Resolved, VI.—That this society requests the Ohio State Medical society to adopt the foregoing schedule of requirements and to use its influence to secure legislation making the same obligatory upon persons entering their names as students of medicine in the State of Ohio.
Resolved, VII.—That these resolutions be printed and a copy sent to each medical society in this State with the request that they early report their action thereon.
“Pioneer Medicine on the Western Reserve” is the title of a series of articles which began in the November (1885) number of the Magazine of Western History (Williams & Co., Cleveland). They are written by Dr. Dudley P. Allen, which insures a warm interest in the subject as well as a capable handling of it. The series is historical and biographical, and the publisher promises several portraits before the last chapter in March or April. Probably none of the Magazine's various serials will be of more interest to the public, as well as to medical men generally. In the opening chapters we enjoyed the author's skillful joining into readable continuity of the broken facts that have been gathered from so long ago.
SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS.
PROCEEDINGS OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO MEDICAL SOCIETY.
TWENTIETH QUARTERLY SESSION.
Galion, Ohio, December 18, 1885.
The president, Dr. Mitchell of Mansfield, called the meeting to order, and owing to the number of papers to be presented and the brief time for the session, ordered the omission of reading of minutes of last meeting and all miscellaneous business. E. H. Hyatt of Delaware, was first called, and excused on the ground that he could not do justice to his subject, “The Use and Abuse of Alcohol from a Professional Standpoint,” in so short a time.
Dr. R. Harvey Reed of Mansfield, the appointed lecturer, read a paper on Anæsthetics, in which he gave a brief review of the different general and local anæsthetics in use and the different compounds of the same.