The Student's Book of Cutaneous Medicine and Diseases of the Skin. By Erasmus Wilson, F. R, S. New York: William Wood & Co. 1865.

The American Journal of Insanity. Edited by the Medical Officers of the New York State Lunatic Asylum. October, 1865.

Specialties in Medicine. By Henry D. Noyes, M. D. Read before the American Ophthalmological Society, June, 1865.

Catalogue of the Trustees, Overseers, Faculty and Students of the Berkshire Medical College, for the year 1865. Pittsfield, Mass., October, 1865.

Report on the Use of Pressure in the Treatment of Gonorrhoeal and Purulent Ophthalmia. By Surgeon Joseph S. Hildreth, U. S. V. New York: John

Medole. 1865.

American Educational Monthly. Devoted to Popular Insituction and Literature. September, 1865.

Report of the Willard Asylum, and Provision for the Insane. 1865.

Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society. Second Annual Meeting. New York, June, 1865.

Reports of the Trustees and Superintendent of the Tennessee Hospital for the Insane, presented to the General Assembly, April 3, 1865.

A Report upon the Epidemic occurring at Maplewood Young Ladies' Institute, Pittsfield, Mass., in July and August, 1864: Including a Discussion of the Causes of Typhoid Fever. By A. B. Palmer, M. D., C. L. Ford, M. D., and Pliny Earle, M. D.

Southern Medical Journals.

Richmond Medical Journal.-We are gratified to be able to announce the probable appearance of the Richmond Medical Journal, the first number of which will appear in December next. It will be esited by Dr. E. S. Gaillard, who is widely and favorably known as an accomplished scholar, skillful physician and a ready and forcible writer. This journal is to be a monthly octavo, of from 80 to 90 pages, and will be published at $5 00 a year, in advance. We bespeak for the journal a liberal support from the profession.

The Medical and Surgical Monthly, of Memphis, Tenn., is also proposed for the new year. It is to be edited by Frank A. Ramsey, A. M., M. D., a physician of high literary and professional attainment. It is to be published at the subscription price of $6 00 per year, and to contain 64 pages, each number. We hope that with restored peace, may again return in the South an active cultivation of Medical Science.

Lindsay and Blakiston's Physicians' Visiting List, and Book of Engagements for 1866.-The profession are now fully aware of the convenience of this Pocket Companion. The publishers deserve many thanks for furnishing so compact, convenient and valuable a book; one which answers so many purposes, and at so small an outlay. For sale in Buffalo by THEODORE BUTLER, 159 Main St.

The commencement of the Berkshire Medical College occurred on Wednesday, Nov. 8th.

The exercises began at 10 o'clock, A. M., by reading the Theses. Prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Todd, of Pittsfield, after which the President, Dr. H. H. Childs, briefly but impressively addressed the graduating class, and conferred the degree of Doctor of Medicine upon eighteen candidates, and the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine upon eighteen candidates, and the honorary degree of Medicine upon Prof. Wm. C. Richards, of Pittsfield, and Robert Treat, of Wisconsin.

The exercises were concluded by a very able and exceedingly interesting valedictory, address, delivered extemporaneously by Prof. Wm. C. Richards, M. D., who was recently appointed to fill the chair of "Chemistry and Natural History," made vacant by the resignation of Prof. P. A. Chadbourne, M. D.

The following is a list of the names of the graduates and the subject of their theses:

F. S. Abbott, A M., Mind and its Influence on Disease; Charles Bliss, Fibrin and its Uses; A. J. Brown, Pyæmia; A. S. Dian, Acute Rheumatism; J. N. Dichson, Modes of Death; G. W. Emery, Variola; Stillman Getchell, Diagnosis of Pneumonia; W. A. Jones. Hereditary Transmission; F. B. Lawson, (excused); Chas McAllister, Abscess; J. G. Page, Necessity of recognising imaginary Diseases and remedies; M. J. Powers, Puerpal Peritonitis; O. F. Searle, Syphilis; E. H. Sexton, Evidence of Utero Gestation; Arnold Stedman, Tubercular Meningitis; Hiram Temple, Asthma; John Winsor, Diagnosis.

MEDICAL PRIZE-EXPECTANT MEDICINE.-One hundred dollars have been placed in the Treasury of the Massachusetts Medical Society, to be offered by the Councillors as a prize for the best dissertation on the following subject, the award to be made by a committee consisting of the President of the Society and four Fellows named by him:

"Expectant Medicine-the extent to which it is practised at the present day, and the modes in which it is disguised or counterfeited."

Essays must be forwarded to the Ghairman of the Committee on or before October 1st, 1866, each with a sealed envelope containing the name of its author, in the usual way.

Boston, October, 1865.

AUGUSTUS A. GOULD,

Chairman of Committee.

In accordance with the above announcement, the following committee has been appointed, namely: Dr. Henry J. Bigelow, Dr. Samuel L. Abbot, Dr. Calvin Ellis and Dr. David W. Cheever.

It will be seen that the terms of the subject cover all cases of honest delusion or wilful fraud in the treatment of disease, in all the forms of excessive medication or the infinitesimal dilutions of homœopathy. As the prize is open to all competitors, we hope that our distant professional brethren may be induced to compete for it.-Boston Med. & Surg. Journal.

DANGER OF SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTIONS.-Prof. Nassbaum, of Munich, has just published an interesting account of an accident which happened to himself. Suffering from neuralgia, he had injected morphia under his own skin more than 2000 times-some times to the extent of five grains of morphia in twenty-four hours. Two months ago he injected two grains of acetate of morphia dissolved in fifteen minims of water, and accidentally sent it direct into a subcutaneous vein instead of into the cellular tissue. He gives a graphic account of his dangerous position for two hours, after which the effect passed off. He has seen similar effects in a small degree in two of his patients, and the practical lessons are, that as it may be impossible to avoid veins at all times, and one may be punctured unawares, subcutaneous injection should aiways be done very slowly, The effects are so instantaneous that the syringe can be stopped at the first sign of danger, and some of the injected fluid, mixed with blood, may even be sucked out again by the syringe. It is very remarkable how the effects of the same dose of the same substance differ when injected directly into a vein and mixed with venous blood, and when they filter into the blood from the celluluar tissue through the unbroken coats of the vessels.-Medical Times & Gazette.

BUFFALO

Medical and Surgical Journal.

VOL. V.

DECEMBER, 1865.

No. 5.

ART. I.-Transactions of the Medical Society of the County of Kings. REGULAR MEETING, SEPTEMBER, 1865.

Small-Pox in Cities-The causes of its spreading and the means essential for checking it. Br J. B. JONES, M. D.

It would have been presumption on my part to have taxed the time of the members of this Society by presenting a paper on variolus disease, containing my observations and the deductions or conclusions therefrom derived from my researches or practice, as an individual private practitioner, especially so when it will be borne in mind that we have had several valuable and apparently exhaustive papers, but recently presented on the same subject by other members of this Society, which papers will ever stand as monuments of industry and research, and stamp their authors as true lovers of science and ornaments to the medical profession.

But, Sir, occupying the position of health officer of the city, I, under our laws, become possessed of a vast amount of material facts not possible to be acquired by the entire corps of practitioners in the city. The papers referred to generalize, while the facts I present are local, and pertain chiefly to Brooklyn, and affect us all both socially and professionally. They corroborate many of the statements contained in the papers of Drs. Bell, Hutchison and others, and are of value on that account, if no other. They may serve to strengthen opinions deduced from individual observation in private practice, and may perchance enlighten some, and be the means of removing prejudices now known to exist in the profession in relation to actions necessary to be taken municipal, professional, and by the community, when the disease is present, and especially what actions are imperatively demanded to prevent its presence as far as lays in our conjoint power.

VOL. 5, NO. 5-23.

The health laws of Brooklyn require every person practicing physic in the city, who has any patient sick of a malignant, contagious, infectious, or pestilential disease, to make and file in the office of the Board of Health, within such time as the said Board may determine, the name of such patient, the house and place, and the name and nature of such disease, to the best of his knowledge and belief, failing to do which he is subject to a fine of $250, or six months imprisonment, one, or both. (See Title IX, City Charter.)

This law, without material alteration, has existed since Brooklyn was a village, and has been the source of much just complaint from physicians, for were they to observe it to the letter a large portion of their time would be occupied in their visits to the Board of Health to make unnecessary, useless reports, and in not a few instances it would require them to expose matters confidentially entrusted to them, the keeping of which they are professionally and in honor bound to do, and are sustained by the courts in so doing.

This matter I called the attention of the Board of Health to, and was requested by that body to draft such a law as would in my judgment attain the object desired, and relieve the physicians from unnecessary trouble. This was done, presented to the Board, approved of by them, and a resolution passed recommending our representatives to secure its passage. Previous to its presentation it was submitted to a number of distinguished members of the profession, and met with their entire approval. The following is a copy of the proposed law:

"Every person practicing physic in the said city, who shall have a patient sick of small-pox, yellow, typhus, typhoid or spotted fever, or cholera, shall makę and file a written certificate thereof within twenty-four hours after his first attendance on, or the earliest development of such disease, in such patient, stating the name, age, nativity, disease and house, or place where such patient then shall be, in the office of the Board of Health.

And the Board of Heath may require every and any person practicing physic in said city who shall have any patient sick of the above mentioned or any other contagious, infectious, malignant or pestilential disease, in any manner susceptible or capable of being