has in its many previous editions been commented upon with such hearty commendation and in so much detail, that little that is new can be said about it in its present form. Constantly renewed experiment and investigation are constantly varying, verifying or casting doubt upon minor points in connection with physiology, that most living of sciences: so that every new edition of a standard work must have some new word to say, and be, by so much, more valuable than any preceding one. Such is the case with this latest edition of Foster: and we herewith commend it to the library of every student.

SURGICAL ANATOMY. By A. Marmaduke Sheild, M.B., F.R.C.S. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 226 pp.

This little book is, as the author explains to us in his preface, intended to use in conjunction with the living model. Long experience as a demonstrator has convinced him that no study of text-book illustrations can give students that certainty of touch, that instant recognition of location which are the foundationtraits of the able surgeon; and he therefore insists that the student's manual shall be his companion when face to face with the living model, where its suggestions can be of instant use in enabling him to locate organs and structures for prompt recognition in emergencies. The manual is concise and practical, well arranged and amply indexed.

BOTANY. By Alex. Johnstone, F. G. S. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 260 pp.

Mr. Johnstone as lecture on botany at the Edinburgh School of Medicine, has had ample opportunity to satisfy himself as to the needs of students in the way of text-books, in this branch of instruction. His conclusion is that exhaustive treatises are less in demand now-a-days, when so much is learned by personal investigation and direct demonstration, than are concise manuals which may help to systematize a student's ways of study, and recall to him the principal points of the work he has gone over with his instructors. On this plan the present work is constructed. There is a brief biological introduction; followed by chapters, carefully subdivided, upon vegetable morphology and physiology, external morphology or organography, physiology and taxonomy. The book is fully illustrated and indexed, and has an excellent glossary. It is, it must be repeated, intended for the somewhat advanced student, familiar with the technical terms of botanical study; but to such it will prove an encyclopædically useful and very accessible companion.

POST-MORTEMS. By A. H. Newth, M.D. Edited by F. W. Owen, M.D. Detroit: The Illus. Med. Journal Co. 136. pp.

This is a terse little manual, of convenient pocket size, which gives all the necessary information to the medical student as to how to intelligently conduct a necropsy. It is not less useful to the experienced physician, since it gives many hints on the minutiæ of points connected with "suspect cases," as of infanticide, murder, etc. The little book is accurate and serviceable. THE MEDICAL BULLETIN VISITING LIST. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis.

This visiting list is arranged upon a plan best adapted to the most convenient use of all physicians, and embraces a new feature in recording daily visits not found in any other list, consisting of stub or half leaves in the form of inserts, a glance at which will suffice to show that as the first week's record of visits is completed, the next week's record may be made by simply turning over the stub-leaf, without the necessity of rewriting the patients' names. It has the usual dose-tables and formulæ, including sections on inhalation and hypodermics. It is prettily and substantially gotten up.

The February CENTURY has a striking article on the Degredation of a State, which is an exhaustive exposé of the evils of the Louisiana Lottery. There is a little tale of Western railroad life by Walcott Balestier; several illustrated articles of great merit, on "The New National Guard," "The Jews in New York," and other topics; and the usual variety of serials and verse.

New York: The Century Co.

LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE for February has, as its complete novelette, "Roy the Royalist," a spirited tale of France and England at the close of the last century. The journalistic series is continued by a paper on The Managing Editor, by Julius Chambers. There is the usual bright mélange of short stories, essays and news. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott Co.

THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY for February concludes the admirable and very original "Experiment in Education," by Mary Alling Aber; Edward Atkinson and Edward T. Cabot write on "Personal Liberty;" James Sully discusses, with many philosophical technicalities, the question, Is Man the Only Reasoner? Alice Tweedy makes a plea for housework in "Homely Gymnastics;" and the editorials consider the feasibility of of University Extension controlled by the State.

New York: D. Appleton & Co.

PERSONAL AND NEWS ITEMS.

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DR. LAURA W. COPP has removed to No. 16 Bulfinch Street, Boston.

DR. CHARLES F. JOHNSON has removed from Amesbury to 26 Market Street, Newburyport, Mass.

THE New York State Homœopathic Medical Society will hold its forty-first annual meeting at Albany, Feb. 9 and 10.

JEANNIE O. ARNOLD, M.D., B. U. S. M., class of '91, has removed from Beacon Avenue to No. 18 Cabot Street, Providence, R.I.

RUDOLF C. KAISER, M. D. has settled at 331 Columbus Avenue, near Dartmouth Street, Boston. Office hours: 8 to 9 A.M., 3 to 5 and 7 to 8 P.M.

FOR SALE AT A DISCOUNT. A Set of Gentry's Concordance Repertory in sheep binding in perfect condition. Address Otis Clapp & Son, 10 Park Square, Boston.

DR. AMOS J. GIVENS, formerly Assistant Physician at Westboro' Insane Hospi tal, at Westboro, Mass., has opened a private sanitarium for mental and nervous diseases at Stamford, Conn.

JOHN L. COFFIN, M.D., has opened an office in the Woodbury Building, Berkeley, corner Boylston Street, Boston. Hours, 12 to 3, except Sunday. Special attention is paid to diseases of the skin and its appendages.

HENRIK G. PETERSON, M.D., has returned after two years' clinical study of nervous diseases and mental disorders in Berlin, Vienna, Zurich and Nancy, and entered general practice at 368 Boylston Street, Boston.

Mondays and Saturdays from 10 to 12 at West-End Homœopathic Medical Dispensary, Charity Building, Chardon Street, Boston.

THE list of officers of the Homœopathic Medical Society of the County of Kings, N. Y, elected at the annual meeting held Jan. 12, 1892, is as follows: President, W. M. Butler, M.D.; Vice-President, W. B. Winchell, M D.; Secretary, W. S. Rink, M.D.; Treasurer, Alton G. Warner, M.D.; Necrologist, F. E. Risley, M.D.; Censors: J. L. Moffat, M.D., H. D. Schenck, M.D., W. W. Blackman, M.D., E. Chapin, M.D., H. Willis, M.D.

FOR SALE. The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Three volumes medical and three volumes surgical, profusely illustrated with colored plates. Complete sets of this work have always been rare, and each year leaves fewer of them to be had. The entire edition is out of print, each publication being authorized by a special act of Congress nearly twenty-five years ago. Address Ötis Clapp & Son, 317 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I.

DR. N. EMMONS PAINE has resigned his position of superintendent of the Westborough Insane Hospital [Mass] to take effect Feb. 1st. He has bought a fine estate in West Newton, nine miles from Boston, on the B. & A.R.R., consisting of a residence, etc, surrounded by twelve acres of grounds, on an eminence with a fine outlook. After a couple of months of repairing in the house, he will be prepared to receive a few cases of insanity of the best class of private patients, who desire homœopathic treatment. He has been led to take this step, after nearly seven years' residence at Westborough, by the frequent applications from other States for the admission of patients whom it was necessary to refuse on account of the opposition of the State authorities, who thought Massachusetts State institutions should be limited to Massachusetts patients.

SMITHKINS. "Hello, Doc! What are you doing?" The doctor to kill time." Smithkins "Why don't you prescribe for him?"

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NEW-ENGLAND MEDICAL GAZETTE.

No. 3.

MARCH, 1892.

VOL. XXVII.

Contributions of original articles, correspondence, personal items, etc., should be sent to the publishers,

In the issue of the GAZETTE for May, 1885, we greeted with satisfaction and hopeful anticipation the first fruits of the unselfish labor of those who had undertaken the Herculean task of separating the sound grain in our materia medica, from its overwhelming envelopment of chaff. To-day, the seven years which are proverbially allowed for the accomplishment of great tasks not having yet quite passed, this task, one of the greatest set.itself by homoeopathy since homoeopathy as a science came to be, stands completed. The concluding issue of the Cyclopædia of Drug Pathogenesy is now before us. Its appearance cannot be permitted to pass without a word of hearty congratulation and profound gratitude to the workers who have worked with no other reward than the consciousness of having, in their day and time, given great help to a great cause; and of earnest reminder to our readers and to all practitioners and friends of homoeopathy who can be reached by our plea, what duty they owe to these noble workers and to their work. No one could so well and so concisely tell the story of the Cyclopædia, as do the editors themselves in their brief and modest. preface; which we quote in full, and commend to our readers' most thoughtful consideration:

"We have now the pleasure of presenting to our colleagues the fourth volume of the Cyclopædia, and therewith completing

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our task, save as regards the Repertorial Index, which must form a separate volume in itself.

The circumstances which lead to this work being undertaken (in 1884) need only briefly be recalled. The Materia Medica' of Homœopathy-the record of the pathogenetic effects of drugs with which it works its rule 'let likes be treated by likes' had long been scattered throughout our literature in divers languages, and was, as a whole, inaccessible to student and practitioner. In 1874, Dr. T. F. Allen undertook to remedy this defect; and in the course of the next six years presented us with our whole pathogenetic wealth, to no small degree enriched in the process, in ten convenient volumes. He thereby earned the gratitude of us all, and continues to enjoy it. But possession of our Materia Medica only accentuated, in the minds of most of us, the dissatisfaction with which we had long regarded both its matter and its form. Dr. Allen had thought it right to give us, unsifted, all that had been put forward in the way of provings; and to cast the whole (save for a few narratives in the appendix) into the framework of the Hahnemannic schema. We thus seemed saddled to perpetuity with a Materia Medica full of the objections to which it had always been liable, - impure in its substance, and so felt untrustworthy; unintelligible in its presentation, and hence repelling to its would-be students. Fortunately, a minute examination of the earlier pathogeneses, made by no one more faithfully than by the editor himself, revealed so many flaws in the execution, that the conviction forced itself upon most minds that the work must be done over again, and upon a more critical and altogether better plan.

It was this conclusion which led, after two or three years of discussion and tentative essays, to the work now completed. In leaving it in our colleagues' hands, we would remind them that the Cyclopædia makes no common appeal to the homoeopathic body. It is not the design of one man, however capable, or the venture of a publishing house, far-seeing as may be its provision for our needs. It is the fruit of the best thought and consideration of many minds during a long space of time; and it comes with the imprimatur of the two national Societies of the language, carried out under rules drawn up and