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Obesity of THE HAND, Intevesting case of fat-metaholism. 

 A defect in the back of the band of a girl of 12 was remedied with a 

 Aap taken from her abdomen. It healed in place and answered its 

 purpose perfectly until lata in life. After 30 she became obese. 

 Then the patch on her hand increased in size proportional to the 

 increasing thickness of the abdominal wall. Jour. Amer. Med. 

 Assoc, 191 5, Ixiv, p. 2106. 



HoMEOPATHic PROGRESS. The Hahncmann Med. Coli., San 

 Francisco, conveyed all its property to the Univ. of Cal, and has 

 discontinued separate Instruction. Instead, two professors will be 

 maintained in the Univ. of Cal. Med. Seh. in homeopathic mat. med. 

 and in homeopathic therap. Instruction in these subjects will be 

 offered as elective courses. Students wishing eventually to become 

 homeopathic practitioners will be given the same instruction, in the 

 Univ. of Cal. Med. Seh., as all the other students will receive. 



Anti-vivisection BILL UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Gov. Johnson has 

 declined to approve the anfi-vivisection bill passed by the Cal. Legis- 

 lature at its last Session. The commit. on med. instr. of the regents 

 of the Univ. of Cal., the deans of the Cal. and Stanford Med. Sch's, 

 the biolog. and agric. investigators, the med. practitioners, and many 

 other Citizens, had protested against the measure as an unwarrant- 

 able interference with science. In declining to approve the bill the 

 Gov. announced that its provision, that any humane officer should be 

 permitted to invade any scientific lab. without a searph Warrant, was 

 an unconstitutional interference with personal liberty and the rights 



of privacy. 



Keen Fellowship. Prof. W. W. Keen has established the 

 Corinna Borden Keen Research Fellowship in Jeff. Med. Coli., the 

 income from which now amounts to $1,000. The gift provides that 

 the recipient of the fellowship shall spend at least one year wherever 

 he can obtain the best facilities for research in the line of work he 

 shall select, after consultation with the faculty, and that he shall pub- 

 lish at least one paper, embodying the results of his work, as the 

 "Corinna Borden Keen Research Fellow of the Jefferson Medical 

 College." Applications, stating the line of investigation which the 

 candidate desires to follow, should be forwarded to Dr. R. V. Patter- 

 son, Sub-Dean, Jeff. Med. Coli., Phila. 



