Henry L. Wagner, M. D., San Francisco, University of Wurzburg, Germany, December 17, 1884.

John Weddick, M. D., San Francisco, King's and Queen's College of Physicians, Dublin, Ireland, October 14, 1874, and Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, December 19, 1874.

The application of Mrs. P. A. Paine-Lyon, of Santa Cruz, was rejected, because of "insufficient credentials."

The Medical Register for 1887 is now ready for distribution, and copies can be procured upon application to the Secretary. It contains 196 pages, and the postage is seven (7) cents.

Complimentary copies have been sent to every resident licentiate of this Board; to druggists, public libraries, and prosecuting attorneys throughout the State. A part of its mission is to weed out illegal practitioners. A similar distri bution of the preceding edition, together with a little vigorous prosecution, reduced the number from 485 to 164 in two (2)

years.

Copies have also been sent to many medical gentlemen in Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Arizona; to every regular medical college in the United States and Canada, and to examining boards, boards of health and medical societies. R. H. PLUMMER, Secretary,

652 Mission street.

SPECIALS.

DR. E. A. FOLLANSBEE has been called away and detained, professionally, for several weeks in Albuquerque, New Mexico, much to the discomfiture of an extensive Los Angeles clientage.

Dr. R. H. Plummer in the State Register says: There are 1879 persons practicing medicine in California. This is in the ratio of one practitioner to 585 persons. In San Francisco there is one to every 567 persons; Oakland, one to every 422; Sacramento, one to every 697; in Los Angeles, one to every 305, while in San José there is one practitioner to every 300 inhabitants.

Dr. C. M. Fenn, of San Diego, says: A few drops of two or four per cent solution of cocaine, instilled upon the tympanum, will immediately dispel the pangs of ear-ache. Try it.

VOL. II. D-3.

A patient of Dr. Wm. H. Pancoast recently died, from chloroform, on the operating table. Autopsy revealed diseased kidneys, fatty liver and heart and a thin right ventricle.

Dr. J. G. Bailey, of the flourishing young city of Santa Ana, called to pay a year's subscription for the SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRACTITIONER. There is something tangible in such a call.

Dr. G. Wilds Linn, of Philadelphia, has been spending a few weeks in Los Angeles. Dr. Linn delivered a very interesting lecture on Embryotomy at the Medical College of the University of Southern California.

Dr. Wm. D. Babcock, of Evansville, Indiana, made the PRACTITIONER a pleasant call last month. The Doctor has recently returned from Vienna where he has devoted a year to his specialties of eye, ear, nose and throat.

Los Angeles had, during February and March, forty-five cases of small-pox with nine deaths. This was the first visitation of this disease in ten years. We are glad to announce that the disease is now under complete control. Dr. Hagan has proven himself a very efficient Health Officer during this trying period.

Dr. Geo. J. Engelmann, in a personal letter says: The PostGraduate School of St. Louis is booming. We have reduced the fee to $30 for the term-clinical material is abundant. When the institution is better known, I hope western men will no longer go to the far East for what can be had nearer home.

Dr. Fordyce Barker says he has used chloroform almost exclusively in his midwifery cases since 1850. He maintains that chloroform accelerates labor, and the presence of heart disease is no contra-indication for its use. He never had but one death from post partum hemorrhage and then he used no anesthetic.

We take pleasure in welcoming back to Los Angeles Col. J. J. Ayers, who for the last four years has resided at Sacramento in order that he might perform the duties devolving upon him as State printer. He retires from that office with the respect of all who have been acquainted with his administration. In Col. Ayers is a happy combination of culture and scholarship, great executive ability, unusual power as a writer, unquestioned honor and sincere good-fellowship.

H. G. Brainerd, A. B., M. D., Rush Medical College, 1878, has recently resigned the position of assistant superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane at Independence, Iowa, which he had held for the last nine years, and removed to Los Angeles. He will devote himself especially to diseases of the mind and nervous system.

Dr. Kannon, M. D. (Bishops College, 1879), has removed from Montreal to Los Angeles, California. He was doing well in Montreal, but he made the transfer on account of his wife's health. We regret to hear that hardly had he arrived at Los Angeles than the house in which he was staying took fire, and that the Doctor lost most of his goods, including his diploma from Bishops College, and the license of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Quebec.- Canada Medical Record. Dr. Kannon is now the energetic assistant Health Officer of the city of Los Angeles.

The SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRACTITIONER is glad to acknowledge the felicity of a call from J. J. Lawrence, A. M., M. D., editor and proprietor of the Medical Brief of St. Louis. Dr. Lawrence is a Southerner in everything but business. He can give the down-easter points in the trade that would make the eyes of the Connecticut nutmeg manufacturer bulge out with mingled wonder and admiration. The Medical Brief has now reached the wonderful circulation of 45,000 copies, monthly, and last year netted its energetic proprietor the snug sum of $21,000. Call again, Doctor.

The American System of Gynecology is almost through press and the first volume will soon be in the hands of the profession. We notice among the contributors to this great work Professors Paul F. Munde and Geo. J. Engelmann, who have heretofore favored the SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRACTITIONER with valuable articles, as well as such other distinguished authorities as Professors Fordyce Barker, Battey, Garrigues, Goodell, Reeves Jackson, Lusk, Reamy, Thomas, and Van de Warker. These names indicate that this work will contain a complete resume of this great American spcialty in its most recent aspects. The fact that it is being published by Messrs. Lea Brothers & Co., of Philadelphia, gives assurance that the mechanical execution of the work will be in harmony with its intrinsic worth.

Dr. G. Wilds Linn has been elected Lecturer on Clinical Medicine, Dr. H. G. Brainerd Lecturer on Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, Dr. T. J. McCarty Lecturer on Chemistry and Toxicology, and Dr. D. C. Barber Professor of Pathology, Histology and Microscopy, in the Medical College of the University of Southern California.

The uncertain strength of Coca Leaves make this drug very unreliable, unless a preparation is used, which we know to be made from a good leaf. "ROBINSON'S WINE COCA" is prepared by percolating assayed Coca Leaves with Malaga Wine, and has always been found entirely satisfactory.

The Eastern Medical Journal says, to cure hæmorrhoidal tumors use glycerine, two drachms and a half; phenic acid, twenty drops; morphia, five grains; administer hypodermically. Pilocarpine-one-third of a grain, hypodermically, is the best remedy in puerperal convulsions.

BOOK REVIEWS.

A COMPEND OF MEDICAL ELECTRICITY, and its Medical and Surgical Uses. By CHAS. F. MASON, M. D., Assistant Surgeon United States Army; with an introduction by CHAS. H. MAY, M. D., Instructor in Ophthalmology, New York Polyclinic. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1012 Walnut street. 1887. Pages 100; price $1.

There is no subject that puzzles and confuses the student more than electricity. Definitions and explanations are usually so technical that they in turn must be explained and defined. The definitions in this book are so clear and comprehensive that they quickly let new light into the student's mind on this important subject.

Old practitioners, who desire to refresh their minds, will find this little work valuable.

A COMPEND OF OBSTETRICS, Especially adapted to the use of Medical Students and Physicians. By HENRY G. LANDIS, A. M., M. D., late Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women in Starling College, etc. THIRD EDITION; thoroughly revised, with new illustrations. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1012 Walnut street. 1887. Pages 118; price $1.

This popular little work is very useful to students who wish to make quick reviews before quiz. It is reliable, and contains an immense amount of information in a very small compass.

A TEXT-BOOK OF MEDICINE; For Students and Practitioners. By ADOLPH STRUMPELL, formerly Professor and Director of the Medical Polyclinic at the University of Leipsic. Translated by permission from the Second and Third German Editions by HERMAN F. VICKERY, A. B., M. D., Physician to Out-Patients, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant in Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society, etc.; and PHILLIP COOMBS KNAPP, A. M., M.D., Physician to Out-Patients with Diseases of the Nervous System, Boston City Hospital; Physician to the Department for Diseases of the Nervous System, Boston Dispensary Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society, etc., with Editorial Notes by FREDERICK C. SHATTUCK, A. M., M. D., Visiting Physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital and to the House of the Good Samaritan; Instructor in the Theory and Practice of Physic, Harvard Medical School, etc. With one hundred and eleven illustrations; pages 981. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1, 3 and 5 Bond street. 1887.

This work has achieved great success in Germany, having quickly reached a third edition. It has been adopted as the text-book on Theory and Practice in the Harvard Medical School.

The whole work is written in an instructive, entertaining style. We were particularly interested in the pages devoted to tuberculosis of the lungs. The author recommends arsenic used for months in all incipient cases, and says it is better not to prescribe it in solution, but in pills of a twentieth of a grain of arsenious acid, giving two or three a day, and later four or five, if possible all after eating. Creosote sometimes acts favorably on cough and expectoration. It may be given in pills, or combined with cod liver oil as follows:

Creosoti,

Olei Morrhuæ,

Olei mentha piperitæ gtt,

1;

100;

2.

M.

Two to three teaspoonsful daily. Recommends cod liver oil, two to four tablespoonsful daily in all cases where it is well borne.

Iron is contra-indicated in patients who are feverish, or who have a tendency to hemoptisis.

Climatic treatment is also ably handled. He says: The southern climate is better for delicate, "erethistic" patients, and also for those with laryngeal affections. The American editor has a note on American resorts, and we are surprised that he fails to mention Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara or Riverside.

The chapter devoted to diseases of the nervous system occu