Obituary

AFTER an illness of nine months Capt. R. F. Davidson, C.A.M.C., late medical officer of the 1st Cadet Wing of the R.A.F., passed away at Muskoka Cottage Hospital on December 12th. Capt. Davidson was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Davidson, 56 Roxborough Street West, Toronto. He was born in Toronto twenty-six years ago; he matriculated at Jarvis Street Collegiate, and entered Queen's University in 1912, graduating in medicine in 1916. He immediately enlisted in the army, and was for some time medical officer at the Convalescent Home, College Street. He was transferred to the R.A.F. in August, 1917, and moved to Camp Borden for the winter. In the following March he was stricken with pneumonia, from which he never fully recovered. Captain Davidson was married in November, 1917, to Miss Muriel Owens, who was at that time a nurse in Western Hospital, and who survives her husband.

DR. GUY H. WALLACE, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wallace, 94 Glen Road, Toronto, died at his home in New York in December. Dr. Wallace was a graduate of St. Andrew's College and the University of Toronto. Taking his degree in medicine in 1909, he was for some time assistant to Professor Norris in the pathological department of Bellevue and allied hospitals. He volunteered for service overseas, and was on the staff of Moore Barracks Hospital, Shorncliffe, for over a year. Owing to failing health he returned to Toronto on leave and underwent an operation at the General Hospital, from which he never fully recovered. His offer on several occasions to return to service with the C.A.M.C. was rejected, owing to the condition of his health, and he resumed practice at 515 Madison Avenue, New York. He is survived by his widow

and one brother, Mr. Harry Wallace, of London, England. He came from St. Thomas, Ont., where he attended public and high school, and where his parents formerly resided.

On account of failing health spring, where he had been a

DR. S. E. BOULTER, V.S., died at his home in Niagara Falls, Ont., on December 7th, aged 59. he returned from the front last surgeon in the British cavalry. member of the Board of Health resigning in 1915 to go overseas. County. His widow and one son, survive.

He had for years been a and the City Council here, He was born in Haldimand Clement, still at the front,

MEMORIAL TO "FLANDERS FIELDS" AUTHOR

THE following memorial was placed in St. Andrew's Church, Guelph, a few weeks ago, by Lieut.-Col. David McCrae, sacred to the memory of his second son, Capt. John McCrae, Canada's poet laureate. Toronto friends attended the ceremony.

"Until the day break and the shadows flee away."

In memory of Lt.-Col. John McCrae, M.D., of Montreal, Graduate and Fellow of Toronto University, Lecturer in Medicine, McGill University, Lieutenant C.F.A., South Africa, 1900; Surgeon First Brigade Field Artillery, C.E.F., 19141915. In Charge Medical Division No. 3 Canadian General Hospital, 1915-1918. Second son of Lt.-Col. David and Janet McCrae. Born at Guelph, Nov. 30, 1872. Died in France, Jan. 28, 1918. Buried at Wimereux. Physician, Soldier, Poet and the well beloved of his friends. What I spent I had: What I saved I lost: What I gave I have.

The Physician's Library *

Including Muscle Rest and Muscle Re-education. By Willian Colin Mackenzie, M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.S. (Edin.), Mem ber of the Council of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland and of the Staff of the Military Orthopedic Hospital, Shepherd's Bush, London; formerly Lecturer on Applied Anatomy to the University of Melbourne, and Examiner in Senior Anatomy to the Universities of Melbourne and Adelaide, with 99 illustrations. H. K. Lewis & Co., Limited, 136 Gower St., London, W. C.., 1918.

At this time, when everyone is trying his utmost to combat the ugly and persistent definities as a result of the peripheral nerve lesions of the war, and restore the limb to as near normal function as possible, this little book should be perused carefully. This should be done particularly by the neurologist, the surgeon, and the re-educationalist, and by no one more carefully than the medical men, who are undertaking the therapeutic direction of electrical and massage centres in the army to-day. In it the author presents many useful points. based on anatomy and physiology for the re-education of muscles. There is no point better made in the whole book than the one that, probably we are all too prone to condemn a muscle to paralytic category on an examination, which, too often calls upon a muscle to contract from a point where maximum power is required, instead of putting the limb in the most favorable position for minimal paretic contraction. The suggestions and diagrams for physiological muscle rest are good and the appliances are simple and can be readily made at any good orthopedic centre. The administration of the thymus gland extract during the re-educational period is something that only actual tests will justify or condemn. Common fallacies in

muscle contractions are dealt with under the muscle groups of different nerves, and under this heading are reproduced good diagrams and photographs, graphically showing the individual characteristics. All through the book the author derives assistance in his arguments from comparative anatomy. This book is one which should be read with a great deal of benefit by those interested in the nerve lesions and muscle lesions. so common to-day.

A Text-Book of Elementary Military Hygiene and Sanitation. By FRANK R. KEEFER, A.M., M.D., Colonel, Medical Corps, United States Army; Formerly Professor of Military Hygiene, United States Military Academy, West Point. Second edition, reset. Philadelphia and London: The W. B. Saunders Co. Sole Canadian Agents: The J. F. Hartz Co. Limited, Toronto. Cloth $1.75 net. 1918.

The events of the last four years have necessitated a fresh view-point of military hygiene taking up as it does the sanitation of camp and field in different methods and circumstances of war. The author, realizing this, has drawn largely upon the experience of the Allies for the more technical portion of field and trench sanitation. The experience gained in the rapid formation of a large army from civilians has given him free scope for well considered remarks in regard to the care of the troops and selection of recruits. Many medical officers with overseas experience will bear testimony to the truth of his remarks on the necessary importance of the personal supervision of the men by the medical officer, both in the way of getting the men fit by inculcating the principles of personal hygiene and the avoidance of preventable diseases.

In his remarks on Gas-gangrene it is stated that "this is not very common," this is much at variance with the overseas experience where it was unfortunately too common though not invariably a grave condition, as the author states. It is noted too, with regret, that mention is not made of trench fever, a louse-borne disease which has been the cause of considerable wastage in the fighting forces. The methods of rendering the water supply potable and the disposal of wastes are taken up in

detail, as this is an extremely important part of military hygiene. A special chapter is devoted to venereal disease and deals with preventive and prophylactic measures. The results of the latter not only in the American forces but abroad have been eminently successful and have reduced the incidence of disease in this respect to a great degree. The use of alcohol under ordinary conditions is condemned unreservedly and rightly so. However, he states that as a restorative for fatigue following hard labor, for example the rum ration, it may at times be used. On the whole the book gives a rather brief but concise outline of hygienic methods in a modern army.

International Clinics.

A Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures and especially prepared Original Articles on most Departments in Medicine by Leading Members of the Profession. Volume III, 28th series; 1918. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company.

Editor Landis, perhaps stimulated by the somewhat recent appearance of the North American Clinics and the Chicago Clinics, presents in this volume a fine lot of interesting material. Christian, of Boston, reports an instructive case of Aente Vegetative Endocarditis. Patterson, of Jefferson Medical College, one of Auricular Fibrillation. Rehfuss, of Philadelphia, contributes a unique report on the use of the fractional gastric tube. To our readers who are interested in diagnosis and treatment of" Stomach Troubles" (and what general practitioner is not?) this will be found to be an especially helpful article; more particularly if they live beyond the radius of an X-ray outfit. Lydston presents a useful article to the general practitioner on the non-surgical treatment of Enlarged Prostate. Landis himself contributes a readable article on the somewhat time-worn subject of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Two prominent Louisville men give a fine clinic on a case of Coleliths-accompanyingand causing-Pancreatitis-one in which the diagnosis was difficult—as is most of the lesions in what they refer to as "Hell's whole acre." Anesthesia on the Battle Front will interest every general practitioner and anesthetist and surgeon.