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At the commencement of the University Hospital School for Nurses, held May 5th, the following nurses received their diplomas. The address to the graduates was delivered by Dr. A. M. Shipley:

Miss Elizabeth Getzendanner was the president of the class, and Miss Lucy B. Squires was the secretary.

Those who received diplomas were:

Miss Catherine Mabel Dukes, Maryland.Miss Anna May Green, North Carolina.Miss Laura Schley Chapline, West Virginia.Miss Louise Dorsey Pue, Maryland.Miss Grace Schoolfield Tull, Maryland.Miss Annie Lou Wahm, South Carolina.Miss Eva Sidney Chapline, West Virginia.Miss Beulah Ophelia Hall, Georgia.Miss Elizabeth Getzendanner, Maryland.Miss Emily Lavinia Ely, Maryland.Miss Lucy Bright Squires, North Carolina.Miss Gertrude Hedwig Tews, Germany.Miss Helen Mary Robey, Maryland.Miss Blanche Almond, Virginia.Miss Lillie Booker Carter, Virginia.Miss Mary Barton Saulsbury, Maryland.Miss Vera Wright, Maryland.

Miss Catherine Mabel Dukes, Maryland.

Miss Anna May Green, North Carolina.

Miss Laura Schley Chapline, West Virginia.

Miss Louise Dorsey Pue, Maryland.

Miss Grace Schoolfield Tull, Maryland.

Miss Annie Lou Wahm, South Carolina.

Miss Eva Sidney Chapline, West Virginia.

Miss Beulah Ophelia Hall, Georgia.

Miss Elizabeth Getzendanner, Maryland.

Miss Emily Lavinia Ely, Maryland.

Miss Lucy Bright Squires, North Carolina.

Miss Gertrude Hedwig Tews, Germany.

Miss Helen Mary Robey, Maryland.

Miss Blanche Almond, Virginia.

Miss Lillie Booker Carter, Virginia.

Miss Mary Barton Saulsbury, Maryland.

Miss Vera Wright, Maryland.

The alumni of the University will be pained to learn of the recent illness of Prof. S. C. Chew.The Bulletinis glad to report that he is now convalescing. No member of the Faculty is more esteemed and beloved than is Professor Chew.

Dr. Leonard O. Sloane, of Juneau, Alaska, who has been visiting Baltimore for several weeks, has left the city. He came to this city to avail himself of the opportunities for clinical instruction offered by this University, and was much pleased with the work he was able to seeat the University Hospital, the Woman's Hospital, the Hebrew Hospital and at Bay View. He is physician to St. Ann's Hospital, at Juneau, and is a progressive and able member of our profession.

In the recent examinations held for commissions in the medical corps of the United States Army, Dr. J. S. Fox, one of the surgeons at the St. Francis Xavier Hospital, was a successful contestant, and the War Department has notified him that he will be commissioned a first lieutenant and will be ordered to proceed to a post in the West. One hundred doctors took the examination for the appointments, but only thirteen were successful. Dr. Fox, who will be one of the youngest surgeons in the Army, was high up in the list of the fortunate ones.

Dr. Fox is a son of the late Dr. T. S. Fox, of Batesburg, who was a distinguished surgeon in the Confederate Army. He is a nephew of Mr. J. T. Fox, of that town. Dr. Fox is twenty-nine years of age, and was born in Batesburg, S. C. After completing the high school at that place he entered Richmond College, Richmond, Va., and was there for three years, when he entered the Medical College at Baltimore. Fourteen months ago he came to Charleston to accept an appointment as one of the house surgeons of the St. Francis Xavier Infirmary, and during his stay in this city has made a fine record for himself, and now has many friends here.

As soon as his commission arrives he will leave here for Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the station designated in the orders of the War Department. There are at present several troops of the Third Cavalry and a battalion of light artillery from the Third Field Artillery Regiment stationed at this important post, which is considered to be one of the most agreeable army posts in the South. On October 1, Dr. Fox will be ordered to report to Washington, where he will be detailed to attend the Army Medical College for a period of eight months.

The Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry and the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association have adopted a vote of thanks to Daniel Base, Ph. D., professor of analytical chemistry, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, for his co-operation and assistance in investigating products and for special research work done at the request of the Council.

It has been definitely decided that the new operating room which is to be built at St. Joseph's Hospital is to be dedicated to the memory of Dr. Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, who died of septicemia after performing an operation upon an infected kidney at the hospital, as a result of which the patient lived. A tablet bearing Dr. Trimble's name and the incidents surrounding his martyr-like death will be placed in the operating room.

Dr. John R. Winslow read a paper on “A Case of Tuberculosis of the Fauces and Lingual Tonsils, Caused by Tuberculin Injections,” before the Section on Laryngology and Rhinology, Friday, March 26, 1909. At the same meeting Dr. J. N. Reik read a paper on “The Present Status of the Surgical Treatment of Purulent Disease of the Nasal and of the Aural Cellular Spaces: a Comparison.”

Dr. and Mrs. A. Duvall Atkinson, who have been spending a few days in Washington, have returned to their home, 924 North Charles street.

Under the title of leading men of Maryland, “The Star” has this to say concerning Dr. Louis McLane Tiffany:

Dr. Louis McLane Tiffany is not only one of the best-known men in Maryland, but enjoys a reputation that is international as an operating surgeon. He has performed successfully many unusual and difficult operations, and has contributed much to his profession by original research. He was born in Baltimore, October 10, 1844, and is related to the well-known McLane family of Maryland and Delaware. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Cambridge University, England, in 1866, and upon his return to Baltimore entered the University of Maryland as a medical student, his degree as doctor of medicine being conferred upon him in 1868. He soon attained prominence in his chosen work. For many years he has been professor of the principles and practice of surgery at the University of Maryland. He has been operating surgeon of many of the Baltimore hospitals, has performed operations on prominent persons all over the country, and is the author of a numberof treatises on particular phases of surgery. Dr. Tiffany helped to found the Maryland Clinical Society, is a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland and an active or honorary member of many other societies.

Recently there was unveiled at St. Timothy's Church, at Catonsville, Md., a beautiful memorial window designed and executed in Favrile glass to the memory of Dr. Charles G. W. Macgill, who was president of the First National Bank of Catonsville and a physician widely known in that part of Baltimore county. This memorial, the subject of which is St. Luke, is in three panels, the figure of the evangelist being in the center opening, while a splendid landscape is carried out in the two side panels. On a scroll carried by St. Luke is the text: “For to one is given by the Spirit the gifts of healing.” 1 Cor., xii: 8-9. At the base of the window is the dedicatory inscription: “In Loving Memory of Charles G. W. Macgill. Born May 10th, 1833. Died April 28th, 1907.”

At the coming meeting of the American Medical Association Dr. Henry D. Fry, of Washington, will read a paper on “An Ovarian Abscess Containing a Lunbricoid Worm Within the Cavity;” H. D. Hynson, Phar. D., “The National Formulary: Its Genesis, Character and Exigent Utility.”

Dr. W. L. Hart, class of 1906, first lieutenant, United States Army, has been ordered to accompany Company G, Engineers, to San Francisco, Cal., and then to return to Washington Barracks, D. C.

The following physicians have consented to act as admitting physicians, Maryland State Sanatorium: Dr. Gordon Wilson, Baltimore; Dr. Charles H. Conley, Adamstown; Dr. Guy Steele, Cambridge; Dr. Paul Jones, Snow Hill; Dr. Henry Fitzhugh, Westminster. Drs. Guy Steele and C. H. Conley are members of the Board of Managers.

Dr. A. M. Shipley, class of 1902, has been elected consulting surgeon to the Sydenham Infectious Hospital, and Dr. H. O. Reik, of 506 Cathedral street, consulting otologists.

Dr. H. E. Palmer, of Tallahassee, has been elected president of the Florida State Medical Association for the ensuing year.

The marriage of Miss Elizabeth P. Elliott, daughter of Mrs. Warren G. Elliott, to Dr. Gordon Wilson, associate professor of medicine in the University of Maryland, will take place on Saturday, June 5, 1909. The ceremony will be performed at 6 o'clock at Old St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Charles and Saratoga streets, by the rector, Rev. Arthur B. Kinsolving. Owing to mourning in the bride's family, the marriage will be a quiet affair.

Another wedding of interest to take place in June is that of Miss Lila Holmes Trenholm, daughter of Mr. Glover Holmes Trenholm, a graduate of the Training School for Nurses of the University Hospital, and granddaughter of the late Prof. Julian Chisholm, to Dr. Walton A. Hopkins, class of 1903, of Annapolis, Md.

At the annual meeting of the Cecil County Medical Society, held in Elkton, Md., April 29, 1909, Dr. C. P. Carrico, of Cherry Hill, was elected president for the ensuing year.

Dr. George H. Steuart, class of 1898, is located at Ottoman, Va.

Prof. Samuel C. Chew, the nestor of the Medical Faculty of the University of Maryland, is confined to the University Hospital with a bad attack of grip. Dr. Chew is one of the oldest and most beloved of the medical fraternity of Baltimore. He has been connected with the University of Maryland for more than fifty years, graduating with the class of 1858. All of us wish Dr. Chew a rapid restoration to his former good health.

Forty professional men were present May 1, 1909, at the Colonial Hotel, where the fourth annual reunion and banquet of the Pennsylvania Branch of the General Alumni Association of the University of Maryland was held. Dr. Eugene F. Cordell was one of the guests; others were Dr. Charles P. Noble, president of the Pennsylvania Branch, and Dr. J. C. Beale, secretary and treasurer, both of Philadelphia.

The banquet was held in the new assembly room, which was tastefully decorated with plants, flowers and the colors of the University. The banquet committee consisted of Drs. Z. C. Myers and S. K. Pfaltzgraff, of York; J. S. Classen and J. C. Beale, of Philadelphia.

It is reported that Dr. John Cox Keaton, class of 1907, of Georgia, has been shot in the abdomen by an irate husband.

At the annual meeting of the Cecil County Medical Society, held at Elkton, Dr. St. Clair Spruill spoke on “Surgical Conditions of the Right Side of the Abdomen.”

The New York Medical Journal says concerning the April 13th meeting of the Philadelphia Pediatric Society: “The paper of the evening was read by Dr. Compton Riely, of Baltimore, on 'The Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Pott's Disease.'”

The following of our alumni are upon the staff of the Hospital for the Women of Maryland, John street and Lafayette avenue, Baltimore: Dr. Charles H. Riley, Dr. J. Mason Hundley, Dr. Archibald C. Harrison, Dr. Robert T. Wilson, Dr. Samuel T. Earle and Dr. George W. Dobbin. Dr. G. W. Billups, class of 1906, is resident physician.

Mr. and Mrs. William T. Schultze, of 822 Newington avenue, Baltimore, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Dr. Anna D. Schultze, a graduate of the Woman's Medical College and resident physician of the Good Samaritan Hospital, to Dr.John R. Abercrombie, dean of the Woman's Medical College, a graduate of the University of Maryland of the class of 1895, and at present instructor in diseases of the skin, University of Maryland. No date has been fixed for the wedding.

At the coming meeting of the American Medical Association Dr. I. S. Stone, of Washington, will read a paper on “Some Minor Gynecologic Matters Which Are Often Overlooked.”

Dr. Charles H. Medders, of Baltimore, who sued the Western Maryland Railroad for $5,000 for services rendered in a collision four years ago, was rendered a verdict for $150.

At the annual meeting of the Montgomery County Medical Association, held in Rockville, April 20, 1909, the following of our alumni were elected to office for the ensuing year: Vice president, Dr. Wm. L. Lewis, of Kensington; secretary-treasurer, Dr. John L. Lewis, of Bethesda.

The Baltimore City Medical Society has elected our alumni to the following offices for the ensuing year: President, Dr. Jacob Hartman; board of censors, Dr. Randolph Winslow.

Dr. G. Lane Taneyhill, of Baltimore, is a member of the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association from Maryland at the present meeting of the American Medical Association, at Atlantic City.

Dr. A. E. Ewens, of Atlantic City, was a member of the Committee on Section Meetings at the recent meeting of the American Medical Association. Dr. Daniel Jenifer also had the honor and pleasure of serving upon this committee. Dr. Jenifer was also a member of the Committee on Post-office and Telephone. Dr. A. E. Ewens also served on the Committee on Badges.

Dr. Thomas A. R. Keech, class of 1856, and Mrs. Keech, of Washington, D. C., celebrated at their home, 416 B street, northeast, on April 13, 1909, the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. The house was beautifully decorated with cut and potted plants. A collation was served. The family are of English descent, having emigrated and settled in Southern Maryland about 1750. Dr. Keech is a son of the late Rev. John Reeder and Susan P. Keech.

Dr. John Herbert Bates, class of 1907, of Forest Park, Baltimore, a former resident physician of Bay View Hospital, and until recently a resident physician at the Church Home and Infirmary, has located at 4002 Main avenue, Forest Park.

The third annual banquet of the General Alumni Association of the University of Maryland was held Thursday, April 22, 1909, at the Eutaw House, Baltimore. About 90 were present. The affair was a thoroughly enjoyable occasion, but more enthusiasm would have been evident if more of the members of the various faculties had been present. The Pharmaceutical Department, with less professors than the other departments, had most members present. The speeches were witty and instructive, and teemed with expressions of loyalty to the University. As oft iterated and reiterated, this body is the only real live alumni body at the University of Maryland. It has been doing since its inception, and is still doing, and if the University ever be rejuvenated much of the credit will be due to the constant agitation of this body for a larger and better university. Most alumni banquets consist of a feed, good, better or worse, as it might happen to be, and a slew of speech artists of more or less renown, who bubble over with big words of encouragement and prediction, but rest on their oars here. Indeed, the societies exist for a banquet once a year and a cyclone of hot air. What do words accomplish? Nothing. It is action that the University of Maryland needs, and more than anything else men of action—strong men, broad-minded men, men who can subordinate their success to the success of the institution, men in every sense of the word. I am glad to say the GeneralAlumni Association has an abundance of men of such character among its membership who are doing something for the good of the Old University, and who have an object in view. What is this object? The creating of ways and means for the betterment of the University.

At the business meeting immediately preceding the banquet the following recommendation of the special committee appointed for the purpose of formulating a plan for the participation of the alumni in the management of the University was adopted unanimously.

The plan provides that the Board of Regents of the University shall be enlarged by the addition of five members, one each from the five departments, who shall have had their degrees for 10 years or more. It provides for the election of a committee on nominations, to consist of the president of the association and one representative from each of the five departments. This committee shall select three representatives from each of the five departments as nominees for the alumni in good standing in the association to vote upon. Votes may be cast in person or by mail. After the election of the five members of the council they shall determine by lot who are to serve for one, two, three, four or five years, respectively.

Any vacancy is to be filled by the remaining members of the Alumni Council from the department from which the member was originally chosen. The secretary of the General Alumni Association shall act as the secretary of the alumni regents, who shall select their own chairman for one-year terms.

The committee consisted of the following well-known alumni of the five departments of the University:

Medical—Dr. B. Merrill Hopkinson and Dr. E. F. Cordell.

Pharmacy—Dr. John F. Hancock and Dr. J. Emory Bond.

Dental—Dr. L. H. Farinholt and Dr. Joseph C. Heuisler.

Law—Messrs. B. Howard Haman and Jas. W. Bowers, Jr.

Academic (St. John's College)—Dr. J. Frederick Adams and Dr. A. L. Wilkinson.

No further action, however, can be taken in the matter until approved or vetoed by the Board of Regents.

The president, John B. Thomas, Phar. D., introduced the toastmaster, Henry P. Hynson, Phar. D., who was in a particularly bright and witty mood. The speakers were: Hon. J. Barry Mahool, the Mayor of Baltimore; John C. Hemmeter, M. D.; Addison Mullikin, Esq., LL. B.; Charles Caspari, Phar. D.; Joshua W. Hering, M. D., Comptroller of the State of Maryland and a graduate of the class of 1855, of Westminster, Md.

Those who were not present do not know what they missed. It was a live banquet, something doing every minute, and the committee in charge of the arrangements are to be congratulated upon the thoroughness with which they accomplished their task.

Committee—T. O. Heatwole, chairman; Oregon Milton Dennis, LL. B.; Eugene Hodson, Phar. G.; Arthur M. Shipley, M. D.

Among those present were: William Tarun, Dr. J. W. Bird, J. Huff, Dr. Compton Reilly, J. Cromwell, Dr. Randolph Winslow, Dr. R. B. Hayes, C. V. Mace, L. M. Allen, Dr. R. H. P. Bay, Dr. I. J. Spear, H. H. Richards, Dr. J. F. Hawkins, Dr. W. V. S. Levy, T. Marshall West, S. W. Moore, I. H. Davis, Dr. C. V. Matthews, F. J. Valentine, E. B. Howell, A. P. Scarborough, G. F. Dean, G. A. Bunting, John C. Uhler, C. S. Grindall, Dr. J. C. Hemmeter, Dr. A. M. Shipley, John Henry Keene, Dr. Robert L. Mitchell, Judge H. Stockbridge, N. H. D. Cox, Dr. J. H. Holland, Dr. Charles Caspari, Jr., H. P. Hynson, F. V. Rhodes, J. E. Hengst, O. C. Harris, A. S. Binswanger, Dr. St. Clair Spruill, Dr. E. F. Cordell, Dr. Nathan Winslow, Dr. J. M. Hundley, Daniel Base, Dr. Charles E. Sadtler, Addison Mullikin, H. W. Jones, Dr. G. Lane Taneyhill, Dr. L. B. Henkel, Jr., Dr. I. G. Dickson, F. J. S. Gorgas, Dr. T. O. Heatwole, J. W. Bowers, Jr., Dr. J. W. Hering, Alfred E. Kemp, Oscar B. Thomas, J. B. Thomas, Eugene W. Hodson, John F. Hancock, W. M. Fouch, D. R. Millard, Emory Bond, C. A. Volkmar, Frank Black, H. P. Hynson, J. W. Westcott, Dr. C. H. Medders, B. Elliott, Dr. Eugene Cordell, Leroy Oldham, A. R. Dohme, B. A. Lillich, Oregon Milton Dennis, L. W. Farinholt, T. E. Latimer, Ambrose Murphy, Dr. Henry Kennard, Dr. Herbert Zepp.

The “Clinic,” the year book of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, which has just been issued, is dedicated to the memory of the late Dr. Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, who gave his life that another's might be saved. Dr. Trimble was a graduate of the University of Maryland, class of 1884, and at the time of his death was Professor of Anatomy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. A. J. Edwards, class of 1898, of Bristol, Tenn., is spending a few days around the Hospital renewing old acquaintances.

Dr. Luther Bare, of Westminster, Md., was a recent visitor to the University Hospital.

The banquet of the Medical Alumni Association will be held on the evening of May 31, 1909.

Dr. and Mrs. B. Merrill Hopkinson, who have been spending the week at the Hotel Chamberlin, Old Point Comfort, Va., have returned to the city.

The University of Maryland baseball team defeated the Midshipmen on the Naval Academy grounds recently by the score of 2 to 0. Anderson, the box artist, struck out twenty of the middies. The team this year has been more than successful, and compares favorably with the teams of the larger colleges. It is undoubtedly the premier team of Baltimore this year, and in any other institution would arouse untold enthusiasm by its notable victories.

Dr. Fitz Randolph Winslow, class of 1906, of Hinton, Va., paid a flying visit to the Hospital recently.

Dr. J. W. Hering, class of 1855, of Westminster and State Comptroller, who has been visiting his son and daughter-in-law, Dr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Hering, at the St. Paul, Baltimore, has returned to his home, in Westminster.

Amongst those who responded to toasts at the recent banquet of the local branch of the Haverford College Alumni Association was Dr. Henry M. Thomas.

Dr. Fitz Randolph Winslow writes from Hinton, Va., in the Valley of the Shenandoah, the garden spot of Virginia, and for picturesque scenery unexcelled in no part of the world, that he is doing nicely. He has seen three goitres and heard of a wonderful cure for the same from an old mountain woman. She took her own medicine, and claims to have been benefited, so he gives the recipe: Put your hands behind your back, bend over and take a horse's head between your teeth. Unfortunately, he forgot to find out the statuo quo of the horse, so you might try the dead or the quick, as suits your convenience. Her goitre is still very apparent, but, sad to relate, she has no teeth left with which to finish the job. This is only one specimen of the gross ignorance and superstition of the hill people. They treat or mistreat themselves often when ill principally by making teas of various herbs, such as boneset, etc. Skunk oil is a panacea both internally and externally. He expects no respectable disease can live in the same neighborhood with such an odoriferous medicament.

Dr. John Chaplain Travers, class of 1895, of Cambridge, who recently left for the Philippines, where he will enter the government service, gave a farewell entertainment before leaving at the residence of Capt. James C. Leonard.

Dr. J. Clement Clark, superintendent of the Springfield State Hospital, presided at the third meeting of the Maryland Psychiatric Society, which was held at the Sykesville institution. Among those present were: Drs. J. C. Clarke, Marshall L. Price, Wm. F. Wohwartz, R. R. Norris, F. J. Flannery.

It gives us pleasure to announce that Dr. Charles H. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., one of the renowned Mayo brothers, has accepted the invitation of the Faculty of Physic to deliver a course of lectures on diseases on the thyroid gland in the fall.

Dr. Lee Cohen, of Baltimore, will read a paper at the coming meeting of the American Medical Association on “Post Operative Tonsillar Bleeding: Its Surgical Control, with Mention of Cases;” Dr. R. L. Randolph, of Baltimore, on “Rodent Ulcer of the Cornea;” Dr. Samuel Theobald, of Baltimore, on “Reflex Aural Neurosis Caused by Eye Strain, with Report of Cases.”

One of the marked developments of the Democratic State Central Committee was a practically unanimous sentiment in favor of the renomination of Dr. Joshua W. Hering, class of 1855, for State Comptroller. State and county leaders were outspoken in their opinion that Dr. Hering's popularity throughout the state, as well as his excellent record as Comptroller, make his nomination virtually a matter of course.

The condition of Dr. R. A. Warren, of Hot Springs, Va., class of 1907, who was operated on recently at the University Hospital for appendicitis, is reported to be favorable.

Dr. Randolph Winslow desires to acknowledge cards from Drs. M. Zaki and M. Teufik, 166 Mohamed Aly street, Cairo, Egypt. These are two of our popular Egyptian students, and are located as noted above, where they have met with unexpected success. Drs. Heilig, Moose, Kerr and Pearlstine, four of our recent Southern alumni, paid their respects to the University recently. The three former are located in North Carolina, the latter in South Carolina.

The last regular meeting of the University of Maryland Medical Association was held in the amphitheatre of the University Hospital, Wednesday, April 21, 1909, and the program was as follows: 1. “Preliminary Training Necessary for Those Contemplating the Study of Medicine,” Dr. Randolph Winslow; 2. “The Teaching of Therapeutics,” Dr. C. W. Mitchell; “The Teaching of the Specialties,” Dr. Hiram Woods.

The meeting was well attended and the papers were both instructive and interesting. Dr. A. M. Shipley, the president, occupied thechair. This is the last meeting of the society until the fall. Dr. Woods' paper appears elsewhere in this number.

Dr. Richard H. Johnston, of Baltimore, will read a paper on “Benign Tumors of the Turbinate Bodies Clinically and Pathologically Considered,” at the coming meeting of the American Medical Association.

The Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association in its annual report has this to say concerning college mergers:

Another encouraging fact to be noted is the mergers being made among medical schools whereby stronger schools are resulting. Notably in Indiana, all of the regular schools in the state merged into the medical department of Indiana University, while in Kentucky all of the medical schools merged into the University of Louisville. In Cincinnati the two regular schools merged into the University of Cincinnati; in Minnesota Hamline merged into the medical department of the University of Minnesota.

There are numerous other cities where mergers might be brought about if those interested in general education and those in medical education in each city would work together to secure them. For example, if all the medical colleges of any large city, such as Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis or others, could be merged into one great university medical school, such as are to be found in Berlin, Paris or Vienna, it would be of the greatest possible advantage to medical education in America.

In the evolution of general and medical education in this country it is becoming more and more evident that a well-rounded university needs a strong medical department, and it is now equally clear that a medical school cannot reach the highest stage of its development except as the medical department of a strong university. It is evident that within a few years the medical schools of this country will, with few exceptions, be the medical departments of universities. Fortunately for the medical school, the university needs the medical school quite as much as the medical school needs the university, so that almost any independentmedical school of real merit can secure desirable union with a university. And this change will solve most of our present problems in medical education.

Since our last conference there have been five important mergers of medical colleges by which nine medical schools are replaced by four stronger ones. These mergers were as follows:

1. At Louisville, Ky., the Louisville and Hospital Medical College, the Kentucky School of Medicine and the University of Louisville Medical Department united, retaining the name of the University of Louisville Medical Department. This leaves but one regular medical college in Louisville, where there were five colleges two years ago. As a direct result of this merger, the school has received $25,000 from the city of Louisville, and steps have been taken to build a new city hospital, which is to be largely under the control of the medical school.

2. At Cincinnati the merger between the Medical College of Ohio and the Miami Medical College has been completed, the new school to be the Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati. The building of an enormous new city hospital has already been started near the university campus, and a new medical college building will be erected adjoining this hospital. The outlook for this new school is very encouraging.

3. The Keokuk Medical College, College of Physicians and Surgeons, located at Keokuk, Iowa, has turned all its property and good will over to the Drake University, College of Medicine, at Des Moines, Iowa.

Amalgamation of the Cooper Medical College with Leland Stanford University is announced. Henceforth the San Francisco institution will be designated the School of Medicine of Stanford University. The affiliation was given approval sometime ago, and it only remained for the board of trustees of the University to formally accept the gift.

Why can't the independent medical collegesof Baltimore come together? Such an event would accrue to the best interests of all concerned, and would greatly tend to eliminate Baltimore as one of the dark spots upon the medical educational horizon.

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