clergymen of all kinds; very often, too, which delighted me, Catholic priests, then professors, business men, physicians.

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is not for me to tell you how the public received me. But the essentially human and binding doctrine contained in my writings created at once among all thes men a common ground. We have spent unforgettable hours in fraternizing with the pure substance of humanity, above all barriers of interest, of class and of dogma. "For instance, I spoke to 2,500 Jews at the Temple Emanu-El synagogue. At St. Paul I had a long talk with Archbishop Ireland, in which his love for France was constantly shown. In frank talks with this patriarch of liberal catholicism, about whom an immense city has grown up within thirty years, and who has the gospels preached in fourteen different languages to as many fragments of nationalities joined together in America. I felt once more that the religion of the heart does not permit exclusions. How often had I had the same impression when talking with priests of a catholicism without anathema.

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"I return to France comforted by the sight of what liberty can accomplish. true democracy can stand contradictions. It saves itself precisely through those fortunate contradictions that are the very logie of life. The enemy has good qualities, believe me. If life is a fine balance between contrary forces the logic of intolerance by suppressing contradictions suppresses life.

"The last incident in my stav gives me great patriotic satisfaction. I delivered a lecture in French, at Mrs. Roosevelt's request, in the parlors of the White House on 'Unknown France' before the President and his family, the ambassador of France and his wife and some hundred others.

"I spoke of our laborious and economical people; of the little houses where so much energy and joyous activity lie concealed; of family life; of the great educational, scientific, humanitarian work that is going on among us; of the action of social penetration; of all that is being done silently for the future for more justice and more good will. There is something new there for all strangers who know only our Paris by night and have no idea of the morning Paris.

"I shall publish an account of my journey, with all the good and fine things I have seen. It is an immense work. But we must no longer dwell in the marvelous edifices of modern civilization with the souls of troglodytes."

Honors to Dr. Kemper.

A very pleasant surprise was given to Dr. G. W. H. Kemper by his brother physicians of Muncie on his 65th birthday anniversary, January, 1905. An elaborate. supper was served, followed by happy speeches from Drs. Bowles, Spickerman, Cowing, Spurgeon, Trent and Kemper,. Dr. Bell acting as toastmaster.

Dr. Kemper is giving annually an excellent course on the History of Medicine in the Indiana Medical College to the senior class. The Medical Book News has just completed his notes on "The World's Anatomists," (Part VI, Vol II, No. 9, P. Blakiston's Son & Co.) These notes will be published in book form. The last issue runs from Scarpa to Zinn. Age does not wither or custom shape a physician of the Kemper type.

NECROLOGY.

Dr. Kempf, of Jasper.

Dr. Edward J. Kempf, of Jasper, Indiana, died January 8th, at St. Anthony's Hospital, Louisville, following an opera

tion. Dr. Kempf graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Louisville in 1878. He was interested in the historical development of medicine and notably in therapeutics. The last article from his pen is on "The Compound Tincture of Benzoin," sent to this JOURNAL for publication the latter part of December, 1904, and appearing in the present issue of the JOURNAL. He was a member of the Dubois County and State Medical Societies, being a delegate to the latter. He was a frequent contributor to medical literature, not infrequently having articles in the Eastern as well as the local journals. He "was a good man skilled in healing."

Mrs. Catharine L. Dorsey.

Mrs. Dorsey, mother of Dr. Francis 0. Dorsey, of Indianapolis, died January 16th at the home of her son, D. L. Dorsey,

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near Indianapolis, from compleations in connection with an attack of influenza. She was 71 years of age, her birth falling in Putnam county in 1834. She was educated in Crawfordsville where she married the late Robert S. Dorsey in 1861, living in Indianapolis since the civil war. Dorsey was the daughter of Dr. Daniel W. Layman, of Putnam county, a country physician, of the McClure type. After seventy-five years his home still stands, a visiting place to his children, when weary and a place of joy for children's children.

She was a member of the first club organized in the city, the College Corner, and was one of the charter members of the Indianapolis Women's Club and of the Catherine Merrill Club and was a member of Over the Teacups Club. She was a member of the Fourth Presbyterian church, and has given more to it than any other person. She was a member of the board of managers of the Home for Friendless Women and for many years acted as its secretary. No one will ever know of her charities. She never mentioned them. Her domestic life was ideal and altogether she was one of the most beautiful characters. Despite her years and weakness, she read a paper on "Some Dramatic Lyrics" at the Women's Club, December 2d, which is said to seemingly embrace all fields, so well informed is she in writings of this kind, and November 11th she had a paper at the Over the Teacups Club on “Some Forgotten Classics," which was equally comprehensive in its character. She took an active part in her church, clubs and charities up to the time of her final illness.

Deaths in Indiana.

Robert Jones Owen, M. D., Indiana Medical College, 1869, died at his home in Cedar Grove, Indiana, December 22d, aged 62. He was an honorary member of the Franklin County Medical Society.

Enos Penwell, M. D., Indiana Medical College of La Porte, Ind., 1848, for half a century a practitioner of Shelbyville, Illinois, died at his home in that city December 24th, aged 83. (The Indiana Medical College of La Porte, Ind., was transferred to Keokuk, Ills. Most of the graduates are now dead. Jonathan Gordon, an attorney of Indianapolis, was a graduate in medicine of this school,-EDITOR.)

Dr. D. L. Stine, doctor in dentistry, an esteemed dentist of Indianapolis, died in St. Vincent's Infirmary from complications following appendicitis with operation, December 7th. He was a member of the State Dental Board according to the Journal A. M. A.

Dr. J. W. Hervey, of Indianapolis. Dr. James Walter Hervey died January 5th at his home, 2332 Shelby street. His illness was of less than three days' duration and the cause was a severe cold, which would not have proved serious except for his extreme age.

He was born at Fairfield, Franklin county, this State, April 5, 1819, and when a boy went to Hamilton, O., afterward to Lewisburg, O., where he studied and practiced medicine. He later removed to Hancock county, this State, where in 1845 he was married, near Cumberland, to Miss Eliza J. Crump, who with two chil dren, Dr. E. V. Hervey and Mrs. Murray F. Hill, all of this city, survive him.

He was one of the early graduates of Asbury, now DePauw University, and at fellow-student with the Rev. Thomas A. Goodwin. He resumed the practice of medicine after graduation at Asbury and settled in Hancock county. He had as a country doctor a large practice and rode on horseback through the woods of Marion, Hancock, Madison and Hamilton counties.

He was one of the few survivors of the Legislature of 1854, in which he sat as a Representative of Marion county. He was surgeon of the Fiftieth Indiana Infantry from the organization of that regiment until near the close of the civil war, when he was transferred to the regular army. Medical charge was given him of the Veteran Reserve Corps, which was encamped on the grounds north of Sixteenth street, btween Pennsylvania street and Central avenue, guarding the prisoners at Camp Morton, now Morton Place, Indianapolis.

He was one of the oldest members of the State and Marion County Medical Societies, having been preceded by a year or two only by Dr. W. H. Wishard and Dr. P. H. Jameson. He attended the International Medical Congress in Europe in

1890, as one of the representatives from Indiana.

He was an uncompromising temperance man, and more than fifty years ago wrote and published "The Scroll and Locket, or the Maniac of the Mound"; a Temperance Tale. In this story, after many trials and tribulations, he established the hero and heroine "on the romantic Hudson overlooking one of the most romantic prospects on earth." This little story of one hundred pages concludes with the words:

Friend of temperance go on-despair not-truth is eternal and immutable. Thy cause shall survive the transient breath of thy deluded opponents. Be not allured from thy steadfast mooring upon the rock of principle, by the flickering light of faction. Yes, the cause of temperance shall live while God has a sanctuary, humanity a votary, or virtue a home.

Dr. Hervey was an honorary member of the Indianapolis and State Medical Societies.

Society Meetings.

The Indianapolis Medical Society. Owing to the inclement weather the retiring President, Dr. W. H. Wishard, did not attend the meeting of January 3d, and so Dr. A. E. Sterne, Vice-President, presided. A vote of sympathy was expressed, to be delivered by the Secretary, to Dr. Wishard.

The annual election of officers then took place with the following elections: Dr. Frank B. Wynn placed in nomination for president, Dr. Frederick C. Heath, who was elected by acclamation. Dr. Charles E. Ferguson, for vice-president; Dr. Theodore Potter, secretary; Dr. John T. Scott, treasurer; Dr. L. C. Cline and Dr. Thomas B. Eastman were elected to the Judicial Council, all by acclamation.

The address of the evening was by Judge Frank S. Roby, of the Appellate Court of Indiana, printed in this issue. The address received the hearty approval of the entire society, and a rising vote of thanks was expressed to the Judge.

The January Bulletin of the Society contained the following tribute to Dr. Wishard:

The Indianapolis Medical Society has

been happy in its choice of officers but none in the list was ever more universally loved than our retiring president, Dr. Wm. H. Wishard. His kindly nature, wise counsels, broad charity, harmonizing influence, sympathetic disposition, fatherly interest and encouragement in the progress and welfare of us all have been an inspiration and a benediction. It has caused universal regret that sickness should have deprived us recently of his valued presence at the Society and that one so deserving of all the best in life should suffer pain. We earnestly hope and pray that he may be spared to bless us with his counsel and helpful companionship for many years.

He has rendered such service by his life among us and as our revered President that we we may, not unfittingly, address to him the words of Longfellow to his beloved teachers at Bowdoin:

"Honor and reverence and the good repute, That follows faithful service as its fruit, Be unto you, whom living, we salute."

The Indianapolis Medical Society met January 17th, and after a paper by Dr. Louis Burckhardt upon "Scurvy in Children with Report of a Case," adjourned.

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The Society reconvened at the residence of Dr. Wishard, 526 N. Capitol avenue, where his postponed address as retiring. President was read by Dr. Theodore Potter, Secretary of the Society. It is printed in the present issue of the JOURNAL. In addition to the members of the Society were numerous personal friends of Dr. Wishard outside of the profession. gathering was in celebration of the Doctor's 89th birthday. He was born January 17, 1816, in Nicholas County, Kentucky, and began practice April 22, 1840, in Greenwood, Ind., with Dr. Benjamin S. Noble. His first course of lectures was in the Ohio Medical College and his degree of doctor of medicine was from the Medical College of Indiana, then located at La Porte, Ind. He was a passenger with the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher on the first through train from Indianapolis to Madison, as the great preacher was on his way to take charge of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn.

Of his family, Dr. Geo. W. Wishard, a capitalist of St. Paul, Minn., and his daughter, Miss Elizabeth Wishard, were

present and acted with their father as hosts. Dr. W. N. Wishard was in Havana, and a daughter, Mrs. John Wishard, was with her husband, Dr. John Wishard, in Teheran, Persia.

At the close of the address a memorial scroll prepared by Drs. F. R. Charlton, A. E. Sterne and A. L. Wilson, was read and presented to Dr. Wishard. The testimonial from the Society was an illustrated parchment in a morocco cover, book form, and suitably inscribed.

The exercises were closed by a benediction from the Rev. Dr. M. L. Haines, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis, a close friend of Dr. Wishard and his family.

A light collation was served by Miss Wishard and her assistants, the remainder of the evening being spent in informal conversation, greetings among the assembled friends of the good and much-loved old physician.

Shelbyville Meeting of the Sixth Councilor District, January 12, 1905.

The meeting was in the Council Chamber of the City Hall.

The following physicians attended the meeting and the banquet following:

Joseph M. Mathews, Wm. H. Wathen, Louisville; Joseph Eichberg, B. Merrill Ricketts, Chas. Bonifield, Joseph Ransohoff, Brooks F. Beebe, J. A. Thompson, C. S. Muscroft, Cincinnati; Geo. D. Kahlo, A. E. Sterne, Thomas C. Hood, Theodore Potter, John M. Phipps, James H. Taylor, J. H. Ford, Wm. C. White, O. C. Neier, H. O. Pantzer, Thos. B. Eastman, A. W. Brayton, J. N. Hurty, L. H. Dunning, John J. Kyle, Indianapolis; Garrett Pigman, Liberty; I. O. Allen, Metamora; Geo. I. Inlow, I. W. Inlow, Blue Ridge; Chas. L. Williams, Greensburg; C. H. Parsons, J. C. Sexton, William Smith, Frank Green, Rushville; N. P. Howard, Greenfield; W. H. Stevenson, W. H. Stemm, North Vernon; D. H. Randolph, Waldron; I. P. Burroughs, Westport; G. H. Grant, I. M. Wampler, David W. Stevenson, Richmond; Geo. T. McCov, Columbus: J. W. MacCammon. Laurel; C. S. Hoagland, Milroy; L. D. Dillman, Connersville; Chas. D. Pettigrew, Flat Rock; Calvin Carter, Brookville; T. R. Rubush, London; S. L. Strick

ler, Boggstown; W. J. Snider, Fairland; F. E. Ray, Frank Campbell, Joseph Bowlby, H. E. Phares, B. G. Keeney, W. G. McFadden, Morris Drake, W. H. Kennedy Samuel Kennedy, T. C. Kennedy, C. A. Tindal, L. C. Sammons, Shelbyville.

Essays were read by the following physicians: John C. Sexton, of Rushville, "Treatment of Intestinal Obstruction"; "The Medical Treatment of Appendicitis," by Joseph Eichberg, of Cincinnati: "Infant Feeding in Health and Disease," by James H. Taylor, of Indianapolis; "The Obstetric Forceps," by Garrett Pigman, of Liberty; "Gastric Ulcer Considered Medically and Surgically," by Geo. H. Grant, of Richmond; "Hysteria; its Medical and non-Medical Aspects," by Irwin O. Allen, of Metamora; "The Operative Treatment of Exophthalmic Goitre," by Joseph Ransohoff, of Cincinnati.

The first paper was by Dr. John C. Sexton, of Rushville, upon the "Treatment of Intestinal Obstruction." This paper is printed in the present issue of the JOUR

NAL.

The paper was discussed by Dr. Hoagland of Milroy, Dr. Thomas B. Eastman of Indianapolis and Dr. Wathen of Louisville, and Dr. Merrill Ricketts of Cincinnati.

Dr. Ricketts reported a case with obstruction due to carcinoma. Intestinal obstruction is attended by the highest mortality of any other abdominal operation. Many of the patients are practically dead when the surgeon is called.

Closing, Dr. Sexton said: "Empty the intestine above; quench the thirst, stop the pain, but do not waste time trying things. Call surgical aid early if you cannot operate yourself."

Dr. T. B. Eastman emphasized the necessity of surgical intervention preceded by an early diagnosis upon the part of the attending physician. It had happened to him to be called to operate on three cases within a single week of the present month. All died subsequent to operation, but in no case had the attending physician been negligent or inappreciative of the conditions. One was a child of 7 years; one an old soldier blacksmith of 68 years, kicked by a horse, with the result of foreing the intes tine through an apparently congenital slit in the mesentery with gangrene resulting;

the third was complicated with other conditions (a woman of 32) uncontrollable by operation and resulting in death.

Dr. C. K. Bruner, of Greenfield, was detained unavoidably and could not present his paper on "Diabetes Insipidus." The same is true of Dr. E. Everett Hamilton, of Connersville, with his paper, "Fissure of the Anus."

The second paper was by Dr. Joseph Eichberg, of Cincinnati, upon "Appendicitis." The author considered the symptoms and diagnosis, passing on to the medical treatment. The first protection against the great danger of peritonits is the arrest of intestinal peristalsis by the cold bag on the abdomen, by the use of early and abundant use of morphia for the relief of the pain which depresses and sometimes kills. It need not "mask the symptoms." Do not hurry to unload the bowels; active purgation may invite disaster. But calomel 1-10 grain may be used with the opium and so aid the bowels.

Upon the whole the Ochsner method was upheld.

Let us give nature the chance to surround the seat of danger with a wall of lymph; the bowels may rest for 36 to 48 hours.

This plan of treatment, rest, opium and calomel, the use of the icebag, has carried many cases through their primary attack in the course of 6 or 8 days. It is a surgical fallacy to assert that one attack means another.

If the cases are fulminant and perforative not even surgery will save the patient. We do not trust to luck; we watch the case carefully as to pulse, respiration, facial expression and local conditions. And we do not fail to call the surgeon when consultation is deemed necessary and desirable. In the discussion of peritonitis as in its treatment, we should avoid generalities and look to the needs. of the individual.

The paper was commended by Dr. C. H. Parsons, of Rushville, and by Dr. Wathen, of Louisville. The latter contended that most cases should be operated on. Morphine does not cure the cases; operation does cure them. And operation is a permanent cure. Moreover, many of the cases reported as cured by rest and mor

phia never had appendicitis. In brief, Dr. Wathen supported the extreme surgical view, as opposed to Ochsner-the same views he expressed at the Atlantic City meeting of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Garrett Pigman, of Liberty, Ind., commended the position of Dr. Eichberg.

Dr. Taylor, of Indianapolis, compared the conservative treatment of appendicitis to that of pneumonia, and favored the rest and medical treatment of the essayist.

The paper was considered by Dr. Merrill Ricketts, of Cincinnati, advocating early operation as only by operation can we determine the conditions.

Dr. T. B. Eastman cited cases of pneumonia and of typhoid mistaken for appendicitis. The differential diagnosis is in some cases exceedingly difficult.

Dr. L. H. Dunning, of Indianapolis, defended the surgeons against the oft-made imputation that the surgeons are always ready to cut. Certainly when a patient has had a second attack he should be operated on in the interval. Is appendicitis a surgical or a medical disease? Ten years ago the surgical teaching was that immediate operation is advisable-we followed Murphy and Deaver and Morris. But now we have learned to wait in certain cases. The speaker had seen Dr. Deaver operate on several cases after waiting for the storm to pass by. We now believe the internal operation is desirable. The speaker had operated on 200 internal cases without bad result. But there are cases in which we should not wait for the interval. In cases of general peritonitis we should wait, or we will lose over 25 per cent. We are under obligation to Dr. Ochsner for his teaching on this subject. Dr. Eichberg closed the discussion.

The third paper of the day was read by Dr. Geo. H. Grant, of Richmond, on "Gastric Ulcer."

Discussion by Dr. Wathens, who considered the applications of surgery, particularly gastro-duodenostomy, with especial consideration of the work of Mayo, directed to the elimination of the vicious circle, and its consequent regurgitant vomiting.

Dr. Eichberg thought that gastric ulcer is frequently unrecognized; that it is frequent in the chlorosis of young girls; in