Colored Doctors

There are only two colleges in the country where colored physicians and dentists are graduated (TiME, July 2) There is only one colored physician to every 3,194 Negroes, one colored dentist to every 20,500 Negroes. There is one white physician to every 553 white people, one white dentist to every 2,070 white people. This condition is the product not of an indifference on the part of colored youths to the medical and dental professions, but because of limited facilities. Howard University, one of the colleges that gives this training, is obliged to turn away over two-thirds of those who seek admission because of inadequate laboratory space. These facts lend point to an announcement by the Department of Interior that it has included in its appropriation for next year $500,000 to improve the plant of Howard University-- thereby doubling the number of medical students that the University can train.

Encore by Lorenz

Adolf Lorenz, the Austrian orthopedic surgeon who in his various sojourns in America has incurred both blessings and curses in quantity, will return to this country in two weeks, and will set up his first clinic at the Perryburg Hospital, Buffalo, according to announcement by Mayor Schwab, of that city. Fifteen thousand applications for operations have been made, and it is claimed that Dr. Lorenz will treat 100 persons a day-- an absurdly high number to receive adequate attention.

" Cures"

Dr. James J. Walsh of Manhattan has written an amiable, but pointed account* of cures that have failed. It appears to be apropos of Cone. Dr. Walsh, far from ranking the Nancy druggist with the charlatans, credits him with some homely usefulness. America, he says, is the quack's happy home. Some of our best families were founded in quackery. He recalls the 50-year vogue of lithium water, then the hypnotic wave made classic in Trilby and finally dooms modern psychoanalysis to the same neglect into which both the previous obsessions have fallen. Cures associated with superstition are also mentioned. Even in the 19th Century a peculiar efficacy was supposed to attach to the rope which had hanged a man.

*CURES--James J. Walsh. M.D.-- Appleton ($2.00).