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A JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY

Published Monthly by Western Medical Review Company, 701 So. 13th Street, Omaha, Neb. Per Annum, $2.00, 20c per copy. The Western Medical Review is the journal of the Nebraska State Medical Association and is sent by order of the Association to each of its members. Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice of Omaha, Nebraska, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Telephone Douglas 1290.

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Dr. D. C. Bryant was born in Eton, Ohio, sixty-three years ago. He received his preliminary education in the public and high school of his home town and in Oberlin college Ohio. He taught in a high school for four years then took up the study of medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated in 1875 from the medical department of Wooster University, Cleveland.

He first practiced medicine at North Ridgeville, Ohio, for four and a half years, then spent a year in post graduate work as an externe in Guy's and Royal Ophthalmic hospitals, London, England. On returning to this country he resumed practice at

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the old location, remaining there until 1884, when he removed to Omaha, Neb., after taking six months more of post graduate work in New York City. He has since that time resided in Omaha engaged in the practice of his specialty, eye, ear, nose and throat diseases. The year 1899-1900 was again spent in post graduate work in London, Berlin and Vienna.

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In November 1909, the doctor and his wife began a trip around the world, leaving home in November. They visited Egypt, India, Burmah, Singapore, Java, Borneo, the Phillipines, China, Japan and the Hawaiian islands. Although this trip was for pleasure and rest, still the hospitals in the large cities of the Far East were visited and examined.

The doctor took part in the founding of the medical department of Creighton University and acted as dean of that department almost from the first, and his influence upon medical education in the West cannot be accurately estimated, but he has a host of loving loyal friends and former pupils scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific and in many foreign lands.

Books, travel, teaching, hunting and all out-door sports have always been his hobbies although professional duties have allowed all too little time for indulgence in these things.

To his friends and former pupils he will always be "Daddy Bryant," and his fatherly advice and wise and kindly counsel have helped and strengthened many a halting one on the highway of life and given new energy to press onward.

Do not forget that lordosis, especially at the first and second lumbar vertebrae where it interferes with the circulation of the kidney, may induce albuminuria. Lordosis is a very common cause of albuminuria in children. Be careful that orthopedic appliances do not too tightly impinge over the area noted above.

The Forty-Fifth Annual Session of the Nebraska State Medical Association, Held at Omaha,

May 13th to 15th, 1913.

This annual event in the history of Nebraska medicine has come and gone; but between these data occurrences took place which well deserve comment in these pages.

As was wisely ordained, the legislative functions and scientific work of this great organization reside in separate entities; the former in Council and House of Delegates, the latter in several Sections. These were this year consolidated into one body, before which many of the best fruits of Nebraska Medicine were exhibited. The only criticism which the Review heard was that Special branches took up the greater part of the time of the audiences. A desire was expressed for more work of a practical character, i. e., work which to the general practitioner might prove of lasting benefit. This seems to us is a request well founded; but ought not the general practitioner, the socalled country doctor, supply this deficiency? However, there were some valuable exceptions; one, a paper on certain cardinal points in ophthalmology, of practical importance to the general physician; another, the symposium on X-Ray work, and many more; though, unfortunately, the address of the Chairman of the Section on Practice of Medicine was not heard, because of the modesty of the aforesaid chairman, who had an absolute right to deliver it, whenever it pleased his and his hearers' convenience, in spite of the fact that the ruling powers, and they appeared at once very sinister and lacking, had omitted the address from the annual program, an act not granted by law and usage. This unfortunate omission bore, as we are informed, other fruits of unsavory taste, still lingering in the memory of the participants. It appears that the aforesaid Chairman was to be the president of the House of Delegates, an office he had filled before with considerable ability; his absence forced a new deal on the part of the shufflers of cards, who, by the bye, ought never to be self appointed, and a gentleman was substituted, one who deserved better of his sponsors, one who combines extreme conscientiousness with a strong desire to do

the best that is in him. Unfortunately, he had no help and no support from whence it should have come-from his sponsors— and that which was supplied by outsiders seemed to irritate him to an extent to make him uncomfortable. At any rate, it created a comedy of errors which has no parallel in Nebraska Medicine and would require the pen of a Shakespeare to do it justice. It commenced with the reference of the President's address to the House,, an innovation which ought to be a precedent for many more of like creditable and profitable efforts, and ended with the farcical disposition of the amendment to the constitution, to define the powers of the Board of Trustees. The mover of the amendment took pity on the presiding officer and House by the withdrawal of the amendment, to avoid a call of the House, which might have found that body still in session when these lines reach their readers. All these heart-burns could and should have been avoided by a carefully planned order of business and a detailed recital of the work, which is annually required and put into the hands of the presiding officer in writing, and besides this the officer who is charged with this kind of work ought to have had it well in hand, when the presiding officer would not have failed to acquit himself to his satisfaction. Again, the roll call was tedious and ineffective. The call should not be by counties, but by an alphabetical list of the accredited members of the House and that does not consist of delegates only, as the Secretary seems to assume, but of all those members, which the constitution specifically mentions.

One excellent piece of good work was done by the Auditing committee. It repeats its recommendation of former sessions that the officers abide strictly by the law of the Association regarding the disposition of the funds of the Association, and adds, that no one be permitted to handle the monies of the Association but its bonded officers, that is, the Secretary is to receive all drafts and money orders, to register them and transmit them, as he receives them, to the Treasurer of the Association. Both officers, however, had their accounts in perfect order, a condition which must be gratifying to the Association. A matter of very much interest to the officials of this

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