ing, carefully impartial, and scientific consideration of the healing art, which is epitomized by Dr. James Krauss of Boston in the following definition: "Medicine is the science and the art of adjustive and curative treatment of disease."

The 1911 meeting of the Institute will go into the records as one of the most successful sessions in the Institute's history. There were in attendance three hundred and forty-two members, three hundred and ninety-nine visitors.

Too much praise cannot be given Dr. Henry A. Whitmarsh of Providence, Chairman of the Local Committee of Arrangements, and Dr. John H. Bennett, Pawtucket, Chairman of the Committee on Exhibits, both of whom served the Institute with an unusual degree of acceptability. Much of the success of the meeting was due to their generous giving of themselves and of their time. Dr. Whitmarsh was indefatigable, watchful, and able, a kindly and smilingly courteous host. Dr. Bennett's good management made the exhibits a prominent and successful feature of the meeting. It is worthy of note that against forty-one exhibits at the Los Angeles meeting of the American Medical Association held in June, the Institute session just closed had a representation of forty-two prominent exhibitors. So acceptable to these exhibitors was Dr. Bennett's management that he was presented by them with a handsome instrument cabinet for his office.

The newly elected officers for the coming year are as follows:

President, Thomas H. Carmichael, M.D., Philadelphia.

First Vice-President, William H. Dieffenbach, M.D., New York.
Second Vice-President, Clara E. Gary, M.D., Boston.

Censors, Willard A. Paul, M.D., Boston; A. C. Cowperthwaitę, M.D.,
Chicago.

Trustees, Joseph P. Cobb, M.D., Chicago; George Royal, M.D., Des
Moines; Gauis J. Jones, M.D., Cleveland.

The offices of Treasurer, Secretary and Registrar hold over for one more year.

The next meeting is to be held in Pittsburg, Pa., in the third week of June, 1912.

The present membership of the Institute is 2800, there having been added two hundred and forty new members.

A New Use For Quinine. According to the newspapers, a new use has been discovered for quinine. It occurred to a certain housewife in East Orange, N. J., that because quinine had benefited her husband, a sufferer from malaria, it might perhaps be good for a favorite hen which was ailing. Accordingly, she administered a two-grain pill, and before long was gratified to find her patient the liveliest Leghorn in the yard. The next day the hen not only laid her accustomed morning egg, but a second one in the afternoon; and since then, we are assured, she gets a quinine pill every morning and regularly lays two eggs a day.

THE TREATMENT OF HYDROPHOBIA BY RABIES VACCINE. Until recently, it has been necessary to send patients exposed to hydrophobia to a Pasteur Institute (in many instances located in a far distant city) for prophylactic treatment. The Hygienic Laboratory of the United States Marine Hospital Service devised a method of administering Rabies Vaccine, whereby it could be prepared at a central laboratory, according to Pasteur's method, and distributed to any part of the United States, allowing the patient to be treated by his attending physician.

Briefly, the following is Pasteur's method for preparing Rabies Vacdine: The spinal cord of a rabbit-dead of Rabies as result of an injection of a "fixed virus"-(Rabies Vaccine known to kill within a fixed time) is removed under aseptic conditions. A cord containing the Rabies Virus is suspended over a layer of potassium hydroxide and kept at a temperature of 22 degrees C. from one to eight days. The virus is gradually weakened or attenuated as the cord is dried, the strength being decreased in direct proportion to the extent of the drying.

In the preparation of each injection, a portion of a cord in which the virus has been properly attenuated by drying the requisite number of days, is taken and emulsified by grinding under aseptic conditions with a weak solution of glycerin. The emulsion of Rabies Virus thus prepared constitutes the first dose.

The second dose is prepared in the same manner from a portion of the cord which has not been attenuated to the same degree, and each subsequent dose is prepared in like manner from cords containing virus of increasing potency.

The technic of the administration is quite as simple and safe as the ordinary hypodermatic injection.

H. K. Mulford Company have built and equipped special laboratories at Glenolden, Pa., and, under the personal direction of expert bacteriologists are preparing Rabies Vaccine after the method of Pasteur.

The Rabies Preventive Treatment.

The preventive treatment of rabies, as furnished by the H. K. Mulford Company, consists of 25 injections of Rabies Vaccine, the strength of each injection varying in accordance with the plan of treatment adopted by the Hygienic Laboratory of the United States Marine Hospital Service.

Cords with virus of various strengths are kept in constant readiness

for preparation of Rabies Vaccine to meet all emergencies.

The vaccine is furnished in ampuls and all the physician is required to do in making the injection is to mix the vaccine in the ampul through a special needle, furnished with each syringe, with the physiologic salt solution contained in each syringe, then inject the patient. The technic is as simple as an ordinary hypodermatic injection.

Special Caloris Vacuum Bottles are used in the shipment of each day's supply of vaccine, insuring its receipt in a satisfactory condition.

Preventive treatment by Rabies Vaccine should be started as soon after exposure as possible. After symptoms have fully developed there is no hope for relief, as a cure for hydrophobia has not been discovered. The period from the exposure to the development of the symptoms of hydrophobia is known as the period of incubation. This varies from eight days to six months under natural conditions, although occasionally cases are reported where the incubation period is much longer.

Immediately following exposure, every precaution should be employed until it is proven that the suspected animal did or did not have rabies. Aside from cauterizing and otherwise treating the wounds, arrangements should be made at once for the use of Rabies Vaccine in the form of preventive treatment prepared after the method of Pasteur.

If the animal responsible for the wound or infection, is alive, it should be kept securely under observation for at least two weeks. Infection may follow from the bite of an animal apparently normal at the time of

biting. Not until it is definitely known that the animal has rabies should it be killed. After the animal is dead, its head should be removed and sent to a State or municipal laboratory equipped to properly examine the brain for evidences of rabies.

If proper precautions are taken and the patient immediately given the Pasteur treatment, the fatality from this terrible disease may be virtually reduced to a minimum.

According to statistics, rabies is more common in the summer months, therefore at this season of the year, with danger of mad dogs running amuck, the method of supplying Rabies Vaccine so that the physician may administer it to his own patients, is of particular interest to our readers.

Full and complete literature on Rabies Vaccine will be mailed by H. K. Mulford Company of Philadelphia, upon request.

The Place of Operation in the Treatment of Uterine Fibroids. Edwin A. Neatby, M.D. London, 1911.

The author of this book is one of the most prominent of the English homoeopathic surgeons, and has had a wide experience in the subject of which he writes. His book of about eighty-five pages, is written in a clear manner, and well describes the various forms of treatment of fibroids. A number of illustrations, several of which are in colors, are commendable. While not intended to be a complete treatise upon the subject, it is a work that may well be read by all.

Litora Aliena. By Medicus Peregrinus. "Peregrinum ut viseret orbem." W. M. Leonard, Boston, 1911.

This small paper covered book consists of a series of letters written by one of the editors of the Boston Medical and Surgical

Journal to that publication. The letters are well written, and are descriptive of many phases of medical interest that are seldom brought forward in ordinary books.

The reviewer has read the entire number with much interest throughout.

Golden Rules of Pediatrics. Aphorisms, Observations, and Precepts on the Science and Art of Pediatrics. Giving Practical Rules for Diagnosis and Prognosis, the Essential of Infant Feeding, and the Principles of Scientific Treatment, by John Zahorsky, A.B., M.D., Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Department Washington University, St. Louis; Ex-President of the St. Louis Pediatric Society; Attending Physician to the Bethesda Foundlings' Home and the St. Louis Children's Hospital. With an Introduction by E. W. Saunders, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Diseases of Children and Clinical Midwifery, Medical Department Washington University, St. Louis, etc. C. V. Mosby Company, St Louis, 1911.

The

This book is one of the so-called Golden Rule series. method of treating the subject is different from that of the ordinary books, in that it consists of a series of aphorisms and short paragraphs that are supposed to be more liable to remain in the physician's mind than a continued description. Whether this is true. or not must be decided by the individual. While many of the topics are well expressed the book as a whole does not appeal to the medical reader as attractive, as it is one in which the sequence is more evident. It contains within its covers a large amount of matter that will undoubtedly be valuable to all who study it. A complete diagnostic and a therapeutic index adds much to the worth of the book.

THE MONTH'S BEST BOOKS.

Pediatrics. Zahorsky. $2.50. C. V. Mosby Co.

Spirochetes. Bosanquet. $2.50. W. B. Saunders Co.

What to Eat and Why. Smith. $2.50. W. B. Saunders Co. Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat. Reik. $4.00. D. Appleton & Co. The Physiology of Reproduction. Marshall. $6.00. Longmans, Green & Co. Volumetric Analysis. Sutton. $5.50. P. Blakiston's Son & Co.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL ITEMS

Dr. A. B. Norton, of 30 East 55th Street, New York, is to sail on July 5 for South America, returning to New York on September 14.

town.

FOR SALE. - A long established homeopathic practice in a country Full equipment of drugs, books, etc. An excellent opportunity for a good man. Can save $1,000 the first year. Inquire of Mrs. C. A. Paul, Solon, Maine.

FOR SALE. — The Medical Library of the late Dr. David Foss. Publications date from 1810 to 1903. Send to Ernest Foss, Newburyport, Mass.. for list.

The Gazette desires to extend its most sincere congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Charles T. Howard, a former Associate Editor, who upon June 15 was married to Miss Amy Carrol Rand in Watertown, Mass. Dr. Howard is one of the most popular members of the surgical staff of the Massachuetts Homœopathic Hospital and has made for himself an enviable reputation in surgery. The best wishes of the Gazette go to the Doctor and his wife as they are starting a new home.

The late Dr. H. B. Bowditch by his will bequeathed to Harvard Medical School $4,000, in addition to all his books and scientific apparatus.

The Children's Hospital of Boston expects to receive $25,000 from the will of the late Mrs. Amelia Worthington, widow of Bishop Worthington.

Dr. Horace Packard will attend the International Congress of Homœopathy this month, following which he will spend the summer abroad. Dr. Packard has been made the Honorary President of the section of surgery, and Honorary Vice-President of the Congress.

The Somerville Medical Society was entertained on June 8 at the Arlington Health Resort, where the Society was the guest of Dr. Arthur H. Ring. A number of clinical cases were shown accompanied by demonstrations of methods of treatment.

Dr. C. A. Eaton, recently of Boston, Massachusetts, where he was Assistant Pathologist to the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, and Lecturer in Bacteriology at Boston University School of Medicine, wishes to announce that he is now located at the offices of the late Dr. E. F. Vose, 612 Congress Street, Portland, Maine, where he is prepared to perform the various laboratory examinations, such as blood, tissues, urine, sputum, feces, stomach contents, water, milk, etc. Bacteriological examinations including the Wasserman-Noguchi test for syphilis. Autogenous vaccines prepared. Consultations in laboratory diagnoses and vaccine therapy.

Dr. and Mrs. Gardner H. Osgood have recently moved into their new home in West Roxbury.

The new medical building of McGill University, Montreal, has just been formally opened with proper ceremonies. In its entirety it represents what is probably the highest point in medical school architecture yet reached. and will be one of the sights of Montreal. Its laboratory has recently received a valuable collection of books on diseases of the eye from Dr. Casey A. Wood of Chicago, also a series of valuable engravings from Dr. William Osler and Sir Lauder Brunton.

Dr. and Mrs. Winfield Smith are in Europe for the summer.

There is soon to be a vacancy in the position of second house physician at Lakeville State Sanatorium, Middleboro, Mass. Male applicants should address Sumner Coolidge, M.D., Supt.