cology, Thursday evening, January 22d, papers | marked, even after a few injections. No bad or were read on "Under what Conditions may unpleasant results have followed in the hospital Electricity be of Positive Service to the Gynæ- as yet from the injections. cologist," by A. F. Currier, M.D., and "The Treatment of Menorrhagia and Metrorrhagia by the Galvano-Caustic Action of the Positive Pole," by A. H Goelet, M.D. Jewish HospitaL.—The Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the Jewish Hospital of Philadelphia shows that during the year just ended much success has attended the efforts of the members. The report of the resident physician shows that 2294 patients were treated, 383 in the hospital and 1911 in the dispensary. Of those in the hospital, 190 were Israelites and 153 of other sects, 31 having been in the institution at the beginning of the year. CONGRESSES IN RUSSIA.-The International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archæology will meet at Moscow, on August 13th to 20th, 1892. The organization will be under M. Bogdanow, rector of the University of Moscow, and M. Kohler has said he will contribute 5000 roubles. A Congress of Zoology will also be held it will begin on August 22d. There will be a special ethnographic, anthropological, and zoological exhibition in connection with both Congresses. GOOD ADVICE.-There used to be a piece of advice given by old-time lecturers on health that in cold weather, and especially in a dusty atmosphere, people should keep their mouths shut when out of doors, and breathe through the nose. The air is better warmed in its passage to the lungs if taken thus than if taken otherwise. The particles of dust, also, are less likely to get into the lower air-passages by way of the nose than by the mouth. There was good sense in the advice of the old-time lecturers on this subject MINUTE PARASITES.—IN speaking of the minute parasites which are found in the hairy part of the tiger's foot, a scientist says: "They constitute one of the most wonderful curiosities I know of in the animal world. The parasites are so small as to be almost invisible to the naked eye, and yet each is a perfect counterpart of the tiger,-head, ears, jaws, les, claws, body, tail, -all are there. You may think this is a big story, but look the subject up and see if it is not so." THE LYMPH INJections at the MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL HOSPITAL.-Prof. H. Ernest Laplace, since. his return from Koch's laboratory and the Berlin Hospitals, has been injecting the lymph to a number of cases of tuberculosis in the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital with the most gratifying result. In an old case of lupus, the impression upon the diseased tissue has been THE Medical Society of the State of New York will hold its Eighty-fifth Annual Meeting on February 3d, 4tn, and 5th, in the City_Hall, at Albany, commencing at 9.30 A.M., Tuesday, and ending at noon, Thursday. Communications relating to the presentation and reading of papers, or to any changes in the provisional programme, should be addressed to the Business Committee before the 25th day of January,—Herman Bendell, 178 State Street, Albany; Seneca D. Powell, 12 West Fortieth Street, New York; James D. Spencer, Watertown. DR. EDWARD C. HARWOOD died in New York, January 20th, in his 52d year. He was born in Bennington, Vt., and graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1860, and later from the New York Ophthalmic Hospital. Dr. Harwood took a post-graduate course in Europe, and in 1875 was a delegate from the American Medical Association to the Brussels International Medical Congress. He was made Honorary President of that body. Dr. Harwood was associated with Prof. W. A. Hammond and Dr. E. C. Spitzka in the asylum-reform movement years ago. He was a medical author of reputation, and his latest work, "The Relation of a Physician to the Commonwealth," attracted general attention. HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN.-The West Philadel phia Hospital for Women, Thirty-fourth and Spring Garden Streets, Philadelphia, held its annual meeting last month. The report shows the number in the house at that time to be 5; treated at the dispensary, 693; house-patients, 476. The treasurer's report shows a balance on hand of $2516.75. Miss Anna Jeanes offered to donate $10,000 to the hospital in order to provide better accommodations for the patients. The following officers were elected: Dr. E. H. Comly Howell, President; Miss Pierce, VicePresident; Miss Stirling, Second Vice-President; Mrs. F. B. Foulke, Secretary. LAPLACE ON KOCH LYMPH.-Prof. H. Ernest Laplace, who recently returned from Berlin with several phials of Koch lymph, delivered, in the arena of the Medico Chirurgical Hospital, a lecture upon the subject, the middle of January, before the combined medical and dental classes, every available seat and all the standing-room in the amphitheatre being occupied. Dr. Laplace, in his modest yet eloquent manner, drew forth again and again, the enthusiastic applause of his immense audience as he graphically described the laboratory and the work of his great master. During the lecture a severe case of lupus was injected with the lymph in the presence of the class. THE COLUMBIA Cycle Calendar.—By far the most valuable business calendar for 1891 is the Columbia Cycle Calendar and Stand, issued by the Pope Manufacturing Company, of Boston, Mass. It is in the form of a pad containing 366 leaves, each leaf having on it date, day of week, day of year, and number of days to come, a paragraph pertaining to cycling or sorne kindred subject. The leaves are fastened only on the end, so that each entire leaf can be exposed. The stand is made of stained wood, brass mounted, with pencil-holder and pen-rack. Although this is the sixth year of the calendar, the matter is fresh and new, the larger number of paragraphs having been specially written for this purpose. THE REPORT OF PROFESSOR KOCH'S PHILADELPHIA STUDENT.-We print, in this issue of the BULLETIN, the admirable report of Prof. H. Ernest Laplace upon his visit to his old master in Berlin, and his investigation of the treatment of tuberculosis by Koch's lymph, after an examination of many thousands of cases in the great hospitals of Berlin. Professor Laplace gave a moderate, conservative, and thorough view of the work and the accomplishment of the great scientist-the discoverer of the germs of cholera and of tuberculosis. We would urge our readers who have simply read here and there the expression and views of those who know little or nothing of laboratory work or the subject of bacteriology to carefully examine this interesting report. MEDICAL AND DENTAL DIRECTORY.-Geo. Keil, 1715 Willington Street, Philadelphia, is arranging to publish a directory of physicians and dentists of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. He desires to announce as follows: The Medical and Dental Intelligencer will contain, in a condensed form, all the information relative to the associations, colleges, hospitals, special and general dispensaries, homes, etc. To these will be added other matters which are deemed of such interest to the profession that each physician and dentist will find it to his advantage to retain the work at hand for ready " Opium Addiction as Kelated to Renal Disease," based upon these queries: Will the habitual use of opium, in any form, produce organic renal disease? If so, what lesion is most likely? The contest is to be open for two years from December 1, 1890, to either sex, and any school or language. Association for the Cure of Inebriety, and be The prize paper is to belong to the American published in a New York medical journal, Brooklyn Medical Journal, and Journal of Inebriety. Other papers presented are to be published in some leading medical journal, as their authors may select. All papers are to be in possession of the Chairman of Award Committee on or before January I, 1893. The Committee of Award will consist of Dr. Alfred L. Loomis, President New York Academy of Medicine, Chairman; Drs. H. F. Formad, Philadelphia; Ezra H. Wilson, Brooklyn; George F. Shrady, and Jos. H. Raymond, editor Brooklyn Medical Journal. GERMAN HOSPITAL.-The report just made shows that the number of patients remaining in the hospital at the end of 1889 was 158. During 1890, 1721 were admitted, making the total 1879. Of this number 115 died, 1677 were discharged as cured or improved, and 87 remained in the hospital at the close of 1890. The difference between the numbers at the close of the years mentioned is accounted for by the removal of the marine patients, and also by the transfer of children to the Children's Hospital in the Mary J. Drexel Home. In the dispensary there were 5167 new cases reported, and 19,177 visits by patients during the past year, many of the cases being of such a nature that the patients were admitted to the hospital. The dispensary in the Children's Hospital had also a large and growing class of patients. REGULATIONS OF THE VOICE "The voice of a public speaker," said the professor of elocution, "should be in tone and keeping with his theme. The lecturer on ordinary subjects should have a well-modulated voice, which must never go beyond a narrow range. The after-dinner speaker has a larger scope, and may change The impassioned from one key to another. orator may thunder like Demosthenes, who 'fulmined over Greece and shook the arsenal.' No strict rule for the regulation of the voice can be laid down for all men or for all occasions or subjects." The professor of elocution himself has his vocal chords finely trained.. E PARVO MULTUM :* THE TRAGICAL AND LAMENTABLE FATE OF AN By KATISHA KATZENJAMMER, A little spore in a culture grew, Listen to my tale of woe! Imbedded in a mass of glue, Till a full-fledged bacillus it sprang into view. Now, day by day its ambition grew; Listen to my tale of woe! Like the witch in Macbeth, who made the stew, Listen to my tale of woe! CHORUS (at discretion). It saw its chance in a day or two; Listen to my tale of woe!. A draught of wind through the laboratory blew, And out of a window the bacillus flew. Listen to my tale of woe! In a neighboring orchard a little peach grew ; The little bacillus came there too, And Johnny Jones with his sister Sue. Listen to my tale of woe! CHORUS (at discretion). Now, they ate the peach of emerald hue, Listen to my tale of woe! And swallowed the little bacillus too, Listen to my tale of woe! Now, the doctor was called to attend them two, Listen to my tale of woe! Who took from his pocket his microscope true, And brought the bacillus into view. Listen to my tale of woe! CHORUS (at discretion). He said, "Here's the cause of this cry and hue," Listen to my tale of woe! For the comma-bacillus well he knew; And he stained it red and he stained it blue. Listen to my tale of woe! In Johnny's corpse was a peach-stone or two, Listen to my tale of woe! In Susie's abdomen a little glue; "Ah! here is infection and zymosis too, 'Tis sad to say; Boo-hoo! Boo-hoo!" Listen to my tale of woe!. CHORUS (at discretion). Now, all kind friends my advice to you, Listen to my tale of woe! Is when you are walking with a maiden true, Listen to my tale of woe! And if, like Adam, you are tempted too, Listen to my tale of woe! Remember the fate of John and Sue, And the wicked bacillus that got stained blue. CHORUS. Hard trials for them two, Johnny Jones and his sister Sue, *Chanted at the meeting of the Flint Club, of Baltimore, January 7, 1891. The President, Dr. George H. Rohé, in the chair. BOVININE.-Bovinine has always been found sweet and palatable after months of exposure during the slow consumption of a single bottle. The universal testimony of physicians and patients is that its acceptability to the mouth and stomach is a point pre-eminently favorable to this nutrient. In passing beyond this point, we are not so well furnished with comparative analytical data, except the two prominent instances last compared. But it is enough, on the one hand, that digestibility and even wholesomeness can scarcely Taken by Prof. R. R. Andrews, M.D., of Harvard College. Showing broken-down, disintegrated corpuscles, coagulum, vegetable matter, etc., of little or no value as food. be expected where there is a perceptible taint of decay. On the other hand, our observation proves, what a vast array of medical testimony proclaims, that the most delicate alimentary conditions are perfectly suited by bovinine, so that perfect assimilation and pure nourishment are practically insured, even to the full extent of its extraordinary nutritive composition. But, after all, easy digestibility, which is the highest aim of alimentary preparations in the ordinary sense, is little to say of bovinine. It possesses a character strictly unique, beyond that of digestibility, in being replete with the un changed and living blood-corpuscles of the beef. These supercede digestion itself, and enter by direct absorption into the blood, whether taken by the mouth or by enema. The value of such anutrient power as this-equivalent to transfusion of blood-is literally immeasurable, and its work often borders on the miraculous, in systems moribund with alimentary impotence and exhaustion. Ocular demonstration of the profuse corpuscular contents of bovinine is afforded by the microscope, from which the subjoined enlargement of a drop of the liquid was photographed. The second cut shows the disorganized and broken-down corpuscles, in mere splashes, they appear sparsely, if at all, in the food nearest approaching bovinine as an imitation. -The Sanitary Era. Sec. 2. The said Board shall be known by the name and style of the State Board of Medical Examiners and Licensers of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and shall have a common seal, and may make and adopt all necessary rules and regulations and by-laws not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth or of the United States, and shall have power to locate and maintain an office within this State for the transaction of business. Five members of the said Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Sec. 3. Every appointment to fill a vacancy or vacancies in said Board shall be for the unexaspired term, and the said vacancy or vacancies shall be filled by the Governor within sixty days. after notification of the same by the Board, and he shall have power to remove any member of said Board for criminal, scandalous, or dishonorable conduct. TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.An Act to regulate the Practice of Medicine and Surgery, to establish a State Board of Medical Examiners and Licensers, to define the powers and duties of such Board, the qualifications of applicants for license, the manner of licensing and making an appropriation for said Board. Whereas, The safety of the public is endangered by incompetent physicians and surgeons, and due regard for public health and the preservation of human life demands that none but competent and properly qualified physicians and surgeons shall be allowed to practice their profession; Sec. 4. The said Board shall organize at Harrisburg within three months from the date of their appointment, and shall elect from its own number a President and Secretary who shall also act as Treasurer, both of whom shall hold their offices for one year, or until their successors are chosen. Sec. 5. The members of said Board shall each receive a salary not exceeding three hundred dollars per annum, to be paid out of the fees for examination. The Secretary and Treasurer shall receive an additional salary, to be fixed by the Board, and shall file with the President of the Board a bond in the sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. The necessary expenses of the said Board shall also be paid out of the fees except as provided in Section 12 of this Act, and any balance remaining from the fees, after the disbursements herein specified, shall be paid into the treasury of the Commonwealth. Sec. 6. The said Board shall examine all appli Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that within one month after the passage of this Act the Governor shall appoint a State Board of Medical Examiners and Licensers consisting of nine members, three to serve for one year, three for two years, and three for three years in the first instance, and thereafter annually the Gover-cants for license to practice medicine or surgery nor shall appoint three members to serve for three years in place of those whose terms then expire. The said persons so appointed shall be graduates of some legally-chartered college or university having the power to confer medical degrees, citizens of the United States and of this Commonwealth who shall have been in the active practice of medicine or surgery for a period of not less than ten years, but no two of whom shall be residents of the same county and none of whom shall be members of the faculty or staff of any medical school or university. Each member of said Board shall receive a certificate of appointment from the Governor, and shall file the same within twenty days with the Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the county in which said member is registered under existing law. in this Commonwealth who are properly qualified according to the provisions of Section 7 of this Act, and no one shall be excluded or rejected on account of adherence to any special system or school of practice. It shall hold two stated meetings in each year, one at Pittsburgh and one at Philadelphia, respectively, and may hold special meetings at such times and places as it may deem proper. All examinations, when practicable, shall be conducted in writing, and all examination-papers, together with the reports and action of the Examiners thereon, shall be preserved among the records of said Board for a period of five years, during which time they shall remain open for inspection at the office of the said Board. The applicants shall be examined in anatomy, physiology, chemistry, toxicology, pathology registered in the office of the Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in said county, and any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof in the Court of Quarter Sessions of the county where the offense shall have been committed, shall pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each offense, one-half of which fine shall be paid to the prosecutor. hygiene, materia medica, and therapeutics, prin- | entitled, upon payment of one dollar, to be duly ciples and practice of medicine, surgery, and obstetrics, and each applicant, upon receiving from the Secretary of the Board an order for examination, shall draw by lot a confidential number, which he or she shall place upon his or her examination-paper, so that when said papers are passed upon by the Examiners the latter shall not know by what applicant said papers have been prepared, and upon each day of examination all candidates shall be given the same set of questions. Provided that any candidate for examination may elect the system of materia medica and therapeutics in which he or she shall be examined. Sec. 7. Any person paying twenty dollars to the Secretary of said Board, and on presenting satisfactory proof of being over twenty-one years of age, and of good moral character, and of having received a sufficient preliminary education, as defined by said Board, and a diploma from some legally-incorporated medical college or university having authority to confer degrees in medicine, shall be entitled to examination by the said Board, and in case of failure at any examination shall have the privilege of subsequent examinations without the payment of an additional fee. Each applicant who shall have passed a satisfactory examination shall receive from the said Board, under seal, a license to practice medicine and surgery in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the said Board may at its discretion grant licenses, without examination, to persons holding licenses from similarly-constituted boards of examiners or boards of health in other States. Sec. 8. The Secretary shall record, in a book to be kept for this purpose in the office of the said Board, the name, age, sex, residence, date, and place of examination, the examination number, the examination average on each branch, the general average, and date of issue of license, in case such license is granted. Said book shall be open to public inspection, and on or before the last day of December of each year the said Board shall publish, or cause to be published, a list of the names and addresses of such persons as shall have received licenses from the said Board within twelve months immediately thereto preceding. Sec. 9. After the first day of July, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninetyone, no person shall enter upon the practice of medicine or surgery in the State of Pennsylvania unless he or she has complied with the provisions of this Act, and shall have exhibited to the Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the county in which he or she desires to practice medicine or surgery a license duly granted to him or her by the said State Board of Examiners and Licensers, whereupon he or she shall be Sec. 10. Nothing in this Act shall apply to commissioned medical officers of the United States Army or Navy, or of the United States Marine-Hospital Service, nor to any member of the house or resident staff of any legally-chartered medical college or university or hospital during his term of service therein, nor physicians of other States meeting duly registered physicians in this State in consultation, nor to those practicing dentistry exclusively. And nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit the practice of medicine and surgery within this Commonwealth by any practitioner who shall have been duly registered before the first day of July, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninetyone, according to the terms of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the registration of all practitioners in medicine and surgery," approved the eighth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. Sec. 11. For the purpose of this Act, the words "practice," "medicine," or "surgery" shall mean to treat, operate on, or prescribe for any physical ailment of another. But nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit service in cases of emergency or the domestic administration of family remedies. Sec. 12. The sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to meet the necessary and legitimate expenses of the said Board for the year Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one. Sec. 13. All Acts or parts of Acts of Assembly inconsistent herewith shall be and are hereby repealed. Dear Doctor: At a meeting of the State Medical Society at Pittsburgh, in June last, a Committee on Medical Legislation, consisting of the presidents of the different county societies throughout the State, was appointed. This Committee met at Harrisburg, September 17, 1890, and, after consultation, appointed an Executive Committee of seven to draft a proper bill and present it to the meeting of the General Assembly in January next. This bill has been drawn and we inclose you a copy. As to the necessity of the passage of a law regulating the practice of medicine in this State, it is no longer necessary to argue : when we consider the fact that many of our sister |