vested interests of quackery. A fake concern, called the Viavi Company, which preys upon impressionable women, has organized an elaborate "lecture bureau," mostly women and clergymen, to spread its doctrines, the chief of which is that every woman has something wrong with her, and that whatever it is, Viavi preparations alone will cure it. A Chicago woman, who received an invitation to one of these lectures thru a friend, lays bare the whole " "" game in a few sentences:

"After the lady lecturer finished her discourse, it became evident to me that there was no one present who was exempt from the need of 'Viavi,' from the actions and words of the lecturer, and also, I'm sorry to say, from the words of the ladies."

The Special Agents of Quackery.

The same old "skin game"; get your victim to worrying, and she'll buy your medicin. Viavi Hygiene," of course, is based on the fallacy of diagnosing and treating by mail.

Two alleged publications have for some time been making a living as special agents of quackery. One, the New York Health Journal, has lately quit the field, by reason of the death of its "editor." It got out a number whenever enuf quacks and fraud-medicins could be found to pay for its editorial space. It had no real existence as a magazine, and its "professional contributors" were myths. Anything was grist to its mill; it even printed solemn editorial endorsements of such roaring farces as Liquozone and Vitæ Ore. The United States Health Reports belongs to this same category. It, of course, is a fake imitation of the United States Public Health Reports, publisht by the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, which would very much like to lay hands upon the proprietors of the scheme. They sell "official commendations" to beer, patent foods, quack medicins, or anything else that will buy.

Just how to list certain medical journals, which profess to uphold the standards of the medical profession, and yet more or less openly defend mendaciously advertised nostrums, is difficult to determin; they seem entitled to a niche somewhere in the Quack Hall of Fame. Certainly such a publication as the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, which is run openly as a defender of patent medicins, performing the unsavory work of the Proprietary Association with the Proprietary Association's approved methods of falsehood and fraud, leaves no doubt as to its nature. No intelligent man defends quackery under a misapprehension, and when A. H. Ohmann-Dumesnil, A.M., M.D., acting under the order of the Antikamnia fraud factory, deliberately prostitutes his editorial pages to the purposes of the nostrum trader, he becomes, at the best, an accomplice of quackery. For his wages, see his advertising columns. The owners of the Western Druggist, a Proprietary Association organ, also control the Medical Standard, which, less openly, is a nostrum defending publication under the pretense of an ethical attitude. To the medical profession the handling of such journals as these may safely be left: the deception has already worn transparently thin.

Medical directories can be so conducted as to take a profit of quackery. Galen, Gonsier & Co. go about getting doctors to subscribe to state rosters. They have left a sore crowd of regulars in Ohio, for, after listing all the respectable members of the profession, they included in their list of "Cincinnati Specialists all the notorious quacks in the city, and sold their advertising pages to "Cancer Cure" Curry and "Dr." Annie Florein, whose hospital is most widely, if not most favorably, known as an abortion resort. "Dr." Annie has been at least once convicted for illegal practise. The Suffolk Hospital and Dispensary of Boston has already been mentioned as living largely from the sale of donated patent medicins, for which it pays in testimonials. St. Luke's Hospital, at Niles. Mich., has an equally ingenious scheme; it sells diplomas to quack doctors. Most of those whom I have visited have its parchment framed upon their walls, notwithstanding that the institution has passed out of existence, its two founders being at present fugitives from justice.-Collier's Weekly for July 14.

How to Give Drugs.

First.-Do no harm. This principle seems to be well met by the homeopath who uses the infinitesimal dose. He does not harm save in so far as he may miss doing good. And it is still better met by our teaching to start with small, not infinitesimal, doses of the best procurable drug and give it until results are seen.

Second. Try to see as clearly as possible just why you give a drug, your purpose in giving it, whether as a specific, curativ, palliativ, or as a placebo.

Third.-As far as you can, give a drug uncombined. This is a general rule, subject to many exceptions. Rules, however, are made to be broken. They are our servants, tho we too often allow them to be our masters. But in breaking rules we must use our brains, an exercise which most of us avoid as far as

we can.

Fourth (and last).—In using an efficient drug, be as sure as you can of a good preparation, and then give it until something happens-either the desired effect or evidence appears that the limit of toleration has been reached, what is called the physiologic, but what I should prefer to call the toxic effect. Disregard of this law is, I believe, responsible for many therapeutic failures.-Dr. F. C. Shattuck, of Boston.

The Great American Fraud.

If you wish to provide yourself for giving your patients information concerning the " patent medicin," or secret nostrum business, send 7 cts. to the American Medical Association Press, 103 Dearborn ave., Chicago, Ill., for a copy (or 30 cts. for 5 copies) of "The Great American Fraud." It is a pamphlet of 95 pages, containing the articles by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which appeared in Collier's Weekly, and abstracts from various articles in the Ladies' Home Journal. See the picture of Lydia E. Pinkham's tombstone, on page 94.` It shows that she died in 1883, but still her advertisements go merrily on!

WORLDLETS.

In incarcerated hernia, before attempting taxis, spray the tumor well with ethyl chlorid. The freezing often causes spontaneous reduction.

Fluidextract of hydrastis, in 6 drop doses, is of service in catarrhal dyspepsia. It is given in a little water an hour before meals and at bedtime.

In dysentery with fetid breath and offensiv discharges of a dark prune juice character, baptisia is useful. It is given in doses of 1 to 10 minims of the specific tincture.

Caffein, in 2-grain doses every two or three hours, has a decided influence in lessening the toxemia from alcohol, and also in lessening the desire for continued indulgence.

In gonorrheal epididymitis, grain of podophyllin with 19 grains of potassium bitartrate, given every two hours, will relieve the pain and shorten the course of the inflammation.

The rectal injection of half a pint of hot water, to which has been added half an ounce of brandy, will relieve the distressing thirst which accompanies protracted vomiting.

The injection into the rectum of 25 drops of the pure tincture of echinacea is recommended by Ellingwood in the treatment of hemorrhoids. The injection is given 3 times a day.

Inveterate cases of pruritus ani often yield to an ointment of salicylic acid; 20 grains are mixt with 4 drams each of vaseline and lanolin, and this is applied night and morning.

In administration of potassium iodid, insist upon frequent bathing of the body. The fatty acids of decomposing perspiration cause a breaking up of the iodid in the skin, and this effect is responsible for many of the cases of eruption. The bathing does much to prevent trouble.

Recent eclectic authorities claim satisfactory cures of acute and chronic cases of cystitis by the use of 20 drops of specific elaterium in 4 ounces of water, and giving a teaspoonful every 2 or 3 hours.

It is not advisable to use bichlorid of mercury as a vaginal douche soon after labor or miscarriage. Sev eral instances are recorded where death has followed even a single such injection of strength of 1 to 1000.

A few crystals of menthol, vaporized from an iron spoon held over the chimney of a lighted lamp, will prove useful in spasmodic croup. If the odor is strongly perceptible in the room, enuf has been employed.

In pityriasis versicolor, a French practician highly commends a solution of peroxid of hydrogen, 8 ounces, and a dram of borax. This is applied locally once or twice a day, and this discoloration of the skin disappears in about two weeks.

In grave cases of acute uremia, lumbar puncture and withdrawal of an ounce of fluid should be tried. Cases are reported in which consciousness returned four hours after this tapping, and in one instance complete recovery occurred.

In orchitis, when the patient must remain confined to bed, a convenient support for the swollen scrotum is quickly improvised by passing a 3-inch strip of adhesiv p aster across one thigh, under the scrotum, and attaching it across the other thigh.

Nitroglycerin is objectionable in pneumonia, because it increases a condition already giving serious trouble, i. e., vasomotor relaxation. Strychnin, digitalis, and adrenalin extract are the preferable drugs for supporting the heart. (Elsner.)

Ten grains of menthol to 4 ounces of distilled extract of witch hazel applied to a burn will relieve the pain instantly and will promote speedy healing. It is best applied by bandaging with a gauze bandage, and keeping this saturated with the mixture.

Do not depend upon blue or green glass bottles to protect your nitrate of silver from the light, for neither of them entirely prevent the passage of actinic rays of light which cause decomposition. Use an amber glass bottle, or wrap any bottle used in tin foil.

Sudden injury may displace a normal kidney, but such displacement is accompanied by laceration of the perirenal tissues, and this is manifested by markt local and general symptoms; but "movable kidney" is never the result of a single trauma. (Harris.)

A useful prescription in spasmodic croup is prepared as follows:

given every four hours. Three or four doses generally stop the discharge from the nose. If the case is not seen until the discharge has thickened, a snuff composed of I grain of cocain, 2 grains of menthol, and 100 grains of boric acid is used, and quickly completes the cure.

When compelled to give chloroform by gas or lamplight, hang a number of cloths saturated with ordinary ammonia near the light. The fumes of the ammonia combine with the chlorin given off by the chloroform to make ammonium chlorid, which, of course, is innoc Neglect of this simple precaution has often resulted in serious injury to patient, operator, or to both.

uous.

In cases where foreign bodies have been swallowed, Bell (Lancet, Feb. 11, 1905) commends feeding ab sorbent cotton. The cotton is teased out into a thin film, and is then mixt with food, such as bread and milk or a sandwich. The cotton acts either by enmeshing the foreign body, or by matting the feces about it. It is necessary to observe that too much is not given at a time, as it is possible that an excess might form a mass or ball in the stomach.

Injections of air have been commended in the treatment of neuralgia, sciatica, lumbago, and intercostal neuralgia. The technic is easy. A hypodermic needle is attacht to any sort of a pump or syringe of sufficient power. In use, the needle is separated from the airpumping apparatus, and is first inserted to make sure that no blood vessel is penetrated. The pump or bulb is then attacht, and from one-half to a pint of air is forced into the tissues. It takes about 10 days for this to be absorbed. The pumping portion from the thermocautery machine makes a very satisfactory apparatus.

The following makes an admirable "smelling salt" in affections of the upper air passages, whether acute or chronic. It is useful also in fatigue, nausea, and a tendency to fainting:

Mix, and keep in well stoppered bottles, except when inhaling.

One often drives nails into the plastering of the office, and thru time they become loosened and refuse to remain where driven. An unsightly hole remains in the plaster, and it is often desirable that the location of the nail remain unchanged. It can be made to do service by wrapping a little cloth about the nail and saturating it with glue; the nail is then driven into the hole, and when the glue has hardened the nail will be found more firmly fixt than at first. Another method is to mix plaster of Paris with salty water and fill the nail hole completely with it; then insert the nail while the plaster is yet soft, pressing plaster firmly about the nail; when it has hardened, the repair is complete, but is hardly so firm as by the method of the glue and cloth.

Wiebert, in The American Druggist, gives the following formula for the preparation of a liquid antiseptic soap:

Washington Examination Questions.

(Used at Tacoma, July 3, 4, and 5, 1906.) MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AND PREVENTIV MEDICIN,

1. In case of a gunshot wound, how would you determin if it were ante mortem or postmortem?

2. How would you determin that a burn occurred before or after death?

3. Define a privileged communication.

4. Differentiate between suicide by drowning and homicide by drowning.

5. Give your method of removal and care of the stomach and its contents in a case of suspected poisoning.

6. What is antitoxin? What is the principle of its production? What is meant by an immunizing and a medicinal dose?

7. Describe vaccine virus, its production, and your technic for vaccination.

8. Name the two most important disinfectants, and the quantity you would use of each in disinfecting a room containing 1,000 cubic feet.

9. How would you manage a threatened epidemic of a contagious disease?

10. How would you test water for typhoid fever contamination?

GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS.

1. Give the different forms of dysmenorrhea, and outline treatment for each form.

2. Give the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of carcinoma of the cervix.

3. Differentiate between an ovarian cyst and ascites.

4. Name the causes of sterility, and outline the treatment for the

same.

5. Name the disturbances and disorders incident to the menopause, and give the general outline of treatment.

6. How would you manage postpartum hemor hage: first, before delivery of the placenta, and second, after the delivery of the placenta?

7. Give the etiology, symptoms, and treatment of puerperal eclampsia.

8. Give in detail the management of a breech-presentation. 9. Give the etiology, symptoms, and treatment of puerperal sepsis.

10. Name the different kinds of versien. Give the indications for their employment.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY.

1. Describe the tempero-maxillary articulation.

2. Give the origin, insertion, action, nerve, and blood supply of one of the following muscles: masseter, trapezius, or sartorious.

3. Give the origin and surgical anatomy of the middle meningeal artery.

4. Give the boundaries and contents of the axilla.

5. Describe in detail the long saphenous vein, and give the surface markings.

6. Name the ligaments of the knee-joint.

7. Locate the liver, give its average weight, the blood supply, and describe its ligaments.

8. Describe the first rib.

9. Give the physiology of blood coagulation. How long after death does coagulation take place?

10. How is the average temperature of the body maintained? Give the normal temperature taken in the axilla, mouth, and rectum.

11. What digestiv changes occur in the small intestin?

12. What constitutes the vocal apparatus? Explain in detail the production and modulation of voice sounds.

13. (a) What effect has division of the splanchnic nerve on the blood vessels of the intestin? (b) What effect has division of the sympathetic nerve of the neck on the parts above the seat of section?

14. Locate in the brain the centres for the following functions: (a) speech, (b) sight, (c) hearing, (d 1) motion of the right hand, d-2) motion of the right leg, (d-3) motion of the right face.

15. Whence are fats derived? How are they found in the body? What is the function of adipose tissue?

NERVOUS DISEASES AND DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR.

1. Give the symptoms of infantil spastic paralysis. Give a hypo thetical case.

2. What is the condition of the reflexes in apoplectic coma, and what reflexes are commonly affected?

3. Give the definition and symptom of insular (multiple) scle

rosis.

4. What is anesthesia paralysis? Give a hypothetical case.

5. Differentiate between epileptic and hysteroid seizures.

6. Name the causes and dangers of otorrhea.

7. In what acute disease is the ear most commonly involved, and, as a rule, what part of the general structure of the ear is first attackt?

8. Name the conjunctival diseases due to micro-organisms. 9. State the causes of strabismus. Should a child between the ages of two and ten be brought to you with strabismus, what treatment would you advise?

10. Name four causes of iritis, and note the subjectiv and objectiv symptoms.

PRACTISE OF MEDICIN AND DISEASES OF CHILDREN.

1. What is hematemesis? Name three diseases of which it is symptom.

2. Supposing a man had for two weeks' time been walking around, feeling half sick, and suddenly had a hemorrhage from the bowels, what diagnosis would you make?

3. Name the location of the maximum intensity of each murmur produced in the aortic and mitral valve.

4. (a) In nephritis where does the effusion of serum first appear? (b) In cirrhosis of the liver, where? (c) In cardiac diseases, where?

5. To what three diseases are patients suffering from diabetes predisposed?

6. Make a differential diagnosis between typhoid fever and tubercular peritonitis.

7. Name the symptoms and physical signs of thoracic aneurism. 8. Name the intestinal parasites found in man, the source and diagnosis of each and the treatment.

9. Name three systems of the body that are most frequently the seat of pathological lesions in children.

10. Name six causes of vomiting in children. 11. What is the pulse rate at the following ages: (a) six to twelve months, (b) two to six years, (c) seven to ten years, (d) eleven to fourteen years?

12. Give the etiology and diagnosis of infantil scurvy.

13. Name the complications and sequelae of (a) scarlet fever, (b) diphtheria, (c) follicular tonsillitis.

14. How often would you feed a child at the end of the second year? Give the dietary.

15. Give the etiology and symptoms of cholera infantum.

HISTOLOGY, PATHOLOGY, AND BACTERIOLOGY.

1. Give the histological elements of the blood. Compare a mammalian red corpuscle with that of an amphibian.

2. Describe adenoid tissue; where located and what pathological growth does it closely resemble?

3. Give the histological elements of the skin.

4. Give an example of each of the foliowing bacteria: anaerobic, aerobic, parasitic, non-parasitic, and saprophytic.

5. To what kingdom do bacteria belong, and why are they so classed? Give the range of temperature at which the pathogenic bacteria best thrive.

6. Name two means by which they multiply. Which are the more hardy, and at what temperature of dry heat are they destroyed?

7. Define degeneration. Give three examples and state in what organs it is most frequently met.

8.

Describe the macro- and the microscopic appearance of the liver in acute yellow atrophy.

9. Name two malignant growths. Give the histology of one. 10. What is the difference between hypertrophy and hyperplasia ? Name three types of the former.

5. Name a vesicant derived from (a) the animal kingdom. (b) The vegetable kingdom. (c) The mineral kingdom. Give the source and method of the application of each.

6. Write prescription for eight suppositories, each suppository to contain the proper dose of three remedies used for the relief of pain.

7. Give the source, physiological action, therapeutic uses, dose, and strength of officinal hydrocyanic acid.

8. Give source and therapeutic uses and dose of strychnin. What symptoms would lead you to suspect over-dosage?

9. Give the physiological action and therapeutic uses of pilocarpus jaborandi.

10. Give minutely the action of digitalis on the heart and circulation.

HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA.

1. Describe in detail a phosforus patient.
2. Give five markt arsenicum album symptoms.

3. Describe the tongue symptoms of each of the following remedies: Aconite, apis mel., baptisia, nux vomica, mercury, and lachesis.

4. Mention three remedies indicated in leucorrhea. Give the symptoms of each.

5. Differentiate the pains of the following remedies: Colocynth, pulsatilla, bryonia, apis mel., arnica, and belladonna.

6. Give four remedies of use in diarrhea with the characteristic symptoms.

7. What is sepia? Give the key notes for its use.

8. In prescribing for an infant, differentiate between chamomilla, borax, and calc. carb.

9. Differentiate cough symptoms of hepar sulf., drosera, lycopodium, kali bach., and ipecac.

ro. What is thuya? Give indications for its use.

ECLECTIC MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS.

1. Give the general therapy, dose, and specific indications of gelsemium.

2. Give the specific indications for the use of each of the following remedies, and state in what diseases they would be likely to be used: (a) rhus tox., (b) belladonna, (c) nux vomica, (d) veratrum vir., (e) aconite, (f) pulsatilla.

3. Name three heart tonics.

4. What are the medicinal properties of ammonia carbonate? 5. What are tinctures, infusions, and decoctions?

6. Give the properties of podophyllin.

7. What is meant by the term hydragogue?

8. In prescribing iron, what form do you prefer, and why?

9. Define narcotics, laxativs, antispasmodics. Give an example

of each

Chemistry: General, Medical, and Pharmaceutical. Including the Chemistry of the U. S. Pharmacopola, A Manual of the Science of Chemistry and Its Applications to Medicin and Pharmacy. By John Attfield, F.R.S., M.A, Ph.D., F.C.S., etc., Professor of Practical Chemistry to the Pharmaceu tical Society of Great Britain, etc. New (19th) edition, specially revised by the author to accord with the New U. S. Pharmacopeia, edited by Leonard Dobbin, Ph.D., F.I.C., etc., Lecturer on Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh, etc. 12m0, 760 pages, illustrated. Price, cloth, $2.50 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1906.

This nineteenth revision of this old and popular work brings it thoroly up to date. The old plan of the work, adhered to thru seventeen U. S. editions, is retained. Not only is the science of chemistry studied, but also consideration is given every substance of interest to medical or pharmaceutical men, in proportion to its importance to the leading principles of chemistry. Special care has been exercised to make the book well adapted to the needs of medical men and pharmacists, tho in so far as principles and laws are concerned, it may be considered a work treating of general chemistry. The book is useful as a reading work for men whose chemical education is deficient or forgotten. A noteworthy and a valuable feature is the omission of consideration of such compounds as are of merely experimental or theoretical use, and a more voluminous exposition of such agents as are recognized as of actual remedial value in the treatment of disease. -A. L. R.

Practical Dietetics, with reference to diet in disease. By Alida Frances Pattee, Graduate Boston Normal School of Arts; Late Instructor in Dietetics, Bellevue Training School for Nurses, Bellevue Hospital, New York; Special Lecturer at Bellevue, Mt. Sinai, Hahnemann, and The Flower Hospital Training Schools for Nurses, New York City; St. Vincent de Paul Hospital, Brockville, Ontario, Canada. Fourth edition. Publisht by A. F. Pattee, 52 West 39th street, New York, N. Y. Price, net, $1 by mail, $1.10; by express, C. O. D., $1.25.

A cloth-bound 12m0 of 300 pages, which has no superior as a book of reference to the physician who makes dietetics a part of his method of treating the sick. We have given it our endorsement in previous editions, and reiterate the same now. It has been adopted by the Medical Department of the U. S. Army and the Permanent Schools of Instruction for the Canadian Militia. It is now one of the text-books in the N. Y. Public Schools. The author gives the diet tables of such eminent members of the profession as Thompson, Holt, Starr, Einhorn, Koplik, Shattuck, Cutler, Davis, Richards, etc. It is simple, concise, and plain, and gives information not obtainable elsewhere. It

will prove of extreme value to those physicians unable to avail themselves of the services of trained nurses, for directions are given so completely that suitable foods may be prepared by almost any one. It covers all indications, whatever may be the need. Every nurse should have it, and all doctors will appreciate it.-A. L. R.

The Practical Medicin Series, comprising ten volumes on the year's progress in medicin and surgery, under the general editorial charge of Gustavus P. Head, M.D. Volume VI. General Medicin. Edited by Frank Billings, M.S., M.D., Head of the Medical Department and Dean of the Medical Faculty of Rush Medical College, Chicago, and J. H. Salisbury, M.D., Professor of Medicin, Chicago Clinical School. Series 1906. Publisht by The Year-Book Publishers, 40 Dearborn street, Chicago, Ill. Price for the series of ten, $io. Price for this volume, $1.25.

Contains 350 pages and index. It fairly well covers leading journal articles and general advancement in medicin on the following diseases: Typhoid fever, yellow fever, malaria, amebic dysentery, Malta fever, beri beri, and diseases of stomach, intestins, liver, pancreas, and peritoneum. The extracts on typhoid are particularly notable from the variety of opinions exprest and treatments advocated; it covers 49 pages. This book will supplement any library and is very inexpensiv.-A. L. R.

A Text-Book of Sanitary and Applied Chemistry; or The Chemistry of Water, Air, and Food. By E. H. S. Bailey, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Publisht by the Macmillan Company, London and New York, 1906. Price, $1.40.

Contains 332 pages and an index. The book aims only to cover the important topics wherein chemistry touches the daily life of humanity. What is handled is thoroly treated; hence the book is of value for general information and for purposes of reference. Tho condenst, the text is clear. It is intended chiefly as a text-book, and the experiments given may all be performed with inexpensiv appparatus. Among the subjects discust are: Water, air, heating, lighting, ventilation, and foods and beverages. The physician who knows his education deficient along the lines of hygiene and chemistry will find much in this book of interest and profit.-A. L. R.

A Compend of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and Prescription Writing. By Samuel C. L. Potter, M.D., M.R.C.P. (Lond.). Seventh edition, revised and enlarged. Pub lisht by P Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa., 1906. Price, $1.

Contains 278 pages and an index. This edition conforms with the last revision of the U. S. P., and it may hence be used to supplement libraries where it is not desirable to lay aside familiar works because they are antiquated in a few particulars. This little book is dependable, and is thoroly up to date.-A. L. R.

A Manual of Otology. By Gorman Bacon, A.B., M.D., Professor of Otology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York; Aural Surgeon, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. With an introductory chapter by Clar ence John Blake, M.D., Professor of Otology in Harvard University. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Handsome 12mo volume of 485 pages, with 134 illustrations and 11 plates. Price, cloth, $2.25, net. Lea Brothers & Co., publishers, New York and Philadelphia, 1906.

Bacon's excellent manual is so well known that an extensiv review of the book as a whole would be superfluous. The fourth edition has been enlarged to the extent of 40 pages, and the new sections and additions to the text on osteomyelitis of the temporal bone, primary jugular bulb thrombosis, suppurativ inflammation of the labyrinth, leucocytosis, lumbar puncture, and the treatment of facial paralysis have brought the little volume thoroly up to date.-E. B. G.

Enigmas of Psychical Research. By James H. Hyslop, Ph.D., LL.D., formerly Professor of Ethics and Logic at Columbia University. Publisht by Herbert B. Turner & Co., Boston, Mass. 1906. Price, $1.62 by mail.

Contains 427 pages, divided into eleven chapters. The titles of the chapters are: The Residues of

Science; The Ancient Oracles; Crystal Vision; Crystal Gazing; Telepathy; Dreams; Apparitions; Clairvoyance; Premonitions; Mediumistic Phenomena; Retrospect and Vaticination. The author covers well the entire field of supernormal manifestations. Thruout the work one is imprest with the effort of the author to incite investigation by scientific methods, of a transcendental world. Only such experiences are quoted as have received the seal of authenticity of The Society for Psychical Research. There is no nonsense here; he is very much in earnest, and approaches his subjects carefully and advisedly. He pleads that science take up and investigate phenomena which occurs and which are supernormal, for men will turn to illusion and folly if not to science for explanation of these weird occurrences. It is a strong argument along lines that cannot fail to interest every thoughtful man. After the "wishy-washy" literature now extant upon such subjects, it is a real treat to read a thoroly scientific discussion, capably written by one whose ability and honesty are unquestioned.-A. L. R.

Before and After Surgical Operations. A Treatise on the preparations for, and the care of the patient after operations. Including Homeopathic Therapeutics. Written with special reference to the needs of the General Practician and the Hospital Interne. By Dean T. Smith, B.Sc., M.D., Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery, University of Michigan, Homeopathic Department, Ann Arbor. 260 pages. Cloth, $1.25 net. Postage, 8 cents. Philadelphia, Boericke & Tafel, 1906.

The book is written for the instruction of those physicians who are compelled to prepare cases for operation in private homes, and who will assume the postoperativ conduct of such cases. The hospital interne, too, who has had deficient instruction, will find here an aid that will ward off the censure of his superiors. Then, too, instructions are given for the nursing; and both unskilled physician and trained nurse may glean much information therefrom. Homeopathic therapeutical suggestions are prominent, and narrow the book to adherents of that sect.-A. L. R.

A Manual of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and Pharmacology, with Clinical Index. By A. L. Blackwood, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Clinical Medicin in the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago. Publisht by Boericke & Tafel, Philadelphia, Pa., 1906. Price not stated.

A handsome pocket size, gold edge and title, flexible leather bound volume of 592 pages. The effort is made to "place before the medical profession in condenst form a resume of the materia medica of all remedies in common use to date, their pharmacy and therapeutics, together with a chapter on prescription writing, and the management of cases of poisoning." It will thus be noted that he does not confine himself to homeopathic remedies. He covers all drugs, and when treating of a drug used by "regulars" or by eclectics, he gives the doses they use and the indications recognized by them. Hence the book will have a certain value to all practicians; to the regular, who wishes to learn something of how drugs are used homeopathically, and to the homeopath who wishes to know something of the rational method of therapy. It is not possible for any man to be absolutely fair when essaying to put out a work like this, and the most glaring error is that he does not mention antitoxin, tho he does give the homeopathic diphtherinum. Such notable omissions are few.-A. L. R.

Text-Book of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology. By John J. Reese, M.D., late Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology in the University of Pennsylvania; late President of the Medical Jurisprudence Society of Philadelphia. Seventh edition, revised by Henry Leffman, A.M., M.D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania; Pathological Chemist to the Jefferson Medical College Hospital. Publisht by P. Blakiston's Sons & Co., 1012 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa., 1906. Price, $3.

Contains 649 pages and an index. We have previously given this book our heartiest commendation, because it was designed for students of legal medicin by a teacher of wisdom and experience, and because he had given a clear, terse, and practical exposition of his subject. In the revisions, not only has the book