THE late Dr. Agnew left an estate of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. IT is to be hoped that Gross will have better luck with his monument than Rush.

DR. J. M. KEATING, of Colorado Springs, has resigned the editorship of the Climatologist.

PROFESSOR KLEBS has declined the chair of pathology offered him by Rush medical college.

THE honorary degree of L. L. D., has been conferred on Dr. Fessenden N. Otis by Columbia college.

DR. KITASOTO, the eminent Japanese bacteriologist, passed through this country on his way home to Tokio.

THE Mississippi Valley medical association will hold its annual meeting in Cincinnati, October 12, 13 and 14, 1892.

AN EASY BIRTH.-Dr. J. B. Eagleson, of Seattle, Washington, reports a case of birth during the sleep of the mother.

THE foot-ball casualties in England during the season of 1891-2 amounted to eleven deaths and seventy-two injuries.

AN OLD DOCTOR.-Dr. Stanislas Zalewski, a Polish physician, died recently at Bordeaux, aged one hundred and eleven years.

PROFESSOR A. W. VAN HOFMANN, the distinguished German chemist, is dead. Hofmann was the discoverer of the aniline dyes.

THE KELVIN." The commercial unit of electricity formerly known as the board of trade unit is hereafter to be called the kelvin."

DEATH FROM THE WHEEL.-A young Englishman has recently died from cardiac angina, the result of overstrain with the bicycle.

AMBULANCES.-The army is to have three hundred new ambulances. They are to be lighter and better in every way than the old ones.

DR. WILLIAM BIRDSALL, of New York, a graduate of the university of Michigan in 1876, and attending physician at the Manhattan ear and eye hospital, died June 7.

METHYLENE BLUE IN MALARIA.-Dr. W. S. Thayer, in the Johns Hopkins Bulletin, maintains that methylene blue is efficacious in malarial troubles where. quinine has been proved useless.

FOWL-LANGUAGE.-M. du Handray has carried his phonograph into the hencoop, following the method of Professor Garnier in the study of semian language. The results are said to be astonishing.

THE READING-NOTICE.-At the meeting of the American editors association resolutions were offered condemning the use of the editorial columns for the purpose of advertisers, and proscribing the reading-notice.

A SINGLE child, sent to school before complete recovery from scarlet fever in one of the arrondissements of Paris, was clearly shown to have been the direct cause of a hundred and fifty other cases of that disease with eighteen deaths.

"Eleven graduates of

KEELEY AND INSANITY.-The Pittsburg Dispatch says: the Keeley institute are now inmates of the Illinois eastern hospital for the insane at Kankakee; ten of these had never been previously confined in a hospital.

A POSER.-The following question was asked a physician in a recent murder trial, by the defendant's counsel: "Do you believe that immaturity of development in relation to a susceptible tone of temperament contributes to instability of conduct."

HOW HE WOULD BE REMEMBERED.—Mr. Lawson Tait, speaking of his choice of honors, said: "Set up to me in the market place a clock and a fountain which would keep the people punctual and would slake the thirst alike of tired men and beasts."

THE VEGETARIAN'S HEART.-Lady Paget writes the following in the Nineteenth Century for April: "While the meat-eater's heart has seventy-two beats in the minute, the vegetarian has only fifty-eight, therefore, twenty thousand beats less in the twenty-four hours."

THE BACILLUS OF EPILEPSY.-The announcement is made that Dr. Gerdes, of Halle, has discovered vast numbers of specific bacilli in the liver, kidneys and blood of person who have died of epilepsy. The bacilli injected into rabbits and mice produce epileptic manifestations.

FATHER MOLLINGER, of Troy Hill, near Pittsburg, priest, physician, thaumaturgist and general worker of miracles, is dead. He accumulated three million dollars. His cures were notable, especially in hysterical arthropathies. His methods were of very questionable morality.

THE OIL OF EUCALYPTUS.-About ten years ago the discovery was made that a decoction of the leaves of eucalyptus had the property of removing the scales of incrustation from boilers. A large industry in eucalyptus has sprung up near Haywards, California, due to this discovery.

DETROIT CITY APPOINTMENTS.-Drs. Wm. M. Harvey, Thomas Kenning, and Frank M. Dumas have been re-appointed city physicians. Dr. F. D. Hiesordt has been re-appointed county physician. Dr. Chas. D. Aaron has been appointed city disinfector in place of Dr. Waldo E. Clark, who has resigned.

THE Court of appeals of Kentucky, has recently decided that syphilis, pleaded in answer to an action to recover damages for breach of promise of marriage is a complete defense, following the decision of the supreme court of the state of North Carolina in which the same defense was interposed and sustained in a similar action.

HOT SPRINGS, THE DOCTORS, AND THE TOUTERS.-The following circular, says the Weekly Medical Review, was adopted by the Hot Springs city council, March 1, 1892: "Do not listen to any one who volunteers advice about doctors. No regular physician will require more than five dollars in advance. If you have letters to a physician, deliver them in person. If drummers find you have such letters, they will tell you the doctor is out of the city, dead, quit practicing, drunk, or something of the kind. Drummers on the trains, on the streets, or at the hotels or boarding-houses will pretend that they are visitors."

A NEW MEDICAL COLLEGE FOR CHICAGO.-Chicago is to have a new medical college. The new institution is to be called by the somewhat awkward cognomen of the "Clinical College of Medicine and Specialty Hospital." No didactic lectures are to be given, instruction being afforded solely by recitation and demonstration.

SUNDOWNERS.-The individuals designated sundowners in Washington, those who practice medicine at night but who labor all day in some government office, have had the following amendment to the constitution of the medical association of the District of Columbia, directed against them: "No graduate of medicine shall be eligible to membership in the association who shall not devote his entire time to the practice of medicine."

HISTORIC GAVELS.-Dr. H. O. Walker presented Dr. H. O. Marcy, late president of the American medical association, with a gavel made from the wood of Pontiac's tree, a tree rich in memories of Indian warfare and bloodshed. Dr. Marcy presented the association with a gavel of no less precious historic associations. It was made from a piece of the charter oak of Hartford with a handle of wood from the United States frigate, Constitution.

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR THE ENSUING YEAR.—The committee on nominations selected the following candidates: Dr. Hunter McGuire, of Richmond, Virginia, president; Dr. H. O. Walker, of Detroit, first vice-president; Dr. H. Brown, of Kentucky, second vice-president; Dr. H. Janes, of Vermont, third vice-president; Dr. Jesse Hawes, of Greeley, Colorado, fourth vice-president; Dr. R. J. Dunglison, of Philadelphia, treasurer; Dr. W. B. Atkinson, of Philadelphia, secretary; Dr. Montgomery, assistant secretary; Dr. George W. Webster, of Chicago, librarian. To fill vacancies on the board of trustees: Dr. Alonzo Garcelon, of Lewiston, Maine; Dr. Leartus Connor, of Detroit; Dr. Perry H. Millard, of Minnesota, and Dr. Patterson, of Washington. Members of the judicial council: Dr. N. S. Davis, of Chicago; Dr. John Morris, of Baltimore; Dr. H. D. Didama, of New York state; Dr. John B. Roberts, of Philadelphia; Dr. A. M. Emmert, of Iowa; Dr. W. T. Briggs, of Nashville, Tennessee; Dr. C. W. Voorhees, of Coldwater, Michigan; Dr. W. E. B. Davis, of Rome, Georgia; Dr. A. Morgan Cartledge, of Louisville.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

REVIEWS.

SURGICAL HANDICRAFT.*

MR. PYE'S "Surgical Handicraft" has long been a favorite manual of minor surgery on the other side of the Atlantic. Good reason for this is found in the excellence of the work. It is so thoroughly practical in character and clinical in tone, and so free from the hair-splitting distinctions of the surgical pathologists that the student, who may consult it, will at once gain an insight into the facts for which he may be searching. The illustrations are particularly

good, and will be found very helpful, especially in the treatment of fractures. The marginal references also greatly increase the facility of reference.

The methods of treatment described and recommended by Mr. Pye are not in any sense antiquated; they are fully up to date, and the manual compares favorably with any work on the subject which has recently issued from the

medical press.

The publishers have done their part of the work in an attractive manner. The binding in leather is durable and neat.

*A manual of surgical manipulations, minor surgery, and other matters connected with the work of house-surgeons and surgical dressing. By Walter Pye, F. R. C. S., surgeon to Saint Mary's hospital and the Victoria hospital for sick children, London. Upwards of three hundred illustrations on wood. American edition from the third London edition, revised and edited by T. H. R. Crowle, F. R. C. S., surgical register to Saint Mary's hospital, and surgical tutor and joint lecturer on practical surgery in the medical school. Price: $4.00 leather; $3.50 cloth. E. B. Treat, New York.

CANCER AND ITS TREATMENT.*

THIS little volume deals with the various forms of cancer. The matter contained in it does not appear to possess any particular merit, or add to our knowledge of cancerous disease. It is, however, a fair resume of the author's experience and the deductions he makes therefrom. The proof-reading has been very defective. As a slight eontribution to a hitherto unexplored field the author records the temperature in a number of "inoperative" cases of cancer. The charts do not seem to indicate anything that was not previously known.

* By Daniel Lewis, A. M., M. D., surgeon to the New York skin and cancer hospital, etc. Physician's leisure library. Cloth, 50 cents; paper, 25 cents. Geo. S. Davis, Detroit.

THE ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS OF GYNECOLOGY.*

DR. GOELET's name has sufficiently long been identified with electro-therapeutics to render needless any enquiry as to his competence to discuss the problems with which he deals in the present treatise. The work appears in every sense an admirable one. Part one deals with general electro-physics and electro-physiology. Part two takes up the electro-therapeutical measures to be applied in disorders of menstruation, in diseases of the uterus, of the appendages and ligaments and in pelvic tumors.

The work is a fair and reliable statement of the present status of electricity in the field of gynecology.

By A. Goelet, M. D. Two volumes. Cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents. Geo. S. Davis, Detroit.

A TEXT-BOOK OF PRACTICE.*

DR. PAGE'S "Practice of Medicine" is imbued with the modern spirit which prompts such works to be brief and practical rather than extensive and exhaustive. The whole field of disease is passed under review in a volume of six hundred pages. The clinical descriptions are concise and well written, and the

book will be found very serviceable to the student, whose reading has to be on many subjects simultaneously.

The book is very attractively bound in red muslin, and the text is elucidated with an abundance of illustrations.

*A text-book of the practice of medicine for the use of students and practitioners. By R. C. M. Page, M. D., professor of general medicine and diseases of the chest in the New York polyclinic, etc. Octavo: five hundred and seventyeight pages, illustrated. Red parchment muslin. Price, $4.00. Wm. Wood & Company, New York.

REFERENCES.

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.

"The Effect of Fluids on the Strength of Catgut." By D. Braden Kyle, M. D., Philadelphia. Reprinted from the Therapeutic Gazette.

"Opening of the Mastoid Process." By Dr. Harry Friendenwald, Baltimore. "Tait's Operation for the Restoration of Ruptured Perinæum." By H. W. Longyear, M. D., Detroit. Reprinted from the American Gynecological Journal. "The Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of the Prevalent Epidemic of Quackery." By Geo. M. Gould, M. D., Philadelphia. Reprinted from the Medical News.

"The Teachings of Experience and of Rational Therapeutics as to the Treatment of Pneumonia." By Boardman Reed, M. D. Reprinted from the Therapeutic Gazette.

MEDICAL PROGRESS.

MEDICINE.

FORCED RESPIRATION.

FORCED respiration in contra-distinction to artificial respiration is at last beginning to be noticed both on this and the other side of the Atlantic. For many years instruments had been devised with which to perform it, but failure through improper apparatus, and erroneous views regarding the resisting power of the lungs and conditions associated with respiration upon man, resulted in the condemnation of what has proved to be one of the most valuable means of resuscitation ever introduced to the world. Decried as it was by the whole medical profession, having been tried and found wanting; looked upon as dangerous to the delicate air vesicles, and erroneously considered as of no more value than the methods of artificial respiration in vogue, the decision of the medical world up to July, 1887, when I made my first operation, was that it was unnecessary, useless and unjustifiable.

When I read my first paper upon the subject before the international congress, 1887, detailing its unquestionable value, the discussion really condemned my operation, because I had made tracheotomy to save the life of a