lion-cells of the anterior horn of the spinal cord or the "'" or "New York" or "Minnesota" banks, insur¬ ance or were, in this view, motor nerves or both. That no lesions are companies hotels, quite unobjection¬ peripheral able. But latterly a class of unscrupulous adventurers in demonstrable would seem to indicate that the action various lines of business have taken to using such names for is essentially a toxic one short of inflammation or purposes of deception and fraud; and they find numerous vic¬ degeneration. As a rule the symptoms of the disorder tims among the less informed members of the community. Evi¬ eome of the Govern¬ are of ascending character, paralysis appearing first dently the time has when some department in the lower extremities, then in the trunk and ment should be clothed by Congress with the power to prohibit finally the use of the name "United States" for any purpose of fraud in the extremities. So common is this of upper mode or deception. invasion that it has come to be considered distinctive. The above is from the St. Paul Pioneer-Press of That this is not so would seem to be shown a case by June 18. With the facts as above given the matter is reported by Leonard A. Rowden.1 The was 10 patient one that interests the medical profession and might years old, and fell a distance of ten feet into an excava- well be considered the Committee on National tion, without bad results. On the by Legis¬ apparent following day lation of the American Medical Association. If he d'd not feel well and held his head as if he had a or Buchanan should ask for a certificate stiff and he vomited once Armstrong slightly neck, after taking of for the United States Government some food. the he was incorporation light During night rather restless, Medical could obtain it under and on the he of slight head¬ College, they probably following day complained the laws of some of the states. For our credit abroad, ache and pain in the neck. The succeeding he night as well as for our welfare at home, we should most was there to be again restless and appeared slight fever. decidedly abridge this liberty. A day later the temperature was found to be almost 103, the pulse 100 and good and respiration normal. The head could not be voluntarily turned to either side, but Medical News. there was no difficulty in passive movement. There was also inability to raise either arm at the shoulder-joint. ILLINOIS. The of was grasp each hand fair, the forearms could St. Francis was fee Hospital, Evanston, formally opened, readily flexed and extended at the elbow-joint and June 29. The hospital has accommodation for 20 patients. the legs could be kicked about briskly. On the next day Dr. Arvid E. Kohler, Moline, has been elected physician for the of there was complete paralysis of the muscles of both up¬ poor that city. per extremities and of the Sterling physicians recently held a meeting at the office of trunk and also of the inter¬ Dr. Frank and and revised the fee-table. costal total Anthony adjusted muscles, with paralysis of the lower ex¬ Drs. Louis H. Clampit and William C. Cole, Jacksonville, tremities. There was no headache, no rigidity, nor have been appointed to the medical staff of the Illinois Central twitching of the muscles, no loss of sensibility, and the Hospital for the Insane at that place. New Hospital at trustees of the Illinois imental powers were preserved, as was also control of Quincy.\p=m-\The the In the further Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Quincy have approved plans for sphincters. progress of the case the a new hospital for the institution. An appropriation of paralysis of the legs became more advanced and the $24,000 was made by the state legislature for this purpose. The muscles of deglutition seemed somewhat involved. The hospital will accommodate 90 patients. knee-jerks were lost, and the facial muscles were later . involved and became indistinct. The Jenner Medical College held its commencement exercises, speech pulse grew June rapid and weak, the heart and 20. failed, cyanosis developed Dr. and Mrs. James M. Fraser sailed for Liverpool, June death ensued after an interval of five Unfortu¬ days. 11, on the Servia. an could not be nately, autopsy secured, but the Dr. John A. Robison has resigned as professor of medicine symptoms and the course are sufficiently distinctive to in . justify a diagnosis of Landry's paralysis of descending Dr. C. Pruyn Stringfield has been appointed a colonel on type. the staff of Governor Yates. Dr. E. J. Senn has been appointed assistant professor of in Rush Medical THE NAME. College. MISUSE OF NATION'S Dr. Ernest A. Matthaei and Dr. Paul R. Welcker and wife The New a York State authorities have issued certificate of sailed June 8 on the Patricia for Hamburg. a concern itself "The United States incorporation to styling Prof. Nicholas Senn was given the degree of Master of Board of Health," whose business is announced to be the issue of Surgery by the , June 21. certificates forth the or harmlessness of food setting purity Prof. L. Hektoen left last week for a three months' holiday products and patent medicines. Its name is claimed to have in Sweden. He will devote all his time to recreation and been copyrighted by the trick of printing a report bearing same. pleasure. The official who said to a issued the copyright is have "raised Dr. John M. Dodson was elected president of the Alumni question," as well he might, as to the name; but he issued it Association of the University of , at the annual meet¬ nevertheless. Of course the undisguised intention is to sell, to ing, June 19. all those who will pay for them, certificates which to all appear- Dowieites Appeal Denied.—Judge Clifford has dismissed ance come from a government board of health, guaranteeing the appeal of Henrika Bratsch, a deaconess in the Zion church, their products as having been analyzed and found fit for food who was fined $100 by Justice Everett for practicing medicine by United States officials. The authorization of such a corpora- without a license. tion, under such a name, is an outrage upon the people of the Globe-Circlers.—Drs. Nicholas Senn, Jacob Frank and entire nation, compared with which the "use of the flag for Daniel R. Brower and W. M. Maston, of Mobile, Ala., have sailed for are to make an eastward around sinks to There was a time Europe. They trip advertising purposes" nothingness. the world via , , Vladivostock, Corea, when the of the name of the United States, or some Siberia, coupling Japan and Vancouver, reaching Chicago about October 1. particular state or city, with a private enterprise was regarded St. Hospital.—The cornerstone of the of as simply a token of patriotism or of state or local pride. Mary's Hospital St. Mary's, which is to occupy an entire block, bounded by 1. British Med. Jour., May 4, 1901, p. 1076. Haddon and North Hoyne avenues and North Leavitt and

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