El Paso County Medical Society.
—This society was organized last October and was the first organized in El Paso, Texas, that has held its own. It has a membership of twenty. The officers are: President, F. W. Gallagher; vice-president, M. O. Wright; treasurer, Howard Thompson; secretary, Junius A. Rawlings.
Jackson County Medical Society.
—Dr. Kyger read a paper on "Dietetics, as taught in the Medical Colleges," before this society, at a recent meeting in Kansas City, Mo. He recommended having a chair on dietetics in every medical college, and said that physicians at the time of their graduation have no knowledge of the proper kinds of food necessary for patients.
De Soto County Medical Association.
—This association met in Hernando, Miss., March 13. The secretary-treasurer presented his eighteenth annual report, and Dr. Watson presented, for diagnosis and advice as to treatment, a case of chronic tuberculosis of the knee-joint. Dr.