Homœopathic Therapeutics of the Ear. By Chas. C. Boyle, M.D., O. and A. Chir., Professor of Ophthalmic and Aural Diseases in the College of the New York Ophthalmic Hospital; Surgeon to the New York Ophthalmic Hospital, etc. pp. 113 of text. Published by A. L. Chatterton & Co. New York, 1905.

This little book is divided into two parts; the first comprising the Aural Therapeutics of one hundred and sixty remedies arranged alphabetically. Following the therapeutics of each remedy are given the "General Indications" for the same with the Aggravations and Ameliorations. About two-thirds of the work is included in this first part. The remainder of the book comprises a repertory of the symptoms contained in the previous part. This is comprehensive and yet concise.

The book as a whole is of convenient size and well arranged for ready reference. F. W. C

Epitome of Clinical Diagnosis and Uranalysis. A Manual for Students and Practitioners. By James R. Arneill, A.B., M.D., Professor of Medicine and Clinical Medicine in the University of Colorado, etc. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.00 net. pp. 244. Lea Brothers & Co.

The author makes no claims to any originality in material, his expressed wish being to serve the needs of physicians and students, rather than those of experts. In this endeavor he has been eminently successful. Without filling pages with descriptions of most elaborate processes, impossible except in a completely equipped laboratory, he has carefully included all the more important tests that are capable of performance by the average practitioner. All the chapters contain much of value and interest, but if we should select any one as more satisfactory than the others, it would be that one devoted to blood. Here, not only is the technique carefully considered, but that even more important part, interpretation of the results, receives careful attention.

Other chapters deal with urine, feces, sputum, milk, cerebro-spinal fluid, etc. The physician and the student will find the desired information clearly and concisely stated without being buried in a great amount of unpractical or theoretical detail.

W. H. W.

Practical Massage in Twenty Lessons. By Hartvig Nissen, Instructor and Lecturer in Massage and Gymnastics at Harvard University Summer School, With 46 original illustrations. pp. 168. 12mo. Price, extra cloth, $1.00 net. F. A. Davis Co., publishers.

The author, after briefly giving the history of massage and mechanotherapy, emphasizes the fact that the masseur is not the rival of the physician, but his co-worker. The aim of the book is "to enlighten those who want to know, and to show how treatment should be applied." Then follow chapters on active, passive and resistive movements, kneading and stroking, first considered as generalities and later as applicable to various parts of the body.

General massage receives careful attention. The last few lessons are devoted to the methods best suited to certain pathological conditions, such as anemia, neuralgia, constipation, spinal deformity, etc Many original illustrations add to the interest of the little volume. It should prove valuable to the general practitioner, not perhaps by making him proficient in the system, but because it will give him intelligent information concerning what a masseur can do, the scope and limitations of his work.

HOSPITAL BULLETIN.

In opening a new department in the GAZETTE, the reason for so doing may be stated as follows:

It has long been realized that the various homoeopathic hospitals and those where the "union staff" is in vogue, were not connected by any particular bonds of mutual knowledge. In other words, none were very familiar with the doings of the others.

In accordance with this realization it has been considered that a step toward such closer knowledge and respect can be taken by providing a common meeting-room for all. Such a meeting-room do the editors wish to provide by the establishment of a hospital department. Here all news concerning staff appointments, changes in the terms of service from month to month, improvements, bequests, endowments and reports of work performed and results obtained, will be promptly noted as soon as the editors receive the information. In addition all connected with these hospitals are requested to send to the GAZETTE short and concise reports of unusual or interesting cases or series of cases, personally seen or treated. Such descriptions should probably occupy not more than a quarter or a half a page of the GAZETTE, although this rule is not unalterable. We believe that if we can thus briefly report from five to ten or more cases a month it will prove of value to the entire profession and also show what our members are doing in various parts of the country.

By the will of J. J. Alter of Philadelphia, $50,000 is given to the Hahnemann and the Jefferson Hospitals for a John J. Alter memorial, and $10,000 in addition goes to each of these institutions for two free beds.

1905 has been the busiest, and one of the most successful years ever noted in the history of the Massachusetts Homœopathic Hospital. The number of patients treated exceeds that of 1904 by about 150, and never before has it been so large. As in former years the mortality is very low, comparing most favorably with other similar institutions. The annual report not being yet accessible, more details must be deferred to a later date.

ON Jan. 1, 1906, the following changes were made in the staff on service in the Massachusetts Homœopathic Hospital: Three months service January, February, and March.

The Surgical side is divided between Drs. Winfield Smith and W. F. Wesselhoeft, with Drs. C. T. Howard and T. C. Chandler as first assistants. Dr. Walter Wesselhoeft has charge of the medical service, with the assistance of Dr. E. P. Ruggles. In the maternity, Dr. H. E. Spalding has Dr. F. L. Emerson as his co-worker.

THE Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Mass., will receive patients for examination for admission to the State Sanatorium at Rutland on Tuesday and Friday of each week at eleven o'clock A.M.

Dr. J. G. Hanson will examine on Tuesday and Dr. E. H. Copeland will examine on Friday. Dr. Copeland is a well-known homoeopathic physician and a prominent member of the local and state societies. His appointment to this important position will be appreciated by his colleagues far and near. The GAZETTE extends its hearty congratulations to him.

Ir is interesting and certainly encouraging to those connected with hospital work and engaged in promoting hospital and dispensary enterprises to learn what has been and is being accomplished by others, and an excellent example of what can be done by earnest, patient, hopeful and

persevering co-operation is offered by the homeopathic hospital in Rochester, New York. In fifteen years time this institution has come into existence and grown from a remodelled dwelling house into a group of eleven buildings, most of them connected by passageways, with fully equipped administration building, medical, surgical and maternity departments, children's wards, contagious cottage, nurses' home, superintendent's residence, laundry, power house, and so forth. The estate consists of seven acres, and the hospital is capable of accommodating one hundred and twenty-five patients, and caring for over two thousand a year. During the fifteen years of its existence it has treated 18,634 sick people, while in the outpatient department 14,645 persons have been cared for. Through the hospital is maintained a plan of district nursing, over 26,000 visits having been made last year. An ambulance service is maintained, which responds to over a hundred calls a month. A training school, consisting of over fifty nurses is in operation, a three years' course being required. A pathological laboratory and an X-ray department are among the latest acquisitions of the hospital. The entire plant is worth over half a million, and the endowment fund is creeping up towards a hundred thousand dollars.

GLEANINGS.

ALMOST the entire science of therapeutics is nothing else but more or less refined and varnished empiricism, all protests to the contrary notwithstanding. Stern. Journal A. M. A., Nov. 18, 1905.

GRAMM reports three cases of Cæsarian section, all personally operated and all successful. He recommends that this mechanical interference with labor be employed soon after the pains begin, thus insuring the contractions, and allowing of dilatation of the os through which lochia may be evacuated. Hahnemanian Monthly, Nov., 1905.

DISEASE is never quite the same in different individuals, nor does the picture remain the same from day to day. The treatment must be modified to meet the varying problem of the morbid processes. Rational therapy calls for simple prescriptions.-Billings. Journal of the American Medical Association, Dec. 2, 1905.

PYO-NEPHRITIS DUE TO PREGNANCY.-A. Sippel reports a case of pyonephritis present in a woman six months pregnant, due to occlusion of the ureter by the enlarged uterus. A tumor appeared over the left renal region and operation confirmed the diagnosis. The patient was cautioned not to lie on that side, and the trouble disapperaed, never to return. It is suggested that similar complications may be more common than is supposed, and that physicians should be correspondingly acute in watching for them. Cent. F. Gyn. Leirsic.

TREATMENT OF POTT'S DISEASE. The treatment of Pott's Disease should have as its aim not merely the resolution of the disease, but the correction of the associated deformity as well. In acute cases the frame is used, reserving the plaster of Paris jacket for sub-acute or chronic patients. The prognosis varies with the treatment. Deformity in children under three years of age can be prevented when treatment is begun sufficiently early. In diseased upper dorsal vertebræ the good results are somewhat interfered with by efforts of respiration.

He claims the prognosis concerning the reduction of deformity is best in the cervical region, next in the lumbar, and last in the dorsal.

W. H. Hammond, Hahnemanian Monthly, Nov., 1905.

DR. H. S. BIRKETT reports two cases of lupus of the oro pharynx and nasal pharynx successfully treated by the X-ray. These cases when first seen were well advanced, and both, after a varied length of time satisfactorily responded to the treatment. The rays were applied externally through the tissue corresponding to the parts diseased, and treatments were given four times a week, from ten to twenty minutes at a sitting. Medical Record Nov. 4, 1905.

RADIUM THERAPY IN SKIN DISEASES. DEARBORN. The writer used four specimens of radium with widely different radio-activities. A list of the diseases treated, and the results obtained, is given. In hyper-trichosis the hair fell out, but returned in about a month, the vitality of the roots being unaffected. Alopecia areata was not benefitted, localized eczema only temporarily. Lupus vulgaris and pruritus were sometimes cured, but not as satisfactorily as with the X-ray. Many cases of superficial epitheliomata have been alleviated and some entirely cured by exposure several times a week for a few months.

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In a sarcoma he has not found radium of much value.-N. A. J. NEW URINARY TESTS FOR TYPHOID FEVER.-To one-third of a test-tube full of the suspected urine add five or six drops of a 1 to 1,000 aqueos solution of methylene blue. An emerald green tint is the result if the reaction is positive - a bluish green if it be negative. This reaction is found at times as early as the second or third day of the disease, and is usually present throughout its entire course, gradually disappearing with convalescence. It is found also occasionally in cases of measles, tuberculosis, and small pox. It is supposed to be as relable as the more common Diazo reaction, the principal difficulty being that some preliminary experience is necessary to differentiate the various parts of green.

Riforma Medica, Vol. 22, 1905.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL ITEMS.

DR. MARTHA A. SHELDEN of the class of 1888 B.U.S.M., who has been engaged in missionary work in India for seventeen years, is now on a visit to this country. She returns to India Jan. 3.

FOR SALE. A Scheidel X-ray coil and high frequency apparatus. Complete, modern. Especially adapted to therapeutic work. Address, M. A. C., 495 Columbus Avenue, Boston.

DR. HENRY E. SPALDING has removed from 519 Beacon Street, to The Charlesgate, 535 Beacon Street, where he will give special attention to diseases of the rectum, obstetries, and gynecology.

PRACTICE FOR SALE.-J. F. Shattuck, M.D, of Welles River, Vt., wishing to remove to a warmer climate, would like to sell his homestead and office supplies to a homœopathic physician. Practice established twenty years.

TELEPHONE CONSULTATIONS. This sometimes troublesome question has been settled by one of the German medical societies, by deciding to charge the same fee for advice given by telephone as to that given when the patient comes to the physician's office.

DOCTOR, if you have any items of interest, personal, professional, or social that will be of interest to your colleagues, please make a note of them and send them to one of the editors. All such things will be much appreciated. Also brief comments on interesting cases or illustrative evidence of the value of homoeopathic therapeutics will be gladly received from you.

E. W. SMITH, M.D., B. U. S. M., 1901, has removed to Biddeford, Maine, where he will be associated with Dr. J. F. Trull in the work of the Trull Hospital. Recently Dr. Smith, who has himself just passed the Maine State Board of Medicine with an unusually high percentage, has informed us that no graduate of Boston University ever failed to show satisfactory evidence of medical knowledge in these examinations.

Ar the annual meeting of the Munroe County, N. Y., homeopathic medical society, of which Rochester is the centre, the scientific session consisted of a paper on "A General Practitioner's Discussion of Metabolism and High Frequency Electricity," by Dr. J. P. Sutherland of Boston, and one by the well-known Buffalo surgeon, Dr. Wilcox on "Ulcer of the Stomach." Both of these papers will appear in a later number of the GAZETTE.

The Faculty of the Boston University Medical School has remodelled one of the lecture rooms, reserving it exclusively for those lectures that require the projecting lantern With this lantern, by a very recent innovation called a reflectoscope, photographs, cuts, illustrations from books and small objects are reflected, with all the colors preserved, on a screen seven feet square. A very free use of the instrument by the various professors has served to make many points, formerly difficult to explain and describe, easily demonstrable, and has added much to the interest and value of the teaching.

Ar the present time physicians and dentists cannot be too particular about having a third person present at consultations. The need of such a companion is well illustrated by the three years' penitentiary sentence given not long ago to a German dentist. He was treating an unattended young lady in his office when she fainted. Later she became pregnant and claimed that he must have assaulted her during her unconsciousness.

It is easy to understand how a similar experience might fall to the lot of a perfectly innocent physician during routine office work.

ALL the daily papers unite in giving to Dr. S. H. Blodgett the highest praise for his able services at the recent collision on the Boston and Maine R.R. near Lincoln, Mass., where so many were killed or injured. Dr. Blodgett, with Dr. Hart, were very early on the spot, and for several hours were busily engaged in attending to the various injured ones. Indeed, so successful was the work of these two physicians that when the hospital train arrived with a full corps of doctors, almost all that remained to be done was to transfer the victims to the cars.

During the same week, another of our colleagues, Dr. G. H. Coffin of Hopedale became intimately connected with an electric car accident, and proved of much assistance in caring for those hurt.

A UNIQUE series of social events has been inaugurated by President and Mrs. Huntington On the afternoon of the first Wednesday of each month they tender a reception to all members of the University, faculty, students, and alumni. That for December was particularly intended for those pursuing studies in the medical profession, and the success of the afternoon