Dr. L. T. Moore of Campbell has returned home after a short vacation, and after taking the Scottish Rite.

The physicians of Fremont have volunteered their services for the medical inspection of school children.

Dr. Anderson of Kenesaw, Neb., has purchased the practice and office of the DeCow Brothers, Holdrege, Neb.

Dr. Hall, formerly of Clearwater, Neb., has located in Neligh, Neb., and will be associated with Dr. Conery.

Dr. Hal C. Smith returned the middle of November from the east, after two months' post graduate work.

Dr. Chas. P. Brenn, of Western, Neb., has sold his practice to Dr. C. E. Lewellen, and moved to Kansas City, Mo..

Dr. A. P. Ginn of Nebraska City has been appointed examining surgeon for the United States Pension Department.

Dr. C. B. F. Grantham of Chadron, Neb., has removed to St. Joe, Mo., where he will engage in medical practice.

Dr. Callender of Thedford, Neb., has disposed of his practice, residence and store to Dr. Overmass of Whitman, Neb.

Dr. F. M. McElwee, who has practiced at Macon, Neb., for thirty-five years, is critically ill, with general anasarca.

Dr. Anderson and family of Kennard, Neb., were visiting with home folks at Ceresco, Neb., during Thanksgiving week.

Dr. Francis J. Petr, at one time a physician in Omaha, is serving with the Balkan allied armies in the war against Turkey.

Dr. Charles Remy of Omaha has located in Ainsworth, Neb., where he will be associated with his father, Dr. G. O. Remy.

Dr. S. B. Ross of New York city has recently located in Columbus, Neb., and has entered into partnership with Dr. W. S. Evans.

Dr. Eskildson, a pioneer physician of Omaha and veteran of the civil war, died November 21 at Danville, Va., aged 68 years.

Dr. L. B. Grady, who at one time practiced in Omaha, Neb., died in Nashville, Tenn., November 11, at the age of 60 years.

Dr. Scott W. Warder, of Friend, Neb., has sold his practice to Dr. R. S. Platt, and moved to Omaha where he will take up dentistry.

A health club has been formed by the Y. M. C. A. of Fremont and each week a lecture is delivered by a physician on a health topic.

Dr. Louis A. Dermody and Miss Neola Georgia Smith of Julian, Neb., were married Thanksgiving morning. Their home will be in Omaha.

Dr. J. O. Clark of Milford, Neb., was seriously wounded by the sudden discharge of a gun in the hands of another man about November 20.

Dr. Stannard of Valparaiso, Neb., has purchased the practice and office fixtures of Dr. G. H. Hanson of Ulysses. Dr. Hanson expects to relocate in Texas.

The Illinois State Board of Health has attempted to prosecute all druggists of Chicago found guilty of the practice of medicine in counter prescribing.

Dr. Geo. H. Henton, of Friend, Neb., has sold his practice to Dr. F. J. Farwell, and has gone to New York City to take a special course in Ophthalmology.

Dr. J. F. Langdon, assistant city physician of Omaha, will resign on the first of January and it is reported that Dr. Thomas D. Boler may be appointed in his stead.

Dr. C. M. Schindel, for twenty years a physician in South Omaha, and recently associated with Dr. D. C. Bryant in Omaha, has gone to California on account of failing health.

Dr. John F. Loosbrock of Petersburg, Neb., was married the latter part of November to Miss Mary Madonna McGowan of Omaha. They will make their home in Ft. Des Moines, Iowa.

Dr. A. E. Benton, an old soldier and pioneer physician of Merrick county, Nebraska, died at his home in Central City, November 1, at the age of 73 years. His son, Dr. J. E. Benton, succeeds him in practice.

Dr. G. E. Henton and Miss Bertha Anna Hacker of Friend, Neb., were married at the home of the bride on November 13. They will spend some time in New York city, where the doctor is specializing in diseases of the eye.

Dr. Claude T. Uren, a graduate of the University of Michigan, and for two years an instructor in the medical department of that institution, has located in Omaha and has offices in the W. O. W. building, specializing in diseases of the ear, nose and throat.

Dr. A. P. Overgaard of Fremont was re-elected president of the Nebraska State Automobile association, at the annual meeting held at Lincoln, Neb. A strong effort will be made to get the legislature to create a highway commission to have supervision of all highways in the state.

The Nebraska State Board of Health recently received a communication from the Pennsylvania Board of Health, stating terms on which Pennsylvania will agree to reciprocate in the endorsement of medical licenses. The communication included a list of colleges approved by the Pennsylvania board as in good standing for the purpose of licensing of graduates by examination and reciprocity; this list included the Creighton Medical college of Omaha and the Medical Department of Nebraska university.

GENERAL NEWS AND NOTES.

Dr. Howard A. Kelly is working actively in the crusade against the social evil in Baltimore and other cities.

A new district medical society was formed last month by the physicians of Gregory and Tripp counties of South Dakota.

Dr. T. C. Hunter, aged 90 years, died September 21, at his home in Kokomo, Ind. He began the study of medicine when he was 60 years old.

Dr. L. Clark, of the U. S. P. H. Service, has found that more than 70 per cent of the Indians at Pelican Point, Minn., are afflicted with tuberculosis.

Dr. J. Riddle Goffe, New York, was elected president of the International Gynecological Congress at Berlin, September 9. The next congress will be held in the United States in 1915.

Dr. Udo Janus Wile of New York, a graduate of John Hopkins (1907), has been appointed to the chair of dermatology at the University of Michigan, succeeding Dr. W. F. Breakey, retired.

A sanatorium of national scope is planned to be erected near Denver under the auspices of the Roman Catholic church for the benefit of the people of that faith suffering from tuberculosis.

Dr. A. E. Bartoo, University of Buffalo, 1888, long a practitioner of Nebraska, has recently returned from a year's absence in Brazil and has opened an office at 353 Glenwood avenue, Buffalo.

Mr. James B. Brady of New York, recently a patient at Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, has presented to that institution $500,000 in appreciation of its work and for the extension of its activities.

St. Louis university is building an addition to its medical school. The new building is three stories in height and will accommodate offices, library and also laboratories for animal experimentation, and will cost about $10,000.

Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh upon October 30 abolished the public drinking cup from railroad cars, vessels and other conveyances operated in interstate traffic and from the depots and waiting rooms of common carriers.

The University of Kansas School of Medicine announces a course in public health and preventive medicine which will be required of candidates for the degree of M. D. This is the first time such a course has been made obligatory in a medical school.

Miss Helen Gould has donated $10,000 to the Day and Night Camp for tuberculous persons at St. Louis. This gift assures the success of the undertaking which has for its object the care and treatment of poor persons unable to obtain attention at other places.

The judges of the municipal court of Minneapolis have appointed a commission of physicians from whom they may seek advice in dealing with persons brought before the court when the court suspects that such persons may be mentally irresponsible for their acts.

Dr. C. H. Lavinder of the United States Public Health Service, and in charge of the Marine hospital at Savannah, Ga., was elected president of the National Association for the Study of Pellagra, at the third annual meeting of the association, held recently in Lynchburg, Va.

Surgeon General Rupert Blue of the United States Public Health Service is planning to establish a permanent exhibit on hygiene and sanitation in Washington, as he believes that such an exhibit would be of great service in educating the public in matters relating to hygiene and sanitation.

The Illinois State Board of Health received notice, November 11, that sixteen cases of typhoid existed in Hillview, Green county, a village with a population of eighty. Dr. J. C. Westervelt, Shelbyville, assistant secretary of the state board, has been sent to Hillview to make investigations.

Acting Assistant Surgeon W. F. James, U. S. P. H. Service, stationed at Honolulu, was commended in a letter October 17 by the secertary of the treasury for "humanitarian and unselfish action" in rescuing a Japanese woman from drowning in shark-infested waters near Honolulu, September 23.

Dr. Annie M. L. Potts, believed to have been the last surviving member of the first class to graduate from the Woman's Medical college, Philadelphia, died at San Diego, Cal., recently, aged 84. Before retiring to San Diego, Dr. Potts toured the world, lecturing to women on the laws of health.

Los Angeles county, California, is planning to establish a county health city in the mountains, consisting of fresh air cottages where tuberculosis patients now being cared for at the county hospital may have better chances for recovery and health. The county plans to spend about $75,000 on this project.

Says the Pacific Medical Journal: "The Bank of England is not the world's greatest treasure house. It has only $180,000,000 in its vaults. The Denver mint holds the record with $445,000,000 in gold coin and gold bullion. This will be increased by one-half, the issue of several of the other mints having been restricted."

Dr. Joseph J. O'Connell, health officer for the port of New York, announces that he will apply for an appropriation of $2,000,000 from the legislature to improve the port quarantine facilities, for the enlargement of Swinburne Island and the erection of additional buildings which will be rendered necessary by the opening of the Panama canal.

At the October 11 meeting of the Michigan State Board of Health syphilis and gonorrhea were placed on the list of diseases to be reported to health officers, and by the latter to the State Department of Health. Special blanks are being prepared for these reports, and the cases are to be reported by numbers and not by the name of the patients.

The Public Health Service has issued an order to all railroad and steamboat lines that water for drinking on trains and vessels shall be certified to as to its purity by the health authorities of the state from which it is drawn. The same rule applies to ice. Moreover, it requires that the water containers shall be scalded with steam once a week. Good.

That the cause of pellagra is still a mystery, that there is no reason to suppose that the disease is directly infectious, and that there is no known specific remedy for the disease, were conclusions expressed in resolutions adopted by the National Congress for the Study of Pellagra at the closing session of its triennial meeting at Columbia, S. C., October 5, 1912.

A press dispatch says that President Taft has decided to appoint as successor to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, as chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, Carl L. Alsberg, who is at present chemical biologist of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture. Alsberg is only 35 years old, but is highly recommended by many college presidents and university men. He was educated at Harvard and Columbia universities and studied for a time in Germany.

Nearly two hundred men and women have been arrested in sixty-nine cities and towns in twenty-nine states by the postoffice authorities on the charge of circulating through the mails matter suggesting or promoting criminal practices, packages containing substances or drugs to be used for unlawful purposes, or nostrums containing poisonous substances. The majority of the persons arrested are manufacturers of these preparations, but a number of them have been using the title of doctor.

Mr. George F. Baker, president of the First National bank of New York, has given a large sum of money, said to be over $2,000,000, to the New York hospital, on condition that it affiliate with Cornell University Medical college. A part of this gift will be used to erect a new hospital building as near to Cornell Medical college as possible, and the rest, it is said, will be spent in equipping laboratories and employing medical and surgical experts, or for any purpose deemed desirable by the governors of the hospital.

Smallpox broke out in Pittsburgh on August 3 and the death rate has been 25 per cent. The spread was so general that the city council decided that Health Director E. R. Walter should stand trial, but as he himself has been sick with smallpox public sympathy has tended to vindicate him without trial. Elizabeth Martin, aged 9, died September 20, of blood poisoning following vaccination, one person out of more than twenty thousand dying as the result of vaccination to one out of every four coming down with smallpox in this epidemic.

Wright of opsonic indext fame tells the following story as being presumably illustrative of the eagerness of Americans to find short cuts to learning.

An American physician bustled into his laboratory one day, handed over his card, and announced that he had come to learn the whole works. Wright suavely assured him of his willingness to teach him the essentials and suggested that in four or five weeks considerable progress could be made. "Four or five weeks!" exploded the American, "why, Great Scott, man, my wife is waiting outside for me in a taxicab."

NOTICE TO COUNTY SECRETARIES.

The A. M. A. hand books with list of speakers on public health topics for any public meeting in the state, is ready and can be obtained by county societies upon request of your secretary, addressed to Frederick R. Green, M. D., Secretary Council on Health and Public Instruction, 535 Dearborn Ave., Chicago, Ill. JOSEPH M. AIKIN, State Secretary.

SALINE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

The annual meeting of Saline County Medical Society was held at the Commercial club rooms, Crete, December 10th. Dr. F. J. Farwell, of Friend, Neb., was elected to membership.

President,

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Dr. P. F. Dodson, of Wilber; vice-president, Dr. A. W. Hoyt, Friend; secretary-treasurer, Dr. H. W. Quirk, Crete. Dr. R. B. Platt of Friend, was elected one of the censors to fill the vacancy of Dr. Warder. Dr. Wm. H. Pallett, Crete, was elected censor to fill vacancy caused by expired term of Dr. A. W. Hoyt. Delegate to State Society, Dr. P. F. Dodson, second year of unexpired term.

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FRANKLIN COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

The Franklin County Medical Society met at Riverton, Neb., November A banquet was given the visiting doctors, which was greatly enjoyed by all, after which the meeting was called to order and an interesting program given, as follows:

Paper on "The Quack," by Dr. N. T. Johnston of Upland, Neb., which was ordered sent the Review for publication.

Paper by Dr. L. T. Moore on "A Few Practical Ideas on Infant Feeding."
Several interesting clinics were presented.

A committee was appointed to confer with members of the legislature, to introduce a bill along the line of the prevention of disease and examination before marriage.

The annual election of officers was held and the following elected:
President-Dr. W. H. Byerly, Franklin, Neb.

Vice President-Dr. L. T. Moore, Campbell, Neb.

Secretary and Treasurer-Dr. Hal. C. Smith, Franklin, Neb.

Dr. N. T. Johnston was elected as delegate to the state association in May, and Dr. L. T. Moore as alternate.

Resolutions were also drawn up endorsing Dr. N. T. Johnston of Upland, Neb., as the republican member of the non-partisan board of control.

Representative Henry of Texas was praising a Washington heiress. "She is the right sort," he said. "She went abroad last year, and on her return a friend asked her:

"'Did you see many picturesque old ruins over there?'

"'Yes,' she answered with a faint smile, 'and six of them proposed.' --Tit-Bits.

Passer-by-What's the fuss in the school yard, boy?

The Boy-Why, the doctor has just been around examinin' us an' one of the deficient boys is knockin' th' everlastin' stuffin's out of a perfect kid. -Cleveland Plain Dealer.