"The Medical Editor should be endowed with an abundance of good horse-sense. For he, like the politician, is usually in that unenviable position where he will be damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't."

Beer and the Cholera Bacillus do not mutually agree. In Pilsener, Patzenhofer and Munchner beer, the bacillus cannot live three hours; in Berlin white beer, it lives only two hours.

Chicago has just completed a new garbage crematory; and the last analyses of her drinking water show it to be remarkably pure. New York papers please copy.-Times and Register.

Cholera and Carter Harrison is a perilous combination.

The ten-minute paper has recently become a marked feature in the work of the New York Acad

emy of Medicine. The instructions to writers of papers formulated by the chairman, Dr. Northrup, contained a number of apt suggestions and were somewhat as follows: 1. Hippocrates and Galen may be passed with very slight notice, as they have been for some time dead and their opinions are somewhat obsolete. 2. Scratch out the formal introduction and begin where the subject matter really begins. Condense the body of the paper. 4. End the paper where the subject matter ends, making its action like the piston syringe-begin, spatter, stop. As a result of this policy the papers have been unusually practical and to the point.-N. Y. Med. Jourual.

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In the World's Fair grounds, on every corner, even to-day, are supplies of free sterilized water; but in addition to the general water-supply, the Waukesha spring water has been introduced into the grounds through ninety miles of pipes. The Waukesha supply consists of three springs, with a daily outflow of two million gallons, and the examination shows that it possesses great purity. In fact, the number of microbes to the cubic centimeter is less than ten, which is a very high grade of purity. water will be given free in many of the buildings, while in other places the moderate charge of one cent a glass will be made for it.-Med. News.

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The University of Pennsylvania is attempting to get an appropriation from the legislature for the University Hospital. The faculty of Jefferson are also out in full force at Harrisburg for the same purpose for Jefferson Hospital.

Official or Officinal.-Dr. A.H.Dybson defines the distinction between these two terms, in a communication to The Lancet, as follows: The terms "official" and "officinal" are so frequently used as synonymous by authors of works on materia medica and kindred subjects that it may be well to point out that there is a wide difference between the words. "Official" (officium, an office) means issued or sanctioned by authority; "officinal" (officina, a shop) means kept in a shop. Blue pill is official; liver pills are officinal.-N. Y. Med. Record.

So Far as we know there was no change made last winter by amendments to the Medical Practice Act of Nebarska, excepting the amendments to sections 14 and 16, which now read in the statute as follows:

Section 14. "The board may refuse certificates to persons guilty of unprofessional or dishonorable conduct and to persons who are addicted to intoxicating drinks and it may revoke certificates for like causes; provided always that they have given the person an opportunity to be heard in his or her defense.

Section 16. Any person not possessing the qualifications for the practice of medicine, surgery or obstetrics required by the provisions of this act or any person who has complied with the provisions of this act who shall engage in the practice of medicine, surgery or obstetrics or any branch thereof while under the influence of intoxicating drink or any person who has not complied with the provisions of this act who shall engage in the practice of medicine, surgery or obstetrics or any branch thereof in this state shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300) and costs of prosecution for each offense and shall stand committed until such fine and costs are paid."

This, fortunately, did no harm, and we explained before why it will do no particular good.

Dr. William Beck, a young physician of Shel Lake, Wis., thrashed two editors in that city for publishing damaging reports of him. The doctor has the satisfaction that public sentiment is on his side.-Ex.

A young man fell on the street in this city recently in an epileptic convulsion. It was with difficulty that a policeman near by could be made to handle him gently as he was sure it was an ordinary "drunk."

The policeman is not to blame in instances of this kind, but the city is to be censured for having no ambulance service. These cases should not be taken roughly to the police station in the patrol wagon. There is no reason that this city at this late date should have no ambulance service.

The history of this little poem, going the rounds, may be of interest, especially to those acquainted with the author, Dr. Willis P. King, of Kansas City. At a recent society meeting, Dr. Joseph Price had just read a paper on Extra-Uterine Pregnancy," and had said that the late Henry Formad, while coroner of Philadelphia, had made it a practise in all autopsies of women to look carefully for extra-uterine pregnancy That in this way he had made some valuable contributions to the subject. Price quoted Formad as saying that he often found little Irishmen sitting upon the pancreas. Dr. King passed to the speaker at this time a paper, which the latter read to the society, thus:

"One little Irishman, sitting on the pancreas,
Watching for Dr. Price to come;

With a good deal of indulgence the medical profession tolerates the practises of the faith healer or Christian scientist. In a case given up to die of some organic disease by the physician, no one for a moment would decry the patient the comfort that he or she might have in trying as a last resort the faith cure. But some reprehensible practises have recently come to our ears which should make the community blush for the actions of these people. A woman dying slowly of uterine carcimona and suffering the pain which this disease alone can inflict, for months was allowed to suffer; always assured that she could not die while under their charge and even to the hour of death, in convulsions due to pain, they would allow of nothing being administered to ease the suffering. To tell such a woman, and at such a time, that the reason she does not get well is because she has not faith, and tear from her the very straw by which she is holden to them, is a crime against God and every God-given attribute to If we hear of any more of these cases we will endeavor to bring some of these fanatics to justice, on some statute, and not necessarily the medical practice act.

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Judged from a scientific standpoint the checkerboard move on the part of the Department of Agriculture in the change made in microscopist at South Omaha, it would seem that party wins, science loses.

Omaha Medical Society officers for the ensuing year are: president, J. E. Summers, Jr.; 1st vicepresident, J. P. Lord; 2d vice-president, E. E. Wormesley; secretary, C. C. Allison; treasurer, S. K. Spalding.

Board of Censors: F. Bacon, chairman; W. F. Milroy, F. Swartzlander.

At a meeting of the joint committee of the Chicago medical profession on World's Fair entertainment, held at the Sherman House, November, 1892, the establishment of a bureau of information and service was delegated, with approval and endorsement, to Chas. Truax, Greene & Co., the committee reserving to itself the duty of such social entertainment of visiting physicians during the continuance of the exposition as may seem desirable.

Notice: Program for Nebraska State Medical Society; banquet on Wednesday evening.

Dr. S. B. Taylor, of Blair, died March 4. An account of his life will be given by the committee on necrology of the State Society.

Possibly it would be just as well to continue the hunt for a safe anæsthetic. Ether does not seem shorn of all danger.

Life is real, life is earnest,

But it might be more sublime If a man were not kept busy

Dodging microbes all the time.

The Chinese are essentially a literary people. My old friend, the priest, tells me that this is owing to a most excellent compulsory education law, repealed some years ago, but the effects of which are still felt in the Flowery Kingdom. When a boy reached a certain age, he was obliged to pass an examination, prescribed by the government. failed the first time, he was given a year to study up in; failing in the second examination, they chopped off his head. As an incentive to study, it was found most effective. --Arena.

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VOL. VI, No. 3.

JUNE, 1893.

MINUTES OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL SES

SION OF THE NEBRASKA STATE
MEDICAL SOCIETY.

NEBRASKA CITY, May 16, 1893. Society called to order at 4:30 p. m. President Hildreth in the chair.

The following permanent members registered during the session:

A. Bowen, Nebraska City; M. L. Hildreth, Lyons; L. A. Merriam, Omaha, B. F. Crummer, Omaha; W. R. Lavender, Omaha; F. S. Owen, Omaha; George Wilkinson, Omaha; Claude Watson, Nebraska City; J. V. Beghtol, Friend; B. B. Davis, McCook; A. S. von Mansfelde, Ashland; Charles Inches, Scribner; H. Gifford, Omaha; I. N. Pickett, C. A. Bradley, Beatrice; G. L. Humphreys, Kearney; W. M. Knapp, Lincoln; E. M. Whitten, Nebraska City; W. H. Banwell, Orleans; H. L. Burrell, Omaha; J. P. Lord, Omaha; A. J. Jonas, Omaha; T. J. Chidester, Western; J. O. Dawson, Lincoln; G. H. Simmons, Lincoln; John M. Alden, Pierce; W. H. Christie, Omaha; B. F. Whitmore, Omaha; Mary Strong, Omaha; E W Lee, Omaha; Chas. C. Allison, Omaha; J. E. Summers, Jr, Omaha; J. R. Haggard, Lincoln; M. Kirkpatrick, South Omaha; J. O. Carter, Lincoln; H. J. Winnett, Lincoln; F. D. Crim, Lincoln; M. T. Zellers, Hooper; G. H. Peebles, Lincoln; W. L, Dayton, Lincoln; Edward Bates, Beatrice; D. A. Walden, Beatrice; S. W. Dodge, Fairbury; W. O. Henry, Omaha; J. C. Denise, Omaha; J. B. Hungate, Weeping Water; A. Kellar, Falls City: Joseph E Hall, Weeping Water; W. R. Hobbs, Elmwood; H. C. Manary, Asylum; R. Woods, Shickley.

The following were elected to membership, being reported upon favorably by the committee on credentials:

Charles H. Ashton, Syracuse.

F. Bacon, Omaha.

W. H. Banwell, Orleans.

L. M. Brady, Oxford.

Mary C. Case, Syracuse.
W. B. Ely, Ainsworth.
Benjamin F, Gay, Pierce.
O. C. Heise, Nebraska City.
D. M. Hershey, Nebraska City.
Jonas Hoover, Bennet.
I. M. Houston, Falls City,
G. W. Ira, Santee Agency.
C. C. Jordan, Nebraska City.
Charles L. Kerr, Falls City.
George H. Littlefield, Syracuse.
T. L. Loofbourren, Brock.
Joseph Neville, Omaha.

W. D. Robbins, Nebraska City.
I. L. Smith, Syracuse.
George F. Wells, Neligh.
F. C. Wiser, Falls City.
W. O. Wisner, Wellfleet.
Sherman Van Ness, Omaha.

O. C. Heise and Charles H. Ashton presented delegate credentials from the Otoe County Medical Association and F. Bacon from the Omaha Medical Society.

Reading of minutes dispensed with by vote.

Dr. A. S. von Mansfelde filed the following communication:

DR. A. S. VON MANSFELDE, Ashland, Neb.--DEAR SIR: It has just come to our attention that a man calling himself Ed. S. Evans and pretending to represent the Law and Literary Exchange of Boston and Chicago is canvassing in Nebraska. This man is a swindler who canvasses physicians, pretending to take their orders for various publications at any price that he can collect, but as the so-called Exchanges which he pretends to represent do not exist, nothing is received for money paid to him.

We bring the matter to your attention in the hope that you will have an opportunity to have him apprehended, and we sincerely hope you will do what you can to put a stop to his work. We hear from Dr. G. A. Weirick, Hastings, Neb., that this man has visited Hastings. He has evidently gone to Nebraska from Wisconsin, where he swindled a large number of physicians. We will be pleased to give the names of parties who have been swindled by him if they are required. Very respectfully yours, May 3, 1892.

WILLIAM WOOD & COMPANY.

TUESDAY EVENING SESSION,

REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY. Members of the Nebraska State Medical Society: In presenting this yearly report I shall be brief and speak only of those things which pertain to the inner working of our organization.

The membership of the Society includes at present some 400 members, inclusive of some fourteen nonresident members. A report furnished me by the Treasurer shows that about fifty-seven members have either left the State or forgotten the Society, as they have paid no attention to their yearly dues. It therefore has seemed proper by your Secretary in cases so derelict and disinterested in their membership to withhold the sending of the yearly transactions until he could have the advice of the Society