THIRD. THAT EVERY MEMBER OF THE A. M. A. IS ENTITLED TO A VOTE!

The officers of the A. M. A. have taken an appeal to the Supreme Court, using the State's Attorney's office as a stalking-horse.

Is not the A. M. A. affected by the decisionand is not the decision of sufficient interest and importance to the members to warrant-aye, demand-its verbatim publication in the Journal? Let the members answer-the officers will not. Who owns the association, and who owns the Journal? Whose money is supporting the A. M. A.? What are the officers-our masters or our servants?

J. FRANK LYDSTON, M. D.

ARTICLES TOO LONG.

Greenville, Ill.

To the Editor: My reasons for not taking the Journal A. M. A. are:

1. It has too many long-winded articles. 2. Only the select few have any rights and they are surgeons or specialists in some branch. of medicine or surgery who overlook the needs of the majority in preparing their articles.

3. It is not worth the price asked. There are dozens of other medical journals just as good, and some of them better, for less money.

4. The reforms the JOURNAL promise are soon forgotten and the physicians are left to fight out their own battles locally.

one

ILLINOIS MEDICAL JOURNAL contained article covering 14 pages. If we want to read a book, we'll buy one. Most physicians haven't the time or inclination to read 14 pages on one subject in a medical journal. subject in a medical journal. Physicians, am I right? If so, back me up, either personally or through the columns of the JOURNAL.

O. C. CHURCH,M. D.

(The editors feel that there is much truth in this criticism and appeal to the contributors to follow this suggestion.)

TWO EX-PRESIDENTS DIE.

Champaign, Ill.

To the Editor:-Dr. W. K. Newcomb died of pneumonia at his home in this city at 3 a. m., November 25, 1913, regretted by professional brethren and laymen alike.

Last week Dr. John T. McAnally was buried at his home in Carbondale. These men were near the same age, their histories were not dissimilar, they were much alike in appearance and it is a singular coincidence that they should have passed from earth at near the same time. Both were near the same stature and were very similar in thought and manner.

Both were men of comparatively few words and those they weighed carefully before giving them utterance. Both were courteous gentlemen and both were exemplary citizens.

Both were hard workers in their chosen calling and both had been honored with the presidency of the Illinois State Medical Society. Both are regretted by many medical friends throughout the length and breadth of the State of Illinois. CHAS. B. JOHNSON, M.D.

MILK DROPLETS.

A cow-fed baby is a half-mothered baby.

A half-mothered baby is a baby with a half a chance.

The half-mothered city babies get much of their trouble from the country.

D-i-r-t-y m-i-l-k spells Trouble, with a capital T. Pasteurization is a means for minimizing trouble.

If there must be cow-fed babies there must be

Know how to kill the trouble in milk. See the instructions for pasteurizing milk in this issue. -From the Bulletin, Chicago Department of Health.

WIRE WHEELS VERSUS WOODEN

WHEELS.

P. C. Vawter of the Chicago Pathfinder branch is a strong advocate of wire wheels. He points out, as indicating the popularity of wire wheels that of the 394 cars exhibited at the recent Brussels salon no less than 217 were thus equipped. The following advantages are claimed for wire wheels:

Increase tire mileage about 50 per cent.
Safeguard your life in case of accident.
Increase your car life.

Make an easier riding car.

Make an easier steering car.

Make a better looking car.

Increase your mileage per gallon of fuel.
Disadvantages so far noted:
Harder to clean.

STARTING THE MOTOR.

Where a motor has stood unworked for a long time, the turning over of it frequently happens to be difficult and there is little or no compression. Injecting gasoline into the cylinders by means of the compression tap or the spark plug orifice may aggravate the evil by drying up what little oil remains on the walls. Try priming with one-half lubricating oil and one-half kerosene. A thin engine oil will flow between and around the piston rings and give good compression at once. It will disperse the old oil or liquify it and render it useful. With good compression, good suction will result and the engine will start quickly.-Auto Trade Journal.

BENZOL AS FUEL.

One of the possible motor car fuels of the future is benzine, or benzol (CH). Benzol is usually known as an impure benzine or unrefined benzine. In England, where the price of gasoline. is from 38 to 50 cents per gallon, benzol is being used to a limited extent. This has the advantage that it is not as difficult to vaporize as kerosene, is more stable than gasoline and gives even more power owing to its greater heat units. It can be used in automobile engines without their being altered. It is not quite as volatile as gasoline, but is sufficiently so that a motor can be started, with it using carburetors of ordinary design. If properly refined it does not carbonize to any greater extent than gasoline when combined with

air in the proper proportions. At the present time the market price of benzol in the United States is from 22 to 25 cents per gallon in 50-gallon lots. This eliminates it for the present as a competitor of gasoline. However, if the price of gasoline goes much above 25 cents benzol may enter the field.

PNEUMATIC TIRE DEFLATION ALARM.

When the air pressure in a tire fitted with the Polo alarm drops to a point where it will injure the tire, a loud, shrill whistle is given off, it is claimed by the maker, the Polo Pneumatic Alarm Mfg. Co., Clear Lake, S. D. The alarm supplants the dust cap of the ordinary tire valve.

A MONEY SAVER FOR THE AUTOMOBILE OWNER.

The greatest damage to tires is caused by the neglect of stone and glass cuts in the casings. Sand, dirt and water are forced into these cuts; sand-pockets form. Next, the fabric-the backbone of the tire-rots, and the tube blows out through the weakened spot. Result; a whole lot of unnecessary trouble and expense.

You will make one tire outwear three if you fill the cuts and gashes with new, live Para Rubber, and vulcanize them with a Shaler.

TO KEEP RAIN AND SNOW FROM ADHERING TO WINDSHIELD.

Common yellow soap is good for keeping the front of a windshield free from drops of water when driving in the rain or snow. The glass should be rubbed with the soap and then polished with a dry cloth.

-Various theories have been advanced to explain low death rates of married persons of both sexes, among them the effect of marital selection, the better economic condition of married persons, and the effect of the marital relation itself. Dr. Jacques Bertillon, coming to the subject from the study of occupational mortality, in which he reaches the conclusion that low death rates are found in occupations where the workman is more or less supervised, surrounded by influences tending to prevent dissipation and conducive to regular hours and regular habits, etc., thinks that much the same inhuence may be ascribed to marriage and family life. Because the married man is supervised and because he has incentives to self-restraint and to the care of his health, he has a lower mortality than the bachelor. Perhaps all of these are factors in the problem, but our statistics cannot at present weigh the importance of each.-Walter F. Wilcox, in Bulletin New York State Board of Health.

Morning session: Dr. Hendricks read a paper on "Hip Tuberculosis in Childhood," Dr. McPherson rendered a report on the meeting of the Illinois Medical Society.

Afternoon session: Dr. Metcalf presented a "Review of a Great Sociological Play." This paper was discussed by Rev. W. J. Peacock, Rev. E. G. Cattermole, Drs. Johnson, Rice and Packard, Judge Wingert and Henry Mackay, Esq. Mr. Daniel Lichty of Rockford then presented a paper on "Study, Care and Treatment of the Child's and Adolescent's Heart."

The subject of Dr. Metcalf's review was Brieux's great play, "Damaged Goods," which is a study of syphilis and its bearing on marriage. It is a story as terrible as the tragedy of Sophocles. In closing he said: "Were I the publisher of it I would present on the title page the portrait of a congenital syphilitic, a creature half man, half beast, whom the Lord permitted to live a long time in Mt. Carroll and I would decorate the margins of the pages with pictures of sore, deformed and idiotic babies."

Rev. Peacock said: "The physician in the play speaks with tremendous authority. He speaks as every physician ought to feel as a servant of humanity, charged by his very intimacy with human nature with a duty to society."

Rev. Cattermole said no more vital subject could present itself to a public teacher of morals and religion than the subject of this play. The matter received its full consideration only when, in meetings like this, the medical profession and the teacher of morals and religion plan together the work that must be done. He believes that sex instruction can and should be given both by parents, teachers and physicians, each being able to impress the facts upon the mind of the youth from a particular angle. The day must come when in every high school and college lectures will be given separately to the boys and girls on the anatomy, physiology and hygienics of the sexual organs and no one is half so well qualified to perform this task as the well-informed, rightminded physician.

Dr. Johnson asked what the physician should do when a patient infected with venereal disease is about to marry an innocent woman and thought there should be no doubt as to the line of one's duty.

Drs. Rice and Packard thought the time was coming when acutely diseased syphilitics must be placarded, and when such cases must be reported with other communicable diseases to the boards of health.

Mr. Mackay said that we are proud of our fine

horses, cattle and hogs, made so by careful selection and breeding; that the state of Illinois, not long since, enacted a law requiring the registration of all stallions; that, on the contrary, there was little or no legal restriction against defective persons marrying, with the exception of the law prohibiting the marriage of cousins. To limit the procreation of the unfit he would compel candidates for marriage to submit to an examination by a competent board and hc advocated sterilization for those found with hereditary diseases.

Dr. Daniel Lichty noted the interesting nature of the development and adaptation to function of the human heart and circulation. Acquired heart diseases and congenital heart malformations resulting fatally are more frequent than is generally realized. In the United States are 500,000 children in public schools with organic heart disease, and as many more not in school. Food and fatigue, chemical toxins, rather than bacterias, cause the acidoses that increase the viscosity of the blood and blood pressure. As remedies he suggested abstinence, elimination, alkaline drinks, hydrotherapy and gentle massage.

CLARK COUNTY

Society met in the Masonic Building, Martinsville, Oct. 9, 1913, at 2 p. m. President McCullough being absent, Dr. Prewett was elected president protempore. Members present: Drs. Lewis, Rowland, S. C. Bradley, R. H. Bradley, Mitchell, Haslitt, Prewett, Pearce, Weir, Marlow, Bruce, Johnson and Rogers. Visitors present: Dr. J. C. R. Wetstein of Effingham, Drs. B. G. R. Williams and Hazen of Paris. Minutes were read and approved.

Dr. Prewett reported a case of hematuria in man aged 75 years, in good health, with no pain, active; passes blood evenings, after working hard. Dr. Wetstein suggested that the causal factors should be first considered whether stone, infection, etc. If no active cause, use adrenalin in pelvis of kidney. No medicine by mouth seemed to do any good. Ergot was suggested by Dr. Bruce.

A case of pancreatic cyst was reported by Drs. Hazen and Prewett. The cyst was removed, containing two quarts of fluid.

Dr. Hazen reported a case of bleeding from vein in bladder, found with enlarged prostate; prostate was removed and case cured.

Dr. Wetstein presented his paper on "Infectious Diseases of the Urinary Tract," which was well received and considered as a thing a little out of the ordinary and furnishing something for us to think about in the near future. That more of our obscure cases should be investigated by laboratory methods, for infection of the urinary organs. That nephritis is probably nearly always caused by infection and that the whole subject of diseases of the kidneys is now being rewritten accordingly.

A limited, though interesting, discussion followed, participated in by several members and visitors.

A vote of thanks was extended Dr. Wetstein for his presence and excellent paper.

L. J. WEIR, Secretary.

COOK COUNTY.

CHICAGO MEDICAL SOCIETY.

Regular Meeting, October 1, 1913.

The program of this meeting consisted in a symposium on "The Teaching of Sex Hygiene in the Public Schools."

1. "The Society of Sex Hygiene," Prof. C. R. Henderson, University of Chicago.

2. "The Boy," William T. Belfield.

3. "The Girl," Rachelle S. Yarros.

4. "Practicable Possibilities," Ella Flagg Young, superintendent Chicago public schools.

5. "Instruction in the Home," Rev. J. W. Melody. 6. "The Standpoint of the Laity," C. S. Cutting, judge of Probate Court.

7. "Is Sterilization Destined to Become a Social Menace?" G. Frank Ldyston.

8. "Tuberculine Reaction in Fibromyomata of the Uterus," A. Weiner.

The attendance at this meeting was so large that many were unable to enter the hall.

Regular Meeting, October 8, 1913.

A joint clinical meeting with the west side branch at the Cook County Hospital.

1. "Malaria," S. R. Slaymaker.

Discussion by E. F. Wells, Charles L. Mix and Theodore Tieken.

2. "Typhoid Fever," William Butler. Discussion by J. B. Herrick and J. Miller.

Regular Meeting, October 15, 1913.

1. "Obstetrics in General Practice," Fred Hollenbeck.

Discussion by W. A. Dorland, H. M. Stowe and C. S. Bacon.

2. "Injury to Pelvic Outlet Following Labor or Any Other Cause-Should Immediate Repair Be Made?" H. Edward Sauer.

Discussion by Henry F. Lewis, C. Culbertson and A. Goldspohn.

3. "Demonstration of a Patient with Recurrent Carcinoma of the Breast, Treated by Injections of Quinine Bisulphate, Which Are Made Radioactive by Means of Roentgen Rays After Injection," Max Reichmann.

Discussion by Noble Eberhard and Isidore Trostler. Regular Meeting, October 22, 1913.

A joint clinical meeting with the south side branch. 1. "Presentation of Cases: (a) Trichinosis; (b) Typhoid Fever, with Complications," Paul Chester.

2. "Presentation of Cases: Fractures of the Long Bones at and Near Joints," J. B. Murphy.

Discussion by William Hessert and G. W. Green. 3. "Presentation of Case: Inguinal Hernia." Operation during meeting. E. Willis Andrews.

Discussion by A. Zimmerman and T. A. Davis.

4. "Presentation of Cases: (a) Spinal Cord Lesions; (b) Gastric Ulcer; Duodenal Ulcer; Gall Bladder Disease," Charles L. Mix.

Discussion by L. H. Mettler and Frederick Tice.

Regular Meeting, October 29, 1913.

Joint meeting with the German Medical Society. 1. "Pyophobia," C. A. Parker.

2. "Hyperacidity of the Stomach," Prof. A. Schmidt, Halle, Germany.

Discussion by B. W. Sippy, J. A. Robison, Milton Mack, Emil Ries and A. E. Halstead.

Regular Meeting, November 5, 1913.

This was a public safety night.

1. "The Public Burden of the Insecurity of Life," Graham Taylor.

2. "Safety First," Peter M. Hoffman, coroner. 3. "Suicide," F. A. Jefferson.

4. "Tetanus," D. N. Eisendrath.

5. "Hemorrhage, Concussion and Shock," J. D. Robertson.

Regular Meeting, November 12, 1913.

1. "Relations of and the Lesions Produced by Various Forms of Streptococci with Special Reference to Arthritis," E. C. Rosenow.

2. "Clinical Aspects and Medical Management of Arthritis Deformans," Frank Billings.

3. Etiology of Biliary Tract Infections and Their Relations to Duodenal Ulcer and Appendicitis," Charles L. Mix.

4. "Surgery of These Lesions," John B. Murphy.

CRAWFORD COUNTY

Crawford County Medical Society met in regular session at the Carnegie Library, November 14, 1913. In the absence of the president, the meeting was called to order by the vice-president, Dr. I. L. Firebaugh, at 2:00 o'clock p. m., the following members being present: I. L. Firebaugh, T. N. Rafferty, C. E. Price, H. N. Rafferty, J. W. Carlisle, G. H. Henry, J. B. Cato, A. Lyman Lowe, Charles E. Davis and Leroy Newlin.

The minutes of the September meeting were read and approved. On motion of C. E. Price, duly seconded and carried, the name of Dr. G. F. Schmidt was dropped from the Society.

Dr. Charles E. Davis read a paper on "Serum Therapy," which was well received and fully discussed by the different members present. Among the different points brought out was the fact that serum therapy was a very important factor in the treatment of many diseases; also that in its employment the physician should have well in mind the condition of the patient in connection with the purpose for which it is being employed and should understand the difference between vaccine and serum therapy, keep abreast with the times and watch its development and not be entirely guided by the manufacturing chemists who make these