executive ability and untiring devotion to its interests, much of its prosperity was due. We do not doubt, however, that in the hands of his successor equal ability and assiduity will be manifested in the management of its affairs.

In view of the vast amount of good in the relief of suffering, and the saving of life, that St. Joseph's is accomplishing year by year, and its non-sectarian policy-poverty and sickness being the only passport demanded at its doors - we hope that in future our citizens will contribute to its support with the open-handed liberality it so richly deserves.

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.-The twentieth annual meeting of the American Academy of Medicine will be held at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, on Saturday, May 4, and Monday, May 6, 1895.

The "Headquarters" of the Fellows of the Academy and the meetings of the Council will be at the "Stafford." The meeting will open at ten o'clock on Saturday morning with an executive session of the Fellows of the Academy exclusively; the reading of papers will begin at about eleven. The session of Saturday afternoon will open at three. The "Reunion Session" will be held on Saturday evening; tickets for the supper $2, and any member may bring friends with him by arranging for their tickets; for the past two years ladies have been present at this session and have added to the enjoyment. The Monday afternoon session will begin at three and continue until adjournment.

Many papers over well-known names are scheduled for this meeting, and any member preparing a paper is urged to send a copy or an abstract to the Secretary as soon as possible, in order that time may be given him to prepare press reports and complete program. Members of the profession and others who may be interested are cordially invited to attend the open sessions of the Academy.

THE first issue of The Independent, 130 Fulton street, New York, for March, will contain a symposium treating of the various interests of the South. We take great pleasure in calling attention to the following partial list of subjects and

writers for this number: Agriculture in the South, Hon. Patrick Walsh, United States Senator, Georgia; The Great Southern Exposition, Hon. Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior; A General Southern Outlook, Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy; Labor in the South, Senator Call of Florida; Southern Newspapers and Literature, F. H. Richardson, Editor Atlanta Journal; The Colored Man in the South, Rev. E. Lyon, D.D.; Southern Winter Resorts, George E. Walsh, New York; The Newly-Developed Cotton Industry, Edward Porritt, Connecticut; Church Life in the South, A. E. Dickinson, D.D., Editor Religious Herald, Virginia; also a series of articles on the Industrial Condition of the Various Southern States, indicating Opportunities for Financial Investment. Single copies ten cents.

LIQUOR DRINKING IN THE UNITED STATES.- A committee has been formed for the purpose of investigating the liquor question in its ethical, legislative and physiological bearings. Among its members are Cardinal Gibbons, Rabbi Gottheil, Archbishop Ireland, Bishop Andrews, Prof. Bowditch of Harvard University, Dr. J. S. Billings, Dr. Weir Mitchell, President Elliot, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. From these and other names on the list of members, it is evident that the order of talent engaged in this work is such that great results are to be expected. Physiological experiments on an extensive scale will be made, and nothing spared to make the investigation one of the most exhaustive character.

THE candidates for graduation at the approaching Commencement of the Memphis Hospital Medical College have chosen the following as class officers and committeemen:

PRESIDENT-Alfred Moore.
SECRETARY-J. L. Mitchell.

VICE-PRESIDENT-J. W. Edwards.
TREASURER-J. N. Lovell.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE-D. S. Black, Chairman; J. M. Williams, T. E. Pressley, John Tackett, T. B. Dickson.

INVITATION COMMITTEE -G. B. Stewart, Chairman; J. A. T. Page, J. S. Brooks, B. B. Jones, J. B. Love, T. P. Weaver, W. C. Shaw, J. W. Comfort, J. C. Baldwin, E. M. Ellis, W. L. Shirey.

RECEPTION COMMITTEE―J. D. Shields, Chairman; D. T. Courtney, W. L. Howard, T. A. Michie, E. P. McDowell, A. F. Stanley, S. S. Robinson, E. V. Bonnette, F. V. McKnight, E. H. Robertson, C. H. Walker.

THE "Stearns' Fellowship of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmacology" has been established in the University of Michigan by the drug manufacturing house of Frederick Stearns & Co. of Detroit, and only recently the Stearns' Art Collection, comprising hundreds of beautiful water-color reproductions of Japanese fishes by a noted Japanese artist, was given to the same university.

NECROLOGICAL.

PROFESSOR ALFRED L. LOOMIS, M.D., LL.D., NEW YORK.-On Wednesday, Jan. 23, 1895, at his home in New York, this distinguished physician succumbed to an attack of pneumonia of only three or four days' duration.

Dr. Loomis was born in Vermont in 1831. He graduated in Arts at Union College in 1850, and in Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1852, served for two years as interne in the hospitals of Ward's and Blackwell's Islands, and then commenced practice in New York. In 1859 he became attending physician to Bellevue Hospital, and in 1862 lecturer on Physical Diagnosis in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was a prolific writer, and among his contributions to the literature of the profession may be mentioned: "Lessons in Physical Diagnosis," 1872, ten editions up to 1893; "Diseases of the Respiratory Organs, Heart and Kidneys," 1875; "Peritonitis." 1875; "Lectures on Fevers," 1877; "Diseases of Old Age," 1882; "A Textbook of Practical Medicine," 1884; "Climatic Treatment of Pulmonary Phthisis," Physical Exploration of the Abdomen;""Physical Signs of Diseased Conditions of the Liver and Spleen," and "On the Use of Opium in Acute Uremia and Convulsions."

He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of New York. He was married twice. His second wife and two children by his first wife survive him. For more than thirty years Dr. Loomis served as attending physician to Bellevue Hospital, and was consulting physician to various other institutions. In 1868 he became Professor of Pathology and Practice of Medicine in the University of New York, and thenceforward devoted himself with tireless energy to

the promotion of the interests of its medical department. Through him it received in 1886, "from an unknown friend of the University," $100,000 to build and equip the Loomis Laboratory.

Dr. Loomis was not only unexcelled as a practitioner of medicine, but, unlike so many members of the profession, he was also an admirable business man, and his income was believed to be one of the largest among those of New York physicians.

A tablet will be placed in the Board Room of Bellevue Hospital as a token of respect to his memory.

PROFESSOR WILLIAM DETMOLD, one of the oldest and most distinguished surgeons in America, died of paralysis at his home in New York, on December 27, 1894.

Prof. Detmold was born in Hanover, December 27, 1808, and was the son of Henry G. Detmold, at one time court physician to the king. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Gottingen and served for a time as surgeon in the army of Hanover. In 1837 he located in New York, and introduced orthopedic surgery into the United States. In 1841 he established an orthopedic clinic at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in that city, and in 1862 was made Professor of Military Surgery and Hygiene, and later, of Clinical and Military Surgery in the same noted institution. During the writer's pupilage in that College, the clinical teaching of Prof. Detmold was an attractive feature of the curriculum.

He took a prominent part in the organization of the medical department of the Federal army in the early part of the civil war. During an active professional life of more than fifty years Dr. Detmold was a frequent and valued contributor to medical journalism, and held various positions of honor and responsibility in the profession. Among these were the vice-presidency of the New York Academy of Medicine, presidency of the New York County Medical Society, and of the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, of which he was one of the founders. He was also consulting surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital.

NEWS AND NOTICES.

After an attack of the grip the patient finds himself in a state of extreme weakness and prostration, from which condition he is tediously brought to his former good health. Remedies which stimulate his exhausted nerves too vigorously do so at the expense of his general condition. Then comes the relapse. Syr. Hypophos. Comp. McArthur conveys to the tissues the revivifying and vitalizing agent, phosphorus, in its most oxidizable and assimilable form. Thus the true vitality of the nerve structure is restored by renewing the nutrition of the tissues themselves.

***

Dr. Chauncey Stewart of Allegheny City, Pa., has used Iodia very extensively in his practice and regards it as the "ideal alterative-the sine qua non in the treatment of syphilis, scrofula, and all diseases arising from syphilitic contamination or a strumous diathesis. Iodia has this advantage over mercurial treatment in syphilis: when the patient does get well, HE He is not tortured with mercurial rheumatism nor made to blush through the syphilitic blossoming of his face in after years. HE IS WELL. Unlike the long-continued use of other alteratives, Iodia does not reduce and debilitate the constitution, but invigorates and restores the vital powers and enables the patient at all times to continue in the discharge. of his vocation.

IS WELL.

***

Three Inches in Size. I have used two bottles of Phytoline (Walker) and reduced my weight fifteen pounds, and three inches in size around the waist; breathe freely and can walk with ease, something I have not been able to do in four years. I can now walk up a flight of stairs without stopping. H. L. Hensley, M.D., Marion, Ohio.

***

Russia's Empress Gains Strength. The producers of Mariani Wine (Vin Mariani) should, according to report, soon have a splendid market in Russia for their nerve and brain tonic, as the Dowager Empress has, at the suggestion of the Princess of Wales, drunk it ever since the death of her consort, and with the most remarkable and beneficial results. It