parent should read it and if unable to grasp and digest its truths sufficiently to impart them to the inquiring child or youth, then that parent is perfectly safe in reading verbatim Dr. Muncie's instructions to such youth. Every physician and instructor should read it and get the author's ideas of child education and medical inspection of schools. What makes the book still safer is the fact that it breathes the broad spirit of the brotherhood of man with the Sermon on the Mount as a "constitution." Peter Ruff and the Double Four. A Book Relating the Adventures of a Private Detective. By E. Phillips Oppenheim, Author of "Havoc." Published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston. Price $1.25 net. In Peter Ruff we find a new and interesting character. Sharply changing the course of his career, he leaves his rather doubtful occupation and becomes a private detective. Finally he leads a most amazing secret society, "The Double Four," in the working out of good for civilization. He is calm, cool,, and resourceful, cleverly outwitting his opponents. His adventures are most unusual and thrilling. The book will appeal to all lovers of intrigue and mystery. The demand for "Boericke's Materia Medica" was so great that the 4th Edition was inadequate to meet it. The 5th Edition, thoroughly revised, up to date, with many new additions, is now in press, and will be ready for delivery September 1st. Price $3.50 per copy. Order direct of the publishers, Boericke & Runyon, 14 West 38th Street, New York City. SOCIETIES. New York State Homœopathic Society, October Meeting. The semi-annual meeting of The Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York will be held at Buffalo on October 8 and 9 next. The officers and members of the various bureaus and committees are hard at work to the end that this shall be one of the most successful meetings ever held by this Society. The program committee is making every endeavor to prepare what will be pleasant and profitable for everyone who attends. The bureau of Materia Medica will be made prominent, and will prove of unusual interest. Headquarters will be at the beautiful new Hotel Lafayette, and the management is making every preparation possible for the comfort and convenience of all in attendance. The visiting ladies will be looked after by a group of Buffalo ladies under the guidance of Mrs. Joseph Tottenham Cook. The banquet on the evening of October 8 will present new and very original features, sure to interest and amuse those fortunate enough to be present. All homeopathic physicians, whether members of the Society of not, are cordially invited to attend this meeting. Additional details will be published next month. WILLIS B. GIFFORD M.D., President. American Hospital Association. The 14th annual meeting of the American Hospital Association is to be held in the Hotel Ponchartrain, Detroit, Michigan, on September 24, 25, 26 and 27. An extremely interesting program has been prepared, dealing with the problems and successful conduct of hospitals, from operating rooms to laundries, social service, feeding of patients and employees, grading of nurses, out-patient work, etc. Some of the best known hospital superintendents in the country are down for addresses. For information apply to J. N. E. Brown, M. B., Secretary, 90 Charles St., East, Toronto, Canada. Southern Homœopathic Medical Association. The Southern Homeopathic Medical Association will meet in Richmond, Virginia, on October 15, 16 and 17. Dr. Wellford B. Lorraine and his committee have charge of local arrangements. Headquarters at the Jefferson Hotel, Richmond. Social Rates are to be given to members, and all are asked to work with a determination to make this the best meeting of the Association ever held. LEE NORMAN, M.D., Secretary. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL RESEARCH. The fourth annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Research will be held in New York City, at the Academy of Medicine, on November 9. The sessions will be held from 9 A.M. to 1 P.M., from 3 P.M. to 6 P.M., and from 8 P.M. to 10 P.M. The evening session will be open to the public. Notable contributions on the Negri Bodies, on certain Fluids for Tubercle Bacilli in the Urine, on Adjustment and Function, on Psychoanalysis and Traumbedeutung, on a Pandemic of Malignant Encapsulated Throat Coccus on The Single Remedy, on Indicanuria and Glycosuria, on Disease Conditions expressive of Correct Diagnosis, on Biochemic Problems, on The Two Most Far-Reaching Discoveries in Medicine, and others are to be given. Every member of the Association is cordially invited to contri bute a paper. FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS. The November number of American Medicine presented the following as its leading editorial. While at first sight it may seem to be somewhat sarcastic, when one thinks the subject over more carefully, he will find a greater amount of truth than may first appear. "Football fatalities are still with us in spite of the new rules which have greatly reduced the number of serious injuries. Indeed as compared with 1908 the season of 1910 showed a slight increase of deaths. It seems as though the new rules really do prevent much serious injury--the players now merely killing each other. The Marquis of Queensbury rules are far superior in that every advantage is given the contestants so that they can defend themselves, but the football player is generally injured when he is in a defenselss position, even when he is down. Sometimes he is struck from behind and as a rule one man is attacked by several. We therefore suggest that prize-ring rules be introduced next season in the interests of fair play and human life, as there seems to be no earthly prospect of the abolition of the game. Fourteen fine men have been slaughtered to make a holiday, and our women are just as keen for it as the Roman ladies were for the death of gladiators. Spanish ladies shrink with horror at the mention of our brutality, but have none of our maudlin sentimentality over the sight of a blinded horse disemboweled by an enraged bull, There is something rotten in our Denmark-not theirs." PERSONAL ITEMS The newly organized Boston University Women Graduates Club has elected the following alumni of B. U. School of Medicine to its first list of executive officers: Vice President, Dr. Clara E. Gary, '85. ting Committee, and Dr. Edith C. Varney '93, was elected a member Dr. John P. Jones, B. U. S. M. 1901, has removed from 391 to 392 Broadway, South Boston, where he will continue to make a specialty of electric and X-ray treatment. Dr. Maude G. Furniss, B. U. S. M. '97, has moved from 12 Arlington Street to the Charlesgate, 535 Beacon Street, Boston. Dr. Katherine E. McCarty, 1911 B. U. S. M., has finished a year's interneship at the Massachusetts Homœopathic Hospital and has opened an office at 9 Masonic Temple, Dover, New Hampshire. Dr. Katharine French, B. U. S. M. 1910, has completed her service at the Massachusetts Homœopathic Hospital Contagious Department, Brighton, and has opened an offiice at 469 Broadway, Cambridge, Mass. Dr. Thomas Clegg, of Philadelphia, died on June 26 last. Dr. Emerson F. Hird, B. U. S. M. 1910, now located in Concord, N. H., sailed from New York on July 18 for Germany, for a brief stay. Dr. Alice S. Woodman is spending the summer at Sunset Camp, Racquette Lake, in the Adirondacks. Dr. Alonzo G. Howard of Boston is spending the month of August in Nova Scotia. CURABILITY OF PSORIASIS. "The question is asked about the ultimate results: 'Is psoriasis curable with a perfectly carried out vegetarian diet, and proper other treatment?' This is a difficult question to answer very positively, because of the wellknown character of the disease and the uncertainty of patients, as to their again consulting the same physician if there should be a relapse. But from my watching this treatment for more than twenty years, and from my more special study of the subject the last two years, I believe that a very considerable proportion of patients can be cured and remain well under a strict diet. "Finally it may be said without equivocation that the results of this plan of treatment, as watched by my several associates in years past and myself, and by physicians in consultation, and by very many most intelligent patients in private practice, far exceed anything which had been previously secured by the best of treatment at the hands often of the best men in the profession." Bulkley in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Some Medical Proverbs. In a recently published advertising medical almanac are several items that seem more than usually humorous. In a series of aphorisms and modified proverbs are the following: "The patient must trust his doctor, but it is a poor rule that works both ways." "It is significant that doctor and debtor have the same abbreviation— 'Dr."" "No man is a hero to his valet, and no woman an angel to her physi cian." "It's an ill wind that blows the doctor much good." -The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. |