Medical reform is not achieved without occasional temporary setbacks in the way of judicial decisions in the lower and, more rarely, in the higher courts, but, like Galileo, we can say the world does move, nevertheless. Not so very long ago a local Illinois judge discharged, on a writ of habeas corpus, one Van Noppen, convicted of practicing medicine without a license and committed to jail in default of payment of his fine. In a second case, however, the same attorney similarly petitioned the supreme court and got a decision that bars future habeas corpus proceedings in like cases. A more recent lower court decision, as reported, is that the State Board of Health has no authority to inquire into the acts of practitioners who received certificates prior to July 1, last, when the present Illinois medical practice act went into effect. The Board proposed to revoke the certificate of