St. Joseph's Hospital. St. Joseph's Hospital is located at Seventh and Pennsylvania streets, and is one of the largest hospitals in the city. It was founded October 15, 1875, by the Sisters of St. Joseph, and is therefore under Catholic control. At first there were twelve beds for patients, but additions have been made from time to time until at the present time the building is a very imposing one containing 110 beds for patients. Arrangements are made for the care and treatment of charity patients, a considerable number of free beds being set apart for that purpose. In 1901 a training school for nurses was established in connection with the hospital. the course includes three years of graded work. There are at present twenty-seven nurses in the hospital besides three house surgeons. The Mother Superior has general supervision of the hospital. owned by the Church Charity association of Kansas City, an organization of the Episcopal church. The society was incorporated under the laws of of incorporation were amended Nov Missouri October 3, 1882. The articles 28, 1906. The present building has a capacity of twenty-five beds and is managed by a board of directors under the auspices of the Church Charity association. While there are a few free beds, yet it is not a purely charitable institution. There is a visiting staff, and a consulting staff of physicians. who are appointed by the directors. A successful nurses' training school is run in conection with the hospital, which is under the able direction of the superintendent. The German Hospital. The German Hospital, located at Twenty-third and Holmes street, was founded in 1886 by the "German Society," an organization of GermanAmerican citizens of Kansas City. The building purchased by the society was remodeled to suit the purposes of a hospital and contained twenty-three beds. In 1887 funds were raised by donations to build an addition to the hospital so that at the present time there are accommodations for sixty-five patients. The hospital is managed by a directory and officers who serve gratuitously. In 1995 a training school for nurses was established, with a three years' course of study. Arrangements are made for caring for a limited number of charity patients without charge. The patients are cared for by a staff of physicians, a house physician and superintendent of nurses who are duly appointed by the directors. Railroad Hospitals. There are two hospitals that are devoted solely to the interests of the railroads. One belongs to the Missouri Pacific railroad, the other to the Kansas City Southern railroad. The Missouri Pacific hospital is located at 706 West Tenth street and makes provision for about thirty patients, all of which are their own employes. The Kansas City Southern hospital is lo cated at 812 Harrison street, and provides for about twenty-five patients, which are also employes of this company. Dr. C. C. Goddard.... The committee to entertain the ladies, of which Dr. F. B. Tiffany is chairman, is arranging to take the ladies on an automobile ride through the beautiful parks and boulevards, including the beautiful Cliff Drive, stopping for "tea" at the Country Club and returning to the Coates House about 6 p. m. Kansas City's park and boulevard system merges on the ideal of perfection. Its boulevard system not only conects the various parks by beautiful driveways, but creates fine residential sections in all parts of the city. The park system consists of nearly 2,000 acres; 175 acres of parkways, besides many miles of beautiful boulevards. The street car system of Kansas City issues universal transfers, making it possible to reach any part of the city for five cents. Upon reaching the city at the Union Depot, visitors should take an Observation Park car on Union avenue and get off immediately in front of the Coates House, which has been chosen as headquarters for the meeting. The social features during the meeting will be as follows: Monday evening, October 19, ban. quet at the Coates House for the visit. ing doctors and their wives. Tuesday afternoon, October 20, automobile ride for the ladies, terminating at the Country Club, where arrangements have been made for serving tea. Tuesday evening, October 20, there will be a smoker at the Coates House for the gentlemen. Wednesday evening, October there will be a dance for everybody, providing the proper arrangements can be made. Following is the official program: SECTION OFFICERS. Leavenworth, Kas. Secretary Chairman's address. . . . . . Dr. F. B. Young "What Is to Become of the General The unsatisfactory relations now too often existing between the general practitioner and the specialist; the specialist the product of evolution from the ranks of the general practitioner. The general practitioner the foundation of the whole system of medicine and surgery; how a more satisfactory condition of affairs may be arrived at. "A Critical Review of Erlich's Side Chain Theory of Immunity". . Dr. J. W. McLaughlin Austin, Tex. "Insanity as the World Sees It". . Dr. C. C. Goddard Leavenworth, Kas. President Kansas State Medical Society. Discussion opened by Dr. John Punton, Kansas City, Mo. "Arterioscelrosis". ..Dr. J. T. Clegg President Arkansas State Medical Society. ...Dr. Chas. W. Fisk "The Relation of Physicians to Quaran- "Diet in Hyperacidity". . Dr. J. M. Bell "Chorea".. . Dr. M. A. Kelso Enid, Okla. Season, locality, race, age, sex, prodromata, physical features, pathology, diagnosis and treatment. "Facial Neuralgia". .Dr. Joe Becton Greenville Tex. SECTION ON SURGERY. 21, Chairman Vice Chairman Kansas City, Kas. Dr. St. Cloud Cooper. . . . . Vice Chairman Secretary Chairman's address "The Operative ..Dr. W. H. Stauffer ic, complete restoration of function, the time required, the pain produced, and the classes of operation. "Normal Salt Solution in Septic Conditions of the Peritoneum. Dr. J. M. Taylor Fort Smith, Ark. No claim to originality. Antiseptic property well shown in curing meats, has a specific antiseptic effect on the peritoneum. The efficacy of flushing the peritoneal cavity proven by report of cases. "Chorion Epithelioma' .. Drs. A. L. Blesh and C. B. Lee Oklahoma City, Okla. Case report: Clinical considerations: a. historical; b. clinical history; c. morbid anatomy; d. differential diagnosis; e. operation and results. Pathology: a. history; b. nomenclature; c. etiology; d. chemistry; e. conclusions. "A Discussion of the Blood Supply of the Ureters, with Especial Reference to Wertheim's Operation for Cancer of the Uterus.. .. Dr. Jno. T. Moore Galveston, Tex. "Renal and Vesical Calculi". ..Dr. J. E. Gilcreest Gainesville, Tex. "The Treatment of Gastric Ulcer by Discussion opened by Dr. A. W. McAlester, Kansas City, Mo. "Acute Otitis Media". . Dr. J. C. Brown Wichita, Kas. Discussion opened by Dr. R. S. Magee, Topeka, Kas. "Acute Mastoiditis and the Necessity for an Early Operation". . Dr. Robt. E. Moss San Antonio, Tex. Discussion opened by Dr. Z. N. Short, Hot Springs, Ark. "Raynaud's Disease Involving the Upper Eye"... ...Dr. R. E. Runkle El Reno, Okla. Discussion opened by Dr. Frank Boyd, Fort Worth, Tex. "Otitic Brain Abscess". ... Dr. Pierre F. Leonard St. Joseph, Mo. Discussion opened by Dr. H. Moulton. Fort Smith, Ark. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. The above society will hold its thirty-fourth annual meeting at Louisville, Ky., October 13, 14 and 15, 1938. Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan of Chicago, will deliver the oration in surgery, upon "The Surgery of the Kidney," and Dr. George Dock of Ann Arbor, Mich.. will deliver the oration in medicine on "Tropical Diseases in the Mississippi Valley." The scientific program will be of unusual quality and the local profession of Louisville are arranging entertainment that will make every visitor feel that he is receiving a typical Kentucky welcome. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. berculosis Congress at Washington, D. C. Dr. N. P. Wood of Independence has been appointed by Governor Folk as a delegate to the International Tuberculosis Congress which will meet at Washington, D. C., from September 21 to October 12. The Kansas City Dental Society met September 11 and elected the fol Dr. J. D. Griffith left for Magnolia, lowing officers: Dr. F. B. Jahr, presMass., September 1. Dr. and Mrs. I. J. Wolf visited Yellow stone Park this month. Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Thompson have been spending a month at Boston. Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Burrill have returned from a trip through Southern Canada. Dr. and Mrs. Robert T. Sloan have spent the last month at Vineyard Haven, Mass. Dr. and Mrs. Harry L. Heller, 612 Houston street, spent three weeks lately in Colorado Springs. Dr. Walton Hall returned early in September from New York city, where he spent several weeks. Dr. J. E. Sawtell, who has been spending his vacation in South Dakota, has returned home. Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Chambliss, 1210 Linwood boulevard, have returned. from the Northern Lakes. Cholera is again on the rampage. September 18 there was reported at Manila twenty-five cases with twelve deaths. From St. Petersburg, Russia, 305 cases, with 155 deaths. Dr. William James Walker and Miss Cora Viola Stotz were married August 22. They are making a wedding tour through Canada and will make their future home in this city. The students of Dr. Byron Robinson are erecting a bronze bust to him. The affair is in the hands of Dr. Benjamin Orndoff, 2277 Wilcox avenue, Chicago, Ill. S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the Kansas State Board of Health, was in Kansas City September 14 organizing a party to attend the international Tu ident; Dr. F. W. Franklin, vice-president; Dr. Samuel Loebenstein, secretary and treasurer. A permit was issued September 15 in Kansas City, Kas., to St. Margaret's Hospital to build a four-story addition. to its main building. The improvement will cost $50,000 and should be finished by December 15. Dr. U. B. Richards of Kansas City, Kas., died at his home, 730 State avenue, August 28. He was a graduate of the Western Reserve Medical College in 1853, and a post graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1865. He has lived in Kansas City since 1885 and was 86 years old. BOOK REVIEWS. A TREATISE ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF GYNECOLOGY. By E. C. Dudley, A.M., M.D., Pro ́essor of Gynecology in the Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago. Fifth edition, thoroughly revised. Octavo, 806 rages, with 431 illustrations. of which 75 are in colors, and 20 full-page colored plates. Cloth, $5.00 net; leather, $6.00 net; half-morocco. $6.50. Lea & Febiger, Publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1908. Ability to live and thrive despite competition indicates a strong book. Professor Dudley's Gynecology answers this test fully by coming out in a new edition, the fifth in ten years. This decade has been most productive in the literary sense, but Dudley's competitors, excellent though they be, only add to its lustre. It is interesting to analyze the causes of popularity. Fitness is the first, or rather, all combined. Every living thing (and a book is essentially living) must suit its environment or disappear. Conversely, a living thing that does not disappear, but persists and grows stronger, must suit its environment, must be fit. Dr. Dudley was first to see the advantage of presenting gynecology along natural lines of cleavage, by causes, rather than regions. With the cause of nature of a disease in mind, the reader can readily follow it to any region it may invade, and uderstand and treat it, but the labyrinth cannot be so easily traversed the other way. He thus displayed and simplified gynecology as had not been done before, and his book was quickly appreciated, both by professors for their students' use and by practitioners for their own. It grew in favor, and some years ago the author gave it further impetus and distinction by making all its abundant illustrations original, each drawn for its special place and purpose, and therefore exactly fit. He also saw his reader's advantage in showing him the steps of operations, a clinic on paper, and better than a clinic, because the details could be studied at leisure. Now Dr. Dudley again responds to popularity by bringing out a new edition, thoroughly revised to date, with everything obsolete in text or picture eliminated, and with still more original drawings added. It is the strongest issue yet of a very strong book, and so will continue and improve upon its positon as the one to be preferred by the practitioner having gynecology to do or professors wishing to teach with the greatest efficiency. ANATOMY, DESCRIPTIVE AND SURGI- New York, Perhaps no department of medicine is, in a literary sense, more richly sup plied than anatomy. As the student must begin with it and the practitioner must continue with it till the end, the demand is large, and nothing less justify the great expense of creating a major work, with its requirement of immense illustration. Henry Gray, fifty years ago, evinced the boldness of his genius in producing an original work so novel and so far in advance in matter and method, both i text and engravings, that it leaped to the front and established itself as a institution, a unique positon for abook. Generally it is easy to improve on a model, but "Gray" has proven the exception. It is the quality of genius to defy analysis and imitation. Gray manifested his genius both in a text of inimitable. Gray manifested his genius both in a text of inimitable didactic power and in a series of equally masterly illustrations. His invention of placing the names of the parts directly on them was in itself a great one, and at once removed the former difficulties of toil somely looking for them at the ends of lines, or, what is worse, finding merely reference letters explained somewhere else. It costs vastly more to cut the names on the body of an engraving, but it is worth while for the reader's sake, especially if he has to pay no more for the advantage. That the concentration of edmand would justify this was Henry Gray's bold forecast. and he was right. It brought about another advantage scarcely less important, namely, the possibility of frequent editions, a necessity in so progressive a subject. Here again the barrier of expense can only be crossed by a work able to subdivide it by unexampled sales. "Gray" proves all these qualifications at once by coming to seventeen editions in its first fifty years, and it now enters upon its second half-century stronger and better than ever. This new edition is the best of all the line. It has been thoroughly revised, every page bearing alteration and improvement, and the whole section on the nerve system has been rewritten in conformity with recent revolutionary changes in methods. |