This article was begun in the May number and embraces a discussion and analysis of the value of raised or lowered temperature in the therapeutic use of drugs which in their pathogenesis have exhibited temperature reactions. The material is derived from the "Cyclopedia of Drug Pathogenesy " and from later accessible experimental findings. Arsenic and belladonna are discussed in the present instal ment. November, 1916 4. Therapeutic problems and possible answers. 409-431. Wheeler, C. E. An interesting and altogether excellent general review of many of the problems of drug action. A number of "laws" and modern theories are intelligently discussed in their homœopathic applications. The gist of the argument is contained in the following: "We want more and more records of the effects of our drugs on the measurable reactions. Out of such accumulations will come much of the material by which to answer 'Yes' or 'No' to our tentative speculations." The Homœopathic World, October, 1916 S. B. H. 5. A Peak in Darien: Our new knowledge of the work of the ductless glands. 436-442. Burford, G. 6. A case of heart disease. 442-443. Cash, M. Aortic incompetence with dilatation and hypertrophy. Vertigo, congestive headaches, sleeplessness, and loss of strength disappeared after six months on coffea, 12. 7. Cases from practise. 444-447. Davidson, W. A. 8. Some reasons for a belief in homeopathic practice. A. long series of brief case reports. November, 1916 9. The place of teaching in homeopathy. 488-502. McLachlan, J. The paper is founded on the principles that there is need for the widest toleration of opinion, and that to spread homoopathy each doctor must be ready to be a teacher to his patient or to any one who wants to know. There should be no forcing it on the unwilling. Those who are ready to hear will hear if they are properly addressed. 10. The modern Parcæ: The internal secretions as the Fates of the body. 502-507. Burford, G. S. B. H. 50 The New England Medical Gazette Jan., The University Homeopathic Observer, October, 1916 11. Personal economies. 134-143. Hinsdale, W. B. Address delivered at University of Michigan Convocation. 12. Cardiac arrhythmias — their significance and treatment. 144-152. Wells, G. H. A discussion of sinus irregularities, paroxysmal tachycardia, auricular flutter, alternating pulse, heart block, premature contraction and auricular fibrillation. 13. The rôle of the fascia in the radical treatment of inguinal hernia. 153-156. Naylor, G. I. S. B. H. The Journal of the American Institute of Homœopathy, November, 1916 14. The alternation and and compounding of homœopathic remedies. 501-508. Carmichael, T. H. It is estimated that 59 per cent. of the output of our homœopathic pharmacies consist of compound tablets. (The condemnation of the practices of compounding and alternating is, perhaps, insufficiently acidulous. — Ed.) 15. Plan and scope of the lumbar incision. 508-511. Fobes, J. H. 16. Cultural and animal experimentation with leukæmic blood. 512-515. Ulrich, H. A diplo-streptococcus was isolated from the spleen and bone-marrow of a case of acute leukæmia. Inoculation of material from these sources into mice, guinea-pigs and rabbits was without results. Animal inoculation and cultures from a case of chronic myelogenous leukæmia were both negative. 17. Homœopathy of the future. 516-521. Burrett, C. A. 18. The scope of nitrous oxid and oxygen anæsthesia in obstetrics. 522-526. Buchanan, T. D. 19. The recent experimentations on nitrous oxid and oxygen in obstetrics. 527-530. Allan, H. C. 20. The modern abortive treatment of Neisserian infection of the urethra. 537-540. Washburn, V. D. Fifteen drops of 5 per cent. argyrol are injected into the urethra, the urethra is massaged to spread the solution, the meatus is dried and closed with collodion. Nineteen per cent. of the cases were aggravated by this treatment. In thirty-eight per cent. the cases were cured in about three weeks, a gain of from five to seven weeks over the ordinary treatment. In the discussion of this paper, Dr. H. M. Beebe referred to experiments in which barium sulphate was suspended in the argyrol injected. Roentgenographs showed no shadow in the anterior urethra except when the patient strained. 21. Concerning massage. 542-549. Williams, E. C. 22. Fractures involving the elbow joint. 549-557. Sappington, E. F. J. P. 23. Social hygiene. 557-564. Johnston, A. 24. Prenatal causes of infant mortality. 565-569. Cobb, 25. Electricity in eye practice. 569-570. Baker, W. F. The Clinique, November, 1916 S. B. H. 26. The treatment of anterior poliomyelitis. (Ed.) 501503. Halbert, H. V. A plea for the use of the indicated remedy. 27. Potassium permanganate in erysipelas. (Ed.) 512. Collins, C. D. Two per cent. solution painted on acted satisfactorily as palliative. 28. Symposium of defectives. 515-516. Nair, B. P. 29. The etiology of defectives. 516-520. Rowley, C. C. Stress is laid on the great importance of heredity. Relation of alcoholism, as being result rather than cause of mental defect, is pointed out. 30. The education and development of the defective child. 520-525. Frost, A. 31. The health movement in the public schools. 526-537. Bradford, D. The Polycrest, October, 1916 32. Reflections and suggestions. 7-13. Hinsdale, A. E. 33. Anterior poliomyelitis. 15-20. Carpenter, W. B. Review, with suggestions as to a few remedies. The Chironian, November, 1916 34. The moulding of the brain case. F. W. 173-185. Seward, Review of phylogeny and ontogeny of the brain and skull. 35. The relation of the spleen to blood diseases from the surgical aspect. 186-188. Cummins, F. A. W. O. The Journal of the American Institute of Homœopathy, December, 1916 36. Radium in surgery and gynecology. 599-616. Lee, J. M. 37. Appendicitis: The immediate results in treatment for the year 1915, University Homeopathic Hospital, Ann Arbor, 617-622. Beebe, H. M. 38. The successful treatment of hay-fever. 623-630. Laidlaw, G. F. 39. Cardiac exercises. 631-638. Bailey, B. F. 40. Diabetes: Its rational treatment. 639-647. Macfarlan, D. Fourteen cases of sugary diabetes" are reported by Macfarlan. They were treated with "the actual blood of the sick individual in the dynamized state." This dynamization is supposed to be effected by violently shaking sixty drops of blood with nineteen drams of distilled water in a tightly corked bottle. Higher potencies are made by dilution with stated quantities of water, vigorous dynamization being required in going from one potency to the next higher one. All of the cases reported were benefited after receiving some of the dynamic blood, and some were even said to be cured. The case histories are lacking in many highly important details. The diet is given but casual mention in only four of the records. No special effort seems to have been made to compare the amounts of glucose eliminated before and after treatment, and in some cases no, or only one, sugar quantitation seems to have been made. All of the cases except two are fleshy adults in or past middle life and many of them appear to be cases of "fat man's diabetes." The diet, when recorded at all, is stated to have been restricted. Since this so-called "fat man's diabetes " is very frequently overcome by a moderate limitation of carbohydrate intake, and since dietetic restriction will often improve cases of true diabetes, it becomes difficult if not impossible to accept the author's dictum concerning the value of his dynamized "depraved vital fluid in potency." In an effort to substantiate his claims and theories regarding the "pathogenetic sphere of the blood," Macfarlan quotes from Surgeon-General Gorgas' report on yellow fever. The reader is apparently asked to believe that diabetes may be cured by ingestion of diluted diabetic blood because injection of yellow fever blood into healthy individuals produced yellow fever. O sancta simplicitas! The author asserts that "this is nothing more than pure homœopathy." Shades of Hahnemann, Hughes and Wesselhoeft! 41. Facts and fallacies in obstetrical practice. 647-656. Betts, N. S. 42. Gastrocoloptosis. 656-660. Upham, R. H. U. BOOK REVIEWS Handicrafts for the Handicapped. By H. J. Hall, M.D., and M. M. C. Buck. Published by Moffat, Yard and Co., New York. Pp. 150. Price $1.25 net. This well-printed and very readable book contains directions, supplemented by diagrams and photographs, which apply to the following crafts: Basketry, chair seating, netting, weaving, bookbinding, cement working, pottery making and light blacksmithing. 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Verify your references. That is my text, and in the present instance I wish to direct this text particularly to the medical man who would venture into print. It is to be assumed that he has fulfilled Billing's four rules for the preparation of a medical paper. 1." Have something to say. 2. Say it. 3. Stop as soon as you have said it. 4. Give the paper a proper tille." It is in the revision, the polishing-off process, that he should, among other things, go over his list of references and verify them. To direct attention to this phase of authorship is the purpose for which this paper is written. The science and art of medicine is so dependent upon its literature that reference to authorities is a recognized part of medical composition. The quantity of such printed matter is very great and quotation of sources is as necessary in medical literature as in any other literary endeavor. Such is the indifference on the part of writers, however, to the place and importance of the bibliographical reference that some attention should be directed to it. What underlies this admonition, "Verify your references?" It is of the spirit of the scientific method. Substantiate your statement by proof, either of your own or by the work that others have done before you. We work with the tools that others have made and placed in our hands, and we hope to make tools to place in the hands of others who follow us. If our predecessors have experimented and have left no record in material objects or written description, their works profit us nothing. For the purpose of storing up medical advance in deed and thought medical books and journals exist, and in them we shall find description of the processes of work that others have employed. To find these papers in the great mass of literature, indexes and catalogues were invented. In addition, most writers, in reporting their work or ideas, read and gather the publications that relate to their particular task; and then, to help others in the same line, to record their own research, and to have a line of defense against criticism, they print with their report a list of papers they have consulted. Should not the scientist be as truthful and as accurate in recording his help as in giving his own work? One says yes" without hesitation. How then, can the author permit references to |