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large auditorium, in which the meetings of the society can be held. A committee of twenty has been appointed by the president, Thomas B. Eastman, to present a feasible plan to the members.

The new buildings at the City Hospital, those at the Methodist Hospital and the Long Hospital will be ready for occupancy in sixty days.

Drs. J. F. Barnhill and E. W. Wales attended the mid-section of the American Laryngological and Otological Society in Detroit February 23.

Dr. G. W. Woolen spent a part of early March at French Lick Springs.

FOLLOWING HIS LEAD.

Young William received a new diary for a birthday present and was encouraged by his mother to set down, each day's doings.

The first day he wrote "Got up at seven," and then continued to record incidents of the day. At his mother's suggestion he took it to his teacher for approval.

She criticized his first phrase. "Don't say 'Got up,' William," she said. "The sun doesn't get up; it rises."

Upon retiring that night William remembered his teacher's instructions, and wrote with much care in his diary: "Set at nine."-Ladies Home Journal.

HE STOOD IN THE WAY. Last summer a fruit-grower who owns fifty acres of orchards in the irrigation belt was rejoicing in a light rainfall, when his hired man came into the house. "Why don't you stay in out of the rain?" asked the fruit man.

"I don't mind a little dew like this," said the man. "I can work along just the same."

"Oh, I'm not talking about that," exclaimed the fruit man. "The next time it rains you come into the house. I want that water on the land!"-Ladies Home Journal.

RECESSIONAL.

God of our fathers, known of old-
Lord of our far flung battle line-
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine;
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!

The tumult and the shouting dies--
The captains and the kings depart-
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and contrite heart,
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!

Far called, our navies melt away
On dune and headland sinks the fire-
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday

Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!

If drunk with the sight of power, we loose Wild tongue that have not Thee in

awe

Such boasting as the Gentiles use,

Or lesser breeds without the lawLord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget-lest we forget!

For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard-
All valiant dust that builds on dust,

And guarding, calls not Thee to guard,
For frantic boast and foolish word,
Thy mercy on Thy people, Lord. Amen.
-Rudyard Kipling.

Coming in the London Times the day following the crowning of Victoria as Empress of India as well as Queen of England the Recessional was startling in its solemnity.

A SPARTAN YOUTH.

It was raining hard one Sunday, and the little boy asked his mother if they weren't going to Sunday school.

"No, not today, dear," she answered, it's too muddy and its raining too hard."

"Well, Mamma," said the little Puritan, "it was raining yesterday and we went to the circus."

The mother immediately made preparations to go.-Ladies Home Journal.

BOOK AND JOURNAL REVIEWS.

History of Medicine, with Medical Chronology, Bibliographic Data, and Test uestions. By Fielding H. Garrison, A. B., M. D., Principal Assistant Librarian, Surgeon General's Office, Washington, D. C., Editor of the "Index Medicus." Octavo of 763 pages, many portraits. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London, 1913. Cloth, $6.00 net; half morocco, $7.50.

The object of this book is met by furnishing both student and practitioner a definite outline of the history of medicine and also many important facts which add to medical culture. We find nothing verbose and lengthy but rather there is shown a clearness and conciseness. The publication so far as we are able to judge seems to be accurate and complete. It is not saying too much to indicate that this is a panorama of medical history. These series of select biographies of important physicians and other bibliographic notes for collateral reading have been arranged in alphabetic order for ready reference, and explain themselves. Embodied in the text, with references, we find matter pertaining to the history of important diseases, surgical operations and therapeutic procedures. Every community would be better if it had a medical history club. A confession that almost any one would be willing to make is that the study of medicine in colleges and elsewhere has been slighted in the past and yet the present improvement although meagre shows a dawn of better times. More papers upon medical history should be presented to our societies and for the listener to say that such are dry is an acknowledgment of his own defects. If associations exist for the study of history of this character, this publication would make a superb textbook and guide for the proceedings and furthermore it would be reliable reference. Dr. Garrison has such an idea in mind and says that a pleasant way of studying the history of medicine is by means of the medical history club, which

differs from the formal medico-historical society in that the papers read serve as an introduction to a congenial conversazione, with refreshments or otherwise. As the private musical club depends for its success upon the disinterested spirit of the refined amateur, so the law of the history club is that each member must shed all assumption or any trace of the professional jealousy which is common to physicians, musicians, politicians, and those possessed of histrionic or operatic talents. Stevenson said of the Barbizon community of painters that "formal manners being laid aside, essential courtesy was the more rigidly exacted. *** to a touch of presumption or a word of hectoring these free Barbizonious were as sensative as a tea party of maiden ladies." The medical history club will never thrive unless each individual member preserves the modest, consistent attitude of a learner. Michael Angelo's cartoon of Father Time in a go-cart, with the legend "Ancora unparo," might be its device, if such a club is to be a "going concern.". S. E. EARP.

The Elements of Bacteriological Technique, a Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental and Technical Students. By J. W. H. Eyre, M. D., M. S., F. R. S. Edin. Director of Bacteriological Department of Guy's Hospital, London, and Lecturer on Bacteriology in the Medical and Dental Schools. Second edition rewritten and enlarged. Published by W. B. Saunders Co.; pages 518. Price $3.00 net.

This is the revised edition printed in America; entirely reset with additional illustrations. It comes "out of the workshop" from the bacterial depart ment of Guy's Hospital, London. It is a complete working manual-apparatus is fully described. The microscope has thirty pages; examination of bacilli and fungi twenty; staining methods fifteen; freezing methods, parraffin methods, etc., twenty; culture media, forty pages. In

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Massage, Manual Treatment, Remedial Movements-History, Mode of Application and Effects; Indications and ContraIndications. By DouglasGraham, M. D., Consultant and Instructor in Massage, Boston, Mass. With a chapter on massage of the eye by Dr. A. Darier, Paris. Fourth edition revised and enlarged with 75 illustrations. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company.

This work is one of the fullest expositions of the art of massage that has ever been given to the public, having 574 pages, replete with instructions and explanations of inestimable value to both physicians and massagists. There seems to be no detail too trivial for Dr. Graham to miss, and in the most volumnious manner he makes plain the why and wherefore of each manipulation and each movement. Beginning with an extended history of massage from the earliest ages, Dr. Graham takes the reader along to the days of Dr. Weir Mitchell and Professor Billroth and shows how, from the crude rubbing and pinching of the ancients has grown the skillful, scientific and intelligent manipulations of the trained masseur. The chapter upon "Massage in Affections of the Central Nervous System" and that upon "Massage in Joint Affections" the especially valuable. The chapters by Dr. Darier on Massage of the Eye and Ear are very interesting and instructive and should be read with interest by otologists and oculists, who perhaps, heretofore, have not considered massage as a help in their work.

A very interesting feature in Dr. Gra

ham's book is his report of the results of massage in over two thousand different cases, treated by him and by others, showing just what mode of procedure was used and the outcome.

That massage is a most valuable adjunct to materia medica, and that its proper administration has been of great help to the physician in his treatment of many ailments, has been an acknowledged fact for many years, and any work which deals as fully and as elaborately on the subject as Dr. Graham's should be a welcome addition to any medical library.

W. C. WOOD.

The Surgical Clinics of John B. Murphy, M. D., at Mercy Hospital, Chicago. Volume II. No. VI. (December). Octavo of 186 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London. W. B. Saunders Company, 1913. Published bi-monthly. Price per year: paper $8.00; cloth, $12.00.

This issue of the clinics contains much important matter which should be read with interest. What is said concerning tuberculosis of the lungs and bone cept of radius is very important. Tuberculoma of the spinal column and several other contributions are well illustrated. The student clinic at the opening session of the year on page 1061 illustrates Dr. Murphy's method of student instruction with preliminary remarks. There is also given a list of cases operated upon and demonstrated by Dr. Murphy, at Mercy Hospital, during the week of the Clinical Congress of Surgeons. Another thing worthy of mention is the comments and operations for cholelithiasis, stones in common duct, with intense jaundice.

S. E. E.

Marriage and Genetics, Laws of Human Breeding and Applied Eugenics. By Charles A. L. Reed, M. D., F. C. S. pp. 182. (54x74). Price, including postage, $1.00. Subscription only. The Galton Press, Publishers, Cincinnati, Ohio.

This book seems to be the outgrowth of a desire of the author to overcome the ignorance which in too many instances

keeps innocent victims from protecting themselves and their offspring from disease and degeneracy. If the thoughts expressed by the author are taken as a guide there is provided an opportunity to avoid many of those conditions that destroy the possible happiness of the marriage state and convert the bridal chamber into the anteroom of the divorce court. Consideration is given to the natural laws of human breeding inherent in the individual, as a foundation for the text. Throughout this book the reader will arrive at the conclusion that knowledge is the best preventative of disaster. The concluding section on applied eugenics is handled understandingly and brings out certain facts which are of vital importance to husband, wife and parent. S. E. E.

W. B. Sounders Company, publishers of Philadelphia and London, have just issued an entirely new eighty-eight page illustrated catalogue of their publications. As great care has evidently been taken in its production as in the manufacture of their books. It is an extremely handsome catalogue. It is a descriptive catalogue in the truest sense, telling you just what you will find in their books and showing you by specimen cuts, the type of illustrations used. It is really an index to modern medical literature, describing some 250 books, including 30 new books and new editions.

A postal sent to W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, will bring you a copy -and you should have one.

Dorland's American Pocket Medical Dictionary. Edited by W. A. Newman Dorland, M. D., editor "American Illustrated Medical Dictionary." Eighth edition revised and enlarged. 32 mo. of 677 pages. Philadelphia and London. W. B. Saunders Company, 1913. Flexible leather, gold edges, $1.00 net; thumb index, $1.25 net.

This edition is considerably larger than others and is superior in many other respects. It contains the pronunciation and definition of all principle terms used

in medicine and the kindred sciences including dentistry, veterinary medicine, nursing, etc., with over sixty extensive tables. The table of doses is both in the apothecary and metric systems. There is also a veterinary dose table. The selection of words seems to be as complete as possible. The definitions of terms are brief yet clear and adequate. The order of arrangement of matter is strictly alphabetical. There is an index to the tables which includes important headings where there are large numbers of grouped facts. The paper is good, the printing clear and all things considered this is one of the best pocket dictionaries. S. E. E.

EUGENIC LOVE SONG. Stick out your tongue, my love, and let me see

Once more its pink, uncoated loveliness. Eugenic, healthy maid, each day I bless The hour when first you felt the pulse of

me

Behold the birthday gift I bring to thee; A brand-new stethoscope! Ah, nothing

less!

But oh, my dear, it gives me great distress

To see you eat hot muffins with your tea!

Loved one, I know no other dame or maid

Whose bony conformation equals thine! And when thine adenoids are cured

next year

And my rheumate ghosts have all been laid,

Eugenia, love, the doc will make you mine;

But pray be careful of your diet, dear. -New York Sun.

The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot, and in the evening they stretch long, broad and deepening before us. Longfellow.

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