We append below an interesting notice of a new work on anatomy to be shortly published by the well-known firm of Lea Bros.

Gerrish's forthcoming "Anatomy by American Authors" promises to be the work for which teachers and students have long been looking. Its editor, Prof. F. H. Gerrish, of Portland, has selected as his fellow-contributors leading anatomists throughout the country, wisely restricting their number to accord with the best division of the subject, gaining thereby unity in result joined with the highest authority. The list includes Professors Bevan, of Rush, in Chicago, Keiller, of the University of Texas, McMurrich, of the University of Michigan, Stewart, of the University-Bellevue College in New York, Woolsey, of Cornell Medical College, likewise in New York, and Gerrish himself, who is not only editor, but perhaps the largest contributor.

The plan of the work judiciously avoids the unimportant and exceptional, reserving its space for those portions of anatomical knowledge which are necessary to the intelligent study of physiology, surgery, and internal medicine. The authors have endeavored to stand in the place of a living teacher to the student, selecting such portions as will be of actual service to the pupil in his study and to the practitioner in his subsequent clinical work, clarifying obscurities, giving most help in the most difficult parts, and illustrating everything by all available methods. Pictorially, Gerrish's "Anatomy" will be by far the most lavish work ever offered on a subject which can already boast of many elaborately illus trated text-books. The engravings number about one thousand; their size is large enough to make visible every detail; colors have been employed more liberally than ever before; and lastly, the labels of the parts have been conspicuously engraved upon them, whereby a glance gives not only their names, but also their position, extent, and relations, obviating entirely the slow, toilsome, and wasteful mental processes necessitated where only reference letters are employed.

In an early issue we shall give our readers a review of the book itself.

We take pleasure in presenting the following letter, which shows that our confrères of the West are alive to the situation :

CHICAGO, April 10, 1899.

Dear Doctor, Please bear in mind that the Illinois Homœopathic Medical Association will meet at the Palmer House, Chicago, May 9, 10, and 11. I wish to impress upon you the importance of this meeting and urge you to attend.

The time has arrived for homoeopaths to rise up in a body to protect their interests. We must demand our rights, along with those of other schools, in hospitals, asylums, railroads, and insurance companies, and besides, look to legislation. The fault is, we have not been politicians, while our opponents have.

If you are not a member, become one at once. help the cause along.

We need you to

Chicago meetings in the past have always been large, but let us endeavor to make this exceed all others in attendance; and if you are not able to present a paper, remember we need your presence and influence. Fraternally yours,

G. F. COUTANT, M.D., President, La Salle, Ill.

H. C. ALLEN, Vice-President, Chicago.

EDGAR J. GEORGE, Secretary.

EDGAR J. GEORGE, M.D., Secretary, 801 Marshall Field Building, Chicago.

C. H. LONG, Assistant Secretary, Pontiac.

F. E. DOWNEY, M.D., Secretary, Clinton, Ill.

REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS.

STENGEL'S PATHOLOGY: A MANUAL OF PATHOLOGY. By Alfred Stengel, M.D., Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital; Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Woman's Medical College; Physician to the Children's Hospital; late Pathologist to the German Hospital, Philadelphia, etc.

This work is indisputably, first of all, a concise presentation of the author's views on pathology; secondly, a practical text-book on the subject for the use of the student, and finally, an epitome for general reference. And when we learn from the preface, that to do all this was the writer's ambition, we shall understand how great a compliment we have paid to him and his work. It is not every author that accomplishes what he sets out to do.

The book itself has several good qualities. It is well printed on good paper, and contains an abundance of excellent illustrations,

among them being seven full-page colored plates. Preference is given in the text to pathologic physiology as the basis of instruction in clinical pathology.

Discussions of conflicting theories have been avoided as much as possible, the author saving time and space by the immediate presentation of what is generally accepted as correct. There is consequently no citation of authorities, though a general acknowledgment of indebtedness is made.

The book contains quite a comprehensive chapter on the bacteria; and an additional thirty pages are devoted to an article on animal parasites, which is admirable. The usual treatises on pathology of the skin and of the organs of special senses are omitted in recognition of the special treatises on the subject, though it is not clear why deference is paid to these departments over some others. The subject of pathology is always a broad one, and it is doubtful if treatment of the subject in a single volume is ever adequate. If it is also true that the author of the book before us has made no startling scientific revelations, he is yet to be congratulated upon presenting the latest and best acceptations in an interesting manner. THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE; Designed for the USE OF PRACTITIONERS AND STUDENTS OF MEDICINE. By William Osler, M.D. Professor of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University, F.R.S., etc. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. New York: D. Appleton & Son.

Wherever the name of Dr. Osler is known, and it is probably as widely known as that of any practitioner in the country, it is a guarantee of the most thorough and painstaking work in any department of medicine to which he turns his attention. This third edition of his work on practice is ample evidence of this statement. Only three years have elapsed since the second edition appeared, and yet, in the present edition, the book has been almost wholly rewritten.

The principal additions and revisions are on the subjects of Vaccination, Beri-beri, The Bubonic Plague, Cerebro-Spinal Fever, Pneumonia, Malta Fever, Dengue, Influenza, Leprosy, Glandular Fever, Gonorrheal Infection, Cancer of the Stomach, the Gastric Neurosis, Jaundice, Diseases of the Bile-passages, Pancreas, Thymus, Gland and Spleen, Addison's Disease, Encephalitis, Erethro-aulalgia, and many shorter articles. In typhoid proper attention is given to the Nidal reaction, and terse but explicit directions given for its application.

The treatment of tuberculosis is quite exhaustive and very interesting. It is very gratifying to note that the fresh air treatment receives quite extensive and favorable notice.

The points which especially recommend this book are its thoroughness, its terseness, the definiteness of its statements, and its entire practicability.

We do not recall any recent work on practice in which the subjectmatter is more available, or in which any point can be looked up more readily. It is a book no physician can afford to be without.

PERSONAL AND NEWS ITEMS.

A COMMITTEE of over forty physicians, representing sixteen different medical societies of the city of New York, and including representatives of both schools of medicine, has been formed for the purpose of doing honor to the memory of Dr. Joseph O'Dwyer.

The first meeting was held at the New York Academy of Medicine, November 22, 1898, under the chairmanship of Dr. J. D. Bryant, and was mainly devoted to organization. Dr. Geo. F. Shrady was elected permanent chairman, and Dr. Alfred Meyer permanent secretary, and the following committee on scope and plan was appointed: Dr. Dillon Brown, chairman, and Drs. Robert Abbe, R. G. Freeman, L. Emmet Holt, and Louis Fischer. At the second meeting, held at the Academy of Medicine, March 13, 1899, the report of the Committee on Scope and Plan was adopted, and row only awaits final action of a meeting of the full committee.

The memorial to Dr. O'Dwyer will probably take an educational form; for by the plan now outlined it is proposed to raise a fund of $30,000, the interest of which shall support two O'Dwyer Fellowships in Pædiatrics, open to competition by physicians who graduate in the United States, and to be held by the successful competitors for a period of two years.

During this period they must furnish satisfactory proof of their engagement in original research work to a committee of five, one of whom shall be appointed by the president of Harvard University, one by the dean of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, one by the provost of the University of Pennsylva

nia, one by the president of the University of Chicago, and one by the president of the New York Academy of Medicine.

Many details of this general plan are still to be arranged, which it shall be the agreeable duty of the secretary to furnish to the medical press of the country so soon as they are finally decided. This preliminary notice has for its object merely to acquaint the profession with the fact that a movement of this nature is on foot, and that an effort will be made to give it the international character so fitting as a memorial to an investigator of international reputation.

CHARLES H. HELFRICH will remove May 1 to 542 Fifth Avenue, New York City, N. Y.

DR. CHAS. W. HAYWOOD, New York Homoeopathic Medical College, '94, has received an appointment as assistant physician at Dr. Givens' Sanitarium for nervous and mental diseases at Stamford, Conn.

FOR SALE. Practice in town of 5,000 inhabitants, twentyeight miles from Boston. Collections, $3,000 yearly. Will sell right. Address "A. E. C.," care Otis Clapp & Son, 10 Park Square, Boston, Mass.

WANTED: An assistant physician (man) in a hospital for the insane. Apply by letter only, stating age, education, experience, &c., to "Hospital," care Otis Clapp & Son, 10 Park Square, Boston, Mass.

THERE will be a competitive examination held at the hospital, 1418 Chapel Street, on May 6, at 2 P.M., for the position of house physician and surgeon of Grace Hospital, New Haven, Conn. Address Grace Hospital Society, E. J. Walker, M.D., Secretary, office, 1136 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.

DR. N. EMMONS PAINE, of the Newton Nervine, West Newton, Mass., has been absent for six weeks, spending the time abroad, in London and its suburbs, visiting sanitariums and hospitals. By visiting the European institutions occasionally he continues his acquaintance with their methods, and keeps informed about changes in treatment, construction, and surroundings.