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content balances the draft for water by the S. Springer, vice president, and Dr. Edward E. Maxey, secre¬ imposed tary.-At the meeting of the Southern Idaho Medical Asso¬ diuretic, and the milk secretion comes back to normal. ciation held in Twin Falls, January 20, the following officers Other diuretic salts, like sodium chlorid, may be were reelected : president, Dr. Joseph N. Davis, Kimberly ; unable to the milk secretion under vice president, Dr. Corwin P. Groom, Rupert, and secretary, entirely depress Dr. A. Henry Dunn, Twin Falls. normal circumstances, because they call forth a compensating thirst which simultaneously increases ILLINOIS the water intake. In cases in which diuresis does lead Lee County Physicians Meet.—At the annual meeting of to temporarily decreased flow of milk, the percentage the Lee County Medical Society held in Dixon, February 3, of solids in the secretion is the Dr. Nelson M. Percy, Chicago, delivered an address on "The ordinarily increased, Surgical Treatment of Pernicious Anemia," illustrated by the fat being the principal variable. In ordinary experi¬ stereopticon. The annual election of officers resulted as ence, however, the of the milk may be follows: president, Dr. Charles C. Kost; vice president, Dr. composition Edmund as variations William R. Parker, and secretary, Dr. B. Owens, regarded essentially unaltered by slight all Dixon. in renal of activity. Scarlet Fever.—On February 2, it was reported that the entire complement of the Great Lakes Training Station, with JOURNAL OF CANCER RESEARCH the exception of the hospital staff, had been removed east to avoid their exposure to scarlet fever, which broke out on the Number 1 of Volume I of the Journal of Cancer reservation, that the public had been barred from the station Research has just appeared. It is edited by Dr. Rich¬ and that the post would not be occupied again until the ard Weil of New with the assistance of the release from quarantine of all the cases in the hospital. York, Captain Moffett states that there is no epidemic of scarlet Editorial Committee of the American Association for fever at the training station and that there are only seven Cancer Research, Drs. Joseph C. Bloodgood, Leo Loeb, cases at present, with two more under observation. All the Ernest E. Tyzzer, H. Gideon Wells and William H. patients are isolated, and there is no danger. Woglom. In addition to six excellent articles by lead¬ Chicago Well Known Sister Dies.—Sister for fifteen ers in research, the first issue contains an abstract Mary Dolores, years private secretary to Dr. John B. Murphy and for many of the proceedings of the American Association for years a teacher, died suddenly, January 27, in Mercy Hospital, Cancer Research. The subject of cancer is occupying from heart disease, aged 57. the time and labor of laboratory workers perhaps more Third Expedition to Germany.—The American Surgeons' Expedition Committee, Inc., announces that it will send a than other The is a and any subject. field large one, third expedition of surgeons and nurses to Germany within certainly there is room in this country for a quarterly a few weeks. Dr. Harry M. Richter, who is to be leader of started for 2. journal devoted to cancer. the party, Germany, February Robert Koch Society.—The Robert Koch Society will hold a meeting, February 17, at the Morrison Hotel at noon. The subject for discussion will be "Tuberculosis of the Kidney." The pathology of the subject will be taken up by Dr. Dallas Medical News B. Phemister; the symptomatology by Dr. Daniel N. Eisen- drath, and the diagnosis and treatment by Dr. Herman L. Kretschmer. (Physicians will confer a favor by sending for this Health Commissioner Robert¬ department items of news of more or less general Municipal Magazine.—Health son a to finance a interest; such AS RELATE TO SOCIETY ACTIVITIES, has found philanthropist his project of a a NEW HOSPITALS, EDUCATION, PUBLIC HEALTH, ETC.) municipal health magazine for a year, at cost of $1,000 month. The aim of Dr. Robertson is educational and the magazine is to be given free distribution, with an issue of GEORGIA about 100,000 copies a month. The first issue will make its appearance in March and fourteen physicians and surgeons Fraudulent Canvassers and Collectors.\p=m-\Seeitem in Gen- will be appointed as an editorial staff and advisory health eral News of this issue of The Journal, page 521. board. Personal.\p=m-\Dr.Melville C. Martin has been elected prison Personal.—Lieut.-Col. Jacob Frank, surgeon-general of physician of Atlanta.\p=m-\Dr.W. S. Elkin, Jr., has been elected Illinois, was elected president of the Army and Navy Club secretary of the board of trustees of Grady Hospital, Atlanta. of Chicago at its annual meeting, February 7.-Dr. Frank \p=m-\Dr. Howard J. Williams, Macon, has been reelected S. Churchill has been elected vice president of the Infant president, and Dr. William H. Doughty, Jr., Augusta, vice Welfare Society and Drs. W. A. Evans, Caroline Hedger president of the state board of health. and Clifford G. Grulee were elected members of the board. Sanatorium News.\p=m-\Theannual report of the State Sana- -Drs. Anna Dwyer and Effa B. Davis have been made torium, Milledgeville, shows that there has been a gain of members of a committee to draft a constitution and by-laws 286 patients during the last year, bringing the total up to for a commission recently formed to study the wayward 4,000. More than 700 patients were admitted during the year. girl problem. The building for colored patients is especially crowded. The Historical Society Meeting.—The Society of Medical His¬ per capita cost of feeding and clothing the inmates of the tory of Chicago will meet in the walnut room of the Hotel sanatorium has been reduced to 41 cents a day.-The Sherman, February 15, at 6: 30, when papers will be read by Fulton County Public Works Committee met in Atlanta, Dr. Horace Manchester Brown, Milwaukee, on "Must the January 13, and took up the matter of an appropriation for History of Syphilis be Rewritten? Ancient Facts and Modern the extension and improvement of the Battle Hill Sanatorium Knowledge" ; by Dr. A. Levinson on "A Medical Cyclopedist for Tuberculosis, and recommended that an appropriation of of the Seventeenth Century," and by Dr. Mortimer Frank, $10,000 be made for this purpose.-The commissioners of Chicago, on "The Origin of Syphilis," a paper which was Clarke County are formulating a plan to establish a tuber¬ read at the 1913 Congress of Medicine in London by Dr. Karl culosis camp for the care of worthy and needy patients, some Sudhoff of Leipzig, and translated by Dr. A. Alleman, assis¬ of whom cannot be kept in sanatoriums. tant librarian of the surgeon-general's office, Washington, D. C. IDAHO KENTUCKY New Officers of Medical Societies.—At the recent meeting Prevention of Blindness.—A bill is to be introduced before of the Pocatello Medical Society Dr. Joseph V. Clothier was the coming general assembly calling for an appropriation elected president; Dr. Edward N. Roberts, vice president, of about $8,000 to be used for the prevention of blindness and Dr. F. Mertin Ray, secretary-treasurer, all of Pocatello. and for the employment of a state oculist to serve jointly -The Boise Physicians and Surgeons Club, at its annual with the United States Public Health Service and the State meeting, elected Dr. James L. Stewart president; Dr. John Board of Health. Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a Florida International University Medical Library User on 06/13/2015 Interns Resign.—Nine of the twelve interns at the Medico-Military Course at Harvard.—The president and Louisville City Hospital tendered their resignations to the fellows of Harvard University have voted to institute a board of safety, January 27, because they objected to cathet- course in military medicine at Harvard Medical School. This a with the half erizing male patients, a duty which has heretofore been per¬ course is to be given trial, beginning second formed by orderlies. The board of safety upheld the hospital of the academic year. Major Weston P. Chamberlain, M. C, committee in its contention and the places of the mutineers U. S. Army, an alumnus of Harvard Medical School, has have been filled. been appointed lecturer on military medicine. Personal.—Dr. Arad A. Simons, Cloverport, is ill in Personal.—Dr. William A. Hinton has been appointed St. Joseph's Infirmary.-Dr. Henry P. Sights, superinten¬ pathologist to the Boston Dispensary and placed in charge dent of the Western State Hospital, Hopkinsville, for the of all its laboratory work, succeeding Dr. Sarah. E. Coppinger. last six years has, it is said, announced that he will not be -Dr. James Lloyd Wellington, Swansea, the oldest alumnus a candidate for reappointment.-Drs. George T. Fuller, of Harvard University, has celebrated his ninety-eighth birth¬ Mayfield, and Charles Z. Aud, Cecilia, have been reappointed day anniversary.-Dr. Richard C. Cabot, Boston, has been members of the State Board of Health to succeed them¬ elected head of the advisory board for Massachusetts of the selves.-Dr. Henry Enos Tuley has succeeded Sam P. New England section of the National Civic Federation.- Jones as president of the Iroquois Life Insurance Company. Dr. Frank A. Woods, Holyoke, has been appointed medical -Dr. John F. Jessee, Waddy, was seriously injured when examiner for the Third Hampden District, succeeding Dr. his automobile skidded at the foot of a long hill and crashed William J. Teahan, Holyoke, deceased.-Dr. George W. into an iron bridge.-The office of Dr.