Colon Hygiene, 233. Diseases of the Eye, 600. Diseases of the Nose and Throat, 56. Diseases of the Kidney and Urinary Bladder, 168. Endemic Diseases of Southern States, 289 General Medicine, Practical Medical Series, 234. Infant Feeding and Allied Topics, 354. Kinetic Drive, Its Phenomena and Control, 44. Medical Clinic of Chicago, 56, 233, 290, 555, 662. Nitro by Hvpo, 168 New and Non-Official Remedies, 354. Obstetrics. Vol. VII, Practical Medical Secies, 233. Obstetrics. Normal and Operative, 555. Ophthalmoscopic Diagnosis, 168. Painless Child Labor, 168. Cardui Trial, 356, 449. Carrels' Solution, 606. Care and Comfort of the Surgical Patient, 249. Case of Bacillus Aerogenes Capsulatus Infection with Recovery, 335. Carcinomata of the Breast with Metastasis of the Liver, 365. Carbuncle, Treatment of, 342. Cases of Insanity Selected from a Long and Busy Practice, 486. Catarrh, Gastro-Intestinal, 549. Cholecystitis, Acute Suppurative, Complicated by Typhoid Christian County and Hopkinsville, 511. Chronic Prostatitis, 150. Chronic Hypertension, 194. Commercial Exhibit, 449, 525. Complications and Sequela of Influenza, 310. Colds, Their Significance and Treatment, 220. Conference of City and County Health Officers, 1. Concerning Dental Mal-Occlusion, 382. Condition for Which Hippocrates Bled, 276. Contagion and How To Combat It, 342. Constitution and By-Laws, 456. County Obstetrics, 336. County Officers, 605. County Members Falling Down, 40. Courteous Physician, 303. Crime as a Disease, 488. Definite Death Certificate, 58. D Dermatology and Syphilis at the Detroit Session, 406. Detail Men, 605. Dextri Maltose, 170. Diagnosis and Medical Treatment of Gastric and Duodenal Ulcers, 27. Diagnostic Significance of Pain in the Chest, 191. Diarrhea, Summer, 584. Difficult Presentations, 135. Digitalis, Its Indications and Use. 60. Differential Diagnosis Between Chronic Cholecystitis, Duo denal Ulcer and Simulating Neuroses, 429. Diphtheria, Modern Treatment of, 412. Diphtheria, After Effects on the Eye Ear, Nose and Throat, 407. Discussions, 448. Doctor Considered as a Business Man, 533 Dope Dispensing Doctors. 2, 172. Do You Want Anything, 58. Dr. Stuart Exonerated, 402. Dr. Taneyhill, 176. E Early Symptoms of Tuberculosis, 215. Eczema, Relationship of Feeding in Infantile, 576. About the Discord Still Existing in Some County 443, 500, 552, 596, 660. New Model Advertising Law, 239. New Pure Food Law, 239, New Year, 1. New Legislation, 236. Nitrous Oxide Oxygen Anesthesia, 14. No Malpractice Suits After One Year, 239. Non-Tuberculous Infections of the Kidney, 568. Obstetrics, Country, 336. Obstetric Forceps, Some of the Uses of, 363. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bill to Prevent Division of Fees, 59. Christian County and Hopkinsville, 511. Eighth Annual Report, Medico-Legal Committee, 526. Kentucky State Medical Association-Official Minutes Official Minutes of the House of Delegates of the Sixty-sixth Annual Meeting, 616. New Model Advertising Law, 239. New Pure Food Law, 239. No Malpractice Suits After One Year, 239. Program, 297, 453, 510. Send for Containers, 173. Severe Penalty for Fee Splitting, 239. Skull and Brain Injuries from Surgical Poin of View, 210. Some of the Uses and Abuses of Obstetric Forceps, 363. Splenomegaly of Inherited Syphilis, 583. Study of the Secretions of the Mammal, A Factor in the Cause of Eclampsia, 7. Surgery of the Infected Hand, 24. Surgery in the Country, 195. Surgery in the Mountains of Kentucky, 301. Calloway, 98. Carroll, 395. Carlisle, 98, 228. Carter, 98. Christian, 50, 162, 228, 287, 442, 507 Clay, 97. Clark, 51, 288. Crittenden, 229. Daviess, 99, 288. Eagle Valley, 554. Fayette, 99. Fulton, 229. Grant, 99. Greenup, 99, 229, 230. Hardin, 230, 442, 553, 658. Harlan, 99. Harrison, 100, 230. 390, 391. Henderson, 99, 100. Hopkins, 100. Jefferson, 101, 162. Laurel, 101. Lewis, 230. Lyon, 289, 350, 391. Mercer, 164. Muhlenburg, 164. Muldraugh Hill, 166. Nelson, 289. Pendleton. 231, 232, 442. Pulaski, 230, 231, 232. Russell, 507, 553. Warren, 508. 659. Tubercle Bacilli in Heart Clots in Miliary Tuberculosis. A case of primary tuberculosis of the cervical lymph nodes and a widely disseminated miliary tuberculosis. (skin, endocardium) was examined by Dieterle. The case was one of chronic lymphatic myelogenous leukemia with secondary tuberculosis. Four tubercle bacilli to sixty slides, or 1 to 15, were found in the venous blood of the right heart. A full New Year of golden opportunities is before us. With the tolling of the bells which ushers it in, we naturally start with renewed resolutions in the battle of life. First, let us be better diagnosticians. Let's not be negligent or slothful in our work. Let's carefully examine each patient, and in so far as it is possible, let's decide what is the matter and then fit our remedial agents to the actual condition which confronts us. Let's cut out the proprietaries. Patent medicines are not bit worse. It is an insult to a patient's intelligence to prescribe a remedy of whose composition and indications you have only the manufacturer's word. Use fewer drugs and use them more wisely. Let us attend every meeting of our county society. Even the few who are so well qualified as to think they do not need it will find that they can gain much by sharing their knowledge with the less fortunate, and most of us, realizing that we do need to touch elbows with our fellow, will gladly attend these meetings because we know the good they do us. Instead of asking our county secretary to spend his good time, for which he receives no compensation, in hunting us up, let's mail him a check for our dues to-day. Then when one of us is on the program, let's be prepared and be prompt. It is not fair to ask our brother practitioners to come to a meeting to hear us carelessly discuss a subject about which we have not refreshed our minds and memory. It is easy to say that case reports are the best and most interesting, but it is well to remember that only those case reports are interesting to others in which we ourselves are properly prepared. Let's us resolve to read the JOURNAL more carefully and discriminately; especially, let us resolve to support the advertisers who support it. Let us remember, for instance, that Saunders publishes the best books on practic No. 1 ally every medical subject and let us, therefore, patronize Saunders when we need text books. Without financial support of our advertisers, naturally, they cannot continue their support of us. Let us beyond and above all things be better and cleaner men, broader, more patriotic citizens, better qualified and better practicing physicians. THE CONFERENCE OF COUNTY AND CITY HEALTH OFFICERS. Under the auspices of the State Board of Health, the Annual School or Conference of County and City Health Officers was held in Louisville, December 8, 9 and 10. In many ways, this was the most successful conference which has been held. Every contribution to the program pointed out more clearly the necessity for a whole time health officer in every county which can afford it, to devote his entire time to carrying to all the people the modern intensive methods for the prevention of disease. The discussion of malaria by Dr. W. S. Leathers, of the Mississippi State Board of Health, was so complete as to leave nothing to be added to it. Dr. Curry, our own State Sanitary Engineer, described the technical building of the Kentucky Sanitary Privy so perfectly and practically that everyone present felt that he knew exactly how to do the job. An interesting announcement was made by the State Board of Health that no physician would be considered as eligible for appointment on a local board of health unless he has a Kentucky Sanitary Privy at his home and office, unless he is located on a sanitary sewerage system. Dr. South, our State Bacteriologist, made a most interesting illustrated talk on the use and abuse of the State Laboratory. She said that its chief abuse was the failure of any doctor in the State to use it whenever he needed laboratory assistance. She emphasized the importance of sending specimens into the laboratory in the special containers required by the federal law, which are furnished free by the Board to any physician that asks for them. The attendance at this meeting was larger than ever before. Every county health officer was present except a few detained by epidemics of diphtheria. All the city health of ficers except a few from third class cities were present. THE DOPE DISPENSING DOCTOR. During the recent Conference of County and City Health Officers in Louisville, a special meeting of the State Board of Health directed that every physician in the State be notified that any physician convicted in court of illegal traffic in narcotics will have his license to practice medicine revoked upon presentation of proof. This is a matter of great importance to the profession and to the people of Kentucky. Mr. Bloomfield, the very effective attorney of the State Board of Pharmacists, has well said that the traffic in narcotics has been transferred from the crooked druggist to the crooked doctor. The State Board of Health proposes to see that the crooked doctor is no longer permitted to practice this nefarious branch of the profession. The Courier-Journal contains the following editorial in regard to the dope dispensing doctor, which will be read with interest and appreciation by every honest physician: "Decision of the State Board of Health to bar from practice any physician in the State convicted in courts of illegal traffic in opiates deserves commendation. The phrase 'crooks in all trades,' applies to the medical profession as well as to any other and honest physicians welcome the State Board's announcement as much as does the public. Nothing but gain can accrue from the loss of physicians whose conscience can be quieted by an American eagle, stamped on coinage of the realm. "The hoard's decision comes in good time. Enforcement of the Harrison narcotic law has put a check on the operations of crooked druggists who formerly reaped a golden harvest through sale of 'dope' to unfortunates addicted to the habit. Illegal traffic along wholesale lines no longer can be practiced by them without discovery by Federal authorities. The crooked druggist has stepped down and out and into his shoes has stepped the crooked physician. "Persons addicted to the use of morphine, cocaine and other opiates make a beaten path to his door. For a specified fee, which varies according to the greed of the physician and the purse of the 'fiend' he will write for his patient a prescription for the drug. So wholesale became the operations of some physicians along this line that the Board of Health de cided it was high time to take action in the matter. "At a meeting last week the board adopted resolutions providing that any physician canvicted in court of selling or furnishing morphine, cocaine or other opiates to habitues in violation of the law shall have his right to practice medicine withdrawn. The board is given this power by a State statute. The secretary of the body is notifying every physician in the State of the board's action. "Three physicians in the State, arrested recently for illegal traffic in opiates, have pleaded guilty, evidently expecting to be released after paying a small fine. The action of the board will make the crooked physician in the future think twice before he violates the law." MALARIA. It is of the utmost importance that we reconstruct our ideas of the management of many diseases in line with the results of modern investigation. For example let us consider malaria. In the first place there is a great deal more of this distinctly parasitic disease in Kentucky than we have thought. During the past wet summer it has increased ten fold over the previous year. It is a disease frequently unrecognized and more frequently diagnosed when it does not exist. In clear cases of chills and fever it is at times justifiable to administer quinine on a clinical mistakes could be avoided by making as a diagnosis. But even in evident cases many routine a blood smear on a glass slide, staining it according to well-known methods and examining it with a microscope for the plasmodium malariae before any quinine is given. If too busy or unaccustomed to such work, send such smear to the State Bacteriologist or other Laboratory and get an accurate diagnosis. Then administer treatment if malaria is present. Give ten grains of quinine every hour until three doses are taken each morning for four days. Afterwards give three ten grain doses of quinine every fourth day for six weeks. This will cure malaria in every acute case. EXTERMINATE THE RATS. Desha Breckinridge writes many good editorials in the Lexington Herald but the following is one of the best and is cordially commended to every useful citizen of Kentucky: "The Herald is often pressed to give free advertising to various enterprises and commodities of different sorts. As a rule it refuses to give any such advertising except at regular advertising rates. In violation of that |