station to show the temperature, pulse and respiration of the patients in the hospital. A small button is attached under the patient's arm, with wires leading to the machine. By means of electricity, the exact condition of a patient can be determined at any time by the machine.

An alarm is sounded if the temperature, respiration or pulse is too high or too low. Dr. Price spent twenty years in working on the machine. He presented it to the medical profession in 1913 in Toledo, O. He gave it as a contribution from the dental profession and has dedicated it to the free use of all for the best interests of humanity. Dr. Price is still working on improvements for the machine.

The instrument will be shown at the meeting of the American Medical Association.

The State Dental Society was entertained by the Indianapolis Medical Society at the City Hospital. Clinics were held by Drs. McDonald, Ross and Hoskins. S. E. E.

HENDRICKS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

The Pittsboro meeting was held May 22d in the Christian church from 4 to 6

p. m. Dr. Louis W. Armstrong, of Danville, read a paper on the "Management of Labor in Village and Country Practice," with discussion by Dr. O. T. Scamahorn.

He gave

Dr. Will Shimer gave a talk on collecting various pathological specimens to be sent to the State laboratory. each one present a copy of the excellent directions printed in pamphlet form with illustrations of the sets of boxes, etc., sent by the Health Board on request. Adjournment was had for supper served by the Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. church. At 7 p. m. Dr. John N. Hurty, Secretary of the State Board of Health, gave a moving picture and stereopticon lecture on public sanitation. There was also lecture by Dr. Ernest Cooper with discussion by Dr. W. H. Terrell on "Sanitation in Small Towns." Drs.

W. F. Clevenger, T. C. Hood and A. W. Brayton were guests of Dr. O. G. Pfaff to and from this very interesting meeting.

ANNUAL HEALTH OFFICERS MEET.

Each

It was one of the best meetings. year there is a convention of this kind under the auspices of the Indiana State Board of Health. This year it was held in the palm room of the Claypool Hotel May 26-27.

Dr. H. A. Cowing, of Muncie, read a paper on "The Need for the Whole Time Health Officers," which was discussed by Dr. H. O. Bruggeman, of Fort Wayne, and others.

There was a bill before the Legislature of 1913 to have all health officers devote their entire time to health work and to place them on a salary sufficient to compensate them for their work, the same as any other county, city or town officer. Many of the health authorities of the State supported the proposition, but it died in committee.

The opposition came largely from health officers in small towns and counties, where the annual pay is small, ranging as low as $10 or $20 a year. It is said that a similar bill will be presented to the Legislature at the next session, and it was the idea of the State Board of Health that this conference would be an excellent place to drag out the plan and have the health officers thrash it out.

Dr. John H. Landis, of Cincinnati, formerly of Logansport, read a paper on "The Social Evil in Its Relation to Public Health." Dr. Porter Linthicum, of Evansville, lead the discussion. Dr. A. W. Brayton, by request, discussed Dr. Landis' paper. Other topics were "Importance of Vital Statistics," Dr. F. G. Thornton, Brazil; discussion, Dr. S. E. Earp, Indianapolis, who said, "that health boards should have the earnest support of every doctor and he should educate his patrons to recognize the worth of their work. A doctor is made more competent in his work by the use of statistics.

The one who reports his cases to the board simply because the law directs him to do so deserves but little credit and dereliction is a stain on character; "Cooperation with the State Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis," W. D. Thurber, Indianapolis.

Dr. C. A. Zinn, of Frankfort, gave an interesting address on "Public Health Work in Clinton County." He said particular attention was paid to the gathering of birth returns, that the record may be kept complete. He insisted that physicians should report all births within thirty-six hours. When he receives a birth return he sends a post card acknowledgment to the physician. He also sent a birth certificate to the mother of the child, and this, he said, is evidence in any court of the birth and identity of the child. Later he sends to each mother a package of pamphlets on the proper care and feeding of babies.

Once a month he publishes in a daily paper at Frankfort a complete list of the births reported in Clinton county for the previous month, so that any mother whose child's name does not appear may make report and thus obtain the official birth certificate.

Another interesting address was by Dr. J. H. Morrison, of Bartholomew county, on the subject of "School Inspection and Trachoma in Bartholomew County." He. said a representative of the federal health bureau made a thorough inspection of the 4,200 school children in that county and found forty-nine cases of trachoma, or granular eyelids, a serious, infectious dis

ease.

Dr. George F. Keiper, of Lafayette, discussed the address and exhibited a number of lantern slides. He said the roller towel was the most prolific spreader of trachoma. He cited one instance where 240 cases of trachoma at Lafayette and Ft. Wayne were traced to the use of a roller towel by one boy.

The health officers are not compelled by law to attend these conferences, but when they do attend, in response to a call of the State Board of Health, their expenses are paid by the county,, city or town which they represent.

HEALTH BOARD CHANGES.

Dr. Mavity J. Spencer, who has been president of the health board for some time, has retired and was not an applicant for reappointment.

Dr. Spencer has been a member of the city health board eleven years. Besides serving on the health board, Dr. Spencer has been superintendent of the city dispensary, city sanitarian and superintendent of the city hospital.

The position of president of the city health board pays $500 a year. Other members of the board receive $100 a year. Dr. Spencer is held in high esteem by the medical profession in Indianapolis.

Dr. Gustavus B. Jackson, 3140 North Delaware street, yesterday was appointed to succeed Dr. Spencer. He was appointed as a Democratic member. Dr. Jackson has been practicing surgery in Indianapolis for eight years, specializing in abdominal surgery and obstetrics. He was a graduate from the University of Chicago and later studied a year in Berlin.

Dr. Thomas B. Eastman has accepted an appointment from Mayor Bell as a member of the City Board of Health, succeeding Dr. Moses Thorner, who has resigned. Both Dr. Eastman and Dr. Thorner are Republicans. The appointment is for the unexpired term of Dr. Thorner ending May 31, 1916.

Dr. Thorner and family recently went to California and have since decided to remain there indefinitely. Because of this fact, Dr. Thorner offered his resignation, which was accepted by the mayor.

Dr. Eastman is president of the Indianapolis Medical Society and a member of the staffs of the City, Methodist and Deaconess hospitals. He is also a member of the faculty of the Indiana University School of Medicine. He studied medicine in Indianapolis and later took post-graduate courses in New York and Berlin.

The active practice of Dr. Eastman has extended over a period of twenty-one years and for the last fifteen years he

Appellate Court Upholds Verdict Against

Doctors for Malpractice.

The Appellate Court has affirmed the Howard Circuit Couprt in giving Mary L. Vernon a judgment of $2,500 against Dr. Thomas W. Longfellow and Dr. William E. McKee for malpractice. The doctors appealed from the judgment of the lower court, asserting that the answers of the jury conclusively showed the injury of which she complained was the result of an inward disease, and not of any neglect on their part, and that the answers also showed that they had used all reasonable diligence in tending the injury.

Under the law the general verdict of the jury is conclusive unless the answers to the interrogatories specfically overcome all the material allegations of the complaint. In this case the plaintiff's attorneys filed six paragraphs of complaint, the first of which alleged negligence in failing to discover and treat the plaintiff for a split bone in the leg just above the ankle; the second, for negligence in using gasoline to remove some adhesive tape strips; the third, for negligence in putting the leg in a plaster cast; the fourth, for negligence in failing to diagnose the injury and then using gasoline to remove the adhesive strips and thereafter putting the gasolinewashed leg in a plaster cast; the fifth, for failure to discover and properly treat an alleged dislocated hip; the sixth, in failing to discover the alleged dislocation of the hip and then bandaging the leg too tightly.

The plaintiff, when injured on October 16, 1905, was only sixteen years of age. Her mother testified she came home from school complaining that some boys had chased her and she had fallen on the sidewalk. After lying down for a time

she went around the house and down town that evening. Next day Dr. McKee was called.

The answers of the jury show that the doctor advised the use of hot water to reduce the pain and was again called while he made an examination and attempted treatment, and afterward he and Dr. Longfellow came together and they called in two other physicians to consider the injury, and they tried various treatments, and that gasoline was used by good physicians in removing adhesive tape. The jury also found that the bone of the leg was not split at the time the injury occurred nor was the hip dislocated as alleged, but that plaintiff was suffering from a disease of the bone.

The

The Appellate Court held that the answers of the jury do not overcome enough of the allegations of the complaint, but that there are sufficient allegations left to support a judgment. law being that if the answers of the jury do not specifically overcome all the allegations of the complaint, the judgment must stand, the doctors must take their share of the burden of the laws passed to promote damage suits.

The physicians are reputable and skilled in the practice of their profession, it has generally been understood, and many are surprised at the action of the court. S. E. E.

AT THE LILLY LABORATORIES. The members of the graduating class of the Indiana University School of Medicine were guests of Eli Lilly & Co. May 19th. The afternoon was spent in an inspection of the Lilly laboratories and in the evening six o'clock dinner was served at the Claypool Hotel. President J. K. Lilly presided. Dr. F. B. Wynn and Dr. J. F. Barnhill, officers of the medical faculty, spoke briefly. Dr. J. P. Buckley, of Chicago, and Dr. W. B. Price, of Cleveland, two distinguished representatives of the dental profession who were attending the State dental meeting were present and also addressed the students. Dr. Price is the inventor of the clinical recorder, a device that has attracted

much attention in medical circles. During his stay in Indianapolis Dr. Price gave some interesting demonstrations before medical gatherings and at local hospitals.

JOLT FOR EUGENICS. Medical Association Tables Resolution at Baltimore-Indiana Men Elected. Baltimore, May 28.-The American Medico-Psychological Association, at its annual convention here, refused to go on record as favoring eugenic marriage laws. The resolution was tabled by a large majority.

Resolutions recommending the segregation of the feeble-minded, imbeciles or other mental delinquents and the establishment of separate institutions for their care were adopted unanimously.

Dr. S. E. Smith, of Richmond, Ind., was elected president of the association for the coming year. Dr. E. N. Brush, of Baltimore, was chosen vice-president, and Dr. Charles G. Wagner, of Binghamton, N. Y., was re-elected secretary-treasurer.

Dr. S. E. Smith, superintendent of the Easthaven Hospital for the Insane at Richmond, who was elected president of the American Medico-Psychological Association at Baltimore, is a native Indianian, a graduate of Indiana University and of Indiana Medical College. He has for twenty years been in charge of the hospital at Richmond. Dr. Smith has a high reputation among American alienists, and has written much on subjects pertaining to this branch of his profession. He is one of the pioneer advocates of the colonization of the insane, and last year, on his recomendation, the State added a large tract of land to the Easthaven institution.

DR. THEOBALD SMITH BECOMES DI

RECTOR OF NEW INSTITUTE. Announcement has been made by the Rockefeller Institue for Medical Research that Dr. Theobald Smith, now professor of comparative pathology in the Harvard Medical School, has accepted the position of director of its new de

This de

partment of animal pathology. partment has but recently been established, and the fact that Mr. Rockefeller has added $1,000,000 to the endowment of the institute for the support of this department, and that Mr. James J. Hill has pledged $50,000 for its use in the study of hog cholera became known only a few weeks ago. The department is not yet organized or equipped, but it is expected to begin active work within a year. In the meantime Professor Smith will continue his connection with Harvard University so long as may be necessary to complete work on which he is now engaged at its medical school. He has had a distinguished career as a pathologist and bacteriologist and is considered as one of the world's foremost bacteriologists.-From

May 23, 1914.

A. M. A. Journal,

One can not do better than to look over the files of the A. M. A. Journal for the last few years and read the papers of Dr. Theobald Smith on immunity, on vaccines, on bacteriological problems. Simple, lucid, and instructive they are, and full of original work.

We putter with little things; the "hypocritical days" come to a close and we have laid aside the great papers.-and alas we never take them up.-A. W. B.

FORD OFFERS DETROIT $3,000,000

HOSPITAL.

Detroit, Mich., June 4.-In a letter to the directors of the Detroit General Hospital, now in course of construction, Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer, today announced his willingness to take over the property on West Grand Boulevard, complete the work and provide Detroit with a creditable nospital.

Mr. Ford is chairman of the board and his generous offer was unanimously accepted by all the members. His offer involves the expenditure of about $3,000,000, and he will repay to every person who has contributed every dollar he or she has given for the building of the hospital, which numbers about 100 and totals over $400,000.

About $300,000 has been expended on

the building, the service building, laboratory and private patients' building and an operating room being now under construction. At least $250,000 will have to be expended before a patient can be received, but the work will be pushed rapidly upon the delivery of the deed of the property.

Mr. Ford will assume all outstanding debts and contracts and he asks in return that he be relieved of all obligations such as employing particular individuals and everything of that nature.

In returning the contributions and asking that he be relieved of employing any individual, Mr. Ford merely desires to be unhampered and untrammeled in what he thinks best. He is working out a plan and wishes to be free to carry it out.

THE POET RILEY PRAISES THE

SONGSTRESS, MISS WARRUM.

"When it came to my notice a few days ago that you are planning a testimonial concert for Miss Helen Warrum, I felt impelled to send you a word of good cheer.

"According to the Scriptures a prophet is not without honor save in his own country. And that may still hold good 'down in Judee,' but here in Hoosierland we use the revised version, for to honor our prophets is our first great privilege, whether they come with a sword and shield or only a song on the lips. we ask is that they be not false. It is a fine thing that Indiana has come to realize that to honor herself she must first honor her children.

All

"This young girl with the full throat and the golden note has sung herself out of the home country into the larger world. As she is about to leave for that land where 'music with her silver sound' is the very language of the people, I want to add my hearty wishes to the many that will follow her.

"Her father and her father's father were near and dear to my own people in the days that are gone, and so it is with an interest more than common that I watch her as she faces the hardships

and struggles that have always been the toll that talent pays to fame. That she will face them bravely I have no doubt; that she will triumph, I firmly believe: but whatever may befall her, she goes knowing that she bears with her the faith and affection of those that know her best-her neighbors. As one of them I sign myself with every good and hopeful wish."

"Light winged is song," says the poet. One of the most beautiful tributes made by Myron Reed is in honor of Emma Abbott, to whom he lent ten dollars to get away from Columbus, Wis., where Mr. Reed was preaching. It rained. Mr. Reed lighted the church and collected the thirteen quarters. Many years later the gifted singer called and paid the debt, saying, "Mr. Reed, ten dollars when one needs it is worth more than 100,000 when one don't." This tribute is one of many beautiful memoirs in Myron Reed's Temple Talks, 1893. He was the greatest preacher ever in Indianapolis, not forgetting Henry Ward Beecher.

The Journal wishes Miss Warrum every success and joy. Poetry and music have filled many shores with hope and comfort which the recession of philosophy and science have left exposed and lifeless in the memory of our own times, and to music and poetry we may look for our greatest joy and happiness in the future. Miss Warrum's father we know and love; his address on Robert Burns is poetry and music itself.-A. W. B.

PEARY ON ARCTIC HYSTERIA.

Hysteria in the arctic regions, which somewhat resembles the "running amuck" of the Malays and the hunger strike demonstrations of the British militant suffragettes, has been a subject of some interest in a meeting of New York doctors. The Eskimo name for this form of nervous affection is piblokto, and it prevails, says Peary in his book, "The North Pole," on the western coast of Greenland. He says: "The patient, usually a woman, begins to scream and tear off and destroy her