that it may go on through successive editions as long as young men and women prepare themselves for the pract ce of medicine and surgery. When a boy, a reading of Page's Theory and Practice of Teaching inspired us with a strong desire to teach. What that book was to the profession of teaching, Dr. Cathell's book is to the profession of medicine-an inspiration and a friendly guide. We extend one hand in congratulation to the genial Doctor for his genius in preparing such a work, and the other to our professional brothers all over the land for the privilege of having such a book to read.

THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS for August, contains, as usual, a number of fine portraits of men prominent in politics and other active flelds of life. Among the other handsome portraits is a miserable cut of Hon. J. G. Field; and near handsome portraits of Messrs. Carnegie and Frick is an execrable cut of Mr. Hugh O'Donnell, Chairman of the other side. We hope that this unfortunate coincidence is accidental, and that our esteemed contemporary does not act from prejudice, nor a disposition to be unfair.

TABLE TALK. A magazine that tells us how to live and how to enjoy life while we have it ought to be entitled to much more than an ordinary amount of consideration and support; the great success of TABLE TALK is therefore not a matter for wonder. Its recipes for the kitchen, its instructions and suggestions in matters relating to household management and economy, and the thoroughly practical way in which they are spread before the housewife are able proofs that it really is what it claims to be a household magazine. The August number is now ready, and full of seasonable suggestions that the housekeeper will be the looser for not reading. Published by the Table Talk Publishing Co., 1113 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. $1 a year; 10 cents single copy.

JENNESS MILLER ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY for August contains numerous articles of special interest to women. Mrs Miller writes interestingly of "Liberty, Love and Art." Miss Mary F. Seymour has a timely article on "Typewriting as a trade." Baroness von Meyerinck discusses Music and Voice Culture." There is an interview with Superintendent Jasper on Public Schools and Women as School Teachers." There is also an article on the "Cost of Girls in Colleges." The Writers of Young France," by Vance Thompson, is timely and bright. In addition

to these there are articles about Fashions, Children, Hints for the Home, and many brief papers very interesting to women. It is a magazine that no woman should be without. Price, $1 a year, 10 cents a copy. Address, Jenness Miller Co., 114 Fifth Ave., New York.

TRI STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY of Ala., Ga. and Tenn. We are in receipt of an abstract of the proceedings of he Tri-State Medical Society, which contains an bstract of all the papers read at last meeting and the iscussion thereon. The advantage of an abstract of his kind is that it is not necessary to read through all The papers to get the leading ideas advanced by the uthors. It gives us pleasure to note the rapid proress made by this young and vigorous society. wielding a powerful influence for the good of ethical medicine in our south land. Its members number any noted men of all sections.

It is

We acknowledge the receipt also of the following prints: "The Lacerated Cervix," Bromide of thyl as an Anesthetic," "Should not Oculists be

more careful in Prescribing Colored Glasses ?" "Evolution from a Scientific Standpoint." Any of the above will be sent on application to the Secretary, Dr. Frank Trester Smith, Chattanooga, Tenn.

The next meeting will be held in Chattanooga, beginning Oct. 25th.

THE Medical Times and Register, edited by Dr. Wm. F. Waugh, 1725 Arch St., Phila., has recently issued three most excellent numbers, one each on Cholera," "Typhoid Fever" and "Health Resorts for Consumptives." Send ten cents each for them, or subscribe for $3.00 per year.

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For Ourselves and Others

THE enterprising house of Chas. Lentz & Son, 18 N. Eleventh St., Philadelphia, have just issued a new Illustrated Catalogue of Microscopes and Accessories. It will be sent free to any physician upon application and mention of this notice.

WE quote the following from The Times and Register of Philadelphia, July 22, 1892:

"Dr. W. C. Abbott's dosimetric granules have been used by several members of our staff. The granules have proved reliable in every respect; uniform, well made, and of full strength. The system is popular with patients." Waugh.

SEE Dr. Abbott's adv., page iv, and write to him for his complete list with prices.

Syr. bromide comp. [Peacock]..2 ounces
M. Sig.-Teaspoonful in water, four times daily. ·
Very valuable for old, worn out drunkards.

Ar a meeting of the Spanish Medico-Chirurgical Academy, Azna (Revista de Med. y Cir. Pract., March 7th, 1892) gave an account of his experience of Dermatol in surgical practice. Even when employed in large quantity he said it does no harm; applied to bloody surfaces it dries them in a wonderful manner; it stimulates granulations, and is particularly useful in skin affections, such as eczema, which are characterized by much discharge, and if dermatol is applied to wounds which have already begun to granulate, it greatly stimu lates the process, and similarly in the case of soft chancre after the ulcers have been cleansed with antiseptic lotions, dermatol hastens repair, and brings about rapid and thorough healing.

In diseases of the skin Azna thinks that dermatol, with its drying and astringent properties, its absolute harmlessness, nnd the ease with which it can be used, may advantageously replace starch powder, oxide of zinc, etc.

It is also useful in affections of the Female Genitals.

ONE of the extremely valuable new specialties recently perfected for physicians' use is Sargent's Antiseptic Thymoline Soap. For washing infected sores, the antiseptic bath of scarletina patients, scabies patients, for surgical cleanliness of hands and sites of operations it is perfect. It is also entirely pleasant to the sense, its agreeable odor proving especially grateful to patients used to ill smelling disinfectants. If you mention this journal you can have a sample free by writing to Hall & Ruckel, Chemists and Druggists, 216 to 220 Greenwich St., New York, N. Y.

DR. TANNER, of forty day fast fame, is now medica

director of the Sanitarium at Indiana Mineral Springs, Warren Co., Ind. Send for handsome pamphlet describing the Springs.

How could progressive medicine get along without the preparations imported by W. H. Schieffelin & Co. -Aristol and Europhen, the antiseptic dressings ; Salophen, the anti-rheumatic; Sulfonal, the pure hypnotic, and Phenacetine, the anti pyretic and analgesic.

You can easily add to your popularity and usefulness by following the instructions given by the McArthur Hypophosphite Co., on the title page of this issue. Their Syrup is a standard and reliable preparation. It is not a conglomerate mass of poly-pharmacy as some others in

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Directly in our line of aiding the Physician in his daily work, we now announce the following:

Řecognizing the fact that Dosimetry is a promising and growing method of treatment, we have ready for delivery "An Outline of Treatment with Dos!metric Granules," by Prof, W. F. Waugh, A.M., M.D.

This is the only work upon this subject that has ever appeared in America, and hence is the only one that treats the subject from the practical stand point of the American Practitioner.

As this Book is intended to be a constant companion of the Physician in his daily work, it is compact in form, bound in flexible cloth covers, and in Bize suitable for the pocket. Price, 50 Cents.

FELLOWS' Compound Syrup of the Hypophosphits is a standard and reliable preparation.

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NOTICE the new advertisement of C. L. Toplif New York, of his cathartic Parasa Pills. Send for samples.

ANTICLAVUS is a new coal-tar antipyretic and anal gesic. Address the Anticlavus Chem. Co., Clayton, Ill. Send for samples.

WHILST eminent physicians for Lung and Chest diseases in America and Europe, among them Dr. Beverley Robinson, New York; Dr. A. L. Hall, New York; Dr. Julius Somerbrodt, Breslau, and Dr. J. Scheinmann of the Laryngological Polyclinic at Berlin, recommended Creasote in the treatment of pulminary diseases, we beg to draw our readers attention to a new Vaporizer and Inhaler recently patented by the Coulter Vaporizer Manufacturing Co., 823 Broadway, New York.

It is claimed that not only has inhalation, as a rationa method for carrying medication to the diseased respira tory organs, been perfected by this instrument, but that also by its means such remedies as Creasote, Eucalyptus Oil and Oil of Southern Pine Needles are completely vaporized, and in such condition can easily be inhaled even by children to the remotest recesses of the lungs, whereby we avoid the interference with digestion but procure a direct local effect upon the diseased organs. The instrument has been tested and is recommended to the medical profession by leading physicians.

WITH Apioline for your female patients and Santa Midy for your male patients you are doubly armed. Liberal samples from E. Fougera & Co., New York, by mentioning this journal.

BOVININE has stood the test of time as a perfect condensed food.

FOR cut rates in surgical instruments, address J. Phillips, 14 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga. Send for new catalogue, mentioning this journal.

USE the Nutrient Wine of Beef Peptone, made by Armour & Co., Chicago.

FOR a fine catalogue of cases and instruments of sterling merit, address Willis H. Davis, Keokuk, Iowa.

SEE the new method of dispensing active drugs put forth by Parke, Davis & Co, Detroit, Mich., on last page of cover of this issue.

THE Compound Thymoline Tablets, made by the Philadelphia Dosimetric Co., N. W. Cor. 20th & Market Sts., Phila,, Pa., are a perfect success. Testi mony of the best physicians is coming in stating their exceptional value as an intestinal antiseptic in typhoid fever, cholera morbus, cholera infantum, diarrhea and dysentery' Wherever a pure antiseptic is wanted, either externally or internally, they are reliable and

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Special Pneumonia Number for January. There are a few subjects in medicine and surgery of such importance as to justify devoting an entire number of a journal to their discussion in the season of their greatest prevalence. Of these, pneumonia is undoubtedly one of the most important. Its almost universal prevalence, considerable mortality and grave sequelæ make it in the highest degree important that the people should fully underStand its serious nature and the profession know all of the most efficient means of guardEng against it and of preventing its more serious consequences.

In view of these facts we propose to devote our entire January number to the subject of oneumonia, and we now invite practical articles from all who feel that they have somehing special to say on some phase of the subect. There are many branches of the subject which deserve special consideration, as, for

example, causes and prophylaxis; points in accuracy of diagnosis and very early diagnosis; possibility of "aborting" or "jugulating" the disease and the means employed therefor; especially successful methods of treatment; valuable auxiliaries to any general treatment; causes of death in different classes of cases and means of guarding against them; suitable diet during the different phases of the disease; practical points in nursing and hygiene of pneumonia patients; complications which most often occur; sequelæ to be looked for; their means of prevention and after-treatment; unusual series of cases; and special care required during convalescence.

As there will be many articles submitted, we shall have to select from them those which express in the plainest and most concise manner the most important truths relating to the subject as well as those least generally known to the profession at large.

Before writing, carefully review the subject in all your text books, that you may avoid tedious, unnecessary repetition of that which is already well known to the profession; also, carefully look over your own past experience and obtain as far as possible that of your local fellow-practitioners, that the observations you make may be verified as fully as possible. Quote authority, if possible, for any especially novel idea.

Of course, it is unnecessary to suggest that manuscript should be carefully prepared, with plenty of room for correction and interlineations. Give your article a brief title accurately suggestive of its contents. the article be entirely disconnected from any communication to the business department or to the editor personally. Do not use abbreviations. tions. Write prescriptions in English. If, after preparing the article, you think it needs re-writing, you would better do it yourself, as, in doing so suggestions will come to you for its improvement-more concise methods of ex

pression, important facts omitted or ideas that may advantageously be stricken out. All manuscript must reach us on or before Dec. 12th.

Remove it from the Field of Politics.

We are pleased to note that the profession generally think favorably of the plan proposed in our remarks on cholera in October WORLD, that boards of health should be composed of government officials instead of local appointees, and that they should consist of details from the Army, Navy and Marine Hospital service.

The New York Post Graduate, in an editorial in Oct. says as follows:-"The way to prevent the repetition of such a series of blunders is to give the whole subject of quarantine into the hands of the general Government, just as are the army and navy, and lighthouse and mail systems. Then political appointments for health officers would cease, for the Government would detail experienced medical officers of the army and navy and marine service, to these positions. Men not only of good medical education, but also of ordinary, and in some cases more than ordinary executive ability, would then guard gateways that may, if improperly protected, let an overwhelming flood of disease upon us."

The Post Graduate also favors some plan of inspection of immigrants before they leave their own country that the utterly unworthy may be prevented from starting.

We wish to call especial attention to the article on page 373 of the October number, giving a method of treating cancer without operation. If this method of treatment shall prove to be uniformly successful, its importance cannot be overestimated. Its simplicity is another element in its favor. The modesty with which the Doctor puts it forth encourages confidence in the accuracy of his observations, We should like it to be submitted to widely extended tests, and shall be pleased to publish results.

THE MEDICAL WORLD is known throughout the profession as being the medium through which the greatest number of new, original and valuable ideas are introduced to the practicing

physician. The explanation of this fact is that the ideas are introduced by the readers, themselves, who are practical working men throughout the world, and thus a broad range of ob servation is obtained. Witness the following valuable articles which have appeared in recent numbers: "Treatment of Dysentery," "Nym

phomania," and other practical articles in the August number; the complete and masterly discussion of malaria in the September number. "Intermarriage of Relatives," "A chat from far-off Syria," "A Cheap Steel Leg," "A Treatment of Cancer," "Treatment of Sciatica," "Poisoning by Gasoline," "Sportaneous Version," and many other practical articles in the October number. The small

subscription price is a very minor considera. tion in deciding the question of joining our ranks, as it is more than repaid in each sepa

rate number by some practical article contributed by a fellow-practitioner in some other part of the field.

The International Journal of Surgery, in an editorial article, demonstrates the necessity for a national bacteriological institute. We heartily endorse the idea. heartily endorse the idea. We think, however, that there is even more need of a national institution for the manufacture and supply of pure, scientific drugs.

To all new subscribers sending their subscrip tions now we still offer the special malaria number (September) as a premium, and will subscription to begin with January, 1893. also give the December number free, dating

We fancy that our subscribers may sometimes have wished for a suitable instrument for making strings of our binder. Any pointed instrument wi holes through WORLD, through which to insert the

do, but we concluded to have an instrument made for the purpose. It had to be simple, efficient, and inexpensive. The result is a tempered steel aw which we can sell for five cents, and give it free with each package of three binders. So those ordering

one or two binders, should add five cents if they want awl included. It will always be included with each package of three binders, at the usual price, $1. To be just to those who have already bought

receipt of two cents for packing and postage. This is a small matter, but it is the little things that make up the conveniences and comforts of life.

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Articles accepted must be contributed to this journal only The editors are not responsible for views expressed by contributors.

Copy must be received on or before the twelfth of the month for publication in the next month. Unused Manuscript cannot be returned.

Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.-RUSKIN.

The Treatment of Tuberculosis by Enemas of Defibrinized Goat's Blood. EDITOR MEDICAL WORLD:-Bacteriologists have opened a subject in modern medicine, the full scope of which we can scarcely comprehend. Even with our present knowledge of bacteriology we may safely say that no one can understand the rudiments of pathology without a fair knowledge of pathogenic bacteriology. Closely linked with the subject of bacteriology is the subject of immunity. It is a well-known fact that whilst certain animals are subject to certain diseases, others are not. For instance, we know that cattle are not subject to glanders, while man and horses are subject to it. Cattle are subject to anthrax, while man and horses are not.

Man, horses, cattle, sheep, and fowls of nearly every kind are subject to tuberculosis; goats and dogs are not, though the latter have been known to suffer from the disease. The question arises, why are some animals subject to a disease whilst others are immune? At present there seems to be one answer only, viz.; the bactericidal proteids of the immune animal attack the invading microbes and destroy them. Acting upon this theory of immunity, eminent medical men of this and foreign countries have sought for, and in a few instances have isolated the protective protein matter, which kills the bacilli or bacteria of the invading disease. If this conception of immunity be correct, then it is laden with possibilities of wonderful magnitude. The microscope gives us additional proof of this theory, by revealing the invading microbe locked in the embrace of the fighting phagocytes when the animal is immune; while if the animal is not immune the phagocytes do not attack the invading microbes, or, if so, fail to destroy them. In order to get the benefits of these immune animals in the treatment and cure of tuberculosis medical men, especially on the continent of Europe. began experiments

Therefore it afforded me considerable pleasure while working in the laboratory of the Post-Graduate Medical School of New York the past summer to suggest and make use of a treatment absolutely free from pain and danger; yet I believe possessing every advantage to be derived from the methods referred to. Four well marked cases of pulmonary tuberculosis were selected, sputum of each one revealing under the microscope the presence of bacilli tuberculosis.

Twenty ounces of goat's blood was defibrinized quickly as possible after being drawn, four ounces being given to each patient in the form of an enema high up in the bowel, which had been previously well flushed out with warm water. This treatment was repeated every third day for thirty days. I used a hard rubber (4 oz) syringe with soft rubber nozzle ten inches long.

The enemas were as a rule well retained; the dejecta very rarely gave the slightest evidence of any blood stains, thus proving the complete absorption of the blood. The recuperation of these cases was almost miraculous. Cough, expectoration, and dyspnea diminished wonderfully. Strength, appetite, digestion greatly improved. I am aware of the fact that much good in these cases resulted from the direct nutritive action of the blood enemas. The question arises; could we get such results from the blood of an animal not immune against tuberculosis? Let us find out by experiments.

The microscopical character of the blood of these cases relative to the action of the phagocytes will be given at some future time.

DR. M. E. LEATHERMAN,

MECHANICSTOWN, Md.

Erythromelalgia.-A Rare Case.

EDITOR MEDICAL WORLD:-The writer has under observation a case of erythromelalgia, so named by Weir Mitchell in Amer. Jour. of the Med. Sci., July, 1878, and described in Pepper's System of Medicine, Vol. V, page 1253. It is a typical case of this rare disease,