It is now claimed that cancer is ontagious.

Beef's blood is being used in Chicago to make buttons.

Measles is epidemic among the royal families of Europe.

The INDEX will be sent on trial for six months for fifty cents in advance.

One person in every three hundred and fifty-nine in New England is a lunatic.

One hundred and seventy female physicians are practicing in New York City. Canada, according to the Hahnemanian, has only sixty homeopathic physicians.

The new hypnotic agent, amylene hydrate, may be given in syrup of licorice.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, is to have a branch of the British Medical Association.

Burton Medical College is the name of a school recently organized in Philadelphia.

Dr. G W. Ray, of Joplin, passed the holidays in this citv, visiting numerous friends.

The Kansas City College of Pharmacy is progressing'finely. Send for an an

nouncement.

Lawson Tait has been elected professor of gynæcology in Queen's College, Birmingham.

Dr. O. Eastland, of Wichita Falls, Tex., has been appointed United States pension examiner.

Dr. Chas. E. Simmons, physician to the late Samuel J. Tilden, has presented a bill for $143,000.00.

Dr. W. W. Sanders, while temporarily insane, committed suicide at Hutchinson, Kan., not long since.

Keloid has always been regarded as an incurable affection, It is now successfully treated by electrolysis.

The continued catgut suture is now regarded as the best to use in primary operation for lacerated perineum.

The public schools of Jefferson City, this state, were closed last month on account of the prevalence of diphtheria.

Pasteur has been made a baron by the Emperor of Austria at the instance of the nymphomaniacal Princess von Metternich.

An authority says that 15,000 children are killed annually by the use of soothing syrups and other similar prepara tions.

Dr. F. F. Dickman, of Ft. Scott, the founder of the INDEX, has been very dangerously ill, but happily is now convalescent.

According to the exchanges all the quacks that are now being driven from eastern states are flocking to Missouri and especially to Kansas City.

The Washington Post hints that there was a great deal of Chicago modesty unrepresented in the International Medical Congress.

The Sanitary News reports cases of leprosy as coming to the notice of the authorities at Savannah, and in a small town in Kansas.

Salicylic acid dusted on a chancroid, previously cleaned, five days, followed by boracic acid ointment is the latest treatment.

Bleeding at the nose, however severe, may be nearly always checked or arrested by immersing the feet and legs in very hot water.

Of the sixty foreign delegates to the International Congress, fourteen were French, seven German, four Italian and two Austrian.

Prof. Shoemaker says that a solution of equal parts of alum and borax will give almost instant relief in many cases of pruritus vulvæ.

Although the late Prof. Moses Gunn was one of the most prominent surgeons in the West, his fortune will not amount to more than $50,000, a sum he ought to have realized from two years' work.

A letter from Dr. J. T. Miller, formery of Sedgwick and Topeka, Kansas, announces a return of health since his location in Cambridge, O.

Dr. M. Allen Starr succeeds Dr. C. Seguin as professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr J. M. Dunlap, of High Point, Missouri, says he has taken the St. Louis Medical and Su gical Journal for thirtyfive years. And he still lives!

Dr. John Boice has removed from Detroit, Mich., to Denver, Colorado, where he becomes professor of surgery in the Gross Medical College.

The Medical Recor, of New York, is surprised that the homeopaths of that city are perscribing antipyrin in fifteen grain doses. Why shouldn't they?

The issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association for December 31, 1887, contained a list of all the permanent members of the association.

Albert B. String, A. M., M. D., for twelve years Demonstrator of Anatomy at Rush Medical College, has resigned from the faculty of that institution.

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Antipyrin and anti ebrin are mended by Dr. W. Cheatham for hay fe ver. They may be given in fifteen grain doses daily for months without harm.

Virginia can make the proud boast that she has a state medical society of seven hundred members, this being one half of the practicing physicians of the state.

The regents of the University of Michgan have adopted an optional fourth year in the medical department, to consist of clinical instruction at Detroit.

An insane man, against whom he had given testimony before the jury de lunatico inquirendo recently attacked and nearly killed Dr. Charles Gardiner, of Emporia, Kan.

Dr. Palmer, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, is of the opinion that many children of soldiers of the rebellion become insane. Quite true; many soldiers had syphilis and the inherited form of that disease is no mean predisposing cause of mental troubles.

Dr. H. Humfreeville, of Waterville, Kansas, for four years Medical Director" of the Grand Lodge A. O. U. W., gave the INDEX a brief call the first of the month.

The number of the blind in the United States increased one hundred and forty per cent. during the decade ending 1880, though the population increased only thirty per cent.

The percentage of recoveries in intubation (as shown by Prof. Waxham in a report of 107 cases) is 26.54; the chance of recovery increases in proportion to the patient's age.

One dram of acetanilide-antifebrinmay be dissolved in four and a half ounces of brandy and then one and a half ounces of syrup may be added; dose about a teaspoonful.

One ounce of the syrup of raspberry and three ounces of water from the best vehicle for the admin stration of a dram and a half of antipyrin, the dose being about a teaspoonful.

There are six doctors and two druggists among the three hundred and twentyfive members of the national house of representatives. There are two hundred and sixteen lawyers.

To give cod liver oil to infants add it to a little milk in a teaspoon and dust a little white sugar over the surface. Children very soon like the oil and will take it without any trouble.

A Chinese girl, named Kin Yamel, recently graduated at the head of her class in the Woman's Medical College of New York. She can converse and write correctly in five languages.

"John W. Niles, M. D., of Kansas City, Mo.," has an article in the Medical Wait a new journal published at Lafayette, Ind., by Dr. S. T. Yount. Now who is John W. Niles, M. D.?

Dr. A. H. McCord, Texas Medical Journal. reports a case of puerperal convulsions cured by the hypodermic injection of twelve drops of tincture of veratrum viride, repeated in forty minutes. After the second dose chloral and tincture of digitalis were given every two hours until six doses were taken.

Antipyrin is a patent article. Every package bears the legend: "Patented Oct. 28, 1884." Yet everybody uses it. Where is the irrepressible resoluter of the American Medical Association ?

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The Maryland Medical Journal calls the Western Pennsylvania Medical College an old and well-established medical school." Quite ancient, Bro. Ashby; organized in 1885, was it not?

Dr. Leonard St. John, a professor in the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons has been indicted by the Grand Jury for complicity in the escape of the ex-warden of Cook County Hospital.

Recent reports go to show that acetanlide, or antifebrin, is of no value in the treatment of epilepsy for which it was so highly recommended. In one case in this city it was of no benefit.

Dr. J. M. Baldy, of Philadelphia, claims to obtain the best of results by following Tait's rule, treat peritonitis after laparotomy by saline cathartics early administered and never give opium.

Professor Fritsch has extirpated the carcinomatous uterus sixty times with ten per cent. of deaths; twenty patients had gone from six months to seven years without recurrence.-Buffalo Medical Journal.

The INDEX has been carrying a number of dead beats" upon its list for a series of years, These are being ferreted out and will be promptly dropped. The INDEX is being run for cash and not for fame.

A pleasant call during the holidays, from D. J. E. Jewell, of Moran, Kan., and his son Walter, is acknowledged. The proverbial "latch string" of the editorial sanctum always hangs outside to all such.

Twins, one white and one black, were born some weeks ago at the Summit County (Ohio) Infirmary. If there had only been a yellow one also how appropriate the names Shem, Ham and Japheth; and in the eternal fitness of things there would have been, probably, only for the reason that the Mongolian casts no vote in Ohio on the presidential election.

A. B. Palmer, M. D., L L. D., Dean of the department of Medicine and Surgery, and Professor of Pathology and Practice of Medicine in the University of Michigan, died December 23, 1887, at the age of 72.

During the September quarter, among the deaths registered in Ireland were eleven centenarians. Of these latter four were at 100, two at 102, one at 103, two at 105, one each at 108 and 109 years respectively.

Prof. E. H. Gregory, of St. Louis. in a paper before the International Congress, advises in all cases of convulsions before labor to produce anæsthesia, clear out the rectum and bowels and deliver at the earliest moment.

Dujardin Beaumetz affirms that anti pyrin is the absolute peer of salicylic acid in the treatment of inflammatory rheumatism and is to be preferred because it does not possess the disadvantages of the latter.

Dr. H. I. Fuller, of Hartford, Kansas, in an article lately published, claims that it is beneath the dignity of any physician to sit down with a new-born infant on his lap and sort out and fit the baby clothes!

Dr. W. S. Lindsay, of Topeka, recently gave the INDEX a brief call; he has just returned from New York where he has been attending lectures at the Post Graduate Schools, and will enter with renewed vigor his practice in the Capital City.

Prof. Bartholow says gelsemium will often do more good in irritable bladder than any other remedy. It is especially adapted to those women of hysterical type troubled by iritability at the neck of the bladder calling for constant urination.

Prof. Nicholas Senn, of Milwaukee, describes a new method of making absolute bloodless operations about the head and neck. He makes a median incision over the trachea and isolates it; then by means of an Esmarch elastic tourniquet. he constricts all the rest of the cervical blood vessels. All vessels except the vertebral are thus controlled, and this suffices for the nutrition of the brain.

The California Homeopath says ignatia is the remedy for grief when it is not of long duration : the chronic or lasting effects of grief call for phosphoric acid " Probably our Hahnemanian friend would recommend damiana as a cure for love?

Hebra's diachylon ointment, consisting of equal parts of emplastrum plumbi and olive oil, is the most useful all-round application we possess in the treatment of skin diseases. Additions can be made to it, to suit the requirements of any particular case.

The meetings of the Kansas City Medical Society have been discontinued owing to a want of attendance, all the interest of the profession seeming to center in the county society. The real, fundamental trouble probably is the want o! young, enthusiastic members.

Prof. Atkinson claims that for sore throat chlorate of sodium is preferable to chlorate of potassium, for the following reasons: It dissolves more easily, it acts more quickly, it is more easily thrown off the system, and it does not affect the kidneys

The Mississippi Valley Medical Monthly says that by imperial decree cremation has been made compulsory in Brazil in cases of death from yellow fever. The cost of the crematorium and all other expenses connected with the cremation are to be paid by the community.

Prof. J. Solis Cohen says that antifebrin is more apt to produce collapse than is antipyrine, and urges that not more than three grain doses be given until the effect is carefully noted, the patient being seen in an hour or two after the administration of the first dose.

November 1, Dr. J. P. Lewis, of Topeka, started for New York where he will pass a few months in attendance at the post graduate school, thence he will go to London, Bermingham, Paris, Berlin and Vienna for a year's study preparatory to doing consultation work in surgery and operative gynecology. Dr. Lewis is one of the most progressive men in the West and this act on his part will place him among the leading men of the state of Kansas.

It is claimed that one part of potassium permanganate to five hundred of water will relieve tooth-ache. A little of the solution is to be held in the mouth in contact with the aching tooth for a few minutes; the application may be repeated in half an hour if necessary.

A Belgian oculist, Ignace Peczeli, claims that he can diagnosticate all diseases and determine their etiology by examining the eyes. Which reminds the Buffalo Medical Journal of the American specialist who always examined the heart through the vaginal speculum.

Dr. W. L. Anshutz of Jackson port,, Arkansas, writes to the INDEX: "You may tell your subscribers that leucorrhoea during pregnancy can be happily relieved by the internal administration of the hypophosphites of lime and sodaalmost any of the compound syrups will

do."

Dr. J. B. Grubb, formerly of Terre Haute, Indiana, but for three years a resident of Del Norte. Col., writes to the INDEX that during this time he has seen thirteen cases of pulmonary consump tion (in the first stages) cured by the climate and altitude alone. Del Norte is 7,750 feet above the sea level.

The wife of Dr. James R. Wilcox, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a lady having a number of friends in Kansas City, die November 12, after a long and trying illness, the cause of death being typhoid fever. The doctor has our profoundest sympathy in his bereavement.

Have you ever seen a case of skin eruption undoubtedly due to eating buckwheat? If you have, report it to the INDEX. The popular belief is that the consumption of buckwheat for any considerable time will cause affections of the skin to appear, but dermatologists do not enumera'e this among causes. Report your cases.