DR. RALPH HAYMAN, who has recently completed his service in the Massachusetts Homœopathic Hospital, has located in Amesbury, Mass., where he will be in association with Dr. F. S. Eveleth.

DR. H. W. JOHNSON, formerly of Berlin, N. H., and lately on the staff in the Eye Department at the New York Polyclinic Medical School, is at present in Vienna, where he will remain for the winter.

THERE will be vacancy as interne at the Rochester Homœopathic Hospital, Dec. 1, 1906. Applications should be sent to Shirley R. Snow, M.D., Secretary Staff, 287 Alexander Street, Rochester, N. Y.

FOR SALE. Surburban practice in growing town of over 6,000 inhabitants. Fullest introduction given. All correspondence confidential. Address, “K,” care Otis Clapp & Son, 10 Park Square, Boston.

DR. HARRIETTE M. COLLINS, B. U. S. M., 1897, was recently married to Mr. Arthur L. Lingham of Montrose, Colo., and has disposed of her business to Dr. Helen C. Byington, B. U. S. M., 1896, formerly of Denver.

LARGE PHYSICIAN'S FEE.-It is reported that Dr. Frank Billings presented to the estate of the late Marshall Field a bill for $25,000. This was to cover his attendance for one week upon Mr. Field during his last illness.

DR. WILFRED T. GRENFELL, the medical missionary who founded and conducts the Labrador Deep Sea Mission, on King Edward's birthday recently was created a companion of the Order of St. George and St. Michael.

DR. WALTER J. MARCLEY, Superintendent of the Massachusetts Sanatorium for Consumptives, Rutland, is reported to have been appointed to the superintendency of the Minnesota State Sanatorium for Consumptives.

ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL.-Extensive alterations and improvements are projected for this institution. The large two-story amphitheatre will be much altered and remodeled, a large lecture hall will be built, and two new upper floors will be fitted out as dormitories for employees.

MEDICAL INSPECTION IN SCHOOLS-The following are some of the objects to be sought for by the medical inspectors in Springfield The discovery of pupils requiring medical aid, the detection of children suffering from contagious diseases, the detection of defective eyesight or hearing.

THERE is a good opening for a recent graduate in Grace Homœopathic Hospital, New Haven, Conn. An interne is wanted there for a term of six months or one year. A small remuneration is paid, and valuable experience is gained, a large proportion of the city accident cases being sent to this hospital.

DR. HENRY E. PACKER, formerly in Barre, Vt., and later in Woburn, Mass., suffered from impaired health for some time through overwork, but his friends will be glad to hear he has recovered so as to resume practice. He has located at 131 Newbury Street, Boston, and will make a specialty of Bright's disease and

Diabetis.

DENATURED ALCOHOL.-After Jan. 1, 1907, ethyl alcohol may be sold tax free if a sufficient amount of wood alcohol or other poison has been added to render it unfit for use as a beverage. The intention is to thus allow alcohol to be purchased for industrial uses at its real cost, which will be about twenty-five cents per gallon.

ADVANCEMENT IN TURKEY.-The Bacteriological Institute is about to be opened in Constantinople. Here it is intended to prepare all the different varieties of antitoxic sera in sufficient quantities for the entire Turkish empire. The project has the active support of the Sultan and the present Minister of Agriculture.

EXAMINATION OF NEW JERSEY UNDERTAKERS.-According to a law passed some months ago, a State Board of Undertakers and Embalmers has been appointed in New Jersey that will examine all persons wishing to follow these occupations. Another paragraph of the law forbids the use of arsenic in any embalming fluid.

TULASE. The new remedy which Professor Behring has introduced for the treatment of tuberculosis has been named by him, Tulase. This remedy is not yet ready for the general market on account of ignorance concerning its complete action. Small amounts, however, will be given to suitably qualified institutions free of charge, in order that it may be given a thorough trial.

DESTROYED MEDICAL CERTIFICATES-We are glad to learn through the California State Journal of Medicine that the board of medical examiners of California will issue duplicate certificates upon proper identification and the filing of an affidavit by those physicians who lost the original copies during the San Francisco catastrophe. This action has been authorized by a special session of the legislature, and is one that is certainly most commendable.

THE Boston Deutsche Gesellschaft, a newly formed organization, the members of which are Americans or Germans, who wish to keep in touch with German literature and art, held its first session recently with an attendance of about three hundred, which included many well known men and women of Cambridge and Boston. Mrs. Henry L. Higginson is president, Dr. Walter Wesselhoeft, vicepresident. Dr. Wesselhoft presided and spoke briefly of the aims of the organization.

INNOVATION IN HERING MEDICAL COLLEGE-It is reported that Hering Medical College of Chicago will in future give night courses in medicine, as well as those during the day. This will allow many young men an opportunity of pursuing medical studies, and at the same time enable him to earn sufficient for his necessary expenses. Such changes have been made in one of the other Chicago medical institutions, with questionable success. We await the sequel in this case with considerable interest.

RESIGNATION OF DR. WOOD-Dr. H. C. Wood, the well-known professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the University of Pennsylvania, has presented his resignation on account of ill health. Dr. Wood became connected with the university at the time of his graduation in 1862, and has held the chair which he has just relinguished, since 1876.

As an expression of the esteem that the authorities felt for him, he was made emeritus professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics.

NOTICE. A vacancy in the House Staff of the Hahnemann Hospital, New York, City, will occur Dec. 1, 1906. The place is open to graduates of medicine, and the term of service is eighteen (18) months, divided into clinical laboratary work, practical medical, surgical, and obstetric work. Compensation consists of board and lodging, instruction in the above departments of medicine, and $15.00 per month salary. Applications should be sent at once to Dr. Wm. H. Van den Burg, Chairman of Executive Committee, Medical Board, 30 West 48th Street, New York City.

EIGHT year old William J. Sidis, son of Dr. Boris Sidis and Dr. Sarah Mandelbaum Sidis, (B. U. S. M., 1897,) of Brookline, is considered the most remarkable boy of his years in the United States. He has just entered the Brookline High School, he speaks four languages, he makes astronomical calculations that would puzzle a professor in mathematics, has invented a new system of logarithms and prepared an outline of an advanced grammar.

His parents cannot account for his phenomenal development, but from a very early age say he has pored over books and seemed to quickly master their contents.

POPULAR MEDICAL FALLACIES-An article upon the above topic appeared in the September number of the American Magazine, and should prove to be of

much interest to doctors who desire to meet some of the common lay opinions concerning medical subjects. The old idea that boils are always manifestations of some blood disease is strongly combated, as well as the efficacy of certain oldfashioned beverages, teas, etc. It is probably true that the existing popular ideas concerning medicine are similar to those believed by physicians twenty-five or more years ago. In other words, the public is about a generation behind the profession.

NEW YORK CITY'S GARBAGE-The question of the disposition of the garbage which accumulates in and about the metropolis is as difficult to deal with as it is unpleasant to discuss. But one definite conclusion has been reached by all concerned that the present method of disposal is the worst conceivable. Because of the destruction by fire of the Barren Island plant, the city has resumed the disreputable practice of dumping its garbage at sea, with the result that fauna and flora of the greatest variety and picturesqueness now adorn the beaches of Long Island and New Jersey. All this is in very truth most unhygienic and disgusting. The Medical Times, October, 1906.

BURNETT PROFESSORSHIP.-We are pleased to note that the Burnett professorship of homoeopathic practice bids fair to soon be an accomplished fact. In the entire British empire there is not one homoeopathic medical school. The homœopaths of England are endeavoring to raise the sum of $10,000 with which to endow a professorship in connection with their association. This sum has not yet been completely raised, there being needed about $2,200 more. The sale of silver articles, which Mrs. Clarke holds at her home in Bowdoin Street, Piccadilly, will have for its object the completion of the amount desired.

Our best wishes go to our English friends, as we realize in them staunch, intelligent and ardent advocates of the cause which is becoming more and more generally recognized.

RECEPTION BY PRESIDENT HUNTINGTON.-Instead of the monthly receptions given by President and Mrs. Huntington at the College of Liberal Arts in the past, there will be this year only four such functions, occurring bi-monthly. The first of these was at the Medical School of Boston University, where President and Mrs. Huntington received from four to six o'clock on Nov. 7th. The Faculty and Alumni of the Medical Department were well represented, as well as those of the other departments. Registrar, Frank C. Richardson, of the School of Medicine, and Mrs. Richardson, assisted in receiving. Mrs. Huntington was assisted by Mrs. Edward P. Colby, Mrs. John H. Payne, Mrs. Howard P. Bellows, Mrs. Herbert C. Clapp, and Mrs. Winfield S. Smith, all wives of the members of the Faculty, who served at the chocolate and tea tables. A number of young ladies, students in the Medical School, served as waitresses. The ushers were also from the medical student body.

The next reception will be given in January at the School of Theology, following which will be one in March at the Law School and a final one in May at the College of Liberal Arts. To all these receptions all the faculties, alumni, students and friends of the University are invited. Much is being done by this means to bring into sympathetic union the various departments of the institution and foster a true university spirit which cannot help being a great gain.

BILIOUS derangements, to which chelidoniu n is homoeopathic, are characterized by the following symptoms: Dull headache, burning in the face, flushed face, loathing, nausea, and vomiting, coated tongue, pasty taste, flatulence, increased frequency of the alvine evacuations, dark urine, dimness of sight, sopor.

Gastric derangements are characterized by a sour or saltish-bitter taste, bitter evacuations, increased secretion of mucous and saliva, pasty taste in the mouth, pressure in the stomach, sense of fulness in the abdomen, increased urging to urinate, with a more copious discharge of watery urine.

Jaundice: Bitter taste, tongue clean and of a deep-red color, tension of the præcordia, urine brown red, clear, sour; stool, white.

Malcolm A. Douglass, M. D., Hahnemannian Monthly, October, 1906.