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The Board of Trustees of the Permanent Endowment Fund of the University held its annual meeting on January 11. Judge Stockbridge was re-elected president and Mr. J. Harry Tregoe secretary-treasurer, and, with Dr. Samuel C. Chew and Judge Sams, constitute the executive committee for the year 1909. The funds and securities in hand total the gross sum of $18,635.74.
A special meeting of the Washington Branch of the General Alumni Association was held atthe office of the president, Dr. Monte Griffith, March 11, 1909, to consider the advisability of petitioning the Board of Regents to establish a Board of Alumni Counsellors, a paid president and a Board of Trustees, independent of the teaching faculties. Resolutions in favor of these measures were adopted.
Dr. Louis W. Knight, class of 1866, of Baltimore, has presented to Loyola College a valuable collection of papal medals.
Drs. H. O. and J. N. Reik have removed their offices to 506 Cathedral street.
Drs. W. D. Scott and W. E. Wiegand attended the banquet of the Virginia Military Institute Alumni Association of Baltimore, held at the New Howard House, March 2, 1909. Dr. W. D. Scott responded to the toast "The Younger Generation and the Splendid Work of the Virginia Military Institute Today."
Major William F. Lewis, class of 1893, U. S. A. Medical Corps, has been relieved from duty at Fort Thomas and ordered to sail on June 5, 1909, for the Philippine Islands, via San Francisco, for duty.
Dr. Hugh A. Maughlin, class of 1864, of 121 North Broadway, an official in the United States Custom Service, who was assistant surgeon in the Sixth Maryland Regiment during the Civil War, is dangerously ill of pleurisy at his home. Dr. Maughlin is a member of Wilson Post, G. A. R.
Dr. James A. Nydegger, class of 1892, past assistant surgeon, United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, has been promoted to the rank of surgeon.
Dr. Eugene H. Mullan, class of 1903, assistant surgeon, United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, has been commissioned a past assistant surgeon, to rank as such from February 2, 1909.
Dr. Samuel T. Earle, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., records the case of Mrs. F. H. D., who, the latter part of August, 1907, while eating ham, swallowed a plate with two false teeth. Ten days later she had a violent attack of pain in the abdomen, followed by a chill and fever. There was no recurrence of this for one and a half months. Since then they have recurred from time to time, but not as severe, nor have they been attended with chill and fever. A diagram taken of the lower abdominal and pelvic regions showed the plate in the sigmoid flexure of the colon, on a level with the promontory of the sacrum. Examination through the sigmoidoscope brought it into view at the point shown by the X-ray. There wasconsiderable tenesmus, and the passage of a good deal of mucous, also a tendency to constipation. Under the influence of two hypodermics of morphine, gr. 1-4, hyoscine hydrobromate, gr. gr. L-100, and cactina, which produced satisfactory anesthesia, Dr. Earle was able to grasp the plate through the sigmoidoscope with a pair of long alligator forceps, and withdraw it immediately behind the sigmoidoscope.
At the Conference on Medical Legislation, held in Washington, D. C., January 18-20, 1909, resolutions were adopted providing for a committee composed of one member each from the medical departments of the Army and the Navy, one from the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, one member from the District of Columbia and one member from the Council on Medical Legislation, to present to the medical profession the conditions under which the widow of Major James Carroll is now placed, and to devise such plans as might seem advisable for her relief. The following committee was appointed: Major M. W. Ireland, U. S. A.; Surgeon W. H. Bell. U. S. N.; Dr. John F. Anderson, U. S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service; Dr. John D. Thomas, Washington, D. C., and Dr. A. S. Von Mansfelde, of Ashland, Nebraska.
Mrs. Carroll has been granted a pension of $125 a month on which to support herself, seven young children and the aged mother of her husband. The house, which Major Carroll had partly paid for, is mortgaged for $5,000. Since the conference adjourned the medical officers of the Army have raised enough to pay the taxes on the house, one monthly note of $50 and the overdue interest on the first mortgage, amounting to $125. Believing that the members of the medical profession will wish to contribute toward a fund for the purpose of paying the balance due on the house, the committee requests contributions of any amount. They may be sent to Major M. W. Ireland, United States Army, Washington, D. C. The editors ofThe Bulletinsincerely hope our alumni will honor the memory of our most distinguished alumnus by contributing liberally to this most worthy cause.
At the last regular meeting of the University of Maryland Medical Association, held in the amphitheatre of the University Hospital, Tuesday, March 16, 1909, the program was as follows: 1, "The General Practitioner: His Relation to His Patients, to His Fellow Practitioners and to the Community in Which He Lives," Dr. Guy Steele, Cambridge, Md.; 2, "Medical Ethics," Dr. Samuel C. Chew. Dr. A. M. Shipley, the president, was in the chair, and called the meeting to order promptly at 8.30 P. M. The attendance was large and appreciative, and listened to two remarkably able addresses. Those who had the privilege and pleasure of listening to the words of wisdom and advice both of Dr. Chewand Dr. Steele went away with a clearer conception of their duties to their professional brethren and the public.
Immediately after the adjournment of the Medical Association the Adjunct Faculty, with its president, Dr. Joseph W. Holland, in the chair, held a very important meeting, the gist of which is as follows: Resolved by the Adjunct Faculty of the Medical Department of the University of Maryland that the Board of Regents be implored to effect such changes in the charter as to make possible the election of a president with a fixed salary, and with the duties usually associated with that office in standard universities, and a Board of Administrators independent of teaching faculties. The Adjunct Faculty also endorsed tentative plans looking towards the formation of an advisory board of alumni counsellors.
At the meeting of the Section on Ophthalmology and Otology, Thursday, March 11, 1909, at the Faculty Hall, the following of our alumni read papers: "Rodent Ulcer of the Cornea (Ulcus Rodens Mooren), with Exhibition of the Case," Dr. R. L. Randolph; "Purulent Otitis Media of Infancy and Childhood," Dr. H. O. Reik.
At the meeting of the Section on Neurology and Psychiatry, Friday, March 12, 1909, the following participated:
"History and Forms of Chorea," Dr. N. M. Owensby;
"Etiology of Chorea, Dr. H. D. McCarty;
"Treatment of Chorea," Dr. W. S. Carswell.
The BaltimoreStarof March 27th, 1909, has this to say concerning Prof. Randolph Winslow: "Prof. Randolph Winslow, head of the Department of Surgery of the University of Maryland, is one of the best-known lecturers and demonstrators in the East. He is a close student, and has the faculty of impressing the young men of the University with the force of and practicability of his knowledge. Professor Winslow stands high in medical and surgical circles of the country, and ranks with the best surgeons." Under the caption of the leading men of MarylandThe Staralso included a photograph of Professor Winslow. By honoring Dr. WinslowThe Staralso honors the University of Maryland, whose authorities feel a natural pride in the eminent position held by its professors.
Dr. Fitz Randolph Winslow, class of 1906, a former resident physician in the University Hospital, and a resident of Baltimore, has located at Hinton, Virginia.
The Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity had an at-home Saturday, March 27, 1909.
About sixty members of the Theta Nu Epsilon Fraternity, University of Maryland, attended a banquet at the Belvedere recently. It was served in the main hall, and the tables, whichformed a semicircle, were beautifully decorated with trailing asparagus and cut flowers. During the meal a string orchestra rendered popular selections. Dr. Arthur M. Shipley, toastmaster, introduced Mr. Frederick W. Rankin, who made the address of welcome. Mr. Rankin was followed by Dr. C. H. Richards, who responded to the toast "Past and Present;" Dr. W. D. Scott had as his subject "The Fraternity Man;" Dr. R. Dorsey Coale, "The Undergraduate;" Dr. Randolph Winslow, "The Near Doctor;" Dr. John C. Hemmeter, "Our University," and Mr. C. B. Mathews, "The Ladies." The reception committee in charge of the arrangements was as follows: Frederick W. Rankin, chairman; Ross S. McElwee; John W. Robertson, John S. Mandigo, Arthur L. Fehsenfeld, J. F. Anderson.