for the ensuing year, the following members were duly elected and installed:

President, W. S. Petrie, of Fairview; First Vice President, R. L. Boyd, of Allensville; Second Vice President, W. B. Jefferson, (Honorary Member), Elkton; Delegate to State Meeting, R. W. Frey, Trenton; Censor, Dr. B. E. Boone, Elkton; Secretary and Treasurer, L. P. Trabue, Elkton.

Essayists were appointed for the first six months' meetings. All appointed required to prepare papers and if not able to attend, papers must be sent in to be read by the Secretary. Elkton was selected as the place of meeting until other points are agreed upon. There being no further business the meeting adjourned to meet at Elkton the first Wednesday in January, 1916. L. P. TRABUE, Secretary.

Wolfe The Medical Society of Wolfe County met in the office of B. D. Cox, in Campton. Motion carried that S. S. Swango be made president pro tem and B. D. Cox, secretary.

Taylor Centers was then elected President of this society for the ensuing year, and B. D. Cox was duly elected secretary for the year 1916.

G. M. Center was duly elected Health Officer of Wolfe county for the ensuing year.

G. M. Center made a brief talk on Abnormal Labor," and reported a case which was discussed by all present.

The meeting then adjourned to the first Monday in February.

B. D. COX, Secretary.

Whitley The Whitley County Medical Society met on December 9, 1915. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.

C. A. Moss made a talk upon medico-legal subjects and read "The Seventh Annual Report of the Medico-Legal Committee," and also read extracts from "The Legal Status of the Physician and Surgeon," by Hon. Fred Forcht, Jr., published in the November Journal. Dr. Moss also added a few remarks on the golden rule.

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:

Prsident, A. A. Richardson; Vice President, J. D. Adkins; Secretary and Treasurer, C. A. Moss; Delegate, C. G. Ellison; Alternate, C. A. Moss; Board of Censors, J. H. Parker, M. W. Steele, A. A. Richardson.

C. A. Moss, C. G. Ellison, and A. A. Richardson were reelected upon program committee for ensuing year in reward for their strenuous services during the past year.

The following resollution was adopted and carried without a dissenting vote or voice.

We, the members of the Whitley County Medical Society earnestly request and insist that our State Senator, Hon. B. C. Lewis, and Representative, Hon. Chas. Bays, give their hearty sup

port to all progressive medical legislation, especially the All-Time Health Officer Bill, and since we believe that they are deeply interested in the health and welfare of our people, it is true now that forty-seven per cent. of the deaths in Kentucky during the past year were due to preventable diseases, tuberculosis, typhoid fever and others. This strikingly demonstrates the need of an all-time health officer to educate the people and the doctors how to prevent the spread of disease and teach the laws of health, an all-time health officer is also needed to bring the people of Kentucky in closer touch with the State Laboratory so that all may get the benefit of the wonderful work being done by this laboratory, and in this manner disease will be detected early, cures effected before disease gains stronghold, and the spread of deadly diseases stopped.

It was further ordered that a copy of the above resolutions be sent the Hon. B. C. Lewis and the Hon. Chas. Bays at once. There being no further business the meeting then adjurned.

Those present were, C. G. Ellison, L. B. Croley, E. S. Moss, C. A. Moss, and A. A. Richardson. C. A. MOSS, Secretary.

IN MEMORIAM

Dr. John Gaunt Brooks, born October 5th, 1840, died September 29th, 1915.

Dr. John G. Brooks was born in Montgomery County, Tennessee, October the 5th, 1840. moved with his father to Ballard County, Kentucky, at an early age where he was reared on a farm.

When the Civil War began be enlisted as a private in the Confederate army, serving in Company D, Third Kentucky Volunteers under General Lloyd Tiglman for two years, afterwards serving with General Bedford Forrest. At the close of the war he returned home where he soon entered upon the study of medicine. He attended his first course of lectures at the University of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1866 and 1867, and graudated from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in the Class of 1868. Dr. Brooks first located in Lovelaceville, Kentucky, and formed a partnership with Dr. D. P. Juett until January, 1869, when he moved to Paducah, where he acted as City Physician in 1870-71. In 1872 Dr. Brooks received an appointment as physician to King Kala Kaua in the Hawaiin Islands and remained there for two years, returning to Paducah in 1874, where in the following year he married Miss Mary King, a daughter of General John Q. King, a distinguished Kentuckian.

Dr Brooks was a charter member of the Southwestern Kentucky Medical Association, one of the most energetic and useful medical societies

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EDITORIAL

AN APPRECIATION OF MR. KOHN. In the death of Aaron Kohn the medical profession of Kentucky, and that portion of the afflicted people who suffered daily from the depredations of quackery a generation ago, as is still true in most of the other states to-day, lost one of their greatest and best lay friends. When the writer was made Secretary of the Board in 1883, Clarence U. McElroy, of Bowling Green, was selected as its legal advisor and, practically without compensation, and with distinguished ability and faithfulness, he is still serving in that capacity. When the first medical practice law was enacted in 1888, Louisville was the storm center of quackery and, extenisvely and blatantly advertised in both the city and country newspapers, and visiting all county seats and important towns monthly by appointment, representatives of so-called "Medical Institutes" and Inter-National Hospitals" and "Infirmaries" preyed upon the credulous sick, and disgraced the medical profession, to an extent which those of the present generation can scarcely realize. With the fund arising from the small license fees from physicians, paid once in a lifetime, supplemented by contributions from a few public spirited physicians of Louisville. Mr. Kohn was employed to enforce this law, aided ably by Dr. W. H. Wathen, Medical Referee there, and, so far as the limited funds would permit, by a force of detectives and by local attorneys all over the State. It was a man's task but, with the remark that "No Jew ever employed a quack, or would protect men who robbed God's most unfortunate class--the sick poor,' from that day until his untimely death, always for small compensation, and often for years at a time without any, he made the cause of the medical profession and the State Board of Health his own, and week after week and month after month, until the backbone of quackery was broken, as it had not up to that time been done in any other State, and they

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had been driven from Kentucky, he could be found in the courts of Louisville, with Mr. McElroy and other attorneys before the Governor and Court of Appeals at Frankfort, and in the courts at Lexington, Paducah, Bowling Green and elsewhere, always ready, always confident and almost uniformly successful. With an almost phenomenal industry, ability, grasp, and power of mastery over any subject with which he had to deal, he had a delightful personality, was the soul of honor and one of the cleanest, noblest and most unselfish men it has ever been my good fortune to know. "Peace to his ashes!" "We may never see his like again!"

J. N. McCORMACK.

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The All-Time Health Officers Bill" has been withdrawn for the present session.

It was introduced early in the Senate by Senator Glenn, and in the House by Mr. Dowling. It was recommended for passage by the House Committee and placed in the Calendar. A few hours before the session of the Senate Committee to hear arguments for its approval, the sponsors of the bill were asked to await the result of a conference with the Governor.

Certain other measures had been introduced by the opposition which, if passed, would have placed the operation of Public Health Work under the "political spoils" system. This, of course, would have meant disaster and impotency. Included in this opposition program there were several measures designed to weaken, if not entirely destroy, our carefully built system of medical licensure which is more and more, as the years pass, protecting our people from incompetent doctors. This opposition to our health legislation, limited to three or four members of the Senate, made it plainly apparent to the Governor that they would embarrass the administration throughout the session in the passing of its measures, if our Health Officers Bill were permitted to be