tween Lincoln and St. Joseph, and twelve between Lincoln and Denver. Lincoln is reached by almost equal facility from Minneapolis and St. Paul, from the Northwest and from the Southwest. A passenger train arrives in or departs from Lincoln every eighteen minutes of every twentyfour hours.

Within recent years the hotel facilities of Lincoln have been abundantly enlarged. There are fourteen hotels, some of which

Lincoln Commercial Club.

are numbered among the finest in the country.

The Commercial Club which has rceently built its own magnificent building is one of the largest in any city. The club has 1600 members and splendid facilities for the entertainment, not only of its members but for guests. The Commercial Club maintains a bureau of information with regard to all activities of the city.

The means of receiving guests and entertaining them have been so well worked

out that upon one occasion when the Nebraska State Fair attracted 60,000 visitors on a single day, every person who remained in the city over night found good shelter and plenty of food.

have also

Convention accommodations been so well organized that in January of each year twenty different agricultural societies meet in Lincoln at the same time in separate places and are well cared for.

The park and boulevard systems are being worked out and numerous handsome theaters provide amusement in the intervals between convention meetings or before and after they are over.

Other State buildings in Lincoln beside the Capitol building are the Governor's Mansion, the Nebraska Orthopedic Hospital, State School for Dependent Children, State Hospital for the Insane and the State Prison.

There are numerous educational institutions of importance in addition to the University of Nebraska. These are particularly the Nebraska Wesleyan University, Cotner College, Union College, Nebraska Military Academy, business colleges and music conservatories. Near the city is the magnificent farm operated in connection with the State University Agricultural School.

Hospitals of importance are the St. Elizabeth maintained by the Franciscan Sisters; the Nebraska Orthopedic Hospital, the Nebraska Sanitarium, the Green Gables Sanitarium under the direction of Dr. B. F. Bailey, and the Lincoln Sanitarium under the direction of the Drs. Everett.

The business and commercial interests of Lincoln have been largely developed; moreover, business and professional interests work together to contribute to the success of those conventions which come to Lincoln, and to extend hospitality to those who attend.

Those of us in Lincoln therefore extend to all members of the Medical Society of

the Missouri Valley a cordial invitation to become our guests upon the occasion of the meeting March 26th and 27th. A splendid program is assured by the secretary and the Lancaster County Medical Society will try to maintain the reputation established by other Lincoln organizations upon this occasion. H. W. O.

Missouri Valley Committees.

Dr. Flavel B. Tiffany, president of the Medical Society of the Missouri Valley, has appointed the following committees for the

year:

Publication: Chas. Wood Fassett, T. M. Paul, Daniel Morton.

Credential: H. Winnett Orr, J. M. Banister. John Punton, V. L. Treynor, P. I. Leonard.

The Judicial Committee is composed of ex-presidents of the association, H. B. Jennings, chairman.

The Grand River Medical Society will hold its annual meeting at Chillicothe, Mo., on March 19th.

The annual meeting of the Medical Officers and Navy of the Confederacy will be held at Jacksonville, Florida, May 6, 7, 8. A good program is being arranged and a splendid time is anticipated. A. A. Lyon, M. D., President, Nashville, Tenn. Stephen H. Ragan, M. D., Secretary and Treasurer, 621 E 31st street, Kansas City, Mo.

The Atlantic City Session of the A. M. A. -The annual session of the American Medical Association for 1914 will be held at Atlantic City during the fourth week in June. The House of Delegates will convene Monday, June 22, and the Scientific Assembly-the sections-Tuesday, June 23. The following are the officers of the local Committee on Arrangements: William Edgar Darnall, chairman; E. C. Chew, treasurer, and Henry T. Harvey, secretary. The chairmen of subcommittees are: Finance, George Scott; entertainment, William J. Carrington; section entertainment, W. E. Jonah; hotels, Thomas D. Taggart; halls and meeting-places, Walt P. Conaway; sectin meetings, Byron G. Davis; programs, C. Coulter Charlton; printing, Walter Reynolds; badges, E. H. Harvey; scientific exhibit, I. E. Leonard; registration, William Martin; information, Richard Bew; alumni entertainments, Joseph C. Marshall; post office and telephones, C. Garrabrandt; commercial exhibit, E. Guion; ladies committee, Mrs. E. H. Harvey.

Medical News

Dr. J. W. Coleman is the new assistant city physician of Okmulgee, Okla.

Dr. and Mrs. Frank C. Lee of Skidmore, Mo., are in Honolulu.

Dr. Terrence P. Gronoway is in charge of the Peoples Hospital, a new institution, at Bevier, Mo.

Dr. Wm. M. Cott, of Okmulgee, Okla., is convalescent atfer being operated for appendicitis.

Dr. Edward K. Troy, of McAlester, Okla., received the degree of B.A. from the University of Michigan.

Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Parker, of Independence, Mo., are in Biloxi, Miss., for the winter.

Dr. and Mrs. Corydon M. Wassell, of Little Rock, Ark., have gone to Wu Chang, province of Hankow, China.

Dr. T. D. Crothers, of Hartford, Conn., ico-Legal Society of New York. was recently elected president of the Med

Dr. Robt. C. Knode of Gering, Neb., is a new medical appointee of the Union Pacific service.

Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Lee after two years in Vienna will reside in Kansas City, and are at home at 913 W. 38th street.

Dr. and Mrs. Tinsley Brown of Hamilton, Mo., were the guests of Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Reynolds the first half of February. Dr. A. K. Berry of Burlington, Kansas, visited Kansas City for the Ben Hur production.

Dr. T. H. McLaughlin after an absence of fourteen years in Africa has returned to America to resume practice in Topeka, Kansas.

Dr. Eugene R. Waterhouse, president, and Albert F. Stephens, secretary, are the first officers of the Doctors Club recently organized in St. Louis.

Dr. J. Scott Snider who was badly hurt in the auto accident in which Dr. William W. Stevens, Kansas City, was killed, is thought to be on his way to recovery, barring unforeseen complications.

The Chillicothe (Mo.) Livingston County Medical Society, adopted a resolution to discontinue newspaper cards in the local papers and that members refrain from having their names in the papers connected with matters professional.

Dr. M. G. Thompson., Sr., and Dr. M. G. Thompson, Jr., of Hot Springs, Ark., have opened a sanitarium at Ashdown in the new Sanderson building.

Dr. Robert McE. Schauffler, Kansas City, after traveling both at home and abroad, was one of the hosts at the Bachelors Ball at the Hotel Baltimore February 23d.

Dr. Selwin P. Rice, of Marlin, Tex., president, and Dr. Herscell F. Connally, of Waco, Tex., secretary, are the new officers of the Central District Medical Society.

The irregularity of the tax levy is given as the cause for the Missouri Supreme Court decision declaring the law providing for tuberculosis hospitals to be unconstitutional.

The profession of San Antonio, Tex., has organized the San Antonio Academy of Medicine. Dr. Charles A. R. Campbell is president, and Dr. Robert A. Roberts is secretary.

Dr. C. C. Uhls, of White City, Kansas, was reported February 16th to be seriously ill with typhoid fever. Dr. Schuyler Nichols, of Herington, Kansas, was in attendance.

Dr. John E. Bercaw of Okmulgee, Okla., president, and Dr. James T. Nichols of Muskogee, secretary, are the new officers of the seventh counselor, District Medical Society of Oklahoma.

Dr. Geo. P. Sheidler, city physician, York, Neb., resigned it is reported when the mayor declined to give support to an order for vaccination of the pupils after smallpox had appeared in one of the schools.

The St. Louis, Mo.. hospital board received notice from the factory inspector that the nine hour daily service for women employees. as provided by the state law, must be adhered to. The additional service to meet the requirements will cost about $8,000 a year.

The judgment of $1000 against Dr. Francis H. Henry, Kansas City, was reversed by the Court of Appeals February 16. The alleged cause of the suit is said to be that during an operation on a child the remark was made that the mother had deserted the child.

The American Gynecological Society announces its annual meeting, to be held at Boston, May 19 to 21. Prof. W. Nagle, Prof. W. Nagle, Berlin, will deliver an address on "Operative Treatment of Prolapse of the Vagina and Results."

Dr. J. H. White, Surgeon U. S. Public Health Service, gave an excellent talk on Health matters before the Buchanan County Medical Society, on Wednesday evening, February 18th. Dr. White is conducting a sanitary survey at St. Joseph, and will soon submit his report.

Dr. Frank Hall, of Kanass City, was the guest of honor at a dinner given February 2d, by the St. Joseph Academy of Surgery, at the new St. Francis Hotel. Covers were laid for one hundred. Dr. Hall gave an exof syphilis, illustrated by lantern slides. cellent talk on the diagnosis and treatment Dr. Floyd Spencer presided.

Walter Williams,, dean of the School of Journalism, Missouri State University, will return from his trip around the world about May 1. Dean Williams is returning from his travels earlier than he intended in order to direcrt the annual Journalism Week exercises, May 18-22. His address, "Journalism Around the World," will be one of the features of the meeting.

Dr. Jefferson Davis Griffith entertained more than one hundred of his friends at his residence, on February 19th, the occasion being the celebration of the steenth anniversary of the doctor's birth. An elaborate dinner was served during the evening, cards, vinum, smoke and good fellowship being contributory incidentals. Fortunate indeed are those who are on Dr. Griffith's list.

In 1911 Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Gosney were members of the Kansas City special to the Pacific coast. They purchased of the Santa Fe ocean transportation from San Francisco to Portland, telegraphing bert, reservation as instructed by the railroad agent. At San Francisco Dr. and Mrs. Gosney were forced to leave the steamer because 24 hours notice of berth reservation had not preceded them. The doctor sued the steamship company and got judgment for $1400. On February 16th, the Court of Appeals dismissed the judgment, saying the doctor had sued the wrong company, advising suit against the "railroad company for negligent information."

"The Injured Finger," the latest picture for the doctors reception room, is true to nature, and strikingly correct in detail. Copies may be obtained only by subscribing for the Medical Herald, or renewing your subscription. See facsimile of engraving on another page.

Medical Miscellany

The Physicians Supply Co. of Kansas City, has an attractive display in this issue, advertising page 14. Call when in the city, or send in your orders by mail. They will receive prompt attention.

Doctor, when in St. Joseph, stop at the New St. Francis hotel. Interurban and Union station cars run to the door. First class service at minimum rates. You will feel at home at the New St. Francis.

A new and rather unique idea in abdominal supporters is presented by the Bolen Mfg. Co. of Omaha, in their advertisement on page 81 of this issue. It is made on different lines and they warrant it not to slip or cause any discomfort to the wearer. If you ever have occasion to prescribe supporters in your practice, it will pay you to investigate.

Creed for an Every-day Church.-Dr. F. S. Thomas of South Hanson, Mass., sends out the following excellent precepts as the principles of the every-day church:

I. Religion does not consist in the adoption of a creed, nor in the observance of stated rites, but in reverence for the good and true, in aspiring to noble character and in devotion to the upbuilding of the human

race.

II. Truth is greater than tradition. We should accept the truth revealed through modern knowledge.

III. The Book of Life contains many helpful lessons in Bible, Nature and Ex-· perience.

IV. Our children should be given a nonsectarian and simple religious education.

V. We would encourage private rather than public prayer in our religious life.

VI. We will discourage the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes.

VII. We would not condemn the unfortunate, but help them up the heights of noble life.

VIII. We will discourage the war spirit and will encourage the spirit of brotherhood among men and nations.

IX. A true church should protest against the greed and power of wealth, and should seek to better the life conditions of the whole people.

X. More than all, we would be true friends to one another in prosperity and in adversity. Medical Times.

The Future of Medicine and Surgery. Those who like to pry into the future should enjoy some remarks made by Dr.

Sur

John B. Murphy, at the last meeting of the Clinical Congress. Speaking of the relative promise of medicine and surgery, he said: "If you were to ask me whether if I were to start in to study medicine today, I would take medicine or surgery, I would tell you without hesitation that I would start in internal medicine. The advance of internal medicine in the next quarter of a century will be enormously greater than that in surgery. Internal medicine has enormouly more possibilities than surgery has. It is the internal medicine man that goes into the details, makes a careful examination and analyses, and endeavors to arrive at a diagnosis." There is no doubt that Dr. Murphy is right. gery has pretty nearly reached high-water mark. It is more thrilling, more spectacular, more awe-inspiring than internal medicine, but less intellectual. Surgery is fundamentally mechanical; and in the future the surgeon will be more and more dependent upon the internist, including in that term both the medical biologist and the diagnosticián. Eventually these classes will lay out the work which the surgeon will execute. The solution of the great problems of disease, the extermination of their causes and how to prevent and cure them will depend upon exhaustive research, involving mental power of the very highest order. We agree with Dr. Murphy: The future assuredly rests with the internist.Editorial Medical Standard.

Bacterial Vaccine Therapy.

Treatment of infectious diseases with preparations derived from corresponding micro-organisms is unquestionably growing in favor. Not only do the bacterial vaccines (or bacterins) seem destined to a permanent place in therapeutics, but their field of applicability is constantly broadening. Proof of this is seen in the growing list of these products announced by Parke, Davis & Co., no less than nineteen of the vaccines now being offered to the profession. There are a number of reasons for the favor which is being accorded to the bacterial vaccines. In the first place these products are in consonance with scientific trend of present-day medication. They are being used with a gratifying measure of success. The way in which they are marketed (sterile solutions in hermetically sealed bulbs and in graduated syringes, ready for injection) appeals to the modern medical man, since it assures both safety and convenience. The moderate prices at which they my be purchased also tend to give them vogue.