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Bang of Copenhagen gave a demonstration of ProfessorFinsen’s method of treating cutaneous tuberculosis bycoloured and concentrated luminous rays. Sunday, July 31st,was devoted to a visit to the environs of Paris, in the courseof which the various special hospitals established for thetreatment of tuberculosis at Ormesson and at Villiers-sur-Marne were inspected.

Medical Clubs.A scheme for the organisation of a medical club in Paris

has just been put forward by Dr. Doleris. Its object is to forma rallying centre for foreign and provincial medical menduring the exhibition of 1900, and the idea has already beenfairly well received. It is also announced that a medico-pharmaceutical club has just been founded at Lille, and thatit now numbers eighty members.

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The Navy Full Diet Table.THE medical officers of the United States Navy have

adopted a new full diet table for one day as follows (thenumber after each article relating to the ounces) :—Break-fast : coffee, 1 ; bread, 4 ; butter, 1; milk, 6 ; sugar, 1 ; oat-meal, 1 ; beefsteak, 6. Dinner : rice-soup, 8 ; bread, 4 ;roast beef or roast or boiled fowl, 8 ; other vegetables, 6 ;pickles, 1 ; bread pudding with sauce, 6 ; or custard, 8 ;fresh fruit, 6. Supper : tea, 1-4; bread, 6; butter, 1 ;milk, 2 ; sugar, 1 ; cold roast mutton or cold roast beef, 4 ;stewed dried fruit or baked fresh fruit or apple sauce, 4.The staples, as coffee, bread, butter, milk, sugar, and freshand dried fruits are the same for each meal, but there is adaily variety in meat and other articles for breakfast, dinner,and supper.

Liquid Air in Medicine and Surgery.It was an Englishman who discovered how to produce

liquid air, but an American has carried the investigation abit further and now tells us how this discovery can be put topractical use, stating that in medicine and surgery its possi-bilities are vast. It is claimed that by means of this processair absolutely free from germs could be furnished in anyamount, and if the stimulating effect of an excess of oxygenwere desired it could be had without trouble quite free fromthe impurities which now make this gas so often objec-tionable. The temperature of hospital wards even inthe tropics could readily be cooled to any degree pre-scribed by the physicians in charge, and by keeping theair about yellow-fever patients down to the freezing pointthe nurses would be perfectly protected against contagionand the recovery of the patients themselves facilitated.

Again, the cauterising cold which liquid air is capable of pro-ducing might be used in cases of cancer with great benefitas compared with nitrate of silver since while it absolutelydestroys the flesh to which it is applied its action is perfectlyunder control and can be stopped in an instant. It is

probable, also, that hay fever, asthma, and even consumptioncould be greatly relieved without change of climate by thispure, cool, germless air.

The Michigan State Board of Health.This board is about to celebrate the quarter centennial

anniversary, and an effort will be made to place before thecitizens of Michigan accurate comparative statements of theconditions affecting the public health, and of the actualconditions of health in Michigan before and since the boardof health was formed, especially exhibiting, if it be true,that there has been a very marked improvement of the healthof Michigan in recent years ; statements of the principaldangers to life and health at the present time ; a discussionof different measures for the further promotion of the publichealth of that State, and to place before those who may visitMichigan on that occasion the beauties of the various summerresorts around the Great Lakes and at the numerous inlandlakes and other sanitaria, the general healthfulness of thfState, and its advantages as a summer resort State.

The Maritime Provinces of Canada as a Summer HealthResort.

The popularity of the maritime provinces of Canada as aholiday resort has been rapidly increasing during the lasfew years. In the warmer months tourists have been

going there in larger and larger numbers, crowding th

steamers and trains and overflowing the hotels. The increasein the number of tourists has really been so great of latethat it was difficult to provide sufficient accommodation inmany of the favourite localities, and in numerous placesvisitors have had to put up with inconveniences which almostamounted to hardship. Now that the people have becomeaware of the popularity of the provinces, the businessinstinct has awakened and every effort has been put forthby railway, steamboat, and hotel men to prevent a repetitionof the uncomfortable overcrowding to which the tourists ofthe last two or three seasons have had to submit. The trainand steamboat service is to be augmented, so as to providefor any contingency, and numerous hotels have already been,or shortly will be, completed in the localities where the con-gestion has been most marked in times past. All this is

being done because of the assurance that future seasons willbring even greater numbers of visitors than in the past.

American Sanitation of Havana.The Louisiana State Sanitary Association recommends

that as nearly every epidemic of yellow fever which hasruined our commerce and ravaged our shores has had itsorigin in the colony of convalescents, Havana, our represen-tatives in Congress be requested to lay before the properFederal authorities the necessity of stamping out the yellowfever there, to the end that when the war now existingbetween Spain and the United States is ended and thearticles of peace are drawn up it shall be nominated in thatbond that the sanitary regulations of Havana shall imme-diately commence under the surveillance of American sani-tarians and engineers." The same association approves theplan of having medical inspectors attached to those consulateswhere yellow fever and cholera are epidemic with a view tosecuring for our protection definite information as to theexact sanitary condition and the presence or absence of

contagious diseases in such consular districts and that

congress be urged to make the necessary appropriation to

carry the plan into effect. Also this association is of theopinion that it is a duty devolving upon all nations to takemeasures to eradicate any plague centre from their territory,and that the existence of such centres is a menace to allnations, and that our State department be requested to takemeasures through proper diplomatic channels for the convey-ance of this opinion to the governments deemed obnoxious tothe opinion herein expressed.July 19th.

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Obituary.WILLIAM FRANCIS ADAMS, L.R.C.P. LOND.,

M.R.C.S. ENG.MR. W. F. ADAMS, the senior assistant medical officer at

the Cornwall County Asylum, Bodmin, was found deadin his bed on July 27th. He was the youngest son

of Mr. Richard Adams, L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng.,who a few months ago resigned the post of medical

superintendent at the Cornwall County Asylum after

having held the appointment for many years. The

deceased, who was only twenty-six years of age at the timeof his death, received his medical education at the LondonHospital and obtained the qualifications of L.R.C.P. Lond.and M.R.C.S. Eng. in 1892. Shortly afterwards he was

appointed junior house surgeon at the South Devon and EastCornwall Hospital, Plymouth. Mr. Adams had a lifelongconnexion with the Cornwall County Asylum and his recentappointment on the medical staff was a very popular one.Much regret is felt at his early death and the deepestsympathy is expressed in Bodmin for his bereaved parents.At the inquest held on July 28th a verdict was returnedof " Syncope resulting from fatty degeneration of the heart."

POOR-LAW CONFERENCE.-Lord Edmond Fitz-maurice, M.P., presided at the South-Western Poor-lawConference held at Plymouth last week. Dr. H. Raynercontributed an interesting paper upon the Treatment ofPauper Imbecile and Feeble-minded Children. A resolutionwas passed stating that it was imperative to make specialprovision for the treatment of these children and advocatingthe establishment of one or more central institutions in thesouth-western counties for the purpose,