College of Ohio. Ample opportunities for dissections will be af forded.

In reply to many inquiries, we repeat that this institution is not a legal school of medicine, and consequently its course of lectures will not be recognized as an equivalent for a regular winter course of lectures. The advantages to be gained consist in the additional drilling which the student receives in the elements of medical science, thus better fitting him for entering upon the winter course with profit; and the better facilities for pursuing practical anatomy and hospital clinics.

Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Medical Society.-By the following card from Dr. Dawson, our readers will have their attention drawn to the meeting of our State Society, next June. We learn that Mr. A. Wilson, the proprietor of the Ohio White Sulphur Springs, will make the most liberal arrangements for the accommodation of the Society and its members on the occasion of the meeting there. All our friends who had the pleasure of participating in the hospitalities of last year, will scarcely need to have this assurance held out:

Editors Lancet and Observer.

CINCINNATI, February 17th, 1860.

I wish to make through your journal the following announcement to the medical profession of the State:

The fifteenth annual session of the Ohio State Medical Society will be held at the Ohio White Sulphur Springs, on the second Tuesday of June, 1860. The change in the day of meeting was made from the fact that the American Medical Association will meet this year on the first Tuesday of June, in New Haven, Conn. W. W. DAWSON, Sec'y of the O. S. Med. Society.

Ohio College of Dental Surgery.-The commencement exercises of this institution, on Wednesday evening, February 22, were opened by prayer by Rev. B. P. Aydelott, who delivered an instructive address on Study. The degree of D.D.S., Doctor of Dental Surgery, was conferred upon four graduates: Drs. Anderson, of Miss.; John Wathing, late of Michigan; Merritt Wells, of Indiana, and Leonard A. Hendrick, of Milford, Clermont county, Ohio. On the part of the faculty, a very felicitous address was delivered by Dr. J. F. Johnson, of Indianapolis, which was replied to on behalf of the graduates in an appropriate valedictory by Dr. Hendrick.

We have received the following effusion from a special friend of this "sanctum," which may be regarded as a sort of Valentine epistle. To those, however, who have seen the group of little heads that assemble round the "board" of one of us, some of the points made in the following stanzas will seem somewhat amusing:

To the Editors of the Lancet and Observer.

DEAR EDITORS:

SANDUSKY, February 8th, 1860.

The New York State Medical Society held its fifty-fourth annual meeting in the city of Albany, February 7th, 8th, and 9th. The president, Dr. B. Fordyce Barker, gave a very excellent inau

gural address, on the opening of the session. There are some interesting topics alluded to in this address that we shall take occasion to notice more particularly in some other connection. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Dr. Daniel T. Jones, of Onondaga; Vice President, Dr. E. H. Parker, of Poughkeepsie; Secretary, Dr. S. D. Willard, of Albany; Treasurer, Dr. Quackenbush, of Albany; Publishing Committee, Drs. Howe, Willard and Townsend, of Albany. Delegates were appointed to attend the United States Medical Convention at Washington, in May next, the Sanitary Convention in Boston, in June, and the meeting of the American Medical Association in New Haven.

Errata. Notwithstanding we use great care in supervising every page of our journal as it comes from the compositor's table, and notwithstanding we have in addition one of the most competent proof-readers in the city, still now and then very vexatious errors in typography will occasionally occur of these we are reminded that in our last issue, in the article by Dr. Leonard, the word arms is made to read anus i. e., the nitro-muriatic bath was to be applied over the spine and under the arms - not over the anus. In the same number we observe Dr. Gardner, of Cleveland, is made to locate a case in De Root Co., Ind. As the "copy" is lost, we do not know how it reads in the original, but it is evidently a mistake, as we believe there is no such county in the State.

Newspaper Advertisements of Patent Nostrums.-We take great pleasure, in this advertisement-ridden age, to notice an exception to the usual subserviency of the secular press to nostrum vending. The Seymour Times, of Indiana, a capital, spicy, country newspaper, edited by Dr. Monroe, came to us recently with the announcement, under the editorial head, that "We have about quit advertising for these wholesale poisoners. We suppose it isn't necessary for us to inform the intelligent portion of our readers that every patent medicine, if not a decided poison, is at least a cheat and a humbug; and that every invalid who has sought relief from any of these nostrums has most certainly and surely undermined and ruined his health." The Times proposes to withdraw its participation in this fraud on the public, and we

trust the public will show its appreciation by a generous support. We hope Dr. Roback's Scandinavian column, however, will not be kept up much longer in Dr. Monroe's paper.

Death of Dr. Todd.-The last European news announces the death of this eminent physiologist and accomplished physician.

Professional Esprit.-Dr. Collier, of Columbus, Ind., writes us that the physicians of his county probably take more medical journals than the same number of medical men in any other county in the State. "They sustain a weekly academy, at which some member reads a paper on some medical topic, which is followed by a free discussion." We record all such unmistakable evidences of honorable progress with very great satisfaction.

Pure Vaccine Virus.-It is often a great favor to physicians to know where they can procure genuine vaccine virus, on short notice; therefore we take great pleasure in calling attention to the card of Dr. Martin, of Roxbury, Mass., which appears in our advertising department. Dr. Martin has devoted considerable attention to this matter, and his references will be recognized as amongst the most responsible names in New England.

Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.-In our last number we announced the editorial withdrawal of Drs. Morland and Minot from the Boston Journal. The new volume opens with F. E. Oliver, M.D., and Calvin Ellis, M.D., as editors. These gentlemen are not unknown to the readers of the Journal, and we doubt not they will retain the high tone and standard to which it has heretofore been kept. We gladly welcome Drs. Oliver and Ellis to editorial toils and editorial pleasures.

The Cincinnati Academy of Medicine.-This body embraces amongst its fellows many working members of the profession, and we hope its sessions and discussions will be so conducted as to tell upon the influence and respectability of medicine in this city. It has recently commenced weekly meetings, and the lecture room of the Dental College, on College street, has been secured for its use. The meetings are every Monday evening, and medical gentlemen from the country visiting the city will be cordially welcomed to the sessions and exercises of the Academy. Dr. John F. White is the president.

New Books.--A new edition of Bennett's Clinical Medicine; Stellis' Therapeutics; Reil on Aconite are received, and will receive early and appropriate notice.

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Ohio Medical College.-As we go to press the session of the Medical College of Ohio is closing up-and the candidates are passing through the terrors of the green room. We are obliged

to defer the announcement of the commencement exercises until our next number.

The Cincinnati Medical Society.-This association meets monthly, at the house of some one of the members. In addition to the usual exercises of a medical society, the social feature is preserved in due proportion. The February meeting of the Society enjoyed the hospitality of Prof. Richardson. Prof. L. M. Lawson is the president.

The Covington and Newport brethren unite in a medical association, of which Dr. Tripler, of the United States army, (Newport station,) is the president. The February meeting was held at the residence of Dr. Wise, of Covington,-receiving the hospitalities of his house and table. These social reunions tend to soften the asperities of professional intercourse, and cultivate the "humanities."

We are in receipt of the February number of the Chicago Medical Examiner, edited by Prof. Davis. It contains a very able paper by Dr. T. Deville, Prof. of Anatomy in the medical department of Lind University, entitled, "a critical lecture on the extirpation of the parotid gland, and its liability to malignant diseases." The lecture is a review of the report of several cases published by Dr. Brainard in the Chicago Medical Journal. Prof. Deville does not deny the utter impossibility, but contends" that the entire removal of the parotid gland is doubted by the most intelligent anatomists and surgeons." He says, "it is an operation which Dr. Brainard would not willingly undertake."

We are glad that the respectable and liberal portion of the profession of Chicago is at last represented by such a high-toned journal as the Examiner. It has long needed just such a journal. We hope it will be appreciated and patronized accordingly.