Society and Association Proceedings. ACADEMY OF MEDICINE. Regular Meeting, Monday Evening, September 15, 1902, Board of Trade Building (Second Floor), at 8 o'clock. DR. J. C. LAWRENCE, President. DR. J. L. GORDON, Secretary. Dr. S. J. Goodman gave a clinical report of a number of cases of hay fever. Discussion was participated in by Drs.. Davis, Carter, Warner and Loving. "Some Personal Experiences as a Volunteer Medical Officer during the War with Spain" was the subject of an address byDr. H. M. W. Moore. Regular Meeting, October 6, 1902. Dr. J. F. Baldwin reported (1) a case of gunshot perforation of the stomach of an insane patient at State Hospital (would-besuicide), and (2) an operation for the removal of a traumatic cyst of the pancreas. Dr. Frank Warner presented a paper on PREVENTIVE TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS. This paper was discussed by Drs. Loving, Coleman, Rankin and Baldwin. Dr. G. W. Mosby was elected to membership in the Academy. Dr. Dickson L. Moore, Chairman of the Committee on Revision of the Constitution and By-Laws, recommended that action on the matter be deferred until the American Medical Association submit a proposed model constitution now in preparation. The recommendation was adopted. FRANKLIN COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY. Regular Meeting, September 9, 1902, Board of Trade Building (Second Floor), at 8 o'clock. D. N. KINSMAN, M. D., President. C. S. MEANS, M. D., Sec'y. SYMPOSIUM ON FRACTURES OF UPPER EXTREMITY. Fractures of Clavicle... Fractures of Humerous (next issue).. Fractures of Elbow Joint. Fractures of Shaft of Radius and Ulna. .Dr. W. L. Dick .Dr. Sherman Leach Dr. E. A. Hamilton ..Dr. E. M. Hatton .Dr. W. J. Means Discussion by Drs. Leach, W. J. Means, Davidson, Hatton, Dick, Waters. Regular Meeting, September 23, 1902. D. N. KINSMAN, M. D., President. C. S. MEANS, M. D., Sec'y. SYMPOSIUM ON PLEURISY. Anatomy of the Pleura (next issue). . Dr. Charles W. McGavran Causation and Symptomatology (later issue)....Dr. R. A. Kidd Treatment (later issue).... Dr. J. F. Jones .Dr. C. A. Howell DISCUSSION. Discussion was by Drs. Kinsman, W. J. Means, Fraker, Howell, and McGavran. Regular Meeting, October 7, 1902. Dr. Theodore H. Davidson read a paper on HICCOUGH. This paper was discussed by Drs. Kinsman, Fraker, and Howell. LARYNGISMUS STRIDULUS was the title of a paper by Dr. E. T. Kuhn. Discussion by Drs. Kinsman, Howell, and Stage. Memorial resolutions were passed on the death of Edwin Frazer Wilson, A. M., M. D., and ordered spread upon the min utes. THE COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL. A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. ISSUED BY THE COLUMBUS MEDICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY EDITORS. JAMES U. BARNHILL, A. M., M. D., Ph. D., 248 E. State Street. Per annum, in advance, subscription price, including postage .12 cents. Bound volumes.. $1 00 1 50 Original articles, scientific and clinical memoranda, correspondence and news items are cordially solicited from the profession. Communications relating tot he editorial department should be addressed to Dr. J. U. Barahill 248 East, tate treet; those relating to the business management should be addressed to Dr. W. J Means, 715 North High Street. OCTOBER, 1902. Editorial. RUDOLF VIRCHOW. Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, the world renowned pathologist, died September 5, near the completion of his 81st year. In his death "the science of medicine loses its highest exponent," philanthropy, one of its generous patrons; Germany, a beloved statesman, and the world a great leader and teacher :-physician, pathologist, statesman, philanthropist, historian, philologist, sociologist, politician. He was born October 13, 1821, at the Pomeranian village of Schrievelbein. His father was a small shop-keeper and farmer. The family name has been traced to a small village and lake in Pomerania, both called Virchow. He was educated at the Volkschule of his native town, at the Koslin Gymnasium and at the University of Berlin, where, in his twenty-second year, he received his doctorate degree in medicine and was appointed soon afterward assistant physician at the Charite. In his student days. he was associated with the celebrated Helmholtz, who, like himself, rendered service to the state in lieu of tuition at the university. Three years after graduation he became head master of the Charite, and introduced an improved technic of postmortem examination and a reliable system of autopsy records. While prosector at the Charite he shared in founding (in 1848), the Archiv fur Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und fur Klinische Medicin. After the death of his associate in 1852, he conducted the Archiv alone. In 1848 his exhaustive report of an official investigation into the cause of an epidemic of typhus fever in Upper Silesia brought him into prominence as a scientist and politician. His active participation in politics led to his dismissal from the University of Berlin. He at once accepted the chair of pathological anatomy at the University of Wurtzburg. Here he began his celebrated work on cellular pathology, and assumed co-editorship of Canstatt's Jahresbericht, which has since been published by himself and Hirsch. In 1856 he was recalled to Berlin as professor of pathological anatomy and general pathology and placed by the Prussian government at the head of the Pathological Institute, where the rest of his life was passed. "Only last year a magnificent new building was erected for his laboratory" and a storehouse for the great museum that he had created during his long tenure of office. "This museum has been all these years a "great center of pathological teaching and research. Scientific papers on his chosen subjects appeared with frequency and regularity, and the modern school of pathology was founded. The titles of his articles cover the whole field of pathology." In 1859 he was called upon by his own and other governments to investigate various epidemics and diseases. His great achievements in the realm of science alone richly entitle him to the homage implied in the language of Lord Lister at the London banquet in 1898, when he addressed him as "our beloved master, the father of pathology." But he was active in many other fields. For forty-two years he was a member of the Municipal Council of Berlin, served for a time in the House of Deputies, where he was one of the founders and leaders of the progressive radical party, and from 1880 to 1895 was a member of the Reichstag. In 1898 he delivered the Croonian lecture in London before the Royal Society and there received the degree of doctor of civil law. He gave his own collection of 23,066 pathological specimens to the Berlin Pathological Museum. He published seventy-two works relating to the history of medicine and many others on philology and archeology, all of great merit. His "many sided supremacy has not only been acknowledged" in Germany but throughout the scientific world. In closing a beautiful tribute to this great genius, Dr. W. H. Welch (Philadelphia Medical Journal), says: "America mourns with Germany and with all other civilized countries in the loss of this great benefactor of his race, who belongs to ail time and to all the world. But more, we rejoice in the rich and abundant fruits of his long and well-rounded life. The fame of Virchow is imperishable, and his name will be held in all ages and by all people in grateful affection and honor." |