The patient was sinking very rapidly. Pulse was almost imperceptible and respiration labored. The capillaries of the conjunctiva had become congested and nervous phenomena were most severe. In fact, there was every evidence that death had come to this poor sufferer's relief.

Immediately upon the arrival of Dr. Wilson the operation was done, using the blood of a lamb, introducing about one quart of arterial blood. Immediate improvement was noticed. Pulse became stronger, respiration freer and easier, nervous system became quiet and the patient went off into a quiet and refreshing sleepthe best sleep he had taken since he took his bed. Convalescence has been rapid, and he is now able to sit up and walk across the floor a little-only thirteen days since the transfusion.

The blood was introduced directly from the common carotid artery of the lamb into the patient's brachial vein at the bend of the elbow.

I report this case thinking it might be of practical interest to the profession and probably the means of saving precious lives.

A FUNGUS POISONOUS TO HOGS.-We note in the Botanical Gazette, February, 1890, from a paragraph by Prof. Farlow, of Cambridge, that Prof. Gerald McCarthy, botanist of the N. C. Agricultural Experiment Station, discovered that a number of hogs had been killed by a fungus, which was determined to be Clathrus columnatus. This fungus belongs to the order Phalloidæ, an order which furnishes the most repulsive individuals, of which the stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus) is an example. Why hogs should choose such food is past finding out, but the fact that our food-animals eat poisonous foods themselves, may account for some of our diseases, and the discovery of one may give the clew to others. There has been a suspicion for many years that "milk sickness" and other diseases come from food eaten by cattle, and we trust that Mr, McCarthy and others who have the technical skill may pursue their researches. The fungus above referred to is common to the Southern States.

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS.

By GEO. GILLETT THOMAS, M.D., Wilmington, N. C.

(Delivered before the Medical Society of North Carolina, at Oxford, May 27th, 1890.

Gentlemen of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina: To be chosen out of such a body as this, composed of the representative men of the medical profession in North Carolina, to preside over its annual deliberations, and, as far as need be, to guide its work to a successful issue, is an honor carrying with it a deep responsibility, and one not to be lightly accepted, or esteemed as of less than great worth. Imbued with these feelings I am sensible of the grateful returns I owe you for your distinguished consideration, I have accepted this office at your hands, and having performed its duties as they appeared before me during our separation, I offer you in return such a record of the year's work and its suggestions as I am able as a modicum of my thanks for your very pleasing partiality.

At no time since the organization of this Society, in 1849, has there come to it a period of greater responsibility than is just forced upon it. It probably would more properly fit the exact condition of affairs to say that we have assumed the responsibility. For out of this body have gone the laws which have become statutes by the sanction of the law-makers.

The present status of the laws regulating the practice of medicine ought to be a source of congratulation to every right-thinking man of our profession in this State, whether he be enrolled upon our lists, or is not of our fold, but esteems himself an honest man and true to the tenets of his calling. For we stand now armed with the power to bar the entrance to practice to all who had not availed themselves of the opportunity to register before the 1st of January, 1890. The only passport that will avail now is a license from the Board of Examiners-a passport which is worthy of recognition anywhere.

Let us see what the laws have been and what they are now, and what duty they impose upon us in our relations to the profession at

large and to the people whose welfare is committed to our keeping. It is known generally that in 1859 a law was secured which gave this Society the power to create a Board of Medical Examiners, who should carefully scrutinize the preparations every candidate who asked for license had made for his professional work. The Legislature which enacted this law was so careful of any infringement upon the rights and feelings of the people, that it was especially provided that no failure to procure a license prior to beginning practice should be deemed a misdemeanor, and set the punishment for such failure by providing that no unlicensed practitioner should be entitled to collect his fees by legal process. Of course, if the law-makers were so gentle in their punishment as this, it was understood that there should be no retroactive application, and therefore that all physicians in practice at the date of the passage of the act were ipso facto exempt from its pains and penalties.

Being pioneers in this great reform movement and conservative and wise men, those gentlemen of this Society to whose care the presentation of this law to the Legislature had been confided, felt that it was prudent to accept the law as it was offered them as the best that could be done in the beginning. Fully convinced of the justice of the cause they had espoused, they were willing to wait for time to prove their work, confident that wise counsel would in due time make these laws what they should be. For they were not intended to do more than fence out of the profession the pretenders and those so-called physicians whose educational acquirements were not of such a character as to entitle them to have charge of the lives and health of communities and neighborhoods.

This, as you all should know, was the first time in the history of medicine in the United States that a great Commonwealth had, through its Legislature, assumed control of the practice of medicine and appointed, or rather accepted, officers appointed under its statutes whose duty it is to make the standard of education for men offering for practice within its borders.

I have said this was a pioneer movement. It was more. It was a great revolution looking to increasing reform in medical education. So small was the number of gentlemen composing this Society in comparison with the practitioners without the fold, that it looked as if they had undertaken a task beyond their powers, and the failure to compass the intention of the law, even if the failure was a partial