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Miscellaneous items. Personalia. A demonstration of ad- 

 miration and affection was rendered to Prof. H. A. Hare, Apr. 11, 

 by the faculty and students of Jeff. Med. Coli, in commemoration 

 of his 25th anniv. as a member of the coli. fac. A reception, which 

 was attended by several hundred students, members of the fac, and 

 professional friends, was held in the hosp. amphitheater. Dr. F. X. 

 Der cum, pro f. of nerv, and ment. diseases, acted as ch'r'n, and a 

 beautiful bronze statue of Mercury, by Pigalle, was presented by 

 the students. The presentation address was made by Dr. /. C. Da 

 Costa, pro f. of clin. surg., and a memorable address of apprecia- 

 tion and acceptance was made by Dr. Hare. 



The students in pharmacy, Univ. of Pittsb. Coli, of Pharm., 

 recently gave a dinner in honor of Prof. /. A. Koch, on the 25th 

 anniv. of his appointment as dean of the College. 



Dr. Mary E. Pennington is the only member of the Amer. Soc. 

 of Biol. Chemists to be included among the " advisory editors" of 

 the recently founded Jour. of Bacteriology. 



Prof. EHe Metchnikoff has been seriously ill at the Inst. Pasteur. 

 Sir Ray Lankester wrote to Nature, under date of Feb. 26, that 

 Metchnikoff's med. attendants believed the pleurisy would soon dis- 

 appear and that the pulmonary congestion had already vanished. 



Radium clinic. The Radium Inst'n of N. Y. has established 

 a weekly clinic at 205 West 70th St., and extends a general invita- 

 tion to med. men to be present any Saturday afternoon. 



Alcohol and its EFFECTS. Dr. Kraepelin, an eminent in- 

 vestigator, has written an entirely new chapter on this subject. 

 Working with Instruments of precision that measure the rapidity of 

 transmission of nerve impulses and mental Operations, he found 

 that as small a quantity as Ya oz. oi alc. produced paralyzing influ- 

 ences that could be detected for hours afterwards by such Instru- 

 ments. These experiments demonstrated that it frequently takes a 

 man under the influence of alc. seven times as long to hear, feel, 

 taste, or receive an Impression of any sort as a normal person. Such 

 a man, called upon to act in an emergency — an engineer, for in- 

 stance, would require at least seven times as long to make up his 

 mind what he ought to do as a healthy person would require. 

 David Paulson: Med. Rev. of Rev., 1916, xxii, p. 284. 



