Examination for Admission to the Medical Corps, U. S. Navy. --The next examination will take place on or about July 6, 1915. Applications, accompanied by the necessary letters or certificates. should reach the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, Washington, D. C., not later than June 26, 1915. A candidate. for appointment in the Medical Corps of the Navy must be a citizen of the United States, between 21 and 30 years of age, and a graduate of a reputable school of medicine. The application must be in the handwriting of the applicant, and must be accompanied by the following certificates: (a) Letters or certificates from two or mor persons of good repute, testifying from personal knowledge to grod habits and moral character. (b) A certificate to the effect that the applicant is a citizen of the United States. (c) Certificate of preliminary education: The candidate must submit a certificate of graduation from an accepted high school or an acceptable equivalent. (d) Certificate of medical education: This certificate should give the name of the school and the date of graduation. (e) If the candidate has had hospital service or special educational or professional advantages, certificates to this effect, signed by the proper authorities, should also be forwarded. The applicant will save unnecessary correspondence if he will make sure when submitting his application that the qualifications enumerated above are clearly and plainly described in his letters or certificates.

Cold as a Cause.

So strong has been the objection to considering acute cold as a cause of disease that there are many young physicians that never heard of this as a seriously etiological factor. These have recently been very much surprised when a prominent experienced New York physician brought out a treatis: on the action of cold or "catching cold” as a cause of disease in very many, each in the proportion of cases according to his belief. A writer in the Monthly Cyclopedia says that this theory will be regarded as original and picturesque, and would have many dissenters. He seems to have forgotten entirely, if he ever knew, that a few decades ago, catching cold was accounted not only by the grandmother and in every home as the commonest cause of disease, but so considered by the authorities in the profession and so considered in our literature and in professional advice.

Time passes so rapidly that very old theories may become new again, and successful measures once commonly used long relegated to darkness, may be reproduced and found superior to many now called scientific measures. A very wise king said: “There is nothing new under the sun."

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Early in July, Dr. G. W. Boskowitz will remove to 260 West 86th Street.

That Tired Feeling.

The reason many persons complain of that "tired" feeling is to be found in a deficiency of blood elements. With the blood stream thin the tissues do not receive a normal supply of nourishment and muscular energy is quickly dissipated-wherefore the tired condition. It is in just such a state that the nourishing properties of Cord. Ext. Ol. Morrhuae Comp. (Hagee) exert their maximum effects. It furnishes. nutriment to the tissues, and that is the prime need in honestly tired people.

S. and D.-Every doctor knows these initials and I have no doubt used them frequently when writing prescriptions. In the May number of the Practical Druggist is printed a most interesting account of the growth and development of this firm's extensive plant. From the little corner store at Howard and Pratt, Baltimore, Md., to their present spacious quarters which occupy 150,000 square feet of floor space and is all devoted to the manufacture, packaging and storage of strictly pharmaceutical products, and when that fact is considered, S. & D. now have the largest pharmaceutical plant in this country.

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The REVIEW Congratulates them and wishes them continued suc

Dr. Michael Chirurg has removed to Newton Centre, Mass.

Order Blanks for Narcotic Drugs.-The New York State Commissioner of Health, acting under authority granted by the Legislature, has approved the order blanks required by the Federal (Harrison) law of December 17, 1914; and it will therefore be unnecessary in future to use the Boylan law blanks, if the Federal order blanks are used instead.

Mosquito Extermination on Long Island.-A meeting of prominent physicians of Nassau County was held in Mineola, on March 6th, and a committee organized to fight the mosquito. The meeting was in charge of Dr. C. B. Davenport, head of the Carnegie Experiment Station at Cold Spring Harbor. He outlined the work which had been done in the way of mosquito extermination along the north shore.

A Ward for Drug Habitues in the Philadelphia General Hospital. The Department of Public Health and Charities, of Philadelphia, has opened a special ward in the Philadelphia General Hospital for the treatment of drug habitues. It is the only hospital ward of this kind in Philadelphia.

Many physicians recognize the fallacy of combining pancreatin with pepsin and will welcome the idea of a tonic and digestive such as Enzymatic Cordial, Lilly, Pepsin, Rennin, Hdrochloric Acid, Nux Vomica, Pineapple Juice and Aromatics make an excellent combination.

Foot and Mouth Disease in Westchester County.-Many cases of foot and mouth disease have been discovered in the southern part of Westchester County, N. Y., and the entire county has been placed in quarantine. Six Federal inspectors are touring the quarantined districts, destroying all the infected cattle found. It is thought that tramps are acting as carriers.

New York City, by its new sanitary code, now effectually controls the sale of drug nostrums. The entire U. S. A. must follow suit. -Medical World.

Dr. Samuel A. Lewin has removed to 5 Pinehurst Ave.

Dr. S. R. Schultz is now located at 620 West 150th Street.