The Bavarian Medical Congress
At the Bavarian Aerztetag, or medical congress, which was held in Regensburg, September 6, the paper of Dr. Scholl of Munich constituted a supplement to the transactions of the German Aerztetag, at which the proposed modifications in the general system of health insurance were discussed. Dr. Scholl's paper is to be taken as a defense and as a reply to the attacks on the medical profession launched at the thirty-third Congress of German Krankenkassen, held in Nuremberg, and to the criteria proposed and approved for the reorganization of the federal health insurance system. The speaker did not confine himself to a defense but endeavored, on the basis of his experience covering a long period of years, to make some positive proposals in the interest of the cause, and to develop a program of economy, for it was, he said, unquestionably established that the social burdens of