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SMITH.-In New York city, June 13, 1908, Dr. George La Breche Smith, aged 43 years.

SPOOR.-In Schenectady, N. Y., May 29, 1908, Dr. David E. Spoor, aged 62

years.

STODDARD.-In Rochester, N. Y., June 6, 1908, Dr. Enoch Vine Stoddard, aged 67 years.

STOFER.-In Wichita, Kan., June 10, 1908, Dr. Charles Delos Stofer, aged 30

years.

SULLIVAN.-In Macon, Ga., June 22, 1908, Dr. John S. Sullivan, aged 58 years. TABER. In Elmira, N. Y., May 29, 1908, Dr. Alfred B. Taber, aged 76 years, WAGER.-In Los Angeles, Cal., June 6, 1908, Dr. Charles P. Wager, aged 55

years.

WALKER-In Goddy, Tenn., June 21,

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1908, Dr. George M. Walker, aged 60 years.

WATTS.-In New York city, June 8, 1908, Dr. Robert Watts, Jr., aged 41

years.

WEBSTER.-In Monmouth, Ill.. June 19, 1908, Dr. John Randolph Webster, aged 72 years.

WEST.-In Bellaire, Ohio, June 25, 1908. Dr. James Park West, aged 49

years.

WHITMIRE.-In Forrest, Ill., June 1, 1908, Dr. Joel Wallace Whitmire, aged 56 years.

WOOD.-In Worcester, Mass., June 2, 1908, Dr. Julia Beard Wood, aged 67 years.

YOUNG.-In Memphis, Tenn., June 14, 1908, Dr. Alexander H. Young, aged 77 years.

BOOK NOTICES.

NOTH NAGEL'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE. Diseases of the Heart. By Prof. Th. von Jurgensen of Tubingen, Prof. Dr. L. Krehl of Greifswald and Prof. Dr. L. von Schrotter of Vienna. Edited, with additions, by George Dock, M.D., Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Octavo of 848 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company. 1908. Cloth, $5 net; half morocco, $6

net.

In this we see the final volume of the Nothnagel series. It completes a system of medicine which is, perhaps, the best which is now available to the Englishspeaking practitioner. In the volume now before us we have all the aspects of the physiologic and pathologic conditions. of the heart and circulatory apparatus

presented in accordance with the results. of the most recent work, for where the original has been not quite abreast of late research editorial emendations have been made. Lack of space forbids us to review the work at length, and it must suffice to state that the volume is a fit companion to its predecessors of the series. Higher praise is impossible. With particular interest we have noted the sections upon heart-blocks and the Stokes-Adams syndrome, two subjects which have been attracting much attention of late.

Obstetrics and Gynecology. MATERNITY. By Henry D. Fry, M.D., Sc.D., Professor of Obstetrics, Medical Department of Georgetown University. New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Co. 1907.

This work is intended for a guide to woman in fulfilling her highest function

motherhood-and is pleasantly written. The historical sketch of child-bearing is of interest. W. B. J.

Genito-Urinary Diseases.

DISEASES OF THE MALE GENERATIVE ORGANS. By Edred M. Conor, M.A., M. B., B.Sc., M.C., F.R.C.S., surgeon to outpatients, St. St. Thomas Hospital; senior surgeon to outpatients, Children's Hospital, Great Ormond street; consulting surgeon to the Ward Green and Purley Hospitals, etc. Oxford Medical Publications. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press; Hodder & Stoughton, Warwick Square, E. C. London.

This is another of those convenient little Oxford Medical Publications, which are so useful to the busy practitioner. Our English cousins write well, and this book is a pleasure to read. It does not go into detail as to syphilis and gonorrhoea, since those important diseases are worthy of a separate monograph, which is also the case with affections of the prostate, but all other diseases of the male generative organs are clearly presented as they occur in general practice. An excellent

book. W. M. C.

Otology.

DISEASES OF THE EAR. By Hunter Tod, Aural Surgeon to the London Hospital, etc. (Oxford Medical Manual). Price five shillings. 317 pages, crown 8vo. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1907.

This little volume is quite a complete study of the diseases of the ear, and will serve as both a reference book for the specialist and textbook for the student. Each anatomical subdivision is taken up systematically, with a fair amount of anatomical data. The instruction for the proper physical and physiological exam

inations is good. The description of the functional examination is well described and complete. The author has written a very excellent surgical part of the book, with clear and comprehensive descriptions of the operative portion of otology and its complications. Taken as a whole, this volume, while not exhaustive, will prove of considerable value.

Miscellany

THE PRODUCTION AND HANDLING OF CLEAN MILK. By Kenelm Winslow, M.D., M.D.V., B.A.S. (Harv.), formerly Instructor in Bussey Agricultu ral Institute and Professor in the Veterinary School of Harvard University; author of a Textbook on Veterinary Materia Medica and Therapeutics; Chairman of the Committee on Milk of the Washington State Medical Association, etc. New York: William R. Jenkins Company, 851-853 Sixth ave

nue.

"When the public is sufficiently aroused to the evils of consuming unclean milk. and evinces willingness to pay for clean milk there will be no difficulty about its production. It is merely a question of supply and demand." This quotation from the author's preface expresses a truth which this book amply proves. Dr. Winslow is a man who possesses a practical knowledge of all that is needed to insure a supply of clean milk and this book is a complete guide to its production. Here are to be found chapters on the feeding, housing and care of cows; cost of producing and distributing clean milk and its distribution to consumers; plans for barns, milkhouses, etc., and a general scheme for the control of a city milk supply. It is a valuable working guide for all engaged in the milk business, and we recommend it as such to our readers. It is filled with valuable illustrations.

SCIENTIFIC NUTRITION SIMPLIFIED. A Condensed Exposition for Everybody of the Theories and Discoveries of Chittenden, Fletcher and others. By Goodwin Brown. Price 75 cents net; postpaid, 83 cents. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company.

This book is a résumé of the theories of Fletcher, Chittenden, Fisher and others concerning diet and methods of eating and drinking, which the author believes in, because he has been benefited by practicing these theories.

The sum and substance of it all is that we should eat far less than we do of meat

and other proteid substances, should take food only when hungry, chew it very thoroughly (even chew liquid foods!), and then live to be a hundred, or words to that effect.

As we all agree that proper food in smaller quantities than usually taken and thoroughly masticated is the proper method of eating, there is not very much new in the book except quotations from Chittenden, Fisher and others giving the proteid and caloric values and quite a list of foods.

It will be well for physicians and laymen to read the book and then draw their own conclusions.

PAMPHLETS RECEIVED.

ENFORCEMENT OF MEDICAL PRACTICE LAWS BY COUNTY SOCIETIES. By Floyd M. Crandall, M.D., New York. Reprinted from Journal American Medical Association, February 8, 1908. STRICTURE OF THE EUSTACHIAN TUBE WITH ITS BANEFUL CONSEQUENCES TRACED TO ADHESIONS IN THE FOSSA OF ROSENMULLER. By W. Sohier Bryant, M.D., New York. Reprinted from Medical Record, February 8, 1908. THE MUTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF UPPER AIR TRACT, JAWS, TEETH AND FACE. By W. Sohier Bryant, M.D., New York. Reprinted from Journal American Medical Association, January 25, 1908.

THE PROGNOSIS IN CHRONIC VALVULAR DISEASE. By Edward E. Cornwall, M.D., Brooklyn, N. Y. Reprinted from Long Island Medical Journal, June, 1908.

THE VALUE OF AN ABSOLUTELY VEGETARIAN DIET IN PSORIASIS. By L. Duncan Bulkley, M.D., New York. Reprinted from Journal of the American Medical Association, February 22, 1908.

THE ECONOMIC ADVISABILITY OF INAUGURATING A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF HEALTH. By J. Pease Norton, M.D., New Haven, Conn. Reprinted from Public Health Defense League, No. 7.

SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS.

College of Physicians of Philadelphia.Stated Meeting, February 5, 1908-The President, Dr. James Tyson, in the chair.

-1 HE WIRING OPERATION IN THE TREAT

MENT OF ANEURISM OF THE AORTA AND THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS BEFORE AND AFTER THE OPERATION. Dr. Hobart A. Hare presented several points upon this

subject bearing more especially upon the remarkable results of the operation. The first and most definite result was the remarkable diminution of pain. A second noteworthy result was the diminution of dyspnoea. In a case cited in which the suffering had been most extreme there was relief before the electricity had been passing through the tumor for 15 minuutes. Another point of interest was that in some 60 operations of this kind recorded there had not been a single instance of accident occurring during the operation. In no instance had there been puncture of the sac or the sweeping off of a loose clot producing secondary lesions. In the case referred to there had been three hours before the operation partial hemiplegia and aphasia. This condition was undoubtedly due to embolism, because later it had entirely disappeared.

In the vast majority of cases in which aneurism occurs Dr. Hare said it occurs as a manifestation of general vascular disease, and the history of all the cases he has operated upon or seen reported has been that after the wiring the adjacent blood vessel has given way. Cases, however, are on record in which life has been prolonged for considerable periods of time in comfort and usefulness.

It was urged that great care should be exercised that the needle is not pushed by inadvertence so far into the aneurismal sac that the shoulder of the needle comes into contact with the skin, otherwise an electrolytic burn will result. One such case was cited.

Dr. Hare has used gold wire in nearly all of his cases. While he believes silver may be rather more easily handled, he feels that gold wire after entering the mass may better adjust itself to the uneven surfaces of the sac, and silver would not.

Dr. Robert N. Wilson; Jr., had operated upon three cases of aneurism. Two were still living and one had died within a week or two after the wiring.

Dr. William S. Newcomet exhibited fluoroscopic pictures of a case operated upon by Dr. Hare. He believes that if the fluoroscope is used with proper precaution there is little danger to the op

erator.

Dr. M. Howard Fussell, speaking of the absence of symptoms in Dr. Sailer's case of rupture of the aneurism into the superior vena cava, said that two years before he had gone over the literature and in all the cases reported there was sudden, almost instantaneous, venous cedema.

Dr. J. Alison Scott cited one case of death within 12 hours after wiring an aneurism on the left side of the neck. In a case under his care at the present time an aneurism the size of a small lemon had been wired in July. Improvement followed, but at the present time the man has an aneurism the size of a cantaloupe spread out over the entire right side of the neck. Dr. Scott attributes the sudden and remarkable decrease of pain upon wiring to the effect of the electricity rather than to the sudden ceasing of the pressure, unless the sac diminishes very rapidly in size. Regarding the duration of life in the presence of aneurism, he had known of one case in which the patient lived for 18 years.