MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL FACULTY. IN complying with the new Constitution and By-Laws, the Trustees had their annual meeting February 14, 1905, and organized by electing Wilmer Brinton, chairman, and G. Lane Taneyhill, secretary. Dr. T. Chew Worthington appeared before the Board as a representative of a committee of medical men, who are members of this Faculty, to acquaint the Board of a plan to secure funds from non-medical subscribers towards the contemplated new medical-library building, and with the special object of furnishing one or two memorial rooms in said building in memory of a former prominent deceased president of the Society. After discussion the following resolution was passed by the Board: "In the construction of the new Faculty building it is the sentiment of the Board of Trustees that certain portions of the building shall be set aside as memorial rooms for individuals, where sufficient funds shall have been subscribed to justify such action, and the committee charged with the collection of funds for the Osler testimonial are authorized to accept subscriptions with this object in view." In the itemized report of the treasurer of the Faculty will be found in detail the receipts and expenditures of the Board of Trustees during the fiscal year. It is the opinion of the Board of Trustees that the value of the assets of the Faculty is $55,000. Building.. $15,000 Library.. 40,000 $55,000 As this body has the election of one trustee each year, the secretary of the Board of Trustees has requested me to incorporate in this report the names of the present Board of Trustees and their term of office. Wilmer Brinton until 1905, G. L. Taneyhill until 1906, C. M. Ellis until 1907, I. E. Atkinson until 1908, E. N. Brush until 1909, S. C. Chew until 1910, J. W. Humrichouse until 1911, J. W. Chambers until 1912, H. M. Hurd until 1913, L. McL. Tiffany until 1914. WILMER BRINTON, Chairman. TREASURER'S FINANCIAL STATEMENT. FACULTY. Balance from last report. Dues, membership fees, etc. Loan from Commonwealth Bank. Rent of hall, Baltimore City Medical Society, for five section meetings... $1 55 3,746 06 1,500 00 200 00 Rent of hall, non-affiliated societies. 76 50 Exhibits.. 50 00 Donations from four medical schools for library fund.. 150 00 250 00 Total receipts... $5,972 56 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON JOURNAL. To the House of Delegates of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland: Gentlemen--Your committee, appointed at the semiannual meeting to consider plans for the establishment of some periodical medium of publication for the transactions of the Faculty and its component societies, begs to submit the following report: Your committee is fully persuaded that the best interests of the Faculty demand that some means shall be provided which will tend to bind the individual members more closely to the organization, which will keep the work of the State Society and of the American Medical Association constantly before the members, and which will supply each member with some definite and tangible "value received" in return for his annual dues. It is true that at the present time the annual dues are small and that the return for them is large when we consider alone the privileges of the excellent library of th Faculty, but to a very large percentage of our membership the library facilities are not available, and to these members especially, if we would hold their interest and secure their active support, we must supply some other inducement to remain in membership, and with all of our members we should connect some direct means of communication. Experience has taught a number of our sister States that the strongest influence for good in these directions has been a State medical journal, owned and controlled by the State Society, managed solely in the interest of its members, and sent to each of them regularly without cost beyond their annual dues. Upon investigation of the matter we have found it possible in this State to make a choice between two widely-different plans. In the first place, we may proceed to establish a journal of our own, to be known, let us say, as the Journal of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, which shall be devoted solely to the interests of the members of this State Association. The committee believes that such a journal can be established and sent to each member of the Faculty without cost to him and without taxing the treasury of the Faculty. That is, we believe the income from the advertising pages of such a journal will pay the entire cost of its publication. It is estimated that for each page of advertising we can publish three pages of printed matter, viz., one page of advertising and two pages of reading matter. Thus a 60-page journal could be supported upon 20 pages of advertising, and while we may not be able to begin with so large a journal, it seems quite feasible to start with a journal of 40 pages and gradually increase the size as the income from advertising grows. This plan has been adopted in 14 other States, prominent among these being New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan, and, so far as we can ascertain, the plan has been a success in every instance. Our Faculty differs from most State societies in that it owns and must maintain a very valuable medical library. Fortunately, the establishment of our own medical journal would greatly favor our library, and through the benefits conferred indirectly upon the library the Faculty would profit more largely than has been indicated above. All of the new books coming to the Faculty journal for review and the numerous medical journalsweekly, monthly, quarterly, etc.-would become the property of the library and thus enable us to save a considerable sum of money now expended annually for the purchase of such books and magazines. Furthermore, the publication in such a journal of all the papers, business proceedings, and news items of the Faculty and the city and county societies would enable us to dispense with the issuance of the old annual volume of transactions, and would still provide every member with a more accurate record of the transactions of the profession throughout the State.. It is impossible to state in exact figures what the saving to the Faculty would be under this plan, inasmuch as there is no means of determining accurately what new books will be sent us or what journals we may be able to secure in exchange, but your committee believes that if the Journal can be made self-supporting, and it has no reason to doubt this, then the Faculty will gain financially the $300 now spent annually for the publication of its transactions and approximately $300 out of the fund now expended annually for the purchase of new books and periodicals. The second plan to which we referred is embodied in the following proposition submitted by the MARYLAND MEDICAL JOURNAL, which is intended to accomplish the same ends, and which provides that we shall recognize the MARYLAND MEDICAL JOURNAL as the official organ of publication of the Faculty. You might reasonably expect that the committee should recommend one or the other of these plans for your adoption, but there are so many important things to be considered in this decision that we have hesitated to assume that responsibility, and deem it best to lay both plans before you and to ask you to determine for yourselves which plan you prefer. To summarize in a distinct and unbiased way the features of the two plans, and to state the matter in a brief businesslike manner, we would say that the plan proposed by the Maryland Medical Journal means sufficient space in that JOURNAL for the publication of Faculty matters; the delivery of the JOURNAL to every member of the Faculty in the State; the donation to our library of such new books and periodicals as the editorial staff of the JOURNAL may be willing to spare from those which they receive for review and in exchange, and, as value received therefor, the payment to the JOURNAL of the sum of $100 per annum from the Faculty's treasury. (It must be remembered that this gives us no control over the policy of the JOURNAL, either in its business or editorial pages, save in so far as Faculty matters are concerned, nor do we assume any financial obligations other than the payment of the sum stated.) The other plan means the establishment of a journal of our own, managed and controlled solely in the interest of the members of this Faculty; delivered without extra cost to every member; containing more of the information that is of vital interest to the members than can possibly be given through any other medium; no expenditure of money from the treasury, but, instead, the saving of from $300 to $600 per year that is now being expended on new books, journals and the transactions. THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY. MEETING HELD APRIL 17, 1905. The meeting was devoted to comparative surgery, a report being made of the work done in the course in operative surgery on animals by the thirdyear class of the Johns Hopkins Medical School. Dr. Cushing, by way of introduction, emphasized the importance of building up a veterinary hospital in connection with surgical teaching, not only for teaching purposes proper, but also by way of disarming the criticism, perhaps a just one, which was made against the reckless use of material involved in allowing students to operate on healthy animals. Operative surgery was usually taught by work on the cadaver. It was therefore confined to operations on the extremity and ligation of arteries. But the absolutely essential instinct for surgical cleanliness, the ability to handle living tissues, skill in controlling hemorrhage-these things could not be learned from cadavers, nor was it possible to teach or to learn visceral surgery in this way. When the course in animal surgery at the Medical School was started operations were done for hypothetical lesions. The material was not then necessarily wasted, but could often be used in one of the laboratories. A gastrostomized dog, for instance, furnished the physiologists with gastric juice for study, and so forth. Nevertheless, this method involved needless operation, and criticism of this feature only began to be disarmed when animals were brought in with lesions which needed treatment. For the future, then, the plan is to build up a veterinary hospital so that animals may receive necessary surgical attention and students may receive surgical instruction at the same time. Hemorrhagic Cysts of the Thyroid.-Mr. Faris reported two cases of this condition occurring in dogs. The first was in an Irish setter. It had caused interference with respiration, and cure was effected by its removal. The second occurred in a hound; was associated with bad temper, muscular twitching, loss of hair, increase in weight, and dryness of skin. No exophthalmus was present. The cyst was removed, but without much improvement in the dog's condition. Both tumors proved to be thick-walled cysts containing dark-red grumous material made up of shadows of red-blood cells and cholesterin. The pathology of the thyroid in dogs was said to be similar to that in man. Hemorrhagic cysts, while rare, were occasionally reported. Their etiology was still undetermined. Trauma probably plays a part, and changes in the vessel walls with rupture probably do the rest. Uterovaginal Prolapse.-Mr. Thacher reported two cases. The first was an acute one, complicating labor in a bitch. The vagina and cervix were prolapsed, the bladder was out of the pelvic, there was inability to urinate, and the animal was in bad condition. A uterus containing nine pups was removed and the prolapse reduced. Death occurred in 15 hours, hydronephrosis and localized peritonitis being present. In the second case an irre |