27 FEBRUARY 57 DAYS PAST Thursday 308 DAYS TO COME Have just about completed Junior & Blanchs memory book it has bee a big job but is very nice & I feel that they will be pleased with it they are having a wonderful trip. Dr is quite busy and on the Job. Several operations on Maternity cases have came up since he left. Had a letter from avon saying they were going to Los Angeles as Mrs Smart is not well she is 80 yr old or more. This has been an anxious day for us as Deaf & Blind school Board are in session to name the next sup. & we hope it will be Oscar ERYSIPELAS- A CATS TAIL Graphically descriptive of a Southern cure for erysipelas and shingles is the story book ending, and thereby hangs a cat tail. The eruption was to be rubbed with blood from a black cats tail. Then pussy and his tail were parted, and the tail nailed to a door until the patient became well. Friday 58 DAYS PAST FEBRUARY 28 307 DAYS TO COME Joys news! Oscar was appointed sup of D & Dumb & Blind State School. Talked with Oertel & Oscar this eve and they are very happy. Many friends have called to express their happiness for us over his Appointment. They (the Russells) have lived at Columbus Ohio the past 14 yr where Oscar has had Phonetic Chair at U of Ohio. Also hear from them that Janath will be home from her mission in Canada about the 16 of Mar & she & her father will came West about the 20th of Mar. talked with Sister Russell also Mildred Rich in Salt Lake It is with medicine as with mathematics: we should occupy our minds only with what we continue to know; what we once knew is of little consequence- SAINTE-BUEVE WARNERS CALENDAR OF MEDICAL HISTORY