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the Only Regular Co-Educational Medical College in New England that is Recognized by the Massachusetts Medical Society.

A FOUR YEARS' GRADED COURSE OF

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Commences its annual session on the first Wednesday in October, in its new building, only three (3) blocks from the Boston City Hospital.

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A RARE CHANCE.

A small Corporation is being formed to acquire a going concern which has steadily increased since 1894, the sales in 1900 being eight times larger than those for the first year. Its business is a monopoly in a way. It has created a fair demand for certain goods prescribed daily by the leading physicians of the country. Its products are handled by many wholesale druggists. Its affairs are conducted in a strictly ethical manner, and many prominent physicians and druggists are interested in its welfare. It has passed through the probation stages.

The 1901 earnings will be sufficient to pay 7% on the preferred stock, and at least 5% on the common.

Subscriptions, however, are only solicited for $12,500, 7% preferred stock, which ranks ahead of the common in dividend and assets. Shares are $50 each. About $5,000 have already been applied for, but no subscription wi!" be considered binding until the whole amount has been subscribed.

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and digitalis, rather than a multiplicity of remedies the action of which is extremely doubtful."

This article is an interesting and suggestive one and details in a most interesting way, the aims and possibilities of scientific medicine.

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Book Notices.

A TEXT BOOK ON PRACTICAL OBstetrics. By Egbert H. Grandin, M. D. Gynecologist to the Columbus Hospital; Consulting Gynecologist to the French Hospital; Late Consulting Obstetric and Obstetric Surgeon of the New York Maternity Hospital; Late Obstetrician of the New York Infant Asylum; Fellow of the American Gynecological Society, of the New York Acadamy of Medicine, of the New York Obstetrical Society, etc., etc., etc., with the Collaboration of George W. Jarman, M. D. Gynecologist to the Cancer Hospital; Instructor in Gynecology in the Medical Department of the Columbia University; Late Obstetric Surgeon of the New York Maternity Hospital; Fellow of the American Gynecological Society, of the New York Academy of Medicine, of the New York Obstetrical Society, etc. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Illustrated with Fifty-two Full-Page Photographic Plates and One Hundred and Five Illustrations in the Text. 62x91⁄2 inches. Pages xiv511. Extra Cloth, $4.00, net; Sheep, $4.75, net. F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street, Philadelphia.

This edition has been greatly enlarged by the addition of a chapter dealing with the anatomy of the female organs of generation and embryology. This chapter has been made as concise as possible in order that the book may be kept within reasonable limits. It is one that the student as well as the practitioner will prize highly. He seeks for practical information in regard to the normal course of pregnancy and of labor, and of the puerperal state, and looks to his clinical teacher for all such teaching, while from the author he selects such as he considers judicious and practical. The different papers are written by men of wide experience as writers and teachers, and the fact that the third volume has been called for in such a short time emphasizes its value.

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EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH INTO THE Surgery of the Respiratory System. An Essay Awarded the Nicholas Senn Prize by the American Medical Association, for 1898, by Geo. W. Crile, A. M., M. D., Ph. D., Professor of Clinical Surgery, Medical Department of the Western Reserve University, etc., etc. Second Edition. Philadelphia. J. B. Lippincott Co., 1900. Instead of taking up this subject in the ordinary way, the the author of this intensely interesting volume has thought best to divide it into parts and make a research upon each subject 'separately. Some parts overlap others. It has only been within recent years that opportunity has been general for experimental work in that part of physiology which relates so directly to surgery. The author aims to dwell upon the subjects of the most practical importance, and to elucidate, as far as . possible, the practical bearings of the several subjects under consideration. It is an intensely interesting book from cover to cover and should be widely read. The publishers have done their work in a manner that provokes the greatest admiration.

INTERNATIONAL CLINICS: A QUARTERly of Clinical Lectures and Especially Prepared Articles on Medicine, Neurology, Surgery, Therapeutics, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Pathology, Dermatology Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat, and other Topics of Interest to Students and Practitioners, by Leading Members of the Medical Profession Throughout the World. Edited by Henry W. Cattell, A.M., M.D., Philadelphia, U. S. A., with the Collaboration of John B. Murphy, M. D., Alexander D. Blackader, M. D., H. C. Wood, M. D., T. M. Rotch, M. D., E. Landolt, M. D., Thomas G. Morton, M. D., Charles H. Reed, M. D., J. W. Ballantyne, M. D., and John Harold, M. D., with Regular Correspondents in Montreal, London, Paris, Leipsic, and Vienna. Volume IV. Tenth Series, 1901. Philadelphia. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1901.

With this number the Symposium on Genito-Urinary Diseases is completed.. In the Monograph on Pathology, by Professor Roncali, entitled "The Role of the Blastomycetes of Ferments in the Etiology of Cancer," we have certainly one of the best that has ever been written on this absorbing subject. We also find that the book has been very much enhanced by the ready-reference

series. Altogether, the International Clinics from issue to issue improves all the while.

PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS IN OBSTETRICS. A Guide in Antepartum, Partum, and Postpartum Examinations for the Use of Physicians and Under-Graduates. By Edward A. Ayers, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics in the New York Polyclinic; Attending Physician to the Mothers' and Babies' Hospital. With Illustrations. New York. E. B. Treat & Co., 241-243 West Twenty-third Street. 1901.

The most important and prominent change made in our system of medical education during the past two decades. has been the increasing prominence given to clinical instruction. The inauguration of systematized clinical schools has had much to do with this. We even might go further and say that these facts have necessitated an increase in the literature upon the subject of physical diagnosis in its different branches. The book before us is devoted entirely to the obstetrics and is profusely illustrated. It is bound to prove of great help to the practitioner and student. It is well printed, well bound and presented to the profession

in the most attractive way.

DISEASES OF THE EYE BY KENT O. Foltz, M. D., Professor of Ophthalmology in the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, O. A Manual for the Use of Students and Practitioners, 12m0., 566 pp., 193 Illustrations, 5 pp. in Colors and Chromo-lithographic Frontispiece. Cloth, Price $2.50 net. The Scudder Brothers Company, Publishers, No. 1009 Plum St., Cincinnati, Ohio.

As the author says, there is no dearth of works on diseases of the eye. In almost all works on this subject, however, little attention has been given to internal medication in the treatment of these diseases. The beginner is too often discouraged in referring to works on the eye, in finding that restoratives, tonics, anti-syphilitics, and anti-rheumatics, constitute nearly the entire range of constitutional treatment. That drug action is the same in ocular lesions as in other organs is unquestionable, but this fact is ignored as a rule. Local application of remedies alone is usually dwelt upon to the exclusion of other equally as important measures. This book is intended to direct the practitioner in the right direction in the

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SECTION ON ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY.

Meeting of November 16, 1900. FRACTURE OF THE FEMUR AT BIRTH.

DR. T. H. MYERS presented a baby one month old under treatment for fracture of the femur just below the trochanter minor. The child was the second of twins and presented by the breech. The forceps failing, a hook had been used and caused the fracture with the very unusual displacement of the lower end of the upper fragment backwards in spite of the tendency of the psoas and iliacus to pull it forward. The next day the child was in great distress. There was extensive ecchymosis at the seat of the fracture, 38 inch shortening, cedema of the limb and eversion of the foot, and on any slight motion the muscles attached to the anterior superior spine were thrown into a marked spasm which drew the lower fragment forward. A plaster of Paris jacket was applied in which was incorporated a steel bar, 4x inches, extending from the angle of the scapula to the toes, and bent at a right angle at the buttocks and the heel. Traction was made and eversion overcome by adhesive plaster applied to the limb and fastened to the steel foot-piece. The plaster of Paris enclosing the pelvis provided secure counter-traction. A light plaster of Paris bandage secured the limb to the splint and held back the upper end of the lower fragment. A fenestrum permitted the dressing of the cord. The child fell asleep at once on this application which made after attendance easy and promoted the comfort and general health of the patient. No displacement. Shortening inch.

DR. V. P. GIBNEY said that fixation had been secured in an admirable manner. He asked why the limb had been flexed.

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