Obituary.

SIR RICHARD QUAIN, BART.,

London.

SIR RICHARD QUAIN, M. D., F. R. C. P. Lond., F. R. C. P. I., died in London on March 13th, after a long illness. He was born in Mallow, Ireland, in October, 1816, and began professional life as clerk to an apothecary in Limerick. He afterward went to London to study, and obtained the degree of M. D. from University College in 1842. He served as house surgeon and later as house physician in the Universiy College Hospital, and shortly after graduation was made a fellow of the college. In 1851 he was chosen a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1860 was appointed a member of the senate of the university. In 1887, the year the British Medical Association held its annual meeting in Dublin, he was made honorary M. D by the Royal University of Ireland and also honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, and in 1890 received the honorary M. D. degree from the University of Dublin. He was for a long time chairman of the pharmacopoeia committee and consequently had much to do with the publication of the last two editions of the British Pharmacopoeia. For many years he was physician to the Hospital for diseases of the Chest at Brompton, and had also been for a long period physician to the queen. He was the author of many medical writings and was editor of "A Dictionery of Medicine,' the first edition of which was published in 1882. It was chiefly as editor of this work that he became known to most of the profession in this country.

DR. ELIZABETH S. DALBEY-NORRED died in Minneapolis, Minn. She was born in Wells County, Ind, October 14, 1843, and was graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Chicago in the class of 1881. She was a member of the Illinois State Medical Socieity, and the American Medical Association.

DR. JENNIE TAYLOR GORDON, a medical missionery of the Methodist Church and a niece of Bishop William Taylor, died at Malannge, Angola, on December 29th. Her husband

was an African missionery, and her parents resided at Mechanicsburgh, Pa. She lived for many years in Africa, and was noted among the natives of a wide extent of country for her medical skill.

Personal.

Dr. Estella Riley of Cincinnati, has been elected VicePresident of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati.

The Queen of Portugal is a frequent subject of newspaper paragraphs, some alleging that she is a trained nurse, others that she has discouraged the use of corsets by taking Roentgen-ray views of the figures of her ladies in waiting, and others again that she is a graduate in medicine. Concerning the last statement, a French medical journalist wrote to the lady. requesting details as to her professional career, and received a reply from the chamberlain to the effect that Her Majesty had never studied medicine and took a purely humanitarian interest in the progress of that science.

Several women, medical students of the Johns Hopkins Medical School have clubbed together in house-keeping, near the Hospital in Baltimore.

A Woman's Medical Society in Europe,-There are between thirty-five and forty medical women in Switzerland, and a number of them recently got together and founded a club of women physicians, which is said to be the first of its kind in Europe.

Menelek's Physician, The ruler of Abyssinia has selected a Swiss medical woman, a graduate of the University of Zurich, to reside in his palace and act as family physician to his household.

About two hundred women have been admitted to attend lectures this year at the University of Berlin, after having satisfied the authorities regarding their proficiency. The faculties chosen by them are those of philosophy, medicine and jurisprudence.

The Suicide of a Medical Woman is recorded in Lyon Medical for March 6th. She was Mlle. Elcueff, twenty-six

years old, one of the externes of the Paris Hospital. She was prompted to end her life by remorse over her self-alleg ed neglect in the case of an immature infant that died of athrepsia, as the post-mortem showed, instead of burns from the heating appliances employed to revive it, as she supposed.

Women in the University of Berlin.-We learn from Lyon Medical for March 6th that there are 162 women students in the university, three in the school of theology, three in that of law, one in that of medicine, and all the others in that of philosophy. Ninetyeight of them are German, twenty-six are American, twenty-three are Russian, four are English, two are French, one is Finnish, one is Swiss, one is Dutch, one is Bulgarian, and one is Hungarian.

THE Journal De medecine de Paris for February 27th, records the marrige of Mme. Chellier, the first Algerian woman to obtain the Paris medical diploma, to Dr. Castelli, a physician of the Republican Guard, an officer who by his brilliant conduct in the Madagascar campaign won the cross of the Legion of Honor. If, says our contemporary, medical women do not easily reach lofty stations in practice, they are very apt to marry well. It mentions Dr. Dejerine, Dr. Jacques Bertillon, Dr. Sellier and Dr. Pillet as having married women physicians.

There was a reception at the new building of the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary, at 321 East Fifteenth Street, on the occasion of its opening on Thursday, March 31st. The old college building was burned in April last, and its rebuilding has just been finished. The infirmary, of which the college is an outgrowth, was established in 1854 by Drs. Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell. The college itself was incorporated some years later.

The New York Electro-therapeutic Clinic, Laboratory and Dispensary. The third anniversary of the establishment of the institution, the work of which is conducted at No. 327 East Twenty-fifth Street, was observed at the house of Dr. Margaret A. Cleaves on Wednesday evening, the 6th inst.

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Books.

The American year-book of medicine and surgery edited by George M. Gould, A. M., M. D. Royal octavo volume of 1257 pages, unform in size with the American Text books. Illustrated.

Without doubt, the most practical book of the year, is the above volume. It is a complete summing up of the best investigations of the year, and an honest recital of the results gained, and from cover to cover it is useful. The first section on Typhoid Fever is extremely valuaable, and completely fixes the usefulness and practicability of the Widal reaction, as well as the work done by Elsner and others. Speaking of treatment, the editor justly says; "The search for a specific antitoxic treatment is still pursued with vigor, though, it must be confessed, the results are unsatisfactory." The cold water treatment is commended and the commendation is based on practical experiments.

The section on Infant feeding is of much interest and the latest devices for steralizing milk are given. Speaking of the fear of scurvy resulting from the use of milk so prepared. J. K. Barton, in the British Md. Journal, says: "that comparatively or temporarily steralized milk may be administered without fear, but steralized milk that is put into hermetically sealed vessels, and which can thus keep fresh for several or many days, will produce scurvy unless some fresh food is administered daily. One meal of fresh whey, daily, will achieve this in younger infants than those who may have fresh vegetables, meat or fruit."

The coal tar antipyretics are considered in the section on Materia Medica, and the later discoveries tested. This is one of the most practical sections of the book, for it is full of the results of careful clinical tests.

The book, as a whole, will meet a deservedly warm welcome.

A Text book on Surgery, general, operative and mechanical, by John A. Wyeth, M. D., Professor of Surgery in and President of the Faculty of the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital; late Surgeon to Mount Sinai Hospital and Consulting Surgeon to St. Elizabeth's Hospital; member of the New York Pathological Society Third edition revised and enlarged.

etc.

Dr. Wyeth's book is so familiar to us all that it needs no introduction to us. This, however, is a revised edition containing a number of new chapters which are devoted to the latest discoveries and newest methods. There are also many amplifications of the old text, so that the whole stamps as a complete vade mecum of the art of surgery as practiced to-day.

The new chapters deal with asepsis and antisepsis, steralization, anesthesia; there is also a complete chapter on amputation as well as sections on glands, veins, arteries and ligation of vessels.

The latter part of the book is devoted regional surgery, and many additions made to the text made in abdominal surgery, particularly. The plates in the book are very fine and indicate the parts perfectly-the only critisism is the poor job of binding in the cloth edition.

The Surgical complications and sequels of Typhoid Fever, by William W. Keen, M. D., L. L. D., Professor of the Principles of Surgery and Clinical Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.

Based upon tables of 1700 cases compiled by the author and Thomas Westcott, M. D., with a chapter on the Ocular Complications of Typhoid fever, by George A. De Schweinitz, A. M., M. D., and as an appendix to the Toner Lecture No, 1, Published by W. B. Saunders, 925 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., pp. 386. Price $3.00

net.

Time was when typhoid fever was regarded in a tentative sort of way, as one of the most valuable media of Divine Providence for removing mortals from this mundane sphere, but that time has passed and the literature on typhoid fever is becoming more exhaustive and