues, and to the students of his college, our most sincere sympathies in their great loss. Resolved, That our faculty attend his funeral in a body, suspending the regular exercises in our institution for that purpose, and that a copy of the resolutions be published in the daily newspapers and medical journals of this city. W. D HAGGARD, M. D., NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE BOARDS OF HEALTH.In accordance with a resolution adopted at its organization, the National Boards of Health will hold its regular annual meeting at the Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C., December 8, 1885. For the convenience of the many sanitarians who may desire. to attend both, the annual meetings of the Conference are held at the same time and place as those of the American Public Health Association, but its sessions are so arranged as not to conflict with he work of the latter organization. With this idea in view, and the suggestion of the president, the preliminary sessions of the Conference will be called to order at 9 A. M., December 8th. All former meetings of the Conference have been of great practical interest, and, it is believed, have exerted a most salutary influence on the sanitary affairs of this country, and it is not expected that this one will be less so, because of the many practical questions connected with State and inter-State health work which will be presented for discussion, especially with reference to the exclusion and restriction of small-pox and cholera. Members proposing to present papers to this meeting are requested to send early notice to J. N. McCormack, M. D., Secretary, Bowling Green, Ky. LEGISLATION IN BEHALF OF MEDICINE, is opposed by Dr. John P. Gray, of Utica, N. Y., in his address as President of the New York State Medical Association, at the annual meeting recently held in the city of New York. No, you can't legislate medicine up, but you may legislate it down, to the level of the quack and the charlatan. We need no more legislation for medicine than we do for religion in free and progressive America. LYON'S TASTELESS QUININE, is absolutely free form the extremely nauseous bitter taste of the drug, yet its antiperiodic, antipyretic, and other therapeutical properties, are in no way diminished or altered. We can most cordially recommend a trial. DON'T forget to renew your subscriptions with this (the last) number of the seventh volume. CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER, 1885. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS: Cremation a Sanitary Necessity. By DeWitt C. Day, Address of the President of the American Rhinologi- Lithiasis. By N. T. Dunlaney, M. D......................... SELECTIONS: Some Errors in Physical Diagnosis.. 541 551 557 559 The Treatment of Rose-Cold and Hay-Fever by Co- 570 |