What Shall the Subject be?

who provokes discussion. Any man that can talk can describe a case, it has been shown

AMONG the physicians present at the Bi-ennial Convention of the Jewish Theological Seminary Association, held last Sunday, in New York, were Dr. Cyrus Adler, of JohnsHopkin's University, Drs. S. Movails and S. Salis Cohen, of Philadelphia, and Drs. A. Friendenwald and H. W. Schueberger, of Baltimore. Times and Register.

When a physician is requested to furnish an how he may obtain a subject, and he is often article for a medical journal or a paper for his acting selfishly toward his confreres when society his first thought is, "What shall I he declines to do his share of work in society write about?" For the time being every topic meetings, or fails to record the results of his appears to furnish an equally unsatisfactory observations for the benefit of posterity. nucleus about which to gather his ideas. No matter how facile a writer he may be on some subject which has occupied his mind in the past, he is at a stand-still and any literary production forced from him at the time will have an unnatural and strained style, difficult to read, and generally unsatisfactory to all concerned. This difficulty in selecting a subject may be obviated in several ways. If, as secretary, you wish to obtain the title of the paper in a few moments sit down with your THE London Medical Recorder recently cited intended victim and talk to him on these medi- a case which illustrates the validity of the cal topics which lie nearest your own heart or much boomed Pasteurian performance. A describe to him some interesting case in prac-man was bitten in 1887 by a dog which was tice; the chances are ten to one that you will killed, an autopsy held and the animal prohardly finish your first case before your friend begins to describe his case or unfold his theory, which, committed to paper is the article desired. If, however, you yourself are the victim and are bewildered by lack of interest in any special subjects or by the multitude of interests, wait a few days, keeping in mind the choice to be made. If you come across a case you fail to comprehend or find yourself forgetting certain data, physiological or pathological, jot down the facts and after due study write out your conclusions as fully as possible. The chances are that your neighbors have also been puzzled by similar cases, or like you have forgotten or never comprehended the same subject and you help others while you help yourself.

In the days of many books and more journals it is not easy for one to contribute origiAs the preacher says, "there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may be said, see, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us." But the old idea presented with a new dress is attractive. It is not always the one who tells some new thing that instructs us most, but he who makes us think; nor is it always the one who reads the most finished article who benefits the society but the one

nounced to be rabietic. The man had the wounds cauterized with silver nitrate, and then went to Pasteur's Institute, where he was treated and later discharged as cured. Two years later, Dr. Desquin was called to see the man, and found he had symptoms of hydrophobia, from which he died two days later. Did he die from the dog bite, from Pasteur's inoculation, or from scare at Dr. Desquin's diagnosis?—Medical Standard.

Symmetrical Education.

The annual meeting of the American association for the advancement of physical education was held in Boston the fourth of this month. At the close of the meeting there were gymnastic exercises at Mechanic's hall in which six hundred pupils of both sexes, from various schools and gymnasia in and around Boston participated. The program consisted of dumb-bell and club-swinging, Swedish gymnastics with and without apparatus, hoop and wand exercises, chest weight and horizontal-bar exercises, tumbling, posturing, pyramids, parallel bar, vaulting horse and Roman ladder exercises. The exhibition was very entertaining and instructive, showing how under proper supervision school children

DR. VANEMAN of Kansas City, Mo., on behalf of the State Medical society of Missouri, at the meeting of the Eastern Kansas District Medical Society, held in Topeka, April 8, 1890, extended a pressing invitation to the physicians of Kansas, to attend the next annual meeting of that society, to be held at Excelsior Springs, May 6, 7 and 8, 1890.

can be developed symmetrically, the physical system keeping pace with the mental. This meeting furnished one more opportunity for the optimist to say "I told you so," and gratifies all humanity-loving people by the spectacle of a generation bidding fair to excel their parents in full, rounded, evenly balanced manhood and womanhood. The West is competing with the East in introducing in our schools, physical exercise, lectures, practical work in THE Wichita Medical College has terminatlaboratories and museums, in the field and in ed one year of its college life and is very well the cabinet which will result in more manly satisfied with its beginning. Owing to unavoidand womanly graduates, more practical and able delays the session last year begun a valuable members of society than were dream-month too late, but another year the session ed of by the educators of thirty years ago. will begin on time and everything promises Let the good work go on. The human race as a whole is improving in spite of the weakness and degradation so fully shown up in the daily press, and the reformation is largely due to the philanthropic physician.

success.

THE body of a child who died of diphtheria in Chicago, was sent in a sealed casket to Zanesville, Ohio, for burial. The parents of the child opened the coffin and held a public THE Salina physicians are preparing for funeral at which many children were present, microscopical work and a display during the and soon after twenty-seven were taken down State Medical Society meeting. Physicians with the disease, and nineteen have died alhaving microscopes, histological or pathologi- ready. Some one ought to be held responsical specimens are earnestly requested to ble for this reckless, foolish exposure of bring them to the meeting. They will be children to the poison of malignant diphtheproperly cared for by Dr. Crawford, who has charge of the matter.

COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS OF THE STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY.-Dr. G. W. Newman, of Saiina, is chairman of the local committee of arrangements. The balance of the committee consists of the local physicians of Salina, who are members of the Central District Medical society.

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DR. W. A. PHILIPS of Salina, one of the stockholders of this JOURNAL, attended the annual meeting of the stockholders and was elected a director, of whom there are eight, and also associate editor for Central Kansas. The doctor is one of the leading physicians in Kansas, and our readers may expect to hear from him often and profitably.

THE American Medical Association meets A DEATH from cocaine is reported by in Nashville, Tenn., May 20, and will continue Simes in Gaz. degli Ospitali, a gramme of a in session four days. The association of med- 20 per cent. solution of cocaine was injected ical editors meets on the 19th. Local societies into the urethra of a man twenty-eight years in affilliation with the State medical society of age preparatory to doing an internal urethroare entitled to one delegate for every ten members or fractional part thereof.

DR. R. W. HARRIS of Ames, Kas., one of the bright young M. D's. of Northwest Kansas, has removed to Albany, Ind. We admire his pluck in seeking larger fields, but regret our loss.

tomy. Immediately poisoning came on and the man died in about twenty minutes.

THE Kansas City Dental College held its eighth annual commencement in the Y. M. C. A. Hall March 12. Sixteen graduates-whole number enrolled seventy-three. The college closed a very successful year.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the KANSAS MEDICAL JOURNAL company was held in the office of the business manager, Dr. W. E. McVey, 723 Kansas avenue, March 27, 1890. The following stockholders were Eighth-" Pott's Fracture," by L. J. Lyman, elected directors for the ensuing year: M. D., of Manhattan.

Fifteenth-"Intussusception," by W. L. Peers for the Topeka Academy of Medicine and Schenck, M. D., Osage City.

About Our Journal.

paper. Its true merit will be seen and rewarded.

The various medical societies vie with each other in friendly strife for the prize.

THE KANSAS MEDICAL JOURNAL has reachWe begin this, our second year of JOURed and passed its first mile stone in the jour- NAL life, with everything seemingly in our ney of life. Like all births it was accom- favor. Unity prevails in our JOURNAL housepanied with the usual amount of anxiety and hold. In our state peace and good will among suffering, despite the directions of Dr. Mitch- the brethren prevail. ell, found in this number of the JOURNAL, had been carefully followed out. But it is alive, vigorous, and growing nicely, owing to the food supply which has been furnished by the brains of the Kansas physicians in the main. An occasional savory dish has been served up by our neighbors, and the exchanges all are a constant source of information and pleasure. In the twelve numbers, four hundred and Depending then upon the brethren, and the fifty pages of reading matter have been fur- energy and ability of the JOURNAL staff, we nished to our readers, or thirty-seven and one-launch off into the second year of journalistic half pages in each number. From one-half to three-fourths of each number has been

original matter, in the ordinary sense of original. The JOURNAL has, in a measure, been an epitome of the standing of the practitioners of the state.

The physicians are learning that the sentiment expressed in our salutatory is being carried out in spirit and letter. They are anxious to see the JOURNAL prosper, and cooperate with us as brethren should, not only in brain work but in U. S. currency. It makes us very happy to hear them calling it our, (meaning their) JOURNAL, which it is.

While we desire to make the JOURNAL selfsustaining, yet it was not a financial scheme in any sense of the word. As has been remarked of it, there is no clique or faction for which it works. It is entirely untrammeled. Its purpose is to subserve the best interests of the profession in Kansas, and by so doing benefit medicine in general.

There are more district, county and city medical societies in Kansas to-day than ever before in her history. Their success is the JOURNAL'S success. The physicians of the state are the fountain, the JOURNAL is what flows from it.

life.

"A bill to repeal the statute requiring the preliminary education of medical students has already passed to its third reading in the New York Legislature. This repeal is called for by Dr. Austin Flint and others in the interests of certain colleges on the ground that a large portion of the medical students graduated in the medical colleges of this country are from New York colleges; that the students spend that the act requiring a preliminary examinahere over a million dollars every winter, and tion drives students to colleges out of the State, and should therefore be abolished."

We bow our heads in shame when we read the above, to think that our great Empire State should be the first to lead off in this direction -a State to which we have been taught to look as our peer in educational matters.

We are opposed to any move which in any way has a tendency to lower the standard of education, medical, literary or otherwise. The above law already had given promise of excellent results, and now to ask its repeal simply because there is a possibility of diminishing the funds in college treasuries, is mercenary in the extreme.

Journalism is a profession of itself, and has to be learned. With experience we are enabled to better our work. Typographical errors from omission in proof reading, and printers unacquainted with medical language, WHILE in St. Joseph recently we had the have occurred too often-but experience and pleasure of meeting our friend Dr. Bransford effort will, in a great measure, remedy this Lewis of the Weekly Medical Review of St. fault. To authors of papers this is very an- Louis. He was for six years first assistant noying, as well as to the editor; but credit surgeon in the St. Louis City hospital. He is will always be given by the man whose opinion a young man, a good physician and a live we value, to the thought contained in the journalist.

Dr. Pigman-Is phthisis a sequelae of pneumonia? I have had some cases in which the

Republican Valley District Medical Society. lung broke down and cavities were formed.