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men in gynæcology, and his national pride finds solace in the thought that "when we quote from a foreign author we often do no more than to take back our own capital with the accumulated interest thereon." In his text, however, he has made practical application of Voltaire's aphorism, "For whoever thinks, there is neither French nor English," and has quoted freely from German, English and American authors. His bibliographical references are unusually voluminous.

Professor Pozzi believes that the great prominence gynæcology has assumed, is due to the introduction of antisepsis, which has now, he says, "triumphantly overcome all opposition;' and chapter I in volume I is devoted to antisepsis. Anæsthesia. in gynæcology, means for wound-closure and the control of hemorrhage, gynæcological examinations, metritis, fibroma, carcinoma, displacements and deformities of the uterus, and disorders of menstration are the subjects considered in volume I.

Volume II is devoted to inflammation and neoplasms of the uterine adnexa, genital tuberculosis, hematocele, extra-uterine pregnancy, diseases of the vagina and of the vulva, malformations, and a very insufficient section on diseases of the urinary tract, rectum and pelvis, concludes the volume.

The work is profusely illustrated, with nearly 500 wood-cuts and fifteen lithographic plates; is printed excellently well on extra heavy paper, and judging from the smoothness of the English style, the translator has done his work very creditably. A MANUAL OF OBSTETRICS. By A. F. A. King, A.M., M.D. Fifth Edition. Philadelphia: Lea Bros. & Co. 1892. 450 pp. The appearance of a fifth edition in less than three years after the issue of the fourth, testifies more eloquently than could a reviewer to the worth and popularity of Dr. King's excellent little manual. Some twenty pages of new matter have been added since the last edition, the chapters on the Signs of Pregnancy, and the Internal Generative Organs having been considerably amplified. The entire work has been brought up well to date, and a few new illustrations from Parvin's work have been introduced. The book stands enviably high among practical and comprehensive treatises on its chosen theme.

THE STUDENT'S QUIZ SERIES. Edited by Bern B. Gallaudet, M.D. Genito-Urinary and Venereal Diseases. By Chas. H. Chetwood, M.D. Obstetrics. By Chas. W. Hoyt, M.D. Philadelphia: Lea Bros. & Co.

These small quiz-books cover very briefly and practically their chosen ground. They are intended not only for the student but for the busy practitioner, who must often find himself

confronted with the questions to which they furnish true and immediately available answers, which will bridge his need to the point where he can make more leisurely study of larger works. The quiz-book on Obstetrics, which has many illustrative cuts taken from Playfair and King, will prove an exceedingly valuable and welcome pocket companion for the student in the intervals of his bedside attendance on his first parturient patients.

In LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE for October, the complete novel, "The Kiss of Gold," is by Miss Kate Jordan. It deals with the fortunes and misdemeanors of a young writer, whose sudden success was attended with temptation too strong for his integrity. Edwin Checkley, whose portrait precedes his article, continues the "Athletic Series," with a lively plea for his favorite science of "Muscle-Building." In "Men of the Day," M. Crofton gives free and vivid sketches of G. A. Sala, Sir F. Leighton, Camille Flammarion, and, for home subjects, Speaker Crisp and General R. A. Pryor. This is a new department. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.

The October CENTURY continues the serials by Mr. Fuller and Mary Halleck-Foote. Among its more noteworthy articles. are a paper on the last voyage of Columbus, by Emilio Castelar; a charming short story, "The Village Alien," by Viola Roseboro'; and a rhyme in Thos. Bailey Aldrich's happiest vein. New York: The Century Co.

GLEANINGS AND TRANSLATIONS.

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SUMMER FOOD. - Half the illness that occurs at one season, I think I can safely say, is due to improper dieting taken at another. We hear of people feeling weak in the spring, or suffering from those different ailments due to malnutrition, such as boils, skin diseases, obesity, or debility. Now this would not be so if the person adapted his diet to his requirements and to the season. No sensible person would think of keeping a large fire burning in his room in the summer. If he did, he would undoubtedly soon feel the effect of it; but many a man, who would feel himself insulted if he were not thought a sensible person, will eat in the summer to repletion foods the particular action of which is to supply heat in excess. Perhaps I cannot do better here than to explain that the foods that are converted into heat that is, keep up the heat of the body are starches, sugar, and fat; and those that more particularly nourish the nervous and muscular system are the albumen and salts, and a

perusal of, or reference to, the following table will show what these are, and also the amounts of the different constituents they contain. At a glance the reader will see that the largest proportion of summer food should consist of green vegetables, cooked, or as salads; white or lean meats, such as chicken, game, rabbits, venison, fish, and fruits. From Proper Diet for Hot Weather, by Dr. N. E. Yorke Davies, in The Popular Science Monthly for July.

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A LAW has been passed at St. Petersburg that a doctor who takes charge of an accident which he may happen to attend on the street, shall be paid by the police in proportion to the importance of the case. - Med. Times.

AGE OF FETUS. It is frequently desirable to be able to state approximately the age of the fetus in miscarriage cases. The following table from Auvard (Medical Brief) will be useful in deciding this question:

About the middle of the fourth month the fetus is eight inches long.
About the middle of the fifth month the fetus is ten inches long.
About the middle of the sixth month the fetus is twelve inches long.
About the middle of the seventh month the fetus is fourteen inches long.
About the middle of the eighth month the fetus is sixteen inches long.
About the middle of the ninth month the fetus is eighteen inches long.
And at the end of nine months, twenty inches long. - Med. Times.

HOW CRIMINALS MAY BE DETECTED. -- In his essay on "Criminology" in the New Englander and Yale Review, Mr. Arthur McDonald enumerates the following peculiarities in cranium structure which have been found to be characteristic of criminals: 1. A frequent persistence of the frontal median suture. 2. A partial effacement of the parietal or parieto-occipital sutures. 3. A frequency of the wormian bones in the regions of the median and lateral posterior fontanelles. 4. The development of the superciliary ridges, with the defacement, or even frequent depression, of the intermediary protuberance.

NEW METHOD OF TREATING ABSCESSES. Instead of the time-honored free incision of the most dependent part. Dr. Piéchaud, of Bordeaux, aspirates the abscess, after which he injects a solution of 1-1000 of corrosive sublimate. For the past ten months he has invariably adopted this method in his practice, with marked success. Even if the skin over the seat of the abscess be thin and undermined, this is no bar to the procedure, for which he claims as advantages that it is less painful, leads to more rapid healing, and leaves no traces of scar.- The London Lancet.

PERSONAL AND NEWS ITEMS.

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DR. R. C. KAISER has removed to Onondaga Valley, New York.

DR. S. WILLARD COY has removed to No. 300 Meridian Street, East Boston. DR. JOSEPH T. O'CONNOR has removed to No. 18 West Forty-third Street, New York City.

DR. C. E. PERKINS has succeeded to the practice of Dr. G. F. Forbes at West Brookfield.

SARAH M. HOBSON, M. D., '90, B. U. S. M., has moved to Chicago, Ill. Her address is 2124 Indiana Avenue.

DR. E. P. COLBY will remove to Woodbury Building, Berkeley Street, corner Boylston Street, about October 15th.

DR. GEORGE ROYAL of Des Moines, has been appointed to the chair of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the State University of Iowa, vice Dr. Cowperthwaite, resigned.

DR. GEO. B. RICE, of Wollaston, has opened an office in the Woodbury Building, where he will give exclusive attention to diseases of the throat and nose. Office hours from 1 to 2 P. M.

DR. JAMES KRAUSS of Malden, Mass., is spending two months in the hospitals of New York, pursuing a special course of surgical study. He will resume practice early in November.

DR. G. F. FORBES has removed from West Brookfield to 42 William Street, Worcester, Mass. He will occupy the office formerly used by the late Dr. W. B. Chamberlain, 19 Elm Street.

A. C. COWPERTHWAITE, M. D., has removed to 14 Warren Avenue, Chicago, and has accepted a Professorship of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College.

DR. H. P. BELLOWS, Corner of Berkeley and Boylston Streets, has changed his office hours from afternoon to forenoon, 10 to 12 daily, except Sundays. On Tuesday afternoons he will keep hours from 4 to 6.

THE Agents for the American Institute of Homoeopathy, Messrs. Otis Clapp & Son, offer a rare opportunity to secure a set of the Cyclopædia of Drug Pathoge nesy. See page 9 of advertising pages of this number.

A COMMITTEE On "Medico-Climatology," T. C. Duncan, M.D., chairman, has been appointed by the World's Congress Auxiliary, and arrangements are being made for a grand Congress of Climatologists to be held at Chicago in May or June, '93.

DR. IDA WRIGHT ROGERS, editor of the People's Health Journal, and Professor of Dietetics and Personal Hygiene, in the National Homeopathic Hospital of Chicago, arrived in Liverpool, Aug. 18, and will spend several months abroad in study and sight-seeing.

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SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY. Keating's Diseases of Children," four volumes, in sheep, in perfect condition, for $20.00 "International Encyclopædia of Surgery," by Ashhurst, six volumes, sheep, in perfect condition, for $36.00. Apply to OTIS CLAPP & SON, Providence, R. I. FOR SALE.- A large size McIntosh storage battery-type B.-75 ampere, 4 volt, with a lamp resistance suitable for charging the battery from a 500 volt circuit wire. These are in perfect order, and have never been used. Will be sold low for cash. Apply to

OTIS CLAPP & SON, 317 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I. CORRECTION. In the article on "Anæsthesia With Etherated Air," by Horace Packard, M. D., in the September GAZETTE, on page 425, the terms used in explanation of the cut of the apparatus through a typographical error, were incorrectly given as follows: 1. Air Valve. 2. Ether Reservoir. 3. Etherated-Air Reservoir. 4. Hood. 5. Hand Bulb. Corrected they are: 1. Air Valve. 2. EtheratedAir Reservoir. 3. Hood. 4. Ether Reservoir. 5. Hand Bulb.

FOR SALE. The library, medicines, instruments, batteries, etc., of a physician lately deceased, who has been located in same place for twenty-eight years. The good will and an introduction to his former families will be included for the price at which the goods have been inventoried. A splendid opening for a physician desirous of locating in a city. Very little capital required. Apply to

OTIS CLAPP & SON, 317 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I.

S. R. F. LANTZIUS-BENINGA, M. D., has opened a pathological laboratory at 2 Rutland Street, Boston, office hours, 10 to 12 A. M., where he will give his whole

time to the examination of pathological specimens of all kinds, especially to analyses of urine and all fluids of the body, to microscopical examinations of all pathological tissues, to examinations for bacteria, etc. He will also receive physicians and medical students for instruction in microscopy, normal and pathologi cal histology and urinary analyses.

The Southern Journal of Homœopathy has been purchased by, and will hereafter be published in Baltimore under the management of, Drs. Eldridge C. Price, Frank C. Drane and Henry Chandlee. The Homeopathic Advocate, for the past year conducted by the gentlemen above-named, will hereafter be in charge of the Faculty of the Southern Homœopathic Medical College, and will be issued as the organ of the Maryland Homoeopathic Hospital. The GAZETTE extends cordial good wishes for the success of both these esteemed contemporaries under their new conditions of life.

PROFESSOR S. C. DERBY of the University of Ohio, has the sympathy of many friends in the loss of his wife, Mrs. Frances Janney Derby. Mrs. Derby was the youngest daughter of Mr. J. J. Janney, and was a woman of unusual gifts of mind and character. She was a graduate of the Columbus High School, and after a course of professional study, received the degree of M. D. from the medical department of Boston University, her specialty being diseases of the eye. After a year of hospital work in New York, she opened an office in Columbus, and soon gained a considerable practice, which she did not wholly relinquish after her marriage to Professor Derby nine years ago.

OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF HOMEOPATHY IN PHILADELPHIA. - The homœo. pathic physicians of Philadelphia never having received any official recognition by the city authorities, the members of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the County of Philadelphia, on April 14th, 1892, petitioned the City Councils to favorably consider an ordinance to appoint, in each of the medical districts of the city, a reputable homœopathic physician, whose duty it shall be to furnish gratuitous medical treatment to the worthy poor applying for the same. Dr. Charles E. Karsner introduced the ordinance; it received the favorable recommendation of the Joint Committee on Charities and Corrections, and passed both branches of Councils by large majorities. It was promptly signed by Mayor Stuart, and it is now the law of the city that there shall be twenty-five homeopathic physicians to the outdoor poor. An ordinance was also passed that two of the four medical inspectorscity positions recently created shall be held by homeopathic physicians. These latter positions carry with them large salaries, and the appointments are made by examination according to civil-service regulations. A large number of physicians should apply for examination, as it is open to all. — Hahnemannian Monthly.

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JOHN JAMES DRYSDALE, M.D. —On the 20th of August, after a long life of exceptional usefulness, Dr. Drysdale died at his residence. Beech Lawn, Waterloo, near Liverpool, England.

Since the example of an upright, generous and industrious life is inspiring to all who are cognizant of its virtues and successes, and as a small tribute of respect and admiration paid to one who stood foremost among British homeopathists for nearly half a century, the following biographical notes selected from the sketch contained in the September number of the Monthly Homœopathic Review, are offered our readers. Dr. Drysdale's name is intimately associated with the early history and development of homoeopathy in Great Britain, and in his death homopathy mourns the loss of one of its ablest champions.

John James Drysdale, a son of Sir William Drysdale, at one time Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and a member of an old Aberdeenshire family, was born at Edinburgh in 1817.

At the termination of his general education, the greater part of which was conducted in France, Dr. Drysdale matriculated at the University of Edinburgh, and

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