A TRIUMPH OF NEWSPAPER MEDICINE.
THE medical editor of one of the New York dailies used often to say that medical journalism was played out, for a journal published only once a week or once a month could never compete with the daily papers; at best it could only republish in more elaborate, if less sensational, style what the lay press had printed days before. In view of a tremendous "beat" scored by the Sun last week, we are inclined to think the medico-lay editor was very nearly right. This enterprising journal published an interesting and circumstantial account of an operation for renal calculus, performed at one of the hospitals by a well-known surgeon of this city. All the details of the operation were graphically and, as it appeared the next day, quite accurately described. The point of special interest in the article was that the operation which it described was not performed until about twelve hours after the article had been published. "If you see it in the Sun, it's going to be so."