Dr. Lower was elected to membership and the application of Dr. J. H. Criswell was presented and properly endorsed. An invitation was received from the Delaware County Society to attend the meeting, at Delaware, to be held Friday evening, January 7, at which meeting the Marion County Society will furnish two essayists. The Delaware meeting will be followed by an elaborate banquet served at the Hotel Donavin in honor of the Marion Society. The invitation was accepted and arrangements will be made for the entire society to attend. The treasurer's report was read, showing a nice balance to the credit of the society.

The treat of the evening was an interesting paper by Dr. A. M. Crane on "The Disposition of Contagious Diseases." The essay showed much care had been given in the preparation of the excellent treatise, and everybody present enjoyed the instructive half hour spent with the reader. At the close of the meeting President-elect Richardson invited all present to the Commercial Club where an elegant luncheon was served.

The Marion County Society starts the new year under most auspicious circumstances and the coming year promises to be one of the most successful in the history of the organization. The membership is growing and a renewed interest in the success of the society is being shown by the members.

NEUROTIC DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD, including a Study of Auto and Intestinai Intoxications, Chronic Anemia, Fever, Eclampsia, Epilepsy, Migraine, Chorea, Hysteria, Asthma, etc. By B. K. Rachford, M. D., Professor of Diseases of Children, Medical College of Ohio, University of Cincinnati, etc. E. B. Treat & Co., 241-243 West 23d St., New York City, N. Y. 1905.

It is a well-known fact that infants and children are especially predisposed to serious and complicated nervous disorders, and that this class of diseases has been very poorly understood by the general practitioner, and has, in fact, not been a matter of special study by neurologists.

Exchanges

International Journal of Surgery.-To obtain the best results in cases of Colles's fracture the patient should be placed under an anesthetic during reduction.

The Carolina Medical Journal, W. H. Wakefield, Editor."The plea is for a better knowledge of some of our common, everyday remedies; that in our search for big things we shall not neglect the little ones that are true and tried and of known virtue."

DR. W. P. SPRATLING "As smallpox under Jenner's wonderful discovery lost much of its terrors, diphtheria under Behring's antitoxin was robbed of its high death rate, and yellow fever under our own confreres, Reed and others, seems destined to lose its demoralizing terrors, so will epilepsy yield up the longkept secret of its cure."

The Quarterly Journal of Inebriety, T. D. Crothers, Editor. -"In England, during the past summer, some of the most prominent physicians have taken part in temperance meetings, and expressed themselves in the most emphatic way concerning the dangers of alcohol. On the continent many of the temperance societies have among their officers and members prominent medical men who are enthusiastic in their efforts to promote the cause."

The Medical World, C. F. Taylor, editor.-Anent New Year resolutions, "We believe that every doctor owes it to himself and the work which he has chosen to make himself a part of the organized profession." The goal should be membership in the American Medical Association. The door to the National Association is membership in your state association, and the door to the state association is membership in your county society, so the first step is to become a member of your county society."

THE COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL.

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JANUARY, 1906.

Editorial.

"NEW SECRETARY OF MEDICAL BOARD"-A CORRECTION.

In the biographical sketch of Dr. Kinsman, page 563, in our last issue, the fourth sentence on that page should read as follows: "From 1891 to 1896 he was Professor of Nervous Diseases in Starling Medical College, since which time he has been Professor of the Practice of Medicine at Ohio Medical University, and Chancellor of that institution since 1898." Each subscriber who wishes to preserve his JOURNAL will please insert at the proper place, in the December article referred to above, the following phrase, which was inadvertently omitted: "Professor of Nervous Diseases in Starling Medical College, since which time he has been."

COLUMBUS ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.

The year just closed has been one of the most successful in the history of this organization. The increase in membership has been encouraging and the attendance iarge throughout the year. As shown by the Secretary's report a large number of members took part in the work. About sixty-five different members presented papers, specimens or patients at these meetings, more than one hundred taking part in the discussions. It is evident that the members are alive to the advantages of association work, the papers presented and the specimens exhibited being probably as valuable as those presented to any similar society in the country.

No small amount of the success of the year was due to the untiring efforts of the president Dr. F. F. Lawrence. He had too, the support of willing associates who worked harmoniously for the success of the Academy.

During the year the increase in membership and attendance has encouraged the hope that at no distant date the Academy may secure a permanent home. It was thought that some arrangement might be made with the trustees of the Carnegie Library whereby suitable rooms for meetings and for readingroom and library might be secured in the Carnegie library building. Aithough this matter has been in the hands of committees for about a year. little encouragement is given to the project. The outgoing committee said, in reference to this matter: "Early in the year the committee, with representatives of other medical and dental organizations, met with the trustees of the Carnegie Library, in reference to accommodations in the new building, now approaching completion. The trustees were quite appreciative of the advantages which would accrue to the library from acquiring the private libraries of those physicians who had expressed a willingness to donate them, in consideration of suitable accommodations for the Columbus Academy of Medicine in the Carnegie Library building; they explained the provisions which had been made for the housing and care of the books; but when it came. to a consideration of providing for meetings of the academy, they had nothing to offer. It was found that no organization or class of organizations could claim rights in the use of the building

which were not common to all. Furthermore, the trustees had no power to bind their successors to any plan or policy in regard to either segregation of books, maintenance of reading-room or other arrangements which might be made. In fact, the only thing that was assured, was the care of such books as we might donate to the Carnegie Library."

On this subject the committee unanimously urged the “establishment of a permanent home for the Academy, in which it could maintain its reading-room and library and enjoy the privacy and conveniences demanded by the character of our work; and furthermore, by which it would more fittingly uphold the importance and dignity of the medical profession in the community."

It is to be hoped that the interest in the work of the academy will continue, and that the recommendations of the Executive Committee, in reference to a permanent home, may soon be realized.

MEDICAL COLLEGE ATTENDANCE.

From reliable information we learn that the freshmen classes of the regular medical colleges in Ohio are not as large as anticipated. The Ohio Medical University leads the list with 45. The other six regular colleges have altogether about 160. Seven colleges with a freshman class aggregating 205 is not an encouraging outlook from a financial standpoint. The expense of maintaining a modern medical college in laboratory equipments and outlay for a properly conducted dispensary, to say nothing of salaries for teachers, will require the income of a large student body at the present tuition charges in Ohio Colleges. The freshman and sophomore years demand teachers who devote practically all their time to the work and therefore must be paid living salaries.

The result under present conditions is inevitable, either the equipments must suffer, the teachers go unpaid, or large deficits. will occur at the end of each session.

What is the remedy? Endowments by philanthropic persons, consolidation of colleges or combining with universities. The latter is perhaps the most feasible plan. Most of the universities have ample laboratory equipments for teaching physiology, chemistry, histology, bacteriology, materia medica and embryology.