Dr. Eugene H. Mullan, class of 1903, assistant surgeon, United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, has been commissioned a past assistant surgeon, to rank as such from February 2, 1909. ------- Dr. Samuel T. Earle, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., records the case of Mrs. F. H. D., who, the latter part of August, 1907, while eating ham, swallowed a plate with two false teeth. Ten days later she had a violent attack of pain in the abdomen, followed by a chill and fever. There was no recurrence of this for one and a half months. Since then they have recurred from time to time, but not as severe, nor have they been attended with chill and fever. A diagram taken of the lower abdominal and pelvic regions showed the plate in the sigmoid flexure of the colon, on a level with the promontory of the sacrum. Examination through the sigmoidoscope brought it into view at the point shown by the X-ray. There was considerable tenesmus, and the passage of a good deal of mucous, also a tendency to constipation. Under the influence of two hypodermics of morphine, gr. 1-4, hyoscine hydrobromate, gr. gr. L-100, and cactina, which produced satisfactory anesthesia, Dr. Earle was able to grasp the plate through the sigmoidoscope with a pair of long alligator forceps, and withdraw it immediately behind the sigmoidoscope. ------- At the Conference on Medical Legislation, held in Washington, D. C., January 18-20, 1909, resolutions were adopted providing for a committee composed of one member each from the medical departments of the Army and the Navy, one from the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, one member from the District of Columbia and one member from the Council on Medical Legislation, to present to the medical profession the conditions under which the widow of Major James Carroll is now placed, and to devise such plans as might seem advisable for her relief. The following committee was appointed: Major M. W. Ireland, U. S. A.; Surgeon W. H. Bell. U. S. N.; Dr. John F. Anderson, U. S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service; Dr. John D. Thomas, Washington, D. C., and Dr. A. S. Von Mansfelde, of Ashland, Nebraska.