Doctor-Editor

Next month the medical profession of the U. S. will honor Dr. George H. Simmons, for 25 years Editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association, by a testimonial presentation dinner. Thanks to Dr. Simmons, The Journal has passed from a circulation of 8,000 to 82,000, reaching more than half the physicians in the U. S. Dr. Simmons is also credited with inaugurating the attack on fraudulent patent medicines and nostrums, with stimulating the advance in medical education, with first providing the facts that led to the "safe and sane July 4" campaign, and with decreasing the number of typhoid deaths in American cities.