(Physicians will confer a favor by sending for this department items of news of more or less general interest: such as relate to society activities, new hospitals, education, public health, etc.)
ILLINOIS
Society News.
—Dr. Charles Marshall Davison, Chicago, addressed the December meeting of the Kane County Medical Society, on "Indications for Surgical Treatment of Peptic Ulcer."—Dr. Frank E. Simpson, Chicago, addressed the Will-Grundy County Medical Society at Joliet, December 9, on "Radium Treatment in Malignancy."
Chicago
Dr. Jackson to Be Honored.
—Dr. Chevalier Jackson, Philadelphia, will be honored at a meeting of the Chicago Laryngological and Otological Society, Chicago Medical Society, Chicago Tuberculosis Society and the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, January 4. An appreciation of the work of Dr. Jackson in diseases of the lungs will be given by Dr. Ethan Allen Gray; in peroral endoscopy by Dr. Joseph C. Beck; in medical literature with the brush and pen, Dr.