axe to grind, no candidate for office, no favorite meeting-place, no pet scheme of management. Yet we have to regret, and, in no sense of responsibility, to apologize for, the attempt of a few men to make political capital out of what should have been the purest hospitality.

One thing could not but impress the most impartial observer at the various luncheons and other entertainments of the American Medical Association. Although the dues paid by members, even if applied in such a way, did not begin to represent the value of the entertainment offered, not a few of the guests and some of the ladies accompanying them, acted as if they were at a bargain counter, elbowing their neighbors for a first serving or a choice bit of food, or complaining of some commission or omission on the part of their entertainers. Yet after all, such criticism was deserved by the scantiest minority of those in attendance, and, for the most part, one could well be proud of belonging to an association which makes no pretense to being select.

One of the noteworthy features of the American Medical Association is the number of satellite societies which its mass has attracted. The medical editors, the examining boards, the colleges, were all represented by independent societies, and the Academy of Medicine held an important two days' session before the American Medical Association assembled. It is rather a joke on the members of the last-named organization, that, with all their college education, a glaring error in grammatical construction, should have occurred on the first page of their announcement.

Nothing could have been more timely than the recent plea of The Reporter for greater care in the preparation of programs. Some of the sections published lists of papers three times as long as could have been presented in the utmost allowance of time at their disposal. For the man intending to devote his attention to one section, this meant no greater inconvenience than disappointment at not hearing some papers in which his interest had been aroused and fatigue at having to listen to some which were utterly unworthy of an audience. It was quite impossible for one whose time was divided to make plans to hear any particular discussion or paper. It was openly charged by many in attendance that some of the papers had not even been written, their authors (?) merely wishing to see their names on the program.

Different men afforded the most diverse examples of methods. Some sacrificed all personal considerations in order to save the time of the section and allow other papers to be presented. Others gesticulated over platitudes, without interest to any progressive physician, not only without regard to courtesy, but even in defiance of time limits set by joint agreement. We would repeat the recommendation that every society should have an editorial committee which should reject, curtail or abstract every

paper not of suitable length and interest, with the same impartiality as if it were presented for publication.

And yet, with all the opportunities for criticism, what a grand education it is to meet with one's professional associaties of many latitudes and longitudes, of both sexes and all kinds! And, with all our shortcomings as a profession, how much there is to make us feel the benefits of mutual support and to give us a modest but enthusiastic pride in being American physicians! Editorial, The Medical and Surgical Reporter.

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A HAND BOOK OF CLIMATOLOGY.

Embodying Its Principles and Therapeutic Application, with Scientific Data of the Chief Health Resorts of the World. By E. Edwin Solly, M.D., M.R.C.S. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia, 1897.

The author introduces his subject by saying that the "non-existence of a systematic treatise on medical climatology, and the fact that this subject has engaged the author's attention for thirty years, may be advanced as the reasons for the preparation of this volume. The time, moreover, seems ripe for such an endeavor, for there is a growing appreciation both on the part of the profession and the public at large, as to the value of climate in the prevention and treatment of disease, and fortunately to answer this awakening we have now accumulated accurate and extended meteorological observations upon which to found natural laws affording trustworthy conclusions."

The last few years has certainly been productive of a number of papers on the value of climate for the treatment of disease, and we are not so sure that the author is entirely accurate in saying that no systematic treatise has heretofore appeared. On the other hand, we most heartily accord to the one which he has offered us, a position of honor, and we cannot fail to recognize that he makes valuable contributions, and in a practical way to this phase of medicine. At least for one disease climate has always outlived every other form of treatment. We mean phthisis, and it is a very well known fact that phthisis in its earlier stages is entirely amenable to climatic treatment.

The work is divided into three sections and each section into a number of chapters. A statement of the captions of these chapters will give an idea of the way in which the author considers his subject, even if he does not give anything like an adequate idea of the detail and pains that he takes in presenting his facts.

Chapter I is entitled, "Principles of Medical Climatology." Then follow chapters on physiology, ethnology, geographical distribution of fideases, and classification of climates. This completes Section 1.

The next section has chapters on Phthisis, Form of Phthisis as Influenced by Climate, the Results of the Treatment of Phthisis by Change of Climate, and lastly, Forms of Disease other than Phthisis as Influenced by Climate. Under this letter head Asthma and Hay Fever which the author calls Nasal Asthma receive some attention, as well as some heart troubles and nervous disorders.

The next section is for the most part geographical and gives the climate and the conditions, as well as neat and accurate maps of a variety of regions-North America, Mexico, South America, Europe, Africa, Australasia, and some of the islands. Naturally the climates of North America receive the lion's share of attention. The name of the publishers is a sufficient guarantee of the character of their part of the work. The volume is unquestionably a desirable one and useful. We wish it the success it deserves.

The Menopause. By Andrew F. Currier, A.B. M.D. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1897.

In the embellishment of the title the author gives the key-note to the work.

"A consideration of the phenomena which occur to women at the close of the child-bearing period, with incidental allusions to their relationship to menstruation, also a particular cousideration of the premature (especially the artificial) menopause."

The author is already well known to the American public through his many papers on gynæcological subjects, and the presentation by him of a systematic treatise on one of the phases of woman's life is both welcome and expected. It has been a long time, he tells us, since we have had an English work, or even a translation of a foreign work on this subject, and there has unquestionably been such a vast amount of work done in operative gynæcology during these years, that something ought to have been. added to our knowledge of the menopause.

"The writer would beg leave to say that he has had the subject of this work under consideration many years. He was never able to see the sense nor the logic of the traditional teaching repeated generation after generation that the menopause was a serious, yea, a most dangerous time. and experience. That the matron and the maid alike should approach it with fear and awe; that if this dangerous Rubicon were once past, joy and felicity would wait upon the remaining years of life

"Another serious error which it is the writer's desire to controvert, is the prevalent one that there is in some way the most intimate relationship

between cancer, especially cancer of the womb and the breast, and the menopause."

The treatment of the abnormal conditions associated with the menopause receive full consideration, and the little volume sustains the reputation long since earned by the author for thoroughness, conscientiousness and practical value in his writings.

Hysteria and Certain Allied Conditions. By George J. Preston, M.D., Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore. Philadelphia, B. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1012 Walnut street, 1897.

Again we are confronted by the statement that there is no recent book on the subject as the excuse for the appearance of this little volume.

It is surprising how many excellent medical men are puzzled and perplexed by hysteria in its manifold forms. The fact that some of the worst cases of Hysteria are seen in males, often fails to enter into a medical man's consideration. Its continual appearance among females is apt to put one more or less on guard, but even with them it sometimes assumes such a complete disguise that it will baffle the most careful consideration of experts.

The subject is always an interesting one, and any separate treatise on it must present some new fields for thought, and in the present case the author's suggestions as to prophylaxis, as well as his detailed statement of the treatment is more especially the result of personal experience, and this is always the most interesting part of a man's writing.

Hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, massage, the rest cure, hypnotism and surgical interferences are the methods of treatment that are separately considered.

Eye-Strain in Health and Disease. With Special Reference to the

Amelioration or Cure of Chronic Nervous Derangements Without the Aid of Drugs. By Ambrose L. Ranney, A.M., M.D., author of "Lectures on Nervous Diseases," "The Applied Anatomy of the Nervous System," etc., etc.; late Professor of Nervous Diseases in the Medical Department of the University of Vermont and of the Anatomy of the Nervous System in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, etc. Illustrated with 38 wood-cuts. One volume, royal octavo, pages viii-321. Extra cloth, beveled edges, $2.00, net. The F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1,914 and 1.916 Cherry street, Philadelphia; 117 W. Forty-second street, New York; 9 Lakeside Building, Chicago.

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