the "Cincinnati Medical Gazette and Recorder" for two years. It was a
weak effort compared to the picturesque and vigorous literary work done
by the fallen leader, (Curtis died in 1880). The "Journal of Medical Re-
form" (1854) issued for one year, was a well-edited journal. The "Journal
of Education and of Physiological and Medical Reform" did not survive
its first year (1866). It likewise was ably conducted. Curtis was the editor
of both journals. In 1849 E. H. Stockwell, professor of anatomy in the
Physo-Medical College, started the "Physo-Medical and Surgical Journal"
in opposition to Curtis and his school. This journal was suspended in 1852.
The editorial rooms of this publication became shortly after its suspension
the home of the newly founded Miami Medical College (Fifth and Western
Row).
   The foregoing account of medical journalism in Cincinnati corroborates
the truth of the statement that the life of the profession is necessarily re-
flected in the journals. They are the record of its pulse-wave, the indicator-
of its vitality. The palmy days of medical journalism in Cincinnati were
approximately from 1855 to 1875. They were coincident with the aetas
aurea of Medical Cincinnati,-quod erat demonstrandurn.



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