abrasion of the skin. The intensity of these skin manifestations may be sensibly diminished by the repeated parenteral administration of the proteids in question. Coincident with the diminution in the skin reactions there seems to occur an increased tolerance of the exposed mucous membranes to the pollens of the plants employed. Pollen therapy in hay fever may be regarded at the present time as a promising method of treatment, but its value and the permanence of its results remain still to be definitely established." H. L. B. BOOK REVIEWS Diseases of the Nose and Throat. By Algernon Coolidge, M.D., Professor of Laryngology in the Harvard Medical School. 12mo of 360 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1915. Cloth, $1.50 net. This book for the student and practitioner is one of the best of the year on the examination, diagnosis and treatment of the upper respiratory tract. A large amount of material is included in a small volume of three hundred and sixty pages. In chapter one, examination of the trachea by the indirect method and the section on trans-illumination give valuable points of technic, but the reviewer regrets that the naso-pharyngoscope is not mentioned in the book. In the next chapter on the clinical history, the significance of the important symptoms of nasal obstruction and secretion, cough, hoarseness and obstruction to nasal breathing is discussed. In chapter four the so-called vaso-motor disturbance is carefully considered. The author's position as to the relation of the tonsils to rheumatism and other remote diseases is a conservative one but omits any reference to sinusitis or carious teeth being foci of infection. Chapter nineteen is devoted to bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and an excellent chapter on diseases of the mouth and trachea follows The more common operations are clearly described and there are many illustrations which bring out clearly the important points under consideration. The subjects are taken up in a clear, systematic manner. It is a very useful and valuable book. E. J. SOCIETIES Boston District of the Massachusetts Homœopathic Medical Society The regular monthly meeting of the Boston District of the Massachusetts Homœopathic Medical Society was held on December 2, 1915, at the Evans Memorial on East Concord Street. Owing to the absence of the Secretary, the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting was omitted, and Dr. Edward S. Calderwood was appointed Secretary pro tem. Drs. Nathan H. Garrick, Mary F. V. Moore and Harry A. Watts were elected to membership in the Society. As Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions on the death of Dr. Edward P. Colby, Dr. J. P. Sutherland presented the following: Whereas in the death of Dr. Edward P. Colby our Society has lost not only one of its senior members, but one of its most highly useful, most deeply respected and most influential members, a man of rare personality, of unusual charm and attractiveness, loyal, dependable, stedfast, genial, gentle and sympathetic; and Whereas by his removal from our midst we no longer have the benefit of his wise counsel, his broad and comprehensive knowledge, his critical and analytical acumen, his sound judgment, his stimulating companionship and encouragement, his long and varied experience; and Whereas the absence of his strong personality from our gatherings is recognized as a distinct and irreparable loss, Resolved that the Boston Homœopathic Medical Society in regular session assembled hereby expresses its deep and heartfelt sympathy with the members of Dr. Colby's family in their bereavement. Resolved that we incorporate in the records of our Society this expres sion of appreciation of Dr. Colby's sterling character as a man, a citizen and a physician, and also of our loss in his removal by death; and Resolved that a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to Mrs. Colby by our Secretary. The Committee on Nominations presented the following list of officers for the Society for 1916: For President: Benjamin T. Loring, M.D., Francis H. MacCarthy, M.D. For 1st Vice-Pres.: Walter J. Graves, M.D., Wesley T. Lee, M.D. For Censors: Frederick W. Colburn, M.D., *Edward S. Calderwood, M.D., Albert W. Horr, M.D., Thomas E. Chandler, M.D., N. H. Houghton, M.D. (* Candidate for re-election.) Dr. Nelson M. Wood presented a case recovered from general septicæmia with abundant findings of streptococcus in the blood stream. The paper of the evening was presented by Dr. William J. Brickley of the Haymarket Square Relief Station of Boston, on Head Injuries - Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment" It was a very interesting one, based on a sound knowledge of the subject gained from wide experience. It was discussed by Drs. Horace Packard, J. Emmons Briggs and W. F. Wesselhoeft. At the close of the meeting light refreshments were served. HAROLD E. DIEHL, M.D., Secretary. Massachusetts Surgical and Gynecological Society The eighty-fifth session of the Massachusetts Surgical and Gynecological Society was held at Pilgrim Hall, 14 Beacon Street, Boston, on December 8, 1915. on Papers were presented by Dr. Ralph A. Stewart of New York on "A Plea for Better Records in Fractures," by Dr. D. G. Wilcox of Boston "The Treatment of Pelvic Adhesions," by Dr. G. F. Martin of Lowell "On Some Phases of Surgery of the Lungs," by Dr. Walter G. Crump of New York on "Surgical Aspects of the Cancer Problem." Discussion of these papers was opened by Drs. J. K. Warren, J. Emmons Briggs, Edgar A. Fisher, Horace Packard, George R. Southwick. The meeting was attended by ninety-four members and their guests. Following the presentation of papers and discussion, dinner was served at Young's Hotel. Prof. Frank Lewis Duley spoke after the dinner on "A Study in European Diplomacy," tracing the events from the time of the Franco-Prussian War to the eve of the declaration of the present European War. Many little understood points in the early weeks of the war were explained and an instructive and entertaining survey of the present conditions in Europe was presented. Officers for the year 1916 were announced as follows: President: Dr. H. O. Spalding. Vice-Presidents: Dr. R. C. Wiggin, Dr. Conrad Wesselhoeft, 2nd. Secretary: Dr. Harry J. Lee. Associate Secretary: Dr. William K. S. Thomas. Treasurer: Dr. Caroline Y. Wentworth. Auditor: Dr. Mary R. Lakeman. Censors: Dr. Thos. M. Strong, Dr. George E. May, Dr. Clarence Crane. The reports of the Treasurer and the Secretary show that the Society has improved its financial condition and increased its membership during HARRY J. LEE, M.D., Secretary. 1915. American College of Surgeons The following named physicians were made Fellows of the American College of Surgeons at the Boston Convocation held in October, 1915: Zuber Short, Hot Springs, Ark.; Florence N. Ward, San Francisco, Cal.; Thomas I. Motter, Chicago, Ill.; Richard H. Street, Chicago, Ill.; Charles B. Kern, LaFayette, Ind.; Orrin L. Smith, Lexington, Ky.; Herbert D. Boyd, Boston, Mass.; J. H. Carmichael, Springfield, Mass.; Matthias W. Conrow, Springfield, Mass.; Frederick W. Halsey, Boston, Mass.; Albert W. Horr, Boston, Mass.; Robert F. Hovey, Springfield, Mass.; Harry J. Lee, Boston, Mass.; Erdix T. Smith, Springfield, Mass.; Wm. J. S. Thomas, Cambridge, Mass.; John K. Warren, Worcester, Mass.; Hugh McD. Beebe, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Frank A. Kelly, Detroit, Mich.; Claudis B. Kinyon, Ann Arbor, Mich.; George L. LeFevre, Muskegon, Mich.; Dean W. Myers, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Walter E. Reily, Fulton, Mo.; Herbert C. Allen, Brooklyn, N. Y.; J. Ivimey Dowling, Albany, N. Y.; Gove S. Harrington, New York, N. Y.; Edwin W. Kellogg, New York, N. Y.; Claude A. Burrett, Columbus, O.; Judson A. Ferree, Columbus, O.; Norman S. Betts, Philadelphia, Pa.; Herbert P. Leopold, Philadelphia, Pa.; J. Homer McCready, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Warren C. Mercer, Philadelphia, Pa.; John L. Peck, Scranton, Pa.; Gustave A. Van Lennep, Philadelphia, Pa.; Robert V. White, Scranton, Pa. MASSACHUSETTS HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL NOTES The following appointments have been made to resident interneship in the Massachusetts Homœopathic Hospital: Dr. Edwin D. Lee, Boston University School of Medicine, class of 1914. Dr. Lydia Baker Pierce, Boston University School of Medicine, class of 1906. These are to be resident physicians and are to serve in the various departments of the Hospital, having charge of the internes who enter direct from the Medical School. Besides their maintenance they receive a moderate salary. The Out-Patient clinics were transferred on December 13 to their new quarters in the splendid building just completed for the Maternity Department of the Hospital, erected on the site of the old Homeopathic Medical Dispensary, 750 Harrison Avenue, Boston. Dedicatory exercises were held on January 1, and the rooms for maternity cases opened for use on January 3. No expense has been spared to make the equipment the most modern and up-to-date possible for it to be made. Following a custom established several years ago, the Hospital gave a Christmas celebration on the evening of December 23 in the new building, with a well filled tree and a Santa Claus for the children of the Out-Patient district." The contributions to this charity are generous and carry gladness to many hearts and homes. PERSONAL AND GENERAL ITEMS Dr. Sanford B. Hooker (B.U.S.M. 1913) is spending the school year at the University of California, in the Department of Bacteriology and Pathology. Dr. Ralph R. Mellon of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is at Harvard Medical School, taking research work with Dr. M. J. Rosenau. Dr. R. Agnes Hartley, B.U.S.M. 1899, has removed from Upland Road to 180 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. Dr. Louis W. Salvin, B.U.S.M. 1914, has opened an office at 558 Warren St., Roxbury, but retains his connection with Long Island Hospital. Dr. Samuel Worcester has removed from South Norwalk, Connecticut, to Portland, Oregon. Norwell, Massachusetts, offers a good field for a homœopathic physician, Dr. H. J. Little who for many years was in practice there having retired and removed to California. Dr. Edwin M. Kent, B.U.S.M. 1909, has returned from the mission field in China and has located at Remsen, New York. Dr. Mattibelle Boger (B.U.S. M. 1915) has accepted appointment at Talitha Cumi Home, Jamaica Plain, Boston, succeeding Dr. Helen B. Todd as House Physician in that institution. Dr. H. E. Whitaker has removed from Gloucester, Mass., to Somersworth, New Hampshire. Dr. Henry I. Twiss, B.U.S.M. 1903, has removed from Seattle, Washington, to Chicago, where in addition to the practice of his specialty, orthopedics, he is to teach in Hahnemann Medical College. Dr. Leighton F. Johnson, B.U.S.M. 1915, has become associated in practice with Dr. Alonzo J. Shadman (1905 B.U.S.M.) at West Roxbury, Mass., as well as in surgical practice at Forest Hills Hospital. Dr. Henry D. Troutman has removed from Tucson, Arizona, to offices in the Dodworth Building, Pasadena. Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific has become amalgamated with the Medical Department of the University of California and after thirty-five years of educational service ceased on June 8 last to exist as a separate institution. Dr. William Boericke has been appointed Professor of Homeopathic Materia Medica in the University of California Medical School, his duties to begin January 1, 1916. Dr. DeWitt G. Wilcox has been appointed Consulting (Surgeon to the Newton Hospital, Newton, Massachusetts. Dr. Christopher Egland (B. U. S. M., 1895) sends a change of address which is as follows: 80 Glenlyon Road, Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Bertha L. Cameron Guild, B. U. S. M., 1911, has removed to Manchester, N. H., R.F.D. 29, Box 137. Dr. Gladys H. Brownell, B. U. S. M., 1912, has removed her residence from Winthrop to 17 Albemarle St., Arlington, Mass. Dr. Abraham Colmes, B. U. S. M., 1915, has located at 374 Blue Hill Ave., Roxbury. Dr. Forrest Jay Drury, class of 1912, B. U. S. M., is located at Seabrook, N. H. Dr. Grace D. Reed, class of 1914, B. U. S. M., has opened an office at 10 Varnum St., Arlington, Mass. Dr. Cecil W. Clark, class of 1915, B. U. S. M., has opened an office at 341 Water St., Augusta, Me. Dr. Elizabeth R. Shapleigh, class of 1911, B. U. S. M., has opened an office at 88 Lawrence St., Lawrence, Mass. DR. GRENFELL AND HIS WORK A special meeting of the Board of the International Grenfell Association was recently held in New York City, at which representatives from Canada, Newfoundland, Chicago, New York and Boston were in attendance, Dr. Grenfell himself being present after a month's lecture tour in the Middle West and in Canada. Drs. Clarence J. Blake, John M. Little, John D. Adams and W. Russell MacAusland, all of Boston, were members of a subcommittee formed to present plans for a more substantial and permanent hospital building at St. Anthony. Dr. and Mrs. Grenfell are sailing Dec. 14 on the Holland-American Line to join the Harvard unit at a base hospital in France for three months' service, Mrs. Grenfell acting as interpreter for the nurses and in other needed capacities. The doctor has left four surgeons in charge of the Labrador and Newfoundland hospitals for the winter. He will return to the States in the spring, going North when open water permits. He has expressed a strong desire to serve the brave fellows who are fighting the world's battles in France." A report of the medical missionary work the past summer by the hospital steamship Strathcona in the Labrador region gives an interesting impression of Dr. Grenfell's activity. There were treated on the trip of 2,250 miles 958 out-patients and 27 in-patients. She sent eight volunteers to the front and twenty-four to the hospital, transferring to mail boats. She steamed mostly on wood billets, purchased at various places from the neediest families in return for clothing. Forty-six circulating libraries of 2,000 books were arranged, communicating with the libraries at St. Anthony and at the Seaman's Institute, St. Johns. To furnish the Northerners with water-tight skin boots Dr. Grenfell purchased 200 sealskins, leaving them where they could make their own footwear, in which work they are clever. Seals have became scarce and the people very poor. A COD-LIVER OIL PREPARATION THAT STANDS THE TEST OF PRACTICE Because of the many inferior forms of cod-liver oil before the public the careful physician understands the importance of discrimination when a remedy of this character is to be prescribed. Physicians who demand a pure cod-liver oil, without medicinal admixture, will find in hydroleine a standard ized preparation, which fully justifies the professional confidence placed in its purity and efficacy. Hydroleine is the pure oil of native Norwegian cod, prepared by a scientific formula and approved processes. It is thoroughly emulsified, easy of digestion and readily assimilated by the system. Hydroleine is most uniform in strength and character, and is therefore of utmost value whenever a body-builder of definite quality and dependable action, is desired. Being extremely palatable, its sphere of usefulness is greatly extended. Children take cod-liver oil in this form, without objection, and it is acceptable to the palates of the aged and convalescent. Tested and approved by the medical profession, for many years, Hydroleine is one of the few preparations of cod-liver oil, entirely free of anything objectionable and which may be prescribed with confidence, for young or old, whenever such medium is required. |