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dating back to 1640. His great grandfather, Jonas Brick, served throughout the Revoluntionary War as one of the struggling colonists. Another great grandfather, David Comee, was in the battles of Lexington and Concord. The family name was Breck, the old name being changed in the spelling over a century ago.

Dr. Brick graduated from the Cleveland Homoeopathic College in 1861, and immediately settled in Winchester, New Hampshire. In 1864 he removed to Keene, New Hampshire, and in June, 1875, to Worcester, Mass., where he continuously practiced his profession. Dr. Brick was an active member of the local, state and national medical societies, and was interested in the work of the Worcester Dispensary and Hospital Association. June 3, 1862, Dr. Brick married Miss Helen F. Gould, who, with his son, Lu Gould Brick, survives him.

DR. G. E. E. SPARHAWK.

Dr. G. E. E. Sparhawk, probably the most widely known homoeopathic physician in Vermont, died at his home in Burlington Vermont, on March 14, after a year's illness. Early last November Dr. Sparhawk fell down stairs, and the shock of that accident increased his systemic weakness and prostration so that he steadily declined until the end.

Dr. Sparhawk had just completed his seventy-seventh year, having been born in Rochester Vt., Feb. 15, 1829, a son of the Rev. Samuel Sparhawk. He acquired his early education in the Orange county grammar school at Randolph, Vermont, and the training received there was supplemented by a course of study in West Randolph Academy, from which he graduated with the class of 1850. While obtaining his education, he spent a portion of the time teaching school. After studying three years with Dr. Gibson of Sharon, he entered the Vermont Medical College at Woodstock. Later he studied with Dr. William F. Guernsey of Philadelphia and in 1853 graduated from the Hahnemann Homoeopathic Medical College at Philadelphia. This institution was at that time the only homoeopathic college in the world. Dr. Sparhawk stood fifth in his class.

He immediately formed a partnership with Dr. H. W. Hamilton and commenced the practice of his profession in Rochester. He was the pioneer of the "new school," as homoeopathy was then called, and for many years was the only physician of the homoeopathic persuasion in Vermont. Like any exponent of a new science, Dr. Sparhawk met with much opposition but the excellent results which he obtained in cases of a most serious character attracted the attention and finally the recognition of some of the most learned members of the medical profession.

In 1856 Dr. Sparhawk located in West Randolph and after the death of his first wife in 1858 removed to Gavsville, where he remained until November, 1878, when he went to Burlington. He at once acquired an extensive practice in that city and his services came often to be sought in cases of the gravest character where the best medical skill is required.

In 1886, he began the construction of the buildings which in 1887 were opened as the Sparhawk sanitarium. This institution was under the direct supervision of Dr. Sparhawk until 1893, when his son, Dr. Sam Sparhawk, became associated with him. The father and son continued to conduct the sanitarium jointly until 1899, when Dr. Sam Sparhawk, the present proprietor, assumed entire responsibility. Since retiring from active participation in the conduct of the sanitarium, Dr. Sparhawk, who was always fond of farming, devoted himself mainly to his agricultural interests.

Dr. Sparhawk aided in founding the Vermont Homœopathic society in 1854, and it was largely through his instrumentality that the charter was obtained in 1858. In 1859 he became a member of the American Institute of Homœopathy and in 1884 joined the American Obstetrical society. He was a charter member of White River Lodge, No. 90, Free and Accepted Masons of Bethel. In politics he was a republican and in religion a Congregationalist.

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On March 4, 1854, Dr. Sparhawk married Miss Lucy Ann Griswold of Randolph. Her death occurred Dec. 2, 1858. In 1867 he married Miss Mary A. Hendee of Pittsford and she with one son, Dr. Sam Sparhawk, survives him.

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 Text-Book of Human Anatomy. By Henry Gray, F.R.S. New American from the Fifteenth English edition. Thoroughly revised and largely re-written by J. Chalmers Da Costa, M.D., Professor of Surgery in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, with the collaboration of a corps of specially trained assistants. Lea Bros. & Co.

No modern medical text-book has been as widely used as Gray's Anatomy, and there is none better known. And yet in order to include the anatomical knowledge acquired during the last quarter of a century the "Gray" of to-day presents many features not found in the editions of two or three decades ago. In size alone this difference and growth are shown; for, thirty-six years ago, in 1870, the fifth edition contained 876 pages with 462 illustrations. In 1896, ten years ago, the thirteenth edition contained 1,249 pages with 772 illustrations. This latest edition contains 1,600 pages and 1,132 illustrations, many of which are colored. Notwithstanding the fact that this edition has double the number of pages and two and a half times as many illustrations as are found in that of 1870, its bulk is not much greater; the clearness, conciseness and simplicity of style have been maintained, and the book is destined to retain its hold upon the confidence and affection of the profession. As the editor of this latest revision the publishers fortunately secured the services of a well known anatomist, an able surgeon and an experienced teacher, Professor John Chalmers Da Costa whose recognized qualifications were all needed on so important a task as revising "Gray." To attempt a critical review of such a work would be presumptuous, since it represents the world's best knowledge of things anatomical, but attention may be directed to a few characteristic features of the edition. Many references to American, English, French, and German authorities are found scattered throughout the book, both in the text and among the illustrations, due credit being frankly given. In the preface one reads: "No single volume can nowadays offer adequate instruction on anatomy, histology, and embryology, and to attempt it would be unwise." Histology and embryology, however, are not omitted, but are incorporated in, or precede, the various sections of the work, as on bones, the nervous system, the special sense organs, the digestive organs, etc., where one finds as much histology and embryology as was included in the independent sections on these important and indispensable subjects in the recent editions. Special mention should be made of the articles on the Special Sense Organs which have never been so satisfactorily treated before by "Gray;" and the same may be said of the section on the Lymphatic System, to which over forty pages are devoted and which contains numerous very graphic illustrations. On the Heart and Pericardium the text has been carefully revised, the chapter covering twenty-seven pages and presenting some new and exceptionally fine illustrations. One cannot but be pleased with the section on the Brain and Nervous System, which includes histology, embryology and descriptive text, with many new illustrations covering a total of 270 pages. The hypercritical might, with some justice, take exception to the chapter on the Female Genitalia, which is inadequate and not up to the standard set by the rest of the work. The new nomenclature is used throughout the book, in parentheses, following the current nomenclature, thus serving the needs of the scientific student of anatomy of any nationality. The press work is simply of the very best

as it should be for a work of such acknowledged value to students and practitioners of medicine.

Case Teaching in Medicine.

A Series of Graduated Exercises in the Differential Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment of Actual Cases of Diseases By Richard C. Cabot, A.B., M.D. Boston: D. C. Heath, 1906. "After the student has learned to open his eyes and see, he must learn to shut them and think, and when he is thinking the less he has to distract him the better.

"To aid the teacher in training his pupils to think clearly, cogently, and sensibly about the data gathered by physical examination is the object of this book." So says Dr. Cabot in the Introduction to this unique little volume. While written primarily, perhaps, for teachers, it will prove of peculiar value to students of medicine, because in its present form there are to be found, following the records of actual cases from practice, a series of questions and answers leading up to a critical analysis of the case records, and to the desired diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Every alternate page is left blank for additional questions and answers, or suggestive memoranda. In this way the records of seventy-eight very characteristic cases, such as may be met in general practice, are presented, the records being such as would be made on a first and thorough examination of a case, with certain additional items as urinary analysis, blood examination, etc. The method outlined and demonstrated in this book furnishes ideal training to students and will be found fascinating and valuable to the practitioner even of many years' experience.

Christianity and Sex Problems. By Hugh Northcote, M.A.
F. A. Davis Co. 1905. pp. 257.

Philadelphia:

The present volume is rather a compilation of the opinions of many critics, ecclesiastical and medical, on various subjects relating to sex problems, than in any sense an original work. It offers no new thoughts for consideration; indeed, in many respects, its physiology and ethics have an oddly anchaic ring. For instance, the naif teachings that a young man who finds his sexual appetites disquieting, is justified in marrying for the purposes of gratifying them, whatever his pecuniary resources, and that a young wife must subdue any natural repulsions that stand opposed to her husband's desires, or else feel herself responsible, as a Christian, for his possible moral downfall, these, if they be churchly views of sex problems, only serve to emphasize the rude contention of the hour that in the higher ethics the church has much to learn of the laity. We might add, did we accept the author's general theses as representative of Christian dicta, that Christianity has somewhat to learn of heathendom, when we find our Christian teacher cautiously approving of cohabitation during pregnancy, and compare this teaching with the following, from the recently published "Eight Commandments of the Central Americans before Christianity came among them."

"Thou shalt respect the times of women; and when she is bearing unto thee, thou shalt not lie with her, nor give her heavy labors, nor angry words, nor fret her, but be obedient to her, doing whatsoever she asketh thee to do, for it is her time; and she is thy Queen. Thou shalt teach this to thy young men and thy young women, and to them that come after them, that their children may be shapely, strong and brave.

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED

International Homœopathic Directory. A small book, giving a very complete list of English homoeopathic physicians and institutions, a less complete one of continental Europe and Asia, and a very inadequate one of America. Decapsulation of the Kidney for Nephritis. Horace Packard, professor of Surgery, B. U. S. M.

Malignant Growth of the Male Genitalia.

Bukk G. Carleton, New York.

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