Health From Books. Recently a Chicago book store celebrated "Health Book Week.' One day was "tuberculesis book day"; one was 66 dietic book day", and so on till Saturday, which was "general health book day." The Kansas State Legislature Hits at the "Closed Shop" Hospital. A bill has been introduced in both houses of the legislature which if passed will prevent the exclusion of any "reputable" licensed physician in the state of Kansas from any hospital in the state. The bill (House Bill No. 137)' reads as follows: An Act to prevent discrimination in the use af hospitals supported in whole or in part, by public subscription, donations and legacies, and providing a remedy for the violation of the same. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, officer, firm, corporation, board of trustees or directors, or any medical board or staff, connected with or acting for a hospital in this state, supported in whole, or in part by public subscriptions, donations, or legacies, to deny the use of said hospital to any reputable licensed physician or surgeon, or his patients, or in any way to discriminate against said physicians or patients, except under the quarantine laws of the state of Kansas. 6500 Active Cases of Measles Ohio.-Dr. Frank Bondreau, Chief of the Division of Communicable Diseases of the State Department of Health, of Ohio, reports: "Measles keeping up a high batting average in Ohio." His figures of 6500 for the month of May, certainly would indicate the "popularity" of the disease. Sec. 2. Any person, firm or corporation and the individual members of any board of trustees or directors, or the individual members of any medical staff, who shall violate Section 1 of this act shall be liable to the party injured, to an amount three times the sum he may be injured to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction, together with a Dr. Taylor Head of Illinois Doctors. reasonable attorney's fee which shall be -Dr. L. C. Taylor, of Springfield, was taxed as a part of the costs, and the phy- the unanimous choice for President of sician and surgeon so refused or dis- the delegates attending the last State criminated against shall be entitled to Medical Meeting held at Decatur, Ill. Dr. Crittenden at Conference in Washington. State Public Health Commissioner, C. B. Crittenden is back in Nashville, Tenn., from Washington where he attended the conference of state health officers which was called there by the U. S. Public Health Service. Dr. Robinson Head of Missouri State Medical Association.-Dr. C. W. Robinson, of Kansas City, was the unanimous choice for president of the Missouri State Medical Society at its last meeting held at Joplin, Mo. Dr. Robinson is a successful nerve specialist and owns and operates a private sanitarium in Kansas City. Nineteen physicians came from his own town to aid in his election. A def Cancer Research Endowed. finite outcome of the discussion of cancer at the recent meeting of the Medical Section of the American Life Convention at Chattanooga, has developed in Minneapolis where Mrs. George Chase Christian has made a gift of $250,000 to the University of Minnesota "to build 2 cancer research and treatment institute as a part of the University hospital." This gift to the University of Minnesota is regarded as a precedent which insurance companies might well follow in their home cities and within the immediate sphere of their influence. Minnesotan Heads Health Body.Dr. A. J. Chesley, executive secretary of the Minnesota State Board of Health, at a recent meeting of the State and Provincial Health Officers, held in Washington, was elected president of that association. Dr. Brandt New Leader of State Women Doctors.-Dr. Emily Brandt of Omaha, Neb., was recently elected President of the State Society of Medical Women. TO PHYSIOLOGICAL TEST FTER every practicable A chemical test has shown Mercurosal,* the new antisyphilitic mercury compound, to be satisfactory, this product is subjected to a test for toxicity on rabbits of standard weight, these animals having been found to yield more definite data than others. Mercurosal in solution is introduced into the marginal vein of the rabbit's ear at a carefully controlled rate-very slowly depending on the size of the animal. The optimum rate of injection has been determined by numerous experiments, and is an important item in the test. Our investigators will not P pass any batch of Mercurosal that will prove fatal to a 2- to 4-kilo rabbit in a dose of less than 40 to 80 milligrams. The standard is a minimum of 20 to 30 milligrams per kilo. The margin of safety is impressive. Calculated on the basis of weight alone a toxic dose of Mercurosal for a man weighing 65 kilos (150 lbs.) would be 1.3 gms. or 13 times the recommended intravenous dose. By means of the chemical tests we determine the purity of Mercurosal, and from that might be judged its relative freedom from toxicity; nevertheless the physiologic toxicity test is invariably performed as an added precaution. *Disodiumhydroxymercurisalicyloxyacetate. Contains about 43.5% of mercury in organic combination. Relatively non-toxic and non-irritating. Adapted for intravenous and intramuscular administration in the treatment of syphilis. PARKE, DAVIS & COMPANY |