interviewed by a physician duly accredited from his own state; patient's life, and in consequence the Mikado is desirous of hearings will have been had before the proper congressional keeping him within calling distance. Despite the fact that committees, and matters will have been systematized for future nearly all the German teachers have been sent home, German action. The conference can then adjourn, leaving the permanent text-books are still the standard authorities, and bed records committee in Washington and vicinity with full power to act. are kept in German here in Tokio. That committee would then represent in the minds of the Prof. Baelz, in h¡3 clinical teaching uses the German language congressmen, not merely the American Medical Association, exclusively. In former years I have met a good many Japanese but the organized medical profession of the United States. medical students abroad. And after my acquaintance with It could see that the proper bills were introduced, that they these, those I saw at Tokio were a sad disappointment; for were before the proper committees and in such shape as .to be while they were extremely attentive as students, the most of pushed by the next conference when the members came together them appeared to belong to a lower class socially than their fortified by the action, not only of the American Medical fellow countrymen whom I had met in Europe. A majority of Association but of their respective state societies as well. them understand the German in which I heard them taught This move of .the American Medical Association makes it but imperfectly. possible for the opinions of the medical profession to exercise DISEASES PREVALENT IN JAPAN. a steady pressure on Congress for the public good. It furnishes I learned from Prof. Baelz that genuine croupous pneumonia, a means by which the consensus of the mature judgment of the erysipelas and acute articular rheumatism are three diseases medical profession of the United States can find authoritative that are extremely rare in Japan. Nearly all the pneumonia expression, and puts it out of the power of irresponsible physi¬ he encounters here is of the infantile type, which he treats cians, with time on their hands and "money .to burn," to air with oft-repeated warm baths, with little or no internal medi¬ their fads before congressional committees under the guise of cation. I saw a good many cases of typhoid fever in the wards of the at Tokio. He tells me that while the medical opinions. , Respectfully, Imperial Hospital . L. B. Tuckerman, M.D. sanitary condition of the capital has been immensely improved during the last quarter of a century, typhoid fever has con¬ Medicine in the Far East. stantly increased. Before the influx of foreigners into Japan (Front Our Special Correspondent.J the disease could hardly be said to have existed at all; the that the disease from abroad. Kioto, Japan, Oct. 4, 1899. germ produces was imported After a trial to most of the remedies THE FOREIGNER'S STATUS. giving thorough popular for treatment of this a modified form of the When over a was to abandon disease, including generation ago Japan compelled for the last five he has used her of isolation and her doors to the of Woodbridge treatment, years position open ingress but and considers the to western trade, and western ideas, her rulers wisely concluded nothing camphor, drug superior any he has ever He one of the to as much as this new innovation, and allow remedy employed. gives gram drug profit possible by in the divided into six doses. her people to imbibe as much of western learning as it was twenty-four hours, for them to assimilate. Hence, she sent her BERIBERI. possible brightest I here in first to and America, to be instructed in their best saw at Tokio, the Imperial Hospital, my cases youths Europe of that Asiatic disease beriberi. Those I saw were all institutions of learning, as well as inviting men of eminence to nearly the result of fever. A weak circulation, a come