Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-31
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on therapeutics, materia medica, nervous
ceesses and practice are standards, Lot
orly In the colleges of the United States,
but In those Of foreign countries as we'll
DR.. Wood is just now waiting for a
favorable opportunity to get even with a
brother professor, DR.. Potts. said a gem
tleman from Philadelphia at the Norman
d1e The reason for this desire for re-
verge had Its inception during clinic for
nervous diseases few days ago, when DR..
Wood innocently became the victim of a
practical joke, instigated by his assistant
Among the Cases brought before the
clinic was that Of man suffering appar-
entity from general rheumatism. Several
or the patients joints were sti,rened; so
was his back, particularly. DR.. Wood, as
Is customary, made a casual examination
or the body to ascertain if the disease was
voIs system
He tried what is called the knee jerks,
Which Is the striking of ones patella ten
oon win rubber mallet. or with the fist,
partially clenched. If persons condition
IS normal the foot will fly out at the touch
OF the tendon. In the case of this patient.
IN one Knee the Jerk was absent, and in the
other 1t was increased. This, DR.. Wood
told the class, suggested the possib,tv
tnat the disease was due to some brain or
spinal cord lesion.
10 make sure he said, we must look
Of equal size f "
one OF the eyes was found to be very
ihuSh snaiier than the other which, he
salo' made 1t seem all the more certain
trat there was some brain lesion. The sev
eral hundred embryo doctors to when DIR
Wood was lecturing expressed deep interest
IN the subject. They took copious notes of
what he said.
But. before accepting the PROPOSITION
as certainty he continued 1T will he
necessary 10 ascertain whether the pupils
were OF equal size before the patient was
dafea.; SIGN. sometimes, due to some little
equal Np9 Will NC III
T." ME Or Wood was talking DR.. Potts,
VINO was assisting him in demonstration
MnisPered 10 One of the students that the
patient had a glass eve. n was nuiot1'.
communicated to the whole class. and there
was laughter. loud and long.
u "ood overheard the whispering. He
.i t closer examination and found that
the patient did have store eve that , ua .
optic. ~ i"'ui d.
told you you couldn't tell for GER
tam unless knowing something of the his
tory of the patient exclaimed the dootnr
as ne Joined the class in their hilarity
l, ~. Totts mad seen the patient before
ne was lshered into the Clinic and DR.
WOOD mad made only superficial examfna-
tlon, while lecturing the general points
of the disease p-'
-. Inc glass-eye story, of course reached
the ears of the other members of the med
lcal faculty OF the university. who have
SINCE peen smoking good perfectos and
having great nerriment at DR.. Woods
expense and discontinue"
We have been having great times in
our city," said Mr.. Louis j. Rowbottom.
secretary or the Cleveland board of cleo
ton, at the Oxford. Our people are de-
fares, and Mayor McKisson is with them.
Last fall an ordinance reducing fares to
3 cents was defeated by only one vote.
There was great excitement then. caused
by member of the city council, on whose
action the success of the ordinance de-
pended, failing to come to the scratch
when it came up for reconsideration.
The street railroad companies have al
ready begun to try to get their franchises
extended, fearing that the fifty-year fran
cnse bill, which was rairoaded through
the legislature two years ago, will be re-
pealed this winter. There has been be-
fore the city council another ordinance
providing that street railroad COMPANIES
shall sell six tickets for % cents. This
ordinance also calls for a general inter
change of tickets, so that a ticket will
be good over any line in the city.
"A couple of weeks ago an attempt was
made to pass an ordinance which gave to
street railroad company practically
everything for nothing. Mayor McIIisson
issued a proclamation calling upon tho
people to rise masse and register their
disavowal of any such action by the coun-
Gil Two council memberS-Lucas and
Stinchcomb-were held up by their con-
stituents in the street and made to pledge
themselves not to vote for the ordinance
Another Observation-Disclosures roughly
handled, being awakened from his SAUNDERS
late at night by the mob"
There are two street railroad companies
in Cleveland, what are known as the Big
and the Little consolidated companies.
Senator Hanna is president of the last
named.
Daniel j. Ryan, eX-secretary of the state
of Ohio, and a former speaker of tine house
of representatives, is spending several days
in Washington, and is at the Normandie
He will be remembered being associated
with Representative Charles H. Grosvenor
last winter in the defense Of Joseph r.
Dunlop. editor of the Chicago Dispatch,
when the case, appeal, heard be-
fore the United States Supreme Court
Dunlop was convicted of publishing and
mailing obscene matter and is now serving
a two years sentence in the Illinois peni-
tertiary. Since his incarceration he has
suffered a third stroke of paralysis, and
it is believed that he may not live long.
An effort was made to secure his release
from prison, and the application for pardon
was signed by leading men of all parties
flchard Yates, son OF former Governor
Yates of Illinois. and Charles S. Rannells
have been staying at the Arlington. They
registered from Jacksonville, Ill.
Miss Laura Shoup, the charming daugh-
ter of Senator Shoup of Idaho, has arrived
in Washington for the winter, and is at the
Normandie. She was accompanied by her
friend Miss Elma Coffin of Boise City,
Idaho.
r. NJ. Hatch, the Hawaiian minister to
this government, who returned from Hon.
olulu couple of weeks ago, has taken
apartments at the Arlington, and is ia
miliar figure about the lobby Of that hotel
He is a native of New Hampshire, but for
twenty years has been a resident of Ha-
wall.
81 left Honolulu early in November and
came by the way of San Francisco" Min
lister Hatch said to a Star reporter yester-
day. "Of course, there is a great deal of
interest in our country as to the probable
action of the United States government re-
speeding affairs. The Hawaiian people
need q government of some stability. 1t is
necessary for any country that expects