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Co., of this State, on the 10th of March, 1845. Being the oldest son, he worked on the farm while his father did a country practice. He was educated in the common schools, and at the Kemper Family School at Boonville.

In 1864 and 1865 Dr. Hall attended his first course of lectures at the St. Louis Medical College, and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1867.

After practicing six years in the country, Dr. Hall settled at Marshall, Mo., where he remained until September, 1890, when he moved to Kansas City.

For many years Dr. Hall was a member of the Saline County Medical Society; and has been a member of the American Medical Association since 1882; also a member of the Medical Association of Missouri for over twenty years. He is an active member of the Western Association of Gynecologists and Obstetricians, and of the Tri-State Medical Association, an exPresident of the Kansas City Academy of Medicine, and a member of the Jackson County Medical Society.

In 1889 Dr. Hall was appointed a member of the board of managers of the State Lunatic Asylum at Fulton, Mo., the duties of which position he discharged with signal ability, and resigned on moving to Kansas City. Here he enjoys a large practice. His popularity with the profession of that city was manifested by the fact of his election to the presidency of the Academy of Medicine within two years after his arrival in the city, and by the unanimous support he received for the presidency of the State Medical Association at its recent meeting.

A man of excellent physique and courteous bearing, he will make an acceptable presiding officer for this great representative organization.

ULTIMATE PROGNOSIS OF NEglected ADENOID
HYPERTROPHY.

Delevan (Medical Record) says: The question is asked, does adenoid hypertrophy, if left to itself, disappear, leaving the vault in a normal healthy condition? Generally speaking, it does not, but remains under some pathological state, which may continue throughout life.

The enlargement may not subside, and a degree of hypertrophy sufficient to cause serious injury and annoyance may continue to exist for many years.

The so-called "Thornwald's disease" appears to be nothing more than neglected adenoid hypertrophy.

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Disappearance of the hypertrophy may be attended with an atrophic condition of the vault of the pharynx, the result of which is a pathological state detrimental to the patient and difficult to cure.

The above conditions may influence not only the locality in which they arise, but may have far reaching and disastrous effect upon other organs. The ultimate prognosis as to the local condition, therefore, in cases of neglected adenoid hypertrophy, is unfavorable. W. W. B.

RESUSCITATION OF AN INFANT BY RHYTHMIC TRACTION ON THE TONGUE.

While this method is in general use for resuscitating the drowned, as suggested first by Laborde, in 1893, literature is silent upon the advantages of rhythmic traction on the tongue in new-born children. Dr. Kennett Cameron, of Montreal (Montreal Med. Jour.), reports a case which is well worth reprinting. He says:

"On Friday, February 1st, I was called to see Mrs. L., who was in labor. The membranes had ruptured and a large quantity of amniotic fluid had drained away. Both feet were presenting in the vagina, and after an unsuccessful attempt to replace them and perform cephalic version, extraction was proceeded with. No difficulty was experienced in delivering the body, but there was a good deal of delay in the birth of the head, the cord having ceased to beat some little time before the head was born. The child, after birth, was limp and cyanotic; artificial respiration, slapping, applications of heat and cold alternately, kept up for about ten minutes. failed to cause a respiratory movement; an occasional faint flutter, however, could be felt over the cardiac region.

Rhythmic traction on the tongue was then practiced. The child being placed well over on its right side, the tongue was gently seized by a pair of Pean's forceps and forcibly drawn forward, and then forcibly shoved back, as far as possible in both directions. This was kept up at the rate of about 30 or a little more per minute. Hardly half a minute had elapsed, after beginning the traction, before the child gave an inspiration, in about another half minute a second one followed; after that they became gradually more. frequent, and soon the child began to cry. The child has since been perfectly well.

This very marked effect, produced so rapidly, and by such a simple manœuvre, impressed upon me the very great value of the method, and that it is the one which should be made use of first in all such cases, or in anv form of apparent death.

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The Physician's Library.

A MANUAL OF SURGICAL ASEPSIS; By Carl Beck, M. D. With 65 Illustra tions in the Text and 12 Full-page Plates. W. B. Saunders, Walnut St., Philadelphia, Publisher.

This is a splendid little manual that must be read and re-read to be appreciated. It gives in precise readable form those principles in Bacteriological and Operative Technique so necessary in the practice of modern surgery. We do not think the writer's views on drainage are in accord with modern progress. One can readily discern the source of these views. However earnestly the German teachers may defend the practice of leaving gauze in an abdominal wound for a week or more for drainage, American surgeons will, we believe, wisely refrain from such practice and follow a more progressive line of action. The author's suggestions on preparatory prophylaxis are most excellent.

SIR FRANCIS BACON'S CIPHER STORY, Discovered and Deciphered by Orville W. Owen, M. D., Detroit, Mich. Vol. V. Howard Publishing Co., Detroit.

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The fifth volume is accompanied by a smaller one containing the Tragedy of the Earl of Essex, by Sir Francis Bacon. A sixth volume is to be issued The interest which these volumes have excited does not abate as they increase in number. William Shakespeare is no longer "in it." We were simpletons for believing that he ever was "in it." The man who closes his eyes and ears to these volumes, and will not see or hear, falls to the rear. He is decidedly not "up to date," but in the fog of a marvelous and unaccountable ignorance and depravity of faith. The last two volumes have completely dissipated the strange delusion. The sun has come from behind the clouds, and now all is as clear as the sunlight. Send for these volumes. 50c a piece in paper and $2.00 in cloth. Each contains 200 pages.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. Second Series. Vol. X, for 1895. Printed by the Academy.

This is a volume of 686 pages, printed on good, substantial book paper. The papers which constitute its contents are submitted to the profession on their merits; yet, presumably, with the approval of the judgment of the Academy. Their merits may be presumed from the reputation of their authors, among whom we observe the names of Charles McBurney, Alfred Loomis, St. John Roosa, Beverly Robinson, J. Harvey Dow, Charles Quimby, Robb, Abbe and others. Possibly the volume can be had of the Secretary, Richard Kalish, M. D., New York.

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PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF THE SKIN. For Practitioners and Students; By Dr. Moriz Kaposi, Professor of Dermatology and Syphilis, and Chief of the Clinic and Division for Skin Diseases in the Vienna University. Translation of the Last German Edition. New York: William Wood & Company, Bound in Extra Muslin at $5.50 per copy, and in Leather at $6.50 per copy.

We may safely say that no man, nor, indeed, any set of men, gives or can give, on any one subject, all that is desirable to be known, even of a practical character. There are numerous works on skin diseases, and yet we may look for more. But this one by Kaposi is destined to stand in the front. It has already reached its fourth edition, and is now the standard text-book in the Austrian and German universities. It has been translated into French and is the standard text-book in French medical schools. It now appears in an English dress, from the Wm. Wood Publishing Company of New York. Hebra evoked order from confusion, and placed Dermatology on a rational and solid basis. Kaposi enjoyed the benefit of his personal instruction; and in this work gives the fruit of that instruction, enlarged by his own personal experience, during the great advance of modern science along this line. The book is complete in an 8vo volume of 684 pages, illustrated by 84 engravings and one plate in colors, and is furnished with an unusually complete index. The book needs but to be announced. Dr. Kaposi's picture appeared on the first cover page of the April number of THE HERALD.

IMMUNITY, PROTECTIVE INOCULATIONS IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES, AND SERO-THERAPY. By George M. Sternberg, M. D., LL. D., SurgeonGeneral U. S. Army, Ex-President American Public Health Association, Honorary Member of the Epidemiological Society of London, of the Royal Academy of Medicine at Rome, of the Academy of Medicine at Rio Janeiro, of the Société d'Hygiene, etc., etc. One volume, 325 pages, octavo, bound in extra muslin, beveled edges, uniform with the other volumes of our Medical Practitioners' Library, price, $2.50; in Flexible Morocco, $3.25. William Wood & Co., New York.

A most timely work is the above book. The subject of sero-therapy and immunity in disease, promises to do more for medicine than anything since the discovery of antiseptic measures in the treatment of wounds. It is intensely interesting, dealing with natural immunity, acquired immunity. and serum-therapy of the various infectious diseases, Just now when so much interest is felt in the subject of serum-therapy, notably in diphtheria, cholera, and other diseases, this work will be of especial interest to the medical profession at large, and coming from the hands of a master, one who has devoted his life to the study of bacteriology and its application to medicine, will command a degree of respect that could not otherwise be

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hoped for. In the present volume the author has endeavored to give a summary of the most important experimental evidence in the field of research to which it relates. Comparatively little space has been given to the discussion of unsolved questions connected with the subject; nor has it been possible to review the entire literature; but the most important results of experiments made by competent bacteriologists have been stated as concisely as possible. D. M.

THE TREATMENT OF WOUNDS, ULCERS AND ABSCESSES; By Watson Cheyne, M. B., Ed. F. R. S., F. R. C. S., Professor of Surgery in King's College, London. Phila.: Lea Brothers & Co.

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We can only recommend this book as a good illustration of how far our English cousins are behind the times. The book is an unsafe one for a student and useless for a surgeon, save as a curiosity. Its only redeeming features are a few suggestions for after-treatment, which suggestions are already well known to the average American surgeon. CLINICAL GYNECOLOGY, MEDICAL AND SURGICAL. For Students and Practitioners; By Eminent American Teachers. Edited by John M. Keating, M. D., LL. D., and Henry C. Coe, M. D., M. R. C. S., Professor of Gynecology in New York Polyclinic. Illustrated. J. B. Lippencott Co., Publishers. Pp. 994. 1895.

The Introductory by the late Dr. William Goodell is full of wise and wholesome advice. This is worth the price of the book. It is the coöperative work of instructors in this specialty of medicine. It is intended to place the general practitioner abreast of the present state of knowledge on this subject, and such will not find it disappointing. The style is lucid and plain, presenting the thoughts of the writers in a readily apprehensible form. It aims to instruct "in a concise and more or less dogmatic form;" not aiming to support statements by reference to authorities. One takes up the book the second time with renewed interest and pleasure, and lays it down with reluctance. There is no better work for the beginner, and the student will find it the very book that can aid him in this study. RELATIONS OF DIESASES OF THE EYE TO GENERAL DISEASES; By Max Knies, M. D., Professor Extraordinary at the University of Freiburg, forming a Supplement to every Manual and Text-Book of Practical Medicine and Ophthalmology. Edited by Henry D. Noyes, A. M., M. D., Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, etc. Wm. Wood & Co., Publishers. 1895. Pp. 467. This is a very opportune and useful work. The trouble with most specialists is that they do not look beyond the field of their specialty for causes for, or connections with, the immediate disease in hand; nor for the sequel of such in any other part of the body. Every practitioner will