There are, if I remember rightly, some five hundred mem bers of the 1. M. S. doing military duty, and yet in the seven numbers from February to August there are only two, or at the most three, original communications directly bearing on military medical points. The Civil Surgeon, if in difficulty, has his Davidson, Manson or Allbutt to consult in tropical medicine, in addition to all the usual text-books, but there is no book that I know of that gives any help to the junior medical officer doing duty with a native regiment. There must be many officers who from long experience have accumulated stores of valuable information, and who would be doing a great service to their juniors by publishing a few " " of their tips about hospital routine, sanitation of lines, recruits, and the hundred and one other subjects upon which the medical officer is supposed to be an authority. Then, is all the experience gathered so painfully in the last campaign to be wasted ? Has no one advice to give about the management of field hospitals, the distribution of duties amongst the personnel, the loading and packing of tents and the feeding and care of transport animals? Surely these matters are of more importance to the majority of the service than the long-winded squabbles about kata-azar which have occupied so much space during the past few months. Would it not be possible to have a page devoted to military medical matters, edited by a regimental officer, in which some of these important subjects could be systematically discussed ?

Truly

yours,

STROPHANTHUS. September 5th, 1898. " [We sympathise with Strophantlius" in his desire to see moro matter concerning military medical points in the pages of the Indian Medical Gazette. We understand the reason there are so few such contributions is that no medical officer in military employ may publish a paper without first having it approved by higher authority. Ilathcr than submit to the annoyance and delay caused by this procedure men will not contribute until such time as it shall please the authorities to remove the restriction. Kd., I. It. G.]

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MILITARY MEDICAL OFFICERS.

To the Editor of

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The Indian Medical Gazette."

Sir,?In looking through the last few numbers of the Indian Medical Gazette 1 have been struck with the small amount of attention devoted to matters of practical value to those of us who are in military employ.