Dr. Frank Jones presented an interesting clinic, a patient suffering from mitral insufficiency, resulting from syphilis. The patient gave no history of rheumatism and is now suffering from many symptoms of syphilis. Dr. Jones said that his idea in presenting this clinic was to demonstrate that syphilis is a common cause of many heart troubles, while the books teach us that rheumatism is the cause of most of these heart lesions.

PROGRAM.

RIGGS' DISEASE-Howard T. Stewart, D.D.S. (See p. 345.)

"The Ideal Training School for Nurses”—Miss Vinnie A. Middleton, Superintendent of Nurses, City Hospital. (See p. 376.)

Bacteriology of Acute Otitis Media"-Dr. E. C. Ellett.

Dr. Stewart's paper was discussed by C. J. Washington, D.D.S. Dr. Buford, in discussing Miss Middleton's paper, said that he thought the standard of education should be raised for trained nurses, in order that the patient could be able to entertain the patients, if for nothing else.

Dr. Andrews said that he was much pleased with the examination papers of the nurses at a recent examination at the City Hospital.

Dr. Burns presented an ilium of a patient who had died at St. Joseph's Hospital with peritonitis, upon whom Dr. Smythe had operated successfully. The wound had healed. Discussed by Dr. Smythe.

Dr. Smythe reported a case of abscess of the liver, upon whom he had operated with success. The abscess was the result of an old case of neglected suppurative appendicitis.

Dr. Geo. R. Livermore was elected to membership unanimously.

Dr. Burns moved the president appoint a committee to confer with the dentists of the city and see if they desire to become members of this society. Carried. The president appointed Dr. Burns a committee of one to look after this

matter.

CLARKSDALE AND SIX COUNTIES MEDICAL SOCIETY Quarterly Meeting.

There was a large attendance at the last meeting of the Clarksdale and Six Counties Medical Society, on Wednesday, June 10th.

The meeting was called to order by the president, Dr. Morris J. Alexander, of Tunica. The minutes of the last session were read and approved.

Dr. R. H. Speck, of Hushpuckena, read a very able and interesting paper on Summer Diarrhea Among Children.

The paper of Dr. J. B. Brooks, of Robinsonville, Man as a Machine, was entertaining and instructive.

A paper was read by Dr. Fred. M. Brougher, who reported an isolated case of scarlet fever in his own family at Belen, Miss. This case was interesting from the fact that there had never been a case of scarlet fever in that locality before, and no known cause for its appearance could be traced.

These papers were freely discussed by the members.

Dr. Sutherland addressed the society on the importance of county organizations for business purposes.

At the evening session Dr. Richmond McKinney, of Memphis, read an able and interesting paper on Malignant Diseases of the Larynx, illustrating same by means of charts. At its conclusion a rising vote of thanks was tendered Dr. McKinney for the able manner in which he presented his subject.

Dr. Hill, of Montgomery, Ala., followed Dr. McKinney, giving illustrations showing the effects of hypnotism on two subjects, much to the amusement and interest of the society.

A report of a case of Puerperal Fever, treated by Marmorek serum, by Dr. H. L. Sutherland, of Rosedale, Miss., was read and freely discussed.

A motion prevailed that the books for charter members in the society be closed, and in future applicants for membership will be subject to examination.

Bills for rent of hall and printing stationery were allowed. A rising vote of thanks was tendered Dr. J. E. Bramlett for the hospitable manner in which he entertained the society. L. D. HARRISON, M.D., Sec'y.

WEST TENNESSEE

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ASSOCIATION.

The West Tennessee Medical and Surgical Association held its annual meeting at Jackson, Tenn., June 11th and 12th. The attendance was good, and the papers and discussions full of interest and very profitable. Papers were read by Drs. Happel, Blackmon, Smythe, Nelson, Krauss, Tate, Hopper Crook, Turner, Hawkins, McNeil and Herron.

The president's address was exceptionally good, practical and pointed. Dr. Rawlins is to be commended for his plain exposition of the patent medicine frauds and treatment of other matters of interest to the profession. He insisted on the imperative necessity of medical organization, as being indispensable to the welfare of both profession and people.

Among the very interesting features of the meeting were the reports by several of the members of cases occurring in actual practice, giving results of management of failures as well as successes. The discussions were free from embarrassment and without restraint, and engaged in by a great majority of those present.

Ten new members were added to the already long list of affiliates.

The following officers were elected: President, W. T. Watson, M.D., Lexington; Vice-President, D. W. Scates, M.D., Martin; Vice-President, R. W. Tate, M.D., Bolivar; Secretary and Treasurer, I. A. McSwain, M.D., Paris. Committee on Arrangements-Drs. E. K. McNeil, Gene L. Crook, H. Hawkins, C. B. Lusk, W. C. Duckworth.

A splendid supper was given by the physicians of Jackson at the close of the session on the first day of the meeting. The drug firm of Nelson & Jones, of Jackson, asked the liberty of entertaining the association at its next annual meeting. This cordial invitation was accepted with thanks.

Every one went away feeling that the two days were profitably employed.

The President's Address and other papers will appear in the MEMPHIS MEDICAL MONTHLY in the near future.

I. A. MCSWAIN, M.D., Secretary.

BOOK REVIEWS.

The Practical Application of the Roentgen Rays in Therapeutics and Diagnosis. By William Allen Pusey, A.M., M.D., Professor of Dermatology in the University of Illinois; and Eugene W. Caldwell, B.S., Director of the Edward N. Gibbs X-Ray Memorial Laboratory of the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. Handsome octavo volume of 591 pages, with 180 illustrations, nearly all clinical. W. B. Saunders & Co., 1903. Cloth, $4.50 net; sheep or half Morocco, $5.50 net.

The increasing importance of Röntgen Rays in therapeutics and diagnosis renders this work especially timely. The future of X-ray therapeusis seems to be growing brighter, and it is eminently essential that the progressive practitioner should be en rapport with the advances being made in this line.

The authors have given us a practical book. The work shows the results of a careful consideration of all available literature on this subject, and this, combined with considerable experience on the part of the authors, has enabled them to discuss their subject in a lucid and authoritative manner. They exhaustively consider the value of the X-rays in diagnosis, and indicate their application and limitations in this field.

The use of the X-rays as a therapeutic agent receives careful and analytical attention. The conditions in which this agent is of value are clearly stated, and full details are also given as to the use and management of the apparatus necessary for X-ray work. The work will be found of great assistance to all classes of practitioners.

Suter on Refraction. A Manual of Refraction and Motility.

For Students

and Practitioners of Medicine. By William Norwood Suter, M.D., Assistant Surgeon to the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Washington, D. C. 12mo. 382 pages, with 101 engravings and 4 colored plates. Cloth, $2, net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York.

In the practice of ophthalmogy the correction of errors of refraction constitutes an important part, and this science deserves most careful study at the hands of practitioners of this specialty. In intimate relationship to refraction is the study of motility, and the author of this book has been very happy in covering both of these fundamental branches of ophthalmology in one volume.

The work is eminently practical, and its demonstrations are so plain that the merest novice will find little difficulty in grasping the details of the studies which it presents. And yet it not only furnishes food for the beginner, but the advanced specialist will find it handy and trustworthy for purpose of reference.

The book is freely illustrated in black and colors, and certainly is sold at a most moderate price, considering its value.

A Text-Book of Modern Materia Medica and Therapeutics. By A. A. Stevens, A.M., M.D., Lecturer on Physical Diagnosis in the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Episcopal and St. Agnes Hospitals, Philadelphia. Third edition, greatly enlarged, rewritten and reset. Handsome octavo of 663 pages. W. B. Saunders & Co., 1903. Cloth, $3.50 net. Having had two previous editions, this book is very well known to students and practitioners throughout the country. In this third edition the author has rewritten the entire work, altering the general plan of the book considerably, and classifying the drugs according to their pharmacologic action, instead of in alphabetical order, as in the other editions. This arrangement has several advantages over the one previously used.

The reader will find the part devoted to therapeutics has undergone a very thorough revision, and all the newer remedies which have been shown by competent observers to possess relative merit and worthy to be extended a fair treatment at the hands of the profession have been included.

International Clinics. A Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures and Especially Prepared Original Articles on Treatment, Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Orthopedics, Pathology, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Otology, Rhinology, Laryngology, Hygiene, and other Topics of Interest to Students and Practitioners, by Leading Members of the Medical Profession Throughout the World. Edited by A. O. Kelly, A.M., M.D., Philadelphia, U. S. A., with the Collaboration of William Osler, M.D., Baltimore; John H. Musser, M.D., Philadelphia; James Stewart. M.D., Montreal; John B. Murphy, M.D., Chicago; Thos. M. Rotch, M.D., Boston; John G. Clark, M.D., Philadelphia; James J. Walsh, M D., New York; J. W. Ballantyne, M.D., Edinburgh; John Harold, M.D., London; Edmund Landolt, M.D., Paris; Richard Kretz, M.D., Vienna. With Regular Correspondents in Montreal, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Leipsic, Brussels and Carlsbad. Volume I. Thirteenth Series, 1903. Published by Messrs. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.

Volume I of the thirteenth series of INTERNATIONAL CLINICS is one of the best we have seen of this important clinical quarterly.

In the section on treatment are articles on Aneurism of the Descending Thoracic Aorta, by Dr. William Osler; The Treatment of Cardiac and Vascular Fibrosis, etc., by Dr. Reynold Webb Wilcox; Nauheim Methods in Chronic Heart Disease, with American Adaptations, by Dr. Thomas E. Satterthwaite; The Treatment of Chronic Urethritis, by Dr. Ernest Finger, and The Treatment of Diphtheria, by Dr. M. Howard Fussell. The section on medicine contains articles on Primary Intestinal Tuberculosis, by Dr. Frank Billings, and on Pyloric Obstruction, Gastric Dilatation and Gastric Stagnation, by Dr. Max Einhorn. The sections on surgery, pediatrics, orthopedics and special articles are equally rich in contributions of scientific and practical worth. The department of prog ress of medicine is also unusually full, and contains numerous abstracts of the most notable contributions to the literature of medicine and surgery during the past year. INTERNATIONAL CLINICS occupies an individual and conspicuous position in its particular field. It is clinical in every sense of the word, and therefore is of particularly practical value to the practitioner. The work is remarkably cheap, considering the great amount of information that it supplies.

Surgical Asepsis.-Especially adapted to operations in the home of the patient. By Henry B. Palmer, M.D., consulting surgeon to the Central Maine General Hospital. Ninety illustrations. Page vi-231; size, large 12mo; extra cloth. Price $1.25 net, delivered. Philadelphia, F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry street.

The purpose of the author of this book is to demonstrate that surgical work may be safely performed in the home of the patient, and to detail the methods that the writer has found best to secure such a result. He takes up every phase of surgical asepis, including not only wound treatment, pathogenic bacteria, means of sterilization, dressing of wounds, infected wounds, etc., but even includes a chapter on aseptic midwifery. The book is an ample consideration of its subject.

Announcement.

Messrs. Lea Brothers & Co. have pleasure in announcing that conforming to many requests they this day issue the superb work on the eye, nose, throat and ear, edited by Drs. Posey and Wright, in two volumes, as well as in a single volume.

Volume I will be known as Posey on the Eye, and covers completely the subject of Ophthalmology. It contains 690 pages, 358 engravings and 19 plates in colors and monochrome. Price, cloth, $4.00, net.

Volume II will be known as Wright on the Nose, Throat and Ear, and contains 570 pages, 292 engravings and 16 colored plates. Price, $3.50, net. The convenience of this plan, especially for text-book purposes, is obvious.

The work will continue to be published in a single volume. Price, cloth, $7.00; leather, $8.00, net.