dred years, and homoeopathy has advanced with it. Homœopathy is not a method but a field of scientific knowledge the study of which has evolved a therapeutic method based upon it. This method will continue to be influenced and modified by the advance of those fields of science which concern similar affections.

Dr. Almena J. Baker-Flint, one of our best known women physicians, passed away June 27th, 1914, after an operation for appendicitis performed in May.

Dr. Baker-Flint was born at Winter Harbor, Maine, April 5, 1842. She was married twice-early in life to Mr. William Baker, and later in life (1891) to Mr. D. B. Flint, a generous helper to Homœopathy.

Her life knew many struggles; but with indomitable energy and courage, she rose above them, and conquered.

Her early days showed the beginning of an unusual life which proved full to overflowing with good works, and showed an earnest endeavor to make the most possible out of it.

She chose medicine as her aim in life, and graduated at the B. U. School of Medicine in the class of 1876.

In medicine she proved a most useful woman, with wonderful tact, warm sympathy, and a generous, kind heart, that drew to her many who were suffering, and many who longed for wholesome advice and counsel. With her ability in medicine, these generous attributes of a rare and strong character, and an unusual charm, her practice became larger and ripened into great success.

So great was her influence over patients, that they followed her advice religiously, and became her devoted admirer and friends. Few women have had such opportunities for doing good. Especially in medicine, she held out the helping hand, over obstacles, to others, to perfect their education, and render their lives useful and profitable.

Her rare power of stimulation often opened the way to success and happiness, and there are many who bless her memory.

In later years she gave up the practice of medicine, and devoted her life to charities, and societies whose object was the uplift of humanity. She was an active member of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, The Mass. Society for the University Education of Women, and many others; but she always retained her interest in the medical school, and her membership in the many medical societies, and was a leader to help the cause of Homeopathy.

She won many honors, and occupied various offices in the medical societies. She was chosen a delegate, with Drs. Talbot, de Gersdorf and Thayer, to the International Convention of Homeopathy held in London.

She was on the medical staff of the Mass. Homeopathic Hospital for years, as electrician and consulting physician, and also, has long been on the Board of Trustees, of the hospital.

"And half redeemed, she needed not,

The changing of her sphere,
To give to Heaven the shining one
Who walked an angel here."

BOOK REVIEWS.

Local Anesthesia. By Dr. Arthur Schlesinger, Berlin. Translated by F. S. Arnold, B.A., M.B.,, B.Ch., (Oxon.) 211 pages. $1.50 net. Rebman Co., New York.

Recent study and experimental progress have led to a greatly extended field of usefulness of the many local anesthetics. This convenient little book, excellently printed in large type, offers opportunity to gain a profitable acquaintance with materials and technic. Theoretical considerations are largely omitted in this practical manual.

The first half of the book is given over to a discussion of the anæsthetics, adjuvants and methods of application including Schleich's infiltration anæsthesia, "nerve blocking." venous and arterial anæsthesia. In the remaining pages the procedures for operations on special regions are given. Although the use of local analgesics for neuralgias in various locations is applicable under the same anatomic principles no mention is made of these not strictly operative measures. Seemingly a large field for local anesthesia is offered by the female genital tract yet this receives scant attention. Plates and diagrams are few in number.

S. B. H.

REVIEW OF MEDICAL JOURNALS.

The Hahnemannian Monthly, June, 1914.

I. The Unsuspected but Poisonous Primrose. J. C. Guernsey.

This plant, primula obconica should not be confounded with the common cowslip, primula veris or officinalis. It causes skin symptoms nearly indentical to those of poison ivy.

2. Some Experiments with Radium F. C. Benson, Jr.

3. Erythema Induratum: Its Manifestations and Treatment with Appended Descriptive Homeopathic Remedies. R. Bernstein.

4. Some Sheet Anchor Remedies in Children's Diseases. W. J. Blackburn. 5. Dry Hot Air Treatments. J. A. Burnett.

This measure is said to be almost specific for all kinds of rheumatism, many joint troubles, old leg ulcers, etc. The author does not mention its value in acute streptococcic infections. The dry heat can be tolerated at 500° F. as contrasted with the usual maximum of 140°-170° F. using moist heat.

6. Uterine Hæmorrhage. W. C. Mercer.

7. Some Hints on Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media. G. J. Alexander.

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The Hahnemannian Monthly, July, 1914.

The Medicine of Experience of Most Value. E. C. Price.

2. Infant Feeding. J. P. Cobb.

3. New Variations on an Old Theme. O. S. Haines.

Haines' remarks pertain to the medical college curriculum.

[Reviewer's Note.] Why have a title for a supposedly scientific paper, when none could guess from reading it what the author might be talking about.

4. Homeopathy on the Firing Line. W. A. Boies.

I predict the day not far distant, when the banner of homœopathy will float from sea to sea and pole to pole, and when the eyes of the suffering grow dim and the steps feeble and the brow feverish, through the clouded vision of pain, they will look to the unchangeable law and will be able to mount up with wings as eagles, will run and not be weary, will walk and not faint."

[Reviewer's Note.] Such theologic fervor especially when not reinforced by a single original thought is as useless on the "firing line" as would be a thesaurus in the hands of an illiterate.

5. Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis from Symptoms and Physical Signs. W. S. Mills.

A brief review considering the salient points only.

6. Sex Hygiene; Sex Education; Eugenics. A Protest. J. R. Horner.

Early development of obedience, respect and confidence; instruction given to the individual and not to a whole class; volitional acceptance of laws; these are essential. "So long as men are attracted by beauty and women by strength, there is no need to be alarmed for the future. Less eugenics and more old-fashioned love is what the race needs."

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Binet and Simon Method of Measuring the Development of the Intelligence of Young Children. A. R. Garner.

8. A Few Points on Infant Feeding. V. A. H. Cornell.

9. Headache. O. K. Grier.

10. In Memoriam. James H. McClelland, M.D., D.Sc.

The Medical Century, May, 1914.

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1. Upper Abdominal Symptoms and Their Interpretation. D. T. Smith, M.D. The War on Cancer-The Various Treatments-Potassium, Radium and High Frequency. E. Mather, M.D., LL. D.

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[Reviewer's Note.] This brief column reads as if it were a transcription

from the notes of an inadequately educated stenographer.

3. Sectarianism in Medicine. Wr. Tod Helmuth, M.D.

This was the presidential address delivered at the annual meeting of the

Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of New York, Feb. 12th, 1889, and is very well worth reading.

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We would suggest that the statement—“I am a specialist in medicine,” is, at the present time, more proper than "I am a sectarian in medicine." The Medical Examination of School Children. J. B. S. King, M.D. This consists of excerpts from the article which was published in the Medical Advance, March, 1914.

The Medical Century, June, 1914.

1. Homeopathy vs. Surgery. A. B. Smith.

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As an excuse for thus making opponents of two specialties in medicine, Smith believes that the necessity of surgical interference may be avoided in many cases if the indicated remedy is given an intelligent trial.

2. Gleanings. L. Peck.

A discussion of drugs in uterine hæmorrhage and in vertigo forms the substance of this paper. The title is ludicrous in its inadequacy.

3. Practical Experience with Homeopathic Remedies. W. A. Humphrey. 4. Ease the Accursed Hour. W. W. Osgood.

With a fruit diet, exercise, etc., with four drops daily of macrotys during the last month of preganancy if no other remedy is indicated, and with two fifteen drop doses of tincture of jaborandi when labor begins,-Osgood states that his cases "pass through the trying hours with less than one half of the suffering or duration otherwise occasioned" in unassisted cases.

5. Syphilis of the Nervous System. D. M. King.

A brief but intelligent review of diagnosis and treatment.

6. Piper Nigrum. B. Johnson.

7. Puzzling Cases. F. W. Hammond.

The Medical Century, July, 1914.

1. After the Operation. T. G. Yeomans.

A discussion of diet, drugs and instructions to the patient.

2. Arteriosclerosis. A. E. Hinsdale.

Hinsdale treats of homoeopathic therapeutics chiefly, giving baryta mur., ergotin, glonoine 3x and plumbum first rank.

3. Symptoms of Chronic Venereal Diseases.

W. W. Osgood.

4. Obstetrical and Surgical Medication. O. R. Gregg. 5. Public Medical Welfare. J. A. Evans.

6. The Laboratory. B. Trew.

7. A Polychrest Restudied. B. S. Partridge.

The Medical Century, August, 1914.

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I. President's Address--Missouri Institute of Homœopathy. S. Parsons. Supplement to the Dictionary of Materia Medica. J. H. Clarke.

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The introductory chapter, and a consideration of acetic and aconite acid 3. Vaginal Casarian Section. C. B. Kinyon.

4. Homeopathy in Allopathic Textbooks. G. W. Coffman.

Comment on quotations from Potter's "Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Therapeutics." The editor of the Medical Century states that "Dr. Potter was a homœopathic graduate and became a renegade because of pique. He carried some of his homoeopathic into all allœopathy but never acknowledged its genesis."

5. Preputial Adhesions in Little Girls. J. A. Burnett.

The Pacific Coast Journal of Homœopathy, July, 1914.

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1. President's Address, and Proceedings of the California State Homœo· pathic Medical Society.

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The Early Recognition of Psychosis. O. G. Freyermuth.

An elaborate twenty-eight page article on this difficult subject.

S. B. H.

The North American Journal of Homœopathy, August.

1. Underfeeding of Infants. Minton, H. B.

2. The Cystoscope. Kaufman, L. R.

3. A. I. H. Wilcox, DeW. G.

The Journal of the A. I. H.

1. Immortality-Personality, In Memoriam-James H. McClelland. Van Baun, W. W.

2. Gaius J. Jones-A Tribute. Baxter, H. H.

3. Putting Away Childish Things-Presidential Address. Wilcox, DeW. G. Presidential Address. Dowling, J. I.

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5. Infant Welfare Work of Today. Cameron, A.

6. The Definition of Homeopathy. Krauss, J.

7. The Question of the Hereafter from the Physical Standpoint. Runnels, O. S.

8. Editorials. Hobson, S. M.

The Academic or the Larger Meaning of Homeopathic Practice. The author makes a plea for dropping the diphthong in homœopathy, citing authorities on philology whose opinions should carry much weight. A consideration of the meaning of the term homœopathy is merely touched upon.

S. B. H.

The Journal of the American Institute of Homœopathy, June, 1914. 1. Drug Proving Methods of the Future. P. Rice.

Rice emphasizes the necessity for careful analysis of the organization of the provers.

2. Diagnosis and Treatment of Auto-Intoxication. J. R. Horner.

3. Medical Colleges and State Boards. J. P. Cobb.

4. Psychotherapeutics. C. F. Clark.

5. Homeopathic Treatment of Gall Stones. G. W. Anderson.

6. Case of Papillary Cystadenoma of the Ovary Complicating Pregnancy. F. N. Ward.

7. Tendon Transplantation. E. P. Mills.

8. Urinary Tuberculosis. J. Krauss.

9. Uterine and Ovarian Displacements. B. Gurney.

10. X-Rays in the Diagnosis of Diseases of Bones and Joints. E. H. Grubbé.

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July, 1914.

Organizing the American Institute into a Federal Government. D. G. Wilcox.

The Purpose of the Institute. E. Harper.

3. The Year's Progress in Therapeutics.

4. Present-Day Clinical Medicine. E. L. Nesbit.

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A Chapter from a Possible Work on Border-Land Diseases. J. C. Wood. 6. Shock. B. J. Sanford.

The British Homœopathic Journal, June, 1914

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I. Recent Experiments in the Field of Homœopathy. Wheeler, C. E. This paper is a report on the work of the Beit Research Fund of the British Homoeopathic Society. The first part of the work deals with experiments attempting to demonstrate the power of the simillimum to favour the formation of specific antibodies. The experiments are similar to those of Mellon and Hooker in their aim, but are decidedly primitive in comparison. The report lacks detail, and the discussion lacks accurate references. Furthermore there seems to have been little system in the work which accounts in part for the "tantalizing results." The second part of the work deals with experiments attempting to demonstrate activity in the higher potencies. The author has investigated Arndt's formula of the effect of stimuli on protoplasmic activity. Here again the work appears unsystematized, which ob scures the results. Nevertheless, certain phenomena were produced which