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Surgeon, to be Surgeon with the rank of Major, November, 15, 1895.

Retirement.

Lieut. Col. John R. Gibson, Deputy Surgeon General November 15, 1895.

Thomas Jellis Kirkpatrick Jr., and John Hamilton Stone, appointed Assistant Surgeon with the rank of First Lieutenant to rank as such from November 1895, and ordered to report to the president of the Army Medical School for instruction.

The leave of absence granted Capt. Eugene L. Swift, Assistant Surgeon, is extended one month, and he is authorized to go beyond sea.

The leave of absence granted Maj. Joseph K. Corson, Surgeon, is extended twenty days on Surgeon certificate of disability.

NECROLOGY.

SOME RECENT DEATHS AMONG THE PHYSICIAS.

Franklin Townsend, Jr., M.D., at Albany, N. Y., October 31.

Thomas F. Young, M. D., at Brooklyn, N. Y., October 26.

H. W. Rand, M.D., at Brooklyn, N. Y.

Richard B. Fruit, M.D., at Hazleton, Pa., November 10.

Joseph W. Brockbank, M.D., at Philadelphia, Pa., November 7.

George F. Jackson, M.D., at New York, October 7.

Dwight Morgan Lee, M. D., at Oxford, N. Y., October 5.

Charles Bartow, M, D., at Astoria, L. I., October 26.

Ross O. Sidney, M.D., at Brooklyn, N. Y., October 31.

John Lloyd Zabriske, M.D., at Brooklyn, N. Y., November 11.

Robert Battey, M. D., at Rome, Ga., November 8.

Joseph C. Gilbert, M.D., at Philadelphia, October 26.

Joseph D. Schoales, M.D., at Philadelphia, October 24.

Basil Norris, M.D., U. S. A., at San Francisco, November 11.

Richard Lennox, M.D., at Brooklyn, N. Y., November 14.

John A. Thurber, M.D., at New Orleans, November 9.

Benjamin F. D. Adams, M.D., M. M. S. S., at Colorado Springs, Col., October 28.

Dyer Ball Nelson Fish, M.D., M. M. S. S,, at Amherst, October 28.

Dr. Hiram Woods has been elected to the Chair of Diseases of the Eye and Ear in the University of Maryland to succeed Dr. J. J. Chisolm.

Pediatrics is the name of a new journal to be devoted to diseases of children which will soon appear under the editorship of Dr. George A. Carpenter, of London. It is owned by Dr. Dillon Brown, and will be published semi-monthly.

The city of New York has appropriated $5,000 a year for the support of the Pasteur Institute, in that city, conducted by Dr. Paul Gibier.

The State Board of Charities of Massachusetts has announced that the Craig Colony for Epileptics will soon be ready to receive a limited number of public patients, to be apportioned from the various counties of the State. This method of caring for this unfortunate class is probably the most successful, humane and economical, and it is to be hoped that the authorities of this State will study

the system as there carried out, and be influenced to establish a colony in this State. The original outlay need not be great, and the running expenses could be reduced to a minimum by the work of the patients, if under the control of a competent per

son.

Bellevue Hospital is to have a new system of baths-Turkish, Russian and medicated-to cost $10,000.

During the months of July, August, September and October, the physicians of Raleigh, N. C., wrote 981 charity prescriptions, for which the city had to pay $369.42, an average of about 363 cents each. The city of Wilmington with 7,000 or 8,000 more population, pays 10 cents each for prescriptions, and the monthly cost is only about $25. A change in Raleigh's system is evidently in order.

Dr. J. T. J. Battle, of Wadesboro, N. C., writes: Recently I have noticed that some of the Insurance Companies are sending out circulars to their physicians, stating that hereafter the fee for examination of applicants will be $3.00 instead of $5.00, the former fee. These companies have their work done very carefully and thoroughly as they should do, and it is well worth the $5 charged. For one I never expect to charge them less and the object in writing this is to urge the profession to be united and hold out for the original fee.

See editorial in this issue.

At the last meeting of the Tri-State Medical Society (of Iowa, Illinois and Missouri) the following officers were

elected: President: Dr. Robt. H. Babcock, Chicago. First Vice-President: Dr. A. H. Cordier, Kansas City. Second Vice-President: Dr. W. A. Todd, Chariton, Ia. Treasurer: Dr. C. S. Chase, Waterloo, Ia. Secretary: Dr. G. W. Cale, St. Louis.

The next meeting will be held in Chicago the first Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, in April, 1896.

QUEER EXPERIENCES BY DOCTORS. -A doctor of Brenham, Tex., was

recently horsewhipped by a young lady because he was so unpleasant.A doctor living in Amsterdam, Mo., has been threatened with tar and feathers if he doesn't leave the town. This just at the beginning of the cold season. Two doctors of Paris, Tex., had a fight, characterized by the local press as "bitter." One used a knife; but the other a fence rail. To the latter we should say, "Ne sutor ultra crepidam."-A doctor in Petrona, Ind., was shot by one of his patients, because he, the doctor, would—or would not-(the account is vague) give the patient a hypodermic injection. The gun is sometimes mightier than the South-African hypodermic. The

press advertises that there is a good opening for "a sober, steady, and

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This news is likely to cause a flutter among the younger members of the Academy of Medicine.-Medical Record.

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