BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY FOR PHYSICIANS. By Dr. C. J. Salomonson. Authorized translation from the Second Revised Danish Edition, by William Trelease. 8 vo. cloth, pp. 162, with seventy-two figures in the text. Wm. Wood & Co., New York, N. Y., publishers; 1890. This is a most excellent elementary treatise on a subject that in the last decade has loomed up into no inconsiderable degree of importance to medical men; and to those who wish to perfect themselves in this new and interesting field we can cordially commend this interesting and well prepared monograph. TWELVE LECTURES ON THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, FOR PHYSICIANS AND STUDENTS. By Dr. Ludwig Edinger, Frankfort-onthe-Main. Second Revised Edition, with 133 illustrations; translated by Willis Hall Vittum, M. D., St. Paul, Minn., and edited by C. Eugene Riggs, A. M., M. D., Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases in the University of Minnesota; Member of the American Neurological Association; etc., etc. 8 vo cloth, pp 230; price $1.75. F. A. Davis, 1231 Filbert St., Philadelphia, Pa., Publisher; 1890. To the neurologist, and all who are interested in the pathological conditions of the central nervous system, this series of twelve lectures are of no little value. Beginning with a review of the history and methods of investigating this important part of the nervous system, Dr. Edinger very fully considers the anatomical characteristics. The work of the translator, American Editor, and the Publisher, are all to be commended. QUIZ COMPEND No. 7. A compend of Gynecology by Henry Morris, M. D., late Demonstrator of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; etc., etc.; with forty-five illustrations. 12 mo.; cloth, pp. 178. Price $1.00. P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Publishers. Quite a mass of condensed information is here found, well arranged, full and concise. Anyone cramming for an examination will find this little work a valuable aid; and for ready aud quick reference it possesses peculiar features. PHYSICIANS' LEISURE LIBRARY SERIES, AUSCULTATION AND PFRCUSSION. By Frederick C. Shattuck, M. D,; Professor of Clinical Medicine in Harvard University; Visiting Physician to Massachusetts General Hospital; etc. 12 mo., paper; pp. 121; price 25 cents, in cloth 50 cents. Geo S. Davis, Publisher, Detroit, Mich. : 1890. A very correct yet concise statement of the acknowledged facts in regard to auscultation and percussion. Editorial. SIXTEENTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT-MEDICAL AND On the evening of February 24 the Masonic Theater was literally packed with a large, cultured and brilliant audience, the occasion. being the annual Commencement of the above named departments of the State University. The full Italian orchestra filled the music stall, and the stage was luxuriously beautiful with its wealth of palms and giant palmettos, its blooming azalias, its bank of rich cut flowers, arranged in appropriate gift designs, its table of golden medals and its gaily decorated basket of blue and red ribboned diplomas. The members of the faculty and officers of the university were seated on the stage, together with many other prominent men of the State and city, among whom were Revs. Drs. R. Lin Cave and J. R. Winchester, Major Charles Vanderford, President J. H. Hancock, Adjutant-General Norman, General W. G. Brien, M. T. Bryan, Mayor Wm. Litterer, Recorder Bell, Superintendent Frank M. Smith, Judge Wm. B. Reese and several prominent members of the State Legislature. Edgar A. Cowles, of Minnesota, delivered the dental salutatory. Mr. Cowles is an exceedingly eloquent and impressive speaker. His rendition of the sentiments usually expected upon occasions of this kind were especially striking and impressive. Many expressions of regret greeted the announcement of the illness of T. J. Dodson, of Texas, the valedictorian of the Medical Depart ment, who was warmly praised as the most eloquent of speakers. General Wm. G. Brien read the address which he had prepared, and which contained many impressive reflections upon the dignity and responsibility of medicine as a calling. Charles W. Dabney, Jr., President of the University, congratulated the faculty upon the continued excellent showing of the departments, and the graduates upon the auspicious ending of their student career. Assisted by Dr. Duncan Eve, attired in full evening dress, he conferred the diplomas upon the graduates, who filed across the stage to receive them, and presented a pleasing spectacle of promising young manhood. It was not only the largest class in the history of the college, but every member of the faculty emphatically stated that its members were more earnest, zealous and better prepared that any that had yet passed from their tutelage. Fully a majority of the States of the Union were represented by the one hundred and twenty-three graduates, whose names are as follows: Albridge, John W..............Kentucky. Lee, Samuel P............. .Tennessee. .Texas. .Arkansas. Mississippi. .Tennessee. .Kentucky. .Texas. Lewis, Oscar T............. Mississippi. .Tennessee. .Tennessee. Blewett, Means........ .Texas. Campbell, Alexander M...........Texas. Cannon, John V.. .Tennessee. Molpas, James W.. Northcutt, Leon Blum... .....Missouri. .Mississippi. Collier, Egbert S...... Dodson, Thomas J............. Duncan, Leonidas L..... .Texas. Oliver, Manuel T........................ .Tennessee. .Texas. ............. .Alabama. Palmer, O. R.... Dowdy, Robert Willborn..... Alabama. Paris, W. J. J...... ..Illinois. Douglas, John C. ....... ..Tennessee. Pennington, E. F......... Pennsylvania. ..Tennessee. Poplin, Thomas Ivin......... Tennessee. .Tennessee. Ramsey, James A...... ..Tennessee. .Tennessee. Reagor, Frank Berry.. ..Tennessee. .Tennessee. Reynolds, T. C........Indian Territory. Roper, Jones R............ Seal. La Fayette...... Selph, Duncen H... Sharp, John P.... Sidwell, John Epp.. East, Patterson, Jr....... .Tennessee. Smith, Charles F.... .Tennessee. .Tennessee. .Tennessee. .Texas. .Tennessee. Mississippi. Griffith, A. S.... .Kentucky. .Texas. ..Texas. Hibbett, William E....... ..Tennessee. Kincheloe, Enos E......... Thomas, John F........ White, S. M... Williams, Edward H.... .Tennessee. .Arkansas. ..Alabama. .Mississippi. ..Kentucky. .Mississippi. .Tennessee. Womble, Worthy A............Georgia. ...Indiana. Zeigler, David S......... .Tennessee. ..Tennessee. Culbraith, N. M. (Honorary)...... .Tennessee. ...North Carolina. An intellectual feature of the evening was the charge to the graduates by Professor John S. Cain, M.D., who spoke at some length, delivering an address replete with wise counsel, interspersed with occassional sallies of humor, in a most charming manner. It is needless to say that it was well received by the appreciative audience, and we take pleasure in producing it in full in our "Original Department." After the eloquent address of Dr. Cain, which was warmly applauded, Professor Duncan Eve, A.M., M.D., awarded the faculty prizes in an eloquent and graceful manner to the following named gentlemen: MEDICAL. Paul F. Eve Faculty Medal-J. C. Lightfoot, Kentucky. Faculty Second Honor-O. B. Atkinson, Texas. Faculty Third Honor-W. E. Hibbett, Tennessee. DENTAL. Robert Russell Faculty Medal-E. F. Pennington, Pennsylvania. Faculty Second Honor (Morrison Bros.)--C. F. Smith, Mississippi. HOSPITAL APPOINTMENT. J. H. Banks, Mississippi. Quite a number of beautiful and tastefully arranged floral presents were handed from the stage to their appreciative recipients, testifying that the class of '90-91 had numerous friends among the better part of Nashville's population. Dr. Cain received his trio of handsome and fragrant testimonials with all the dignity, intermingled with the blushes "so becoming in the "sweet girl graduate." After the benediction, the audience was dismissed by Professor W. P. Jones, M.D., Faculty President. The next course of instruction will begin Friday, September 2, 1891. OBITUARY-DR. JOHN P. MCFARLAND. At a meeting of the Nashville Academy of Medicine, held at their hall Tuesday evening, February 17, to take action in regard to the death of Dr. John P. McFarland, which occurred at Lebanon, Tenn., on the day preceding, the Academy was called to order by Dr. James B. Stephens, President, who briefly stated the occasion and paid an eloquent tribute to the deceased. Of the large attendance present, Drs. Haggard, Mitchell, Douglas, White and others in appropriate remarks gave evidence of the high esteem held for the deceased. A committee being appointed by the President, submitted the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: The life of Dr. John P. McFarland was eventful only so far as the daily discharge of the duties incident to the practice of his profession served to make it so. Born in Henry County, a little more than forty-five years ago, and deprived in early infancy of a father's care and counsel, he was in the best and truest sense a self-made man. Enabled to acquire only an ordinary English |