The American Medical Journalist says things about patent medicines which it would not hurt Collier's and the Ladylike Journal of Philadelphia to quote occasionally.

February "Stuffed Club" contains a sample of old-school prescribing in a case of pneumonia, in Chicago, which resembles some of the Cook county homeopathic (?) dope.

Dr. Watson, located at Pueblo, has adopted bargain counter tactics, inasmuch as his advertisement in a Pueblo paper announces a reduction in office treatments to $1.

According to Medical Century, the Kansas City Hahnemann Medical College has had the most marked increase of students of any homeopathic institution during the past year.

The Colorado Medical Journal publishes the picture of Dr. T. Mitchell Burns in its January issue and says enough nice things about that gentleman to last him a lifetime.

Dr. Frona Abbott's timely discovery of a fire in Temple Court, in which her offices are located, no doubt saved that building from destruction one night last month.

On his return from a very successful business trip East, Dr. L. C. Hedges, Grand Junction, Colorado, paid a brief visit to the managing man of The Critique one day last month.

A child is born every six minutes, in New York City, and there is a funeral in that town every seven; a gain in population of over one an hour. No race suicide in New York anyhow.

The governor of Minnesota cut down the representation of homeopaths on the state board of medical examiners from three to two, and now there is some resoluting going on in "Minnasote."

The Baltimore Homeopathic Club has rented a building and incorporated the St. Luke's Hospital of Baltimore. Rumor says a new homeopathic hospital is needed in that town. Denver, too.

The only case of "triplets" in Chicago during the year 1905 occurred at Hahnemann hospital in that city the 29th of December. Colorado the Post pays a reward for an event of this character.

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A two and one-half year old child died in Colorado Springs recently as a result of eating six tablets from a supply its mother had been using as a catarrh cure and which contained strychnine. Pretty stiff dope, that.

Even the lay press is becoming more bold in its criticisms of medical matters; for instance, we cite our readers to the editorial from the Denver daily Post of February 12th, "Another Medical Discovery," to be found in our editorial pages.

The Rochester (New York) Homeopathic Hospital earned $62,776.74 last year and, after paying all expenses, had a cash balance January 1, 1906, of $3,359.19. The nurses of that institution earned $1,844.17, which was figured in as receipts.

If you are contemplating a trip to any point in the United States, consult the advertising pages of The Critique for information regarding the railroads. We carry the best brand of reliable information in this line of any medical magazine in the country.

During the past month The Critique has received many congratulatory communications concerning the crusade which is being carried on through its columns; in addition thereto quite a few subscriptions also. There are going to be things didding very soon now. Quite a few are getting anxious.

Apropos to your article regarding the man who gives Edebohls pointers on his operation, did you ever hear the omnibus man sing out: "Here is the house of the celebrated doctor who discovered the operation for appendicitis?" Surely some wonderful things come to pass. How much per is worth?-Anonymous.

"Osteopathic doctors of this city are greatly encouraged over an elaborate dissenting opinion which Justice Deuel of the Court of Special Sessions has filed in the case of an osteopath against whom the County Medical Society had secured a conviction and a $50 fine for practicing medicine without a license."-The Hahnemannian Monthly. We'll wager a small wad of the "root" that this particular osteopath was a subscriber to "Fads and Fancies."

Mr. H. C. Enos, son of Dr. C. W. Enos of this city, who recently graduated from Columbia college with a mining engineer's degree, has secured a very lucrative and responsible position with the El Moro Mining Company of England, with headquarters at El Moro, Mexico, and has already entered upon his duties. Dr. C. W. Enos is one of the most prominent homeopaths of this city and his many friends will be pleased to hear of the prosperity and prospects of Enos, Jr.

Picture puzzle: Drs. J. Wylie Anderson, C. E. Tennant, G. F. Roosevelt and G. S. Peck were the homeopathic physicians appointed on the county hospital staff for the year 1906. Inasmuch as the members of the Denver Homeopathic Club have resoluted about the unfair treatment members of that association have received at the hands of the county commissioners, and also declared that two of the appointees did not pretend to be homeopaths, will some member of the aforesaid club please find the two offenders who are "shy" on homeopathy and put us next?

Drs. F. C. Strong and M. C. Rosedahl have issued announcements telling of their removal to the new and elegant Commonwealth building, at the corner of Stout and Fifteenth streets, and from the signs on the windows we are led to believe they have secured one of the finest of the many fine suites in this fine building. Dr. Strong's hours are from 10 to 12 in the forenoon and 3 to 5 in the afternoon, with a Sunday office hour from 10 to 1; Dr. Rosedahl's time is divided during the day as follows: 9 to 10, 12 to 3, and 7 to 8; their telephone number is 1739 and their offices are numbered 215-16-17. Success to them.

The name Reed & Carnrick is a sufficient guarantee to any one that preparations bearing this firm's name are of the most absolute reliability. So firm have they grounded the faith of the public in this fact by over fifty years' fair and faithful service that certain concerns are presuming to profit by a similarity of name without having complied with the formality of convincing the public of their thorough business responsibility, consequently we would advise any and all to be convinced of the genuineness of goods bearing a part or whole of this firm's name which they may purchase. There is but one kind of "Reed & Carnrick" material on the market and it bears this firm's name in full.

In its January leading editorial, "The Condition of our Colleges," Medical Century says: "To find out the actual condition of our colleges, we addressed the secretary of each college a letter asking for certain information. In the case of the colleges who were prospring the answers came promptly; in those that were holding their own, less promptly; in those that were falling off in numbers, very tardily or not at all; and in those that came not at all, one can easily see one reason for the non-success of the institution, for if the secretary is as dilatory in answering communications from students, no wonder they are wanting. . . We have received no word from the University of Minnesota, nor the Denver Homeopathic College." Comment in this case is certainly uncalled for.

The Metropolitan hospital of the city of New York has now nearly 1,200 beds and presents an unrivalled opportunity for the practical study of disease in every form. Surgery, gynaecology, genito-urinary diseases, neurology, dermatology, physical diagnosis and general medicine, and homeopathic therapeutics, as well as obstetrics and diseases of children, comprise the lines of experience gained by the internes of this institution.

Competitive examinations for the twelve services of eighteen months each, commencing June 1 and December 1, 1906, will be conducted at the hospital May 11, 1906.

These examinations are open to all graduates in medicine, and application should be addressed to Edward P. Swift, chairman committee on examinations, 170 West Eighty-eighth street, New York City, New York.

McArthur Brothers' Company, of Chicago, one of the oldest and strongest railroad contracting firms in the United States, are to build the new line from Roanoke into Mercer county, West Virginia, a distance of about 120 miles. As it is always their policy to take good care of their sick and injured they have decided upon a large and well equipped general hospital for the medical and surgical necessities of the army of from five thousand to six thousand men whom they will employ for the next two years. Dr. C. E. Fisher of Chicago, their chief surgeon, has selected East Radford for the site of the general hospital, and he and Mr. W. G. Sloan have closed a lease for "La Belle Inn." which will be at once transformed into a splendid modern hospital capable of housing two hundred patients at a time if need be. The capacious parlors, libraries and dining rooms are to be transformed into general wards, and the forty-eight rooms are to be thoroughly renovated and put in condition for special cases. A large bow window room on the second floor is to be so finished as to make an immensely commodious, well lighted and well appointed operating room, with a preparing room adjoining it. Modern plumbing, city water, electric lights and telephones are to be installed at once, stables are to be built, an ambulance service will be part of the equipment, experienced trained nurses from the University of Michigan Training School, who have been in McArthur Brothers' Company's hospital in western Maryland, will be in charge of the sick and injured men-in fact, a high class and thoroughly modern hospital is being established.

KENT'S LECTURES ON HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA.

At last we have the satisfaction of welcoming in book form the collected lectures of Dr. James T. Kent on Homeopathic Materia Medica. For a generation past Dr. Kent has been without a rival in expounding the different remedies of the Materia Medica. His lectures, stenographically reported, have been eagerly snapped up, when published in journals, by Materia Medica students and practitioners. Why is this so? The reason is not difficult to find. Dr. Kent has in an eminent degree the faculty of apprehending what Burnett calls the "true inwardness" of a remedy, and of tracing that inwardness in its outward expression in symptoms. In Dr. Kent's lectures will be found graphic pictures of drug processes ready for bedside application by student and practitioner alike. The vitality of Kent's work consists largely in this, that it is unmixed-undiluted-with allopathic notions. It is no concern of Dr. Kent's to reconcile homeopathic facts with the crude theories and crude pathologies of the allopathic school. He does not therefore indulge his readers with long disquisitions on the action of drugs stated in terms of the physiological theories that happen to hold the field for the time being. He adheres to Hahnemann's method of presenting facts and letting them stand on their own merits. In this respect Dr. Kent's lectures compare to great advantage with works like the Pharmacodynamics of the late Dr. Hughes.-Homepathic World.

BOOK NOTICES.

Refraction. Including Muscle Imbalance and the Adjustment of Glasses. By Royal S. Copeland, A. M., M. D., professor in the University of Michigan, and Adolph E. Ibershoff, M. D., instructor in the University of Michigan. 144 pages. Cloth, $1.50, net. Postage 9 cents. Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 1906.

"Bloodless Phlebotomist" for January contained the following very interesting and helpful original papers, a copy of which may be secured by writing the Denver Chemical Manufacturing Company, 52 Laight street, New York: "Appendicitis as an Infective Inflammation," by Prof. Robert T. Morris, A. M., M. D., of New York; "The Early Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis," by H. Edwin Lewis, M. D., of New York; "Phagedenic Ulcer," by J. Bonnefin, M. R. C. S. of Leytonstone, England.

American Institute of Homeopathy. Transactions of the sixty-first session held at Chicago, Illinois, June 26 to July 1, 1905. Charles Gatchell, M. D., secretary A. I. H., editor. Chicago Publication Committee, 1905.

The book, besides containing a very life-like picture of George Royal, M. D., who presided at the session of the Institute in Chicago, and which of itself is worth the price of admission, is made up of 931 pages of "transactions" and about 100 pages of additional and official information. It is well printed and as an ornament will no doubt fill the purpose for which it was intended.

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Diseases of Children.

A text book for the use of students and practitioners of medicine, by C. Sigmund Raue, M. D., clinical professor of paediatrics at Hahnemann College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; visiting physician to the children's wards and chief of the children's clinic, Hahnemann hospital; paediatrist to the West Philadelphia hospital. Second edition. Revised and enlarged. 61 illustrations. 776 pages. Cloth, $5.00. Half morocco, $6.00. Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 1906.

This excellent work deserves a much more extended review than our space will permit of in this issue. We will say more about it later; in the meantime order it for yourself.

Practical Dietetics, with Reference to Diet in Disease, by Alida Francis Pattee, graduate Boston Normal School of Household Arts, late instructor in dietetics Bellevue Training School for Nurses, Bellevue hospital, New York City; special lecturer at Bellevue, Mount Sinai and the Hahnemann Training Schools for Nurses, New York City. Third edition. A. F. Pattee, publisher, 52 West Thirty-ninth street, New York City. 286 pages, with additional index. Without any question of doubt this is one of the most thorough publications upon an important and interesting subject which has been presented to the physician and the public for some time. It is handsomely and substantially put together, printed from plain faced and easily read type and contains a fund of information rarely found in any work of a purely scientific nature. The practical points brought out in the discussion of the different topics are so plainly stated that anyone can appreciate their reliability and put them to use in everyday experience. We don't know what the book costs, inasmuch as the publishers failed to enclose this necessary bit of information, but have no doubt but what any of our many first-class book stores keep it in stock; if not, address the publisher as above. 0.0.0.

Diseases of the Skin. Second edition. Revised, enlarged and edited by Frederic M. Dearborn, A. B., M. D., dermatologist to the Hahnemann hospital; to the Metropolitan hospital (Department of Public Charities); to the Laura Franklin Free Hospital for Children; to the Children's Hospital of the Five Points House of Industry, and to the Out-patient Department of the Flower Hospital; assistant attending dermatologist to the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women; lecturer on dermatology, New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital; lecturer on dermatology, New York Medical College and Hospital for Women; 1906; Boericke & Runyon, New York; price, cloth, $6.00.

The excellence in make-up and mechanical construction of this publication is along lines laid down by the publishers, to provide nothing but the best; from a standpoint of literary and scientific merit, no work outside of Kent's Materia Medica and his Repertory will compare with this most recent addition to the homeopath's armamentarium as a work of absolute reliability. It contains one hundred and thirty-five illustrations, including ninety-eight full page engravings, a majority of which are from photographs taken by the author; there are twenty-eight new subjects discussed in this edition which were not mentioned in the original work by Dr. Henry M. Dearborn, author of the first edition, besides which much of the former has been revised and many portions entirely rewritten, particularly those sections deal