brium as the steady, rhythmic movement of some drill, something with rhythm in it. I believe that is capable of educating the nerve centers to an extent not appreciated.

Dr. Suffa: Do you believe in the deep breathing exercises, especially in addition to or in connection with the muscular exercises?

Dr. Richardson: Decidedly. I believe it is of the greatest possible advantage. Its advantage is a good deal more than the supply of oxygen acquired. It affords massage to the digestive apparatus. I think it is of great value to the digestive functions and to the circulation. But the thing I want to bring out especially, is this matter of rhythm, securing that in the exercises you prescribe. I believe that has much to do with what we want to bring about.

At nine-thirty-five the Society adjourned to the adjoining lobby, where a light lunch was served and a social half hour pleasantly passed BENJAMIN T. LORING, Secretary.

A NEW SOCIETY.

The Cambridge Homœopathic Medical Society held its first meeting on February 19th, and elected Dr. Walter Wesselhoeft as President, Dr. J. Arnold Rockwell, Secretary and Treasurer, and Drs. Edward A. Carpenter, Herbert A. Chase, and Lena H. Diemar, Censors. Twelve of the fourteen homeopathic physicians of Cambridge were in attendance. Monthly meetings are to be held at the various offices of the members, and at each meeting topics of local and general interest will be discussed, and closer bonds of professional friendship established.

It is suggested that the homoeopathic physicians of other cities might follow the example of this Society and the Neighborhood Club of Roxbury and Dorchester.

WE are in receipt of apparently reliable information that there is a good opportunity for a physician in Athol, Mass., and also one in Lisbon, N. H.

IN a letter recently received from the Committee on Prevention of Tuberculosis, New York, occurs the following:

"Extensive experience has taught us that, difficult as it may be for a poor man to recover from tuberculosis in this city, he is better off here among his friends and relatives, where there are more adequate hospital and dispensary facilities, than he is far from home, where he is thrown entirely upon his own resources and where the great number of consumptives willing to work at the lowest wages make the finding of employment, especially of suitable employment, almost impossible.

Favorable results from climate can hardly be looked for unless at least $10 per week can be spent for board and lodging. The stranger who has spent a large part of his savings on railroad fare, soon finds himself without work, living in the poorest rooms, eating the scantiest and cheapest food. The practice of advising the removal to other climates thus defeats his own aims and casts upon the charity of other communities a burden which they should not and cannot sustain.

We invite the co-operation of the medical profession, therefore, in preventing persons suffering from tuberculosis from being sent to other States, unless:

(a) They are physically able to work and have secured in advance a definite assurance of the opportunity to perform work of a proper character at wages sufficient for their suitable support; or,

(b) Unless they have at their disposal at least $250 in addition to railroad fare."

OBITUARY.

DR. GEORGE A. TOWER of Watertown, died suddenly while in the street at Cambridge, Mass.

During his student life he was my pupil and a member of my family. As such he left only pleasant memories. His life and untimely end suggest the beautiful lines of Whittier:

"The threads our hands in blindness spin

No self-determined plan weaves in;
The shuttle of the unseen powers

Works out a pattern not as ours.

The wind-harp chooses not the tone

That through its trembling threads is blown;

The patient organ cannot guess

What hand its passive keys shall press."

He was born of good New England parentage in Biddeford, Maine, but in early childhood moved to Waterville, where he received such education as the public schools afforded, and later entered Coburn Institute. He determined to be a physician but, his parents being unable to aid, he was obliged to earn the necessary means. To do this he entered a machine shop, and, being naturally adept at the work, soon commanded a good income. While doing this he used his spare hours in study. He entered Boston University School of Medicine and graduated in 1877. He commenced practice in his native state, but an offer of a partnership business induced him to go West, which proved disappointing. A physician in Cohasset arranged with him to take his practice there, and he closed out his Western business and came East, only to discover that the physician had changed his mind and would remain in Cohasset. Under the crcumstances he decided to open an office there. He rapidly established a good practice, some of the best families of the place being his patrons. Among them was Mr. Thomas M. Smith, whose only daughter, Susie, he married in 1880. About this time he was asked to take the practice of Dr. Wm. A. Jones of Wilton, N. H.., who had recently died. Here his skill as a physician was promptly recognized, and he soon had a clientele that taxed his time and strength to the utmost. With professional success and popularity at high tide, his health suddenly failed and he was obliged to give up work for a time. Convinced that he could not endure the long drives over the New Hampshire hills he regretfully gave up the field and located in Watertown, where he remained until his death. Here he soon gained the confidence of the community, and when, some six years ago his health begun to yield to heart disease, of which he died, he unquestionably held the leading practice in the town. His natural inclinations led him to surgery and, considering his having no hospital affiliations, he did a great deal and very successfully. With his failing health, matters over which he had no control brought financial troubles. Unable to bear the labors of a large practice, he sought to regain his fortune in other ways, but without success. Doubtless these troubles aggravated his disease, and hastened the end, which came so suddenly.

No man ever worked harder to succeed, or had higher aims. His life, as given to the world in good work, was a grand success. As ordinarily measured it was a series of successes and defeats, and he was finally cut down, in what, with good health, would have been his high noon. His kindness of heart, gentleness of manner and uprightness of character attracted many to him and made him beloved as a physician, as a member of his church, and of his masonic lodge, and honored as a citizen.

His first wife was several years an invalid and died in 1895. In 1898 he married Miss Grace Hanway of Baltimore, who survives him, with his adopted daughter. H. E. S.

BOOK REVIEWS.

Medical, literary and scientific publications will be reviewed in this department._Books and journals should be marked NEW ENGLAnd Medical Gazette, and sent to 80 E. Concord St., Boston.

A Trip to the Land of the Midnight Sun. By F. B. Tiffany, M.D. 1905. A very neat, attractive and interesting little booklet, well illustrated and clearly written.

Physiological Chemistry. (A laboratory manual). By Elbert W. Rockwood, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology, and head of the department of Chemistry in the University of Iowa, etc. Illustrated. pp. 227. F. A. Davis Company, Philadelphia, Pa. 1906. This is a volume particularly adapted for the medical student. It gives many of the simpler tests useful in laboratory work on carbo-hydrates, fats, proteins, blood, bile, etc. Nearly eighty pages are devoted to urine, bile, A few blank pages are inserted for additional notes as may be desired. As an outline for a course in physiological chemistry it is very satisfactory. Good printing and neat binding combine to make an attractive book.

etc.

P.

A Compend of Medical Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic, including Urinary Analysis. By Henry Leffman, A.M., M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, and in the Wagner Free Institute of Science. Fifth edition; revised. pp. 200. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 1905. Like all the series of "quiz" compends this little book contains a large amount of very useful information in a relatively small space. No pretenses are made that it will supply the place of regular text-books. The chapters cover general principles, descriptive, organic, and clinical chemistry.

It is written particularly for medical students, and to such should be of decided value, especially in connection with examinations, and when one desires to cover a large amount of ground in a very brief tíme. W. H. W. Lectures on Auto-Intoxication in Disease, or Self-Poisoning of the Individual. By Chas. Bouchard, Professor of Pathology and Therapeutics. Member of the Academy of Medicine and Physician to the Hospitals, Paris. Translated, with a Preface and new chapters added, by Thomas Oliver, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., Professor of Physiology, University of Durham; Physician to the Royal Infirmary, New Castle-uponTyne; formerly Examiner in Medicine, Royal College of Physicians, London. Second revised edition. Crown, Octavo. pp. 342. Extra cloth. Price, $2.00 net F. A. Davis Company, publishers, 1914-1916 Cherry Street, Philadelphia.

In a series of thirty-two lectures, Bouchard discusses at length the various phases of auto-intoxication in man, describes the various theories, explaining them, and appends his own deductions. The toxicity of the urine and feces receives careful attention, as does also the etiology of uræmia. This last condition he concludes to be due to a complex intoxication and not to urea alone, as many claim. Chapters are devoted to poisoning from bile, typhoid fever, and cholera. The English translation has been carefully written, and whatever notes the translator may have added show care equal to that of the original. Therefore, the reader may feel that the volume contains the latest data on the subjects treated, and that whatever statements are made have excellent foundation for their veracity and exactness. In an appendix is a chapter on "Natural defences of the organism against disease," which goes far to complete the entire subjects considered in the foregoing pages. W. H. W.

The Practical Medicine Series of Year Books. Comprising ten volumes on the year's progress in medicine and surgery. Volume IX. Anatomy Physiology, Pathology, Bacteriology, Dictionary, by W. A. Evans, M.S., M.D., Adolph Gehrmann, M.D., William Healy, A.B., M.D. pp 217. Chicago: The Year Book Publishers. 1905.

Of the many books received from time to time for review, the one under present consideration stands well to the front. To one who desires to refer to the latest ideas and results of the year's progress in the lines of which it treats, this little volume will prove invaluable. It reviews the progress of the year most satisfactorily, and as such should be of much service to every physician.

Each

Nothing original is attempted, merely brief abstracts of the more important discoveries and investigations from recent literature. abstract is credited to the original article, with date of journal in which it appeared, thus allowing one to obtain a more complete description when desired of whatever subject is under treatment.

The dictionary containing 370 new words, all additions since the 1904 edition, shows how rapidly the medical vocabulary is increasing and how difficult it is for any one to keep pace with the advance. W. H. W.

The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. Designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine. By Henry Koplik, M.D., Attending Physician to the Mount Sinai Hospital; formerly Attending Physician to the Good Samaritan Dispensary, New York; Ex-President of the American Pediatric Society; Member of the Association of American Physicians, and of the New York Academy of Medicine. Second edition, thoroughly enlarged and revised. Illustrated with 184 engravings and 33 plates in color and monochrome. Lea Brothers & Co., New York and Philadelphia. 1905. Cloth, $5.00: Leather, $6.00 net.

The book is divided into fourteen sections. These sections are treated as follows: Sec. I. "Infancy and Childhood." A general consideration of the normal characteristics, such as weight, measurements, circulation, development, method of examination, management and hygiene, the administration of drugs and other methods of therapy.

Sec. II. "Infant Feeding." Sec. III. "Diseases of the Newborn" Sec. IV. "The Specific Infectious Diseases." "Sec. V. "Diseases of the Digestive System." Sec. VI. "Diseases of the Respiratory System." Sec. VII. "Diseases of the Circulatory System." Sec. VIII. "Constitutional Diseases. Sec. IX. "Diseases of the Lymph-Nodes, Ductless Glands, and the Blood." Sec. X. "Diseases of the Bones." Sec. XI. "Diseases of the Ear." Sec. XII. "Diseases of the Kidneys and Urogenital Tract." Sec. XIII. "Diseases of the Nervous System-Methods of Diagnosis." Sec. XIV. "Diseases of the Skin."

All of these subjects are considered from the standpoint of the practical experienced practitioner. There is no attempt at theorizing, or to advance speculative opinions. One who consults this work is at once impressed with the idea that the writer is thorough, accurate, and above all has the power of saying concisely just that which the student and practitioner needs to know. The chapter on diphtheria, for instance, is a good illustration. Here the disease is carefully considered in all of its phases and stages. The illustrations are exceptionally fine, and in the paragraphs on treatment one is gratified at the simplicity and definiteness of the management of cases, and of the drug therapy.

The article on syphilis is also noteworthy, and Section IX contains many points on differential diagnosis, which must be of great value to every practitioner of medicine. No book on this subejct has recently appeared which so completely disarms criticism, and which seems so generally satisfactory. G. B. R.

American Institute of Homœopathy. Transactions of the sixty-first session. Held at Chicago, Ill., June 26-July 1, 1905. By Charles Gatchell, M.D., Secretary, pp. 1031. Publication Committee, Chicago. 1905. A volume containing, as does this, all the papers and discussions at the annual meeting of our national society, cannot fail to be of value to all interested in homoeopathy. Forming a close second in point of value is the large number of statistics relating to the progress and status of all interests of the followers of Hahnemann. We regret certain inaccuracies in these statistics, as well as some typographical errors, but excuse them by considering the multiplicity of persons upon whom the editor must be dependent in compiling a volume containing so varied subjects. W.

"Cleft Palate and Hare Lip." By W. Arbuthnot Lane, M.S., F.R.C.S., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Senior Surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London. A Monograph illustrated. pp. 63. 1905. 5s. The Medical Publishing Company, Ltd., London. In this well illustrated monograph the author has presented a very attractive, as well as valuable addition to the published works on the subject in hand. He first considers the development of the mouth and pharynx and then the factors involved in producing such development. From these he concludes that early operation is the most efficient,and advocates correction of these deformities as soon after birth as is possible. He explains clearly the successive steps in operating and illustrates the same with fifty-one cuts and diagrams.

This monograph is one well worth the careful consideration of all interested in oral surgery.

The Physical Examination of Infants and Young Children. By Theron Wendell Kilmer, M.D., Adjunct Attending Pediatrist to the Sydenham Hospital, Instructor in Pediatrics in the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, New York; Attending Physician to the Summer Home of St. Giles, Garden City, New York. Illustrated with 59 half-tone engravings. 12mo. 86 pages. Bound in extra cloth. Price, 75 cents, net. F. A. Davis Company, publishers, 1914-1916 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

This is a handy little volume, treating a subject unsatisfactorily covered by most of the more pretentious books on physical examination. It makes no pretences to assist in diagnosis, merely describing methods of examining infants and young children.

Eleven reasons are given why a child cries, with indications for each. Numerous illustrations give a clearer idea of some of the methods than would long descriptive explanations.

The book is well bound and clearly printed.

Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease. A text-book for practitioners and advanced students. By Augustus Caille, M.D., Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; member and ex-President of the American Pediatric Society, etc. pp. 867. Illustrated. D. Appleton & Co. New York and London. 1906.

This is one of the most satisfactory volumes on this subject that has appeared for some time. It is neat, well arranged, and attractive. Good illustrations and many of them add much to the knowledge that one may obtain from studying it.

In the early chapters are found some rather elementary descriptions of certain laboratory methods in connection with blood and urine examination. Then follow general therapeutic measures as venesection, hyperdermocycles and hydrotherapy. Pediatrics has one chapter to itself. Diseases of the digestive, circulatory, respiratory and genito-urinary systems are carefully treated, as well as other less important ones. These, together with chapters on infective fevers, massage, metabolism, electricity