these limitations are resented by him but that the failure of the members, contributors and readers to understand them comes back to him in bitter criticism of himself and his work. The responsibility of the Editor goes over to the business control also. Here, I fear that some editors have laid themselves open to a charge of neglect. One occasionally finds medical publications printing advertisements which even some of the higher grade of the secular press would refuse to handle. Nostrums known to be worthless are given admission to the advertising' columns of some medical journals. There is a second consideration but so self-evident that it needs little emphasis. The advertising columns must never influence the editorial columns of a medical journal. Failing in this, the medical journal will immediately descend to the level of the secular press. At the outset I wish to remind the members of our great organization that they are an integral and necessary part of the wide awake fraternity known as the Illinois State Medical Society. There should be no misunderstanding between the membership and the editor as to the difficult problems and responsibilities, the running of a State Medical Society imposes upon both. The members must not assume the "Let George Do It" spirit. Many heads are better than one and many tongues and eyes are better than one tongue and two eyes. One of the finest things about organization is that several people closely in contact for years can, if they will, benefit by each other's viewpoint of life. Our JOURNAL is the official organ of a corporation with upwards of 7,000 stockholders, the editor having only a limited authority. He cannot make the JOURNAL what it should be without the co-operation and support of the members. The sooner the membership realizes that the JOURNAL is their publication and the sooner they are brought to appreciate that what they get out of it depends upon what they put into it, the better it will be for the JOURNAL. To reach the ideal of perfection the Society must be an eye opener. A wide awake interest in the JOURNAL on the part of the members will soon bring all to realize the value of the bond, this monthly publication creates between the various County Societies, and the influence it has in helping to bind the entire membership into a more homogeneous whole. Our Society cannot afford apathy or indifference to any degree or in any form. If we are sincere in our plans and aspirations for a better social order, we must begin by at once establishing our constructive policy and show an evmeing readiness to work harder and more harmoniously, for the sake of the newer ideals of professional betterment and social justice. There is no better method of doing this thoroughly than showing a mutual interest in the success of an undertaking that requires team work from first to last. In addition to the medical problems mentioned by the retiring editor the new management in conducting the JOURNAL will strive for the following ideals: To keep the profession informed of whatever is happening in medical circles in our own State as well as throughout the world. To help federate and bring into one corporate organization the entire reputable medical profession of Illinois. To create a better understanding among the profession of the many agencies seeking to engulf it. To safeguard the enactment and enforcement of just medical laws. To guard and foster the material interests of fellow members and protect them from imposition. To prevent the enactment of laws giving quasimedical organizations or individuals the right to practice medicine without proper qualifications. To prevent the enactment of laws giving supplementary medical organizations mandatory or discriminatory power over hospitals or institutions owned and supported by medical men. To convince law makers as well as governments, both National and State, that in our legistive halls and in State Department heads there must be more people who can see with the eyes of medicine. To help maintain the standards of medical education. To extend medical knowledge and advance medical science. To educate the public in medical problems as they relate to the common good, to the end that we may hope to reach the point where we can hand over to the public the responsibility of protecting themselves by appropriate laws. Certainly we should concentrate our energy on the enlightenment of the public in order that we may the sooner throw this burden on them rather than trying to carry it through ourselves. To direct public opinion along proper channels in regard to the great problems of preventive medicine, to the end that the profession shall become more useful to the public in the prevention and cure of disease and in prolonging and adding comfort to life. The new administration will be democratic in all that the word implies. Any other policy provokes and inspires reaction by some other class and would be out of harmony with the real pur-pose and ambitions of our organization. The policy of the new editor on all questions will be to remain independent, not to be the mouthpiece of any individual or group and to work only for the best interest of the profession and the public. While we should always present a united front to the enemy it would be erroneous to say that Doctors never disagree. It is impossible for everyone to view problems from the same viewpoint. Too, it is erroneous to think criticisms do no good. People seldom like to be told of their shortcomings, however, there is a real moral benefit to be gained by dignified criticism. There may be times when members may think the editor's viewpoint is not what it should be. In this connection they should not forget that the rule works both ways. The sensible man takes heed of criticism and profits by it. From time to time new conditions will arise; it may become necessary to criticise not only policies but individuals. Should this become necessary it will be done with a spirit of fairness and with the sole idea of bettering conditions and arriving at a better understanding of the proper solution of new problems. Having outlined the extremely difficult path a medical editor has to travel, may I not ask for your help and co-operation in making the ILLINOIS MEDICAL JOURNAL the greatest and most influential of any of the State Medical Journals. TO MEMBERS AND CONTRIBUTORS It is expressly understood that articles contributed to the ILLINOIS MEDICAL JOURNAL have not been, and if accepted will not be, offered to another journal for prior or simultaneous publication; no objection can be raised for the subsequent reproduction of any of them. Although it is believed that reprinting or simultaneous reproduction of papers in readily accessible journals ir a given field is professionally unnecessary. bibliographically undesirable and economically wasteful, however, if a contributor has a paper printed elsewhere subsequently to its appearance in the ILLINOIS MEDICAL JOURNAL (excepting a volume of society transactions), due credit shall be given for original publication. The editor relies upon all contributors to conform to this rule. Manuscripts should be typewritten, preferably double spaced, and only clear verified copies presented. The name and address of the author should appear under title of the paper. Literature cited should be assembled at the end of a manuscript in numerical order and should be numbered serially. These bibliographic items in the list should be referred to, in the text, by numerals in parentheses corresponding with the sequence numerals in the list. Each item in this reference list should consist (in this order) of the (a) numeral indicating its sequence in the list, (b) name of the author, (c) year of publication, (d) exact title of the paper (or book) referred to, (c) full title of the periodical containing the paper, (f) volume numeral for that periodical, and (g) numeral for the first page (or page specially cited) of the paper. All illustrations should be submitted in such forms as to admit of photographic reproduction without retouching or redrawing. Marginal letters cannot always be set in type and should, therefore, be written in India ink and regarded as parts of the original illustrations; or, in doubtful cases, the marginal lettering may be inserted temporarily, with lead pencil, for suitable attention by the editor. Unless specific instructions are given by authors, the printer will · be requested to determine the degree of reduction that may most suitably be applied to illustration. Reproduction of illustrations can be effected most satisfactorily, as a rule, when the criginals are large enough to permit of considerable reduction in the plates prepared from them. ABRAHAM JACOBI. Dr. Jacobi, the Nestor of American Medicine, honored throughout a long life as few medical men have ever been died suddenly at his Summer home at Lake George, N. Y., July 10. Born at Hartum, Wesphalia, May 6, 1830, he received his medical degree at Göttingen in 1851. Identified early with the revolutionary party in Germany he was arrested and imprisoned for two years. In 1853 he came to New York and in 1860 was called to the chair of pediatrics just established in the New York Medical College. From 1870 to 1902 he was professor of diseases of children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, becoming professor emeritus in the latter year. In 1894 he refused an appointment to the chair of pediatrics at the University of Berlin. A voluminous writer on medical subjects related to his specialty, he published several volumes and numerous articles which were collected and published under the title "Collecteana Jacobi" in 1909. A member of numerous societies, local and na tional, he was honored by election to the presidency of many, including the American Medical Association, in 1912. The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by the University of Michigan, Columbia, Yale, Harvard and Jeffer son. WHY OSLERIZE? On July 12 we celebrated the seventieth birthday of Sir William Osler, the man who a decade ago recommended that when a man reached three score years of age he should be choloformed. Had Dr. Osler's theory been in vogue even for so short a time as the last century there is no way of estimating the loss to the world and posterity. We notice in passing that some of the greatest work of Dr. Osler's busy career has been done since he reached his sixtieth year. Of the seven hundred and thirty books and articles published by him in the last forty-nine years one hundred and forty-three, or one-fifth, have been published in the decade between sixty and seventy, and this in spite of the fact that between the years nineteen fourteen and nineteen the world's greatest war made great inroads on his time and seriously handicapped his activities along literary lines. The activities of Dr. Osler in the last ten years are inspiring to say the least and accentuate the spirit of the times and impress upon us the fact that there is no age limit and that the old saying, "a man is as old as he feels" is exemplified daily. We, who have been through the highways and byways of life during the last five years and saw what is going on there, cannot agree with Dr. Osler's statement that people ought to be killed off at sixty. We insist that there is no age limit for service. Dr. Osler's observation and experience during the last five years should convince him that no longer are old men and women relegated to the rear to pine away the declining years after sixty, sitting in the parlor in easy chairs with pipes and knitting needles. Throughout the ages these boys and girls past sixty have been in the foreground of existence and many of them on the firing line in the battle of life. He who places stress on age limit for ac complishing things has only to look over the re cent list of the names of men who played a conspicuous part in the world's greatest war: row Clemenceau (physician), seventy-eight; Wood Wilson, sixty-three; Foch, sixty-eight; Joffre, sixty-seven; Petain, sixty-three; Lord Kitchener, seventy-three; French, sixty-one; Colonel March, sixty-five; Admiral Sims, sixtyone; Arthur Balfour, seventy-one; Admiral Jellicoe, sixty; Earl Brassey, eighty-three; Colonel House, sixty-one. Von Kluck, seventy-two; Von Hindenburg, seventy-two; Von Zeppelin, seventy-eight; Von MacKensen, seventy; Von Moltke, sixty-four; Kaiser Wilhelm, sixty; Admiral Von Tirpitz, seventy; Von Hertling, seventy-six; Count V. ZuChulenitz Czernin, Austrian Minister, sixtytwo; Abdul Hamid II., late Sultan of Turkey, seventy-seven. It has been frequently stated that the war could not have been caried on without these men. In previous wars men of the ages mentioned were left at home, but in the world's war these men showed the staunch stuff of which they were made. In this last war age was of no moment. Elderly men and women who had been inactive for years came forward into service, led movements everywhere and made themselves indispensable. In truth the matured mind in this great war was one of the biggest elements that played the winning part. Let us glance superficially over a few of the characters in other walks of life and review briefly some of the military leaders, statesmen, artists, sculptors, scientists, authors and actors who have played a leading role in life's drama and who achieved fame after sixty and many of them after seventy and still others who were at the zenith of their fame even after eighty years of age. Here are a few of the most conspicuous: Lord Roberts in harness at time of his death at eighty-two; Wm. E. Gladstone, statesman, eighty-nine, did some of his best work after eighty; Elihu Root, head of American Mission to Russia, seventy-four; Cardinal Gibbons, noted prelate, eighty-five; Porfirio Diaz, president of Mexico, eighty-five; Marquis K. Inouye, great Japanese statesman, eighty; Count Sergius Witte, great Russian stateman, sixty-six; Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, sixty-three; Tzu-Hsi-an, Tiger Empress of China, seventy-four; Li Hung Chang, Chinese statesman, ambassador and soldier, seventy-eight; Prince Ching, Chinese Premier, eighty; Joseph H. Choate, eighty-five, a factor in America's life until he was eighty; Thomas A. Edison, inventor, seventy-two; Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, ninety-two, who did his greatest work in the last fifteen years; Rosa Bonheur, unrivalled French artist, seventy-seven, did her best best work in last years of her life; Mrs. Humphrey Ward, representative woman novelist, sixty-eight; Claude Dubussy, French composer, sixty-five; Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and reformer, eighty-two; Max Nordau, French physician and author, seventy; Sarah Bernhardt, celebrated actress, seventy-five; Wm. Winter, dean of dramatic critics, eighty; Giuseppe Verdi, Italian opera composer, eighty-eight; Jules Massenet, French composer of operas, seventy; Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist and poet, seventyeight; Belva Lockwood, eighty-five, in harness until after eighty; Ella Flagg Young, head of the the Chicago Public School system, seventy-three. This list of great men and women illustrates beautifully the statement that it is never too late for success provided the will and desire are there. As the Salvation Army wisely put it, “a man may be down but he is never out." In view of the great accomplishments of these boys and girls, many of them past even the three score and ten limitation, we cannot help but feel that Dr. Osler spoke facetiously when he said that every one reaching the age of sixty should be cloroformed. OUR HONORED DEAD. "If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep, tho' poppies blow in Flanders fields." -MCCRAE. The war is over and the soldier boys are rapidSoon the great ly coming home from France. conflict will be nothing but a memory. And yet this brings home to every physician and medical organization, mingled feelings of joy and sorrow-joy that we were able to contribute so magnificently and effectively to the cause of liberty throughout the world, and sorrow that several of our physicians had to make the supreme sacrifice. According to the Surgeon General's office, the fatalities among the medical officers up to May, 1919, were as follows: PHYSICIANS KILLED IN ACTION. Baldwin, Joseph F., 1st Lt., M. C. PHYSICIANS WHO HAVE DIED OF WOUNDS. Bass, Urbane F., 1st Lt., M. C. Faulds, Winfield S., 1st Lt., M. C. Klingen, Oscar M., 1st Lt., M. C. RED CROSS ARTICLES OF INCORPORA TION. 1. The name of the Association shall be the American Association of the Red Cross. 2. The terms of its existence shall be for twenty years. 3. The object of the Association shall be: First, to secure by the United States the adoption of the treaty of August 22, 1864, between Italy, Baden, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Spain, Portugal, France, Russia, Würtenberg, and the federal council of Switzerland. Second, to obtain recognition by the Government of the United States and to hold itself in readiness for communicating therewith at all times to the end that its purpose may be more wisely and effectually carried out. Third, to organize a system of national relief and apply the same as mitigating the sufferings caused by war, pestilence, famine, and other calamities. Fourth, to collect and diffuse information touching the progress of nursing, the organization of National Relief, the advancement of sanitary science, and their application. Fifth, to co-operate with all other similar national agencies for the furtherance of the articles herein set forth, in such ways as are provided by the regulations governing such cooperation. |