"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.