Vol. XXXVIII

No. 1

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RESTROSPECTIVE

With this number of Summary we begin our thirty-eighth year as its editor and publisher. During all these years the profession has undergone many changes and medical journalism has especially undergone some fitful changes. There are not nearly so many journals published now as ten and twenty years ago. The proprietary remedies have been under fire during recent years and many of them have been out of business. This has lessened the patronage of the medical journals, and no journal could exist without patronage to its advertising pages. Medical organization has shown a disposition to throw its sup

port to the State Journal representing it and in many instances an attempt has been made to "starve out" independent journals. Journals kept growing in numbers and they met so many obstacles in the way of their success until dozens of them were forced to quit. But during all these adversities the Summary has forged ahead and is now on a more substantial basis than ever before, with an ever-widening circulation and an audience of practical physicians in every state in the union that makes the journal one of the best advertising mediums in the country. We have always endeavored to make this journal clean and practical and of actual value to the rank and file of the profession. Our policy has always been conservative and we have always shown a reluctance to pass up the good things in medicine simply because they were old. When the newer ideas have proved their worth and their superiority to the old, they have always found a staunch advocate with Summary. Our face is toward the future and we hope to keep abreast the times and make the journal continue to be a live, up-to-date publication. On this occasion we desire to thank our friends, subscribers, contributors and advertisers, for their hearty support of the past year and we advance thanks for its continuance, trusting that we may be able to merit the same.

Doctor, you may not agree with everything you read in Summary. If you have different ideas on a given topic write us about it.