MISSISSIPPI VALLEY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

[To the Editor:] This association will hold its eighteenth annual session at Cincinnati, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Oct. 12th, 13th and 14th, 1892. An excellent programme, containing the best names in the valley and covering the entire field of medicine, will be presented. An address on surgery will be delivered by Dr. Hunter McGuire, of Richmond, Va., president of the American Medical Association.. An address on medicine will be made by Dr. Hobart Amory Hare, Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. The social as well as the scientific part of the meeting will be of the highest order. The Mississippi Valley Medical Association possesses one great advantage over similar bodies, in that its organic law is such that nothing can be discussed during the sessions save and except science. All ethical matters are referred, together with all extraordinary business, to appropriate committees their decisions are final and are accepted without discussion. The constitution and by laws are comprehensive and at the same time simple. Precious time is not allowed the demagogue or the medical legislator. The officers of the PanAmerican Medical Congress will hold a conference at the same time and place.

CHARLES A. L. REED, M. D.,

Cincinnati, President.

THE July (1892) number of the "Alienist and Neurologist" contains: "The Insanity Following Exhaustion, Acute Diseases, Injuries," etc., by John Ferguson, M. A., M. D., Toronto, Canada; "Medical Manhood and Methods of Professional Success," by C. H. Hughes, M. D., St. Louis, Mo.; "Luciani on the Cerebellum-New Studies in Normal and Pathological Physiology," by Guiseppe Seppilli, M. D., Italy; "Mental Derangement in Multiple Neuritis," by Edward D. Fisher, M. D., New York; "Tumor of the Pineal Gland," by Philip Zenner, A. M., M. D., Cincinnati, O.; "Law of the Periodicity in Inebriety," by T. D. Crothers, M. D., Hartford, Conn.; "Insomnia in an Infant, with Reflections on Pathological Sleeplessness," by C. H. Hughes, M. D., St. Louis, Mo.; "Retro-Antero-Grade Amnesia, with Report of Two Cases," by J. T. Eskridge, M. D., Denver, Col.; "Hysterical Concomitants of Organic

Nervous Disease," by C. H. Hughes, M. D., St. Louis, Mo.; In Memoriam-Dr. Pliny Earle. Besides the usual selections, editorials, hospital notes, reviews, etc. C. H. Hughes, M. D., Editor, 500 North Jefferson avenue, St. Louis. Subscription: $5 per annum; single copies, $1.50.

PRIMARY AMPUTATION AND RESECTIONS. -Dr. T. H. Manley ("Med. Rec.") concludes that primary amputation in civil life should never be resorted to in the young, growing subject; nor in the adult, only under very exceptional circumstances; as, when the physical force of violence itself has been so great as to effect total destruction of the part, and the scissors or scalpel is employed to complete the work of division, that the dead may be separated from the living. When a limb or part of a limb must be sacrificed, a consecutive amputation offers the best prospects of survival from shock and a stump less prone to slough, than immediate severance in contiguity of mangled or fatally damaged structures. Resection, in connection with osteoplasty, should be adopted as a general substitute for primary amputation, for by its intelligent and general adoption our patient's prospects are not imperiled, and very much may be saved which has heretofore been sacrificed. With respect to amputations in general, the ancient doctrine cannot be reiterated with too great emphasis, viz., to sacrifice nothing which may be spared, whether a phalanx metacarpal or metatarsal bone; one of the tarsus or carpus; to spare the joint, no matter how insignificant it may be in function, and never penetrate an articulation if the smallest part of the shaft can be spared. Hot water or solutions of mercury bichloride should never be employed in resections or amputations through living tissues; for the bone substance is extremely intolerant of either; hence, though the stump promptly closes in, they may have laid the ground-work of an osteomyelitis, which, in the near future, will make a secondary amputation imperative. In those foul, infected tissues, arising from neglect before resection or amputation, and in which we must employ some disinfection, we should not neglect, after using the corrosive solution, always to follow it by a thorough drenching with pure, sterilized water, with a view of washing away any residue or excess of this powerful irritant that may linger in the wound.

YALE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL graduated a class of 13.

MARION-SIMS MEDICAL COLLEGE.-Dr. F. P. Norbury has been elected professor of neurology.

THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT medical department graduated a class of 45.

KEOKUK MEDICAL COLLEGE.-Dr. Brown has been elected professor of chemistry and Toxicology.

MAINE MEDICAL SCHOOL.-Dr. W. B. Moulton has been elected clinical professor of otology and ophthalmology.

JOHNS HOPKINS-Dr. Simon Flexner succeeds Dr. W. T. Councilman (resigned) as assistant professor of pathology.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL.-Dr. W. T. Councilman has been elected assistant professor of pathology.

THE ALBERT BARNES MEDICAL COLLEGE is the latest St. Louis addition to medical colleges. It has so far a strong faculty.

RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE.-Dr. C. W. Earle succeeds Dr. J. S. Knox (deceased) as professor of obstetrics and pædiatry. Dr. A. C. Cotton has been elected clinical professor of pædiatry.

THE STEPHENSON COUNTY (ILL.) MEDICAL SOCIETY elected Dr. Salter, of Lena, president; Dr. Hutchison, of Orangeville, vice-president, and Dr. Stoskopp, of Freeport, treasurer.

THE OKLAHOMA MEDICAL COLLEGE has elected the following officers Dr. L. D. Buxton, president; Dr. Joseph Pinquard, secretary; Dr. L. B. Tribble, treasurer; Dr. H. P. Halstead and Dr. E. O. Barker.

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.-Dr. C. F. Hodge, head of the department of physiology and neurology, has accepted the appointment of assistant professor of physiology and neurology at Clark University, Worcester, Mass.

THE DISTRICT MEDICAL SOCIETY (Missouri) has elected the following officers for the coming year. President, H. W. Latham, Latham Station; first vice-president, W. H. Evans, Sedalia; second vicepresident, W. H. Cooper, Boonville; third vicepresident, R. E. Fewell, Montrose; secretary, W. J. Overstreet, Sedalia; treasurer, W. B. Scales, Sedalia.

THE CASS COUNTY (IND) MEDICAL SOCIETY has elected the following officers: President, Dr. C. L. Thomas; vice-president, Dr. Arthur Herman; secretary, Dr. J. Z. Powell; censors, Drs. N. W. Cady, B. C. Stevens and F. A. Busjahn.

THE BRAINARD MEDICAL SOCIETY elected the following officers:

President, Dr. W. A. Gordon, Oshkosh; vicepresident, Dr. Connell, Wauwatosa; secretary and treasurer, Dr. Hausman, Elmore; censor for three years, D. W. H. Fish, Wauwatosa.

THE LEHIGH VALLEY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION elected the following officers: President, P. L. Richard, Allentown; vice-presidents, W. R. Longshore, Hazleton; G. L. Romaine, Hunterdon; J. H. Wilson, Bethlehem, and J. R. Mutchler, Stroudsburg; secretary, Charles McIntyre. Easton; assistant secretary, W. L. Stewart, Wilkesbarre; treasurer, A. Stout, Bethlehem; executive board, by counties, C. D. Fretz, Bucks; J. E. Zern, Carbon; O. H. Sproul, Hunterdon, N. J.; O. F. Harvey, Luzerne; F. C. Walton, Monroe: E. M. Green, Northampton; R. W. Monteline, Northum berland; Schuylkill, J. C. Biddle; Warren, J. H. Griffith. Essayists-J. L. Romine, on "Diseases of Throat"; E. M. Green, on "Nervous Diseases"; J. I. Cawley, of Springtown, on "Lockjaw"; W. J. Weaver, on "Sanitation."

THE TOLEDO MEDICAL COLLEGE faculty for the coming year will be as follows: Drs. R. Whiteford and J. Nolan, emeritus professors. The active faculty is as follows: James H. Pooley, surgery and clinical surgery; H. E. Munn, hytology, pythology, and clinical medicine; William J. Gillette, gynecology; William A. Dickey, principles and practice of medicine and clinical medicine; Daniel E. Haag, materia medica and therapeutics, microscopy and clinical medicine; J. T. Woods. surgery and clinical surgery; Daniel R. Austin, medical jurisprudence; William Anderson, obstetrics and diseases of children; Park L. Myers, chemistry, toxicology and hygiene; John North, diseases of the nose, throat, lungs and clinical rhino larnygology; Henry A. Tobey, mental diseases L. W. Heydrick, anatomy; L. W. Schnetzler, adjunct to principles and practice of medicine and medical clinics; John H. Shaper, lecturer on physicology and bacteriology; Walter II. Snyder, lecturer on diseases of the eye and ear; A. Zetlitz, lecturer on diseases of the nervous system; G. S. Clark, lecturer on anatomy; C. S. Miller, lecturer on syndesmology and demonstrator of anatomy; A. T. Klein, lecturer on dental surgery; E. A. Richmond, director of chemical laboratory.

CHARAKA-SAMHITA* will prove a unique production when complete, and can not fail to prove highly interesting to the student of medicine. Pundit Abinash Chandra Kaviratna is a learned Brahman physician of Calcutta who first brought himself to notice by his edition of the great work of Charaka, the Galen of Hindu medicine, in two bulky volumes of 1,500 pages each. By this the whole body of native practitioners and the learned throughout the world were for the first time placed in possession of the whole text of the most valuable relic of old Hindu science, long sought for but never found.

The author practices medicine according to the Hindu system as expounded in ancient Sanskrit works which by his labors he has rendered more accessible. Medical literature of ancient India is much more extensive than generally supposed and, collected, would form a respectable library. More than a thousand years ago the Hindus cultivated medical studies to a high degree of efficiency; and modern researches have proved that the Greeks as well as the Arabs borrowed much of their medical knowledge from the Hindus. Dr. Wise in his history of medicine expressed the opinion that "it is to the Hindus that we owe our first system of medicine." Twenty-two centuries ago, when Alexander the Great invaded the peninsula, he kept Hindu physicians in his camp for the treatment of diseases which Greek physicians could not heal, and eleven centuries ago Haroun el Rashid of Bagdad retained two Hindu physicians for his personal service. Of all the many medical works, however, the most ancient one and the one most universally studied is "Charaka Samhita." An older work called "Ayurveda" (Science of Life), and supposed to have formed a part of the Atharvan, is frequently mentioned. But no trace has been discovered of it. If the latter be not a myth, then it had perished even at the time the work of Agniveca (upon which "Charaka Samhita" is based) was compiled. Another ancient work, also comprehensive and authoritative, but rather more surgical in nature, is "Susruta Ayurveda"; but the great work of Charaka is admitted to have preceded the latter in point of time. Charaka, we are told, is a highly philosophical work, its deliverances on many subjects unsurpassed for brevity and weight, being, like those of Bacon, extremely suggestive. Locked in a difficult tongue, those hints have for ages lain unutilized, and Prof. Max Muller, who pronounces the first fascicle a faithful translation, expects *Charaka-Samhita. Translated into English under the supervision of Abinash Chandra Kaviratna. Cacutta: D. C. Dass & Co. 1890. Issued in successive fascicles of 4 forms, royal octavo, each; 12 tascicles to be issued every year. For subscribers paying in advance Rs. 32 for the whole work.

much good to come from the labors of the Pundit Abinash. The work abounds with weighty aphorisms about the causes of disease and its prevention, the truth and beauty of which, considering the age in which they were composed, will compel the admiration of the modern reader. Indeed, Dr. Sircur some years ago observed that "there is much in it that even an accomplished physician will profit by learning."

As an illustration of the system of Charaka may serve the passage concerning the treatment of fever: "Fast, fomentations, time, gruel of barley, and decoctions of bitters destroy all disorders and functional derangements in acute fever." In the absence of our modern specific, cinchona, this must be acknowledged to be rational treatment. In fact, Hindu physicians have long recognized the importance of "time" as a curative agent, where western science thwarts its own designs by harmful attempts at forcing the processes of nature through powerful drugs. Other fundamental truths were early recognized by these wise men. "Correlation," says Charaka, "adverse or absent or excessive, between time, mental faculties, and objects of the senses, constitutes in brief the three-fold causes of disease affecting either the body or the mind." Commenting on this, the translator in the introduction, on which, in fact, the present remarks are largely based, writes:

"Time, in the above, is regarded to be of two kinds; first, the different states or periods of life, as childhood, youth, manhood, old age, and, second, the seasons of the year. That which is done or borne by a person in a certain period of his life and a certain season of the year, may not be suitable to him in another period of life and another season. Then, again, the relation, adverse or friendly, of mental faculties, with both time and objects of the senses, is another fruitful cause of disease in or a condition of health. Western medical science has recently recognized this truth, disease having for a long period been viewed only as a physical derangement brought about by gross physical causes. If properly elaborated, this verse of two lines may be seen to include every possible cause of diseases to which humanity is subject. It is impossible to suppose that gener. alizations such as these represented only the haphazard guesses of the medical authorities of ancient India. Without doubt they were arrived at after careful observation of centuries. Omitting all references to those portions of the work that deel with pathogenetic conditions, the portions that are purely hygienic and treat how best to keep health, are invaluable to all classes and races of men. The reader will find that some of the highest and latest discoveries of hygienic science were well known to the ancient medical authorities of India. A life of purity, of cleanliness, and freedom from stirring emotions is recommended in language that often rises to the dignity of poetry, and is unquestionably ennobling throughout.'

ALABAMA.-Dr. M. J. Green, of Montgomery, died recently. Dr. J. R. Holgate, of Castleton, Ill., has located at Florence.-Dr. R. M. Searcy, of Birmingham, died July 16.

CALIFORNIA. Dr. D. C. Elliott, of San Jose, recently married Miss A. L. Barlow.

COLORADO.-Dr. A. Joke has located in Greeley. -Dr. C. D. Dulin, of St. Louis, Mo., has located at Monument.-The state board have licensed the following: Drs. R. T. LeMond, W. E. Sabin, G. W. Curfman, J. S. Wallace, H. G. Haxley, J. A. Richardson, C. J. Ferguson, J. T. Marsdon, W. H. Copeland, H. G. Kneeland, Horace Gibson, Francis Dean, O. L. Thompson, William B. Spence, D. H. Ludlow, W. C. Braden, William S. Bogart, W. W. Van Velsor, Calvin K. Smith, of Denver; H. W. Whitherill, J. H. Rice, E. B. Hopkins, F. C. Chamberlain, of Colorado Springs; L. C. Toney of Manitou; C. D. Dulin, of Monument; H. T. Meton, of Canon City; Samuel S. Werdnir, Edwin C. Reed, of Pueblo; George H. Moulton, of Glenwood Springs; V. P. English, of Aspen; Charles M. Read and Thomas Cavany, of Leadville; Charles McCann, of Lenado; J. A. Gafford, of Buena Vista; Luis Heernandey, of Walsenburg; Sarah E. Holmes, of Breckenridge; S. T. Snick, of Fort Collins; C. W. Balfour, of Fort Morgan; and William P. Chisholm, of Plattevillle.

CONNECTICUT.-Dr. J. B. Robertson, of New Haven, died July 11 at the age of 83. The following physicians have been appointed medica examiners for Litchfield county by Coroner Richard T. Higgins: Litchfield, Charles O. Belden; Barkhamsted, Howard D. Moore; Bethlehem, Leander Y. Ketcham, of Woodbury; Bridgewater, Frederick E. King, of New Milford; Canaan, Harry E. Carter; Colebrook, William S. Hulbert, of Winsted; Cornwall, I. L. Hamant; Goshen, James Howard North; Harwinton, Thacher S. Hanchett, of Torrington; Kent, John W. King; Morris, Charles O. Belden, of Litchfield; New Hartford, Jerry Burwell; New Milford, Frederick E. King; Norfolk, William W. Welch; North Canaan, John W. Camp; Plymouth, William P. Sweet; Roxbury, L. J. Pons; Salisbury, Harry M. Burtch; Sharon, William W. Knight; Thomaston, Charles F. Smith; Torrington, Thacher S. Hanchett; Warren, R. A. Marcy, of Washington; Washington, Orlando Brown; Watertown, Walter S. Munger; Winchester, William S. Hulbert; Woodbury, Leander Y. Ketcham.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.-Dr. W. W. Johnson, of Washington, recently married Mrs. S. Shannon. GEORGIA. Dr. A. D. Johnson, of Atlanta, has been sued for malpractice.-Drs. W. S. Coleman

and Charles Montgomery have located at Augusta. -Dr. J. S. Coleman, of Augusta, died recently.— Dr. E. C. Downing has located at Atlanta.

ILLINOIS. Dr. C. E. Bacon, of South Denver, Col., has located at Table Grove-Dr. Donovan, of Pontiac, was recently drowned.-Dr. Binney, of New Douglas, died July 5.-Dr. R. C. Shultz, of Forreston, died July 1.-Dr. Morrill has located at La Grange.-Dr. Eberman, of Quincy, died recently. Dr. Reed, of Bellevue, died July 12.-Dr. E. T. Trummer has located at Rock Island.-The state board of health has licensed Drs. Charles E. Boisvert, Henry M. Brown, William J. Carpenter, Roscoe N. Doyal, George E. Rollins and Charles H. Williams, of Chicago; T. D. H. Coe, Keithsburg; Lewis W. Ford, Flat Rock; E. L. Huestis, West Jersey; Lewis William Krieger, Peoria; Arthur Parson, Elmira; A. G. Patton, Monmouth; Louis P. Schroeder, Hoyleton; Charles G. Smith, Belmont; John H. Spencer, of Murrayville, and Edwin L. Stevens, of Decatur; George A. Coons, E. M. Cunningham, Emmet W. Doolittle, Joseph J. Fortier, William T. Hall, James H. Manny, J. M. Hanstmair, Edwin E. Sheffield, Henry S. Sheffield, and J. R. Wilson, of Chicago; C. M. C. Buchanan, of Easton; Norman Leeds, of Bellmont; Felix Behrendt, A. S. J. Burchett, Narcissus Garand, Moritz Krans, A. R. Martin, J. J. Roche, R. L. Smith, E. J. Walsh, and W. H. Wood, of Chicago; J. W. Carlton, Carthage; E. M. Cooley, Eaton; G. W. Green, Ravenswood, and John Weir, of Eaton. Chicago.-Dis. J. Suydam Knox and J. Rhodes Wilkins died June 28.-Dr. M. J. O'Rourke died July 7.-Dr. J. E. Owens and the St. Luke's Hospital have been sued for alleged malpractice.-Judge Brown, of the insane court, threatens to fine physicians for non-attendance as witnesses. A demand for the witness fee of $1, and its refusal, will prevent any fines.-Dr. R. D. Boyd, of 3952 Cottage Grove avenue, and D. Berry, of Forty-third street and Cottage Grove avenue, are accused of causing the death of a little daughter by administering chloroform. The child broke her arm in falling down-stairs and died under the influence of the anesthetic, which, it is claimed, the parents requested the doctors not to use. Convulsive phenomena were the precedent fatal symptoms. There is no doubt but that due diligence was used and death was due to other causes.

INDIANA. Dr. P. H. Curtner, of Evansville, died July 7.-Dr. De Caux Tilney has located at Crawfordsville.-Dr. J. W. Ladne, of Denver, died July 12 of symptoms simulating those of typhoid fever but resulting from a renal abscess.- Dr. B. C. Hobbs, of Bloomingdale, died June 25.-Dr. A

E. Barber has located at South Bend.-Dr. Jas. Green, of Shelbyville, died July 17.—The Curtis Physio-Medical Institute at Marion sells diplomas for $22.50.

IOWA. Dr. A. Foster has located at Lyons.Dr. C. O. Eigler, of Defiance, recently married Miss D. Frazier.-Dr. Hobson, of Bristow, has located at Hampton.-Dr. A. W. Pearsons, of Union, recently married Miss G. L. A. Henshaw. -Dr. B. W. Gantz, of Fairfield, recently married Miss L. Lang.-Dr. W. Van Warden has located at Des Moines.-Dr. A. J. Nossaman has located in Pella. Dr. Starr, of Ottumwa, has been sued for malpractice.-Dr. I. F. Crosby recently married Miss Mack, of Stuart.—Dr. J. H. Kern has located in Nelson.-Dr. Abegg, of Albia, was sued for malpractice, it being alleged that he had improperly set a fracture. The plaintiff won, and now a malpractice suit has been instituted against nearly every physician in the county. It is evident that advertising shysters are behind these suits.

KANSAS.-Dr. D. A. Myers, of Everest, died recently. Dr. H. A. Meier, of Manhattan, has removed to Dennison.-Dr. I. Moore, of Kansas City, died June 30 at the age of 75.

KENTUCKY.-Dr. C. H. Edwards, of Franklin, died July 18.—Dr. J. C. Chapman, of Stewartsville, has located in Williamston.-Louisville.-Dr. Moody has had under care a hæmophiliac who died from a pin scratch.-Dr. S. B. Anderson died July 6. LOUISIANA.-Dr. E. S. Young, of Baton Rouge, was recently drowned while bathing.

MAINE.-Dr. D. N. Skinner, of Auburn, died ecently. Dr. R. S. Grove has located in Biddeford.

MARYLAND.-Dr. J. Funck, of W. Baltimore, married Miss Emma J. Maddux, and Dr. R. K. Jefferson, of Federalsburg, July 1,

MASSACHUSETTS.-Dr. C. C. Terry, of Newburyport, was recently killed while fencing by the foil penetrating his mask and entering his eye. He diagnosed fatal brain injury and awaited death with calm dignity.-Dr. John Hooker, of Springfield, died July II at the age of 75, after 54 years practice.-Dr. J. W. Brown, of Framingham, died July 6 at the age of 79.-Dr. Jennie R. Baker has been appointed assistant physician Northampton insane-hospital.

MICHIGAN.-Dr. W. Brownell has located at Utica.-Dr. F. H. Knickerbocker has been appointed pension examining surgeon at St. Ignace, and Drs. C. T. Southworth and P. S. Root at Monroe.-Dr. I. N. Eldridge, of Flint, recently married Mrs. E. Ruscoe.-Dr. Julia Peterson, of Sand Beach, recently married Mr. Elmer Snearly.-Dr. Jennie Smith, of St. Clair, has removed to Ann Arbor. -Dr. Emma L. McCollum, of Coldwater, has removed to Battle Creek.-Dr. Holcombe has located at Farmington.-Dr. H. V. Word, of Grand Rapids, married Miss M. Currier, June 30.-Dr.

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Spalding, of Grand Rapids, died July 16.-Dr. 'J Gibson has located at Mt. Clemens.-Detroit.-Dr E, S. Snow died July 19, after 60 years practice.Dr. Donald MacLean married Mrs. S. E. Duncan June 30.

MINNESOTA.-The following have been licensed by the state board: Drs. G. R. Curran, Cannon Falls; Edward L. Estabrook, Minneapolis; D. C. Jones, St. Paul; C. F. Cook, Minneapolis; J. G. Erickson, Marine Mills; E. W. Ruggles, White Cloud, Mich.; J. D. Deacon, Crookston: Cliff Lindsay, Minneapolis; Charles H. Neill, Minneapolis; O. H. Singe, West Superior; Henry E. Wunder, city hospital: George M. Rees, Merritt; A. B. Chalmers, New Paynesville; W. I. Smith, Waseca; C. J. Fjelstad, St. Peter; J. W. B. Wellcome, Sleepy Eye; A. B. Hawes, Hastings; William J. Awty, city hospital; Frank C. Todd, Minneapolis; Charles J. Mead, St. Paul; B. R. Rasmusson, Minneapolis; R. J. Haas, Humboldt, Mich. and J. D. Utley, Glenwood, Wis.

MISSOURI. Farley is without a physician.-Dr. L. T. Hall has been elected first assistant physician to the Fulton insane-hospital.-St. Louis-Dr. H. M. Whelpley married Miss L. E. Spannagel June 29

MONTANA. Dr. A. C. McClanahan, of Red Lodge, recently married Miss M. Esson.

NEBRASKA. Dr. Kile, of Atlantic, Ia., has located in Creighton.-Dr. E. E. Sloman, of Omaha, was recently drowned.

NEVADA. Dr. F. L. Ross has located at Reno. NEW HAMPSHIRE.-Dr. C. E. Dodge has located in Manchester.

NEW JERSEY.-Dr. L. M. Slocum, of Long Branch, died recently of paretic dementia.—Dr. Jas. S. Green, of Elizabeth, died July 3.-Dr. N. W. Condict, of Morristown, died June 29 at the age of 83.-Dr. E. Fithian has just celebrated his centenary. Dr. T. B. Flagler has located at Hope.

NEW YORK.-Dr. N. Borst, of Poughkeepsie, recently married Miss E. Woods.-Dr. J. Hoffman, of Maramoneck, died recently. Dr. Leverett Moore, of Kallston, died July 13, in the 84th year of his age, and the sixty-third of his practice.-Dr. W. S. Scudder, of Northport. L. I., suicided July 19.-Dr. Boon has located at Atlanta. -Dr. W. R. Childs, of Cannonville, died July 9, at the age of 73. An attempt made to blackmail Dr. Bourne, of Tompkinsville, S. I., resulted in the discomfiture of the blackmailer, and the disclosure of the fact that he forced his wife to confess intimacy with Dr. Bourne at the point of the revolver. Dr. Bourne deserves the thanks of the local profession for checking an incipient blackmail epidemic.—Brooklyn.-Dr. H. Fearn died recently.-New York City-Dr. E. J. White has removed to 33 West Nineteenth street.-Dr. C. Waldermier has retired from active practice. Dr. William Waldermier