State Medicine, at the session of the American Medical Association in 1886, he submitted certain propositions which he considered germane to needful action of that body in the promotion of the highest attainable standard of medical education, and in order to give practical effect to them he specifically suggested: "That the American Medical Association should put itself upon record at that session as recommending the extension of the period of study to four years, and of attendance upon lectures to three full terms, with ample hospital practice and clinical instruction, as the requirements for graduation in medicine.' "The Association did not so put itself upon record until six years afterward. But Dr. Rauch ceased not to so urge to the day of his death. At the recent meeting of the Association in Denver Dr. Rauch's suggestion was unanimously adopted by special resolutions. "Well did Tyndall observe, as a physicist twenty-three years ago: 'If recent theories on the propagation of disease by germs were proved to be correct, and if the laws which govern the propagation or destruction of those germs were known, the art of the physician would be raised from dependence on empirical observation into the position of an exact science. * For never be * * * * * * fore,' he said, 'was medicine manned and officered as it is now. * * On the old Baconian lines of observation and experiment the work is carried on. The inter-communication of scientific thought plays here a most important part. * * While physiologists and physicians in England and elsewhere were drawing copiously from the store of facts furnished by the researches of Pasteur, that admirable investigator long kept himself clear of physiology and medicine. The union of scientific minds is, or ought to be, organic. They are parts of the same body, in which every member, under penalty of atrophy and decay, must discharge its due share of duty imposed upon the whole. In observational medicine one fine piece of work may be here referred to the masterly inquiry of Dr. Thorne into the outbreak of typhoid fever at Caterham and Redhill. Hundreds were smitten. by this epidemic and many died. The qualities of mind illustrated in Dr. Thorne's inquiry match those displayed by William Budd in his memorable investigation of a similar outbreak in Devonshire. Dr. Budd's process was centrifugal-tracing from a single case in the village of North Lawton the ravages of the fever far and wide. Dr. Thorne's process was centripetal-tracing the epidemic backward from the multitude of cases first presented to the single individual whose infected excreta, poured into the well at Caterham, were the cause of all.' "Finally, my friends, the good time a-coming, announced by Tyndall twenty years ago, has arrived! The sanitary work of the quarter-century of our contention with correlation with the facts it has evoked in conjunction with collateral delvers into the foul soil it has cleansed, into the impure waters it has clarified, into the marshes it has drained, the air that it has screened from malignant organisms are the notes of its triumphant song in praise of sanitary methods. Yours truly, "T. P. CORBALLY, M.D." To the foregoing summary by my esteemed associate, to whom I am under lasting obligations for aid in the declared purpose of and for the results achieved by THE SANITARIAN, I have but little to add. 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City, a Great, Some Problems of, Warner, 424. City Lots, Vacant, Utilizing, 383. Cocaine is Not Coca, 256. Collargolum by Intravenous Injections in Erysipelas, Coleman, 159. Complexion, the, The Care of, 191. Co-operative Agencies for the Extension of the Registration Area Copyright, International, 382. Corbally, T. P., Medical Excerpt, 46, 156, 249, 348, 437. Crosby, E. H., Tolstoy's Answer to the Riddle of Life, 151. Dead Out of Doors, 423. Debility, Extreme, Best Remedy for, 249. Digestion, Gastric, Chloride of Sodium in, Linassier, 439. Diseases, Epidemic Infectious, Controlling Influence of Envir- Diseases, Infectious and Contagious, Bell, 289. Diseases, the Prevention of, Some Discoveries for, Smith, 239. Dog, Mad, 452. Drunkards, Dispensaries for, Rubakoff, 441. Drunkenness, Popular Remedies for, in Russia, Demitch, 442. Eddy, Atmospheric, An, Hallock, 201. Eddy's, Mrs., Logic, 475. Edinburgh and London, Street Dirt in, 167. |