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The Announcement of the Board of Trustees.-The State Medical Association of Texas at its recent meeting in Houston, April 24th to 27th, discontinued the publication of the annual Transactions in volume form, and decided to publish instead a monthly journal. The Board of Trustees was elected by the House of Delegates to inaugurate and supervise its publication. The present State Secretary, Dr. I. C. Chase, of Fort Worth, was selected as editor-in-chief, assisted by the fifteen councilors as associate editors. This editorial staff, closest in touch with medical organization and the needs of the profession, it is believed will not only establish but maintain a superior journal.

The TEXAS STATE JOURNAL OF MEDICINE will be mailed on the first of each month to every member of the county societies. One dollar of the annual dues of each member paid the State Association has been appropriated as a subscription to this JOURNAL. The first issue consists of 3700 copies, and it will bring monthly hereafter to the offices of not less than 3000 Texas physicians, the medical news of the State. The annual Transactions will not only appear in its pages, but other important and interesting matter germane to county, district, State and National organization, presented in a practical, vital and forceful manner.

The advertising pages of the JOURNAL will be filled. with only helpful and ethical advertising. The definite composition of each remedial agent advertised will be stated, to conform with the Principals of Ethics laid down by the American Medical Association, which states: "It is equally derogatory to professional character for physicians to dispense or promote the use of secret remedies."

This JOURNAL is owned and controlled by the medical profession. The use each member makes of it will determine its value and usefulness. The support of every Texas physician is solicited. County secretaries should report to their councilors other than routine. matter, such as deaths, resolutions, new plans for programs, election of officers, ethical problems, work of committees on legislation, and matters pertaining to

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S. R. BURROUGHS, Buffalo. 12. G. B. FOSCUE, Waco.

13. J. H. MCCRACKEN, Mineral Wells. 14. M. SMITH, Sulphur Springs. 15. HOLMAN TAYLOR, Marshall.

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public health. All material intended for publication must reach the editorial office by the 15th of each month to appear in the issue following.

The Board of Trustees accepts the responsibility of the maintenance of this JOURNAL, believing that it will largely increase the number of those organized to advance the interests of regular medicine, prove a potent factor in elevating the educational and ethical standards of the profession and safe-guarding the health and lives of the people.

The Essence of Osteopathy-A False Pathology.-The Legislature has adjourned. The once stalwart Osteopathic bill that seemed so sure of life, died on the calendar, exhausted by opposition. For this let us be duly thankful. The campaign was not without its lesson of woeful lack of comprehension of the real issues on the part of our law-makers.

Osteopathists were opposed as being without suitable schools, without learning in fundamental branches, resulting in absence of proper diagnoses, abuse of massage and manipulation and neglect of the sick who were in need of medicine.

Most of the charges and more were doubtless true, but the data used by the opposition early in the campaign was unfortunately old. Some five years ago, when most of our State Osteopathic practitioners graduated, Judge Toney, of Kentucky, reported on the equipment of the School of Osteopathy at Kirksville. It then possessed meagre facilities for teaching, without laboratories and only one cadaver, which, hardened by the process of embalming and many manipulations, was about as useful in the study of anatomy as a "wooden Indian."

Since that time these schools have added to their equipment, laboratories of chemistry, anatomy, and physiology. The Kirksville School has about $100,000 invested. Its course consists of two years, divided into four terms of five months each. It offers instruction in the fundamental branches of medicine taught in a more or less indifferent manner. Anatomy is studied two years, but dissection is optional after the first.