SOCIETIES Academy of Medicine. was Meeting of December 21-Dr. B. E. Fryer presented a patient suffering from wood alcohol amaurosis, which caused from smoking a pipe that had been cleaned with wood alcohol. He also showed a case of specific atrophy of both optic nerves which had been treated with sub-conjunctional injections of cyanide of mercury with good results. Dr. J. Lichtenberg presented a case of strabismus in a baby to show the superiority of the non-operative over the operative method of treatment. He also showed a patient suffering from injury to the eye from an explosion of the percussion cap causing recurrent hemorrhages into the eye, and another case of specific interstitial keratitis. Dr. F. T. Van Eman presented a patient, a man suffering from writer's cramp, and asked for suggestions as to treatment. Discussion of these cases was made by Drs. Curdy, Kimberlin, Zwart, Hall, Wedding, McArthur, McKillip, Van Eman, Lichtenberg and Fryer. Meeting of December 28-Dr. S. G. Burnett read a paper entitled "A Clinical Study of 100 Cases of Morphinism.' Discussion was opened by Dr. H. C. Hays, who was followed by Drs. Jackson, Hall, Zwart, Brewster, Darling, Bel lows, Neff and Beedle. Meeting of January 4, 1908-The first meeting night of January is made the annual meeting of the Academy of Medicine, when officers are elected for the new year. The following officers were elected: Dr. Frank G. Hall, president; Dr. Geo. B. Norberg, vice-president; Dr. Halsey M. Lyle, secretary: Dr. J. W. Gaines, treasurer; Dr. F. C. Neff, censor. Following the election of officers the annual reports were made by the retiring officers, which showed the academy to be in a flourishing condition in every particular. The retiring president, Dr. Howard Hill, delivered the annual address choosing for his subject, "The Good of the Academy." Following the address remarks were made by various members of the academy and it was evident from all that was said that the Academy of Medicine has, since its or ganization, been the medical educator of Kansas City and that its future outlook is brighter and responsibilities greater than ever before. If the spirit of this meeting is to rule during 1908, it is certain that this will be an exceptionally profitable year. Annual Banquet. The Kansas City Academy of Medicine held its annual banquet at the Midland hotel January 8, 1908. Every one present seemed to be in the mood to have the best time in his life. The toastmaster, Dr. F. J. Hall, was in the best form and demonstrated his ability to fill his position with credit. Dr. T. E. Holland of Hot Springs, Ark., president of the Medical Association of the Southwest, was the speaker of the evening, and in a most eloquent manner told how the profession of Hot Springs rid the city of the quacks. His address was well received and thoroughly appreciated by everyone. Dr. J. E. Sawtell, president of the Kansas State Medical Association, was present and addressed the academy in his usual interesting manner. A great many of the members made short, pointed speeches. The members were agreeably surprised to have present with them again Dr. H. C. Crowell of Boston. Dr. Crowell is as young and enthusiastic as ever, and in his masterly way made some remarks that were both interesting and instructive. The vaudeville performance and orchestral numbers were excellent, altogether making a most enjoyable evening. Frisco Railroad Medical Association. The next meeting of the Frisco Railroad Medical Association will be held in Kansas City in May, 1908. Dr. S. C. James has been appointed chairman of the Committee on Arrangements. Kansas City is an ideal place to meet and there is no doubt but that this will be the record meeting in the history of the association. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. A smallpox scare is reported from Buckner, Mo. Dr. S. S. Landon is suffering from a nervous collapse. Dr. and Mrs. Fred M. Pugsley have returned from New York city. Dr. and Mrs. S. G. Gant of New York spent the holidays here. Drs. J. D. Griffith and A. J. Welch were in St. Louis this month. Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Loebenstein announce the birth of a daughter. The American Academy of Medicine met in Pittsburg, Pa., January 2. Dr. C. A. Render of Guthrie, Ok., has been visiting his sister in this city. Dr. David Stoner of Quinter, Kas., spent a few days in this city, lately. Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Nelson of Bunceton, Mo., are in town for a few days. Dr. Charles Hamilton of Columbus, O., has returned home after visiting relatives here. The residence of Dr. J. W. C. Boone, 2421 Indiana avenue was damaged by fire January 6. The Chinese government is reported to be making strenuous efforts to get rid of the opium habit. Dr. H. D. Jerowitz was severely injured lately by a collision between his automobile and a street car. Dr. H. D. Williams, 68 years old, died at his home, 650 Elizabeth avenue, Kansas City, Kas., January 17. Dr. and Mrs. Wilburn Graves of Pittsburg, Kas., spent a few days visiting friends in the city this month. The war department at Washington has received notice of the appearance. of Asiatic cholera in the Philippines. Dr. Marion O. Biggs of Bowling Green, Mo., and Miss Belle Buckner were married January 15, at the home of the bride's parents. The city board of health have been collecting typhoid germs from samples of cistern water in the vicinity of Twenty-ninth and Wyandotte. Dr. Robert H. Michels, naval surgeon at the recruiting station, has resigned and will enter private practice. His former home was Wamego, Kas. The South Dakota supreme court has decided void the clause of the pure food law requiring patent medicines to bear a formula of their composition. The Hospital Day Association has named February 14 as a day for the collection of contributions for charitable patients in Kansas City hospitals. Dr. C. C. Nesselrode, assistant house surgeon at St. Margaret's hospital, Kansas City, Kas., and Miss Ella Allen were married January 2 at Lenexa, Kas. Resolutions were adopted providing for medical inspection of public schools which was held at Joplin, Mo., Decemby the state Teachers' Association ber 28. bride's parents. They will make their future home in Harveysburg, O. are WANTED-Young women who desire to become graduate nurses wanted to enter the Post-Graduate Training School for Nurses. Apply superintendent Post-Graduate Hospital, 918 Independence Ave., Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas City, Kas., board of health met January 8, and elected the following officers: Dr. C. B. Stemen, president; Dr. Charles Ott, vice-president; Dr. J. A. Fulton, secretary. Surgeon Charles F. Stokes has been assigned to the command of the hospital ship "Relief," which is being fitted out at Mare Island, Cal., with equipment for special duty with the battle ship fleet now in Southern waters. The council of the American Academy of Medicine at Pittsburg this month recommended a six-year course for physicians in place of the customary four years university and four years medical courses now in vogue. The new hospital of the Kansas City Post-Graduate Medical College was opened January 5. There were seven patients in the wards with two nurses in attendance. As the number of patients increases nurses will be added. According to the coroner's report for 1907, the predominating cause of violent deaths in Kansas City last year was suicide. There are reported sixtyfour cases of self-destruction in Jackson county during that year and sixty cases of homicide. Dr. Jesse A. Naylor has resigned from his position as night clerk and assistant ambulance surgeon at the emergency hospital. His place is to be filled by Dr. G. R. Dagg, who has been ambulance surgeon at the Walnut street police station. Fire partially destroyed the buildings of the Missouri colony for the feeble minded at Marshall, Mo., January 20. The damage is estimated at $40,000. There was no panic and no one injured. This is the second fire within a period of a year. The Cole County Society for the Prevention and Treatment of Tuber culosis was organized January 7 at Jefferson City, with Mrs. Joseph W. Folk president, Dr. George Homer, Dr. William Porter and Dr. Bonel, all of St. Louis addressed the meeting. The Jackson County Society for the Relief and Prevention of Tuberculosis arranged a public meeting in the Central High school auditorium January 20. Dr. Porter of St. Louis was the principal speaker. principal speaker. Others who discussed were Mayor Beardsley, Dr. E. W. Schauffler, Dr. A. H. Cordier and Rabbi H. H. Mayer. The annual meeting the Visiting Nurses' Association was held January 8. The following officers were elect ed: Mrs. E. W. Schauffler, president; Mrs. W. H. Chapman, Mrs. H. C. Flower, vice-presidents; Mrs. B. D. Rowe, secretary; Mrs. F. P. Burnap, treasurer. The program for the State Medical Society, to be held in Springfield during May, was, made up at a meeting, December 23, of thirty-three secretaries of county medical societies. throughout Missouri. Dr. W. S. Allee of Olean, Mo., president of the state society presided over the meeting. The board of trustees of the state colony for the feeble minded met at Marshall, Mo., January 10. Dr. C. B. Sincoe of St. Joseph was elected superintendent to succeed Dr. W. L. Whittington. No other changes were made. Dr. Sincoe was the first superintendent in 1899. There are 260 in mates. A bill has been introduced into the Kansas legislature requiring that magnetic healers first obtain a license from the Kansas state board of medical examiners before practicing in that state. Cases of alleged malpractice have been brought against several "healers" lately and there is no law to punish or prevent it. The lower house of the city council passed an ordinance, December 30, authorizing the city physician to employ two graduate nurses for duty in the emergency hospital in the city hall. The pay of the nurses was fixed at $480 a year. The ordinance was introduced by Dr. J. G. Lapp. Student nurses are at present on duty. Dr. R. Broughton of Rockford, Ill., has just completed a large addition to his sanitarium. The new part is 40x 70 feet in dimensions and three stories high. It is equipped with all the modern conveniences for treating nervous patients and drug habitues. Dr. Broughton is to be congratulated on the success he has achieved in his sanitarium. About forty cases of smallpox were reported this month from Atherton, Blue Mills and the surrounding country. Dr. B. F. O'Daniel, secretary of the county board of health, reports there is no danger of the disease spreading, and no reason to be alarmed over the situation. It appears in a mild form and no deaths have been reported. The Missouri state board of health held its annual meeting at Jefferson City, January 8. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: Dr. Albert Hammil, De Sota, president; Dr. Ira W. Upshaw, St. Louis, vicepresident; Dr. J. A. Adcock, Warrensburg, secretary. The next meeting of the board will be in Kansas City, May 4, 5 and 6. Dr. W. H. Cooper, 83 years old, died at Boonville, Mo., January 15. Dr. E. J. Lutz submitted his annual report as secretary of the Kansas City, Kas., board of health, to the council. January 7. The report shows a majority of births over deaths for the year 1907, but is unfavorable in the increased number of typhoid fever cases. The impure water supply is credited as the cause for the increase. The council of administration of the Kansas State Medical Society met in Kansas City, Kas., December 27. During the session a resolution was adopted commending Surgeon General Rixey of the navy for demanding actual control when accompanied by responsibility for the hospital corps. The next meeting of the society will be held at Iola, Kas., May 6, 7 and 8. The supreme court of Missouri en banc granted a writ of mandamus last month to compel the state treasurer to pay to the state sanitarium for consumptives at Mount Vernon, the fees collected by him for the keeping of patients at that institution. The last legislature failed to designate a fund into which such fees as they were collected from the counties sending patients to the institution should be paid. The board of managers brought the suit. Dr. Nicholas Senn died at Chicago, January 7. Dr. Senn was one of the most widely known surgeons in the United States, and the author of a number of text books on surgery. He was professor of surgery in Rush Medical College, and a lecturer in Chicago University, surgeon general of Illinois. and during the Spanish-American war. lieutenant-colonel of United States volunteers and chief of the operating staff with the American army in the field. He had just lately returned from ed much attention from his extraordiSouth America, where he had attractnary mountain climbing exploits. During his visit to Kansas City in 1903 he Switzerland. was quite ill. He was a native of Kansas City General Hospital Annual Report for 1907. St. Elmo Sanders, M. D., city physician and chief surgeon; Paul B. Clayton, M. D., house surgeon and superintendent; Miss Matilda Hatch Hill, superintendent of nurses; five male nurses; twenty female nurses; number of patients in the hospital January 1, 1907, 148; number of patients admitted from January 1 to December 31, 2,179; number of patients discharged during the year, 1,885; number of patients' deaths, 289; number dying from tuberculosis, 57; number dying within twenty-four hours after admission, 52; number of patients remaining in hospital December 31. 1907, 153; number of patients discharged as cured, 1,308; number of aptients dis charged as improved, 482; surgical operations, 375; beds in hospital, 200. Yours truly, PAUL B. CLAYTON, M. D., House Surgeon and Superintendent. Eli Lilly & Company have established a reading room in connection with the librarian Miss Fanny O. Roberts, a graduate of the Purdue School of Pharmacy, '06. In addition to her pharmaceutical training Miss Roberts has a good general scientific education which equips her to assume charge of a technical library. Unal recently the reference works and periodical literature owned by the house was scattered through the various depart ments, but for some time the growth of the scientific staff has emphasized the need of a central library organized along modern lines. The library is well supplied with the best works on chemistry, botany, physics, pharmacy, physiology, medicine and other subjects having a bearing on manufacturing pharmacy, in addition it receives the best periodical literature on these subjects published in English, German and French. Miss Roberts will give her entire time to its in terests. Information Wanted. The undersigned desires information. regarding any alleged recoveries or cures of inoperable or recurrent carcinoma of the mammary gland If any case or cases are known to anyone who reads this circular and can be authenticated by facts as to the history and condition prior to recovery and the length of time which has elapsed since recovery, such information will be much appreciated and duly acknowledged. Any well-authenticated reports of recoveries from carcinoma located in other parts than the mammary gland will be welcomed. Cancer paste cures, X-ray cures, radium cures, or cures as result of surgical operation are not wanted. Hearsay cases are not wanted unless accompanied by name and address of person who can give knowledge first hand. Address HORACE PACKARD, BOOK REVIEWS. THE PHYSICIAN'S VISITING GLIST FOR 1908. (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co.) That the publishers have met with success in this pocket notebook is evident from the fact that this is its fifty-seventh year of publication. The book is well arranged for the recording of visits, and is supplemented by various useful tables on poisons and their antidotes, dosage, incompatability, etc. It is light and of convenient size, and will be of service to any busy practitioner. A MANUAL OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, PREPARED ESPECIALLY FOR STUDENTS. By A. A. Stevens, A. M., M. D., Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, etc., 8th edition, revised. Illustrated. W. B. Saunders Company, 1907., Philadelphia and London. The eighth edition of Stevens' Manual of the Practice of Medicine has been isued and is very satisfactory. The book has been thoroughly revised and somewhat enlarged, while the section on nervous diseases has been rewritten. While the subjects are briefly treated, the descriptions are clear and contain the essentials. Medical students will find it of great value, while practitioners value it. as a book for quick reference more than as a treatise on medicine. TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN. For the use of advanced students and practitioners. By Henry W. Stelwagon, M. D., Ph. D. Fifth edition. Thoroughly revised. 8 vo. Pp. 1150. With 267 illustrations in the text and 34 fullpage colored and half-tone plates. Philadelphia and London. W. B. Saunders & Co., 1907. Price, cloth, $6.00 net; half morocco, $7.50 net. While there have been many works issued of late treating of skin diseases, Stelwagon has certainly retained his reputation as authority on the subject. |