Let genuine qualification be the absolute test, from which neither promise nor threat shall swerve them.

We believe we can recommend this school. It has a good corps of professors, and its advantages for illustration are good. O. F. Potter, M. D., is Dean of the Faculty, and may be addressed on all business of the college.

PROFESSIONAL PUGNACITY vs. LITERARY LARCENY.-We have received a pamphlet written by Professor G. C. Blackman, of the Ohio Medical College, entitled "On Bartholow & Pro's 'Liberal Use' of Prize Essays; or, Prize-Essaying Made Easy and Taught in One Lesson." Considering the fact that Dr. Bartholow is a regular physician; a man of acknowledged talent and ability in the profession, and—as we personally knowof considerable literary attainments, we cannot but regard the association of his name with that of M. Pro, and the intemperate language used by Dr. Blackman towards him, not only as unwarrantable, but most highly reprehensible.

Dr. Blackman accuses Dr. Bartholow of being a plagiarist, and gives extracts from the latter's article on "The Progressive Locomotor Ataxia," side by side with extracts from Paul Topinard's prize essay on the same subject, with the view of showing their similarity. Any one with a knowledge of French can see that they are identical, and must acknowledge that Dr. Bartholow is a good translator of that language, to say the least of it. But it appears Dr. Bartholow had said at the outset, that he had made a "liberal use" of Topinard's essay, and afterward in a published card, he says that his article was simply a "synopsis" of Topinard's.

We know nothing of the real merits of this case, but in our opinion no act short of rushing into downright quackery, can justify so gross and offensive an attack upon a gentleman of good character, and more particularly one in the same faculty with Prof. Blackman.

We have said more than we otherwise should have said upon the subject, because we consider Dr. B's act as tending to lower

the general character of the profession in the public estimation, and but a repetition of that course which has so long kept in comparative obscurity, medical gentlemen in Cincinnati, who by education, talent and sterling acquirements, should shine with the first names in our country.

CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATION.-The following resolution was reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and adopted by the Senate on the 25th of July last:

Resolved, That under existing laws the balance of the appropriation of $60,000 made July 28, 1866, for the preparation under the direction of the Secretary of War, of five thousand copies of the first volume of the Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion, compiled by the Surgeon General, and the preparation and publication of a like number of the Medical Statistics of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau, compiled and to be compiled by Surgeon J. H. Baxter, to-wit, the sum of $19,736 must be applied exclusively to the latter work.'

THE MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY.-We copy the following letter from Professor Palmer to the Philadelphia Reporter, as conveying the latest information in regard to the present status of this institution:

EDITORS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REPORTER:-I notice in the July 4th number of your journal, you allude to the medical department of the University of Michigan as having introduced into it a chair of some medical ism or pathy, etc. It is true an act of the Legislature made a grant of money to the University, attached to which, to secure its passage, was a promise that a chair of homoeopathy be maintained in the medical department. The Regents who govern the University made every effort in their power to secure the money without actually introducing the Homeopathic Professor into the Medical School at Ann Arbor, but finding it impracticable, and finding also that it was impossible to sustain a mongrel school, the whole thing is abandoned-the money, a large annual sum, will not be received from the State, and the Medical School will go on as heretofore, entirely free from ism or pathy. It is due to the faculty who have resisted this measure, to the Regents who have come to understand its impracticability, and to the cause of true medical science, which has so far triumphed, that the public should be informed of the true state of things.

I do not doubt you will be happy to state the substantial facts in your widely circulated journal.

A circular was sent to you some days ago, and another will be by this mail, to which I would refer for another statement of the facts.

A. B. PALMER, M. D., Professor Practice of Medicine.

For some time past we have contemplated making this insti

tution the subject of an editorial article, and now that the difficulties, which threatened to terminate its existence have been removed, we shall probably do so at no distant day. In the meantime, let the "enfant terrible" continue to affright the midnight dreams of Chicago, and the "phantom in black" to concoct his nocturnal "masses of balderdash and Utopian vagaries." The HERALD is taking notes, and by the faith, will print them,

too.

VALUE OF A TRANS-ATLANTIC DIPLOMA.-The attention of the Chicago Journal is respectfully called to the following curriculum of the University of Stockholm, which we take from the Lancet of June 6th. We are confident that a "dozen parchments" from such a school would be considered far less valuable to one of our American medical prestidigitateurs in securing "successful practice," than a vigorous sheepskin from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery; nevertheless we commend it as a "plain tale" worthy of a Prince Hal. We make our own italics.

After two years general education in the University, the candidate for medical studies must submit to a preliminary examination in Latin, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physiology, Botany and Geology. He then performs dissections for two years, and works at practical chemistry for six or twelve months, at the same time attending hospital practice at Stockholm for six months, with voluntary attendance at the military hospital, followed by four months' practice at the hospital of Upsala. At the end of the four years thus occupied, comes the first medical examination in Anatomy, Chemistry, (including analysis of urine, bile and other secretions), Pathological Anatomy, the diagnosis of disease, Surgery and Midwifery.

Then follows hospital practice at Upsala or Dena, and at Stockholm, at the Seraphim Hospital, of three hundred beds, the student being occupied from eight A. M., to three P. M., in case-taking, making post-mortem examinations, and writing a description of post-mortem appearances. Twice a week also, for two hours at a time, the student works in the labratory at the chemistry of morbid secretions. Subsequently, attendance is given at the hospital for sick children for four months, four times a week; and at the same time, the student attends Midwifery for four months in a hospital of forty beds. Then follows the study of syphilitic diseases for two months; insanity for two months; legal medicine and legal protocols two months, and practical phar

macy.

All the preceding courses are necessary for the license to practice; but to become M. D., or professor (there being no different qualifications for physician and surgeon) a candidate must be house-surgeon for a year, and study abroad one year. All the medical lectures and instructions are free in Sweden, the government paying the professors. The professional course may be prolonged ten years.

All this is "a clog and burden" to the graduate, and must be "unlearned" when he comes to America; still if he behaves himself and gets a diploma from "a respectable American College," he will no doubt "secure a successful practice" after while.

CONTEMPORARY JOURNALS-THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS.—The first or May number of this new quarterly was delayed in reaching us. An examination of its contents and its general make up, convinces us that it is to be a valuable addition to our periodical literature. Besides the contributed articles from Profs. Thomas, Storer and Jacobi, there are published the "Transactions of the New York Obstetrical Society," this being the only journal permitted to publish these transactions. The editors, E. Noeggerath, M. D., and B. F. Dawson, M. D., are gentlemen of recognized merit in the profession, and we have no doubt of their ability to supply just such a journal as the wants of the profession demand.

The terms are $3.00 per year, in advance. Communications should be addressed to the "Editors of the American Journal of Obstetrics," care W. A. Townsend & Adams, 434 Broome St., N. Y.

Since the above was written, we have received the prospectus for the second number. The journal is to be enlarged, owing to its flattering success, from ninety-six pages to one hundred and twelve pages, and subscribers paying before the first of November, will receive a copy of "Hardy on the Dartrous Diathesis, or Eczema and its Allied Affections."

The Quarterly Journal of Psycological Medicine for July, is on our table. A change from the former publishers, to D. Appleton & Co., 93 Grand St.. N. Y., has caused the delay in the present issue. The number before us is unusually interesting in its character, while the typography of the work is improved over its predecessors. W. A. Hammond, M. D., is the able editor. Price, $5.00 per year.

Braithwaite's Retrospect for July is out. It is impossible for

a live physician to do without this valuable reprint, containing as it does, a condensation of the cream of European medical literature for the preceding six months. Price, $2.50 per year. Address Townsend & Adams, 434 Broome St., N. Y.

us.

The Western Journal of Medicine. When one receives a batch of letters, he generally turns them over and selects those for first reading, in which he has the deepest interest. So when we find our monthly supply of medical journals on our table, we look for those whose contents are usually most interesting to Of these the Western Journal of Medicine stands among the foremost. It is most ably and industriously edited; frank, generous; and although its editor, Dr. Parvin, is attached to a college in Cincinnati, it is utterly free from any college partizanship. It is published as a medical journal, and not as a college announcement. In a word, it comes almost as near being an independent journal as the LEAVENWORTH HERALD.

If any of our subscribers wish another Western journal besides the HERALD, let them remember Dr. Parvin's at Indianapolis, Ind.

EGERSDORFF'S DRUG HOUSE.-This house has been removed to the commodious building on the northwest corner of Fourth and Shawnee, where the proprietor will have ample room for his rapidly increasing business. His enterprize deserves success.

ERRATUM-For "scriptories," in Dr. McMiller's article, read scriptorius.

LITERARY NOTICES.

Littell's Living Age.--This valued weekly is a regular visitor. The last few numbers have been of more than usual interest, containing articles on "The Salem Witchcraft;" "The New Explosive, Nitro-Glycerine;" "David Garrick;" "Dr. Bigelow's Rational Medicine;" Walter Raleigh," etc., etc. The