ity, to act in your name on all matters of immediate and important concern relating to the best interest and welfare of our great Association.

By this act of deserved confidence, you have, through your so much lamented Chief of Staff, and our beloved comrade, erected in this splendid Association of United Confederate Veterans an everlasting monument to the cause of the Southern Con. federacy, in correcting false histories and the establishing true and correct ones for the honest and statesmanlike instruction of the present and coming generations, which have, and still embalm you and your Chief of Staff and our Association in the hearts and memories of your countrymen, and down through countless generations to come, to the end that all who love truth and principle rather than falsehood, and shall not be wanting in honest and faithful historic information with regard to the position of our prized Southland, and of her magnificent manhood and womanhood during the years covered between 1861-5. Very sincerely and fraternally yours,

C. H. TEBAULT, M.D.,

Brig.-General and Surg.-General U.C.V.

Editorial.

THE NEXT ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND

NAVY OF THE CONFEDERACY

Will be held in New Orleans, La., May 19th and 22nd prox.

We understand that the meeting will be held in the Medical Department of Tulane University. The Daughters of the Confederacy will co-operate with the very capable Committee of Arrangements in entertaining the members of the Association, and have appointed a committee consisting of Mrs. D. A. S. Vaught, Mrs. Peraud and Mrs. Riddell. It is needless to say that with their co-operation and devoted assistance, our next meeting will assuredly be a most unquestioned and unqualified SUCCESS!

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

The next meeting will be held in New Orleans, May 5, 6, 7 and 8, 1903.

The General Officers for 1902-1903 are as follows:

President, Frank Billings, Illinois; First Vice President, J. A. Witherspoon, Teunessee; Second Vice President, G. F. Comstock, New York: Third Vice President, C. R. Holmes, Ohio; Fourth Vice President, James H. Dunn, Minnesota; Secretary-Editor, Gearge H. Simmons, Illinois; Treasurer, Henry P. Newman, Illinois; Chairman Committee on Arrangements, Isidore Dyer, 124 Baronne Street, New Orleans, La.

The local Committee of Arrangements have beeu most actively at work, and as the good people of the Crescent City have never failed to avail themselves of every opportunity of enthusiastically, courteously and hospitably caring for all visitors, those who may be so fortunate as to be present, will undoubtedly enjoy themselves to the fullest extent.

It will be essentially a Southern meeting, and from all indications will be largely attended by Southern medical men. A medical friend of this city, who is known far and wide for the correctness of his expressions, only a day or so ago said: "From what I learn, I do not think there will be doctors enough left in Nashville to care for the sick during the week of the New Orleans meeting of the Association. I have seen quite a number, and everyone says most emphatically that he is going.”

With railroad rates—single fare for the round trip, and in a season usually affording medical men in this section the greatest leisure-the dieeases of winter have about run out, and those of the summer not having well developed, the marked improvement of sanitary conditions of late in New Orleans, it goes without saying that the attendance will be large. From the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal we quote:

"The blushing Spring bears witness to the tranquil season, when the iris flecks the fallow fields in tones of gray and brown and blue, and where the dogwood beckons in the swampland, and clovers whiten roadsides with their fragrant bloom.

The magnolia blossoms to the tune of twittering birds, while roses and the jasmines, fresias, columbine and the mellow orange flowers make the May time sweetest of the year.

The balmy nights are redolant with odors of Nature's fruitful promise; too soon for broods of festive culex, or of gnat; while toothsome fish and fowl are plentiful.

May is the month of New Orleans' months.

When the sun shines with glory and with fended ray; when starlight seems brighter, because the nights are less marked by clouds; when the dew is early and the showers have grown less frequent in a cloudless sky. The days grow longer in Maytime and twilight halts, slow to speed the passing day; from out the open window float upon the willing air the sounds of home. This is the season. And while the time or day are not of our choosing, we, of the medical guild, are glad to say to the members of the American Medical Association, brothers in the art, come in May!"

COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF THE MEDICAL DEPART

MENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH.

The Eleventh Annual Commencement was held in the Medical College Auditorium on January 22nd ult. The Exercises consisted in a short opening Church Service by the Chaplain; the presentation of Certificates of proficiency in Special Departments by the Dean, and a learned and most felicitous address to the Graduating Class by Professor J. B. Murfree, Jr., M.D.

The presentation of accepted candidates for graduation by the Dean, and the conferring of the Degree of Doctor of Medicine upon thirtynine candidates by Vice Chancellor B. L: Wiggins, M.A., LL.D., was followed by the Valedictory Address to the class, delivered by Carey T. Grayson, M.D., of Virginia, in most charming and pleasing style.

The Honors of the class in Medicine were given to W. P. Reaves, M.D., and Jose M. Selden, M.D. The Honor in Pharmacy was awarded to W. T. Dardis, Ph.G. The medals attesting these honors were presented by the Dean in appropriate style.

An interesting feature of the occasion was the annual meeting of the John S. Cain Medical and Surgical Society.

The reading of interesting papers by the members, the presentation of a Society picture group to the Dean, and his acceptance, the presentation of the Society Diplomas to thirty members by the Vice Chancellor, and the subsequent adjournment to the Hall of the E. Q. B. Club, and the participancy in a sumptuous and elegant entertainment prepared iu honor of the class by the University, were the chief features of the occasion.

From a personal acquaintance with the members of the graduating class while delivering a special course of lectures to them during the session now closed, we can congratulate the medical profession on this most excellent reinforcement of earnest, dilligent and well qualified juniors, for whom we can confidently predict a successful future. It is only necessary that they continue in the way they have so auspiciously and earnestly commenced their life-work.

The following is the list of graduates in Medicine:

Walter B. Bannerman, New York; Hezzie D. Bulloch, Louisiana; Oliver F. Carr, Mirsissipi; Frank W. Cartwright, New York; Marion G. Chancey, Georgia; William O. Chitwood, Alabama; Rudolph K. Comeaux, Louisiana; Miles A. Copeland, Alabama; Charles B. Crute, Virginia; Arthur W. DeBell, Virginia; Walter L. Ezell, South Carolina; George B. Graves, Virginia; Carey T. Grayson, Virginia; Logan H. Hoffman, Alabama; Samuel G. Jett, Virginia; Joseph N. Land, South Carolina; Thomas B. Latane, Virginia; Hampton T. Lemoine, Louisiana; Andrew J. Mackay, New Jersey; Horace C. McCracken, Georgia; James M. Minter, Georgia; Frank W. Morse, Massachusetts; Frank J. Morrison, Virginia; Ashley W. Ogle, Tennessee; Edward W. Perkins, Virginia; Walter I. Pitts, North Carolina; John R. Pow, Alabama; William P. Reaves

Tennessee; Jose M. Selden, Tennessee; William C. Slusher, Virginia; Adolphus B. Staten, Texas; Walter M. Sykes, Virginia; Gaston E. Trosclair, Louisiana; Charles A. Weatherbee, Mississippi; William C. White, Florida; William F. Wilson, Pennsylvania; Elisha A. Young, Alabama; Samuel T. Zehner, Pennsylvania.

The graduates in Pharmacy were:

Walter D. Dardis, Tennessee; George B. Graves, Virginia; Carey T. Grayson, Virginia; Arthur F. Kyger, Mississippi.

MR. JOHN CARNRICK.

By the death of Mr. John Carnrick the ranks of the pioneer drug trade in the United States have lost their former leader. He was born in 1837, and at the age of 24 he took up the study of pharmacy in Jersey City, and was among the first to bring out proprietary medicines, together with the manufacturing of drugs for physicians. Among these the first that came from his tutored hands was Lacto-Peptine, followed by Maltine, and later Liquid Peptonoids and Pancrobilin, as well as others not here enumerated, and as these were in line with the present medical inquiry, he still more closely devoted himself to this special pharmaceutical work, selling the general line of the drug business to Parke, Davis & Co., so that his time might be given wholly to research.

Working along these lines, overcoming the faults of the old and bringing out new facts, which scientific research had brought to him, he developed Protonuclein, Peptenzyme and Trophonine, which have received the world wide approbation of physicians.

About five years ago, feeling the strain of manufacturing with its untiring demands, he sought other lines and left the business, in which he was so long associated, and had become so well known to the profession.

The old firm of Reed & Carnrick still retained his name, and by the installation of new blood have brought to perfection his later products. While the name of John Carnrick is better known to the former generation, the children fed on Lacto Preparata, invalids on Maltine, those in acute diseases saved by Protonuclein, and the dyspeptic cured by Peptenzyme, all unite to praise their author, who, although not known to them, has raised the drug trade to its present high standard.

THE TREATMENT OF INFLUENZA AND COUGHS.-We excerpt the following from the Toledo Medical Compend by David E. Bowman, M.D., Toledo, Ohio, Professor of Obstetrics, etc., Toledo Medical College. "The elimination of the toxins is too frequently overlooked in these cases. Formerly, in their efforts to relieve the distressing symptoms, the profession have used remedies which produced stomachic disturbances, arrest of secretions, constipation, etc. I find nothing better to overcome the congested condition, in these cases, than two Laxative Antikamnia

and Quinine Tablets given every three hours. If needed, follow with a siedlitz powder or other saline draught the next morning, before breakfast. This will hasten peristaltic action and assist in removing, at once, the accumulated fecal matter. Heroin hydrochloride has been so largely used for coughs and respiratory affections that it needs little or no recommendation in this class of cases, but the favorable synergetic action of this drug used with antikamnia, is, I believe, not sufficiently appreciated. Antikamnia and Heroin Tablets will be found useful by every practitioner, particularly during the winter and spring months. The antikamnia not only adds potency to the respiratory stimulant and expectorant qualities of the heroin, but it prevents the slight nausea which may at times follow its administration alone."

COCA IN NERVOUS OVERWORK.-Midst those of the mighty, who are free to go and to come at will-or among those of the more mighty class who must go because their neighbors can-there are exacting strains incidental to the Summer flitting, that often are not manifest until nervous tension is relaxed when the subject is presumably settled for rest and repair. The hoped for recuperation does not come, for the rush and bustle of travel has left a system nervously depressed from fatigue, and impressionable to the unhygienic conditions often manifest during the heated term. The practitioner, who is called to aid such nerveless patients, is often at his wit's end for a remedy that shall be agreeable and speedily effective. Such a system does not require an artificial stimulus of drugging, but some aid to repair. This repair is impossible where the human machine is clogged with the products of tissue waste. Of all known substances to promote a conversion of this waste, there is none equal to Coca, which may rightly be termed a panacea for the ills of over tired humanity.

It is now nearly half a century since Angelo Mariani, a pharmaceutical chemist of Paris, France, cleverly blended the properties of the marvelous Coca leaves with a nutrient wine. This was possibly through the phenomenal action of Coca upon the Andean Indian, who is supported by its use through the most arduous trials to which mankind can be subjected. Long after this early adoption, the potent quality of the several alkaloids of Coca were made known to the physiologist, proving the wisdom of this selection, and Vin Mariani is accepted throughout the world by conservative physicians as a worthy tonic-stimulant the merit of which has been confirmed through the severe tests of time.

SUBSTITUTION.-Owing to the great increase in the substitution of inferior and harmful remedies for those of well-known and proven value, we advise purchasers, for their protection, to insist on having Celerina, and not to accept anything that is offered as "just as good," or cheaper,