and to his experiments with plant life.

Reference to organic insanity was made. Arteriosclerosis runs in families; not all alcoholics have delirium tremens, but only those with predisposed brains, and the same is true of the relation of syphilis to paresis. The speaker thought we were just in the beginning of our application of Eugenics to insanity.

Mr. Clifford W. Beers, the second speaker, is Secretary of the National Society of Mental Hygiene. He referred to the fact that the Society is the first of its kind in the world, and that it hoped to have a branch in every State, such as have already been organized in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Maryland and Pennsylvania.

The objects of such a Society he said are: (1) To have established psychopathic hospitals in all cities of over 100,000 for curable cases and study. (2) Sanatoria for the well-to-do patients. (3) Better teaching of mental diseases in medical schools. (4) Education of the general public in mental subjects. (5) The circulation of pamphlets on such subjects. (6) Mental Hygiene exhibits. (7) Establishment of societies of mental hygiene in each State.

Such a society has been found to cost at least $3,000 a year. It should maintain an office with one or more field workers and two stenographers.

OBITUARY.

Alvin Matthew Cushing, M.D.

Dr. Alvin M. Cushing died in Springfield, Massachusetts, on December 1st, at the age of eighty-three.

Alvin Matthew Cushing, the son of Matthew and Resia Woodruff Cushing, was born in Burke, Vermont, September 28, 1829. He was educated at the old Newbury Academy and studied medicine at Dartmouth and the Woodstock Medical School and the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, from which he was graduated. He began the practice of his profession at Bradford, Vt., and after a short residence in Lansingburg, N. Y., and Melrose, came to the height of his practice in Lynn, Mass., from 1865 to 1880. After a short residence in Boston, he moved to Springfield, where he spent the remainder of his life. On February 4, 1860, he married Elizabeth H. Pearsons of Bradford, Vt., sister of the late Judge W. B. C. Pearsons of Holyoke, and the late Dr. D. K. Pearsons of Chicago. Mrs. Cushing died in 1880 at Holyoke. His brothers, Charles Wesley Cushing and Haynes Porter Cushing, were distinguished ministers of the Methodist church. Dr. Cushing is survived by two sons, John Pearsons of New Haven, Ct., and Harry Alonzo of New York City. A third son, Alvin Matthew, Jr., died a number of years ago.

BOOK REVIEWS.

The Rebman Company, 1123 Broadway, New York, have just published a translation of the splendid work of Professor Fedar Krause, M.D., chief physician of the Augustus Hospital, Berlin, Germany. The first volume is translated by Dr. Henry A. Haubold of New York, and Volumes II and III by Dr. Max Thorex of Chicago. This comprehensive work in three volumes is the latest and best treatise which has appeared on Surgery of the Brain and Spinal Cord. Rarely have we had the pleasure of seeing illustrations which reproduce so lifelike the various lesions of structures and the modus operandi for their correction.

The author says in his Preface that the immense amount of material placed at his disposal, by neurologists and surgeons the world over, has made it possible for him to give in this work the most thorough and complete review of the present state of the Surgery of the Brain and Spinal Cord, including Diagnosis. Theoretical questions about which no new developments have been recorded are not discussed, but the reader is re

ferred to the many monographs (by v. Bergmann, Kocher, etc.) that have appeared on the subject. He does so in order to avoid needless repetition. But he has deemed it necessary to add important Clinical Observations in extenso, as characteristic examples.

The work interests all Surgeons in general, but particularly the Nerve Specialists, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat men, and the Syphilologists. This makes the field of interest very extensive.

It is not a text-book, but is intended with the aid of the incomparably beautiful illustrations, to offer a thorough survey of the present position taken by Brain and Nerve Surgery. The technic is thorough and up to date.

Volume I deals with Trephining, Cysts, Tumors, Cerebral Wounds, Cerebral Puncture, Centricular Puncture, Lumbar Puncture, Use and Application of the X-Ray; all pass before the reader in a grand review, but in simple, instructive language.

See the Ear cases on pp. 107-150, etc.; Chloroform versus Ether, p. 156; Asepsis, p. 159; Care of Hands, Towels, Antiseptics, p. 159; Use of Bare Hand, p. 160; Face-Mask, Dressing, etc., p. 160.

It deals with the more general sections of Brain Surgery and contains 24 Colored Plates with 48 Figures, one Photo Print with 5 Figures, and 63 Figures illuminating the text. $6.00. Bound in Art Leather.

Volume II deals with Epilepsy, Neoplasmata of the Brain, the Fontal Brain, the Central Region, the Temporal Lobe and the Region of the Island of Reil. It also deals with Neoplasmata of the Parietal Lobe, the Occipital Brain, and the Posterior Fossa of the Skull. Then it takes up Sympto matology and Neoplasmata at the Base of the Brain and in the Contiguous Regions. It contains 27 Colored Figures and 4 Half Tones on 15 Plates, and 94 Figures in the Text, 14 of which are in colors. Price, $7.00. Bound in Art Leather.

Volume III contains the concluding chapters of the Surgery of the Brain, i.e., Neoplasmata of the Base of the Brain; Prognosis in the Extirpation of Cerebral Tumors; Intracranial Suppuration; Metastatic Processes and Cerebral Injuries. The rest is devoted to the Surgery of the Spinal Cord.

It contains 47 Figures on 22 Plates and 42 Figures in the Text, three of which are colored. Price, $7.00. Bound in Art Leather.

The publishers are justified in saying: “We point with particular pride to the many illustrations in the text and to the colored plates, which are printed on coated paper. The work is now complete and contains 122 Colored Figures on 60 Plates; 9 Half Tones on two Plates; and 199 Illustrations in the Text, 17 of which are colored."

3 vols. Art Leather, $20.00. Sold by subscription only.

Diseases of the Mouth. By Prof. Dr. F. Zinsser. Lindenburg and Cologne. Translated from the German by John B. Stein. New York. Published by Rebman Co., New York. Cloth, $7.00 net.

This is not a text book, nor is it a general treatise on oral affections or syphilis. It is a pictoria! atlas of the syphilitic and kindred affections of the oral cavities, with differential diagnosis as the main object. The colored illustrations are extremely instructive. By using them together with the text one will find this book of great value in practice.

Materia Medica with Repertory. 5th Edition. William Boericke. Revised and Enlarged by Oscar E. Boericke. Published by Boericke and Runyon, New York.

Among the entirely new additions of special value incorporated are Lecithin, Radium, Adrenalin and X-Ray.

A Manual of Pharmacy for Physicians. By M. F. DeLorme, M.D., Ph.G., Assistant Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacology, Long Island

College Hospital, New York. Third Edition, with 19 Illustrations. Price, $1.25 net. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut St., Philadel phia, 1912.

In this little book Dr. DeLorme has made an effort to provide a small, concise text book, presenting only those facts of the subject having interest for the medical practitioner. A work of this kind is largely a matter of compilation, and the author has drawn liberally from several of the larger books on this subject, especially from the Pharmacopoeia, Manual of the National Formulary, etc. It is especially valuable to the homœopath as a reference book, giving him the NoMidge necessary upon the subject of Pharmacy taught in the medical curriculum. Medical

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MEDICALUJOURAL REVIEWS.

Medical Century, December, 1912.

The Evolution of the SuicideIBRARY

Treatment of Dyamenorrhoea. Smethers, A. L.

3. Caesarian Section. Fitz-Patrick, G.

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Capsicum in Throat and Ear Troubles. Evans, J. A.

"The throat symptoms which capsicum will aid us in are the conditions in which we have dry cough with sticking pain in region of epiglottis, severe pain on swallowing, due to dryness and burning of mucous membrane, spasmodic contraction of throat." The ear troubles indicating this drug are those which follow inflammation of the throat. The author uses the 3x dilution, 15 gtt. in one-half glass of water.

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Anaesthesia. Stone, S. R.

Pelvic Inflammation-Its Treatment. Osgood, W. W.
Homoeopathy in Pediatrics.

Morgan, W. L.

Aortic Insufficiency. Coburn, C. E.

9. Hydriatics and Cyclopegics. Armstrong, C. D. Anaesthesia in Nose and Throat Work.

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Smith, G. W.

Some Causes of Death in the Newly Born. Martin, F. M.

Hahnemannian Monthly, November, 1912.

1. Prophylaxis of Breast Infection. Russell, A. E. C.

2. Bleeding Following Delivery. Kline, D. C.

3. Thoughts on Prenatal Conditions and Influences Which May Control the Formation of Sex. Straube, R.

The author bases his theory on results which he believes he would have obtained from experiments which he has not made. Life is too short to indulge seriously in such utterances. Why not make the experiments first, and then write?

A review of the theories of the cause, omitting the recent work on this subject, by S. H. Blodgett. The author considers the symptoms and diag nosis, ending with a description of the treatment. We are especially interested in his finding iris vers. the most useful remedy, since this drug by its pathogenesis gives us the most complete picture of characteristics of the disease.

6. The Differential Liagnosis of Laboratory Methods of Some of the More Common Diseases of Children. Cochen, L. F.

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A Study of the Blood Pressure in Five Hundred Cases of Insanity. Vessie, P. R.

8. Presentation of a Case of Perforated Gastric Ulcer. Eberhard, E. M. Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Laryngeal Tuberculosis. Hallock, J. H.

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The Clinique, November, 1912.

1. The Nature of Genius.

Givens, A. J.

2. Out of Door Schools. Ripley, G. W.

3. Glandular Enlargements.

Rawson, V.

4. Symposium in Uterine Fibroids.-Pathology and Complications. Abell,

E. J.

5. Blood Transfusion. Hunter, E. L.

6. Pink Eye, or Acute Contagious Conjunctivitis.

Boynton, W. E.

7. The Early Determination of Pregnancy. Smith, A. E.

The Pacific Coast Journal of Homoeopathy, November, 1912.

1. Yucca Filamentosa (Spanish Dagger). Waffle, Willella H.

A case of poisoning in a baby six weeks old.

2. Three Serious Errors in the Use of Tuberculin. Laidlaw, G. F. 3. Nervous Instability. Curtis, C. F.

4. Electric Treatment of Poliomyelitis.

5. Vaccines in Surgery. Albert, W.

The Homoeopathic World, London. December, 1912.

1. Homoeopathic Prescribing. Kent, J. T.

2. A Proving of Radium Bromide. Dieffenbach, W.

3. Vegetable Oils, British and Foreign, Their Use and Abuse. Horwood, A. R.

4. A Bladder Case? Tubercular. Wheeler, F. T.

The British Homoeopathic Journal. London. December, 1912.

1. A National Medical Service Scheme. Lowe, E. C.

Regarding the National Insurance Act, a bit of legislation which has caused consternation, disgust and dissatisfaction by an outrage against the time-honored proceedings and traditions of the private practice of medicine. A remedy.

2. Duodenal Ulcer. Neatly, T. M.

A thorough consideration of our knowledge on this subject; to be continued in the next issue.

Berliner Homoeopathische Zeitschrift.
July.

1. Homoeopathy and Modern Physics. Schlegel, E.

Discussed in February issue by Dr. Walter Wesselhoeft.

2. The Right of Physicians to Dispense Homoeopathic Remedies. Schier. Salvarsan. Kröner.

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1. Jaeger and Homoeopathay. Kröner, E.

2. Lycopodium. Schwarz, V., and Weiss, E.

An exceedingly interesting article, showing us how Dr. Schwarz is teaching materia medica in the hospital. His method is a decided step in advance of the didactic methods employed in the American homoeopathic colleges. According to Dr. Schwarz's method the student writes a thesis on a drug, and incorporates in this thesis personal clinical experience in the hospital. Dr. Schwarz then discusses the thesis. This gives the the student a valuable insight into one drug. Having learned one drug in this way he can go on to the study of others with the same thor oughness. The result is that the student's knowledge enables him to prescribe the drugs he knows on scientific grounds, instead of prescribing according to the keynotes of many remedies of which he only has a smattering. Moreover, the student of Dr. Schwarz is not given gospel teach

ings, but is left to work out his own salvation in regard to the value of symptoms, guided and assisted by his teacher. Such a system must give the student a greater respect for his convictions regarding homoeopathic therapeutics.

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On the Criticism of the Law of Similars. Dahlke, P.

The Development of Thought in Pathology and Therapeutics in Reg cent Years. Stiegele.

An Omission of Salvarsan Treatment in Court. Wassily.

The plaintiff was treated unsuccessfully for six months with homeopathic medication by Dr. Wassily. At the end of this time the patient placed himself under the care of two allopaths who gave him salvarsan. The new treatment afforded relief. The allopaths then induced the pa tient to sue Dr. Wassily for negligence. Dr. Wassily's able defense caused the court to nol pros the case.

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The Inflammations of the Colliculus Seminalis and their Direct and Reflex Consequences.

Orlowski.

Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.

Indications for Operations in Epilepsy.

The cause of epilepsy seems due in some cases to molecular or chemical change in the nerve cells, in others to gross pathological lesions. Operations must therefore depend on the length of the duration of the case and the damage done to nerve structures.

1. Jacksomaii or Focal Epilepsy.

The earlier the convulsion appears after the injury the better the prospect of cure from operative procedure. Repeated operations where the first fails is generally useless. Convulsions following hemorrhage if Jack somaii in type are usually benefited by removing the clot if this is accessible.

II. Intercranial Neoplasms.

Many cases show dilatation of the lateral ventricle, so operation might have been beneficial in the early stages of the disease.

III. Infantile palsies.

After the first few years of life these cases are not amenable to treatment. If, however, the case might be brought to operation when the infant shows the first signs of a developing paralysis the clot could easily be removed and the ensuing hemiplegia and idiocy averted. The danger of the operation at the time is small in comparison with the danger of allowing the almost certain development of a worse than absolutely useless life when a possibility of cure exists.

In epileptics all exciting causes should be removed, as nasal polypi, eye strain, uterine and ovarian displacements, etc.; for there is the remote possibility that in individuals having a defective nervous inheritance these may be the primary cause of the attacks, at least there may be a lessening in the frequency in the number of the convulsions when such conditions are removed.

Medical Digest, November, 1912.

A Review or the Treatment of Goitre.

In bronchiocile, or simple hypertrophy of the thyroid gland, iodine is given as the remedy par excellence. The tincture of phytolacca especially in alternation with iris has marked influence on glandular tissue and is useful when iodine seems contra-indicated.

In Graves' disease, however, both iodine and thyroid extract are of little value. In the early stages of the disease ascending doses of belladonna have proven curative. Quinine hydrobromate often combined with