and the results have been that cases of the disease have been springing up in distant towns in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and other States. The alarm has caused other towns to raise quarantine, but the lateness of the season and appearance of frost has allayed all fears of the disease spreading to any great extent.

The facts are that yellow fever hitherto has flourished only in tropical countries, and northern cities have little to fear of its ever becoming epidemic. If emigration is allowed there is likely to be a few cases brought north, but history has proven that there is but little to fear in the northern countries.

The microbian theory of the disease is now pretty well settled in the minds of bacteriologists. Prof. Sanarelli, of Montevidio, claims to have discovered the yellow fever bacillus, and the Marine Hospital Service has accepted his theory as the exciting cause of the disease. Following this will be the yellow fever antitoxin. Sanarelli has already manufactured the first antitoxin.

THE HISTORY OF A CANCER CURE.

About forty years ago there was a Mr. Mason, of Milwaukee, who had a cancer, or what was supposed to be a cancer, which was cured, or supposed to be cured, by a certain nostrum. The cure was published to the world, and went the rounds of the newspapers. The story had started on its course when Mr. Mason came to his death through the effects of the cancer that had reproduced. Notwithstanding Mr. Mason's body has been mouldering in the grave for forty years, and the newspaper that started the story has become extinct, the story takes a fresh start, credited to the defunct paper, and still goes on to the making of hundreds of victims. But it is quite as truthful, and perhaps just as valuable, as other certificates of cures performed by nostrums and presentday charlatans.

THE AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGE

Starts off with a good class. There are several counties yet to hear from. Having an eight months' session, and but six of these months' only obligatory in a four years' course, affords a little opportunity for some to enter later after the picking of cotton. We ook for the largest class this year within the history of the col

lege. The students now present are in earnest, and mean business; and a more intelligent class of men and women are not to be seen anywhere. The faculty is complete, and the hours are filled excepting only in press of practice. Let others who contemplate entering this year get in. We prefer that students take the eight months at the same price they get six months; and it is much to be desired that each student have a few weeks over their requirement, rather than being a short time deficient.

TO THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THE KING MONUMENT FUND.

The announcement of the proposed monument fund in behalf of our late friend, Professor John King, has brought many questions that, being as a rule of a similar nature, may be answered through our journals in a general way by a few sentences.

"The Right Side of the Car" will be issued in a special souvenir edition. Complimentary copies will not be distributed.

Only one edition of the author's souvenir will be printed, one copy for each subscriber.

Several subscribers have paid for more than one copy, asking if the names of friends may be enrolled on the list. Yes! Send in the names you desire and they will be recorded, one for each copy of the book.

The names of all subscribers will be inscribed in a special copy to be presented to Mrs. King.

Several subscribers ask if the list of names will be printed, and the general desire is that it should be printed. This point has not yet been determined; but it is probable that not only will the list be printed, but, if it is possible, will be published complete in the souvenir copy, and perhaps also in the eclectic journals. An examination of the method adopted where other funds have been collected for memorial tablets, shows that it is customary to print the names of contributors. It is not only courtesy, but right, to do so.

Do not delay in sending your subscription. The list will be closed about November 1st. The souvenir must be mailed in time

to reach subscribers by Christmas,

Owing to the fact that this is a trust fund it will be seen that no names can be recorded that are not accompanied by the subscription price-two dollars.

In closing, I take this opportunity to thank the many friends who have accompanied their subscriptions by a kind word in encouragement of the enterprise, which will surely be success

ful.

In behalf of the committee to be appointed to take charge of the fund and to attend to subsequent details, I am,

Sincerely yours,

JOHN URI LLOYD.

NOTES.

Be Good to Yourself." Think deliberately of the house you live in your body. Make up your mind firmly not to abuse it. Eat nothing that will hurt it. Wear nothing that distorts or pains it. Do not overload it with victuals, drink or work. Give yourself regular and abundant sleep. Keep your body warmly clad. Do not take cold; guard yourself against it. If you feel the first symptoms, give yourself heroic treatment. fine glow of heat by exercise. This is the only body you will have in this world. Study deeply and diligently the structure of it, the laws that govern it, the pains and penalty that will surely follow a violation of every law of life and health."-Ex.

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Justification.-Some editors are complaining that quotations are made without due credit, and often marked with an "Ex.," and with this due credit is lost. We trace this commission of crime to the habit that some regular journals have of cutting from what they call irregular journals, and are too mean and prejudiced to give the proper source. It is not an uncommon thing to see our own productions credited to another.

Belladonna.-The ladies used to make a wash of it for freckles; hence the name Belladonna-beautiful lady. Still later Belladonna has been discovered as a useful remedy in sterility. Professor Howe advised that young, unmarried ladies had better let Belladonna alone. Its poisonous properties got for it the name Atropia-from Atropos, who cut the thread of human life as fast as it was drawn out by Lachesis.

Important Notice.-The attention of Prof. Lloyd has been called to the fact that it is customary to publish a list of the names

of persons contributing to funds such as that now being made for the King Memorial Tablet.

He is personally inclined to the idea of publishing a list of subscribers to the souvenir edition of "The Right Side of the Car." We hope to print the list in full in our January issue as a supplement.

Electro-Therapeutic Catalogue.-Eighteenth edition from the McIntosh Battery and Optical Co., Chicago, Illinois. This company has issued a very handsome catalogue. It is more than a mere price-list. It contains valuable hints and suggestions along the line of electro-therapeutics. It contains reprints of ar

ticles on the subject of medical electricity from some of the best authors, and there is so much to enhance the value aside from the display of instruments of their own manufacture that every practitioner will find it a ready hand-book upon this subject. It is a book of 288 pages, containing a display of the finest electrical instruments made, as well as directions for using.

Carbuncles and Boils.--For six months a gentleman was very much troubled with boils so severe that they fairly assumed the character of carbuncles, of which he would have several at a time. He was put upon Echinacea Augustifolia, with the gratifying result that no more made their appearance, and existing suppurations were absorbed and dried up.-Homeopathic News.

A malpractice suit was recently brought in the State of Indiana under the following circumstances: The patient had tibial necrosis. Destruction of the bone was so extensive that the surgeon determined to transplant bone, and used the femur of a large mastiff. The patient made a good recovery, but brought suit against the surgeon for "having thus produced in her an uncontrollable impulse to lift her leg."--N. Y. Med. Times.

Fandangoes.-There is too much running after fads in our profession; too much striving after the odd and the eccentric; too much antitoxin and serum-therapy, and microbe-hunting, and Chinese-toy-shop apparatus and instruments, and not enough of that placid horse-sense which just cures folks and lets the book doctors and instrument inventors give the long-handled names.N. A. Jour. Hom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson told a good story of a friend who always carried in his pocket a horse-chestnut as a protection against rheumatism, just the same as some people wear shields, Boyd batteries, the electropoise and other trinkets. Emerson thus testifies to the results in his friend's case: "He has never had the rheumatism since he began to carry it, and indeed it appears to have had a retrospective operation, for he never had it before."— Ex.

We are informed by the Director, James Russell Parsons, of the Examination Department of the University of the State of New York, that the American Medical College graduates are placed on their registered list for matriculates prior to Jan. 1, 1898, who receive the degree of M.D. before Jan. 1, 1902.

Homœopathic Coffee is now advertised. We are desirous of knowing its strength, not that we are in danger of being personal, but would like to know what we get for our money. The advertisement says: "Been selling it for a quarter of a century, and it has been improving for a good part of that time." I suppose the more you shake it the better it gets.

Consultations.—Our physicians are isolated, and find it difficult to get aid in consultations and surgical operations; but we are determined to give all the assistance in that direction that is possible. We travel a good deal by rail for consultations, and sometimes remuneration is hardly what we would have made by staying at home; nevertheless we are desirous of giving strength to our We have a number of colleagues in St. Louis who will render such assistance when needed.

cause.

MR. EDITOR:-In St. Louis the usual professional fee for an obstetrical case is $25; but I know that some of the purely ethical take such cases for $10, visit the patient every day, and wash the baby themselves, and charge only the above amount, even where patients are able, thus cheating the profession, taking the place of the common midwife, and robbing the professional nurse. In these days of 50 cent hospitals, charges and services rendered as above, of what use is it to study medicine?

ELIZABETH SMITH, M.D.