various volumes of the several series of this work are prepared in such a manner as to convey the impression of bedside instruction in the diseases considered. Every essayist is carefully selected for his peculiar fitness for the preparation of the article or lecture on the subject to which he has been assigned, therefore thus has been obviated the possibility of useless and valueless material slipping into the work. The present volume contains articles on therapeutics, medicine, neurology, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, diseases of the eye and laboratory methods, and closes with a section devoted to the progress of medicine. It would be hard to conceive of a work containing more practical and valuable information for the price at which this book is sold. The Medical News Pocket Formulary, New (3d) Edition. Containing 1700 prescriptions representing the latest and most approved methods of administering remedial agents. By E. Quin Thornton, M.D., Demonstrator of Therapeutics, Pharmacy and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College, Phila. New (3d) edition, carefully revised to date of issue. In one wallet-shaped volume, strongly bound in leather, with pocket and pencil. Price, $150, net. Lea Brothers and Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1901. Of the various pocket formularies, this one known under the name of "The Medical News," has been accepted as one of the best used. In the 1700 prescriptions contained in this book it would be simply impossible for any practitioner to fail to find some prescriptions of value to himself in his practice. The book is handy in shape and size, and can be readily carried about in the pocket for the purpose of convenient reference. A System of Practical Therapeutics. By Eminent American and Foreign Authorities. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., Professor of Therapeutics, Jefferson Medical College; Physician to Jefferson College Hospital, etc., Philadelphia. New (2d) edition, thoroughly revised. In three handsome octavo volumes, containing 2593 pages, with 427 engravings, and 26 fullpage colored plates. Vol. III. Per volume, cloth, $5.00, net; leather, $6.00, net; half morocco, $7.00, net. Lea Brothers & Co., publishers, Philadelphia and New York. 1901. In keeping with the many excellent features of the previous volumes of this work, the present volume is full of practical articles intended for the general practitioner's requirements. This volume is devoted to the consideration of surgical topics, and is so well prepared that it answers the purposes of a complete work devoted to this subject. Any practitioner will find the value of his library much enhanced by the addition of this system to the books therein contained. The contents of this volume are: Anesthesia and Anesthetics (new). By Charles Lester Leonard, M.D. The Treatment of Fractures and Dislocations (new). By Henry R. Wharton, M.D. Minor Surgery and Bandaging (new). By George W. Spencer, M.D. Cerebral Concussion and Shock. By Joseph Ranshoff, M.D., F.R.C.S., Eng. Pleural Effusion and Empyema; Abscess and Gangrene of the Lung. By A. J. McCosh, M.D. Peritonitis, Non-Operative and Post-Operative, Appendicitis, Paratyphlitic Abscess, and Obstruction of the Bowels. By George Ryerson Fowler, M D. Obstruction of the Intestines. By Edward Martin, M.D. Diseases of the Rectum and Anus. By Joseph M. Mathews, M.D. Therapeutics of Pregnancy, Parturition, and the Puerperal State (new). By Diseases of the Eye and their Treatment by the General Practitioner. By Casey A. Woods, M.D. Diseases of the Ear and their Treatment by the General Practitioner. By S. MacCuen Smith, M.D. Diseases of the Nasal Chambers and Associated Affections. By E. Fletcher Ingals, M.D. Diseases of the Uvula, the Pharynx and Larynx. By D. Braden Kyle, M.D. The International Medical Annual. A Year-Book of Treatment and Practitioner's Index. Contributors: Robt. Abbee, A.B., M.D.; Herbert W. 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Treat & Co., 241243 W. 23d street. Chicago: 199 Clark street. Price $3.00. New York. With unfailing regularity this well known medical annual continues to put in an appearance, and each year seems to bring some improvements in the general excellence which has always characterized the work. As a convenient and complete reference book of medical progress, we know of no one volume work that is its superior. The abstracts are concisely and yet clearly made, and are carefully culled from the enormous amount of literature that is annually contributed to the field of medicine and surgery. This volume is unusually well illustrated, and exhibits the same care as to typography and general make-up that has been a feature of the previous issues of the work. Harrington's Practical Hygiene. For Students and Practitioners of Medicine and Medical Officers. By Charles Harrington, M.D., Assistant Professor of Hygiene in Harvard Medical School, Boston. In one very handsome octavo volume of 718 pages, with 105 engravings and 12 full-page plates in colors and monochrome. Cloth, $4.25, net. Lea Brothers & Co., publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1901. The twentieth century brings with it the generally accepted teaching that within preventive medicine lie the greatest possibilities for the future success in the reduction of disease prevalence, and a universal regard for the requirements of hygiene is becoming manifested. It is therefore exceedingly important with every practitioner to render himself thoroughly conversant with the most up-to-date theories and practical ideas in this science. For this purpose we know of no work that is better qualified to meet the demand than is this new work by Harrington. In the space of 718 pages the subject of practical hygiene is considered as thoroughly as could be desired. Modern results and data are given comprehensively enough to serve the needs of student, physician and sanitarian. The requirements of all English-speaking countries are suggestively borne in mind by the chapters on military, naval, marine, and tropical hygiene. Individual health is guarded in the sections on food, diet, air, soil, water, rest, sleep, recreation, exercise, clothing, housing, warmth, ventilation, etc., and public health is treated under such headings as disinfection, disinfectants, disposal of wastes, vaccination, quarantine, hygiene of occupation, disposal of the dead, vital statistics, etc. In the matter of illustrations this book is exceedingly well provided, having over 100 engravings and 12 colored plates. COCAIN AND EUCAIN IN LOCAL ANESTHESIA.-Terrett ( N. 0. Med. & Surg. Jour., vol. 53, no. 9) says: 1. That cocain and eucain are undeniably the most potent, efficacious and reliable local anesthetics now in general use. 2. That the agents in a menstruum of simple sterile water at ordinary temperature, and when freshly prepared, give entire satisfaction, and when injected in the proper manner, can be made to engender the most profound and complete anesthesia. 3. That cocain and eucain must infallibly supplant a general anesthetic, whenever this latter is contraindicated by some organic lesion whereby its use would be a menace and directly endanger the patient's life. 4. That the combined infiltration and regional method is of unquestionable value, and its practical usefulness confined especially to those parts where the nerve distribution is easily accessible-notably, the extremities and ribs. 5. That the entire absence of any untoward or unfavorable symptom, as a result of this procedure, argues most forcibly and cogently for its ulterior recognition and more general use. BY JAMES L. MINOR, M.D. Professor Physiology, Memphis Hospital Medical College. LADIES and gentlemen, and members of the graduating class of the Memphis Hospital Medical College: It is with pardonable pride that the members of the Faculty felicitate themselves upon the success which has attended their efforts to build up the College. This, the 21st year of our existence, finds us with 750 students, and a graduating class of 188. Only one medical college in this country had a larger class than this; one claims the same number that we had, while all others are behind us. Many medical colleges include in their totals of attendance, students of dentistry, of veterinary surgery, and other departments of science, who, taking only certain branches of the medical course, are, strictly speaking, not medical students. If such be separated from the purely medical, it will be found that the colleges which we have distanced are in reality much further behind us in actual attendance of medical students than their reports would indicate. In spite of numerous and extensive changes in the old college building, it has been difficult to keep pace with the demands of the annually increasing class; and this year the Faculty was confronted with the fact that further changes would prove inad * Address to Graduating Class of 1901, Memphis Hospital Medical College. VOL. XXI-21 281 equate. To meet this emergency it was decided to erect a new building, which in point of size would accommodate 1000 students, and in equipment and elegance, would be surpassed by none in this country. Such a building will soon be under process of construction. It will be completed in October, so that the coming session will give us accommodation and equipment to take first rank with American medical colleges. But this interests you - the graduates of tonight-only through pride of your Alma Mater, and while I would not minimize this, but urge you to ever bear her in kindly remembrance, I must pass to topics which concern you more directly. Before doing so, however, I desire to express for the Faculty their appreciation of the interest which has been shown in the College by the graduating class of this session in their desire to erect a memorial window in the new building to commemorate this, the largest class and the most prosperous year of their Alma Mater. It is proper, gentlemen, Doctors of Medicine, that you should understand what is before you, and I shall attempt to outline the work and the reward of the physician-that which awaits you. Voltaire has said, "Nothing is more estimable than a physician, who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor." The medical profession, upon the threshold of which you stand, is a most exacting one. You must put aside thought of self, and devote your time and your energies to the duties which your calling entails. You must respond with equal promptness to the call which takes you to the hut of poverty, where a sufferer's gratitude and your own knowledge of a duty performed constitute your only recompense, as to that which urges you to the palatial home of wealth where a liberal fee awaits you. A babe, struggling for its first breath of air, or the laboring functions of decrepitude, may demand your attention, and your skill and your sympathy must be given to each alike. Night or day, rain or shine, summer or winter, you must hold yourself in readiness for such work as this—ever ready to do the best you can to relieve and to cure your patient, |