LITTLE THINGS. TALMAGE ON LIFE INSURANCE. "It is meanly selfish for you to be so absorbed in the heaven to which you are going that you forget what is to become of your wife and children when you are dead." BINIODIDE VS. BICHLORIDE OF MERCURY-Miquel, who gave such a reputation to bichloride of mercury as a disinfectant, now declares biniodide to be the better of the two. For surgical use he advises its solution of the strength of .004 per cent. "IN public hygiene there is a new redemption of our country not less important than its political redemption," are the words of one of the truest of Italy's workers for her well being, Prof. Carlo Rouata, the editor of La Salute Pubblica. DURING the epidemic of 1870 to 1873, 20,575 persons died of small-pox in the Netherlands. Since then, as a result of the thorough and continuous observance of their new vac cination laws the prevalence of the disease has steadily declined. Last year but a single death occurred from that cause. PRUDENT PA.-"Doctor says many loathsome diseases are communicated by kissing." Lovely daughter-"What kind of a doctor was he, pa?" Pa-"A homœopath." Daughter "I thought so. We don't believe in that kind, you know." THE profession in America has never received a higher compliment than that given by the distinguished president of the late Inter-national Congress-Prof. Virchow, when he said: "The American medical world today excells in surgery, midwifery and dentistry. What the Germans know about dentistry they learned from America." American oculists also shared his praise. After this it will be more amusing than ever to see the medical snob assuming airs because he has seen Europe. Let us seek to deserve the compliment by better teaching and harder study. THIS item is to remind or to inform outsiders that in the State of Maine the law makes it compulsory upon every city and town to keep a local board of health organized and ready at short notice to act for the protection of the public in case of emergency.— San Inspector. A good suggestion for all States outside of Maine. His wife for the heathen works early and late, On her the Sorosis can count without fail, And "hubby" works hard, but we're sorry to state, His trousers keep up by the help of a nail. Kenebec Journal. no faith in vaccination; what good does it do? IN company one day a man said, "I have I know of a nice little child that was vaccinated, and would you believe, after two days it was dead." After two days?" they all exclaimed. "Yes, it fell from a tree and broke its neck. What good, now, did vaccination do?"Swiss Journal. IN weak heart, when the usual supporting measures have failed, we have in strychnia the remedy that gives the most satisfactory results. Give hypodermically the dose for an adult, being the of a grain twice daily. Some patients will require a larger dose, and some will be relieved with even the of a grain. The use of strychnia allays the nausea, controls thirst. As a result the appetite returns and nutrition is promoted. THE Atlanta Medical Journal, under the new management, refuses to place advertisements among the reading pages. The KANSAS MEDICAL JOURNAL is glad to see progress, and says amen, and hopes to see many other journals do likewise. WESTERN POST OFFICE.- The Popular Science News is responsible for the statement that a new western post office has been named Malaria, probably because the mail service of the place is intermittent. We may add that when it grows to be large enough to have a money order office it may assume a remittent character.-Coll. and Chem. Rec. If this should be the case it will doubtless be continued. SURGEON-GENERAL JOHN MOORE has been placed on the retired list on account of age. THE Contented man is ever so much richer Alma, S. Murdock of Oneida, and H. M. Fathan the rich man is contented. gaines of Leoti, were among the JOURNAL DR. WILLIAM BOYLE has been appointed callers during September. They were in atAssistant Chief Surgeon, at Atchison, Kas., in the place of Dr. Holland deceased. A TRAINED nurse in Bellevue Hospital gave a patient a drachm of pure carbolic acid by mistake. Death ensued in an hour. DR. PELTON'S paper in this number of the JOURNAL will be read with interest. He deserves credit for his nerve, and is to be congratulated on his success. MEN YOU HEAR OF.-Dr. Know, the German physician who discovered antipyrin, is said to have made more than a million dollars from the sales of the drug to sufferers from the grippe. tendance at the Kansas State Fair, and also to the encampment of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the world which convened in the city September 17. THURSDAY, September 6, 1890, we visited Greenleaf, Kas., to attend the meeting of the Central Branch Medical Association, but the busy time prevented a regular meeting so an informal meeting was held at Dr. Armstrong's office. There was present Drs. Andrews and Greene of Washington, Hardy, of Waterville, Gardner, Axtell and Armstrong, of Greenleaf, and Cullimore of Atchison, and Wall of Topeka. There being no paper to present, cases ed by all present. from practice were taken up and freely discussWe must express our THE Academy of Medicine and Surgery meets the first Tuesday of each month. From kindest regards for the doctors of Greenleaf one-half to two-thirds of the membership are for the hospitable manner in which we were always in attendance. Brethren visiting the entertained. Dr. Cullimore and myself are city, so arrange your business as to visit us under many obligations to Dr. Gardiner and during society evenings. You will be amply lady for the splendid repast we were asked to repaid and we will feel honored. do justice to at noon. Should he come to THE Eastern Kansas District Medical Socie- Topeka we will endeavor to reciprocate. Any ty will meet in Lincoln Post Hall, 118 East one wishing to be well entertained should Sixth avenue, Topeka, October 14, 1890. The visit Greenleaf. following papers have been promised: "The Water Supply of Leavenworth," by C. R. Carpenter, M. D. "Femoral Herniotomy," a case by L, Reynolds, M. D., Horton. "Tuberculosis of the Knee Joint," by George M. Gray, M. D., of Kansas City, Kas. "Report of a Case," by W. R. Van Tuyl, M. D, Fair-23, 1890. Chief Justice, A. H. Horton, deliver mont. WE are in receipt of the programs and invitations to attend the quarterly (fall) meeting of the Golden Belt District Medical Society, and the Republican Valley Medical Society, both convening Thursday, October 2. The Golden Belt at Abilene and Republican Valley at Concordia. The November JOURNAL will contain full reports of these meetings. The programmes are like the orchards of Kansas, filled with luscious things, and those who attend we are sure will fare sumptuously. Kansas Medical College. G. A. W. The first session of this college opened as per announcement, the evening of September ed the introductory address, and Dr. Minney the address to the audience and students, the exercises being held in the Congregational church, corner 7th and Harrison streets. The first lecture in the college building was delivered by Dr. W. L. Schenck, on "Preventive Medicine and Pathology." A respectable class in number is in attendance, and above the average, intellectually. Three were excluded on account of their lack of literary attainments. This seemingly is quite a loss, but it will be to the interest of the school in the end; for the physicians upon whom mediDRS. A. W. SELLARDS of Scranton, J, P. cal colleges depend for students, will patronize Stewart of Clay Centre, C. P. Marner of Mor- the school which requires an intellectual ganville, W. F. George of Canton, E. R. Che- foundation as a prerequisite to the study of ney of McPherson, T. H. Hall and wife of medicine. American Climatological Association. mate free from extremes of heat and cold, that woes and stimulates to out door life, and necessary exercise. Hence we find that statistics of the gulf States, where there is both dampness and a low altitude, but warmth, On the 2nd, 3rd and 4th inst,, we had the pleasure of meeting with this Association at Denver, Col. Valuable papers were read on various subjects within its scope, and quite a show a death rate of a little less than 8 per number upon the influence of climate on tu- 1,000, while in Colorado, Nebraska and Idaho, berculosis. While some of these, from parwhere there is altitude and dryness, but cold, ticular "health resorts," ignored conditions not it ranges a little above 8 per 1,000; whereas in New Mexico and Arizona, where there is alticommon to their localities, as warmth, altitude, etc., or claimed they were disadvantageous, tude, dryness and warmth, it is diminished" and thus made their papers seem like special more than one-half. In California and Oregon, pleadings and unscientific, presenting all they Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, had, by exagerating or eliminating the facts where there is more or less altitude, but cold, as they exist. The paper of Dr. H. B. Ba- and dampness, it ranges from 15 to 25 per ker, secretary of the Michigan State Board of 1,000. Health, was noticeable for its broad, unbiased, ment "If self the wavering balance shake Its rarely right adjusted." In recommending climate there must be an accurate adaptation of climatic influences and surroundings to diagnostic indications. In studying climatic influences upon disease scientific discussion of the subject. The doc- as in every scientific investigation, personal tor conceded altitude an essential condition-interest must never be permitted to bias judgaltitude, that removes pressure from the capillaries of the periphery, swells their circulation and others relieves congestion and remora in internal organs, and gives the lungs opportunity for the free action required in its rarified atmosphere. He believed the importance of dryness generally admitted, while After the feast of reason came the flow of Bowditch had long ago shown that a cold, soul-an elegant banquet given by the city damp atmosphere tends to the generation of and country, accompanied with song and phthisis, a dry atmosphere is free from the es- poetry and speeches and carried well into the sential elements that tend to the disease and small hours of the morning. Then came the stimulates to excretion and absorption through courtesies of the U. P., the D. & R. G., and the the pulmonary tissues. He believes as well Midland railroad companies, over roads that that warmth and an equable climate, is an es- are a marvel of scientific engineering, to nearsential element in the treatment of pulmonary ly every point of interest in that wonderful tuberculosis, and showed by admirable diagrams land of silver and gold, of canon and mounthat the death rate was always and everywhere tain, of park and glen, of mineral springs greatest during and immediately after cold boiling hot and freezing cold and sparkling as Cold depresses, lowers vitality. In champagne, of cities on plains 7,500 feet high the consumptive it must be sustained and and cities up thousands of feet walled in by strengthened. Cold forbids out-door life and mountains thousands of feet higher, that ever confines to the artificial atmosphere of the shield them from the cold blasts that beat home, rarely so well ventilated that the patient against their summits. does not breathe over and again a vitiated air. When the patient leaves his room for an airing the change is incompatible with invalidism. A worn and broken life, especially if through pulmonary tuberculosis, is incapable of resisting sudden and extreme changes; whilst altitude and dryness are essential to the success- THE physician displays his intelligence and ful climatic treatment of consumption, they a desire to do what is best and right for himare doubly advantageous when found in a cli- self and patient, by giving his careful and seasons. To those who enjoyed these excursions, their grand scenery, agreeable companionship and generous courtesies, will long make the Denver meeting of the Climatological Association an oasis in the journey of life. systematic attention to every new remedy or combination of remedies, which may be advanced, with any degree of honesty, for the relief of suffering humanity. pyin, although we have an unpatented article, which is generally considered equally efficient. We predict that the medical profession will become more and more dependent upon the What signifies the name, which the ever manufacturing pharmacist and as they by their ambitious manufacturer may have given it. continued experience and growing knowledge Nine cases out of ten, the combination is one of chemical relations are enabled to give us in common use by physicians for years past, more and more accurate combinations so will but to which the manufacturer by his scien- we become more and more skilled in their use, tific ability has given a delightful taste, a beauti- more scientific in our application of remedies ful color and a convenience of form and accu- to disease and more certain in our judgment racy of dose, it did not before possess. Why of their effect. The local pharmacist of tothen should we not give him due credit for day is too frequently a mixture of quack the improvement he has made and let him call doctor, nostrum vender and general purveyor it by any name he may choose; what's in a to ever become the great dependence of the name? To the manufacturing pharmacist physician. belongs much of the credit, for our present advancement in medical science. To whom Resolutions on the Death of Dr. D. J. Holland. else can we give the credit for our sulphonal, of Kansas City, Kas., was made chairman of the meeting and Dr. Grant Collimore secre tary. our salol, antifebrin and antipyrin, without At 10:30 o'clock Tuesday morning, Septemwhich at this day and age we would be sadly ber 16, 1890, the members of the staff of local hampered. These men deserve our highest surgeons of the Western Division of the Miscommendation for the help they have given souri Pacific Railway met at the office of Dr. us, rather than our censure for the apparent Grant Cullimore in Atchison, Kas., the occagreed which they may possess. How many sion being the death of their honored and belovof us, after a fair experience, but are willing ed chief, Daniel J. Holland. Dr. A. P. Tenney, to attest the reliability of such firms as Park, Davis & Co., The Fairchilds, Robinson, John Wyeth and many others. We have no word of abuse for the manufacturer because he anticipates our desires and presents to our eager hand an instrument whose elegance of finish, ease of manipulation and keenness of edge are its own recommendation, and do we refuse to use it because he has endeavored to protect his own interest with a copywright? It is the good of the thing we want, no matter about the shuck. If the kernal is good let us have it. If it is all bad we soon find it out. The American Medical Association may resolve and place its resolutions on record, but they will most certainly amount to nothing unless the profession see fit to observe them. We belive it no exageration to say that a majority of the members of that honorable body, yes a majority of those who were present at the last meeting and voted upon that resolution are using and prescribing proprietary medicines without stint. We will venture to say a very small per cent. of those gentlemen have yet discarded the use of anti The following members of the staff were present: A. P. Tenney, Kansas City, Kas., chairman of meeting. Grant Cullimore, Atchison, Kas., secretary of meeting. D. H. Fitzgerald, Wetmore, Kas. Committee on Resolutions. W. H. Bogle, Atchison, Kas. J. W. Heddens, St. Joseph, Missouri. S. F. Hall, Weeping Water, Nebraska. Patent and Proprietary Medicines. There seems an impression among drug manufacturers that the average physician is a knave or a fool. "If 'tis true 'tis pity 'tis 'tis true." But it is not true, and the intelligent and honorable practitioner denounces the indignity. The code of ethics of the American J. F. Bradshaw, Superior, Nebraska. Arrangements were made by vote of the members present for attendance upon the funeral in a body. Committees to secure an appropriate floral tribute, the badges, and for securing carriages, were appointed by the medical association says: "It is derogatory chair; and a committee upon resolutions being named, the meeting adjourned to reassemble at Dr. Holland's office at one o'clock. At one p. m. the committee on badges reported. Report adopted. The committee on floral tribute reported a beautifully arranged broken wheel with the initials "Mo., Pac." and the words "Our Chief." it to the dignity of the profession to resort to public advertisements, or private cards, or hand bills, inviting the attention of individuals afflicted with particular diseases-publicly offering advice to the poor gratis, or promising cures, &c. These are the ordinary practices of empirics, and are highly reprehensible in a regular physician. or of others. For if such nostrum be of real efficacy, any concealment regarding it is inconsistent with beneficence and professional liberality; and if mystery alone give it value and importance, such craft implies disgraceful ignorance or fraudulent avarice." "Equally derogatory to professional characThe committee on resolutions reported the ter is it for a physician to hold a patent for following resolutions, which were adopted: any surgical instrument or medicine; or to WHEREAS, It has pleased an Almighty God dispense a secret nostrum, whether it be the to remove from our midst in the full flush of composition or exclusive property of himself useful, confident and aggressive manhood our beloved chief, Dr. D. J. Holland; therefore be Resolved, That in the premature death of our late assistant chief surgeon, the medical profession of the State has suffered the loss of a brilliant and successful practitioner; the railway company an accomplished and faithful It is derogatory to patent or dispense an apsurgeon; the city an honored and valued citizen; his family an affectionate husband and pliance or medicine, because if of real efficacy father; this division a painstaking and devot- any concealment regarding it is inconsistent ed executive, and its members an able coun- with beneficence and professional liberality," sellor, enthusiastic guide, an ardent, untiring then will it not require a veritable Hudibras, and able friend. who can "Split a hair Twixt south and southwest side." Resolved, That in sharing the grief of the community and household, we do most earnestly extend our deepest sympathy to his bereaved wife and family, and reverently com- to distinguish between the propriety of premend them to the care of Him who is alone scribing patent and proprietary medicines. able to support their burdens of grief, and There are few patent medicines whose conwhose gracious promises give surety of sup- stituents are not known Many of them were port to the widow and fatherless. the prescriptions of intelligent physicians, well adapted to particular conditions, but falling into the hands of "fraudulent avarice," they became patent medicines and universal spe Resolved, That in token of our esteem we attend the funeral of the deceased in a body; that copies of these resolutions be transmitted to Mrs. Holland, the chief of the medical department of the Missouri Pacific railway, to the official organ of the National Association of cifics, and transferred their shrewd advertisers Railway Surgeons, to the KANSAS MEDICAL JOURNAL, and to the local papers for publication. D. H. FITZGERALD, W. W. NYE, L. A. GOLDEN, Committee. GRANT CULLIMORE, Secretary. into Doctor Pearce, and Price, and Smith, and Hall, &c. These advertise in the secular and religious? press ad captandum vulgus. But what of those who fill the medical press, and often the non-professional journals as well with wonderful compounds, often pro |