WOMEN AND MEDICINE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 648, 27 October 1909, Page 4

WOMEN AND MEDICINE.

: : ;?.-The Medicarccngress, which has just finished its : ;:session- at .Buda-Pest;; (says,, an' English been 'graced by the "presence of 'no . t«wer than:«igi.' h.n-lred women, Whose special . committee was-presided over hy that accomplished, .and;grnceful.Tladj-,.. -Madame Bokay. 'iiven in ,'a country, nojed fpr'. the linguistic attainments pf its.pepple,Madame;Bokay is preeminent; in .her knowledge effpreign tongues; and it;was not.to be;wondered at -that hei' • regime ',as.."]eading',lady";of ■ thf -congress was . anunnuahfied success/. In a polyglot gathering like-the^Medical-Congress; , it was just such a ■host«s3 that:was .needed, '.and. Madame' Bokay,' : ;in-:.additioii' to '.her more; splid gifts, has tho ■ erace-'and -.|abt;,ifhich-.are .tho. special. prercga- : nves'bf the HunKarianwoman; -Dr.' Harriet C Alexander,-■ of Chicago,iread:a.paper before the..Medical?Congress,. on ''The Clinical and Forensic,Aspects;of Transitory Frenzy."; The jpaperjwas: eminently -scientific,, and was' w«ll received. -Dr. Alexander called attention'tb the phases of. such' forms: of dementia as are now jfTonnds of -legal defence for prisoners in the Courts of .the United States. ; .; •.--,

Mr. and Mie. Albert L. Eichardson, of Baltimore, havo been searching • into tho ancestry of Miss Kath«rine Elluns, whoso engagement to the Duke of Abruzai was tho gossip of tiro continents. They deolaro that they haro discovered that Miss Elkina is descended from King Charlemagne. A Frenchman has invtnted a nortl kind of postcard on which are printed varioue greetings and comuion-placo remarks snob as aro generally written during the holidays to one's friends All that ia required is to sign tho namo and write tho address.