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be forbidden. Two years' grace will be allowed the manufacturers 

 of absinthe for the disposal of present supplies and three years' 

 grace to the dealers. Consumers are presumably committed, mean- 

 while, to the grace of God. — The National Pure Food Board has 

 ruled that on and after Oct. i the importation of absinthe will be 

 illegal. 



Health board appointment declined. Dr. H. W. Wiley has de- 

 clined proffered appointment to the chairmanship of the Board of 

 Health of Boston. In a letter to Congressman Miirray of Massa- 

 chusetts, Dr. Wiley said, in this connection : " I could not contem- 

 plate placing myself again in the condition through which I passed 

 in the last few years. My idea of a health officer is that he should, 

 within the Statute, have unrestricted freedom of action, and be 

 responsible for the results." 



Medical school to he independent. The affiliation which has 

 existed for fifteen years between the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons of Chicago and the University of Illinois has been dissolved. 

 This action resulted from the initiative of the medical faculty 

 through its refusal to renew the lease of the school to the university. 

 It was concluded that unless the university could provide for its 

 medical school as it does for its other departments, it would be better 

 for the College to pursue an independent course along the lines of 

 the policy already established. 



Medical research. No medical school can be fully alive to the 

 present needs of medical education unless it has the constant Inspira- 

 tion that comes through medical research within the College. How 

 can the school without research know what subjects should be most 

 emphasized in the medical curriculum, or what methods should be 

 employed in teaching? Nevertheless, we have in this country today 

 only thirty medical Colleges where active and valuable research is 

 being carried on. In about thirty others some little eff ort at research 

 is being made by individuals, but the men are handicapped by lack 

 of time, assistants or material, or the College is of too low a Standard 

 to receive any benefit from it. In at least fifty-six medical Colleges 

 no research work whatever is being carried on. {Report of the 

 Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Associor 

 tion: Journ. Amer. Med. Association, Iviii, p. 1795: June 8). 



