Frequently physicians are accused of malpractice, and rather than undergo the expense and inconvenience of a suit they will submit to an extortion of money; or if a suit is lost in court through prejudice, unjust decisions, inability to secure good council or other unavoidable cause, rather than undertake to carry the case to a higher court, the physician will pay the damages, and thus establish a precedent which renders every physician under similar circumstances liable to a suit for damages. It is always observed whenever a large amount of damages is collected from a physician, numerous other suits on all sorts of cases are commenced. Such a condition of affairs ought not to exist. Physicians can not expect legislators to look after their interests until their grievances are made known. The testimony of physicians as individuals will not carry enough weight to accomplish anything. Moves have been made in this direction through the County and State societies and failed first, because the members of the societies are divided among themselves, second, because they represent only a fractional portion of the profession. Out of the thousands of physicians practicing in Ohio there are only about seven hundred members of the State society. We believe the object of county, state and national medical societies are intended for purely scientific work, and the less of medical politics brought into them the better. But when there is some definite end to be accomplished, some gross wrong to be righted, some persecuted physician defended, there ought to be some organization including physicians of all schools, independent of the medical societies as now organized. When a physician is sued for damages, if his case is worthy of being defended, the entire profession ought to lend him their moral as well as financial support, and this could be rendered in no way better than by means of some organization similar to the Medical Defense Association of England. PRELIMINARY EDUCATION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS. Dr. John J. King, secretary of Trumbull County, O., Medical Society, saw our article in the last number of the GAZETTE, in which we urged the necessity of an elevation of the standard of preliminary education of medical students, and sends us the following resolutions which were unanimously adopted by the Trumbull County Medical Society, January 31, 1884, and Drs. Julian Harmon, J. R. Woods and T. H. Stewart appointed medical examiners. The requirements are about the same as adopted by the Pennsylvania State Society at their annual meeting in Norristown, Pa., May, 1883: TO REGULATE THE STUDY OF MEDICINE. RESOLVED, I.—That this Medical Society shall annually elect a board of medical examiners, to consist of three members, whose duty shall be to examine applicants for admission to the study of medicine.