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would not be asked whether it would suit you to enlist. Do you appreciate that our liberty is also our responsibility now and for the future? Every man must do his duty, do not let the other fellow protect your family, if you do it are we worthy of liberty? Do you mean to say that you love your country? Then be up and doing. Men have been rejected from the Medical Officers' Reserve Corps on account of mental and moral slouchiness. Moral slouchiness is of importance whether the times be of peace or war.

Dr. Joseph Getelson, Kansas City, has received a promotion to captain in the Medical Corps at Camp Funston.

Lieut. R. G. McIntosh, Company 27, 164th Depot Brigade, at Camp Funston, is said by his superior officers to be the best drill officer in the second training unit, where newly drafted men spend three weeks learning the rudiments of soldiering. He is a Creek Indian and a graduate of Kemper Military School at Boonville, Mo. Lieutenant McIntosh had charge of the drilling of the Kansas City men who went to camp in February and enabled them to win high praise from Lieut. Col. M. L. Crimmins, commander of the second detention camp.

An impressive consecration service was held. at the Grand Avenue Temple, Kansas City, for 244 Red Cross nurses leaving Kansas City to join. Hospital Unit No. 28 and other units. The nurses were escorted into the temple room by Boy Scouts and took seats in front of the audience. The muster roll of nurses was read by Mrs. Amelia Seelye. Dr. Frank G. Smith made the consecration address. Dr. Morris H. Turk, in the uniform of an army chaplain, spoke a consecration prayer.

Women physicians are wanted and will be admitted to membership in the Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps, under an order made public by Dr. Franklin Martin, chairman of the general medical board of national defence. Accompanying this order was an appeal to members of the medical profession to enroll in the reserve corps for work made necessary by the war. Of the 18.138 physicians now listed 14,911 already have been called to active duty, Doctor Martin stated. The first work of the corps will be substituting for physicians called into far service and caring for the health of workers in the supply and munitions factories, many of whom are women and girls.

"It is safer to be a soldier at the front than a baby at home." With this slogan, borrowed from the bitter experiences of England in the matter of infant mortality, the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, is preparing for the first charge in the better babies

drive of the Department of Labor Children's Bureau. The welfare campaign began April 6. Kansas has been among the first states to prepare better baby legislation. A children's bill containing a plan for child hygiene work worthy of national attention, will be introduced at the next session of Kansas legislature. Some of the things in the matter of child welfare that Kansas will want to do will be the finding of homes for dependent children and the rigid state inspection of institutions receiving and harboring children. The bill also provides for public health nursing, its aim being to secure the health of school children. Blind and deaf children will come in for special consideration.

In Paris and its suburbs there are about 1,000 butchers' shops where only horse meat is sold, and their average trade is four or five horses each week. They sell nothing but horse meat, because the law forbids the sale except in special shops. But they do not hide shamefacedly up back streets. There are several within a stone's throw of the Madeleine and a half dozen within easy shopping distance of the American embassy. The Paris horse butcher is so little ashamed of his calling that he paints his shop a brilliant red and put a gilded horse's head outside as a sign. All his meat comes from a special horse slaughter house at Vaugirard, where the butchering is conducted under rigid municipal supervision. It is a mistake, according to Paris experts, to suppose that the younger the horse the better the meat. The reverse is said to be true-at least, horses 8 years old and upward are preferred, and below that age the meat is said to be tough and unflavored. The price of the best cuts of horse meat in Paris is at present from 18 cents to 50 cents a pound, having doubled since the war.

Word has been received by Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Erbacher, 3233 McGee street, of the death from bomb wounds, March 24, of their brotherin-law. Lieut. Frank V. Frazier of the medical corps, in a military hospital in France. Lieut. Frazier was one of the men who were severely gassed last November, and convalescing after several months in the hospital had just returned to duty in northern France, where he received the bomb wounds which resulted in his death. He was a native of Gallatin, Mo. He was a practicing physician in Altamont, Mo., and enlisted in a division of the medical corps under Major Binnie, last July.

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The Doctors' Library

"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."-C. C. Colton.

MILITARY OPHTHALMIC SURGERY-By Allen Greenwood, M. D. Including a chapter on Trachoma and Other Contagious Conjunctival Diseases, by George E. de Schweinitz, M. D., and a chapter upon Ocular Malingering, by Walter R. Parker, M. D. Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, 1918. (Price $1.50).

This War Manual No. 3, published under the supervision of the surgeon general, secretary of war and the Council of National Defense, is designed so that it can be carried in the vest pocket. It is no treatise on ophthalmic surgery. Dr. Greenwood brings some points up to date as a result of actual experience, wounds of the eyeball, removal of foreign bodies, keratoplasty, traumatic cateracts, wounds of the orbit and the eyelids, eye conditions that are an expression or diagnostic sign of disease or injuries elsewhere, refraction, etc., are concisely and practically considered. Every military surgeon should have some familiarity with these subjects. Dr. De Schweinitz has a masterly exposition of trachoma and operations necessitated by its ravages, splendidly illustrated. Dr. Parker closes with a short review of the examination of maligners. The authors are well known and the subject matter is designed specially for the military surgeon in the field. P. I. L.

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These volumes maintain their usual high standard. Dr. Wood has an excellent article on Military Surgery of the Eye, as well as the latest in ophthmology. Dr. Andrews brings everything new on the ear, while Dr. Shambaugh covers the nose and throat.

SURGERY AND DISEASES OF THE MOUTH AND JAWS-By Vilray Papin Blair, A. M., M. D., F. A. C. S., Professor of Oral Surgery in the Washington University Dental School, and Associate in Surgery in the Washington University Medical School. Third edition revised so as to incorporate the latest war data concerning gunshot injuries of the face and jaws. Compiled by the Section of Surgery of the Head, Subsection of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Office of the Surgeon-General of the Army, Washington, D. C. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Company, 1917. Price, $6.00.

A very complete presentation of a difficult and arduous field of surgery, one which is largely plastic. It is written by a man peculiarly fitted

for the work. This, the third volume, attests the appreciation accorded it by medical men. It has been adopted by the government teaching force as a guide and text-book upon the subject. Its advent at this time is auspicious, the need for study in face and head wounds has never in the world's history been so needed. The book covers all diseases of the mouth and jaws as well as all surgical procedures. Much of the work is plastic and for this reason numerous cuts have. been added. In fact, a work on this subject would be seriously handicapped without illustrations. While the work deals generously with war surgery, other diseases or conditions, congenital and acquired are given full consideration. The book is of equal value to dental men, since in this domain of medical practice the teeth must be a constant factor. A book so complete, so broad, so profusely illustrated should be on the shelf of every medical man who claims to have a library, if only for reference. J. M. B.

INTERNATIONAL CLINICS-A Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures, Especially Prepared Original Articles on Treatment, Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Orthopedics, Pathology, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Otology, Rhynology, Laryngology, Hygiene, Edited by H. R. M. Landis, M. D., Philadelphia, U. S. A., with prominent collaborators, Volume 1, twenty-eighth series, 1918. Philadelphia and London: J. P. Lippincott Company, 1918.

This volume 1, 298 pages, is profusely illustrated with plates and charts and a number of colored plate. It contains clinical lectures as follows: Clinic for the treatment of non-pulmonary tuberculosis, by John B. Hawes, M. D.; Gynecologic, by Dr. John Osborn Polk; Clinic of Victor D. Lespinasse, M. D.; Report of a clinic held at Presbyterian Hospital by Dr. Herman L. Kletschmer; Surgical Clinic of Dr. Frank H. Lahey, Boston City Hospital; Two lectures on injury to the cranium and brain in warfare, by Charles Green Cumston, B. S., M. D.; Articles on Medicine; Clinical Manifestations of the Various Joint Affections and Their Bearing on Diag nosis, by Phillip King Brown, M. D.; Hernia of the Lung, with report of a case of spontaneous hernia of the right lung, by Elmer H. Funk, M. D.; some pathologic conditions of the nails, including leuconychia, transverse grooving, incurved nails with club fingers and congenital ingrowing nails by F. Parkes Weber, M. A., M. D., F. R. C. P. Neurology: The criminal mind, by Louis E Bisch, A. B., M. D., Ph. D.; the therapeutic use of occupation in the treatment of the insane, by John J. H. Murphy, M. D.. In addition there are other articles on public health, on infected wounds, shell and gunshot wounds, and last but not least is a general review of medicine for 1917 by Dr. Frank A. Craig and Dr. P. J. Skillern, Jr. This volume contains much of interest and its contents are up to date.

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Capt. W. T. Elam has recovered from an attack of la grippe and has been ordered to Fort Riley for duty.

Dr. James Emmett Conn, a graduate of the State University of Iowa, and a founder of the Conn Hospital of Ida Grove, Iowa, died suddenly at his home in that town, on March 2, aged 51 years.

Dr. Alfred M. Townsend (Ensworth Medical College, 1893) of Kenoma, Missouri, died at his home after a long illness, February 24th. Dr. Townsend formerly practiced in St. Joseph and was a nephew of the late Dr. E. A. Donnelly.

Dr. Kristine Mann, director Health Clinic of Industrial Women in New York City, has been appointed head of the Women's Health Department of the service section of the ordnance of the U. S. army. She will look after the health of women employed in the arsenals and other ordinance plants.

Dr. Samuel J. Crumbine, secretary Kansas State Board of Health, has returned from a visit to New Mexico, where he was sent in the interests of the enforcement of regulations regarding venereal and other communicable diseases. A

vigorous effort is being made to establish a bureal of public health in New Mexico.

Dr. Harry J. Watson, Winnipeg, who for two years has been serving as captain in the C. A. M. C., has resigned from the Canadian service. and has been appointed major in the M. R. C., U. S. A., and will assume his new duties shortly. Major Watson formerly practiced in Ottumwa, Ia., and served in the Philippines with the United States army.

Dr. Wm. R. Summers has purchased the Johnson sanitarium at Springfield, established several years ago by the late Dr. S. A. Johnson, for the treatment of mental and nervous diseases. Dr. Summers' long experience at the Nevada State Hospital amply qualifies him for conducting the institution which has achieved a splendid reputation under Dr. Johnson's management.

City recently on his return from Washington, Major John P. Lord, Ft. Riley, was in Kansas where he presented a paper before the American Orthopedic Association. He also attended a conference of the Orthopedic Division at the office of the Surgeon General, April 4-5. Major Lord is chief instructor in the training school of the Military Orthopedic Medical Officers at Ft. Riley, Kansas.

THE DOCTOR DOING HIS BIT

It may be interesting to the readers of your journal to know my very pleasing experience while serving as a member of a soliciting committee on Liberty Bonds. We were received most cordially by every member of the medical profession we called on (a large number already commissioned in the reserve corps, awaiting call) and having had business dealings with local doctors for the last ten years, my territory was confined principally to localities of downtown physicians' offices.

It was evident in three-fourths of the cases that the subscribers of the Third Liberty Bonds were making real sacrifices, not alone putting their surplus savings into this loan to help the cause, but were eliminating various expenditures and so-called necessities in order to increase their loan to the government. Considering all this as well as the fact that over twenty per cent of our local profession is now serving either actively or in the reserves, I will say that the doctor is doing his "bit."

ALLAN J. HUGHES,
Mgr. Physicians' Supply Company.

Kansas City has at least one regular general, one who has seen some war service, too, if we may believe one half the tales told by doctors, nurses and interns. We refer to General Hospital.

News of the Month

The Pacific Medical College, Los Angeles, Cal., has been placed under the ban of the California Board of Examiners.

Rates Increased-The physicians of Ft. Dodge, Ia., have agreed to increase their rates for professional services 50 per cent.

The Alanby County (N. Y.) Medical Society has expressed its opposition to the law making the regulations more stringent concerning narcotics.

Ichthyol Again-It is reported that a high grade of ichthyol equal to the best Austrian product, has been found in the Vallepiana district of Italy.

Dismissed From Service-The war department announces that officers of the Medical Reserve Corps who were recently found guilty of gross neglect of duty at Camp Funston, have been dismissed from service.

Will Not Build Hospitals-After due considsideration, the Surgeon General of the Army has concluded to utilize large summer hotels in various parts of the country for use as army hospitals and thus conserve steel and other materials to be used in ship building.

National Conference for Social Work-An important conference is to be held in Kansas City, May 15-22 at which time will be considered social service made necessary on account of war conditions and the reconstruction work that must inevitably follow in the wake of a world's war. The speakers will include Raymond Robins of the Red Cross campaign in Russia; Earnest P. Bicknell, chief of the Red Cross work in the United States; Homer W. Folk of the Red Cross activities in France. Mrs. Florence Kelly will also take part in the conference, as well as Maud E. Minor, only woman member of the New York State Prohibition Committee. Physicians are vitally interested in all the topics to be discussed at this conference and a large number will no doubt be in attendance.

Major Joseph MacDonald, Jr., of East Orange, has been assigned by Surgeon General Gorgas as president of the Army Medical Examining Board for New Jersey. Major MacDonald succeeds Major David A. Kraker, also of East Orange, N. J., who has been assigned to Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, for instruction in administrative work. Prior to this assignment, Dr. MacDonald was adjutant of the board, the

duties of which involve the examination and selection of Jersey physicians and surgeons for assignment to the Medical Officers' Reserve Corps. He had served in that capacity since last March. Major MacDonald is well known to our readers, being managing editor of the American Journal of Surgery and secretary of the American Medical Editors' Association.

Hospitals Chosen for Reconstruction WorkSurgeon General Gorgas announces that fourteen hospitals have been chosen for beginning the work of reconstruction of disabled soldiers returned from France. The hospitals selected are the following: General Hospital No. 4, Ft. Porter, N. Y., will care for the insane; General Hospital No. 7, Roland Park, Baltimore, will care for the blind and deaf; General Hospital No. 13, Dansville, N. Y., will care for epileptics and neurotics; the Walter Reed Hospital, at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., and the Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, Cal., will make special provision for amputation work. Other hospitals chosen are General Hospital No. 2, Ft. McHenry, Mo.; General Hospital No. 3, Cononia, N. J.; General Hospital No. 6. Ft. McPherson, Ga.; General Hospital No. 9, Lake wood, N. J.; General Hospital No. 14, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga.; Army and Navy General HosMoines, Ia.; Base Hospital, Ft. Riley, Kan., and pital, Hot Springs, Ark.; Base Hospital, Des Base Hospital, Ft. Sam Houston, Tex. Individual hospitals from this group will be equipped for special work in cardivascular diseases, tuberculosis, neurological and other head surgery cases, for speech defects, general medicine, and other specialties. In making this announcement Surgeon General Gorgas rceommends the following policy in connection with the work of reconstruction and rehabilitation of disabled soldiers and sailors: "That hereafter no member of the military service disabled in line of duty, even though not expected to return to duty, will be discharged from service until he has attained complete recovery or as complete recovery as is to be expected that he will attain when the nature of his disability is considered." The best facilities for functional and mental restoration and occupational training will be provided at each of these hospitals.

"Able" and "Ible"

Recently I read an article concerning what letters of the alphabet are followed by "able." I endeavor to express briefly what one man expressed in fourteen lines.

To h-b-f-p-w-y-z
Add i-o-u-m-y-k-e;

Then all these letters you can see
Are followed by a-b-l-e.

-L. Fitzpatrick in New York World.

THE BUCHANAN COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY

(Organized April 14, 1903)

OFFICERS FOR 1918

President

First Vice-President...

Second Vice-President.

Secretary

Treasurer

Daniel Morton .L. J. Dandurant .G. R. Stevenson W. F. Goetze .J. M. Bell Reynolds, 1918

Censors-P. I. Leonard, 1918; J. B. 1919; J. I. Byrne, 1918-1919-1920. Delegates-H. S. Forgrave, 1918; J. F. Owens, 19181919.

Alternates-J. J. Bansbach, 1918; Floyd Spencer, 1918-1919.

Council-O. C. Gebhart, expires 1920.

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Public Health and Legislation-Floyd Spencer, J. F. Owens, W. C. Proud.

Program-H. S. Conrad, A. B. McGlothlan, G. R. Stevenson.

Library-C. R. Woodson, Jno. Wisser, B. W. Tadlock.

Medical Service-Daniel Morton, 1918; L. J. Dandu-
rant, 1918-1919; Wm. Minton, 1918-1919-1920.
Membership-Louis Bauman, Fred Ladd, W. W.
Gray.
Tuberculosis Horace Carle, Porter Williams,
Charles Geiger.
Laboratory-Clarence Good, Paul Forgrave, Caryl
Potter, P. I. Leonard, A. L. Gray, E. B. Kessler,
G. A. Lau.

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On motion of Dr. Minton, seconded by Dr. Conrad, the following resolution was adopted:

"Resolved, That the President appoint a man in each special line of work, these men to constitute a committee to organize the Volunteers into a staff for the purpose of rendering free service to the American Red Cross Home Service."

This action was taken in response to a letter received from William E. Spratt, secretary of the St. Joseph Chapter of American Red Cross. Thereupon the Chairman named the following members to constitute this committee.

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Motion by Dr. Spencer, seconded by Dr. Leonard, that this society endorse the following amendment to the Constitution of the Missouri State Medical Association, which is to be voted upon at the next annual meeting in May, 1918. Article 8, Section 3, to be amended as follows:

"The President, Vice-President and Councilors Shall be elected by the House of Delegates, but no Delegate shall be eligible to any office named in the preceding section, except that of Councilor, and no person shall be elected to any office who has not been a member of the association for the previous two years. The purpose of this amendment is to authorize the House of Delegates to elect members to office, even though such members may not be presnt at the session."

Striking out the following words: "who is not in attendance at that annual session. Our delegates are be so instructed."

On motion of Dr. Conrad, seconded by Dr. Leonard, the following resolution was adopted and the secretary was instructed to deliver a copy to the new elected mayor and the president of the Board of Health:

"The Buchanan County Medical Society at their meeting held April 3rd, 1918, unanimously recommend the retention of the present health officer of St. Joseph."

Telephone service for the benefit of the members attending the session of our society was placed in the hands of Dr. De Lamater.

Compensation to the janitor for extra time put in at our meeting was placed in the hands of the secretary.

The following committee were appointed by the chairman to draw up a set of resolutions on the death of Dr. Herbert Lee: Dr. P. I. Leonard, Dr. Owens, Dr. Gleaves.

The censors reported progress, but requested additional time on their report on the application of Dr. J. E. Ruhl and Dr. William Henry Bailey. Application for membership by Chris M. Sampson received its first reading and was referred to the proper committee for their investigation and report.

The remainder of the evening was taken up by an address by Major W. H. Luedde, secretary of the State Medical Defense Committee. Following this, the ceremony of reading the names of our members on the roll of honor, who have answered the call to duty:

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Regular meeting of the Buchanan County Medical Society held at the Assembly Room of the Library Building, Wednesday evening, April 17th, 1918, 41 members present. Doctor Daniel Morton in the chair.

This being a Scientific Session, no business was transacted. The program of the evening consisted of a paper. Subject, "Diabetis," by Dr. Clarence Good, discussed by Drs. Eliscu, Lau. Potter, Kessler. Discussion closed by Dr. Good.

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