The Board of Trustees of the Permanent Endowment Fund of the University
held its annual meeting on January 11. Judge Stockbridge was re-elected
president and Mr. J. Harry Tregoe secretary-treasurer, and, with Dr.
Samuel C. Chew and Judge Sams, constitute the executive committee for
the year 1909. The funds and securities in hand total the gross sum of
$18,635.74.
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A special meeting of the Washington Branch of the General Alumni
Association was held at the office of the president, Dr. Monte Griffith,
March 11, 1909, to consider the advisability of petitioning the Board of
Regents to establish a Board of Alumni Counsellors, a paid president and
a Board of Trustees, independent of the teaching faculties. Resolutions
in favor of these measures were adopted.
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Dr. Louis W. Knight, class of 1866, of Baltimore, has presented to
Loyola College a valuable collection of papal medals.
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Drs. H. O. and J. N. Reik have removed their offices to 506 Cathedral
street.
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Drs. W. D. Scott and W. E. Wiegand attended the banquet of the Virginia
Military Institute Alumni Association of Baltimore, held at the New
Howard House, March 2, 1909. Dr. W. D. Scott responded to the toast "The
Younger Generation and the Splendid Work of the Virginia Military
Institute Today."
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Major William F. Lewis, class of 1893, U. S. A. Medical Corps, has been
relieved from duty at Fort Thomas and ordered to sail on June 5, 1909,
for the Philippine Islands, via San Francisco, for duty.
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Dr. Hugh A. Maughlin, class of 1864, of 121 North Broadway, an official
in the United States Custom Service, who was assistant surgeon in the
Sixth Maryland Regiment during the Civil War, is dangerously ill of
pleurisy at his home. Dr. Maughlin is a member of Wilson Post, G. A. R.
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Dr. James A. Nydegger, class of 1892, past assistant surgeon, United
States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, has been promoted to
the rank of surgeon.
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Dr. Eugene H. Mullan, class of 1903, assistant surgeon, United States
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, has been commissioned a past
assistant surgeon, to rank as such from February 2, 1909.
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Dr. Samuel T. Earle, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., records the case of Mrs. F.
H. D., who, the latter part of August, 1907, while eating ham, swallowed
a plate with two false teeth. Ten days later she had a violent attack of
pain in the abdomen, followed by a chill and fever. There was no
recurrence of this for one and a half months. Since then they have
recurred from time to time, but not as severe, nor have they been
attended with chill and fever. A diagram taken of the lower abdominal
and pelvic regions showed the plate in the sigmoid flexure of the colon,
on a level with the promontory of the sacrum. Examination through the
sigmoidoscope brought it into view at the point shown by the X-ray.
There was considerable tenesmus, and the passage of a good deal of
mucous, also a tendency to constipation. Under the influence of two
hypodermics of morphine, gr. 1-4, hyoscine hydrobromate, gr. gr. L-100,
and cactina, which produced satisfactory anesthesia, Dr. Earle was able
to grasp the plate through the sigmoidoscope with a pair of long
alligator forceps, and withdraw it immediately behind the sigmoidoscope.
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At the Conference on Medical Legislation, held in Washington, D. C.,
January 18-20, 1909, resolutions were adopted providing for a committee
composed of one member each from the medical departments of the Army and
the Navy, one from the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, one
member from the District of Columbia and one member from the Council on
Medical Legislation, to present to the medical profession the conditions
under which the widow of Major James Carroll is now placed, and to
devise such plans as might seem advisable for her relief. The following
committee was appointed: Major M. W. Ireland, U. S. A.; Surgeon W. H.
Bell. U. S. N.; Dr. John F. Anderson, U. S. Public Health and Marine
Hospital Service; Dr. John D. Thomas, Washington, D. C., and Dr. A. S.
Von Mansfelde, of Ashland, Nebraska.
Mrs. Carroll has been granted a pension of $125 a month on which to
support herself, seven young children and the aged mother of her
husband. The house, which Major Carroll had partly paid for, is
mortgaged for $5,000. Since the conference adjourned the medical
officers of the Army have raised enough to pay the taxes on the house,
one monthly note of $50 and the overdue interest on the first mortgage,
amounting to $125. Believing that the members of the medical profession
will wish to contribute toward a fund for the purpose of paying the
balance due on the house, the committee requests contributions of any
amount. They may be sent to Major M. W. Ireland, United States Army,
Washington, D. C. The editors of THE BULLETIN sincerely hope our alumni
will honor the memory of our most distinguished alumnus by contributing
liberally to this most worthy cause.
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At the last regular meeting of the University of Maryland Medical
Association, held in the amphitheatre of the University Hospital,
Tuesday, March 16, 1909, the program was as follows: 1, "The General
Practitioner: His Relation to His Patients, to His Fellow Practitioners
and to the Community in Which He Lives," Dr. Guy Steele, Cambridge, Md.;
2, "Medical Ethics," Dr. Samuel C. Chew. Dr. A. M. Shipley, the
president, was in the chair, and called the meeting to order promptly at
8.30 P. M. The attendance was large and appreciative, and listened to
two remarkably able addresses. Those who had the privilege and pleasure
of listening to the words of wisdom and advice both of Dr. Chew and Dr.
Steele went away with a clearer conception of their duties to their
professional brethren and the public.
Immediately after the adjournment of the Medical Association the Adjunct
Faculty, with its president, Dr. Joseph W. Holland, in the chair, held a
very important meeting, the gist of which is as follows: Resolved by the
Adjunct Faculty of the Medical Department of the University of Maryland
that the Board of Regents be implored to effect such changes in the
charter as to make possible the election of a president with a fixed
salary, and with the duties usually associated with that office in
standard universities, and a Board of Administrators independent of
teaching faculties. The Adjunct Faculty also endorsed tentative plans
looking towards the formation of an advisory board of alumni
counsellors.
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At the meeting of the Section on Ophthalmology and Otology, Thursday,
March 11, 1909, at the Faculty Hall, the following of our alumni read
papers: "Rodent Ulcer of the Cornea (Ulcus Rodens Mooren), with
Exhibition of the Case," Dr. R. L. Randolph; "Purulent Otitis Media of
Infancy and Childhood," Dr. H. O. Reik.
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At the meeting of the Section on Neurology and Psychiatry, Friday, March
12, 1909, the following participated:
"History and Forms of Chorea," Dr. N. M. Owensby;
"Etiology of Chorea, Dr. H. D. McCarty;
"Treatment of Chorea," Dr. W. S. Carswell.
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The Baltimore _Star_ of March 27th, 1909, has this to say concerning
Prof. Randolph Winslow: "Prof. Randolph Winslow, head of the Department
of Surgery of the University of Maryland, is one of the best-known
lecturers and demonstrators in the East. He is a close student, and has
the faculty of impressing the young men of the University with the force
of and practicability of his knowledge. Professor Winslow stands high in
medical and surgical circles of the country, and ranks with the best
surgeons." Under the caption of the leading men of Maryland _The Star_
also included a photograph of Professor Winslow. By honoring Dr. Winslow
_The Star_ also honors the University of Maryland, whose authorities
feel a natural pride in the eminent position held by its professors.
Dr. Fitz Randolph Winslow, class of 1906, a former resident physician in
the University Hospital, and a resident of Baltimore, has located at
Hinton, Virginia.
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The Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity had an at-home Saturday, March 27, 1909.
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About sixty members of the Theta Nu Epsilon Fraternity, University of
Maryland, attended a banquet at the Belvedere recently. It was served in
the main hall, and the tables, which formed a semicircle, were
beautifully decorated with trailing asparagus and cut flowers. During
the meal a string orchestra rendered popular selections. Dr. Arthur M.
Shipley, toastmaster, introduced Mr. Frederick W. Rankin, who made the
address of welcome. Mr. Rankin was followed by Dr. C. H. Richards, who
responded to the toast "Past and Present;" Dr. W. D. Scott had as his
subject "The Fraternity Man;" Dr. R. Dorsey Coale, "The Undergraduate;"
Dr. Randolph Winslow, "The Near Doctor;" Dr. John C. Hemmeter, "Our
University," and Mr. C. B. Mathews, "The Ladies." The reception
committee in charge of the arrangements was as follows: Frederick W.
Rankin, chairman; Ross S. McElwee; John W. Robertson, John S. Mandigo,
Arthur L. Fehsenfeld, J. F. Anderson.
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