"treatment." But the publicity given the case offered great opportunities for advertising and, as advertising Medical News is an important part of the chiropractic curriculum it is but natural that this cult should take advantage of it. (Physicians will confer a favor by sending for this department items of news of more or less gen- eral interest: such as relate to society activities, new hospitals, education, public health, etc.) MR. MASON AGREES The testimonial of the Hon. William E. Mason for that preposterous piece of quackery "Nuxated Iron" ARKANSAS is a rather well-remembered piece of nostrum history. Personal.\p=m-\Dr.Robert B. Corney has resigned his position as at the Arkansas State at Cummins. "Nuxated Iron," if we are to believe the testimonials, physician Penitentiary is Government Bathhouse at Hot Springs.\p=m-\TheUnited States the preparation that was responsible for Jess Willard Congress has appropriated $60,000 for the completion of the whipping Jack Johnson and, later, for Jack Dempsey government free bathhouse at Hot Springs Reservation. defeating Jess Willard. In the case of the Congress- State Society Meeting.\p=m-\Theannual meeting of the Arkan- sas Medical will be held at Hot 3-5, from Illinois it we are "that Society Springs, May man-at-Large cured, told, under the presidency of Dr. Gustavus A. Warren, Black Rock. horrible tired feeling." Recently the honorable gentle¬ Health Program for El Dorado.\p=m-\Hundredsof lunch stands man was twitted by a New York newspaper for having and other places where food is served are opening along the —among other the medicine" streets of El Dorado in anticipation of the probable stampede things—written "patent to the oil fields, causing great need for sanitary regulation. testimonial. In rising to a question of personal privi¬ Dr. Charles W. Garrison, state health officer, and the city lege for the purpose of answering the various accusa¬ council have inaugurated a health program estimated to cost tions, Mr. in his testimonial, admitted $25,000, the expense to be underwritten by the chamber of Mason, discussing commerce until some financial can be made his be arrangement by that judgment in the matter might questioned the city. A full-time health officer, a sanitary inspector, and and according to the Congressional Record — he a corps of public health nurses will be employed. — ndded : "I think my judgment was bad." This makes it unanimous. CALIFORNIA Hospital Addition Opened.—The new unit of the Glendale Sanatorium and Hospital at Los Angeles was formally Association News opened, February 19. Reunion of Medical Officers.—The annual reunion of the medical officers who served at the Letterman General Hos¬ GRANTS FOR RESEARCH IN MEDICINE pital during the World War was held at the Union League Club, San Francisco, February 17. The trustees of the American Medical Association have Physicians Plan Professional Building.—Drs. Charles D. made an appropriation to further meritorious research in Lockwood, Raymond B. Mixsell, Frederick A. Speik and Paul subjects relating to scientific medicine and of practical inter- A. Ferrier have secured land and propose to erect a four- est to the medical profession, which otherwise might not be story modern office building with laboratories, surgical rooms carried out for lack of funds at hand. Applications for grants and other special conveniences for the use of physicians should be sent to the Committee on Scientific Research, exclusively. American Medical Association, 525 North Dearborn Street, Social Work Conference.—At the California Conference of Chicago, before April 1, 1921, when action will be taken on Social Work, held in San Francisco. February 22-26, mental the applications at hand. hygiene was the subject of general discussion. Dr. William Palmer Lucas spoke on mental hygiene and social service, Dr. Samuel Langer, on mental hygiene and preventive work, THE BOSTON SESSION and Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, on "Health in Relation to Tentative Announcement of Additional Social Events Recreation and Education." The Local Committee on Arrangements announces that the COLORADO following additional social features are under consideration: Forfeits Permit to Prescribe Alcohol.—It The Angell Memorial Hospital for Animals will be open Physician is of Fellows and of the Association reported that the permit to prescribe alcohol of Dr. Charles for the inspection guests Mingus, Monta Vista, has been revoked because he had twice throughout the session. A reception at the Art Museum is been convicted of drinking alcohol. being arranged from 9 to 11 o'clock on the evening of Wednesday of the week of the annual session. The Local DELAWARE Committee feels that this visit to the museum will be one of Personal.—Dr. Fred F. has been the most attractive features of the session. Arrangements Armstrong appointed med¬ ical of schools of to to in are inspector Wilmington, succeed Mr. B. H. for excursions interesting points Boston and vicinity Beeler. progressing satisfactorily. The Local Committee suggests that Fellows arrange to make an excursion to the Pilgrim FLORIDA Tercentenary at Plymouth on Saturday after the close of the Better Industrial Health.—Acting on the suggestion of Dr. Scientific Assembly. Ralph N. Greene, state health officer, the managers of several of the principal industries in the state have adopted new Tour to Boston sanitary and safety measures. The health officer's sugges¬ Special tions were made on the basis of the results of an industrial The Chicago Medical Society, through the Harlan-Spears survey recently conducted by Dr. John A. Turner of the Tours, has arranged for a special train between Chicago and department of hygiene and sanitation, U. S. Public Health Boston for those who desire to use it in attending the annual Service, and Dr. Alva C. Hamblin of the state board of session of the Association. The tour will be a "personally health. conducted" one and several different itineraries will be avail¬ GEORGIA able. The rate covering all necessary expenses except meals Personal.—Dr. Thomas D. has been to Longino, Atlanta, while in Boston varies from $158.98 upward according the elected vice president of the board of trustees of Gitady Pullman accommodations and the tour selected. A deposit Hospital. of $15 a person is required, this amount to apply against final Health Board Elects.—Dr. William H. Doughty, Jr., payment or to be refunded in case the reservation is cancelled. Augusta, and Dr. James H. McDuffie, Columbus, have been Applications for space should be made to the Harlan-Spears reelected president and vice president, respectively, of the Tours, 20 Went Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. Georgia State Board of Health.

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a Oakland University User on 06/01/2015 Conference of Laboratory Directors.—State board of health time official and employing a sanitary inspector and four laboratory directors of southern states will hold a conference public health nurses. Dr. James M. Hubbard, Hickman, has at the Piedmont Hotel, Atlanta, March 18-19, to discuss been appointed health officer of Fulton County, and Dr. John laboratory problems peculiar to southern states. Directors M, Alexander, Fulton, assistant health officer. of municipal laboratories in the South are also invited. Georgia Leads Nation in Hydrophobia Menace.—Statistics LOUISIANA compiled by the state board of health show that in the past Malarial Surveys.—In continuation of the fight against year the menace of hydrophobia was greater in Georgia than malaria, surveys will be made of the districts around Lake in any other state in the Union. More people in Fulton Charles, Franklin and Holly Ridge during 1921. The towns County were forced to seek preventive treatment from rabies to be benefited by the survey have been asked to bear 50 per than in any other county in the state. The Atlanta Humane cent, of the expense, and the Rockefeller Foundation will con¬ Society is seeking a fund of $10,000 with which to carry out a tribute an amount equal to that appropriated by the state for campaign to free the streets of stray dogs. the work. MARYLAND INDIANA Personal.—Dr. A, E. of and Nutrition Clinics.—Nutritional clinics will be estab¬ Boycott, professor pathology, County a at Univer¬ lished in Marion outside of Dr. Charles Choynce, director of surgical unit throughout the schools County London, have arrived in Baltimore to under the of the county the sity College Hospital, Indianapolis auspices hospitals, spend a week in studying conditions at the Johns Hopkins Parent-Teachers' Association and the Marion County Tuber¬ R. culosis Association. Medical School.-Dr. Donald Hooker, associate pro¬ fessor of physiology at Johns Hopkins University, will relin¬ Personal.—Dr. James A. Price has resigned his position as quish his work of teaching in order to devote his entire time superintendent of the Irene Byron Tuberculosis Hospital, to research.-Dr. G. Garzón Cossas, Vera Cruz, Mexico, is Fort Wayne, to accept the superintendency of the Memphis in Baltimore for the purpose of studying local health and at Medical Hospital and lecturer Vanderbilt University hygiene methods, as a representative of the Mexican Depart¬ School. He has been succeeded by Dr. Eric A. Crull, Fort ment of Hygiene. Wayne. Gifts to Johns Hopkins University.—At the Founders' Day Hospital News.—The Home Hospital, Anderson, has been Celebration of the Johns Hopkins University, February 22, placed in the hands of a receiver, with orders for the sale of announcement was made that the trustees of the university the real estate and the equipment.-The Randolph County would supplement the fund of $215,000 raised by the Alumni Hospital, Winchester, was opened for the reception of Association for a memorial dormitory building at Homewood, patients, February 2. The building and grounds were donated so that the total cost of the building might lie provided for. by Mrs. Hetty Vorhis and the county expended $28,000 for Dr. Goodnow also announced that an anonymous donor, who for the of addi¬ equipment and remodeling.-Plans building had provided a grant of several thousands of dollars for the to the Marion Home have been tional wings County Julietta art and medical departments, had signified his desire to con¬ announced by the county board of commissioners. The cost tinue the annual grant indefinitely, and that under the will of will be about $100,000. Dr. James Schouler, the university would receive $14,500. Bill to Provide Medical Aid for Poor Children.—A bill to which, added to a previous gift, would bring the benefaction provide for the establishment of the James Whitcomb Riley to $25,000, to be added to the endowment fund.-By the will Hospital for the treatment and care of poor children afflicted of William Bennet Paca, the bulk of his estate, valued at with diseases or physical defects which may be relieved by about $100,000, has been left to the Johns Hopkins University. proper medical and surgical attention, has been introduced in However, litigation has been commenced by a nephew of the the state legislature. Children under 16 years of age whose deceased. parents or guardians are unable to bear the expense are MASSACHUSETTS eligible for free treatment on the recommendation of judges of circuit and juvenile courts. The site proposed is on state Personal.—Dr. Frederick E. Jones has been appointed land near the present Robert D. Long Hospital, a state insti¬ health commissioner of Quincy, to succeed Edward A. Dean. tution, and the Indiana University School of Medicine, -Dr. George D. McGauran has been appointed consult¬ Indianapolis. The children's hospital is to be under the ing physician on the staff of the Anna Jaques Hospital. management of the trustees of Indiana University who now Narcotic Act Violation. It is reported that Dr. Henry have of the institutions mentioned. The bill carries — charge C. B. Snow, Buzzards Bay, was recently fined $50 in the an of for construction and $150,000 appropriation $250,000 United States District Court when he pleaded guilty to an additional for two years to provide for maintenance and indictment charging him with violation of the Harrison equipment. The counties are expected to defray expenses of Narcotic Law. children sent from their jurisdiction. Boston City Hospital Extensions.—The mayor of Boston IOWA has requested the city council for two loan orders for improvements to the City Hospital. An order for $150,000 City and County Health Officer.—Dr. Daniel C. Steelsmith, is requested for the purpose of erecting a Thorndike Mem¬ Iowa Falls, has been appointed health officer of the city and orial Building, $200.000 being available by the will of the county of Dubuque. donor. Another bill is for $629,000 for the erection of a Marriage Law.—A bill has been introduced in the state building for the outpatient department. legislature forbidding clergymen or others to marry persons failing to present a certificate attesting to their mental and MICHIGAN physical fitness for matrimony. Donation to Blodgett Home.—Mrs. John W. Blodgett and Mrs. D. A. Blodgett have each offered to donate $5,000 to KANSAS the D. A. Blodgett Home. Grand Rapids, provided that the Hospital for Railway Employees.—A new hospital will be Blodgett Home association raises an equal sum. erected at Parsons, at an approximate cost of $140,000, by Personal. Dr. Joseph H. has been appointed — Hathaway the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway. medical inspector of schools of Highland Park.-Dr. Personal.—Dr. Benjamin F. Mallory, Arlington, recently Horace C. Mudge, Port Huron, has resigned his positon as sustained severe injuries when his automobile was struck and physician at the county infirmary, after forty-eight years of completely demolished by a Santa Fe train. continuous service. Change of Date of State Society Meeting.—The dates of Health Course at University.—The health service depart¬ the meeting of the Kansas Medical Society, announced to be ment of the University of Michigan has announced that a two-hour course in health in held at Wichita, May 4-6, have been changed to April 26-28. will be included the curriculum next fall. Registration in the course will be required of all freshmen KENTUCKY at the university. Arrangements for State Society Meeting.—Plans for the Personal.—Dr. Eugene C. Róemele has been appointed annual session of the state medical society, to be held in of the Frankfort to succeed Dr. Lind¬ Bay physician Reformatory City, May 24-26, were formulated at a meeting of the Bay say H. Morrison, West Point. County Medical Society, Bay City, February 14. At this Extension of Health Work.—Fulton County plans to spend meeting addresses were delivered by Dr. W. J. Deacon of the $12,000 during 1921 for the work of the health department, state department of health, and Dr. Frederick C. Warnshuis. substituting two full-time health officers for its former part- Grand Rapids, secretary of the state medical society.

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a Oakland University User on 06/01/2015 Marriage Law Proposed.—A bill has been introduced in facilities. The Institute for the Crippled and Disabled will the state legislature requiring all persons applying for mar¬ also be affiliated with the work. Dr. W. Gilman Thompson riage licenses to present a licensed physician's detailed report has been selected as the head of the new organization. The of the physical condition of each applicant. All persons medical staff includes Drs. Joseph A. Blake, John A. Hart- afflicted with venereal diseases, epilepsy, or "open" tuber¬ well, Victor G. Heiser, Irving S. Haynes, Charlton Wallace, culosis are barred by the proposed bill from contracting mar¬ Charles L. Dana, Henry Sage Dunning, Jacob D. Kernan, riage. No license may be issued until ten days after applica¬ and Robert G. Reese. The activities of the hospital will tion has been made. include not only hospital therapeutics, but scientific research, vocatipnal training, and provisions for reemployment. MISSOURI Y Personal.—The Boone County Medical Association gave a OHIO of banquet, February 15, in honor of the eightieth birthday Personal.—Dr. Frank S. was the Dr. Andrew W. former dean of the Pomeroy, Chardon, guest McAlester, Columbia, of honor at the banquet of the Geauga County Medical Asso¬ school of medicine of the University' of Missouri. ciation, the occasion marking the completion of his forty- second year in the practice of medicine in the county. NEW YORK Naval Surgeon in Aeroplane Accident.—Dr. Kent C. Mel- Laboratory Supply Station Established.—The State Depart¬ horn, Kenton, surgeon, U. S. Navy, while attempting to cross ment of Health has established a laboratory supply station the mountains in answer to an emergency call in Haiti, where at Carthage, to supply the needs of Jefferson, Lewis and St. he is on duty, was badly injured when the engine of the aero¬ Lawrence counties. Dr. Frederick G. Metzger, Carthage, has plane failed at an altitude of 1,500 feet. The aviator volplaned been placed in charge. to 500 feet when the plane crashed to earth. Brooklyn Physicians Want Drug Commission Abolished.— Passage of the Lord bill abolishing the narcotic drug com¬ OREGON mission, was urged by several Brooklyn physicians, who pro¬ Personal.—Dr. Frederick D. Strieker, Grants Pass, has tested against the rulings of the commission. The governor been elected secretary of the state board of health, to succeed has recommended that the commission be abolished. Dr. David N. Roberg, resigned. Typhoid Claims Allowed.—The village of Herkimer has Extends Eugenic Law to Women.—The state legislature. to of in settlement of claims of agreed the payment $5,000 February passed a bill requiring that women as well as filed the the fever 19, $37,500, against village following typhoid men seeking marriage licenses shall be examined as to their epidemic in 1918. It was charged that the cause of the epi¬ mental and physical fitness. demic was traceable to the water supply of the village. Growth of Health League.—The Oregon League for the Personal.—Dr. Loren Percy Ranson has been appointed Conservation of Public Health, organized simultaneously with medical officer of the police and fire departments of Syracuse. the in the state of now has a G. of the league Washington, membership -Dr. Walter Frey, president Queens County of more than 1,200. The league has undertaken an intensive Medical Society, and his son, Dr. Walter G. Frey, Jr., both campaign to disseminate information regarding public health of Long Island City, were seriously injured recently in an matters throughout the state. automobile accident. Postgraduate Course in Public Health.—The Albany Med¬ PENNSYLVANIA ical announces the continuation of its College postgraduate Closed for Want of Funds.—Dr. Albert P. course in infectious diseases and health for Dispensaries public practicing director of the division of tuberculosis of the state physicians and especially for health officers. This course is Francine, the Medical and the New department of health, referring to the action of the bureau given jointly by Albany College a number of York State of Health. Registration is limited in closing dispensaries throughout the state, Department attributed the move to the of the medicine. The course consists of informal inadequacy department to graduates in of and demonstrations with con¬ budget. A number community organizations have arranged conferences practical special state recent advancement in and to furnish rent-free quarters, and the will provide a sideration given to the diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia and tuberculosis, the essential fea¬ physician, nurses, supplies. tures of infection and immunity, diagnostic laboratory tests Tuberculosis Society Reorganized.—At its annual meeting, and the prophylactic and therapeutic use of vaccines and January 19, the Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Society put into serums. The organization and work of industrial medical effect its revised constitution and by-laws which make the departments will also be considered. Personal clinical organization thoroughly representative of all sections of the instruction will be given to groups of four physicians. Spe¬ state, in contradistinction to the local character that it for¬ cial work in venereal diseases will be arranged for classes merly had. Permanent tuberculosis organizations from nearly of two. The course extends from March 3 to June 17, one all counties have already become affiliated. The new officers M. day a week being devoted to instruction. are: Dr. James Anders, president; Dr. White and Dr. Wil¬ liam D. Robinson, vice presidents, and Dr. Ward Brinton, New York City secretary. Cartwright Prize.—The Cartwright Prize Lecture of Colum¬ Philadelphia bia University was delivered at a meeting of the New York Address by Visiting Physician.—At the meeting of the Academy of Medicine, February 17, by Dr. Abraham L. section on general medicine of the College of Physicians of Garbat on "The Typhoid Carrier." Philadelphia held at Thompson Hall. February 28, Dr. Henry Lecture.—Dr. S. B. associate A. Christian, Boston, spoke on the "Right and Wrong Uses Harvey Wolbach, professor Diuretics." of pathology and bacteriology in the Harvard University of Medical School, will deliver the eighth of the current series Health Council Reports Big Gains.—The Philadelphia of Harvey Society Lectures at the New York Academy of Health Council and Tuberculosis Committee has reported Medicine, March 12, on the subject of "Typhus Fever and results attained in open-air school classes with 297 under¬ Rickettsia." nourished children, who are being fortified against tuber¬ Personal.—Dr. Percy R. Turnure has received from the culosis. Both boys and girls have gained, on an average, 1.7 last at a French government the Cross of the Legion of Honor for pounds in weight during the three months rate than is Children who are 'eminent services to France during the World War."- greater normally expected. simply to tuberculosis are a Dr. Frederick S. Westmoreland, who has been connected with predisposed given pint of milk each day the health council, while those who are tuberculous the bureau of hospitals of the New York City Health Depart¬ by have has a pint added each day by the board of education. Milk is ment for fifteen years, resigned. in the middle of the and of the of Industrial given morning, afternoon, with Three Hospitals Merge for Rehabilitation a rest Nourishing soups, custards and the first of its kind in period following. Workers.—"Reconstruction Hospital," creamed vegetables are served at noon. the country, will be devoted exclusively to the rehabilitation of workers suffering from industrial injuries or occupational TEXAS diseases by the application of medical methods developed in war work. Park Hospital, the De Milt Dispensary, and the Personal.—At the annual meeting of the board of directors Clinic for Functional Reeducation, have been merged into of the Texas Public Health Association held recently at this institution. The property and equipment of the three old Austin, Dr. Zachary T. Scott, Austin, was elected president. institutions have been turned over to the new hospital and -Dr. Holman Taylor was elected president of the Tarrant $500,000, in addition, will be spent to extend the present County Tuberculosis Society at a recent meeting of the board.

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a Oakland University User on 06/01/2015 Health Week.—By proclamation of the governor the week which influence the human family, and their control ; also beginning March 13, has been set aside as Health Week. the differential mortality of eugenically superior and inferior At the close of this campaign, which is to be conducted by stocks and the influence on such mortality of factors such as the state health officer, all cities and towns will be inspected war and epidemic and endemic diseases. (3) Human racial and rated according to their sanitary condition. This rating difference, with sharp distinction between racial characteris¬ will be filed with the state board of health. tics and the unnatural associations often created by political and national boundaries ; racial differences in disease and VIRGINIA psychology, and the history of race migrations and their influence on the fate of nations. (4) Eugenics in relation to Personal.—Dr. Coleman B. Sansome has been appointed the state, to society, and to education. Inquiries relative to health officer of Newport News, to succeed Dr. William F. the congress should be addressed to Dr. C. C. Little, secretary- Cooper, resigned. This appointment of a full-time health general, American Museum of Natural History, Seventy- officer is the initial step in the reorganization of the city Seventh Street and Central Park, West, New York. health department.-Dr. J. Garnett Nelson, Richmond, has been elected president of the Richmond Tuberculosis Asso¬ Bequests and Donations.—The following bequests and ciation. donations have recently been announced : Children's, Allegheny, Mercy and Western Pennsylvania hospitals, WASHINGTON Home for the Friendless, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Free Dispensary, West¬ moreland Hospital, Greensburg, Pa., Mount Pleasant Memorial Hospital, Hospital News.—The Shelton General Hospital, with a Westmoreland, Pa.; Braddock CPa.) General Hospital, Homestead (Pa. been Hospital, each $200,000, and Lying-in Hospital, New York, $600.000 capacity of fifty beds, has completed. The hospital was by the will of Henry Clay Frick. erected at a cost of $50,000, from funds contributed by citizens JT. C. Blair Memorial Hospital, Huntingdon, Pa., $10,000, .by the will of Mason County.-It has been announced that one of the of William Thompson. several hospitals for crippled children, to be erected by the Carney, Boston City, Massachusetts General, Frost Massachusetts order of the will be located in Homeopathic, Children's, and St. Elizabeth's hospitals, Boston ; I Massa¬ Mystic Shrine, Spokane. chusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary,! and Industrial Sctrool for Crippled and Deformed Children, equal shares of the bulk of the estate WISCONSIN of Joseph Thompson, Boston. Stetson Hospital, Philadelphia, $1,500, by the will of Elena T. Hults, Pamphlet on Communicable Disease Control.—The method Philadelphia. of communicable diseases in Shorewood, Protestant Episcopal and Pennsylvania hospitals, each $500,000, Penn¬ controlling employed sylvania Society to Protect Children from Cruelty, $300,000; and a Milwaukee suburb, has been outlined in a pamphlet issued Gynecean Hospital and Preston Retreat each $150,000 by the will of by a state board of health. The important innovation in the Helen F. Massey, Philadelphia. Shorewood is the isolation of and Visiting Nurses' Association, New York and Brooklyn Board of plan patients placarding each $168,000; of homes on of Charities, Brooklyn Children's Aid Society, $41,000. suspicion contagious disease, pending positive Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and St. diagnosis. Christopher's Hospital for Babies, each $30.000; Brooklyn Hospital, GENERAL $17,000, by the will of Alfred Treadwell White. Urologie Journal Transferred.—The Journal of Urology LATIN AMERICA has become the property of the American Urological Associa¬ tion. It will continue to be published in Baltimore under the New Hospital in Uruguay.—The public assistance authori¬ ties a editorial supervision of Dr. Hugh Hampton Young, assisted have purchased spacious lot in the suburbs of Monte¬ video to build a of 500 by an executive editorial committee and by a number of col¬ public hospital beds. The first appro¬ laborators, including the former associate editors. The Jour¬ priation for the work amounts to $140,000. nal will be published monthly, providing sufficient material /School for Trachomatous in Argentine.—A school for chil- is submitted. /dren infected with trachoma has just been opened at Tucumáu. Hygiene Abandoned.—The International This school is an outcome of a suggestion made at the scien¬ Congress Congress tific held in that is of Hygiene, which was to have been held in Geneva in May. congress city in Í916. It expected that other schools of a similar has been for the reason that the low value of the character will be organized in other abandoned, cities where trachoma currency of many countries and the high value of the Swiss Argentine prevails. franc make it impossible for many countries to send delegates. Chilean Radium Deposit.—According to newspaper reports Fully 600 delegates from all parts of the world had been radium has been discovered in the saltpeter region of Chile. expected to attend. It was proposed by Great Britain and The matter attracted, so much attention in France that several the United States, that they be permitted to subsidize dele¬ prominent radiologists, including Mme. Curie, have requested gates of nations with abnormally low exchange, but these the government of Chile to create a radium laboratory, and delegates, regarding it as a form of alms giving, refused the an appropriation for this purpose has been granted by the offer. government. Postgraduate Scholarships.—The New York Post-Grad¬ New Medical School in Pernambuco.—The Faculdade de uate Medical School and Hospital announces that there will Medicina was recently inaugurated at Recife in the state of be available this year six scholarships under the terms of the Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil. Dr. Armando Gayoso Oliver-Rea Endowment. The scholarships are awarded to delivered the principal address of the occasion. The state practicing physicians of the United States and provide for of Pernambuco has recently concluded arrangements with the the expenses of tuition at the New York Post-Graduate Med¬ federal government in respect to the public health service ical School. According to the wishes of the donor, physicians according to the plan called Prophylaxia Rural, and a station in Pennsylvania will receive preference in the award. Appli¬ has already been organized at Villa Ribeiräo. cations may be sent to the president of the New York Post- Foundation of the Cuban Medical Association.—In the last Graduate Medical School and Hospital, Twentieth Street and issue of Vida Nueva, Dr. Francisco M. Fernández, the editor Second Avenue, New York. of the Archivos de Oftalmología and acting editor of the Convention of American Congress on Internal Medicine.— Crónica Médico-Quirúrgica, urges the foundation of a Cuban medical a The fifth annual convention of the American on association, which will unite in single organization Congress the Internal Medicine was held in Baltimore, February 21-26, the different medical associations which now exist in that sessions being devoted to demonstrations and clinics and to country, so that Cuba wll have a society much along the same through the hospitals of Baltimore. The lines of those existing in the United States, Argentine, Colom¬ inspection trips bia and Mexico. Its degree of fellow of the American College of Physicians was need is much felt in that country. conferred on seventy members of the congress during the Personal.—Dr. Ricardo Aguilar, the editor of the Revista convention. The following officers were elected: Dr. Sydney Médico-Quirúrgica of Teguciaglpa, Honduras, has been Miller, Baltimore, president; Drs. Ellsworth Smith, St. Louis, appointed professor of physics in the School of Medicine of and James Rae Arneill, Denver, vice presidents ; Dr. Clement Honduras.-Dr. A. Neiva has returned to Rio de Janeiro R. Jones, Pittsburgh, treasurer; and Dr. Frank Smithies, after his official trip to North America and Japan to study Chicago, secretary-general. Dr. J. M. Anders of Philadelphia matters connected with the public health service.-Dr. C. was elected president of the American College of Physicians. Azevedo has also returned to Rio from a trip to Europe.- International Eugenics Congress.—The Second International Professor Paz Soldán of Lima, founder and editor of the Eugenics Congress, to be held in New York, September 22-28. Reforma Médica has been visiting medical institutions at Rio on his will consider the results of research in questions of race return from his official participation in the recent improvement. The preliminary announcement indicates, in international sanitary conference at Montevideo. brief, the matter to be presented in the sectional meetings : /Trachoma at El Salvador.—In the last issue of the Archivos (1) The results of research in the domain of pure genetics in del Hospital Rosales Dr. Luis O. Arévalo of San Salvador animals in relation to studies in human heredity. (2) Factors comments on the prevalence of trachoma at El Salvador in

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a Oakland University User on 06/01/2015 recent years. Among 4,513 individuals examined at random shaving brushes in various parts of the world. The depart¬ in the National Guard, penitentiaries and public schools, only ment of agriculture and commerce of the Japanese government one was found infected with trachoma, although many sus¬ plans to open in April a national disinfection office, probably picious cases were found which later proved to be follicular in Kobe, where all imported bristles and other animal hair conjunctivitis. During the last eight years twenty-two for the manufacture of brushes will be disinfected. Those trachoma patients have been treated at the Hospital Rosales, who use materials that have not been given a certificate of the number of patients having increased in the last three disinfection will be punished by ß fine. years. Trachoma was apparently introduced in Salvador by Malaria Sanatorium at Rome.—The Asilo Antimalarico or an examination made Syrian Turkish immigrants. In by Communale was recently inaugurated at Rome to provide a Drs. Arévalo, Bailey and Peralta of eighty-four Syrians at home and schooling for the children of families living in the San Salvador, four were found infected by trachoma and one malaria infested marshes around Rome. The institution was suspected case. Dr. Arévalo has, in addition, treated eight founded on the initiative of Professor Marchiafava, one of cases, three of them in a single family. Dr. Arévalo acknowl¬ the leaders in the campaign against malaria, and the munic¬ edges the assistance he received in this work from Dr. has a tablet on with a tribute to and thinks ipality placed t\ie building Charles A. Bailey of the Rockefeller Foundation his years of devoted services as physician and hygienist, and that the work accomplished by the foundation' in combating above all as of the which Rome has been El should stimu¬ originator plan by hookworm disease and malaria in Salvador kept free from malaria for so many years. late the government to continue to conduct a similar cam¬ paign against trachoma. He recommends the enforcement of International Congress for History of Medicine.—The date 1 to has been selected for the international immigration laws on the exclusion of trachoma patients, the July 5, 1921, training of examining physicians in the diagnosis of this congress of medical history, which will convene at Paris in disease, the compulsory reporting of trachoma, and public the halls of the Faculté médecine. There are to be three sections, and and the pro¬ lectures on this subject. medicine, pharmacy veterinary art, gram includes a number of trips through museums, excursion ¡OREIGN to the ancient château of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, etc. There fi< a in connection, and the com¬ Publication. Plus is to be historical exposition Spanish Journal Discontinues Ultra, is to for the — mittee in charge appealing physicians temporary the luxuriously printed and illustrated Madrid journal, has loan of articles of historic interest, instruments, medals, discontinued after a three years' existence. The editor states for the exposition. The secretary of the that this action is due to the cost of paper and labor. prints, books, etc., congress is Dr. Laignel-Lavastine, 12 place de Laborde, Paris. Head of Labor Bureau.—Prof. L. Carozzi Department in The of Medicine the Post-Graduate Medi¬ Carozzi, who has long been connected with the clinic for Fellowship and chief of cal Association.—At a meeting of the general council of this occupational diseases at Milan, has been appointed resolutions the for hygiene in the International Labor Bureau British organization, Dec. 10, 1920, the following department were and referred to the executive at Geneva. adopted newly appointed committee : Emil Fischer Foundation at Berlin.—The late Prof. Emil (1) That the executive committee he requested to consider the advisa¬ Fischer marks to the Prussian Academy of bility and practicability of appointing a general organizer of post¬ bequeathed 750,000 to take such he the income of which is to be used to aid young graduate medicine with full powers action as thinks fit Sciences, in order to promote the facilities for postgraduate education in the German chemists doing research work in organic, inorganic United Kingdom for practitioners registered in this country and for or physical chemistry. visitors from Dominions and foreign countries. And that the govern¬ ment be approached with a view to obtaining an annual grant. (2) That Sir G. Sims Woodhead Resigns Editorship.—The publishers the executive committee be requested to report at an early date on the of the Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, London, possibility of providing a hospital solely for postgraduate study and the of a in aid. (3) That it is desirable to obtain announce the retirement of Sir G. Sims Woodhead from the possibility obtaining grant as early as possible suitable accommodation for postgraduates attending active direction of the Journal, a position he has held since courses of instruction. Dr. he founded the publication in 1893. The new editor is American Gifts for European Science.—The Deutsche medi¬ James Ritchie. He will be assisted by Drs. A. E. Boycott zinische records that Dr. of and H. R. Dean. Wochenschrift Lange Chicago has sent to Professor Paltauf of Vienna 7,000,000 crowns Necropsies Obligatory in the Hospitals of Italy.—The collected in America. Also that another sum of $10,000 has Gazette des sciences médicales of Bordeaux relates, with been forwarded from America to aid the university professors. envious comment, that the right of postmortem examination It was sent to Professor Pirquet for distribution. The Rocke¬ has been conferred on the directors of university clinics and feller Foundation has also appropriated $60,000 for assistance chiefs of hospital services throughout Italy. In case of to the Vienna clinics. This sum is said to be equivalent to opposition, the scientific necessity for verifying the causes of 40.000,000 crowns at the present rate of exchange. The death will overcome the interdiction. salaries of the regular university professors at Vienna were Parkin Prize.—The Royal College of Physicians of Edin¬ increased materially last year, being 45,000 crowns, increasing burgh announces the Parkin Prize of ilOO, open to competitors by· 4,000 crowns every fourth year to a maximum of 70,000. of all nations, for the best essay "On thel Effect of Volcanic The Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift likewise reports Action in the Production of Epidemic Diseases in the Animal that Dr. A. Stein, chief of the Lenox Hill (formerly the and in the Vegetable Creation, and in the Production of Hur¬ German) hospital, has recently sent a large sum collected ricanes and Abnormal Atmospheric Vicissitudes." Particu¬ in Ameica to Frankfort-on-the-Main to be applied for scien¬ lars regarding the conditions of the contest may be secured tific purposes. from the secretary, Dr. J. S. Fowler, Edinburgh. International Urologie Society.—The Presse medicale states Greek Congress of Hygiene and Demography.—As already that the first meeting of this new society is to be held at mentioned, the First Pan-Hellenic Congress for Hygiene and Paris, July 5-7, 1921. The three subjects appointed for dis¬ Demography is to convene at Athens in April. The exposi¬ cussion are nephritis with uremia ; remote results of treat¬ tion in connection therewith is to.be open for two months, ment of traumatism of the urethra, and pyelography. The from April 25 to June 25. The Grèce médicale of recent date first subject is to be introduced by Dr. Hogge of Liege, Dr. gives the full details for exhibitors. The committee in charge Horder of London, Dr. Foster of New York and Dr. Teissier includes Prof. G. Phocas, president, and Dr. P. Rondopoulos, of Lyons; the second subject by Dr. Kidd of London, Dr. rue Nikiforou 14, Athens, Greece, secretary-general. Great Gardini of Bologna, and Dr. Pasteau of Paris. The subject preparations are said to be under way for this first convention of pyelography will be introduced by Drs. Waters and Young of the kind in that country. of Baltimore, Dr. Lazio of Milan and Dr. Papin of Paris. Prize for Work on Cancer.—The Morsel Foundation offers The honorary president is Dr. Watson of Boston ; president, Dr. of vice Drs. a of 10,000 marks for the best work on the etiology, Hurry Fenwick London; presidents, Ales¬ prize sandrini of and of New York. Dr. Desnos diagnosis or treatment of cancer, representing important Rome, Keyes of Paris is the and the trea¬ progress. A second prize of half the amount will be given secretary general Dr..Pasteau, for the second best work. Competition is open till Oct. 1, surer general. The congress bureau consists of Drs. Legueu 1922. Competing articles are to be sent to the director of the of Paris, Verhoogen of Brussels and Brongersma of Institute for Experimental Cancer Research at Heidelberg. Amsterdam. The competing works must be in German and must have been Deaths in Other Countries published between Jan. 1, 1921, and Oct. 1, 1922, or be ready Dr. H. Brunner, chief of the asylum at Diessenhofen, for publication when presented. Switzerland, author of various works on the periodicity of Japanese Government Disinfection Office.—The brush indus¬ vital phenomena.-Dr. R. Moyano Cruz of Puento Genii, try, which flourished in Osaka during the war, is now in a Spain.-Dr. Octacilio de Cámara, senator of Brazil from· serious condition owing to the campaign against infected the federal district.

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