to produce more evil than good. We hope that it will not be introduced into the athletic drills of our military schools, particularly those at West Point and Annapolis.-American Medicine.

The qualities of a Japanese juggler are required for expertness-very flexible joints, great muscular power, a cool head, and a feline agility, which no race possesses except the Japanese, and even with these natural traits, the Jap requires several years to learn the numerous tricks, and must keep in constant practice. Europeans who attempt to become expert do not succecd, so that it is not at all probable that it can be transplanted to America and flourish. The footpad has more efficient means of attack, and the victim is not as well off as he would be with a fair knowledge of boxing.-American Medicine.

University of Toronto. Faculty of Medicine. The Faculty of Medicine of Toronto University will conduct a Post-graduate Course, extending over the two weeks immediately preceding the meeting of the Ontario Medical Association: The programme from day to day will be as follows: 9 a.m. to II a.m.-Operations and surgical clinics in the various hospitals; 11 a.m. to I p.m.Clinical laboratory methods and practice in the laboratories of the University of Toronto; II a.m. to 1 p.m.-A course in surgical pathology, including gross and microscopic demonstrations in the laboratories and museum of the University of Toronto; 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.-Medical clinics in the various hospitals; 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.A course of surgery on the cadaver.

Schedule of Fees: For the course in Clinical Laboratory Methods, $15; for the course in Surgical Pathology, $15; for the course of Surgery on the Cadaver, $15; for the Hospital Clinics, $10,

The fees are for the whole or any part of a course, and all fees must be paid at the Secretary's office, in the University Medical Building, on the first day of the course.

It is requested that members of the profession who wish to take all or any of the courses should notify the Secretary, Dr. A, Primrose, before coming to Toronto.

The courses will begin on Monday, May 22nd, and will terminate on Monday, June 5th.

News Items.

CANADIAN.

DR. CLEARY is leaving Renfrew for Ottawa.

DR. BRYDONE-JACK, of Vancouver, is in New York.

THE death of Dr. Johnson of Fergus, Ont., is announced.
DR. GLEN CAMPBELL, Vancouver, has returned from Germany.
DR. STEWART ROSS, of Alberni, B.C., has located in Vancouver.
DR. PERRY GOLDSMITH, of Belleville, Ont., has gone to Vienna.
Montreal will disinfect all houses in which tuberculosis has

been.

DR. BEEMER, of the Mimico asylum, attended the Osler banquet.

DR. BRAY of Chatham, Ont., has been made an LL.D. of Queen's University.

THE Montreal General Hospital is adding a new wing at a cost of $200,000.

DR. E. E. KING, Toronto, left on the 2nd of May, for a two months' trip to England.

DR. JAMES, of Watford, has gone to Edmonton, where he will establish a private hospital.

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MAN., will build an addition to its hospital at a cost of $12,000.

DR. AGNEW, who formerly practised in Pickering, died recently of pneumonia at Port Arthur.

Dr. WALTER TURNBULL has gone into partnership with his brother, Dr. J. L. Turnbull, Goderich.

DRS. F. J. SHEPHERD, Birkett and James Bell, of Montreal, were at the Osler banquet at New York.

DR. NEWTON DRIER, of Vancouver, has recently received a Canadian patent on a new surgical splint.

DR. RICE, of New Dundee, has disposed of his practice to Dr. Stauffer, and will spend some time in Europe.

DR. JAMES CRAIG, of Ridgetown, who left for the North-West a couple of weeks ago, will locate at Calgary.

DR. A. E. BURROWS, who has been practising at McKellar for the past year intends moving to Parry Sound.

THE Provincial Hospital of New Brunswick, treated 716 patients during the past year, there being 141 admissions.

DR. G. N. BRODIE, formerly of Whitby, has sold his practice in Didsbury, Alberta, and is about to locate in Port Arthur.

DRS. INGERSoll Olmsted, Malloch, Russill and Mullin, of Hamilton, Ont., attended the Osler banquet at New York.

DR. WILLIAMS, of Lisle, has sold out to Dr. Evans, late of Uxbridge. Dr. Williams will take a post-graduate course.

DURING the week ending the 22nd of April, the Winnipeg General Hospital, treated 279 indoor patients and 110 out-patients.

THE Manitoba Medical College is to erect a new and larger college building. The site will be near the Winnipeg General Hospital.

DR. MACCALLUM, of the London asylum, has returned from New York, where he attended the banquet to Dr. Osler at the Waldorf-Astoria.

DR. GUNN, of Clinton, is gaining strength daily, and intends to leave shortly on a trip to Europe, which it is hoped will effect a complete recovery.

DR. W. H. ADAMS, formerly of Grand Valley, who went to China as a medical missionary two years ago, is seriously ill from fever in that country.

DR. BICKERTON EDMISON, eldest son of Rev. T. J. Edmison, B.A., B.D., now of Brighton, but formerly of Newcastle, has opened an office in Castleton.

DR. CHAPMAN of Newcastle, has returned to his home at Holland Landing, previous to his early departure for England to take his degree of M.R.C.S.

HENRY CHARLes SchombergeR ELLIOTT, M.D., Cobourg, has been appointed Associate Coroner for the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham.

THE Toronto General Hospital Board of Management is considering the site at the south-east corner of University Avenue and College Street for a new hospital.

DR. ALEX. MACKAY of Cookstown, Ont, has been spending two months visiting the New York Hospitals. Dr. MacKay expects to locate in the North-West Territories.

DR. H. WIGLE has again been re-appointed medical health officer for the township of Albemarle-a position he has continuously held for over twenty years.

ONE hundred and sixty-three medical students wrote at the medical examinations of the University of Manitoba this spring, thirty-four of them competing for the degree of M.D.

DR. NAIRN, of Winterbourne, who, it was reported, intended moving back to Elora in May, has decided to remain in Winterbourne, much to the relief of residents in that section.

DR. ADAM H. WRIGHT, Dr. Allan Baines and Dr. Herbert Bruce, Toronto, attended the Osler banquet at the WaldorfAstoria, New York, on the night of the 2nd of May.

DR. DUGALD MCBAIN, St. Thomas, Ont., who has been for the past few months in partnership with Dr. Van Buskirk, has decided to go west in about two weeks. He will locate near Winnipeg.

THE Toronto Clinical Society, at its meeting on the 3rd of May, elected the following officers: President, Dr. Adam H. Wright; vice-president, Dr. H. B. Anderson; recording secretary. Dr. George Elliott; corresponding secretary, Dr. W. J. McCollum; treasurer, Dr. Geoffrey Boyd. Executive Committee: Drs. King, Thistle, Dwyer, Wishart and Rudolf.

DR. MCLAY will occupy Dr. Meek's office (London, Ont.), during his absence in Europe, and will attend to his practice. He is a recent graduate of Toronto University. His home is in Aylmer.

DR. W. J. PATTERSON, of Norwood, Ont., has relinguished his medical practice there, and intends to locate in some other part of the province, where he will have wider scope for the practice of his profession.

IT is reported that Dr. Natrass, Toronto, having been appointed principal medical officer for Western Ontario in the militia, that Dr. John T. Fotheringham will be made principal medical officer for District No. 2.

DR. ALEX. MACKAY, who was at one time a member of the staff of the Stayner public school, and who has been practising medicine for some years in Cookstown, has sold his practice there to Dr. Rounthwaite, of Toronto.

THE Ontario Board of Health met in Toronto, in regular quarterly session during the week ending the 29th of April. At their next regular meeting they will discuss the advisability of a Department of Health, for the Ontario Government.

THESE appointments have been made by the trustees in Queen's medical faculty: Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Hon. Dr. Sullivan; Professor of Surgery, Dr. Mundell; Professor of Applied Anatomy, Dr. Ryan; Professor of Anatomy, Dr. Mylks.

DR. F. S. NICHOLSON, an old Trinity Medical College boy, has been visiting in Toronto. Dr. Nicholson is surgeon-major in the Nebraska National Guards, and has been taking a post-graduate course at the Army Medical School at Washington, D. C.

THE Province of Ontario is making the following allotments of moneys for support of the various provincial asylums: Toronto, $115 406; London, $146,485; Hamilton, $134,875; Mimico, $83,110; Brockville, $92,369; Cobourg, $26,622; Penetanguishene, $42,984; Orillia, $76,852; Woodstock, $18,020.

THE Samaritan Hospital for Women, Montreal, of which Dr. Lapthorn Smith is surgeon-in-chief, held its annual meeting recently, and from the report submitted by the surgeon, 146 women had been treated in this hospital during the past year. Dr. Smith considers, that there is room in Canada for a nurse, who will work for $1.00 or $1.50 per day.