PAPERS ON MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH 267 



A STUDY OF ACIDITY CURVES IN STOMACH 

 CONTENTS 



Franos M. Thl-rmon 

 Illinois College, Jacksonville, III. 



The paper by Francis. Thurmon, a student of Illinois Col- 

 lege, Jacksonville, 111., was introduced by Professor Isabel 

 S. Smith of Illinois College, as follows : 



Illinois College has a department of biology, and I who 

 have the honor of occupying that settee am a botanist. We 

 have, of course, men who are preparing for medicine. 

 Through the kindness and under the direction of Dr. 

 Frank Garm Norbury of the Norbury Sanatoriums, we are 

 able in the excellent laboratories of those institutions to 

 furnish our strongest prospective medical students a 

 chance to do what is to them research in the latter part of 

 their college course. Dr. Norbury is a loyal alumnus of 

 Illinois College, has an A. M. from the University of Illi- 

 nois, is a graduate of the Harvard Medical School, and 

 while there was an assistant in the pathological laboratory. 

 Before taking work with him these men have taken in Illi- 

 nois College a year of zoology*, invertebrate and vertebrate, 

 a semester of histology, a semester of vertebrate embryology 

 and two or three years of chemistry. 



Besides the work which Mr. Thurmon will present, indi- 

 vidual students are doing work on myleogenous leukemia, 

 on anthrax isolated from a clinical case, studied by means 

 of guinea pig cultures ; on histological preparations from a 

 case of sphlenic anaemia, the spleen having been removed 

 at time of operation; on cancer of the oesophagus and in- 

 flammation of the spinal cord, removed at autopsies. Blood 

 chemistn.' is often introduced. 



I cannot tell you what an inspiration this is to these ad- 

 vanced zoology- students. Thinking that this may be of 

 assistance to other professors in small colleges, I have 



