My desire and aim have been to utter nothing but the truth. I have no love for error in any form or in any field of knowledge."-HIRAM CHRISTOPHER.

The Medical Herald.

Mississippi Valley Medical Association

This association, which will hold its twenty-ninth annual meeting in Memphis, Tenn., October 7, 8 and 9, under the presidency of Dr. Edwin Walker, of Evansville, Ind., has grown to be one of the great medical or ganizations of the country, and its scientific work is universally of the highest order. The Mississippi Valley Medical Association is a direct descendant from the old Tri-State Society of Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. Its name was changed at Indianapolis in 1883, Dr. Wm. Porter, of St. Louis, Mo., presiding at the time. Meetings have been held regularly every year, and its membership has increased progressively until now it includes prominent men from almost every State in the Union, and its territory reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf.

This is the first meeting of the association ever held in Memphis, and but one other session was ever held in the State of Tennessee, that meeting being at Nashville in 1898, under the presidency of Dr. John Young Brown, of St. Louis.

Memphis, the "Hub of the South," and one of the most enterprising of the Southern cities, offers a cordial welcome to all visiting physicians, and extends its arms in typical old-fashion Southern style.

THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

is a most enticing one, and comprises an excellent list of good papers by prominent men. The address in medicine will be delivered by Dr. Robert H. Babcock, of Chicago, and the address in surgery by Dr. Ap. Morgan