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Clinical Examination of the Urine and Urinary Diagnosis. A Clinical Guide for the use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine and Surgery. By J. Bergen Ogden, M.D., formerly Instructor in Chemistry, Harvard University Medical School, Boston; Assistant in Clinical Pathology, Boston City Hospital, etc. Second Revised Edition. Handsome octavo volume of 418 pages, illustrated, including 11 plates, 9 of them in colors. Philadelphia, New York, London. W. B. Saunders & Co., 1903. Cloth $3.00 net.

In this second edition of this work, the text has been elaborated and brought fully up-to-date in every detail. In part one, changes have been made in connection with the determination of urea, uric acid and total nitrogen; and the subjects of cryoscopy and beta-oxybutyric acid have been given a place. Changes have also been made in part second, and everything has been done that the author could conceive as being possible to make the book acceptable in a practical sense to the student and practitioner who have daily use for a work of this character. It will be found eminently adapted to the needs of such as require a good clinical work on this subject.

Nervous and Mental Diseases. By Archibald Church, M.D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases and Head of Neurological Department, Northwestern University Medical School; and Frederick Peterson, M.D., President New York State Commissioner in Lunacy; Chief of Clinic, Department of Nervous Diseases, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. Fourth edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged. Handsome octavo volume of 922 pages, with 338 illustrations. Philadelphia, New York, London. W. B. Saunders & Co., 1903. Cloth, $5.00 net; Sheep or Half Morocco, $6.00 net.

Among works on mental and nervous diseases none has or deserves a more appreciative circle of readers than this splendid book by Church and Peterson. In the short space of four years, the work has gone to four editions, which in itself is an exceptional record. In the present edition, we find a thorough revision, and various additions have been made to the text. The subjects of intermittent limping and herpes zoster have each been accorded a section, and that form of epilepsy marked by myoclonus forming the so-called "combination disease" has received due consideration. Symptomatology and symptomatic disturbances, and the diagnostic value of astereagnosis and Kernig's sign have been elaborated in keeping with their importance. The section on insanity is especially good.

A Text-Book of Pathology. By Alfred Stengel, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. Fourth edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged. Octavo volume of 933 pages, with 394 text-illustrations, many in colors, and 7 full-page colored plates. Philadelphia, New York, London. W. B. Saunders & Co., 1903. Cloth, $5.00 net; Sheep or Half Morocco, $6.00 net.

A paramount and desirable feature of Stengel's text-book on pathology is the practical application of pathologic facts of clinical medicine which is found to characterize the work. The author has considered the subject of pathology in a comprehensive manner, but at the same time has not lost sight of the requirements of the clinician in a work of this character. The work is divided into two sections, the first dealing with general pathology and the second with special pathology. In revising this edition, several of the most important chapters in the section have been rewritten, among these may be mentioned the chapters on Ehrlich's theory of immunity and allied processes; inflammation; the bacterial diseases, including typhoid fever, tuberculosis, yellow fever and dysentery; and diseases of the blood. The section on special pathology has likewise received thorough revision. New illustrations have been added, and the work otherwise improved in order to keep it fully abreast of progress in this line.

A Text-Book of Obstetrics. By Barton Cooke Hirst, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics in the University of Pennsylvania. Handsome octavo, 900 pages, with 746 illustrations, 39 of them in colors. Philadelphia, New York, London. W. B. Saunders & Co., 1903. Cloth, $5.00 net; Sheep or Half Morocco, $6.00 net.

No better index of the popularity of a work is to be had than its appearance in frequent editions. The career of Hirst's text-book in this respect attests its great favor with students and practitioners, for within a very short space of time it has now gone to its fourth edition. In this edition the author has taken characteristic pains to add every feature of progress in obstetrics that has come to knowledge since the appearance of the last edition. Much new matter has been added, chapters rewritten, old illustrations replaced by better ones, and new ones included.

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SEED-TIME and harvest have their regular annual incomings and outgoings, and with equal regularity the Tri-State Medical Association has marked its impress on the calendar of time for its November gathering. Our presence now causes no great surprise to the inhabitants of the Bluff City, and since we will render them no bill of charges for this visit, they will gladly welcome us.

"Time rolls its ceaseless course the race of yore," and in its revolutions we are brought happily to a rest-place in our professional engagements for a few days-to see each other's faces, to grasp each other's hands, to learn of each. other's successes and achievements and bless the world around us by being better equipped as we return to our individual fields with thoughts gained at this annual reunion. That we have all come for this rest and inquest for scientific lore all will admit, and in proportion to our desires in these matters our hopes will be fulfilled.

In that the three states represented by this association have been the seat of some of the most historical epochs of conta

* President's Address, Tri-State Med. Assn. (Miss. Ark. & Tenn.) Memphis, Nov. 17, 1903.

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gion, and for a long time a home for nearly all the most malicious forms of disease, it would not be strange if such widely known conditions should have made it a dreaded and deserted field, especially for that large class of humanity who prize health more than wealth. But such has not been the case. Within the bounds of our association success has been perched high upon the banner. As to material wealth, educational advantages and health surroundings, nothing but success— phenomenal success-has been ours.

Memphis, our metropolis, of which every man of us has a just and commendable pride, has outstripped in popularity and rapid growth all of her sister cities of the South. It is most gratifying in recent years to note the improved surroundings, the great achievements of sanitary science, and the remarkable healthful conditions which have followed as a result of the energies and labors of the guardians of the public health in every city and neighborhood. Just how well the physicians have inaugurated and guided the country at large into a condition of health and accompanying prosperity is best attested by the foreign capital that has sought and is still seeking investments within its bounds. That the doctors are patiently and modestly working out this condition. of affairs, and that too without any "blow-horn heraldry" or any idea of having their names engraved in the Hall of Fame, is also a patent fact. Inspired by that spirit whose dominancy places them among the royal few of the world's immortals, "living not to be ministered to, but to minister," loving themselves last, and finding a fame whiter than it is brilliant.

It is said that life is the response we make to our environments. In every generation from the beginning there have been those who are willing to give and do give their lives, their all, for others-" men from whom is constantly exuding the infrangible cement of their own supreme unselfishness, and to these we are indebted for every blessing of progress."

Mr. Jefferson said that the Battle of King's Mountain was the joyful enunciation of that turn in the tide of success which stamped the revolutionary war with the seal of independence. So do we claim the great victories we have gained and are now gaining over the most malignant and fatal diseases of

former days to be a seal to the permanent prosperity of our territory.

Medicine and surgery continue to make rapid strides of improvement and seem to border on perfection. All countries. have combined in a mighty army of research to make war on each form of disease. And nowhere can be found improvement that outranks in proportion to her resources that of our section of the Mississippi Valley.

The idea has prevailed among us that "far-away cows have long horns, and those who seek for knowledge should journey far." Yet the high standard of medicine as dispensed within our bounds has won the highest consideration. And why not? Have not the states of our association furnished some of the most illustrious names in our country's history?

Mississippi gave us Jefferson Davis, the hero of the Lost Cause, L. Q. C. Lamar, the great Southern standard-bearer of Democracy, and S. S. Prentiss, the gifted Southern orator. This state likewise claims such worthy physicians as Albert Miles, Andrew Holder, S. V. D. Hill, B. F. Kittrell and Wirt Johnson, all of whom were a blessing to their day and generation.

And the old state of Tennessee. To Tennessee belongs the Jackson of Old Hickory fame, General Sam Houston, the father of Texas independence, and David Crockett, the hero of the Alamo and the author of a good motto for this great body of doctors-"Be sure you're right, then go ahead." Tennessee will always be most dear to me, for here it was that I first studied and practiced medicine. It was a Tennessee girl that yoked herself to me as a life partner. It is the good old state that has furnished to mankind such doctors as the senior Briggs, Eve and W. E. Rogers and many others who have long since gone hence, and whose deeds live after them.

My modesty forbids me to speak too highly of Arkansas, my home state, so I will not mention the whole state, but will simply refer to one county that furnished the Confederate army with Generals Pat. Cleburne, Hindman, Govan, Tappan and Pillow. This was not an extraordinary good county for Arkansas generals, either. We have had in the persons of

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