A REMARKABLE EXHIBIT.-The museum of the college of surgeons will shortly be enriched with a unique surgical exhibit. Sir Henry Thompson will show the specimens resulting from one thousand operations for the removal of calculi and foreign bodies from the bladder. The clinical notes in regard to each specimen accompany the gift.

TUBERCULIN. Two German physicians have just made the discovery that tuberculin is good for tuberculosis. They say "no other method of treatment of bacillary phthisis, not excluding the climatic and that by creosote, can show such good results as Koch's method. Certain cases of tuberculosis first treated

by tuberculin improve later on with creosote."

THE association of military surgeons of the national guard of the United States elected the following officers at its recent meeting in Saint Louis: President, General Nicholas Senn, of Chicago; first vice-president, Major Henry, of New York; second vice-president, Lieutenant-Colonel Woodward, of Michigan; secretary, Lieutenant-Colonel E. Chancellor, of Saint Louis; corresponding 'secretary, Lieutenant Ralph Chandler, of Milwaukee; treasurer, Colonel Francis J. Crane, of Denver. The next meeting will be held in Washington City in May, 1893.

A BORE-BELL.-A Cincinnati physician has a secret office-bell, so says the Annals of Hygiene, which he calls a "bore-bell," and he says it is a great thing. When he is tackled by a bore, or when his lady visitors insist upon giving him the history of all their relatives and their ills, the doctor's foot suddenly touches a spring, which rings the "bore-bell," and in rushes a messenger with an important message or telegram. The visitor's tedious tale is interrupted, and she or he leaves the office because the doctor is so busy, you know. The same message or telegram can be used a great many times, and the doctor's callers never suspect anything.

A BUREAU OF SERVICE AND INFORMATION FOR PHYSICIANS AT THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.-Chas. Truax, Greene & Company, an enterprising physicians' supply house of Chicago, announce that during the Columbian exposition they will establish and maintain a bureau of service and information for medical men. Provision will be made for registration, the reception of mail-matter and telegrams, the transaction of banking, and information will be furnished as to hotels and boarding-houses and other matters of interest and importance to visitors. A cloak-room, a reading-room, a reception-room, and other conveniences will also be provided.

MEDICAL MEETINGS IN JUNE.-Ontario medical association, Toronto, June 1; Rhode Island medical society, Providence, June 2; Oregon state medical society, Portland, June 2; Arkansas state medical society, Little Rock, June 2; Massachusetts medical society, June 7; Maine medical association, June 8; South Dakota state medical association, Salem, June 8; Delaware medical society, Dover, June 14; Indian Territory medical association, Vinita, June 14; Minnesota state medical society, Saint Paul, June 15; New Hampshire medical society, Concord, June 20; American association of andrology and syphilology, Richfield Springs, New York, June 20; Colorado state medical society, Denver, June 21; New Jersey medical society, Atlantic City, June 28.

A MEDICAL CLUB.-It is proposed to establish a club for social purposes, restricted in its membership to members in good standing in the regular profession of medicine in Philadelphia. A modest club-house is to be secured in a central location, to be fitted up with chess-tables, billiard-tables, etc., where meetings can be held, committees have accommodations, and members may congregate for social intercourse. A reading-room is to be opened where may be kept on file the principal medical journals, the literary magazines and journals of the day. It is contemplated to have occasional (monthly or bi-monthly) dinners, to which non-members of eminence may be invited. The fees and dues are to be moderate, ten dollars initiation at present, and annual dues of ten dollars.

SEVERAL cities in Kentucky are determined upon suppressing empiricism, and have passed an ordinance to the effect "that it shall be unlawful for any traveling or itinerant doctor to practice medicine in any of its branches within the limits of this city; to open an office for such purpose, or to announce to the public in any other way an intention to practice medicine, shall be an offense. within the meaning of this ordinance; provided, that nothing in this ordinance shall be so construed as to prohibit any reputable physician or surgeon from any other place being called to see a particular case or family, or to do a particular surgical operation in said city." A violation of this ordinance imposes a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each day's practice.

THE LATE DR. C. J. LUNDY.-The profession will learn with sorrow of the death of Dr. C. J. Lundy, which occurred at his residence in Detroit, on Tuesday, May 24. The deceased had been suffering for some time, and only recently had returned from the south, where he had been sojourning for his health. The cause of death was appendicitis. An operation was undertaken for the relief of the trouble, but the patient's strength, already broken by his long sickness, failed him. Dr. Lundy saw many of his friends for the last time, when, at the recent meeting of the state medical society, he was proudly and unanimously elected its president. The profession, in his death, loses an able and accomplished member. Charles J. Lundy was, at the time of his death, forty-six years of age. He received his degree from the university of Michigan in 1872. He went to Bellevue medical college in 1873 and graduated from that institution in 1875. He then devoted special study to ophthalmology and returned to Detroit in 1878, where he has since enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. He was professor of ophthalmology in the Detroit college of medicine. He has filled many important medical positions, having been president of the Detroit medical and library association, and, at the time of his death, president of the state medical society.

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.-The following topics are promised for discussion at the seventeenth annual meeting of the American academy of medicine at the Cadillac hotel, Detroit, Michigan, on June 4, and Monday, June 6, 1892: (1) "Essentials and Non-Essentials in Medical Education," the address of the retiring president, Dr. P. S. Connor, of Cincinnati. (2) "The

Value of the General Preparatory Training Afforded by the College as Compared with the Special Preparatory Work Suggested by the Medical School in the Preliminary Education of the Physician," a paper by Dr. T. F. Moses, of Urbana, Ohio. (3) "Does a Classical Course Enable a Student to Shorten the Period of Professional Study," a paper by Dr. V. C. Vaughan, of Ann Arbor, Michigan. (4) "The Value of a Collegiate Degree as an Evidence of Fitness for the Study of Medicine," a paper by Dr. L. H. Menter, of Chicago. (5) "The Value of Academical Training Preparatory to the Study of Medicine," a symposium by Drs. H. B. Allyn, of Philadelphia, W. D. Bidwell, of Washington, and Elbert Wing, of Chicago. (6) "The Newer Medical Education in the United States," a symposium by Drs. W. J. Herdman, of Ann Arbor, Charles Jewett, of Brooklyn, and Elbert Wing, of Chicago. (7) A paper on "Some Phase of the State Supervision of the Practice of Medicine," by Perry H. Millard, of Saint Paul. Some other papers are partially promised and the usual reports may be expected from the committees. Members of the profession are cordially invited to be present at the sessions of the academy.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

REVIEWS.

LECTURES ON TUMORS.*

DR. HAMILTON's "Lectures on Tumors" have passed into a second edition, which is sufficient testimony in these days of the interest his literary effort has aroused. The lectures appear to be concise, comprehensive, and fairly reliable descriptions of the etiology and pathology of neoplastic formations.

* By John B. Hamilton, M. D., professor of principle of surgery and clinical surgery, Rush medical college. Second edition. Cloth, 50 cents; paper, 25 cents. George S. Davis, Detroit.

THE INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ANNUAL AND PRACTI

TIONER'S INDEX.*

THE tenth appearance of the "International Medical Annual," is signalized by increased bulk and increased value. The annual is now a substantial volume of nearly seven hundred pages. Among the new features will be noticed the excellent colored plates. The chapter on "Spinal Surgery," by Mr. Thorburn, and the article on "Photography in Clinical Medicine," are so modern in spirit and interest, that they will repay any reader the price paid for the book. It is suggested that the annual should appear in two smaller volumes every six months. As this would bring the profession more rapidly en rapport with the spirit of progressive medicine, we have no doubt the subscribers to the annual will readily endorse the scheme.

*A work of reference for medical practitioners. Cloth. Six hundred and forty-four pages. Price, $2.75. Price, $2.75. E. B. Treat, New York.

THE USES OF WATER IN MODERN MEDICINE.*

A VALUABLE and comprehensive manual of hydrotherapy is provided in Dr. Baruch's little book. That the American profession is in need of information on the proper method of applying water in disease is evident by the fact that there is no work in the English language upon the subject, the only treatise on the subject which is untainted by quackery being the treatise of Winternitz in "Ziemssen's Hand-book of Therapeutics." The present manual will furnish an amount of information upon the subject of hydrotherapy, which will be accepted. with gratitude by those investigating the matter.

*By Simon Baruch, M. D. Volume I. Physicians' leisure library. Cloth, 50 cents; paper, 25 cents. George S. Davis, Detroit.

DISEASES OF THE EYE.*

THE latest manual of the diseases of the eye is a handsome royal octavo volume of over six hundred pages, printed on excellent paper and illustrated with admirable wood-cuts and chromo-lithographs.

The author has given special care to the method of examining eyes, and the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of ocular diseases. This gives the work a flavor which is decidedly clinical. Dr. James Wallace has contributed the chapter on physiological optics, and deals with the important subject of accommodation and convergence. Dr. Edward Jackson contributes a section on retinoscopy, which is an excellent and practical description of this method of determining refractive error.

Students and practitioners studying ophthalmology, and desiring a modern manual, will find their requirements amply fulfilled in the present volume.

*By G. E. de Schweinitz, M. D., professor of diseases of the eye, Philadelphia polyclinic; ophthalmic surgeon to children's hospital and to the Philadelphia hospital, etc. Illustrated by two hundred wood-cuts and two chromo-lithographic plates. Price: cloth, $4.00 net; sheep, $5.00 net. W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia.

TREATISE ON GYNECOLOGY, MEDICAL AND SURGICAL.*

THE second part of Pozzi's work, now before us, more than sustains the good opinion expressed in the review of the first volume. In the present volume three chapters are devoted to inflammatory conditions of the uterine adnexa; five chapters deal with neoplasms of these organs and the ligaments; three deal with tuberculosis, intra- and extra-peritoneal hæmatocele and ectopic pregnancy; four with diseases of the vagina; seven with affections of the vulva; three with malformation of the genital organs; and two with the diseases of the urinary tract, rectum, and pelvis. The whole field of generic disorders is thus covered in the two volumes, which form a thorough and comprehensive treatise on the subject,―a treatise which no general practitioner, who desires to keep informed in this department of medicine and surgery, can afford to have absent from his book-shelves. The illustrations are excellent and numerous, many of them new, many borrowed from works and current literature not easily accessible. We are glad to note that the American editor has reproduced several of our distin

guished countryman, Joseph Price's, excellent colored plates of tubal disease; besides which there are lithographs of other interesting and important conditions. The flap-splitting operation of Tait, and Sanger is fully described and illustrated in this volume, and the minor affections of the external parts particularly well dealt with.

On the whole, we believe that the translator's assertion that this treatise is "the best work on gynecology which has appeared for many years in any language," is exceedingly well founded.

W. P. M.

* By S. Pozzi, M. D., professor Agrege a la faculte de medecine; chirurgien de l'hospital Lourcine-Pascal, Paris etc. Translated from the French by Brooks H. Wells, M. D., New York. Wm. Wood & Company. 1892. Volume II. Five hundred and eighty-three pages.

REFERENCES.

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.

"Gastrostomy." By Nicholas Senn, M. D., Ph. D., Chicago. Reprinted from the Chicago Medical Record.

"On the Use of Creosote in the Treatment of Pulmonary Phthisis." By Beverly Robinson, M. D. Reprinted from the Medical Record.

"The Second Year's Work in Diseases of the Rectum at the New York PostGraduate Hospital." By Chas. B. Kelsey, M. D. Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal.

"Ideals of Medical Education." The address in medicine, Yale university, 1891. By John S. Billings, M. D., LL. D. Reprinted from the New Englander and Yale Review.

"Ideality of Medical Science." The evil events of the profession and an available device for its reformation. By Maurice J. Burstein, A. M., M. D., New York. Reprinted from the Doctors' Weekly.

MEDICAL PROGRESS.

MEDICINE.

QUININE VERSUS FEVER.

QUININE has ever been rightly considered as almost a specific in the treatment of malarial troubles, although the profession have been, as yet, unable to satisfactorily account for its pharmacodynamic properties. Not long since quinine still was considered as a nervine, influencing in a favorable but unknown manner the pathological nervous disturbances obtaining in malarial affections. Dr. Karl Binz, professor of therapeutics in Bonn (Germany), has since 1867 ventured another pharmacodynamic theory on the action of quinine. This, however, met with but little attention, until recently brought again into prominence by Laveran's discovery that malarial troubles are traceable to the presence, in