224 Biochemical News, Notes, and Comment 



Work and alc. do not belong together, especially when work 

 demands wideawakeness, attention, exactness and endurance. 

 QuENSEL : The alc. question f rom a med. viewpoint — Studies in the 

 pathol. of alcoholism; Year Book, U. S. Brewer's Assoc, 1914, 

 p. 168. 



Tribute to Favill. Members of the Nat. Dairy Council, repr. 

 every branch of that industry, held a memorial meeting at the Hotel 

 Sherman, Chicago, Feb. 2^, to pay tribute to their late pres't, Dr. 

 H. B. Favill. 



Manitou waters. The El Paso Co. Med. Soc. (Tex.) has 

 appointed a commit. of ten, known as the Manitou Mineral- Waters 

 Commis. of the El Paso Med. Soc. This commit. intends to secure 

 the Services of a physiol. chemist, to thoroly test the effects of the 

 waters, and will provide a fully equipped lab. for exper. purposes. 



" Phila. the HOME OF DENTiSTRY." An exhibition illustrating 

 the progress of dentistry was held at the Hotel Adelphia Roof 

 Garden, Phila., under the auspices of the dental manufacturers and 

 dealers of Phila., April 25 to 28, inclusive. 



Dermatologists seek CHARTER. A petition for a charter was 

 filed, Mar. i, in the Common Pleas Court, of Phila., by Drs. /. F. 

 S Chamber g, J. M. Kolmer, David Riesman and A. D. Ferguson, for 

 the incorporation of a Dermatol. Research Lab., the object as stated 

 being " for the promotion of scientific research into the cause and 

 eure of skin diseases and every otherdiseaseof cognate character." 



AciDOSis. Much remains to be learned regarding acidosis. The 

 presence of abnormal acids explains the origin of some forms, but 

 there are others that are in nowise understood. Are there abnormal 

 acids whose presence has not been detected? Are normal acids 

 f ormed in excess ? Are bases lost ? Does the kidney f ail to excrete 

 sufficient acid? These are a few of the questions at present un- 

 answered that must be answered before our knowledge of acidosis 

 can be considered in any way complete. John Howland and W. 

 McK. Marriott: Bull. Johns Hopk. Hosp., 1916, xxvii, p. 63. 



Sprague Memor, Inst. : Officers and workers, 1915. Director, 

 H. G. Wells. Members, R. T. Woodyatt, Samuel Amberg, Lydia 

 M. DeWitt, E. A. Graham, H. F. Helmholz, Maud Slye, H. J. 

 Corper, E. J. Witzemann, Harriet F. Holmes. Voluntary investi- 



