The incorporation known as the California Health Resort Company is building a sanatorium in Strawberry Valley, Riverside county, California, for the care of invalids, particularly of tuberculous patients. They have acquired something over a thousand acres of land in Strawberry Valley, stretching from side to side, and being bcunded on both sides by large government reservations. The altitude is somewhat over 5000 feet above sea level, and the valley is sparsely covered with timber, many of the trees being large-pine, cedar and oak predominating. There is an abundance of running water. There are numerous springs of pure water and several mountain streams that never run dry. Strawberry Valley is situated at the edge of the great Colorado desert, about sixty miles east of Los Angeles. The air is dry and it is never unpleasantly hot in summer, while in winter the temperature a few mornings reaches below freezing point, and has been known to touch 18 deg. F.

The sanatorium now being built, to be ready for occupancy by April 10th, 1901, consists of a central building containing fifty-one rooms, a power

house to furnish steam heat, electricity for lighting, and some cottages containing five rooms each and others containing three rooms each, all to be connected in one system of heating, lighting and sewerage. The buildings will contain all modern improvements and be equipped with every device for making the place thoroughly wholesome, such as a sanatorium ought to be.

There will be a few cottages and tents to rent near the sanatorium, the company furnish light, water and sewer connections, for those who desire to keep house.

There will be a resident physician and a corps of trained nurses and the institution will be managed much as similar institutions in Massachusetts and in Europe are now conducted. In such sanatoria e custom is to give the patients very little drug treatment, but to rely mostly on perfect regimen, hygienic management and climatic conditions. Physicians sending patients to the Idylwild Sanatorium may be sure that, so far as is possible, their directions will be scrupulously carried out.

A general store and livery stable, a golf course, lawn tennis courts, bowling alley and a shooting gallery will be provided for the patronage of all. Guides, burros, horses, tents and cooks will be furnished for camping parties.

Idylwild Sanatorium is reached by train over the Santa Fe Railroad to San Jacinto, thence by stage ten miles over a level country to the foot of a mountain, and ten miles up a mountain road of easy grade to Strawberry Val

ley. Stages will meet every train at San Jacinto. It is the intention of the company to provide one or more automobiles for the accommodation of passengers and whereby the journey may be made in a shorter time than by the regular coaches.

The price of board at the sanatorium will range from $15 to $50 per week, depending on the rooms occupied and the nursing attention required. The average case with fair prospect of recovery can be made entirely comfortable, even sumptuously entertained, at $15 per week.

The management does not desire and will not receive hopeless cases of consumption, but invites the profession to send such cases as, with sanatorium management, have a fair propect of recovering. No pains will be spared to make the patients comfortable and give them every possible chance for recovery.

At present, all communications should be addressed to the office of the California Health Resort Company, 1414 S. Hope street, Los Angeles, Cal. NORMAN BRIDGE.

were interesting discussions on all these topics. Dr. McIntyre was elected president; Dr. Martin, vice-president; Dr. Palmer, secretary and treasurer. The society then enjoyed an elegant banquet and the annual meeting was pronounced a great success.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION.

The first meeting of the year held at the Medical College amphitheater, on January 4, 1901, was an open one. The meeting was called to order by the President, Dr. Geo. L. Cole. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.

The reports of the Secretary and Treasurer were read. The former was approved, except the financial portion, which, with the Treasurer's report, was on motion submitted to the auditing committee.

The Vice-President, Dr. J. H. Utley, then took the chair, while the President read his annual address, entitled, "The Reciprocal Relations of the Medical Profession to the Public." On motion it was placed on file.

Dr. Philip Mills Jones, of San Francisco, then gave an address on "Aboriginal Medicine," exhibiting some interesting specimens of the African medicine man's implements.

Dr. H. Bert Ellis, the new President, took the chair, thanked the society in a few well-chosen words, and said, among other things, that he felt sure the society would co-operate with him in keeping up a high standard.

The following auditing committee was appointed: Drs. Fleming, chairman; Utley and J. M. King.

TRIBUTE TO A. A. GLASSCOCK

The death of a physician who worked in the interest of suffering humanity under the impression that it was a duty; who was free from the taint of commercialism, and who felt that there was a more substantial recompense for his life-sacrificing work than that of filthy lucre; who, in his relationship with the sick, obeyed the laws of his God; and who, in his intercourse with his professional brethren, complied with the exactions of the present much-neglected code of ethics, should receive more than a passing notice. Dr. A. A. Glasscock was born and raised in Missouri, where, at the age of eighteen, he found himself in charge of his father's plantation and a numerous colony of slaves to work it. It is characteristic of his noble, kindly nature that even at that early age he was noted for the careful attention which he gave his black charges, as well as the animals on the place, when sick or injured. Four years later, he entered the Missouri Medical College. At the close of the first term he entered the Confederate army, serving in it until the close of the war, participating in nearly all of the battles of the west, acting, at first, in the capacity

of a private cavalryman, and subsequently as an assistant surgeon. He made many narrow escapes, and on one occasion had a horse killed beneath him. Resuming his studies, he graduated at his chosen college in 1868. After practicing successfully in his native State until 1875, he removed to Humboldt county, California. During his eleven years' residence there, he led the hazardous life of a western country practitioner, traveling, mainly on horseback, over mountain trails, sixty, seventy, and even one hundred miles a day. It was a customary thing for him to be compelled in midwinter to swim the swollen Eel River, naked, or horseback, his clothing carried in a bundle on his head. His location lacking the advantages which he thought his rapidly-growing children demanded, he removed to Lompoc in 1891, and five years subsequently he located in Ventura. On April 15, 1900, he submitted to a radical operation for the removal of an epithelioma of the tongue, one-half of the organ being removed, after ligation of the lingual and facial arteries. The benefit derived from the operation was of short duration, and after enduring agony with the same stoicism and heroism that characterized the last days of the similarly afflicted great commander of the hosts with whom he had contended on many a battlefield, he succumbed to the disease on December 11th.

Dr. Glasscock belonged to that type of Western country physician that is fast passing away, and for whom, as yet, no American Ian MacLaren has appeared to commemorate their deeds.

Remote from medical centers and surgical supplies, he necessarily, dependent on his own resources, became confident, self-reliant and competent. To that experience which is only obtained at the bedside, he added the knowledge secured by hard study and postgraduate courses. Actuated by other motives than those of a mercenary character, he stood ever ready to respond to suffering humanity's call. To him, no journey was too long, no mountain too high, no river too wide, no weather too bad, when duty called. Class distinction to him was unknown. To him Dives and Lazarus were the

same.

"And well he knew to understand The poor man's cry as God's command."

His natural inclination was to the poor. Without wealth, he was a patron; without ostentation, he wielded a. influence which was beneficial, refining, and far-reaching.

The Hon. Thos. F. Bayard, in an address to a medical class, thus referred to such a physician as was Dr. Glasscock: "It has been my personal fortune to know such a man. It has been my privilege and delight to accompany him in visits where his chief medicines were the personal presence and conversation of the man himself. He had shared and lessened their anxieties, counseled the wayward, had led the sick back to health, cheered the weak-hearted; had rejoiced with them that did rejoice and wept with them that wept. And I have seen such a man so surrounded by an atmosphere of love and trust, holding, as it were,

the heart-strings of a family in his hands, their guide, philosopher, and friend; and then I realized what a moral force in society the profession, properly comprehended and properly followed, was capable of exerting, and how relatively small, as part of its usefulness, was the administration of medicines."

This tribute to Dr. Glasscock comes from one who shared with him many a midnight vigil, many a tiresome journey, and many a conflict with death in the sick room; comes from one who loved and who misses him; one whose hope is that he may emulate such a life as his; one who, knowing the man thoroughly, feels well assured that he has earned and received the blessing of the Great Physician who said: "I was sick and ye visited me."

CEPHAS L. BARD.

John Ashhurst, Jr., M. D., Philadelphia. One of the foremost teachers and practitioners of surgery was the late Dr. Ashhurst. He took his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1860, and subsequently became a prominent member of the teaching corps in that university's medical department. Dr. Ashhurst served with distinction in the medical corps of the army during the civil war, and he turned his military experience to good account in his writings. He was well known as the editor of a six-volume work on surgery, a monument to his industry and learning.