enough to show how firmly it is established, and on the other hand, short enough to show that it has been kept always in touch with its advancing subject by frequent and thorough revisions. No more competent authorities could have been found to write "A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, for the use of Students and Practitioners." These words constituting its title, state its purpose, the breadth of its field and its special usefulness. It is, perhaps, the most widely used text-book to-day, and the same is true of its acceptation by general practitioners who have to treat this common and troublesome class of diseases. Specialists of course possess it. The success of the book is moreover shown in the increased number of copies printed, whereby it has been found possible to lower the previous moderate price, notwithstanding the addition of 48 pages and 12 full-page plates. No specialist can afford to be without this up-to-date work.

THE INTERNATIONAL TEXT-BOOK OF SURGERY. By American and British Authors. Edited by J. COLLINS WARREN, M. D., LL. D., Professor of Surgery in Harvard Medical School; Surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital, and A. PEARCE GOULD, M. S. F. R. C. S., Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital; Lecturer on Practical Surgery and Teacher of Operative Surgery, Middlesex Hospital Medical School; Member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons, England. Volume I. General and Operative Surgery. With 458 illustrations in the text and 9 full plates in colors. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 925 Walnut Street. 1900. Price, $5.00 per volume.

Prof. Warren, of Harvard Medical School, and Prof. Gould, of Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, have given to the medical profession two excellent volumes on Surgery. The work is profusely illustrated with chromo lithographs, as well as many original cuts, and is among the most modern of surgeries. The first volume has an excellent chapter on Surgical Bacteriology, by Prof. Ernst, of Boston, which is well worth the careful study of every surgeon. Prof. McBurney, of New York, has a chapter of 30 or 40 pages on the technic of aseptic surgery which every medical man who operates should read and re-read, and then study carefully. The two volumes comprise about 2000 pages, well written, up-to-date, and by the most noted authors. This surgery is really international in character, as the articles have been written by American and British surgeons. A careful perusal of the work will satisfy any surgeon that he must have it in his library in order to be fully informed on the work he is doing daily.

CROCKETT'S GYNECOLOGY. A Pocket Text Book of Diseases of Women, by MONTGOMERY A. CROCKETT, A. B., M. D., Adjunct Professor of Obstet. rics and Clinical Gynecology, Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, N. Y. In one handsome 12mo. volume of 368 pages, with 107 illustrations. Cloth, $1.50 net. Flexible red leather, $2 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York. 1900.

This volume of Lea's already popular series of Pocket TextBooks gives in convenient form and concise language a compendious and well-illustrated presentation of the present status of gynecology. The name of its author is a sufficient guarantee of the trustworthiness of the work. Entire originality is of course neither possible nor desirable in a work intended to summarize the best knowledge in a modern progressive branch of medicine. The reader has the benefit of the author's experience at every point which needed rounding out and illuminating, and the result is a remarkably judicious and even presentation of the entire subject. For the student Crockett's Gynecology will prove of great convenience and utmost value while the practitioner may well refer to it for the latest points on every phase of its subject.

THE PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT AND THEIR APPLICATION TO THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. By J. MITCHELL BRUCE, M. D., F. R. C. P., Lecturer on the Practice of Medicine in Charing-Cross Hospital, London; Examiner in Medicine, Royal College of Physicians, London. Revised to conform with the U. S. Pharmacopoeia by E. Q. THORNTON, M. D., Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. In one octavo volume of 625 pages. Cloth, $3.75 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York. Obviously the best as well as the easiest method of mastering a subject is to simplify it by reduction to its governing principles, a fact which the author has applied to the practical part of medicine, namely, treatment. Having accomplished this he subsequently presents concrete illustrations of the application of these principles in the management of disease, giving full therapeutical directions. The volume is of obvious value alike to the senior student and to the practicing physician. There are few practitioners who could not derive benefit from this volume. In it they will find the methods and practice of a colleague whose name has become famous in the greatest and most competitive city in the world. The prescriptions have been carefully adapted to the United States Pharmacopoeia.

Department of Dentistry.

J. L. ASAY, M. D., Editor in Chief.

Professor of Dental Pathol zy and Therapeutics in the Dental Department of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of San Francisco.

CHARLES BOXTON, D.D.S.

THOMAS MORFFEW, D.D.S.

FRANK C. PAGUE, D.D.S.

CORYDON B. ROOT, M.D., D.D.S.
A. F. MERRIMAN, JR., D. D. S.

COLLABORATORS.

WALTER F. LEWIS, D.D.S.
J. LORAN PEASE, D.D.S.

J. C. HENNESSY, D.D.S.
CALVIN W. KNOWLES, D.D.8.
CHARLES W. MILLS, A.B., M.D., D.D.S.

The Editor of this Department is not responsible for the views of contributors. All communications relating to the Editorial Department of Dentistry should be addressed to J. L. ASAY, M. D., College Building, 14th Street, between Valencia and Mission.

COMMENCEMENT.

The commencement exercises of the graduating class of 1900 of the Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Departments of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of San Francisco were held in the evening of July 5th, at Odd Fellows Hall. The programme was of unusual interest, the Hon. Frank M. Coombs and Rev. John A. B. Wilson, D. D., in their testimonial to the ability, learning and conscientious work of the Faculty and teachers, receiving frequent expressions of approval from the graduates and their friends.

The allusion by Dr. Wilson to the confidence and high esteem reposed in Dr. Winslow Anderson, President of the College, by the Governor of California, as evidenced by his appointment on the State Board of Health for the purpose of rescuing this city from thraldom and lifting the pall of gloom imposed upon it by a municipal board of plague politicians and bacteriological neophytes, was well timed and exceedingly appropriate, as the ovations showered by the crowded assemblage fully demonstrated.

The Degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery was conferred upon the following graduates: Milton Oscar Alexander, Francis Marion Baldwin, Charles Mallard Benbrook, Jackson Lee Bedwell, Leroy Oliver Berger, William Burnham, Stephen Croft, Adam Carlson, George Milton Chase, Harry Jacob Chismore, Isabella Cook-Hocking, Edward Cureton, Allen Percival Deacon, John Angelo Delucchi, John Alfred Eason, William Edward Fraser, Rufus Milton Higgins, Ellis Jones, John Walter Key, Charles Philipe Kellar, Robert Frank Kane,

VOL. XLIII.-40.

William Hersey La Baree, Honore Leon Lacoste, George Michael MacNevin, James M. McCurry, Masaji Matsuda, Ernest Newton, Henry Green Nixon, Milton Max Posner, Ernest Otto Pieper, George Everett Pomeroy, Frank Newman Rose, Henry Browder Rodgers, Ernst Rudolph Schroeder, Gottlieb Spiess, Albert Ernest Sykes, Theodore Frank Vorwald, Everett G. Williams, Walter Scott Wright.

DELEGATE.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of San Francisco was represented at the annual meeting of the National Association of Dental Faculties, which convened at Old Point Comfort, Va., July 13th last, by Dr. Thomas Morffew, of this city, President of the Dental Faculty. During his sojourn in the eastern states Dr. Morffew will visit the dental colleges of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Buffalo and Chicago, to observe any additions of value which can be made in the appointments of the Dental Department of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, it being the intention of the Trustees to leave nothing undone nor expense spared in maintaining the prestige of this School as the leading educational institution of its kind west of the Rocky Mountains.

LAWRENCE MARMION FINIGAN, D. D. S.

The sad tidings come to us announcing the death of this distinguished citizen and member of the dental profession, which occurred July 25th. Dr. Finigan was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1847, and, though at the time but a boy, served with distinction in an Ohio Regiment during the civil war. At the battle of Franklin he received a bullet wound on the top of his head, which left quite a depression in the skull. Upon his recovery and discharge from the service he came to California and located in Marysville, where he engaged in the study and practice of dentistry. He removed to San Jose in 1873 and continued to reside in that city until the day of his death. His passing away was not unexpected. Having been ill for several months, his life was held in the balance several times.

The doctor filled several offices of public trust in San Jose with ability and honor. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the

Masonic Lodge and Knights Templar. He received his degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of San Francisco, although he had been in honored and successful practice many years before that time. As a dentist his skill and knowledge was in constant demand by a large and appreciative clientele, and his wise counsels were often sought by his neighboring practitioners, to whom he was indeed a teacher and a friend.

It was the writer's good fortune to be intimately acquainted with the deceased during the last fifteen years of his lifetime, and in all that period to enjoy his closest friendship, and knowing him, knew him to be a gentleman at all times and in all places. In him could be found no guile. His breast harbored never an evil thought, nor could he ever be prompted to an unworthy action. In all things he was pure and charitable. His urbanity and courteousness endeared him to every associate, and no man had fewer enemies or more earnest friends than he. A widow and three children survive him, two lovely daughters and a son. These will sadly miss his love and affection.

To the family this journal and the Faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons extend their sympathy in the bereavement. The noble life lived as he lived it will be a consolation in our mutual grief.

Peace be with you, brother, in the land that is fairer than day. J. L. A.

PHYSIOLOGICAL REASONS FOR SUPPOSING THAT DEN-
TINE AND ENAMEL IN PULPLESS TEETH
MAY BE NOURISHED.

By JOSEPH HEAD, M. D., D. D. S., Philadelphia, Pa. (Read before the National Dental Association, August 1, 1899.) The case I wish to present for the consideration of the learned gentlemen present is that of a young lady whose slightest systemic derangement was often followed by obstinate pulp congestion.

On the 30th day of March, 1897, she came to me with such congestion in the pulp of the left upper first permanent molar as made it necessary to remove the pulp. Bleeding and arsenical applications were uselessly tried; cataphoresis was found unavailing against such tissue, and finally cocaine was injected and the pulp thoroughly removed up to the tip of each root by means of a Donaldson nerve broach.