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coming  courtesy  and  good  faith  towards  physicians,  but  we  will  not  submit 
to  any  improper  dictation  on  their  part — regarding  ourselves  as  co  operative 
but  not  subordinate,  and  we  regard  any  intermeddling  with  our  business  as 
gratuitous  and  unbecoming. 
8th.  Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  three  be  appointed  to  secure  the  co-ope- 
ration of  the  Druggists  of  the  State  in  our  action. 
The  Chairman  appointed  Messrs.  John  Purcell,  Wm.  S.  Beers,  and  Andrew 
Leslie. 
Mr.  J.  T.  Gray  offered  the  following  resolution,  which  was  adopted  : 
Resolved,  That  a  committe  of  three  be  appointed  to  represent  our  interests 
in  any  and  every  matter  that  may  be  brought  before  the  Legislature,  and  that 
said  committee  be  clothed  with  full  powers. 
The  Chair  appointed  Messrs  S.  F.Adie,  P.  W.  Grubbs  and  Chas.  Mills- 
paugh  said  committee. 
Alexander  Duval,  Chairman. 
William  S.  Beers,  Secretary. 
Professorial  Metamorphosis. — The  curious  changes  which  the  insect 
undergoes  in  obedience  to  the  laws  of  its  being,  are  occasionally  to  be  ob- 
served among  other  classes  of  animals.  For  instance,  a  tadpole  may  turn 
to  a  frog,  and  even  a  poor  half-starved  doctor,  or  apothecary,  after  a  com- 
bat with  the  pressure  of  circumstances,  has  been  known  to  gradually  as- 
sume the  status  empiricalis,  but  it  has  been  only  quite  lately  discovered  that 
a  regular  medical  professor,  with  all  the  collateral  titular  insignia  of  pro- 
fessional importance,  is  capable  of  sudden  transformation  into  a  full  grown 
quack,  amply  provided  with  the  material  for  generating  and  the  organism 
for  disseminating  those  gaseo-literary  exhalations  so  peculiar  to  the  latter 
individual.  Such  changes  among  the  lower  animals  are  generally  progres- 
sive ;  the  unsightly  grub,  and  the  uncouth  tadpole,  becoming  the  beautiful 
butterfly,  and  the  active  symmetrical  frog ;  but  in  the  case  of  the  professor, 
the  movement  is  decidedly  retrogressive,  probably  from  the  fact  that  the 
change  is  abnormal. 
The  true  cause  of  this  remarkable  phenomenon  is  not  generally  known. 
Some  have  supposed  it  a  case,  sui  generis,  never  before  described  •  others 
regard  it  as  arising  from  a  diseased  condition  of  the  lateral  portions  of  the 
cerebrum  ;  whilst  a  third  class  of  investigators  deny  that  any  metamorpho- 
sis occurred,  and  consider  that  there  is  nothing  remarkable  in  the  case, 
except  the  obliquity  of  vision  in  public  perception,  which  so  long  caused  a 
quack  to  be  mistaken  for  a  true  professional  man. 
New  Medical  Journals. — If  the  cultivation  of  Medical  Science  is  com- 
mensurate with  the  number  and  increase  of  Medical  periodicals  in  the  United 
States,  it  must  be  flourishing.  Within  the  past  twelve  months  new  comers 
have  from  time  to  time  presented  themselves  in  our  mail  box,  some  of  which 
are  the  following. 
The  Peninsular  Journal  of  Medicine  and  the  Collateral  Sciences.  Edited 
by  E.  Andrews,  M.  D.,  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan — monthly. 
The  Medioal  Reporter,  a  Quarterly  Journal,  published  under  the  direction 
