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 contribute a paper. The title should be sent at once to the Permanent Secretary, so that the program may be completed. As soon as completed, the program will be mailed to physicians, and effort should be made not only to contribute a paper, but to be present at the coming meeting, to bring friends, and to assist in the most important movement of medicine as represented in the aim of this association, the systematic, scientific investigation and advancement of medicine by conclusive clinical and clinically-allied methods. Invite friends to become members. The support of the profession will be cordially appreciated.

MINOR INTELLIGENCE.

DOCTOR PAUL C. GOODLOVE, Detroit, announces the limitation of his practice to gastroenterology.

DOCTOR FRANK B. WALKER announces the removal of his office to 402 Washington Arcade, Detroit, and limitation of practice to general surgery and consultations.

POLIOMYELITIS has been epiedmic in Los Angeles, California. During June and July there were one hundred fifty cases in that city, according to the report of the State Board of Health.

IN the news note entitled "Smallpox in Michigan," which was published in our May issue, the sentence in the third line beginning with "Two hundred forty-five were vaccinated," should read "Two hundred forty-five were not vaccinated."

ANN ARBOR Voted recently to bond the city to the extent of $25,000 for the purpose of building a detention hospital, with the understanding that it is to be equipped and maintained by the University of Michigan. A majority vote of sixty per cent was necessary to carry the proposition.

CONGRESS, by enactment approved August 14, 1912, changed the name of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service to Public Health Service. The function and duties of the service were extended somewhat and changes were likewise made in the salaries of the officers. The new régimé becomes effective October 1, 1912.

THE trustees of the American Medicine Gold Medal Award respectfully announce that the medal for nineteen hundred twelve has been conferred upon Doctor William C. Gorgas, Ancon, Panama, as the American physician who in their judgment has performed the most conspicuous and noteworthy service in the domain of medicine during the past year.

NORTH CAROLINA has declared against hookworm disease. The last legislature enacted provision for the establishment of free dispensaries throughout the state and forty-four counties have already taken advantage of the offer by bearing their portion of the expense incident to the treatment. It is estimated that fifty thousand persons have been treated to date.

MANILA registered, in June, 1912, its first death from plague for more than seven years, the victim being a Filipino in Tonda. Although the diagnosis was confirmed clinically and bacteriologically, and necropsy showed the typical lesions of bubonic plague, the health authorities have been unable to ascertain the origin of the infection. At the necropsy the tonsils were found to be in a sloughing condition.

STATISTICS bearing on suicides in New York which were compiled recently in Albany, show that 678 persons took their own lives in that state during the first six months of 1912. Gas inhalation was the favorite method chosen, 160 persons having elected that agency; hanging was resorted to by 144; shooting by 141; poison by 130; the knife by 51; and drowning by 20. Thirty-two killed themselves by jumping from high places. The maximum number of suicides was recorded in May-132; the minimum in January-93.

GOVERNOR DIx, of New York, has signed the Sterilization Bill which recently passed the legislature of that State. The law is calculated to reduce the number of children with inherited tendencies toward insanity and crime by operations for the prevention and procreation. A determining body-the Board of Examiners for Feeble-Minded Criminals and Other Defectives-will consist of one surgeon, one neurologist, and one internist, each to have been in practice at least ten years at time of appointment.

DOCTOR THOMAS B. MCCLINTIC, Passed Assistant Surgeon in the Public Health Service, died in Washington, District of Columbia, August 13, aged thirty-nine years, a victim of Rocky Mountain "spotted fever." The doctor had been fighting the disease in the Bitter Root Valley of Montana this summer, and so effective had been his work that his was the first case in that section this year. Doctor McClintic graduated from the University of Virginia in 1896 and entered the service in July, 1899. He is survived by his widow, a bride of a few weeks.

Ar the recent meeting of the Michigan State Medical Society, Prosecuting Attorney Shepherd, of Wayne county was endorsed in the following terms for his efforts to purge Detroit of quacks and gambling devices: "The Michigan State Medical Society congratulates. Wayne county on its active, energetic and courageous prosecuting attorney and expresses the hope that he will have the unanimous support of the press and cordial moral and financial backing in his effort to rid that county of the unscrupulous quacks who prey upon a credulous public."

DOCTOR VICTOR C. VAUGHAN was elected to the presidency of the Northern Tri-State Medical Association at its recent Detroit meeting. Doctor Charles S. Terry, of South Bend, Indiana, and Joseph A. Weitz, of Montpelier, Ohio, were reëlected secretary and treasurer respectively. The midwinter meeting will be held in Toledo. Among the many excellent papers presented at the late meeting was one on "Hydrophobia -Its Nature, Diagnosis and Treatment," by Doctor James G. Cumming, of the Pasteur Institute at the University of Michigan. The social features of the occasion were admirably dispensed by the Detroit profession.

DOCTOR WALTER H. SAWYER, of Hillsdale, regent of the University, was elected president of the Michigan State Medical Society at the recent Muskegon meeting. Other officers were elected as follows: First vicepresident, Doctor Daniel G. Cook, of Holland; second vicepresident, Doctor John F. Denslow, of Muskegon; third vicepresident, Doctor Samuel Osborne, of Lansing; fourth vicepresident, Doctor C. E. Holsworth, of Traverse City. Delegates to the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, Doctor Louis J. Hirschman, of Detroit; Doctor Charles E. Boys, of Kalamazoo; Doctor Wilfrid Haughey, of Battle Creek.

THE American Proctologic Society elected the following officers at its recent Atlantic City meeting: President, Louis J. Hirschman, M. D., Detroit; vicepresident, Alois B. Graham, M. D., Indianapolis; secretary-treasurer, Lewis H. Adler, Jr., M. D., Philadelphia. Executive Council:-John L. Jelks M. D. Memphis; Louis J. Hirschman, M. D., Detroit; J. Rawson Pennington, M. D., Chicago; Lewis H. Adler, Jr., M. D., Philadelphia. The place of meeting for 1913 will be Minneapolis, the exact date and headquarters to be announced later. The following were elected associate fellows of the society: Doctor Rollin H. Barnes, Saint Louis; Doctor Barney J. Dreyfuss, New York City; Doctor James A. Duncan, Toledo.

THE Association of American Physicians convened in twenty-seventh annual meeting at Atlantic City, New Jersey, on May 14, and under the presidency of Doctor J. George Adami, of Montreal, continued its sessions two days. The presidential address suggested that the association to take the initiative to induce the government to provide a building in Washington for the archives and meetings of national and international medical societies; that a medal be provided for bestowal as occasion arose, and that an annual lectureship be founded as a means of honoring those who achieve notable advance in science. Doctor Llewellyn F. Barker, of Baltimore, was elected president; Doctor Simon Flexnor, of New York, vicepresident; Doctor George M. Kober, of Washington, secretary; Doctor S. Solis-Cohen, of Philadelphia, recorder; Doctor J. P. Crozer Griffith, of Philadelphia, treasurer; Doctor Alexander McPhedran, of Toronto, councillor.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

REVIEWS.

A TEXTBOOK OF GYNECOLOGY.*

THIS new text is distinctly one of gynecology, the author having omitted all subjects belonging to general surgery. The book presents. nothing new in gynecology, but treats of all gynecologic affections.

But little space is allotted to the rare diseases and the main part of the book is devoted to the commoner gynecologic troubles. The essential facts of each disease are clearly emphasized and practically all of the finer details are omitted. The author treats each disease systematically as to etiology, pathology, symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment.

The illustrations and photomicrographs are very good. The print is especially clear and the paper is above the average used in textbooks.

The book contains 286 pages, and fills a place midway between a compend and the lengthy padded textbook. The volume presents the subject briefly, clearly, and can be recommended especially to the overrushed medical student.

*By William Sisson Gardner, M. D., Professor of Gynecology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Maryland, D. Appleton & Company, New York and London.

A TEXTBOOK OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS.*

THIS volume is an attempt to cover the whole field of medical diagnosis with the result that no department can obtain adequate treatment. Physical diagnosis and laboratory practice are much better and more completely covered by other works, and in our estimation nothing is gained by introducing these subjects between the descriptive accounts of disease which naturally suffer unavoidably from condensation and elimination of much that is valuable.

The work is intended to be comprehensive and to date and most of the more recent diagnostic methods are mentioned, usually in so brief a way as to be useless to one not familiar with their purpose and limitations.

*By James M. Anders, M. D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine, and L. Napoleon Boston, M. D., Adjunct Professor of Medicine in the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia. Octavo of 1195 pages, with 443 illustrations, 17 in colors. Cloth, $6.00 net; half morocco, $7.50 net. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London.

A TEXTBOOK OF CHEMISTRY.*

THIS volume is a curious collection of scientific facts and near facts, which make interesting reading, but are of doubtful value. These include descriptions of manufacturing plants, discussions of Ehrlich's and the interpretation of the Cammidge reaction. Few would be willing to subscribe to the author's opinion on autointoxication or the value of the urea determination.

The glossary of "popular and alchemic names" makes a fitting climax to the volume. The reviewer cherishes the conviction that he is fairly familiar with both chemical and medical terms, but confesses ignorance of more than nine-tenths of the names given and would be at a loss to know where to look for the information should he need it. * By Edward Curtis Hill, M. S., M. D. F. A. Davis Company, Philadelphia.

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS.*

THE author has returned to an old and at present little used form of medical writing, namely, by means of case histories, and the result is a very interesting and instructive volume of some seven hundred forty pages. The cases are given in skeleton form and classified under the predominant complaint, for example, "Lumbar Pain," "Chills," "Coma," and "Jaundice." In some cases pathognomonic features have been surpressed until the discussion of the differential diagnosis has been completed, a feature which adds considerably to the interest of cases, which would otherwise appear commonplace.

In association with these discussions occur very valuable statistical tables of the relative frequency of various conditions under any subdivision compiled from the records of about one hundred eighty thousand cases in the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Doctor Cabot's book will be read with interest by all and with profit to many.

*By Richard C. Cabot, M. D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Harvard University Medical School, Boston. (Presented through an analysis of three hundred eighty-three cases.) Illustrated. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London.

GENERAL BACTERIOLOGY.*

THIS Volume is a second edition and deals with general bacteriology. The author states that the book is the outgrowth of lectures given to students in the University of Chicago. As a student's textbook, it is excellent for it combines essentials and brevity. However, for an advanced worker in this line, the book is far from complete. An excellent feature of the book is the bibliography; although not complete, it contains many excellent references.

*By Edwin O. Jordan, Ph. D., Professor of Bacteriology in the University of Chicago and in Rush Medical College. Fully illustrated. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London.