work to the business of the meeting, when they adjourned to meet at Crestline, Ohio, in May, 1887.

This being the annual meeting, the following officers were elected for the coming year: President, Dr. J. H. Tressel, of Alliance, Ohio; Vice Pres't., Dr. E. W. Lee, of Chicago, Ill.; Sec'y. and Treasurer, Dr. J. J. Buchanan, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Executive committee, Drs. A. W. Ridenour, Massillon, Ohio, S. S. Thorn, Toledo, Ohio, and G. W. McGavren, Van West, Ohio.

Resolutions of regret were passed by the association on the resignation of Dr. J. H. Davisson, of Warsaw, who was obliged to go west of the Rocky Mountains, on account of his health, and also Dr. P. B. Young, of Crestline, who went west on account of his wife's illness, and Dr. R. P. Johnson, of Canton, who is about to remove South.

REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES.

Obstetric diagrams.

The Medical News Visiting List for 1887.—Philadelphia; Lea Brothers & Co. Contains Calendar for two years. Scheme of Dentition. Tables of weights and measures and comparative scales. Instructions for examining the urine. List of disinfectants. Table of eruptive fevers. Lists of new remedies and remedies not generally used. Incompatibles, Poisons and Antidotes. Artificial respiration. Table of doses, prepared to accord with the last revision of the U. S. Pharmacopeia, an extended table of Diseases and their Remedies, and directions for Ligation of Arteries. Blanks for all records of practice and Erasable Tablet. Handsomely bound in limp Morocco, with tuck, pocket, pencil, rubber and catheter scale. The list is issued in four styles, viz.: Dated, for 30 patients per week, I vol. ; dated, for 60 patients, 2 vols.; dated, for 90 patients, 3 vols. ; undated (perpetual), 1 vol. Price per volume, $1 25. Also, furnished with Ready Reference Thumb letter Index for 25 cents additional.

This visiting list is one of the best, and, when furnished with the thumb letter index, the very best, in the market.

Physician's Visiting List, (Lindsay & Blakiston's) for 1887. 36th year of its publication. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1886.

This has been for many years a very popular visiting list. It is the smallest and lightest list published, is well made, and is cheap. Is arranged for 25, 50, 75 and 100 patients, dated and undated, plain and interleaved. See advt. in this issue.

A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine, Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine. By Austin Flint, M. D., LL. D. Sixth Edition, Revised and largely Rewritten by the Author, Assisted by William H. Welch, M. D., etc., and Austin Flint, M. D., LL.D. Philadelphia, Lea Brothers & Co., 1886. 8vo, pp. 1160.

We need add little to the notice of this work which appeared in our last issue. By condensation and rearrangement, and the omission of obsolete matter, much new material has been added to the present edition without materially increasing its bulk. We notice the following new articles: Infectious Tumors, Syphilitic Disease of the Lungs, Cerebral Syphilis, General Considerations relating to Inflammatory and Structural Disease of the Spinal Cord, Spastic Cerebral Paralysis of Children, Hereditary Ataxia, Myxedema, Multiple Neuritis, General Pathology of Pyrexia, and Milk-sickness. Some diagrams have been introduced to

elucidate the physical diagnosis of cerebral diseases.

A Manual of Animal Vaccination. Preceded by considerations on vaccination in general. By Dr. E. Warlomont, Founder and Director of the State Vaccine Institute of Belgium, etc. Translated and edited by Arthur J. Harris, M. D.. Senior Asst. Phys. to St. John's Hosp. for Diseases of the skin, London, etc. Philadelphia: Published by John Wyeth & Bro. 1886.

In this work, Dr. Warlomont presents an admirable resume of the existing knowledge on the subject of vaccine, and he supplements the whole with the results of his own vast observation. No branch of the subject has failed to receive enlightened consideration, and, although he seeks to establish the superiority of the animal over humanized lymph, he exhibits no prejudices against the latter, and only pronounced for the greater utility of the former, after a rigorous analysis of all the facts bearing on the question.

We have heard numerous expressions of satisfaction over the establishment of a vaccine farm by Messrs. Wyeth & Bro., and we doubt not their enterprise in issuing this brochure will be fully appreciated.

Courier Review Call-Book -A physician's Pocket Reference Book and Visiting List, arranged and prepared by E. M. Nelson, M. D., Ph. D., editor St. Louis Courier of Medicine, etc. etc. St. Louis J. H. Chambers & Co.

This visiting list is perpetual, not being dated. The list proper follows twenty-six pages devoted to various matters on which a doctor's memory is liable to need refreshing, including a very complete table of doses, thermom

etric scales, diet table for diabetics, &c. It also has the usual pages for memoranda, etc. In shape it is somewhat difference from other lists, being thinner and wider, so as to fit better the breast pocket.

Outlines of the Pathology and Treatment of Syphilis, and Allied Venereal Diseases. By Hermann Von Zeissl., M. D., Late Professor at the Imperial-Royal University of Vienna. Second Edition, Revised. By Maximilian Von Ziessl, M. D., Privat-Docent for Diseases of the Skin and Syphilis, at Imperial Royal University of Vienna. Authorized Edition. Translated, with Notes, by H. Raphael, M. D., Attending Physician for Diseases of Genito-Urinary Organs and Syphslis, Bellevue Hospital Out-Patient Department, etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1886. 8vo. Pp. 402. Cloth $4., Columbus : Geo. H. Twiss.

The name selected for this book is unfortunate; it should have been instead "Practical Treatise on the Venereal Diseases."

While the part devoted to syphilitic affections of the skin is unchanged in this edition the chapters on gonorrhea, epididymitis, strictures, chancres, and syphilis-including visceral and hereditary, have been entirely rewritten. The articles on the syphilitic affections of the larynx, trachea and eye, have been furnished by Professors Schrotter and Mauthner. The book is a most excellent one in every respect, and the translator has done his work well.

Bright's Disease and Allied Affections of the Kidneys. By Charles W. Purdy, M. D., Queen's University, Professor of Genito-Urinary and Renal Diseases in the Chicago Polyclinic, etc. 8vo., 288 pages, with 18 illustrations. Cloth, $2. Philadelphia, Lea Brothers & Co.,

1886.

This work is a systematic, practical, and concise description of the pathology and treatment of the principal organic diseases of the kidneys, associated with albuminous urine. The author has given more prominence to scarlatinal and puerperal nephritis than has heretofore been done by writers on this subject.

Authorities, ancient and modern, are quoted concerning the etiology of uremia, but the author Mimself very candidly leaves the question open. Nephritis he divides simply into acute and chronic. Cirrhosis, includ ing its semeiology and treatment, is fully considered, together with amyloid kidney and cyanotic induration.

The text is illustrated with a number of engravings from original drawings, chiefly representing morbid anatomy. We regard this as one of the best monographs yet published on the subject.

Read before the Annual Meeting of the Muskingum Valley District Medical Society held at Zanesville, Ohio, November 26th, 1886

By "Aseptic Surgery" we mean that system or method of performing surgical operations, and dressing of wounds, by which perfect cleanliness is secured, by the systematic use of antiseptics in the form of either irrigation or sprays; where the best possible coaptation of parts is observed and suppuration is prevented, in whole or in part, by the use of proper germicides, or when suppuration exists to any extent, to favor its immediate removal by thorough drainage, by which, together with perfect rest of the injured parts, aided by the best possible sanitary surroundings and hygienic care, union is secured by first intention with little or no constitutional disturbance.

When the immortal Lister announced to the world his methods of dressing surgical wounds, scarcely fifteen years ago, and reported his wonderful results from their use, almost the entire surgical world "laughed him to scorn" and looked on what then seemed the wild fancies of a "crank" or the imaginary reports of a prevaricating char#Surgeon for the B. & O. and Pennsylvania Railroads,

latan, without foundation or reality; and few surgeons were charitable enough to even make a fair trial of his methods and thus demonstrate their value for themselves. It is true that few surgeons to-day have adopted or put in practice Listerism in its purity; yet the leaven of Listerism has been and is still at work among the surgeons of our land, until it hath more or less "leavened the whole lump." There is scarcely an active progressive surgeon at the present time who has not adopted the principles first advanced by Lister, and is not now practicing the same in some modified form, and who could be induced to drop it for the old fashioned ways of dressing wounds with salves and so-called "healing ointments." So universally is this the case that few men will dare to deny the fact that since Listerism has been announced it has almost revolutionized surgery, and has made operations not only possible but practicable which only a few years ago would have either been looked upon as hazardous or not have been attempted at all.

Prior to the practice of aseptic surgery who ever dreamt of an amputation of the leg or arm uniting with primary union, in a few days, and without the formation of a drop of pus? What surgeon would have believed an amputated breast could have been healed entirely in nine days, with but little pain, and no suppuration, ten years ago, nay, how many five years ago? Prior to the introduction of aseptic surgery, who would have even suspected the possibility of making a ten or twelve inch incision in the abdomen and removing a thirty or forty pound ovarian tumor, and that by simply tying the pedicle, and dropping it back into the abdomen, and closing the internal and external wounds aseptically, it would take on primary resolution and recovery occur without a drop of pus and but little constitutional disturbance! And yet these are actual realities that astonish the whole surgical world, and although as little thought of a few years ago by the rank and file of the profession, as that we would talk from Chicago to New York and recognize our brother's voice, yet just as much a reality, and have wrought as great a revolution in the surgical world, as the telephone has in commercial circles.

When Prof. James L. Cable's able paper was discussed at the meeting of the American Surgical Association, in 1882, "On Sanitary Conditions in Relation to the Treatment of Surgical Operations and Injuries," many of our leading American surgeons (most of whom admitted, however, they had never as much as tested the Lister principles of antiseptic dressings), opposed the radical changes necessary to the use of Listerism,