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exceptional value. He had lived the greater part of his life in a region abounding in trachoma and was firmly convinced that this disease was based on a lymphoid constitution and that this in turn was due to constitutional

'deficiencies resulting from constitu­tional syphilis, tuberculosis, alcoholism or other causes lowering the resistance, causing a deficiency of calcium, making ready susceptibility to the infective ele­ment passing from one to another.

So insistent was he on the presenta­tion of his convictions that at times he urged them perhaps too importunately and too insistently but his teaching has already born fruit throughout Italy in more extensive treatment of the youth in the schools.

In prolonged medico-legal debate carried on between himself, Cirincione, de Bono and Gennaro on the relation­ships between a pituitary tumor and an earlier traumatism, principles were laid down that were of fundamental im­portance and would make a valuable text-book. His wide general scholar­ship, his knowledge of the arts and sci­ences, his familiarity with foreign tongues, his mental alertness, and his prodigious activity made Angelucci easily one of the most noted ophthal­mologists of his time. His pupils were innumerable, many of them have them­selves become celebrated teachers. His loss will be felt wherever civilization is found, but the results of his labor will endure. Requiescat in pace.

Park Lewis.

Jose de Jesus Gonzalez Dr. Jose de Jesus Gonzalez, a promi­

nent Mexican ophthalmologist of Leon, passed away some weeks ago. Dr. Gon­zalez was a member of the Mexican Ophthalmological Society, a corre­sponding member of the Academy of Medicine in Mexico City and a prolific writer in ophthalmology, having con­tributed for many years to the Anales de Oftalmologia of Mexico, to the Gaceta Medica and other journals. He also published some papers in the American Journal of Ophthalmology. He was considered one of the leading ophthal­

mologists in his country and regularly attended the periodical meetings of the Medical Congress, where his articles and opinions were sought and re­spected. Besides being an ophthalmolo­gist he was interested in the medical ex­amination of school children, and wrote an excellent book on School Hygiene which was used extensively in Normal Schools as a text book, and by medical inspectors as an authority on the sub­ject.

Some years ago he undertook the building of an eye clinic giving not only of his time and services but his own money to make possible in the midst of the civil war which ravaged Mexico, the construction and functioning of the hospital.

On the 25th Anniversary of his graduation, 1922, he collected in two volumes "Estudios de Oftalmologia" and "Estudios de Neurologia" all the papers he had published on theses sub­jects.

A man of character and great integ­rity a religious and pious soul, an inde­fatigable worker and a sincere and loyal friend, his untimely death is a great loss for ophthalmology and his country.

Manuel Uribe Troncoso.

CORRESPONDENCE Sodium Evipan; A new general

anesthetic Every so often comes the announce­

ment of a new agent for local or general anesthesia, usually heralded by an im­pressive array of figures to prove how harmless it is or how efficacious or how rapid or how what not. During the course of the subsequent eighteen months, from six to ten further articles in praise of the preparation accumulate with probably one or two adverse criti­cisms. By that time the various larger clinics are trying it and within about two years the real value has been de­termined and the anesthetic has its place established in the cosmos.

During the past year, a large number of articles have appeared in the German literature extolling the virtues of a new general anesthetic used by the intra­venous route, called Sodium Evipan