The Reviewer's Table. Books, pamphlets, instruments, etc., for this department, should be sent to the Managing Editor, Saint Louis. HARE'S SYSTEM OF THERAPEUTICS, three volumes, published a few years ago, made for itself a deserving place in American medical literature. It is NEW VOLUME OF HARE'S SYSTEM OF THERAPEUTICS. A System of Practical Therapeutics. By Eminent Authors. Edited by HOBART EMORY HARE. M.D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Volume IV, Octavo, 1065 pages, with illustrations. Regular price, cloth, $6; price of Vol. IV. to subscribers to the System, $5; price of the System complete in four volumes, $20. LEA BROTHERS & CO., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York. 1897. 66 such a work which the busy physician needs, an exhaustive treatise, yet concise where brevity is necessary. All who have used Hare as 66 a working treatise," can appreciate the new volume which is added to bring the work up-to-date." Among the contributors are: Recent advances in Hydrotherapy, by Simon Baruch; Treatment of Tuberculosis, by S. Edwin Solly; Present Treatment of Syphilis, by Edward Martin; Influenza, Scarlet Fever and Measles, by H. A. Hare; Diseases of the Nasal Chambers, by E. Fletcher Ingals; New Facts and Methods in the Treatment of Diphtheria, by W. H. Park; Pneu. monia and Pleurisy, by James B. Herrick; Diseases of the Heart, by F. P. Henry; Diseases of the Liver, by J. Eichberg; Diseases of the Skin, by H. W. Helltogan; Drug Habits, by F. X. Dercum; Disorders of Sleep, by H. T. Patrick; Therapeutics of Renal Diseases, by N. S. Davis, Jr.; Diseases of Genito-Urinary Tract, by W. T. Belfield; Diseases of the Eye, by Casey A. Wood. THIS excellent volume is timely and appropriate, inasmuch as it is the first exhaustive work to treat of the static machine as a means of exciting the X-rays. The minute and careful description of the X-ray apparatus and static methods, together with the vast amount of practical clinical suggestions, gives to Monell's work a unique We commend it to all practitionX-ray photography as the best F. P. N. dictionary is destined to fill a field students in the class-room. It is handy, well printed, and so arranged that words can be found at once. It deserves a wide circulation, especially among students and practitioners. THIS volume comprises the substance of several monographs that the author has published from time to time during the past ten years in medical jour nals, with the addition of considerable new matter, including the histories of many typical cases in detail. While the author takes an advanced stand relative to the effects of eye-strain upon the development of headache, neuralgia, sleeplessness, chorea, epilepsy, nervous prostration and insanity, yet his views and clinical evidence are worthy of a careful hearing. All admit the close relationship between eye-strain and functional nervous diseases, and the physician will find in this timely work much food for reflection. J. E. J. EYE-STRAIN IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. With THE Proceedings of the last annual meeting of the Medical Society of the State of New York has just been issued, and compares favorably with the former volumes, The Publication Committee consists of Drs. F, C. Curtis, Chas. H. Porter, Daniel Lewis and W. W. Potter. The volume contains about fifty papers, in addition to the usual reports and discussions. In looking over the proceedings of this great organization one is impressed with the deliberate, earnest, scientific and harmonious work done during the meetings, and it is surely a valuable treat to any one to be able to attend the sessions. The subjects of the papers are chosen with much care as to variety, and the authors appear to take much pride and interest in the preparation of their papers, and well they may. Much of the continued. prosperity of the organization is due to the untiring efforts of the Secretary, Dr. F. C. Curtis, of Albany, who has served in that capacity for nine years, and the Treasurer, Dr. Chas. H. Porter, who has served for twentyseven years, while the interests of the society as well as the interests of the entire profession are well looked after in the State Legislature by Dr. A. Walter Suiter, who was President of the society in 1891, and who has been Chairman of the Committee on Legislation for a number of years. It would well pay every doctor to procure this volume, as it makes a valuable addition to a library, and any one possessing a set of these transactions has a complete and reliable history of the progress of medicine during the last century. G. I. C. HEMMETER ON DISEASES OF THE STOMACH.-P. Blakiston, Son & Co., of Philadelphia, announce the early publication of a new work on "Diseases of the Stomach," by Dr. Jno. C. Hemmeter, of Baltimore. The work will consider in detail the special pathology, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the stomach, with sections on anatomy, analysis of stomach contents, dietetics, surgery, etc., etc. Such a work must meet with a cordial welcome. It should and will have many interested readers, for it is on a subject which confronts every practitioner, no matter what special line he may follow. DR. SUE B. HUMISTON, of St. Louis, has located in Parsons, Kansas, for the practice of medicine. DR. E. G. JANEWAY has been elected president of the Bellevue Faculty, to succeed the late Dr. William T. Lusk. PROF. VIRCHOW is now seventy-five years old. He took his medical degree in 1843, and has now been practicing medicine for 54 years. THE BOARD OF HEALTH OF BUFFALO, N. Y., has made it unlawful for any one to sell or use a nursing bottle or other such device with a rubber tube, hose or other contrivance attached. DR. CHARLES E. SAJOUS, editor of the Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, who has lived for several years in Paris, has returned to Philadelphia, where he will fill the chair of laryngology and act as dean of the faculty of the Medico-Chirurgical College. DR. GILBERT I. CULLEN, of the FORTNIGHTLY staff, sailed for Europe on the 14th inst. Dr. Cullen will visit most of the important cities of the old world, in the hope of adding to his medical knowledge, the result of which will be duly chronicled in the pages of this magazine. THE CLEVELAND MEDICAL SOCIETY is one of the foremost scientific medical organizations in this country. Its regular quarterly meetings rank very high as to the character of the work, the harmony and spirits of the meeting. Their motto is evidently "with malice toward none and science. for all." DR. WOODS HUTCHINSON, of Buffalo, contributes an article on the Value of Pain, to the Monist, for July, which is as striking in its homiletic as it is in its scientific point of view. The author draws some profound ethical conclusions as to the function of pain in life and drives his lessons home with great literary and imaginative power. THE BUREAU OF THE MEDICAL PRESS, which has become an acknowledged feature of the Exhibit Hall, will hold its third session in Louisville, October 5 to 8, during the meeting of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association. Medical publishers desiring to be represented, will obtain membership blanks and full information by address CHAS. WOOD FASSETT, St. Joseph, Mo. ST. LOUIS MEDICAL SOCIETY.-Before our next issue the St. Louis Medical Society will have resumed its meetings for the season of 1897-98. The date of the first meeting is September 25th. The society enters on its new session with an amount of business and scientific matters on its hands that promises most interesting meetings. It is probable that the ethics of the local profession will be kept before the society, and we are satisfied that the society will maintain the same dignity in handling the troublesome question which characterized its actions of last season. A BASE CANARD.-Mr. George W. Vanderbilt denies that he proposes to build a hospital for consumptives at Asheville. JAPAN has recently developed a taste for American lager beer. She is building extensive breweries which will be patterned after the breweries of this country. Germany admits the superiority of American brewing methods, and is now importing American beer into the Empire. TEN DOLLARS FOR A STUDENT.-The Alabama Medical and Surgical Age tells of a medical school which offers $10.00 to any practitioner who will send it a student. We think it unfortunate that the Age withholds the name of the school, for medical men the country over are anxious for an airing of all the details of such offers. DR. M. R. HORWITZ, who has been for some years connected with our city hospitals, sails for Vienna on September 20th. Dr. Horwitz will spend a year in post graduate study at the University of Vienna. During his stay there our readers may expect frequent breezy epistles, telling the how and why of medical study and medical student life in Vienna. THE LOUISVILLE HOTEL will be headquarters for the delegates to the meeting of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, at Louisville, Ky., October 5 to 8, and we would advise our readers, who contemplate attending, to make their hotel arrangements in advance, and thus avoid the annoyance of a crowd. Special rates will prevail for the occasion, and Mr. Mulligan will cheerfully answer all inquiries. MEDICAL RESPONSIBILITY. A French surgeon was recently con demned to two-months imprisonment and a fine of 500 francs because of the death of a patient upon whom he had done a laparotomy for the removal of a fibroid tumor, and in whom a pair of forgotten forceps was found post-mortem. He entered an appeal, with the result that his imprisonment was increased to three months.-Med. Record. A CORDIAL invitation is extended the profession to attend the ninth annual meeting of the Tri-State Medical Society of Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee, to be held in the Senate chamber of the State Capitol, Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, October 12, 13 and 14, 1897. Reduced railroad rates to the Tennessee Centennial. Frank Trester Smith, M.D., Secretary, Chattanooga, Tenn.; W. F. Westmoreland, M. D., President, Atlanta, Ga.; W. D. Haggard, Jr., M. D., Chairman Committee of Arrangements, Nashville, Tenn. THE W. T. KEENER CO., of Chicago, has sold its St. Louis branch, at 404 North Eighth street, to Mr. Louis Matthews. Mr. Matthews has been for some years in the medical-book business, and it is safe to say that under his management the St. Louis house will excell its past as a point of interest to the medical profession. The Keener Co., though but a few months in St. Louis, had established a good business, and Mr. Matthews can be sure of many friends and patrons, because of the invariably courteous treatment which the profession met in his predecessor, Mr. F. W. Colegrove. WINE drinkers may be interested in knowing that shelled almonds are the latest known antidote for lavish libations, it having been discovered by a professional wine-taster that nothing else so effectually keeps the head clear and palate keen of taste. THE OFFICIAL ROUTE.- Physicians who contemplate attending the meeting of the Mississippi Valley Medical Society, will consult their best interests by selecting the Henderson Route to Louisville. Double daily service, through sleepers and reduced rates. Ask C. H. Jones about it, at 206 N. Broadway. THE Canadian Practitioner tells us of the pleasant relationship of Toronto's City Hospitai and the practitioners of that city. According to the Practitioner the custom adopted a few years ago by the authorities of the Toronto General Hospital of allowing all physicians and surgeons of good standing in the city to treat their own patients in the private wards has proved quite satisfactory. A GOOD STANDARD-There are now registered one hundred and twentyseven students in the department of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, of whom twenty are women. Graduation from a literary college is a prerequisite to admission to the medical course. This is the only medical school, in this country, which makes this requisition. There are others which contemplate this requirement in the near future. THE COST OF MEDICAL EDUCATION IN GERMANY. According to the Italian Secretary for Commerce and Agriculture, the cost incurred by a student at Berlin, who obtained the diploma of Doctor of Medicine and Physician is about 2,300 marks. The fee for matriculation is about 18 marks; for examination for the Medical Faculty, 242 marks diploma fee, 240 marks, fees for all necessary lectures, etc., 800 to 1,200 marks; cost of printing the dissertation, about 150 marks; and the necessary books and instruments, 500 marks. In addition to these fees must of course be counted board, lodging and clothes, during the four years of study, and this increases the bill by 7,000 or 8,000 marks. Med. Times. JAPANESE USES OF BURDOCK.-The burdock (Arctium Lappa, A. tomentosa and A. minor), aside from its character as a pest, is best known to Americans as a medical plant. In Japan, however, according to Inazo Nitobe, it is largely cultivated as a vegetable. It is commonly known as Gobo, Kitakisu and Uma-fuki (horse Nardosmia.) The Ainu know it as Setakorokoni (dog Nardosmia). The Ainu and Japanese prefixes, seta and uma, are applied to plants with the same meaning as "dog" and "horse" as in dogwood and horsemint in the English. The Ainu boil the tender shoots with beans, and the roots are put into sonp. In 1888, seventy-two million pounds of burdock-root, valued at 422,134 yen (a yen equals one dollar), were raised in Japan. This is not much to be wondered at when it is remembered that burdock ranks high in the scale of nutritive plants, containing more nitrogen (5.6 per cent) than potatoes, carrots, beets and turnips, iu fact, very few roots or tubers approaching it.-Pacific Record. |