trust it will be favorable to the establishment of this long and greatly needed charity. Before our next issue goes to press, we shall be more definitely informed, and will advise our readers.

THE students of the Memphis Hospital Medical College have organized a Young Men's Christian Association, with a membership of about seventy. The President is J. W. Johns of Fordyce, Ark.; Vice-President, C. L. Coker of Mississippi; Secretary, F. C. Smith of Memphis; Treasurer, W. C. Hankins of Alabama. The association is organized under the International Collegiate Y. M. C. A. The rules are those usual in the Y. M. C. A. The members are active and associate. The association will have quarters in the College building, and will hold religious services every Sunday at 2 P.M. It is proper to state that heretofore the Memphis Hospital Medical College enjoyed the distinction of being the only institution of the kind in this country in which such services have been regularly held. It cannot be doubted that this movement will add greatly to the comfort of the students, and be productive of much good.

SURGICAL SOCIETY OF THE MEMPHIS HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE. The students of this College have organized a society, under the foregoing title, for the discussion of topics pertaining to surgery: All matriculates are eligible to membership. Mr. G. B. Stewart was elected President, and Mr. J. D. Batson Secretary. Term of office one month.

A COMMUNICATION from the Chief of the Weather Bureau at Washington states that the Secretary of Agriculture has decided to undertake the systematic investigation of the subject of climate and its influence on health and disease and solicits the co-operation of the various boards of health, public sanitary authorities, sanitary associations and societies, and of physicians who may feel an interest in the work, in the accomplishment of the purposes of this investigation. For this assistance no compensation can be offered further than to furnish free of cost the publications of the Bureau on

climatology and its relation to health and disease to all who co-operate. This co-operation will consist in sending to the Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C., regularly and promptly, accurate and complete reports of vital statistics from the various localities. Blank forms of reports and more detailed information will be furnished by the Bureau on application.

THE Index Medicus is threatened with extinction from lack of support. It should be sustained, because, after the completion of the supplementary volume of the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon - General's Office, there will otherwise be no record of contemporary medical literature. It is published monthly by Geo. S. Davis, Detroit, Mich., at $10 a year. Every progressive physician, and certainly every medical society here and abroad, should be a subscriber.

"MUST have the MEMPHIS MEDICAL MONTHLY, though it should cost ten dollars a year." This and the like is what some of our readers say. Nor are these instances of vox et praeterea nihil, for they are always accompanied by cash.

THE interesting report on Pterygium in our last issue should have been credited to Dr. Bates instead of Balis. Writers should cross their t's.

DR. W. W. TAYLOR of this city has a small supply of Behring's diphtheria antitoxin.

NECROLOGICAL.

THE REV. FATHER FRANCIS.-On the Friday before Christmas the Rev. Father Francis, of St. Mary's Parish, while supervising preparations for the Christmas celebration at the clergy house, accidentally stepped into a vat of boiling water and was so severely scalded that ten days later he succumbed to an attack of septic meningitis consequent upon the injury.

In addition to his duties as pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church, the deceased was an enthusiastic and tireless worker in the interests of the poor. Among the various benevolent projects to which he devoted his energies, the grandest, and

the one which most endeared him to the lowly, was the establishment of St. Joseph's Hospital. To the rescue of the penniless sick whom the great and wealthy city of Memphis was and is content to consign to the wretched row of hovels which she unblushingly calls her hospital, came this humble Catholic priest, and caused to be reared and equipped for them a structure which though unpretentious, affords the comforts and the care without which the physician's skill is wellnigh powerless. For this his memory will long be cherished by the thousands who are indebted for restoration to health and hundreds for life itself to this great charity.

Resolutions expressive of their great loss and of the esteem in which he was held have been adopted by the physicians and surgeons composing the hospital staff, and by various other organizations in which he was actively interested.

NEWS AND ROTIGES.

The practitioner often comes in contact with women suffering with uterine troubles of an obscure character, accompanied by pains and aches, and a general feeling of lassitude and debility. In these cases Aletris Cordial is specially valuable. Chicago Med. Bulletin.

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The usefulness of good hypophosphites in pulmonary and strumous affections is generally agreed upon by the profession. We commend to the notice of our readers the adv. of Robinson-Pettet Co. in this issue. Robinson's Hypophosphites, also Robinson's Hypophosphites with Wild Cherry Bark (this is a new combination and will be found very valuable), are elegant and uniformly active preparations; the presence in them of quinine, strychnine, iron, etc., adding highly to their tonic value.

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In the Treatment of Nervous Diseases and General Debility, McArthur's Syrup Hypophosphites demonstrates its restorative power. Here it is not the stimulating action of the remedies usually classed as tonics that is needed. The organic powers of the system are already taxed to their utmost ability to carry on the physiological processes of life. The Hypophos

phites of lime and soda gives the much-needed effect in these conditions-not that of a stimulant by irritation, but that of a true nutriment to the starving tissues. Its tonic effects are permanent, as they are the effects of a richer blood supply, bringing healthy food and oxygen to the tissues. Thus the patient is gradually brought up to his normal condition.

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Theodore Metcalf Co., Boston, Mass.: Dear Sirs-The bottle of your Coco Wine mentioned in yours of the 3d came duly to hand and has been all used in a lady patient with threatened lung trouble and great debility with depression of spirits. She improved greatly under its use. Should she seem to demand it, I shall resume the administration of your Coco Wine, and bear it in mind for other cases. Asa Horr, M.D., Dubuque, Iowa, Dec. 5, 1894.

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Dr. Charles Day, M.R.C.S., etc., 79 St. Mark's Square, West Hackney, London, writes, on Jan. 17, 1893: I have prescribed your preparation, Iodia, with very satisfactory results. Its power of arresting discharges was very manifest in a case of leucorrhea, and another of otorrhea. In the latter case, the result of scarlet fever in early life, the discharge had existed for many years. The patient could distinctly feel the action of Iodia on the part, and the discharge gradually dried up.

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We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Firwein in this issue of the journal. No preparation can show higher claims to the confidence of the profession. The fact that it has stood the test for over a quarter of a century, is a sufficient guarantee of its value. You will find it an invaluable remedy in the catarrhal ailments incident to this season of the year.

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At this season of the year, when radical and sudden thermal changes are the rule, it becomes of vital interest to the busy practitioner to have in compact, ready form, such approved medicaments as meet the analgesic and antithermic requirements of the bulk of his patients. As pertinent we call attention to the following combination tablets: "Antikamnia and Codeine," each containing 4 gr. antikamnia and gr. codeine. "Antikamnia and Quinine," each containing 2 gr. antikam

nia and 2 gr. quinine. "Antikamnia and Salol," each containing 2 gr. antikamnia and 2 gr. salol. "Antikamnia, Quinine and Salol," each containing 2 gr. antikamnia, 2 gr. quinine, and 1 gr. salol. These together with the well-known "Antikamnia Tablets," of varied sizes, and "Antikamnia Powdered," constitute indispensable factors in the armamentarium of the physician, and are more than ordinarily indicated in present climatic conditions.

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Gaseous Dyspepsia. If your patient suffers from eructations of gas from the stomach, flatulency, heartburn or colic, give a fluid drachm of Seng, repeated every half hour until relieved; then give one or more fluid drachms before each meal until the cause is removed.

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The properietors of Tongaline and Ponca Compound have just issued a neat and convenient Physician's Pocket Diary and Daily Memorandum Book which contains much useful and valuable information for the general practitioner. It was the intention to have one in the hands of every physician in the United States by Jan. 1st, but if through an error in addressing or negligence on the part of the postoffice officials, any physician should not have received a copy, it will be mailed on application to the Mellier Drug Company, 2112 Lucas Place, St. Louis, Mo.

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Dios Chemical Co.: Gentlemen-In reply to yours of the 21st inst., will say that I gave the sample of Sennine a test as an antiseptic in a case of suppurative ulcers, and also in a case of chronic diarrhea, and am much pleased with its actions. With bad fetor of breath in long-standing cases of intestinal troubles, I think it has no equal. C. C. Harris, M.D., Morley, Mo., February 2, 1894.

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Peacock Chemical Co., St. Louis: Gentlemen-I need scarcely repeat what I have said to you personally, that my faith in the integrity of your firm and confidence in the selected purity of your valuable combination gives me full faith in their therapeutic efficacy for all conditions where bromide compounds are indicated. My personal trials of Peacock's Bromides have always given satisfaction. It is a good thing for the profession that you have undertaken to give them guaranteed purity