The present number completes the ninth volume of The Journal of the American Medical Association and four and one-half years of its publication. In complying with a By-law of the Association which requires the publication of the full list of permanent members of the Association every three years, we have given the list in this number as furnished by the Secretary and Treasurer of the Association. This list and the annual report of the Librarian for 1886, with a full index and title page for the

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... volume, fill so many columns that we have but little space for other reading matter in this number. As our next issue will constitute the first number of Volume X., now is a favorable time for new subscribers to send their orders for The Journal, and it is an equally favorable time for such old subscribers as are in arrears, to pay up. And for all, whether new or old, we wish a happy New Year. ALCOHOLIC REMEDIES IN TYPHOID FEVER. A leading article in the Medical News of the 24th of December, 1887, in referring to "an outline of the modes of treatment in typhoid fever pursued at twelve of the chief hospitals of this country," says: "The use of alcohol is recommended by all the writers, and we have, as yet, no substitute for it in the progressive asthenia of the disease." Before knowing how much value can be awarded to this apparently united testimony in favor of alcohol in typhoid fever, it would be necessary to know how many cases of the fever any one or all of the writers alluded to, have actually treated without alcohol, that they might have a fair basis of comparison of the results. We have tried the experiment of treating typhoid fever and all other general fevers without using alcoholic remedies, both in hospital and private practice for thirty years, and have found no difficulty in finding better remedies for counteracting the asthenia of this fever, and Obtaining a higher ratio of recoveries than has ever been obtained with its use. With iodine as a general alterant and anti¬ septic to counteract the molecular degeneration in the tissues and the blood, and the choice of cardiac and vaso-motor tonics from the class of remedies represented by digitalis, coffee, tea, strychnia, strophanthus, carbonate ammonia, camphor, etc., accord¬ ing to the special symptoms of each case, and vigilant attention to the local complications that are in many cases more dangerous to the patient than the general disease, with an equally vigilant attention to the proper administration of simple nourish¬ ment and pure air, we have no place or need for the use of alcohol as a remedy in these cases. And of a considerable number of intelligent and active practitioners who have tried the same experiment, though for a less number of years, I have not yet found one who was not fully satisfied with the result. of Michigan, died on the evening of the 23d of December, 1887, aged 72 years. By the death of Dr. Palmer, the profession has lost one of its oldest and most honorable members. A conscientious and skillful practitioner, an able writer, an earnest and successful teacher, and above all a most estimable citizen and Christian; for more than forty years he has filled an important place in the profession of this country. One of the last prominent services he rendered the profession, was in ably discharging his duties as