Dr. J. H. Gleeson of 87 Bond street met a sudden death on the evening of February 22, at Gerling & Haber’s drug store, No. 283 St. Clair street. It is reported that Mr. Haber handed him by mistake a couple of ounces of a mixture of carbolic acid and glycerine, which the doctor swallowed and expired in a few minutes. The inquest will bring out the facts. * * * * * Dr. Geo. F. Leick is in New York City, where he expects to remain several months. * * * * * Dr. A. B. Carpenter, who has been abroad in the hospitals of London and Berlin during the past year, has returned to Cleveland. * * * * * Dr. H. G. Sherman, owing to ill health, has gone south for the winter. HOW DOES AMERICAN JOURNALISM AID THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION? The New York _Medical Journal_ says that “it regards the great distinctive service of American medical journalism as shown mainly in its counteracting influence in removing the pedantry shown in the medical colleges, and encouraging the expression of original thought in young men.” Surely, it were a great thing to remove the stupidity engendered by medical schools, and to draw forth the powers of original thought which are dormant in the young doctor. Of the truth of this view we have no question, nor can any editor of any experience or success fail to have many personal experiences in this sort of work. In the very best sense of that term, the medical editor is a teacher; and this, too, in causing others to work for the common good. The education follows from the efforts of the young doctor to learn something of profit or interest to the profession, and then place this before the profession in the most attractive shape. The medical editor, in order to make his journal a success, is compelled to get the best work expressed in the best way. Most of the older members of the profession have never learned to write, and as they become burdened with the cares of a large business, it becomes impossible for them to learn the art of writing. Much they possess of positive value to the profession, but from the defect of not being able to write with comfort, their knowledge dies with them. The medical editor can get little help from them. There are a considerable number of the members of the medical profession who could not write a decent article, if they had any distinct ideas to put in it. Obviously, the medical editor can do nothing with this class. But there is another class of doctors, who have the general culture and the brains, but are too modest to think of writing for the benefit of their seniors. From this class the medical editor draws most of his working colaborers. By encouragement, by personal solicitation, by aid in matters of reference, by stimuli of ambition, of professional pride, by