8640 APR 7 1905 LIBRARY The Journal OF The Kansas Medical Society in which is incorporated The Wichita Medical Journal. W. E. MCVEY, President; G. W. COFFEY, First Vice-President; J. T. AXTELL, Second VicePresident; CHARLES S. HUFFMAN, Recording Secretary; C. O. GODDARD, Corresponding Secretary; L. H. MUNN, Treasurer; S. G. STEWART, Librarian. IN ORDER to celebrate properly the consolidation of journals, we begin with this issue a new volume. This brings us into line with the journalistic world, which makes the beginning of the year the beginning also of the volume. We shall endeavor to make the coming volume, in so far as we have to do with it, worth binding and shall endeavor to arrange its pages for that purpose. In this connection we wish to ask again for the support of our colleagues. Unless you want to read constantly the opinions of the editor, you the readers-will have to give us the benefit of some time and thought, and contribute each one your share to this JOURNAL and make it a symposium of Kansas thought and experience. THE OFFICERS OF NEW SOCIETIES should remember to send their membership lists to the JOURNAL. The editor learns more about the county societies from the papers outside the state than from direct notification. If members in these new societies do not receive the JOURNAL, they should investigate and learn whether their fees have been sent on to the district and state treasurer, and whether the latter has authorized their enrollment on the subscription books. The county treasurer should send $3.25 for each member of his society not already a member of the state society to the district treasurer and $2.25 for each one already a member of the state society, as annual dues. THE COLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY has voted to establish a jour nal. They evidently realize that thorough and efficient organization without a journal is impossible. The Colorado Medical Journal takes exception to the action of the society, saying that either one of the existing Colorado journals would have printed the proceedings at a far smaller cost. Evidently the Journal fails to get the point involved. It is not to print its proceedings that a society needs a journal, but rather to represent the society in an agressive and constant effort to raise the plane of professional activity even among the sparsely settled hamlets. To do this effectively a journal must be subsidized; it cannot be self-supporting, at least now. The society journal is the best means for combating sectarianism as well as sectionalism. We hope that the new journal will receive enthuiastic support from the Colorado physicians-even as we have hoped for more support from the Kansas physicians for our own JOURNAL. The Colorado society expects to pay $1200 a year for its journal, of which $300 goes to the editor. HOSPITALS We wish to work up an article on hospitals. showing cuts of the hospitals about the state, such as that at Ellsworth, the Clay Centre Hospital, etc. Will each reader owning or knowing about some hospitals please send us word? We would like to know the number of beds, running cost per bed, number of nurses, etc., etc. BENJAMIN P. SIPPY of Belle Plaine died from cancer of the stomach, November 19. He graduated from the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1884. ARCHABALD B. TEMPLE, M. D., Western Reserve University, 1883, a member of our society, died in his office at Tulsa, I. T., November 11. We have asked the secretary, SMITH COUNTY has organized. DR. C. F. HARRISON of Syracuse, Kansas, advertises land for sale in the Journal of the A. M. A. PROVINCIALISM. Dr. MacCormack says that fully 50 per cent of the physicians of the country receive no standard literature. This makes it apparent that the need of organization is almost appalling. To what lengths this isolation, provincialism, and feeding on free (advertising) literature can lead the general practitioner is evidenced by the following letter quoted in The Medical Fortnightly: "I gave your son a turough examination today, I find no tubercolosis at all, I find that he has had a light attact of Dengue fever within the last teo months, It is a form of malarial, and some times it leaves a trouble behind that is hard to cure, the disease its self is never fatal, hardly ever stopping one from work, but it leaves them very feble, the hemorage that he had was from the broncal tube, While creasote is a very good in such cases, yet it alone will never cure him. Giving creasote in such cases remindes me of a man that tries to fatten his horse, on grass a lone, then the creasote treatment is out of date. Mrs. Hynes was taking it in 12 drop doses when she came to me I stoped it at once, my cure is give only the best of medicines. and that in larg quanities. a change of climent is no good in his case. the trouble with your doctors is two many cases and two little attentin given to any one, doctors in citys over croud there practis, the man that cures you boy will have something to do besides talk, and you boy will have to track the treatment to the letter. in other words it would be necessary to have some one to give the medicines to him, as they are marked on the bulitin, he could not be trusted to take it at all, a thing that is worth doing is worth doing well, from what he told to me, I am satisfied that his wife had a rent in the vagina, that set up vaginitis and it was let run until it got in to her blood and the lung being the weakest point, it set up the abseses in the lungs that carried her off, a number of women die that way ever year, it has got to be so comon that now has taken the name of Vaginal Consumption. Yet the doctors that have never investigated the matter, hoot at it, yet the same doctor will admit that an inflamed overy, will effect a womans head and cause her to go to the asilum. he told me that one dr. told him that it came from the vaginal troubles, but that he did not believe him. & got an other Dr. one other thing that I see in this case, that is that he has ben told and led to believe that he has consumption, and you can not cure a man against his will. He told me that he cought it from his wife, I ask him if any one else cought it from her he said, that his Dr. said that a man had to be between the age of 15. & 30 to ketch it, said it was infectious, now infect and vacinate is one and the same, So I say and can prove by the records that any disease that has pus or matter is infectious, O dont suppose that he took any of the matter from her and put it under his skin, if he did he would have died before she did. Had he have had her vagina treated after she had that child she would have never had that cough. She died from one form of blood poisen, and the first thing I did for Mrs. H. when she arrived here, was to cure up that bad vaginitis, that was the cause of her cough. she said that no doctor had ever as much as ask her about it, but all said she had consumption. I gave B. some medicines, mearly to see if I was correct in my diagnosis, And I did not say anything to him about treatment, as he said, that he only was to stay a few days." THE SPECIALIST AND THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER. The other day I had an unpleasant experience. I was called in to see a patient of mine who was, I supposed, in fair health. I found her suffering from a nervous tremor produced by strychnine tablets. dispensed her by a specialist to whom I had referred her to have some new glasses fitted. That it was the strychnine I felt sure because of previous experience with that drug in her case. Naturally I felt somewhat vexed at the occurence but concluded that it would be the part of wisdom to say nothing to my colleauge, but simply avoid sending him any more patients. Now, was I right, or has an oculist the right to prescribe for the general ailments of referred patients? In spite of Dooley's ridicule, Dr. George M. Gould's position that every young physician should study a specialty is an attractive General medicine is too big to allow one man to go deeply into all its branches; and to be superficial is foreign to the conception of the real physician. Hence we would all like to be specialists. But two factors militate against such an arrangement. One is the disposition of a patient to find a doctor whom he likes and to consult him on all matters; and these develop the need of the family physician. The other is the great temptation for the specialist to go beyond his specialty in treating a patient. Therefore such a condition. of affairs in which every man is a specialist is impossible. Should we then seek the other extreme, or the mean? In other words, shall one. I put in a glass fitting outfit myself, or shall I seek out another specialist? Just now I am inclined to keep my own patients. What do my colleagues think about it? I would like to add this, however: In my opinion a specialist is a consultant and should conform to the etiquette of the consulting room. B. DOUGLAS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY. There Nov. 3, 1903. Regular meeting at Dr. Hamman's office. were present Drs. G. W. Jones, Hamman, Smith, Harvey, Withem, Naismith and Clark and Profs. Bailey, Bartow and McClung. Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved and the secretary read an announcement from the chairman of the Committee on Medical Legislation of the American Medical Association and a letter from the Treasurer of the State Society. Dr. Hamman reported a case of ulcer of the pharyngeal vault, probably of syphilitic origin. Prof. McClung described a rapid METHOD OF PREPARING PATHOLOGICAL SPECIMENS for microscopic examination. Drs. Chas. J. Simmons and Edward R. Keith of Lawrence were elected members of the society. Adjourned. ARTHUR W. CLARK, Dec. 1, 1903. On invitation of Dr. Chambers, our vice-president, the regular meeting of the month was held at Lecompton in the parlor of the Windsor hotel. Those present were Drs. Lewis, Chambers and Kearns of Lecompton; G. W. Jones, Leslie, Hamman, E. D. F. Phillips, Smith, and Clark of Lawrence; Boyd of Baldwin and Loomis of Clinton. Meeting called to order at 11:10 a. m. A letter was read from the treasurer of the State Society showing that the records of two of our members were complete, there having been some misunderstanding about them previously. On behalf of Dr. Hoxie, absent, Dr. Smith presented a motion that the by-laws referring to time of meeting be amended so as to read: "The regular meetings of this Society shall be held quarterly in the months of January, April, July and October at such times and places as the Society shall determine." |