In the recent examinations held for commissions in the medical corps of the United States Army, Dr. J. S. Fox, one of the surgeons at the St. Francis Xavier Hospital, was a successful contestant, and the War Department has notified him that he will be commissioned a first lieutenant and will be ordered to proceed to a post in the West. One hundred doctors took the examination for the appointments, but only thirteen were successful. Dr. Fox, who will be one of the youngest surgeons in the Army, was high up in the list of the fortunate ones.
Dr. Fox is a son of the late Dr. T. S. Fox, of Batesburg, who was a distinguished surgeon in the Confederate Army. He is a nephew of Mr. J. T. Fox, of that town. Dr. Fox is twenty-nine years of age, and was born in Batesburg, S. C. After completing the high school at that place he entered Richmond College, Richmond, Va., and was there for three years, when he entered the Medical College at Baltimore. Fourteen months ago he came to Charleston to accept an appointment as one of the house surgeons of the St. Francis Xavier Infirmary, and during his stay in this city has made a fine record for himself, and now has many friends here.
As soon as his commission arrives he will leave here for Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the station designated in the orders of the War Department. There are at present several troops of the Third Cavalry and a battalion of light artillery from the Third Field Artillery Regiment stationed at this important post, which is considered to be one of the most agreeable army posts in the South. On October 1, Dr. Fox will be ordered to report to Washington, where he will be detailed to attend the Army Medical College for a period of eight months.
The Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry and the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association have adopted a vote of thanks to Daniel Base, Ph. D., professor of analytical chemistry, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, for his co-operation and assistance in investigating products and for special research work done at the request of the Council.
It has been definitely decided that the new operating room which is to be built at St. Joseph's Hospital is to be dedicated to the memory of Dr. Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, who died of septicemia after performing an operation upon an infected kidney at the hospital, as a result of which the patient lived. A tablet bearing Dr. Trimble's name and the incidents surrounding his martyr-like death will be placed in the operating room.
Dr. John R. Winslow read a paper on “A Case of Tuberculosis of the Fauces and Lingual Tonsils, Caused by Tuberculin Injections,” before the Section on Laryngology and Rhinology, Friday, March 26, 1909. At the same meeting Dr. J. N. Reik read a paper on “The Present Status of the Surgical Treatment of Purulent Disease of the Nasal and of the Aural Cellular Spaces: a Comparison.”