fifties and sixties it evinced considerable vigor and journalistic quality. Men
like Newton, Bickley and J. M. Scudder knewv how to wield the pen in the
interests of the school.

    The "Cincinnati Herald of Health" was issued by John King and J. C.
 Thomas in 1854. It was a pretentious-looking quarterly, but did not sur-
 vive the first year.

    The secessionists who founded the "American Medical College" in the
 Cincinnati College building in opposition to the Eclectic Medical Institute,
 started a monthly, the "American Medical Journal," which for innate vigor
 and aggressiveness left nothing to be desired. It was edited by T. J. Wright
 and issued every month. It began in 1856 and lasted until the end of 1857
 when it was merged into the "College Journal of Medical Science," which
 the faculty of the Eclectic College of Medicine had published every month
 in 1856 and 1857. The combined journal was abandoned in 1859 and was
 followed by the "Journal of Rational Medicine," edited by C. H. Cleaveland,
 which lasted three years, when its publication was suspended. R. S. Newton
 published the "Western Medical News" from 1851 to 1859. He then issued a
 clinical monthly, called the "Express."  In conjunction with G. WV. L.
 Bickley, he published the "Cincinnati Eclectic and Edinburgh Medical Jour-
 nal."  After a short but very strenuous existence both journals were ab-
 sorbed by the Eclectic Medical Journal. A monthly called "Journal of
 Human Science" was started in 1860 by W. Byrd Powell and J. W. Smith,
 but abandoned after four numbers. All these journals reflect the virility and
 originality of the men who edited them. The spirit of belligerence and ab-
 solute fearlessness, coupled with great earnestness in medical matters, i, in
 strange contrast with the conciliatory, suavity which seems to dominate med-
 ical journalism nowadays. The early Eclectic journals are invaluable to the
 student of medical history, because they reflect many curious phases in the
 evolution of American medicine. A good exponent of eclecticism is the "Ec-
 lectic Medical Gleaner," a monthly which began in 1878 and was edited by
 WV. E. Bloyer and W. C. Cooper. In 1904 it became a bimonthly tinder the
 editorial management of H. W. Felter and J. U. Lloyd.

   The so-called "Physio-medics" (botanical practitioners, steam doctors)
had a few journals that were not without merit. The leader of the school
was Alva Curtis, whose great ability as a writer on and teacher of medicine
has never been questioned. He published and edited tihl "But(Aiico-Medical
Recorder" from 1837 to 1852. It had previously (since 182T) been issued
in Columbus, Ohio. As a controversial journalist Curt;s was facile princeps
among his contemporaries. In 1852 the name of the journal was changed to
"Physio-Medical Recorder." It was suspended in 1880. Curtis's associate
was Wm. H. Cook, a more amiable gentleman than Curtis, but in no respect
his equal intellectually. After the suspension of the "Recorder" Cook issued
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