L. Kiefer, Detroit, and Doctor J. W. Turner, Houghton for the six year term, and Doctor C. C. Slemons, Grand Rapids, and Doctor Frank M. Gowdy, St. Joseph, for the four year term.

The Clinical Club of Kalamazoo gave a dinner at the Hotel Rickman complimentary to Captain Ward Collins and Captain R. U. Adams, who recently returned from medical service in France with the American Army. After the dinner both men gave an account of their experiences in war work. The members of the dinner party, besides the honor guests were Dr. Sherman Gregg, Dr. William Huyser, Dr. D. J. Scholten, Dr. Frederick Shillito, Dr. Leslie DeWitt, Dr. J. T. Upjohn, Dr. Leonard Steward, Dr. Ralph Cook, Dr. William Perkins, Dr. Arthur West, Dr. Benjamin Shepard, Dr. C. B. Fulkerson and Dr. J. W. Bosman.

Doctor William A. Hyland, discharged as a First Lieutenant, medical corps, at Camp Custer, returned to Grand Rapids to learn that he had been promoted to Captaincy. Captain Hyland was attached to Surgical Team No. 107 and saw service with various mobile hospital and surgical stations on the various fronts in France and Belgium.

The physicians of the Wayne County Medical Society returning from war service may borrow from that organization money up to $300.00 to reestablish themselves in practice. The funds will be loaned on notes, with interest at four per cent. per annum, the notes to run one year and be renewable when circumstances warrant.

Miss Anna Ruth Winter of the senior class of Hope College has been awarded a scholarship by the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, the only school of its kind in the country. Miss Winter is the first girl student to receive a scholarship while at Hope College.

Dr. Rock Sleyster has been appointed successor to Dr. Richard Dewey, physician in charge of the Milwaukee Sanitarium, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Dr. Dewey will act as Medical Director of the Sanitarium.

The Milwaukee Sanitarium also makes the further announcement that Dr. W. T. Kradwell, Captain M. R. C., and assistant superintendent of the Sanitarium will soon be home from army service.

Doctor L. A. King of Baroda will locate at St. Joseph. Doctor King just recently returned from France after serving for ten months with the Johns Hopkins hospital unit.

The announcement of the marriage of Dr. R. C. Allen of St. Joseph and a member of the Berrien County Medical Society, to Mrs. Helen Baker of Detroit has been made.

Dr. B. A. Shepard of Kalamazoo has opened a private sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis. The sanatorium is known as the Pine Crest Sanatorium.

Doctor and Mrs. B. D. Harison of Detroit, expect to open their summer cottage on Steer Island, St. Mary's River sometime during the latter part of June.

Captain R. C. Main, Marquette's first full-time health officer, has returned to his home from Ellis Island where he has been stationed for the past year.

Captain J. O. Parker of Owosso, recently discharged from Service has just received word that he has been promoted to rank of Major in the M. R. C.

Captain Thomas B. Marsden, M.C., 63 Own Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, has just returned from 21 months service in France. He has been assigned to United States General Hospital No. 36 for duty.

Captains Ward E. Collins and R. U. Adams have been spending a short time in Kalamazoo, and expect soon to be discharged and resume their practices in Kalamazoo.

On invitation of the Academy of Medicine the Northern Tri-State Medical Society will hold its next meeting in Kalamazoo.

Major R. E. Balch has been discharged and has returned to Kalamazoo and resumed the practice of surgery.

Dr. J. W. Bosman of Kalamazoo, who has been ill has sufficiently recovered to resume his practice.

'Doctor F. S. Osterheld of Detroit has taken! over the practice of Doctor James McGillicuddy of Ovid.

Doctor Ray E. Dean of Three Rivers is taking a post graduate course at the Harvard Medical University at Cambridge, Mass.

Captain L. J. Stafford of Adrian has returned from France where he was stationed with the Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery unit.

Dr. George Duffield of Detroit announces the

GRATIOT-ISABELLA-CLARE.

Dr. N. F. McClinton of Saginaw gave an interesting talk on the diagnosis and treatment of gonorrhea and syphilis at the meeting of the Gratiot-Isabella-Clare County Medical Society held April 24.

It was decided not to have a county society meeting in May on account of the Annual State Society Meeting to be held in Detroit on May 21st and 22nd.

HOUGTON COUNTY.

The newly elect officers of the Houghton County Medical Society are as follows:

President-Dr. Simon Levin, Lake Linden.
Vice-President-Dr. R. J. Maas, Houghton.
Secretary-Editor-Dr. W. A. Manthei, Hubbell.

KALAMAZOO ACADEMY OF MEDICINE. Special meeting of the Kalamazoo Academy of Medicine was held April 1st.

Because of the State meeting it was decided to not hold the second meeting in May. The following program was carried out: 1. Circulatory Diseases of the Brain with Report on Three Hundred and Fifty Cases. Dr. S. U. Gregg, Kalamazoo State Hos. 2. Fractures and the Application of Army Splints. Capt. Chas. W. Mercer and Lt. Carl Crutchfield, Base Hospital, Camp Custer, Mich.

The regular meeting of the Kalamazoo Academy of Medicine occurred April 22nd.

The following program was carried out. 1. "Resume of the More Common Diseases of the Rectum and Colon with Special Ref

The Lenawee County Medical Society held its regular monthly meeting May 13, 1919, at the New Adrian Hotel, Adrian, Michigan.

Pres. R. H. Nelson, of Hudson, called the meeting to order following a dinner and social session. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.

In the absence of those who were to appear on the program several members reported interesting cases which were freely discussed.

Addresses were made by Dr. C. T. Southworth. of Monroe, Councillor of the 14th District, who complimented us on our showing and gave us words of encouragement, that we might boost our membership, and Dr. H. H. Hammel, of Tecumseh, who gave an account of some of his many interesting experiences in the service. Major Hammel was one of the first medical officers

to be sent to the relief of the British Medical Corps in 1917 at which time the British ranks were well nigh depleted. He was detached from the American army and attached to the British army so that he had opportunity of studying Eng lish methods. The use of picric acid in treatment of wounds was new to the members of the Society, none having read or heard of its employment as applied by the British. Major Hammel declared that it had completely taken the place of iodine in the British army, both by the surgeons and in the equipment of first-aid packets. A 10 per cent. solution in alcohol is applied to the skin in preparation of the field of operation and also to open wounds in the field.

Drs. H. H. Hammel and J. W. Beardsley, of Tecumseh, were new members taken into the Society.

The dues of Drs. A. W. Chase and G. M. Lochner, members still in the Service, were upon motion, paid out of the treasury, this bringing the total membership up to 27.

There being no further business, the Society adjourned.

E. T. Morden, Secretary.

MARQUETTE COUNTY.

At the annual meeting of the Marquette County Medical Society held in January the following officers were elected:

President-D. R. MacIntyre, Gwinn. Vice-President-C. N. Bottum, Marquette. Secretary-Treas.-H. J. Hornbogen, Marquette. Delegate to the State Meeting-A. W. Hornbogen, Marquette.

Alternate Delegate-V. H. Vandeventer, Ishpeming.

OAKLAND COUNTY.

The Annual Meeting of the Oakland County Medical Society was held April 18th in Pontiac. The newly elected officers are:

President-Dr. N. T. Shaw, Birmingham. Vice-President-Dr. S. E. Galbraith, Pontiac. Secretary-Treas.-Dr. D. G. Castell, Pontiac. Delegate-Dr. P. D. Hilty, Birmingham. Alternate-Dr. J. J. Murphy, Pontiac. Board of Directors-R. Y. Ferguson, Pontiac; E. Orton, Pontiac, C. J. Southerland, Clarkston. Col. Angus McLean of Detroit gave a fine talk on "War Surgery."

Diphtheria Toxin-Antitoxin Mixture-Lederle.A mixture consisting of five L+ doses of toxin and 6.25 units of antitoxin. Marketed in vials containing one dose. Three doses are packed in a carton. Schieffelin and Co., New York.

Book Reviews

THE NEW GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC AND ITS ORGANIZATION. By Loren C. Grieves, Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Army.

This book contains the first broad, general out. line of a most gigantic organization which is now being created for the banding together of the vast number of individuals who saw service both at home and abroad during the great war. Colonel Grieves is a West Pointer, class of 1904, and has held important army positions since his graduation. He saw active service in France with the 2nd and 37th Divisions in the operations branch of the General Staff.

This interesting book outlines the probable policy of the new Grand Army and points out the vital importance of this nation-wide organization to all who were in the service and to all public-spirited Americans.

George H. Doran Company, Publishers, New York.

ESSENTIALS OF SURGERY. A Textbook of Surgery for Student and Graduate Nurses and for Those Interested in the Care of the Sick. By Archibald Leete McDonald, M.D., the Johns Hopkins University. Formerly in charge of Department of Anatomy, University of North Dakota, etc. 265 pp., 46 illustrations. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia

and London. 1919.

The author has prepared in a simple, concise and clear manner the principles of surgery for nurses and includes etiology, pathology, surgical anatomy, course of disease and indications for treatment. The graphic illustrations are clearly pictured and easily understood. Each chapter is followed by useful suggestions for demonstrations of the subjects discussed.

Swan's Mixed Furunculosis Bacterin (No. 39).— Marketed in 6-Cc. vials, each cubic centimeter containing 500 million killed Staphylococcus pyogenesaureus and 500 million killed Staphylococcus pyogenes-albus. For a discussion of Staphylococcus Vaccines, see New and Nonofficial Remedies, 1919, P. 289.

Swan's Typhoid-Paratyphoid Bacterin (No. 42) (Prophylactic.-Marketed in packages of three 1-Cc. vials, one vial containing 500 million killed typhoid bacilli and 250 million each of paratyphoid bacilli A and B, while the other two vials each contain 1 billion killed typhoid bacilli and 500 million each of paratyphoid bacilli A and B. For a discussion on Typhoid Vaccine, see New and Nonofficial Remedies, 1919, p. 292. (Jour. A.M.A., March 22, 1919, P. 863).

PROPAGANDA FOR REFORM.

Malt Preparations in Infant Feeding.-Malt preparations have enjoyed popularity for some time in the feeding of infants. A familiar mixture is the so-called malt soup, the use of which was modified by Keller to include potassium carbonate. The assimilability of maltose has been highly lauded, but the advantage over other carbohydrates has not been definitely proved. Maltose has been vaguely stated to be indicated in the constipation of infants and the retention of calcium facilitated by the use of Keller's formula. However, in experiments on animals it was found that administration of a base like sodium carbonate produced any effect on the balance of calcium. It has also been reported that in a normal infant the addition of alkali to mik produced an unfavorable effect on calcium retention. Without addition of alkali, malt extract was found to act beneficially on calcium storage, but this is probably not due to the maltose. If malt soup has a favorable effect on calcium metabolism, it is not due to the alkali originally present or added to it.

There is no reason at present to attribute the seemingly substantiated benefit from malt preparations on calcium storage to the maltose (Jour. A.M.A., March 1, 1919, p. 656).

Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and "Private Formula" Products.-Sharp and Dohme explain that it is their inflexible rule that all "private formula" 'orders intended for public distribution are refused until the copy for the "literature" has been studied by their experts. They explain that an order for three preparations which were later the subject of prosecution for misbranding under the federal Food and Drugs Act were filled and shipped in the belief that the copy had been passed on by their Spanish expert, when in reality this had not been done. The house of Sharp and Dohme feels that it has been done an injustice in the publication of the "misbranded nostrum" notices which gave no hint that the preparations were private formula products, and were not sold under the name of Sharp and Dohme. The firm believes that an injustice was done in that the references to these misbranded nostrums will lead readers to believe that they were sold under the label of Sharp and Dohme. There is unfortunately a commercial distinction between products which are made by a firm and products which are sold by it. Whether or not there is any moral difference between profiting by the manufacture of a "patent medicine," that is to be retailed by some one else, and selling the same medicine under one's own name, is a question. (Jour. A.M.A., March 1, 1919, p. 669).

Misbranded Nostrums.-The following nostrums were declared misbranded under the Federal Food and Drugs Act because of the false, fraudulent or misleading claims made for them: Alkavis; Sul. ferro-Sol; Gonorrhea and Gleet 3 Day Cure; Old Indian Fever Tonic; Pain-I-Cure; Walker's Dead Shot Colic Cure (Jour, A.M.A., March 1, 1919, p. 670).

Saccharin-After the War. Having satisfied a need during the sugar shortage, the manufacturers of saccharin appear not to be content to turn their talents and plants to better uses, but suggest that the great commercial sacrifices made in setting their works into operation to produce saccharin should be rewarded by permission to continue the traffic under post-war conditions. The referee board to which the saccharin question was referred in this country has by no means given a clean bill of health to the chemical, and the people need to be protected from the danger, or at least the decep tion, of a substitute for sugar which is in no sense a true food. (Jour. A.M.A., March 8, 1919, p. 729).

Organo Tablets and Orchis Extract.-The Organo Product Co., Chicago, sells Organo Tablets as a cure for "lost vitality." The Packers Product Co. sold Orchis Extract until it was put out of busi ness by the government in 1918 by the issuance of a fraud order. Even a superficial comparison of the circular letters and booklets used in exploiting Organo Tablets shows a close connection between this humbug and the government declared fraud

Orchis Extract. Has Orchis Extract of the Packers Product Co. become Organo Tablets of the Organo Product Co. (Jour. A.M.A., March 8, 1919, p. 746)?

Depilagiene-The A.M.A. Chemical Laboratory reports that "Franco-American Hygienic Depilagiene," a hair remover, essentially is a mixture of barium sulphate, barium sulphid, sulphur and starch. The amount of barium sulphid was found to be 22.6 per cent. this is equivalent to about 45 per cent. of commercial barium sulphid. Depilagiene has no claim to originality as practically all chemical hair removers are composed of some form of sulphid. Naturally, the preparation is likely to cause more or less irritation of the skin. (Jour. A.M.A., March 8, 1919, p. 746).

Validity of Provisions Concerning "Patent" Medicines. In the proceedings instituted by E. Fougera and Co., Inc. against the City of New York et al, the Court of Appeals of New York holds that the provision of the sanitary code is not unconstitutional in that it prescribed the formula disclosure of medicines. The purposes and effects of the code were well within the police power and had the object of protecting the public. “No man has a constitutional right to keep secret the composition of substances which he sells to the public as articles of food" (State v. Aslesen, 50 Minn. 5, 52 N. W. 220). If that is true of food, it is even more plainly true of drugs. But there was one objection to the ordinance, though one that amendment might correct; that the ordinance did not except existing stores of merchandise in the hands of dealers, in that the board of health exceeded the powers delegated to it. (Jour. A.M.A., March 8, 1919, p. 753.)

The Victory Over Rabies.-Amid the victories on the European battlefield, we may pause to contemplate man's conquest of rabies. During the year 1916, 1,008 persons in the district of Lyons received the antirabic treatment. A single death in this list places the mortality at 0.099 per cent. Since 1900, more than 9,000 persons have received antirabic inoculations, with a total of nine deaths, or 0.09 per cent. (Jour. A.M.A., March 15, 1919, p. 800.)

Nature's Remedy Tablets.-A. H. Clark, of the A.M.A. Chemical Laboratory, reports that "Nature's Remedy" is claimed to contain ten ingredients; that the manufacturers declare seven of these -burdock, juniper, sarsaparilla, mandrake, rhubarb, dandelion and prickly ash; and that the manufacturers state they are "more proud" of the other three, but refrain from naming them for fear of imitators. Clark's analysis, supplemented by a microscopic examination by E. N. Gathercoal at the University of Illinois School of Pharmacy, indicated that the unnamed drugs are aloes (or a preparation of aloes), cascara bark and belladonna root. The microscopist stated that rhubarb, as well as all the other named drugs, if present at all are there in such small quantities that no evidence of their presence was seen. As a result of the examination and a consideration of their powerful cathartic action, it is believed that Nature's Remedy is,

essentially, aloes or aloin, cascara, and belladonna with, probably, resin of podophyllin (instead of mandrake)—a common cathartic mixture. (Jour. A.M.A., March 15, 1919, p. 815).

Misbranded Nostrums.-A "Notice of Judgment" has been issued declaring the following nostrums misbranded: Chase's "Blood and Nerve Tablets" "Liver Tablets," and "Kidney Tablets"; XXX Tonic Pills; Egiuterro; Uicure; Sweet Rest for Children; Beaver Drops Comp.; Blood Kleen; Heart and Nerve Regulator; Kidneyleine; Eye Powder; Tanrue Herbs and Pills, and 5 Herbs. (Jour. A.M.A., March 22, 1919, p. 883).

Havens' Wonderful Discovery.-The Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry reports that E. C. Havens, Sioux Falls, S. D., requested consideration of a remedy which he claims to have discovered for the cure of influenza. According to the label on a specimen, "This remedy is good for Coughs, Colds, Lung Diseases, LaGrippe, Influenza, Rheumatism; good for Pains, Cramps, Backache, Lumbago, Neuralgia; for severe pains soak your feet in hot water for nights, add 3 tablespoons of baking soda in water and apply Anti-Flue Medicine to the affected parts." The "discovery" was stated to contain oil of wintergreen, oil of sassafras, oil of black pepper, spirit of camphor, spirit of turpentine, spirit of chloroform, tincture of arnica and alcohol, and was called Havens' Rheumatic Remedy before its supposed effect on "flue" was "discovered." The Counci finds that Havens' Wonderful Discovery is an unscientific, irrational mixture, marketed under therapeutic claims which are unwarranted and without foundation. (Jour. AMA., March 22, 1919, p. 883).

Dichloramine-T and Petrolatum Dressing for Burns. Torald Sollmann reports that solutions of dichloramine-T in chlorcosane do not protect the large open surfaces of burns against mechanical irritation and access of air. On the contrary, the solution is absorbed by the dressing, which is then glued by the wound secretions and causes pain and injury when the dressing is changed. As a result of a study of the decomposition of dichloramine-T by different solvents, Sollmann proposes the use of an ointment of three parts of surgical paraffin and seven parts of liquid petrolatum as a protective dressing on wounds (burns) treated with dichloramine-T-chlorcosane solution. It may even be used as a basis for a dichloramine-T ointment. (Jour. A.M.A., April 5, 1919, p. 992).

Stevens' Consumption Cure.-C. H. Stevens, a discredited London quack, has been attempting to exploit Canadian veterans at the Mountain Sanatorium for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis at Hamilton, Ont. The nostrum was claimed to contain "Umckaloabo root" and "Chijitse," but the analysis made for the British Medical Association showed it to contain no active drugs except alcohol and glycerin. The following is a brief history of this "cure:" In 1904 Stevens was selling "Sacco" in Capetown, South Africa, but got into the courts