in a capsule and dissolved in the mouth. The full effect of the extract absorbed from the mouth is obtained in from five to ten minutes and lasts from a few minutes to three or more hours. Its administration is free from danger, there being no poisonous or cumulative effect. It is indicated in every form of cardiac disease and has no effect upon the normal heart. Dr. Floersheim's conclusions, based upon the results obtained in one hundred cases of heart disease, are as follows: "After administration of the suprarenal powder (1) a weak and irregular acting heart became stronger and more regular. (2) Dilated heart was contracted. (3) A diffused apex beat became localized. (4) The normal cardiac sounds, when indistinct, became clearer and more easily distinguished. (5) Patients who were very weak, with organic heart disease were improved. (6) No effect was observed in organic heart disease when the pulse was strong and regular.-New York Medical Journal. Recognition of Tabes Dorsalis. Dr. Theodore Diller thinks that too much importance is attached to staggering as a diagnostic symptom of locomotor ataxia, since in a certain per cent. of cases ataxia is never present at any stage, and in the cases in which it is present it does not become manifest until the disease is well advanced. He says that in almost every instance the chief symptoms which lead the tabesic patient to seek medical advice are (1) lightning pains in the legs; (2) loss of function of the bladder and sexual organs; and (3) double vision or failure of vision. He concludes: The following symptoms I believe may be said to be the cardinal ones of tabes, and are named in the order of their importance: 1. Failure of knee-jerks. 2. Romberg symptoms (swaying with eyes closed). 3. Argyll Robertson pupil. 4. Lightning pains. 5. Loss of function of the bladder or sexual organs. With the presence of any three of these symptoms, I believe the diagnosis may with certainty-and with the presence of any two, with probability-be made, when evidence pointing to multiple neuritis, paralytic dementia or cerebro-spinal syphilis is absent. Among the important secondary signs or symptoms are: THE TEXAS MEDICAL JOURNAL. AUSTIN, TEXAS. A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY F. E. DANIEL, M. D. ASSOCIATE EDITOR: WITTEN BOOTH RUSS, M. D., San Antonio, Texas. Published Monthly at Austin, Texas. Subscription price $1.00 a year in advance. Eastern Representative: John Guy Monihan, St. Paul Building, 220 Broadway, New York City. Official organ of the State Association of Health Officers, the West Texas Medical Association, the Houston District Medical Association, the Austin District Medical Society, the Brazos Valley Medical Association, the Galveston County Medical Society, and several others. THE TEXAS STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS. Texas has her first State Board of Medical Examiners. She has also her first State Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners and State Board of Eclectic Medical Examiners. The three boards make one, a kind of Trinity, of fish, flesh and fowl. An applicant for license pays his money and takes his choice. He can select the board to do the examining; but failing to pass he cannot go before either of the other boards. The new medical practice law went into effect at noon July 8 (inst.), and on the following day the Governor announced the following appointments, nine to each board, selected from lists of eighteen names submitted by each of the three State associations: BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS FOR THE STATE OF TEXAS. J. W. Scott, M. D.. J. H. Evans, M. D.. D. J. Jenkins, M. D. Houston. . Palestine. Daingerfield. Sherman. . San Antonio. BOARD OF HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL EXAMINERS FOR THE STATE OF TEXAS. Geo. D. Streeter, M. D.. T. J. Crowe, M. D.. Waco. Fort Worth. San Antonio. . Corsicana. McKinney. Paris. . Denison. Austin. ..Dallas. BOARD OF ECLECTIC MEDICAL EXAMINERS FOR THE STATE OF TEXAS. The appointees will meet at an early day and organize the respective boards. The time and place of first meeting will be duly announced through the State papers and through the several medical journals. THE TEXAS MEDICAL COLLEGE. The graduation exercises of the Medical Department of the University of Texas, at Galveston, were held on the evening of June 15, in Cathedral Hall in Galveston. The usual program was carried out, President Prather conferring the degree of Doctor of Medicine upon a class of six, that of Graduate of Pharmacy upon a class of fourteen, and certificates of proficiency as trained nurses upon a class of eight. During the past session there have been enrolled in the department in all one hundred and ninety-one students, distributed as follows: Special, one; Fourth Year Medicine, six; Third Year Medicine, sixteen; Second Year Medicine, forty; First Year Medicine, fifty-five; Second Year Pharmacy, sixteen; First Year Pharmacy, thirty-six; Second Year Nursing, eight; First Year Nursing, thirteen. It is a matter of note that, while there has been a considerable diminution in size of the classes in medicine, those in pharmacy have this year been larger than ever before, a fact explicable by the excellence of instruction in this school and the little competition in the teaching of this branch in the South. The small size of the medical classes is due to a number of causes. The prospects for an unusually large entering class were good prior to the storm of last September, and doubtless this disaster diverted a large number from the school at Galveston. It is actually known to have prevented the return of a large number of those already in attendance. The graduating class in medicine is the first which has regularly pursued the entire four year course of instruction and originally numbered sixty members. It entered during the yellow fever excitement of 1897; and this, with the lengthening of the course, was regarded as the cause of its small membership. The following year much the same conditions prevailed, and a similarly small class was matriculated. In 1899, however, the entering class numbered over ninety students, and in 1900 it was confidently predicted that the first year class would reach one hundred and twenty-five. It is to be hoped that, with the buildings again placed in good state and normal conditions prevailing in Galveston, the opening class in medicine will once more assume encouraging size. The school is to be congratulated upon the fact that even in the stress of the past few years no tendency to lowering of standard has been permitted, the annual loss of each class by reason of failures showing clearly the maintenance of full requirements for advance. At their meeting in Galveston at the time of commencement, the Regents of the University entered into contract for the final repairs to the buildings of the school, and it may be said that in a number of respects these repairs, while costing less than the original cost of construction, will place the plant in a more efficient condition than ever. From gifts to the school and hospital there have accrued, too, several new features, most important of which are the new brick negro wards to replace the old and disreputable quarters for negroes in Sealy Hospital. It should be recorded, too, that the repairs to Sealy Hospital, thorough in every way, were made without cost to the State, Mr. John Sealy and his sister, Mrs. Waverly Smith, bearing the entire expense. A number of changes in the arrangement of work by members of the teaching staff were also authorized by the Board of Regents. Dr. H. P. Cooke resigned his positions as dean of the faculty, member of the board of hospital managers and professor of pediatrics. Dr. A. J. Smith was appointed to the deanship, Dr. J. E. Thompson to be member of the hospital board, and Dr. W. S. Carter to be clinical lecturer on pediatrics. Dr. Thomas Flavin, whose failing health has caused him to resign the position of demonstrator of anatomy which he has for years so efficiently filled, was appointed emeritus demonstrator of anatomy. Dr. William Gammon was made associate in pathology; Dr. L. E. Magnenat, demonstrator of pathology; Dr. M. Charlotte Schaeffer, demonstrator of Normal Histology; Dr. Kenneth H. Aynesworth, demonstrator of anatomy; Dr. C. C. Jones, demonstrator of obstetrics and gynecology. The Regents also authorized the establishment of demonstratorships in physiology and in pharmacy. With the exception of these changes the teaching staff remains as heretofore. A NEW SUBSCRIBER. He said his name was Bugg; B-u-g-g. Doctor Bugg from Buggville. He said he "seen the Red Back coated in The Brief," and "bein' in town he thought he'd subscribe," "tho,'" he added, "I git more litera-chure than I kin read; sample copies." I told him that was right. He ought by all means to keep up with the procession, and as the Red Back was the band and the band wagon, if he'd get up on the seat with me he'd hear the music all the way there and back. He glared at me. I wrote him out a receipt and handed it to him, rubbing my hands in anticipation of the dollar. I hadn't seen one in a week. He said he'd send the money this fall. I asked him to take a seat. He took a seat; he took the cushioned arm chair. He said it was warm. I told him to forget it; to not let a little thing like that worry him; and we shouldn't let trifles make us unhappy in this world. He glared at me again. A big mouthed shallow fellow had been in on me just ahead of Bugg, and had nearly talked me to death. That is, he didn't let me talk any, and that always makes me tired. I was thinking of the 'possum story as applicable to my recent caller, when Bugg come in, and as he didn't seem to be in a talking humor, and I was, I lit in and told him the 'possum story. I told him a fellow named Jones put a little bell with a handle to it and a knob on top in his hen house to scare the 'possum that was getting a frying size pullet every night. The bell scared the 'possum all right, but he didn't stay scared; he soon discovered that there was no danger, so, after reconnoitering he took down the bell and carefully examined it. "Well," he said, "I don't know what you are, but you have got the biggest mouth, and the longest tongue, and the smallest head-" Here Bugg turned a cold, fishy eye on me, and said: "That ain't the way I heard it. The feller's name wan't Jones, it were Johnson; and 'twant nary 'possum; hit were a mink." And he told the story over, verbatim, with those two changes. I like for fellers to correct me when I don't tell jokes just right. I'll learn by and bye. Bugg picked up the book I had been reading. It was "Bacon versus Shakespeare," (the controversy as to who wrote Shakespeare). "Like Bacon and Shakespeare?" I said. "Ever read it?" "Naw," said Bugg, with a fishy stare, "I don't care much for Shakespeare, but I am very fond of Bacon." And he swallowed. I saw his goozle go up and down. He thought I meant breakfast bacon, for, with a far away look he thoughtfully added, "sliced real thin and br'iled." |