yet discovered under which to administer drugs for the positive and direct cure of the sick. We should also find ourselves agreed that other therapeutic means in the broad sense of the word surgery is most certainly a therapeutic measure, as indeed, are climatic, electric, massage and other methods of treatment that legitimately make for the cure of the sick,-sometimes restore the patient to health when medicines administered under the law of similars have failed to do so. As to yet other therapeutic measures such as the use of diphtheria anti-toxin-being more frequently curative than the homœopathic remedy in certain exactly defined diseases, we evidently should not agree; nor could the point be approximately settled by either controversialists "I think." Such points are only settled by weight of statistics. The statistics of anti-toxin speak for themselves, in the sharp fall in reported mortalities in diphtheria, from those directly before its introduction to those directly after its introduction. This, however, is somewhat aside from the question immediately at issue; which would seem to be this. If certain non-homoeopathic therapeutic measures, when employed, are followed by the restoration of the patient to health, are we not strictly accurate in referring to them as curative measures? If curative measures, do they not operate under a law of cure? Is not "The" law of cure, therefore, a phrase of far wider application, as it is a thing far larger, far subtler, far more mysterious, than anything that can be bounded by a rule for drug prescription? Let us then, by all means, as homoeopathists, claim for the law of similars that it is "The" rule for the prescribing of drugs for the cure of the sick; the only logical, the only demonstrably and consistently useful rule to follow in such prescribing. But let us as physicians, as honest and humble students of the vast forces which govern the phenomena of life and death, recognize that so all-embracing a phrase as "The" law of cure, can only rationally be applied to that silent, beneficent impulse which works continually from within to restore equilibrium in disorder, health in disease; that vague and mighty and beautiful inner force which was known from of old as the vis medicatrix natura; the healing strength and will, mercifully inherent in the very constitution of things; The Law of Cure, working alike through the rule of similars in the administration of drugs, and through the surgeon's steel; through the vibrations of electricity, the suggestions of the trained human will, the ministrations of air and water each as called on, in turn, for service, by the educated, earnest, and catholic healer of men. "I dressed his wound, and God healed the man," said the great and wise and humble surgeon. So may we say: I administered the drug; I excised the tumor; I guided the electric current; I builded the sick a tent where mountain airs blew and The Law of Cure, through my chosen method of curing, made the sick well. Whatever cures, operates under the Law of Cure. Of all channels through which that Law may work, no single one should dare arrogate to itself the great, all-comprehensive name.

BOOK REVIEWS

The GAZETTE is in recept of a description of the Basle Anatomical Nomenclature, this being a selection from the sheets of Dr. L. F. Barker's forthcoming book upon "Anatomical Terminology," to be published by P. Blakiston's Son and Company. To one who has for years devoted his attention to teaching or to demonstration, and who has been troubled in a way difficult to adequately describe by the many names and synonyms for identical structures, this book will be of particular interest. There will be included 4,500 anatomical names which were accepted by the Anatomical Society at Basle in 1895, being the most suitable designations for the various parts of the human anatomy that are visible to the naked eye. These names are all in correct Latin, having been selected by a group of the most distinguished anatomists in the world as the shortest and simplest available terms for the different structures. A single name is given to each part or structure, and the large number of synonyms which prove so confusing are eliminated.

Dr. Barker concludes his prefatory statement as follows: "Of one thing I am convinced-co-operation is, from now on, essential for the welfare of a satisfactory anatomical language. Simplicity, accuracy, and serial connection will be favored if anatomists agree to use terms, in common, for the structures studied in the schools. The teacher's work will be simplified and the pupil's task will be lightened; instruction will be unhampered, research will flourish and anatomical science will gain in dignity and in precision.

A Manual of Otology. By Gorham Bacon, A.B., M.D., Professor of Otology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York. With an Introductory chapter by Clarence John Blake, M.D, Professor of Otology in Harvard University. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. With 134 illustrations and 11 plates. Lea Brothers & Co., New York and Philadelphia. 1906.

The author, in presenting this fourth edition of "A Manual of Otology," is continuing, and at the same time extending, his usefulness to the medical student and the profession at large. In order to cover the advances in otology since the last previous edition appeared, it has been necessary to add forty new pages, four new plates and fourteen additional illustrations. Among the new topics considered are "Suppurative Inflammation of the Labyrinth," and "Primary Jugular Bulb Thrombosis." Other portions have been rewritten to coincide with advancing otology.

The book, as a whole, is concise, comprehensive, up-to-date, and well indexed for ready reference, and will appeal strongly to the medical student and the busy practitioner.

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Before and after Surgical Operations. A treatise on the preparations for and the care of, the patient after operations. By Dean T. Smith, B. Sc., M.D., Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery, University of Michigan, Homœopathic Department, Ann Arbor. 260 pages. Cloth, $1.25 net. Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. 1906.

This little volume is designed especially to aid the general practitioner in preparing for an operation in a private house and in caring for the patient afterward. It first deals with the general conditions common to all operations, and then takes up the special after-care for many of the different operations most commonly performed. Homoeopathic therapeutics is given considerable attention throughIt fills a long-felt want. In most text-books on surgery the after care of surgical cases is either so deficient or so scattered that it is almost impossible to get at the general principles. Here, however, we have concisely expressed all that need be known by the general practitioner.

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Chemistry: General, Medical, and Pharmaceutical, Including the Chemistry of the United States Pharmacopoeia. A Manual on the Science of Chemistry, and its Applications in Medicine and Pharmacy. By John Attfield, F.R.S. M.A., and Ph.D (Tubingen), F.I.C., F.C.S. Professor of Practical Chemistry to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1862-96. Edited by Leonard Dobbin, Ph.D. (Wurzburg), F.I.C., F.C.S. Lecturer on Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh. Nineteenth edition. Lea Brothers & Co.: Philadelphia and New York. 1906.

This book, which has been in print in one of its various editions snce 1867, fully justifies the favorable reception that has been the lot of the preceding volumes. It has been brought thoroughly up-to-date in accordance with the latest pharmacopoeias of the United States and Great Britain. The author's expressed ideal has been to produce a manual for medical and pharmaco-medical students, in which not only the science of chemistry is taught, but in which the chemistry of other substances having interest for the followers of medicine and pharmacy is set forth with accurateness. In striving to attain this ideal, the writer has been eminently successful. In addition to the descriptions of the various elements, metals, acids, bases, etc., we find chapters upon urinary examinations, organic chemistry, chemical toxicology and systematic analysis. To quantitative analysis are devoted about 75 pages of very concise directions and descriptions. The various alkaloids, which are of such importance in medicine at the present time, receive satisfactory attention. Included within the 700 pages will be found a great amount of valuable information arranged in such a way as to be easily accessible and readily comprehended. Concerning the typographical appearance nothing but commendation can be expressed.

Second Report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum. Andrew Balfour, M.D., B.Sc., F.R.C.P. Edin., D.P.H., Camb., Director. Department of Education, Sudan Government, Khartoum. 1906.

It is seldom that a report or book reaches the reviewer containing a larger amount of original investigation prepared in as acceptable a manner as this.

The first report received from these laboratories was in 1904, and the present one includes the work done from that time to the present date. There has been a gradual increase in the staff, which now consists of a director, a chemist, a traveling pathologist, and a naturalist, an economic entomologist, two assistants, and one clerk. The work performed by Dr. Neave, the traveling pathologist, is most valuable. He investigated, among other things, the distribution of the glossinia palpalis, which is supposed to bear some etiologic connection with the sleeping sickness. In addition, he discovered new trypanosomes in fish and birds. In addition to the considerable amount of original work performed, there has been a large number of routine examinations, pathological, chemical, hygienic and dietetic, the results of which will doubtless prove very beneficial to the country. A floating laboratory is projected, to be located upon a small steamer which can be moved from place to place over the large extent of country, and where original work can be readily pursued. The articles which are given in detail cannot here be more than mentioned by name. They include a report of mosquito work in Khartoum, a study of biting and poisonous insects other than mosquitos, an article upon human and animal pests, a hæmogregarine of mammals, trypanosomiasis in Soudan, reports of the staff, and miscellaneous notes. The wealth of the material accessible to investigators in this hertofore littleknown country makes it a place peculiarly attractive to the student of medicine or to one interested in the discovery of new or hitherto unexplained causes of disease. Work, such as this, pursued in various parts of the world will add, within the near future, an incalculable amount to medical knowledge and to the ability to combat and prevent disease.

Growth of Homoeopathy During the Last Sixteen Years. With Some Reminiscences. By Thomas Franklin Smith, M.D.

This small booklet contains an address delivered by Dr. Smith before the New York Materia Medica Club upon the 150th anniversary of the birthday of Samuel Hahnemann.

Certainly no one is better qualified than is Dr. Smith to discuss such a subject, as he has literally lived and spent many years in the cause.

BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, REPRINTS, ETC., RECEIVED

Treatment of Pneumonia. By William F. Waugh, A.M., M.D.

Practical Disinfection. Circular issued by the Illinois State Board of Health. Socialismo Bio-terapico. By F. Maltese, Italy.

SOCIETY REPORTS.

MASSACHUSETTS HOMŒOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY

The sixty-sixth semi-annual meeting of this society was held in Pilgrim Hall, Boston, on Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 9th and 10th.

On Tuesday, at 8 P.M., the meeting was called to order by the president. Dr. J. H. Sherman, to listen to the report of the Committee on Materia Medica. The following series of papers was presented, under the chairmanship of J. Arnold Rockwell, M.D.:

3. The Influence of Acute Mental Disorders.

Richard S. True, M.D.

Edward A. Miller, M.D.

Homœopathic Remedies upon Symptoms Found in
George S. Adams, M.D.

4. A Comparison of the Value of the Homœopathic Remedy to Other Therapeutic Measures in Incipient Phthisis. George N. Lapham, M.D. Discussion opened by Herbert C. Clapp, M.D.

5. Homœopathic Remedies to be Thought of in the Treatment of Incipient Phthisis. David P. Butler, M.D. Discussion opened by Percy G. Browne, M.D. 6. New Sphere Where Lachesis is Curative. Albert H. Tompkins, M.D.

As noted elsewhere, the unusually satisfactory attendance showed that the interest in Materia Medica is a live one, and one that proves attractive to the large number.

At 10 A.M., on Wednesday, the Committee on Surgery, under the chairmanship of Dr. Charles T. Howard, reported as follows:

1. Pyelitis and Pyelonephritis, with Their Surgical Treatment. A. Howard Powers, M.D.

2. Some Surgical Lesions of the Spinal Cord. Charles W. Morse, M.D. 3. Surgical Operations upon the Insane. With Report of Cases. Winfield Smith, M.D. Discussion opened by George S. Adams, M.D.

4. The Surgical Treatment of Ectopic Gestation. Frank T. Harvey, M.D. 5. The Indications for Operation in Cases of Floating Kidney. James B. Bell, M.D. Discussion opened by Wm.. F. Wesselhoeft, M.D.

At noon. Dr. John L. Coffin, representing the Committee on The Boston University School of Medicine, spoke briefly concerning the status of the school. and called upon the following alumni: Dr. Babcock, Dr. Gardner, Dr. Winfield Smith, Dr. W. K. Bouton (Australia), Dr. F. C. Richardson.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE,

Dr. Babcock:-I feel almost like apologizing to you for my appearance here to speak for Boston University School of Medicine. It is some twenty-four years since I left that institution, and the longer the time becomes the more grateful I am to the men who tried so hard to make it what it should be. When we remember that very nearly one thousand graduates have passed through the halls of Boston University, and the faithful work that the faculty have put forth. we owe them a duty that we can never pay, and my first thought is that we ought to give them greater support than we have given them in the past, and in coming here, we come as a child to the parent, for the college is an outgrowth of this society.

I think we have not all done what we might for Boston University. It seems to me that the greatest need to-day is the loyalty of the alumni. Much more might be said, but for my part let me beg of you greater loyalty to the Boston University School of Medicine.

Dr. Gardner: Mr. President, and members of the Society, it gives me great pleasure to say a word for my Alma Mater, because I have great regard for our school, and I need hardly enumerate how many noble men and women have come out of the Boston University School of Medicine. I believe that in many of her departments she is excelled by none. I believe that our surgeons are excelled by none in this country. Our pathalogical department is excelled by none in this country. Great work is being done by Dr. Watters, and all the other departments are excellent.

Now, is there any particular way by which our school can be made more valuable to its students and graduates? Now, I believe a great deal in homœo

pathy, but I also believe that every practitioner at the present time should know all he can about the practice of medicine. .. Now, when I say this I do not want you to think I am casting any slur upon homoeopathy, but I do believe we should be right up to times and have equally as good general training in materia medica as do men who graduate from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. Many of us have taken post-graduate courses at Harvard. When I graduated, I did not feel my weakness in any one line so much as I did in prescription writing, dosage, etc., particularly when I came in contact with men of the old school. We ought to know about pharmacology.

I am more of an advocate of homoeopathy than I ever was, but when I give a homœopathic remedy it is not because I could not give anything else, but because it is more valuable than anything I can give in that particular case. I say, give all the instruction possible.

Dr. Winfield Smith: This is entirely unexpected for me to be called upon to speak for Boston University School of Medicine. It is a good many years since I studied there, and I doubt if there is anybody any firmer in their conviction of the benefits to be derived there than myself. As far as the needs of the school are concerned, I think the school needs money, that is all. Dr. Gardner has spoken of one thing which might be remedied, and there may be other little things, but these can be remedied very easily. The great difficulty is, we need money, and if we can get money, Boston University School of Me licine can remedy every defect. Therefore, as the college originated in this society, I think it is more or less up to the society to support the college. I believe the thing we need is money, so that we can have endowment scholarships, so we can get men to give their entire time to the college.

Dr. W. K. Bouton of Australia: I am very glad that I have not been referred to as the man from Australia. I went there in 1885, but I am American still. I have been told that there are not enough men here, as it is, but I claim that men should spread out. If Boston holds all her men here you will not have the money that is needed. I am here prepared to take a man back with me, if he will go. One man said, "I suppose it is missionary work." That is the first time I have ever been taken for a missionary. I want him to go there, not as a missionary, but to build up homoeopathy. I want to see some of the young men who have followed the faculty carefully in their teachings, come and help to build up the work in Australia. We have five graduates of Boston University outside the city limits. It is the man who makes the profession. The whole faculty of Boston University cannot make the man. They can start him, but the man will have to build his own fortune.

In closing, I want to assure you that we mean to maintain in Australia the high standard set by the Boston University School of Medicine.

Dr. Frank C. Richardson: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I regret that I was not here when I should have been. That was unavoidable. I do not know what has been said in behalf of Boston University, but Dr. Coffin requested me to speak of the needs of Boston University. That can be generalized. It needs the hearty co-operation of the profession everywhere, especially throughout New England, and particularly that large part of it which should properly support the school; I mean the Alumnæ of Boston University School of Medicine. The school is, at the present time, in better condition than ever before as far as scientific work is concerned. We have not as many students as in time past, and as a matter of fact, no school has at the present time. The quality of students is as good at least as we have ever had. There is a spirit of earnestness, a do or die spirit, a "get there'' spirit.

So far as its standing is concerned, I mean in its relation to other schools, you probably know it stands well. It is well up to the head of the list. It is not easy to get into our School. It is not easy to get out of it honorably, and the graduate has nothing to fear if he graduates from Boston University School of Medicine honorably. from any state board of registration. Our graduates are wanted down there in Australia. They are wanted everywhere. We are constantly having application for our graduates. A few years ago we sent a man down to Pittsburg as interne in one of the large hospitals, and they were having considerably sepsis in the hospital. This man timidly asked permission to make some cultures. They looked upon him indulgently and pityingly, but gave him permission. He made the cultures, located the trouble, and at the end of his term as interne he was made pathologist of the hospital.