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the following Report of the Committee on Materia Medica : 1. "Each Man His Own Bookmaker in Materia Medica," by Conrad Wesselhoeft, M.D.

2. "Colchicum; Its Pathogenesy as Related to Cholera," by J. P. Sutherland, M.D

3. "Poisoning by One of the California Arachnida," by J. Heber Smith, M.D.

4. "Experience With the Schüssler Tissue Remedies," by J. M. Barton, M.D.

DISCUSSION.

Dr. A. J. French, discussing Dr. Sutherland's paper, reminded the members that the cause of cholera was a bacillus which no agent yet known could kill. Did not believe that colchicum had this power, and therefore doubted its efficacy in the cure of this disease.

Dr. J. Heber Smith said that he should not use colchicum with much faith in the treatment of cholera. For himself should rely upon cuprum acet., 3.

Dr. Sutherland admonished the members not to give up similia similibus in the treatment of cholera because of the "bug."

Dr. Barton spoke of kali phos. as being possibly applicable in cholera beause of its being curative of collapse.

About this time it was announced that an "emergency case" had been brought to the hospital, and many of the members availed themselves of Dr. Boothby's invitation to witness an amputation at the shoulder.

Report of the Committee on Surgery, Alonzo Boothby, M.D., Chairman.

1. "Conservative Treatment of Appendicitis," by J. W. Hayward, M.D.

2. "Three Cases of Appendicitis," by Nathaniel W. Emer

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3. "Twenty-five Hundred Surgical Cases in Roxbury Homeopathic Dispensary," by A. H. Powers, M.D.

4. "Treatment of Tumors of the Breast by Electricity," by W. L. Jackson, M.D.

5. "Some Uses of Electrolysis in the Treatment of Cutaneous Blemishes," by Fred'k W. Elliot, M.D.

6. "Club-Foot Patients Treated by a New Method," by Geo. H. Earl, M.D.

7. "Report of Case; Fracture of the Unciform Bone by a Fall," by Frank A. Gardner, M.D.

8. "What I Have Found in Palpating the Abdomen Where No Abdominal Growth Was Suspected," by J. R. Cocke, M.D.

9. "Foreign Bodies in the Tissues," by I. T. Talbot, M.D. 10. "Surgical Diseases of the Antrum of Highmore," by J. Emmons Briggs, M.D.

Owing to the large number of interesting papers in this Bureau, no time was left for their discussion, and with much regret the President was obliged to close the report immediately after the reading of the last paper. The meeting was then adjourned.

At half-past four the annual Society dinner was served in the new college building. About two hundred and fifty members. partook of a very satisfactory banquet, and afterwards spent a very enjoyable evening listening to interesting remarks from the following post-prandial speakers: President L. D. Packard, M.D.; Master of Ceremonies, H. E. Spalding, M. D.; Rev. Dr. W. T. Perrin, So. Boston; President C. A. Barnard, M.D., of Providence, R. I.; Dr. I. T. Talbot; President W. E. Fellows, of Bangor, Me.; Dr. Frank C. Richardson

F. C. RICHARDSON, M.D., Secretary.

BOSTON HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY.

The regular monthly meeting of the Boston Homœopathic Medical Society was held at the Women's Industrial Union, No. 264 Boylston street, Oct. 6, 1892, at eight o'clock, President Henry A. Spalding, M.D., in the chair. The records of the last meeting were read and approved.

Drs. Talbot and French said a few words upon the subject of cholera.

Dr. Bruce read some interesting extracts from a paper, advancing the theory that cholera was a hyperæmia of the spinal cord, and the most effective treatment was the application along the spine.

Dr. S. F. Lantzius-Beninga gave an interesting talk upon the way to prepare for microscopical work.

Dr. Spalding made an earnest appeal to the members of the society for their coöperation in making the meetings more interesting and profitable. M. E. MANN, M. D., Secretary.

THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ELECTRO-THERAPEUTISTS.

Pursuant to invitation, a number of medical men met at the office of Dr. William Harvey King, No. 23 West 53rd street, New York, on October 6th, 1892, at 2.30 o'clock, P. M., for the purpose of organizing a new association to be known as The National Society of Electro-Therapeutists. Dr. King was elected chairman of the meeting, and Dr. Winterburn, secretary.

The following persons constitute the charter members of the

new society, viz., Drs. F. A. Gardner, Washington, D. C.; E. Stillman Bailey, Chicago; Clarence Bartlett, Philadelphia; F. E. Caldwell, John L. Moffat, H. D. Schenck, Nathaniel Robinson, G. H. Doty, W. H. Bleeker, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Theodore Y. Kinne, Paterson, N. J.; Edwin De Bann, Passaic, N. J.; Arthur B. Norton, Sidney F. Wilcox, John B. Garrison, George William Winterburn, F. E. Doughty, Loomis L. Danforth, J. T. O'Connor, J. M. Schley, William Tod Helmuth, William Harvey King, George W. Roberts, Eugene H. Porter, New York; DeWitt G. Wilcox, Louis A. Ball, Buffalo, N. Y.; J. M. Lee, Rochester, N. Y.; and H. L. Biggar, Cleveland, O.

The proposed Constitution and By-Laws were then taken up section by section, discussed, amended, and adopted, and then ratified as a whole.

The following permanent officers were then elected to serve one year:

President, William Harvey King, M.D., New York. Vice-Presidents, E. Stillman Bailey, M.D., Chicago; Clarence Bartlett, M.D., Philadelphia.

Secretary, F. E. Caldwell, M.D., Brooklyn, N. Y. Treasurer, F. A. Gardener, M.D., Washington, D. C. Executive Committee, George William Winterburn, M.D., New York; John B. Garrison, M.D., New York. And the officers ex-officio.

The President was given power to appoint such special committees as he may deem necessary. The Executive Committee was authorized to elect new members as they might find expedi ent. On motion, the society adjourned to meet in Chicago in 1893. GEORGE WILLIAM WINTERBURN, Sec'y pro tem.

The National Society of Electro-Therapeutists it is intended shall include within its membership all physicians who are interested in the development of electricity as an adjunct in therapeutics. It is not meant exclusively for those who devote themselves to electricity as a specialty, but will include the gynæcologists, the oculists, the neurologists and the surgeons, who use electricity as part of their equipment. The session work at the meetings will be divided into bureaus, as electricity in diseases of women, diseases of the eye, ear and throat, diseases of the nervous system, and general electro-therapeutics, thus giving each member the opportunity to learn the most recent advances in the use of electricity in his own specialty.

Persons desiring to become members should send their name and one dollar, the first year's dues, to Dr. F. E. Caldwell, 151 Henry St., Brooklyn, N. Y., or to any of the officers of the society. Any physician in good standing in the profession may become a member. Unless personally known to some member of the

Executive Committee, the applicant should send name of college and date of graduation, and such other data as will enable the committee to act intelligently on the application. While offering a most cordial invitation to every worthy practitioner, the society will protect itself against undesirable applicants.

REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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A MANUAL OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. By Alfred Swain Taylor, M.D., F.R.S., revised and edited by Thomas Stevenson, M.D., London. Eleventh American edited with citations and additions from the twelfth English edition, by Clark Bell, Esq. 787 pp. 56 illustrations. Price, cloth, $4.50; sheep, $5.50. Philadelphia: Léa Brothers & Co. 1892.

This fine work is a classic, in the library alike of physician and of lawyer. Its style is scholarly, its information exact, its subject of the closest importance to members of both the professions referred to. It is written under the following heads: Medical Evidence, Poisoning, Corrosive and Irritant Poisonings, Metallic Irritants, Vegetable and Other Irritants, Neurotic Poisons, Wounds and Personal Injuries, Drowning, Hanging, Strangulation, Suffocation, Lightning, Cold, Heat, Starvation, Pregnancy, Delivery, Criminal Abortion, Infanticide, Birth, Inheritance, Legitimacy, Paternity, Impotency and Sterility, Rape, Insanity, Life Insurance. These leading heads being subdivided, for convenience and clearness, into innumerable subheads, every subject on which, in medico-legal cases, the lawyer can be called upon to plead, or the physician to give expert testimony, is thus dealt with, fully, practically and helpfully. The information given is rendered more practical by the illustrative citation of nearly seven hundred cases from actual experience. The illustrations are abundant and suggestive, showing the microscopical appearance of crystals of various toxic substances, apparatus for making exact tests in suspicious cases, and like matters germane to the subject in hand.

THE STUDENTS' QUIZ SERIES. Edited by Bern B. Gallaudet, M.D. GYNECOLOGY: By G. W. Bratenahl, M.D., and Sinclair Tousey, M.D. Phila. Lea Brothers & Co. 211 pp. If "Quiz Compends" continue to multiply, as during the past. few years, the student will soon be able to bear about in his pockets ammunition in the way of medical lore sufficient to silence all the batteries, in the way of examinations, that can be turned upon him. The usefulness of these little books is, however, undeniable; and their condensed and accurate and emi

nently get-at-able information is often as welcome to the emergency-tried practitioner as to the crib-seeking undergraduate. The present little volume is excellent of its kind. It gives answers to most of the questions that could be asked by or of the student of gynæcology, in the way of the anatomy and physiology bearing on the subject, the pathological and therapeutic views of it, and the miscellaneous data connected with it, such as appliances for examination, for surgical operations, local treatment and the like. The manual is finely printed and bound. THE ACTION, THERAPEUTIC VALUE AND USE OF THE CARLSBAD SPRUDEL SALT. By Dr. W. Jaworski. Phila. P. Blakiston Son & Co. 100 pp.

This is one of the little, specializing volumes which tells all there is to know about a given branch of some one subject. In this instance the subject is the Carlsbad Sprudel Salt and its relation to the Carlsbad Thermal Water; and, as the translator of the treatise truly says, it is a novelty to find such a subject handled according to scientific methods.

THE MEDICAL AND DENTAL Register-DIRECTORY AND INTELLIGENCER of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware (1892 edition). 424 pp. Philadelphia: George Keil.

This book contains a complete list of the National and State Medical and Dental Associations, with their officers and date of meetings, Medical and Dental Colleges of the United States, and other very valuable material, Medical and Dental Laws, Hospitals, Homes, etc., also the lists of Medical and Dental practitioners, with the school and year of graduation, post-office addresses, and office hours. It bears evidence of exact and careful preparation; and in its chosen field of usefulness should find a cordial welcome.

Among the articles of special interest to physicians in the November POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, are "The Natural or Scientific Method in Education," by Dr. Wesley Mills; "On Posture and Its Indications," by T. Lauder-Brunton; "The Problems of Comparitive Psychology," by Prof. Joseph Jastrow; "The Synthesis of Living Beings," by M. Armand Sabatier; and "Modern Nervousness and Its Cure," by Herr Dr. Bilsinger. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE for November has, as its complete novel, "More Than Kin," by Marian Harland. J. B. McCormick writes on "The Sporting Editor"; there is an entertaining short story by Helen Lovett; and Edith Thomas' bit of verse, “Mirage," is in her most charming manner.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.

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