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KRAFFT-EBING ON SEXUAL PERVERSION.-*This study of the psychopathology of the sexual life was, when first published, a small monograph. the eight editions through which it has passed so rapidly it has received so many additions and been made to cover so completely every aspect of the anomalies of the sexual sphere that the work now deserves the name of a treatise. It especially supersedes all previous attempts to treat this important subject scientifically, and it is sure to commend itself to members of the medical and legal profes sions as a scientific explanation of many social and criminal enigmas to which no work in English offers a solution. Dr. Chaddock's translation is excellent. The additions from recent American researches are made with excellent judgment and greatly increase the value of the original. The subject has beem much discussed of late, but not with the philosophical spirit herein displayed.

ROMANES' "DARWIN AND AFTER DARWIN" is a discussion of the phenomena of evolution. It is decidedly sketchy as compared with the "Chapters on Evolution" of Andrew Wilson, published teu years previously. The style of Romanes is excellent. He states the evidence pro and con. the doctrine of evolution carefully and impartially, albeit he holds that doctrine proven. Romanes, however, does not display that knowledge of animal physiology naturally to be expected from him. In discussing one of the objections raised by the Duke of Argyll against evolution, he says: "We can scarcely suppose that any aquatic animal is less susceptible than the human hand." Such an assumption is entirely unjustified. It is known that there are rays of light beyond the violet, and that certain animals are susceptible to them. The like must be true of electricity.

ALASKANA. BY BUSHROD W. JAMES.-The author, who is a member of the Society of Natural History and Ethnology of Sitka, Alaska, and a teacher in a New York medical college, has published works on Alaska ere this. The present attempt treats, in metric language, of the legends, customs, ethnology and scenery of Alaska and its native people. Being a physician, the author has given considerable study to the "medicine men," orshamans," their peculiar education, strange practices, ostentatious manners, mode of collecting fees, their death and burial, all of which is inter

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*Psychopathia Sexualis: With Especial Reference Contrary Sexual Instinct. By Dr. R. von Krafft-Eb ng, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology in the University of Vienna. Authorized translation of the Eighth German Edition by Charles Gilbert Chaddock, M. D., Assistant Medical Superintendent Northern Michigan Asylum; Fellow of the Chicago Academy of Medicine. Puiladelphia: F. A. Davis Co. 1892.

+ Darwin and After Darwin. By G. J. Romanes. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company. 1892.

Alaskana; or, Alaska in Descriptive and Legendary Poems. By Professor Bushrod W. James, A. M., M. D. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates. 1892.

esting, and some parts are startling in their intense realism; and this collection of poems gives much information concerning a portion of our great country of which very little is popularly known.

SENN'S BONE TUBERCULOSIS* is an excellent logical analysis of certain pathological phenomena of great importance to the general practitioner. The opening chapter discusses the history of the subject. The second deals with the evidences of bone and joint tuberculosis. The work has an excellent, clear style. It is certainly permeated with modern views. Its purchase and perusal will be amply remunerative to the family physician, who sees this class of disease long ere the surgeon. To the first it is a peculiarly valuable guide. It is excellently issued.

THE MEDICAL NEWS VISITING LIST contains many useful data for the physician, including an alphabetical table of diseases, with the most improved new and old remedies, and table of doses. There are also sections on urinalysis, artificial respiration, incompatibles, poisons and antidotes, eruptive fevers and artery ligation. It is an excellent visiting list.

*Tuberculosis of the Bones and Joints. By N. Senn, M. D., Ph. D., Professor of Practice of Surgery and Clinical Surgery in Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill.; Professor of Surgery in the Chicago Polyclinic; author of a text-book on the "Principles of Surgery," etc., etc. Illustrated. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Co., 1892.

+Summer Complaint and Infant Feeding. By W. S. Christopher, M. D. Chicago: Blakely & Rogers.

#Diseases of the Lungs, Heart, and Kidneys. By N. S. Davis, Jr., A.M., M.D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine, Chicago Medical College. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis & Co.

1892.

The Hygiene of the Sick Room. A Book for Nurses and Others, being a Brief Consideration of Asepsis, Antisepsis, Disinfection, Bacteriology, Immunity, Heating and Ventilation and Kindred Advises for the use of Nurses and other intelligent Women, by William Buckingham Canfield, A. M., M. D. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston Son & Co. 1012 Walnut street. Price, $1.50. 1892.

ALABAMA.-The Lauderdale County Medical Society has seceded from the state society and is endeavoring to impeach the constitutionality of the medical practice act, under which all registered physicians are members of the state society.

ARIZONA.-Dr. J. Traill Green died at Tuscon November 8.

ARKANSAS.-There is a growing feeling among Arkansas physicians in favor of code revision.—The Hot Springs Medical Society has determined to boycott any druggist who employs drummers for venereal practice.

CALIFORNIA.-The Livernash trial brought out some decidedly unique features. Livernash is a decided neuropathic, with evident stigmata. Although married, he has exhibited sexual pervert tendencies, having been arrested for wearing female attire. The accuser is clearly a lunatic, with persecutional delusions anent poisoning. The alleged crime seems to have been motiveless. Dr. Gardner of the Napa Insane hospital hypnotized Livernash in open court. The test was not accepted by Dr. Wackendorf, the expert for the prosecution, who claimed simulation. Pins were stuck through Livernash's hand, cheek, and ear without wincing; but "horses have stood such tests.-A varioloidvaricella controversy is in active progress over a child in Oakland. In a law case, Dr. T. H. Pinkerton testified that the case was unquestionably one of "chicken-pox," although he had vaccinated the members of the family as a precaution. Doctors Crowley, Patterson, Burchard, Russell, and Pratt also testified that they were positive the child was suffering from chicken-pox. On the other hand, Health Officer Dunn and Doctors Woolsey, Wythe, and Muller testified that the case was beyond any doubt varioloid.-Dr. H. K. McClelland has located in Santa Rosa.

COLORADO.-Dr. J. L. T. Davison has removed to 42 West First avenue, Denver.-Dr. C. Manley of Denver recently married Miss C. McCabe.

CONNECTICUT.-Dr. A. Varno of Thompsonville has removed to East Hartford.-Dr. A. C. Tones of Bridgeport married Miss E. Harwood November 16.-Dr. F. T. Simpson of Hartford recently married Miss K. S. Wilcox.-Dr. J. J. Burnell of Armonk, N. Y., has removed to Greenwich, and Dr. T. L. Ramos of Stewartstown, N. H., to Middletown.-Dr. G. W. Lawrence of Hartford recently married Miss L. Reeder.

DAKOTA SOUTH.-Dr. Regina Begler of Mitchell has removed to Canton, China.-Dr. D. F. Royer has been appointed pension surgeon at Alpena. DELAWARE.-Dr. W. F. Kennedy has located at Wilmington.

FLORIDA.-Dr. J. W. Smith has removed to

Bartow.

GEORGIA. Dr. D. W. Cubbedge recently married Miss C. White of Valdosta.-Dr. C. A. Moran of Augusta has removed to Atlanta.

IDAHO. A Boise City family consisting of four members--father, mother, and two children of three and four years-is suffering from leprosy which the father contracted in Hawaii.

ILLINOIS.-Dr. H. H. Silliman of Chenoa died November 15, at the age of 24.-Dr. H. F. Johnston of Ontario, Canada, has located at Griggsville. -Dr. S. Czibulka of Warren married Miss J. Barton, November 16.-Dr. M. Chambers of Charleston died recently.-Dr. J. R. Kay of Quincy died recently.-Dr. Patrick Gregg of Rock Island died recently at the age of 83.—Chicago.— The Cook county hospital, insane-hospital, and the infirmary are suffering the usual deplorable results of "business" men superintendents. "Stinted" food, drugs, instruments, and clothing, drunken carnivals by commissioners, and bills of a boodle type have lately developed. The medical protest was made only after the county control had passed from one party to another.-Dr. C. E. Kurtz of Wheeling, W. Va., has located here.-Dr. E. C. Dudley has been sued for malpractice.-Dr. V. Schreiner died November 2.-The state board has licensed the following: Herman H. Born, East St. Louis; Eli Bradford, Rock Island; Lee C. Cardner, Hull; Frederick C. Cluxton, Dwight; N. D. Haskell, Chicago; C. T. Parker, Thackery; A. C. Wilson. Chicago; Harry Percival Wooley, Chicago; William Albion Young, Springfield; Perry Landerson, H. H. Brown, F. C. Dakin, C. W. Espy, J. A. Hughson, C. E. Kurtz, Mary E. MacLeod, C. M. C. Prentiss, A. F. Storke of Chicago; E. H. Bradley, Peoria; G. A. Chilgren, Burlington, Iowa; J. G. Kilgore, Vermillion; F. J. Oshay; Rockford; R. H. Cooke, A. B. Foster, W. E. Gamble, H. W. Gentles, A. R. Jenkins, J. S. McNamara, Thos. Warlow, Frank Wetzel of Chicago; Martin Cushing, Joliet; A. W. Hitt, Summerfield; L. C. Littlejohn, Oconee, Jas. Macfie, La Grange; E. P. Miller, Lake City; W. L. Owen, St. Louis; G. W. Rea, Rockford; L. C. Read, Chicago; E. W. Ruggles, Englewood; C. P. Small, Hyde Park; E. J. Avery, E. L. Denison, Jacquis Holinger, J. H. Jackson, E. R. Kellogg, Alexis Riennier, P. R. Welcker, W. D. Williams of Chicago; H. H. Brown, East St. Louis; E. H. Bradley, Peoria; E Bradford, Rock Island; F. C. Cluxton, Dwight; G. A. Chilgren, Burlington, Iowa; L. E. Carder, Hull; J. G. Killgore, Vermillion; F. J. Oshay, Rockford; C. T. Parker, Thackery; W. A. Young, Springfield.

-Small-pox is epidemic.-Dr. P. DeLisle died November 14.

NORTH CAROLINA.-Dr. S. S. Satchwell of Burgaw died Nov. 8 at the age of 70.-Dr. Hooker of Aasheville died recently.

OHIO.-Dr. Mary Dwight of Portsmouth has been expelled from a local medical society for advertising. Dr. Friffogle of North Georgetown died recently. Dr. Shelby Unmaugh of Longview Insane Hospital has resigned to enter private practice. Dr. Cady succeeds him.-Cincinnati.--Dr. T. E. Linn recently married Miss S. E. McClellan.-Dr. J. M. McLaughlin of Xenia recently married Miss E. Wilson.-Dr. R. N. Anton of Lebanon died recently.

OKLAHOMA.-Dr. J. W. Wells has located in

Hennessey.

OREGON.-Dr. J. B. Lee of Corvallis and Dr. W. Caples of St. Johns died recently.-Dr. C. E. Bogue of Myrtle Point has located at Riddle.

PENNSYLVANIA,-Dr. F. Mayne succeeds Dr. E. D. McKee at Warren.-Dr. E. Grewer has located

at Wilkesbarre. - Pittsburg.—Dr. Williams recently married Miss H. Fox.-Dr. Dwyer has located at Forest City.-Dr. Carothers of Braddock recently married Miss G. Robbins.-Philadelphia.-Dr. W. Keith died November 5, at the age of 84.-Dr. C. B. Penrose recently married Miss K. Drexel.-Dr. J. Daland has been chosen Rush Hospital visiting physician.-Drs. J. T. Wald of Ridgeway and N. P. Grimm of Philadelphia died recently.-Dr. P. Drick of Loyalsockville died November 8.

RHODE ISLAND.--Dr. G. H. Pike of Bristol died November 9.

SOUTH CAROLINA.-Dr. J. D. Coleman of Waterloo died recently.

TEXAS.-Dr. F. H. Schoneburg of Shiner has removed to Shelby.--Judge King of San Antonio has decided that a physician who has not received a certificate from the board of county medical examiners cannot recover his fees for services through the courts. The doctors of San Antonio are all in the same box, as no examining board was ever appointed. Physicians in other parts of Texas are probably in the same fix.

UTAH.-Dr. R. W. Fisher of Salt Lake City married Miss M. Van B. Terry Nov. 16.

VERMONT.-Dr. H. B. Kenyon of Townsend died Nov. 8.-Dr. E. A. Pond of Rutland married Miss Hart North.--Dr. W. Carpenter died Nov. 9. --Dr. Genereux of St. Albans has removed to Burlington.-Dr. W. P. Wright of Whiting died recently.

VIRGINIA.--Dr. D. A. Robinson of Danville died recently.

WASHINGTON.--Dr. R. M. Eames succeeds Dr. Spartling as Seattle health officer.

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WEST VIRGINIA. -Dr. E. C. Myers of the "Island," Wheeling, recently married Miss E. Mitchell. The new insane hospital at Spencer is soon to be opened.

WISCONSIN.-Dr. A. R. Moon of Beaver Falls died recently.

WYOMING.-Dr. Mundie has located at Caspar.

FOREIGN.

IRELAND.-The insane have increased in Ireland from 249 per 100,000 in 1880 to 355 per 100,000 in 1890.

see.

GERMANY.-The medical profession of Berlin is greatly agitated by the presence of Golam Kader, an Indian oculist, who says he can make the blind Golam Kader has established himself in a room in the Friedrichstrasse, and there he displays himself daily amid Oriental splendor of apparel and furniture to great crowds of persons who have brought blind friends for treatment. Golam Kader says he has a diploma from a univerity in Singapore, but nobody has been able to learn anything further about the diploma or the university. The physicians of the city, and many newspapers, demand that the police arrest Golam Kader as an imposter. Meantime Golam Kader is receiving fees as fast as he can take them in.-In the twenty universities of the German Empire the medical These students for last summer numbered 8,838. were distributed among the various universities as follows: Berlin, 1,185; Bonn, 325; Breslau, 292; Erlangen, 424; Freiburg, 481; Glessen, 172; Gottingen, 200; Greifswald, 393; Halle, 283; Heidelberg, 278; Jena, 212; Kiel, 335; Konigsberg, 255; Leipzig, 834; Marburg, 266; Munich, 1.443; Ros tock, 138; Strassburg, 333; Tubingen, 230; Warzburg, 743:

FRANCE.-There are 103 Russian, five Roumanian, one Greek, one American, six British, and eighteen French women studying medicine in Paris.

TURKEY.-The Sultan has pardoned Mavroyeni Pacha and reinstated him in his former favor and place as his special physician. From the Sultan's childhood Mavroyeni has been his trusted friend. The Pacha recently sought a divorce from his wife, a French Hebrew woman, whose scandalous life had involved him in disgrace, and to injure him she sent to the Sultan a diary kept by her husband, in which daily notes were kept of the Sultan's variable mind. The physician was placed under arrest by the Sultan's order.

THE CEDAR VALLEY (IA.) MEDICAL SOCIETY elected the following officers: Drs. J. S. Bigelow, Dubuque, president; S. N. Pierce, Cedar Falls, vice president; W. B. Small, Waterloo, secretary and treasurer.

BOOK NOTICES. CATHELL'S PHYSICIAN HIMSELF.*-One decade ago Dr. Cathell launched this book, then a very modest little bark, on the medical sea of literature. It met with almost immediate success, and deservedly so, since with homely prudence it conjoined high professional ideals. The fact that it has reached a tenth edition is sufficient evidence of the estimation of the profession.

SKENE'S GYNECOLOGY is an excellent practical guide. It is in the main free from a doctrinaire spirit. It is, as a rule, fairly revised from early editions.

SOCIETIES.

THE MILITARY TRACT MEDICAL SOCIETY met at Canton, October 15. Papers were read by Drs. J. F. Percy, Galesburg, on "Prostitution: Its Cause and the Relation of the Medical Profession to its Abolishment;" Ellen H. Heise, Canton, on “A Case of Chorea;" J. Homer Coulter, on "Glandular Hypertrophy in the Pharynx;" Louis Becker, Knoxville, on "Some Abuses in the Use of Ergot;" D. B. Hills, Keokuk, Iowa, on "Notes from My Case Book;". W. S. Strode, Lewistown, on "A History of an Epidemic of Typhoid Fever;" Anna M. Braunwarth, Chicago, on "After Treatment of Laparotomy;" H. M. Harrison, Bushnell, on "Eye Strain and some of its Reflex Effects;" John I. Skelly, Pekin, on "Surgical Aspect of Intestinal Obstruction;" Charles W. Hall, Kewanee, on "Croup" D. C. Harmison, Bath, on "Sepsis and Antisepsis;" M. S. Marcy, Peoria, on "Strangulated Umbilical Hernia;" J. A. Kirkland, Cambridge, on "Why we have Quacks;" G. Frank Lydston, Chicago, on "Chronic Inflamation and Ulceration of the Female Genitalia;" E. M. Sutton, Canton, on "Some Interesting Cases;" R. E. Lewis, Macomb, on "Eye Strain;" A. J. Morton, Williamsfield, on "Inebriety a Disease and its Proper Treatment;" Madison Reece, Abingdon, on "Fractures in Vicinity of Elbow Joint;" Joseph B. Bacon, Chicago, on "Rectal Surgery;" O. B. Will, Peoria, on "Some Observations in Electro Therapeutics;" E. L. Mitchell, Roseville, on

*Book of the Physician Himself, and Things that Concern His Reputation and Success, by D. W. Cathell, M. D. New Tenth Edition (Author's Last Revision). Thoroughly Revised, Enlarged and Rewritten. In one handsome Royal Octavo Volume. 348 pages. Bound in Extra Cloth. Price, post-paid, $2.00, net. Philadelphia. The F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1231 Filbert street.

+ Treatise on the Diseases of Women. For the use of students and practitioners. By Alexander J. C. Skene, M. D., Professor of Gynecology in the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y. Formerly Professor of Gynecology in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School; Gynæcologist to the Long Island College Hospital; President of the American Gynæcological Society, 1887; Corresponding Member of the British, Boston, and Detroit Gynecologist Societies, of the Royal Society of Medical and Natural Sciences of Brussels, and of the Leipzig Obstetrical Society; Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; ex-President of the Med cal Society of the County of Kings; ex-President of the New York Obstetrical Society. Second edition, revised and enlarged, with_251 engravings and nine chromolithographs. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1892.

"Treatment of Empyema;" A. J. Baxter, Astoria, on "Typhoid Fever;" M. M. Hooton, Plymouth, on "Calculi;" Frank P. Norbury, Jacksonville, on "Paranoia;" J. S. Geigley, Canton, on "Foreign Bodies in the Abdominal Cavity;" L. R. Ryan, Galesburg, on "New Methods of Treating Trachoma."

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:

Dr. W. S. Holliday of Monmouth, president; Dr. C. W. Hall of Kewanee, vice-president; Dr. H. M. Harrison of Bushnell, secretary and treas

urer.

ST. LOUIS MEDICAL SOCIETY.-At the November 12th meeting Dr. Heine Marks presented a case of "Gunshot wound in which the ball became encysted." Death resulted from typhoid fever. Dr. W. B. Outten then reported the case of the patient who had been treated at the Missouri Pacific Railway Hospital for the past year. He had been run over by a car wheel and sustained a compound, comminuted, complicated fracture of the femur. The man was suffering so at the time from the shock that had amputation been attempted he would have died. It was only by the utmost care and attention and by keeping the injured limb suspended in a Hodgen splint that the fractured bone reunited, and the man was enabled to become well and use his leg so as to appear before them last night.

At the November 19th meeting Dr. Hugo Summa read a paper on "The Ground Water Theory of Typhoid Fever." Dr. Wm. N. Briggs followed with a paper on the pathological anatomy of typhoid fever, and Dr. A. H. Meisenbach on bone and joint affections during and after typhoid fever.

PAN-AMERICAN MEDICAL CONGRESS.-A section of railway surgery of the Pan-American Medical Congress has been organized with Dr. C. W. P. Brock, of Richmond, Virginia, as executive president. A full list of officers has been provided for each of the constituent countries. At the eleventh annual meeting of the Wabash Railway Surgical Association-the first organization of the kind— Dr. C. B. Stemen, of Fort Wayne, was, by unanimous resolution, requested to prepare a paper on "Organized Railway Surgery," and read the same before the section on railway surgery of the PanAmerican Medical Congress. At the same meeting Dr. Hal C. Wyman, of Detroit, offered the following, which was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That each member of this association solicit his congressman to interest himself in legislation in favor of the Pan-American Medical Congress.

HOSPITAL COLLEGE OF MEDICINE.- Dr. L.S. McMurtry has been elected professor of gynecology.