WE are in receipt of reliable information that there exists what would seem to be a good opening for a homoeopathic physician in Allston, and also one in Revere.

We note with sorrow the death, last month, of Dr. Ernst Zeigler, the noted German pathologist. He had for years occupied the chair of pathology in Freiburg, and his works possess a world-wide reputation.

THE Homeopathic Eye, Ear and Throat Journal presents, in the Jaunary number, an excellent full-page photograph of Dr. John B. Garrison, the new president of the Ophthalmological, Otological, and Laryngological Society. To this is added a complete biographical sketch.

DECREASED ATTENDANCE IN AUSTRIAN MEDICAL SCHOOLS.-In 1895 the degree of doctor of medicine was conferred on 1,011 medical students in the universities of Austria and Hungary. In 1904 only 561 similar degrees were conferred.

RECIPROCITY FOR STATE EXAMINING BOARDS.-New York and New Jersey licenses are now reciprocally recognized. The New Jersey licence is recognized by thirteen states, among which are Maine, Vermont, and Dela

ware.

FOR external applications in pneumonia cold water and hot poultices and hot water have had their advocates, but none of these things equal Antiphlogistine. Spread over the whole area involved in the disease (the thoracic cavity)-in front, on the sides and back-it will promote resolution, and give comfort to the patient.-Medical Era.

DR. F. M. MORRIS, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, who has just completed a year of service at the Pittsburg Homœopathic Hospital, will devote several months to post-graduate work in pathology, clinical microscopy, and urinary interpretation in the pathological laboratories of the Boston University School of Medicine.

As plans are being made to make the March number of the GAZETTE & "Tuberculosis" number, no extended notes will be made on the recent tuberculosis exhibit at this time, except the statement that it was even more successful than its promotors had hoped it to be, nearly 26,000 persons attending.

THE New England Hahnemann Association at its last meeting appropriated two hundred dollars to be used in the purchase of new books for the library of Boston University School of Medicine. It also made provision for a memorial plate of the late dean, Dr. I. T. Talbot, to be placed in the front of each book thus procured.

DR. JAMES C. WOOD, ex-president of the American Institute of Homœopathy, has resigned his position as professor of gynæcology in the Cleveland Homœopathic Medical College, and will devote his entire time to his specialty. His place will be taken by Dr. W. B. Roper, who has for some years been Dr. Wood's assistant.

AN unusual meeting of our allopathic frends recently took place at their meeting in Denver, Col., when a paper on homoeopathy was read to them, further explained by two practising homoeopaths. Such occurrences do much to remove all feeling of unpleasantness between the two sects, and should be welcomed by all homoeopaths, as we are willing to stand or fall with the results of a fair investigation,

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.-The next meeting of the British Medical Association will be in Toronto, Canada, during the latter part of August, 1906. This will afford excellent opportunity for the English, Canadian and American physicians to add to that good feeling and mutual respect that is now being cultivated.

AMALGAMATION.-One more medical school has left the ranks of the independent colleges and become affiliated with a university. The Medical College of Indiana has become the School of Medicine of Purdue University, and remains in its former location in Indianapolis where clinical facilities are accessible. Such a union should increase the stability and render more valuable the resources of the institution.

If there is any truth in Prof. Metschinkoffs theories that certain Lactic acid bacteria prolong life by preventing Autotoxication from the decomposition of organic matter in the large intestine, Metcalf's Kefir-Tej should be a valuable food especially in Anæmia, Tuberculosis and other wasting diseases, for it contains a large amount of these beneficent bacteria. It promises to be one of the best of the various foods made from milk, for it is not only easily absorbed but assists in digesting other food.

HANHEMANN MEDICAL COLLEGE of Philadelphia, following the example recently made by the New York Homœopathic Medical College, announces a post-graduate course from May 7 to May 26. It will consist of clinical, laboratory, and special sections, of which students can take any one, or all. We welcome one more means of obtaining post-graduate instruction without being compelled to go to those colleges where homoeopathy is still viewed with disdain.

DOCTORS DEBARRED. According to the Medical Times, the city of Zurich, after having grappled successfully with questions of hygiene, impure water and adulterated food, has disposed of the "final menace to public health-the doctors." To the medical fraternity Zurich is now a closed borough, states an exchange. Forty physicians only have been approved by the municipality, salaried at the rate of £500 each per annum. For this they are to treat all comers gratis. A poll tax of four francs on each inhabitant is levied to pay these salaries.

REPORTS concerning the size of the entering class from three of our homœopathic colleges, have given us most pleasing thoughts. The freshman class of Hahnemann of Philadelphia is reported to have an unusually large class in which the preliminary preparation is above the usual standard. The homoeopathic department of the University of Michigan opened late in September with a most satisfactory number of new faces.

The Class of 1909 of the Medical School of the Boston University is larger than its predecessor, which in its turn, was fully one hundred per cent larger than the class which preceded it.

IN the beginning of the present college year the homoeopathic department of the University of Michigan opened a "laboratory of experimental pathogenesy" under the direction of Dr. C. A. Burrett. The establishment of such a department of experimental homoeopathy, for such this is to be, is an innovation in the medical schools of this country. Provings are to be carried on under the most careful supervision of trained laboratory workers. Animal inoculations and experimentations will be performed when neces

sary.

Our best wishes will go with our colleagues for great success in that work in which we are all so vitally interested.

A NOVEL USE FOR AN AMBULANCE.-A correspondent of the J. A. M. A. says: When an ambulance of the Williamsburg Hospital recently reached the house from which a call had been sent, the surgeon found that he had been summoned by the mother of a bad little boy who was refusing to take

a dose of some needed household remedy. The mother had carried out her threat to call the ambulance if he "wasn't good," and calmly asked the irate doctor to carry out his role of "bogey man.'

DEATH OF PRESIDENT HARPER.-Dr. William R. Harper, President of the University of Chicago, succumbed to the effects of intestinal carcinoma on Jan. 11, 1906. It will be remembered that some months ago an operation on the late president was widely advertised in the daily papers. At that time an inoperable cancer was discovered. Since then all methods of treatment, including the X-ray, only succeeded in giving moderate relief from pain, not apparenly retarding in the least the progress of the disease. Till within the last few days Dr. Harper continued his usual work as far as his strength permitted. Having thus been prepared for his coming decease, he was so able to arrange all things that the University, to which he gave his best work, will feel his loss as little as possible.

On account of fire the Alkaloid Clinic was temporarily compelled to suspend activities. It has recently reappeared, however, under a new name, The American Journal of Clinical Medicine. Two new editors, Drs. W. J. Robinson and Emory Lanphear, both experienced journalists, have been added to the staff, which will do much to give added strength to the publication. The first copy is certainly deserving of much credit and contains much information arranged in an accessible manner. Its expressed platform will certainly be of interest to homœopaths, "the smallest possible quantity of the best obtainable means to produce a deserved therapeutic result.'

We wish it all possible success in its endeavor to give the most information possible within the limits of a monthly magazine.

INTERNATIONAL HOMEOPATHIC CONGRESS.-At the annual meeting of the British Homœopathic Congress, held at St. Leonard's last September, the question of the coming international congress was freely discussed. The feeling seemed to be unanimous that all the members possible should try to so arrange their affairs as to enable them to visit Atlantic City next summer. Some criticism was made that they were not specially requested to contribute papers but all felt this to have been an oversight and not a deliberate omission.

Three of the members, Drs. Goldsbrough, Dyce Brown, and Knox Shaw were appointed as a committee to co-operate with similar committees from other societies in the endeavor to arouse British enthusiasm and insure a large representation. Dr. Edwin A. Neathby (London) was elected president.

THE GAZETTE is in receipt of the following: In view of the fact that the United States Government is conducting a series of experiments to determine the effects of various drug substances, whether injurious or not; and in view of the fact that homeopathic medicine is therapeutically based upon the provings of each single drug substance upon the healthy organism to determine its specific and exact action in disturbing cellular or functional equilibrium, and that, therefore, any government proving may be made of scientific value in the cure of disease, we, the members of the Homœopathic Medical Society of the County of New York, respectfully recommend, that, in further experiments a homeopathic preparation of the drug-substance be administered to several of the provers, and that the effect, mental and physical, with careful regard to the character, location, aggravation or amelioration (as from heat, cold, pressure) of each symptom be noted in all cases (also in those taking crude doses), that the government commercial provings may be made of therapeutic value to the 15,000 homœopathic practitioners, to the hundreds and thousands of taxpayers under homœopathic treatment, and to exact medical science in general.

Adopted and ordered sent to the Secretary of Agriculture, and to all our journals,

BY G. N. LAPHAM, M.D., RESIDENT PHYSICIAN, STATE SANATORIUM, RUTLAND, MASS.

The very gratifying results which have been accomplished during the past few years in the treatment of incipient pulmonary tuberculosis by modern sanatorium methods, have apparently led many to believe that perhaps, after all, it is not such a serious affection as it has always been considered, and a few weeks or months in a sanatorium, or a short residence in the country, with plenty of nourishing food, is all that is necessary to cure all but far advanced cases. But if any one fact has impressed itself more strongly than another on the minds of sanatorium workers, it is that an early diagnosis and prompt and efficient treatment is most essential if the best results are to be obtained. After the disease has become. moderately advanced, the possibility of cure is greatly lessened. To quote from an article from Dr. Clapp on "What cases are suitable for sanatorium treatment": "In early stages (at least three-fourths of them) cure can be effected, in far advanced cases (with a few rare exceptions) cure can never be effected; moderately advanced cases sometimes end in recoveries, but often not. They are always doubtful."

The early symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis are not marked, and in fact may be so slight that the patient may entirely overlook them, or consider them not worthy of notice, maintaining that he is "quite well." In such cases it is only by the most careful inquiry that the physician may elicit symptoms of importance in making a diagnosis. Occasionally the patient may be unwilling to tell the whole truth for fear of being told that he has consumption, and possibly that he ought to go to a sanatorium.

Valuable information may often be obtained from relatives who have been closely associated with the patient and had the opportunity of observing his condition from day to day.

When the patient is questioned as to the earliest symptoms noticed, a very common reply is that his cough began with a "cold," which he had contracted a few weeks or few months previous, that following this he had a slight "bronchial cough," which persisted until he contracted another "cold," after which the so-called "bronchial cough" was aggravated. Either of his own accord, or at the solicitation of his friends, he comes to the physician for a cure for his "catarrh" or "bronchitis." It is the same old story, so often repeated, with some variations, and I have called attention to it to urge the necessity of regarding with great suspicion every case in which a cough following a "cold" persists for several weeks. Such a condition certainly warrants a careful physical examination of the chest, examination of the sputum, if any, and the institution of a strict regimen of open-air treatment, nutritious diet, and careful attention to the proper disposal of the sputum.

Cough is usually present in varying degree in the early stage of the disease. It is at first very slight, of a dry, hacking character, and may or may not be accompanied by expectoration. In the stage of infiltration, before there is any breaking down of the tissue, tubercle bacilli will in all probability not be found. It is in this stage of the disease, however, that the most satisfactory results can be accomplished in the way of treatment, for it is often possible to make a diagnosis long before tubercle bacilli are found in the sputum. Indeed, it often happens that there may be extensive involvement of one or both lungs, where repeated examinations are required to demonstrate the presence of the bacilli.

A daily elevation of temperature, if persistent, is a symptom which should excite a suspicion of tubercular disease in cases where other possible causes can be eliminated. It is advisable to have it taken, if possible, every few hours for a few days to determine the average degree of elevation, as well as the time of day at which it occurs. Incipient cases may run a slight temperature for several days, or even weeks, but unless it persists for a long time it does not necessarily indicate a bad prognosis. Recurrent periods of high temperatures, on the other hand, are very favorable, as has been shown by recent study of a series of cases of this character.