different branches. 5. Before entering upon said examination they must produce evidence of having attended three courses of lectures, if date of diploma is later than 1887. 6. Power is given the board to refuse or revoke license for unprofessional, dishonorable, or immoral conduct. 7. No member of any existing medical faculty eligible to appointment upon new board.

The last section is an especially satisfactory one, since it divorces entirely the licensing from the teaching power.

This is what is needed in every state in the Union. Medical colleges should be permitted only to sell medical information, and not the right to practice medicine. The State itself should determine whether the purchaser of medical knowledge has received his goods, and is able to utilize them, and not permit the college which sold them to decide the matter. Weekly Med. Rev.

THE magnificent new building of the medical department of the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, O., was dedicated Tuesday, March 8, 1887. This was a red letter day in the history of this institution, which now enjoys the distinction of possessing one of the finest, if not the finest, medical college buildings in the United States.

The building cost $175,000. The ground dimensions are 82x134 feet, four stories high with a basement. It is built of Twinsburg brown stone, the Romanesque style of architecture. It contains two amphitheaters, one seating 240, to be devoted to clinical instructions, the other seating 500 students. The chemical lecture room is 32x54 feet, and, like the amphitheaters, is furnished with opera chairs. The clinical rooms, dispensory, dissecting, reading, faculty and cloak rooms and laboratories are all large, admirably arranged and perfectly adapted to their special purpose. The lighting of the building by glass roof and ceilings is unsurpassed. The building is heated by steam apparatus, and supplied by fans with hot and cold air.

A STEP IN THE Reform of English SpellinG.-Professor Skeat, in a recent number of Notes and Queries, says: "Those who know the whole history of our spelling from the eighth century to the present time best understand the harm done by the pernicious system of trying to transplant Latin and Greek symbols into the English language. The symbols and a are not English and are best avoided. Indeed, this is done in practice

when once a word becomes common. Ether and atherial have been sensibly replaced by ether and etherial. No one now writes æternal. Solæcism is now solecism, and I trust primeval and medieval will soon prevail over primæval and medieval. Pedantic spellings are most objectionable,

because they are useless and unphonetic." We heartily agree with Professor Skeat, and trust that diarrhea, leucorrhea, dysmenorrhea, etc., will soon give place to diarrhea, leucorrhea, dysmenorrhea, etc.

The above is from the British Medical Journal. To be consistent, however, the Journal must also use edema, fetus, cesarean, etc. The characters æ and œ are not English, and should not be tolerated in anglicized words, They have long since been so forbidden in the composing room of this JOURNAL, and, in this country at least, they are rapidly falling into innocuous desuetude.

GEN. FRANCIS A. WALKER does not share in the anxiety which finds pretty free expression in the scientific and literary quarters, touching the spread of socialistic ideas. In an article to be published in the Forum for May he draws a clear line of distinction between "the socialists" the terrible fire-eaters who would wreck, pillage, and destroy all civilization, and who are simply to be treated with the club or the strait-jacket, or on occasion with the rope; and the advocates of a form of government more or less socialistic, men who believe that a government is best employed in promoting, in every fair and feasible way, the good of the governed.

THE Lambert Pharmacal Co., of St Louis, have just issued a large pamphlet on Listerine. It contains many practical hints on the use of this valuable remedy. It can be obtained free of cost upon application. Write for it.

THE attention of physicians is called to the new, elegant and scientific preparation of Hypophosphites prepared by Rukard Hurd, Chemist. It is clear and clean, and does not precipitate nor vary in any way, so that the patient receives the true dose every time. It relies on its merits as a strictly first class article. Sample bottle mailed free.

"METRITIC WOMB "-When a Columbus physician, several years ago, spoke of a case he had of "hepatized liver," we all smiled. Now, however, a Chicago doctor (Chicago Med. Jour. and Examiner., Feb. '87.) tells us that a "metritic womb is not more important or serious than a carcinomatous one."

MARRIED. At the residence of the bride, April 21, 1887, Dr. Charles R. Vanderburg, of Columbus, and Miss Elsie Briggs, of Franklin Tp. At home at 64 East Rich St.

DR. Chas. P. King pays a glowing and worthy tribute to the me mory of the late Dr. J. W. Russell, in the Newark American of March 28th.

WE have received from Messrs. Parke, Davis & Co. a fine lithographed portrait of the eminent Dr. Robert Koch, of Berlin. They desire us to state that they will mail free of charge, a copy of the picture to any of our professional readers upon a receipt of request.

DR. Wм. MORROW BEACH.-Just as we go to press the daily papers announce the serious illness, and anticipated death, of Dr. Wm. Morrow Beach, of London, Ohio, ex-President of the Ohio State Medical Society, and also of the State Sanitary Association.

FOR SALE-A good paying practice, with office, dwelling, barn, out-houses, etc., in one of the best counties in Illinois. No opposition. Two railroads. $650 buys the whole thing, as I want to go west. rare chance. Those who mean business address or call on me immediately. G. F. ENGLISH, M. D., Isabel, Edgar Co., Illinois.

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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES.

Common errors; Theroretical and Practical, Relating to Insanity. By Orpheus Everts, M. D., Medical Superintendent to the Cincinnati Sanitarium.

He regards insanity as a disease of the brain rather than of an immaterial, hence hypothetical, entity called "the Mind," the latter idea being but a survival from the mythopoetic concepts of primitive peoples, born of efforts to solve the riddles of the universe without the capability of nature, growth, or the knowledge of facts acquired by experience. An etiological error is that of ascribing insanity to a single cause, such as intemperance, overwork, remorse and the like, the fact being that most cases are the result of a conspiracy of causes more or less complicated, heredity playing an important part, Another common error is that of mistaking symptoms for causes of the disorder, a case in which the prominent feature is of a religious character, usually being reported as caused by "religious excitement;" or if onanism be present, as "masturbational insanity." And so he goes on to point out errors of diagnosis, prognosis,

treatment, classification, etc. He thinks (in common with all who have given attention to the subject) that the greatest therapeutical error of practice is that of administering too much medicine (which might be very properly be extended to cover the treatment of nearly all diseases).

A Practical Treatise on Obstetrics. Vol. 1. (4vols.), Anatomy of the Internal and Fxternal Genitals, Physiological Phenomena (Menstruation and Fecundation). Vol. II., Pathology of Pregnancy. By A. Charpentier, M. D., Paris. Illustrated with lithographic plates and wood engravings. These are also Vols. I. and II. of the "Cyclopedia of Obstetrics and Gynecology" (12 vols.), issued monthly during 1837. New York: William Wood & Company.

The author is head of the obstetric clinic at the School of Medicine, Paris, and adjunct to the chairs of Obstetrics of Professors Pajot and Depaul. His work on Obstetrics may be regarded as the most complete in any language, and as a faithful and unbiased mirror of the theories and of the practice of the most renowned obstetricians of the world. In the few years which have elapsed since its publication, there are certain topics wherein both practice and opinion have somewhat altered, and there are others which have become settled on a firmer basis than was then the case. The editor has aimed to express these changes, and to add the requisite new matter, thus in every respect bringing the work up to date. He has also, here and there, criticised such methods as have seemed to him not completely in accord with the opinion of the authorities on this side of the Atlantic. These additions and notes have necessitated slight condensation in the text, and the omission of a number of statistical tables, but nothing of the kind has been done at the expense of the author's thought, or of the value of the work as one of reference. New illustrations have been substituted, and added, wherever it seemed appropriate. The section on Embryology, in Charpentier's treatise, has been omitted, and in its place has been substituted the admirable chapter which Professor Milnes Marshall contributed to Barnes's System of Obstetric Medicine and Surgery.

Manual of Operative Surgery. By Joseph D. Bryant, M. D., Professor of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery, and Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, etc. With about 800 Illustrations. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1887. Cloth. 8vo., pp. 530.

This work is the outcome chiefly of the author's experience in the field of operative surgery. His official positions have supplied him with abundant material for his purpose, while his own judgment and surgical

skill have enabled him to produce a most excellent work for the benefit of the student and practitioner. The various operations of the day are fully detailed.

The operations on the eye, the ear, and the female genital organs have wisely been omitted as being too complex for this work. The illus trations are numerous and excellent. A careful examination of the pages will convince one that it is a thoroughly good book such as should be in the hands of every general practitioner.

Nervous Diseases and Their Diagnosis. A Treatise Upon the Phenomena Produced by Diseases of the Nervous System, with Especial Reference to the Recognition of Their Causes. By H. C. Wood, M. D., LL. D., Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Philadelphia Pa. J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1887. Cloth. 8vo, pp. 501. Price, $4.00.

The object of the author in this work is what he calls "diagnostic neurology." He studies especially the phenomena of nervous diseases in so far as they bear upon the recognition of those diseases; he does not concern himself with the details of treatment. Beginning with the dif ferent forms of paralysis, he passes to motor and then to sensory symp toms, and ends with a discussion of those interfering with memory, consciousness and intellection. Such a scheme is strictly symptomatic and has all the practical advantages of symptomatic schemes in general although it seems to possess less scientific precision.

The subject is worked up from an ample clinical experience and from a wide reading of special literature. The book cannot fail to interest all who care for the study of nervous diseases or their phenomena.

Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, including the Physiological Action of Drugs, Special Therapeutics, Official and Extemporaneous Pharmacy, with numerous Tables, Formulæ, Notes on Temperature, Clinical Thermometry, poisons, Urinary examinations and Patent Medicines. By Samuel O. L. Potter, M. A., M. D., Professor of Practice of Medicine, Cooper Medical College, San Francisco. P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1887 8vo. pp. 828. Cloth, $3.00. Columbus: A. H. Smythe.

The author is already known for his compends which have been reIceived with much favor. His present effort is on a larger scale, and will we hope meet with commensurate success.

In detailing the physiological action of a leading drug, its characteristic qualities are first enumerated, then its action in an ordinary medicinal dose, next the effects produced by small doses continued, and finally those