Warren, Ohio, Oct. 16th. The president, Dr. Dietrick, delivered an earnest and encouraging address. The attendance from western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio was especially good.

The Cleveland Homœopathic Society, organized July 16th, elected the following officers: President, W. B. Hinsdale; vice president, C. A. Hall; secretary, O. E. Adams; treasurer, H. H. Baxter; chairman of the board of censors, H. D. Bishop.

President Diaz, who is much gratified by the results of the Homœo pathic hospital management, has sanctioned the establishment of a national homoeopathic college of medicine and surgery in Mexico, which will not be surpassed by the allopathic colleges in equipments and in the course of study.

Dr. Flora S. Russell was called upon to attend a young girl in a family where the mother, brother, and uncle had died of consumption, and found the remaining members of the family were, and had been for years, using the furnace register as a cuspidor. To prohibit expectoration in the streets might be a good thing, but what can be done in such cases as this?

CONGRATULATORY.

We have much pleasure in congratulating our editorial associate Dr. J. Martine Kershaw upon his removal to a new palatial residence and office at 3421 Washington Avenue. In location and appointments it is equal to the very best professional residence in the city. Our friend has well earned and deserves the very desirable attainment.

In arresting epistaxis, Dr. J. W. Thomas very successfully uses a silk condom, well oiled with oil or vaseline and carried back on a small bent probe as far as desired, in the nasal cavity, and inflated with breath. The probe is withdrawn and the open end closed with a thread which may be wound as far from the end as necessary to give the tension that will control the bleeding.

Dr. J. S. Bennett had a case of malaria in which a tumor about the size of a turkey egg made its appearance at regular intervals of about three weeks, coming without warning and moving gradually from place to place on the right side of the patient's face three or four days, when it would disappear, usually during the night. Quinine treatment soon restored the patient to normal condition.

Dr. A. M. Duffield, Huntsville, Alabama, will present a list of delinquents at the St. Louis meeting of the Southern Homœopathic Association, and those whose dues have not been paid for three years or over, will be dropped from the membership roll. Also, those who are not clear on the treasurer's book, will not be entitled to a volume of the transactions and history of the association which is to be published this winter.

The Wisconsin State Homoeopathic Society elected the following officers at its annual meeting: president, Dr. Harvey Dale, Oshkosh; first vice-president, Dr. M. L. Huntington, Darlington; second vice-president, Dr. M. L. Ewing, Evansville; secretary, Dr. Joseph Lewis, Milwaukee; corresponding secretary, Dr. A. R. F. Grob, Milwaukee;

treasurer, Dr. E. W. Beebe, Milwaukee. Milwaukee is the chosen place for the next meeting of the society, which will be held in May.

A new society has been formed which will be known as the Western Indiana Homoeopathic Society. This society whose membership is made up of physicians from three counties, will hold its meetings every two weeks at Fowler, Benton county. The discussion of papers which will be read and of clinical material will greatly aid in the dispensing of homcepathic remedies, which was the motive for organization. The officers of the society are: President, J. C. M. Chaffee, Kintland; vice-president, A. P. Hubbard, Pine Village; treasurer, Geo. W. Bernard, Rainsville; secretary, E. P. Felch, Fowler.

The Southern California Homœopathic Medical Society beld its meeting at Echo Mountain Hotel, near Pasadena, in October.

Dr. C. A. Macrum in a letter to Dr. Arndt of San Francisco, gives a most encouraging report of the work of homoeopathic physicians and their friends in Portland, Oregon. A homœopathic staff has been appointed for the Portland Hospital through their quiet, persistent, efforts. This hospital is the property of the Methodist church but is open to all. It is a commodious, airy, brick building with about five acres of ground nicely situated.

A PARISIAN MEDICAL QUARREL.Drs. Proust and Roux are at present engaged in a bitter controversy concerning the merits of the diphtheria antitoxin. A child died soon after receiving an injection of antitoxin,

ANTITOXINE IN TOXIC DIPHTHERIA -Save in a few exceptional instances says M. Variot, of the Hopital Trousseau, where death takes place with lightning rapidity, the powerful action of the serum in the way of opposing membranous exudation suffices to relieve the throat. The glandular swelling and the infiltration of the neck are reduced, the general condition is ameliorated for the time being, and the child takes food and regains its vivacity. But this is a deceptive remission; at the end of two or three days, the face becomes pale, general prostration supervenes, and the pulse intermits and then is altogether imperceptible. This pulselessness often persists for two or three days before death occurs, although the heart, keeps on beating to the last. The limbs are cold, but not cyanotic, and M. Variot says that certain features of the child's condition remind one of the algid phase of Asiatic cholera.-New York Medical Journal.

At the International Hahnemannian Association, Watch Hill meeting, the officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, B. Finke, M. D., of Brooklin, N. Y.;

vice president, Mary E. Taft, M. D., Newtonville, Mass; secretary, E. E. Chase, M. D., of Hartford, Conn.; corresponding secretary, Wm. P. Wesselholft, M. D., Boston, Mass.; treasurer, Franklin Powell, M. D., Chester, Penn.; Board of censors, A. R. Morgan, M. D., Waterbury, Conn.; C. W. Butler, M. D., Montclair, N. J., Frederick O. Pease, M. D., Chicago, Illinois, Alice B. Campbell, M. D., Brooklyn, B. L. B. Baylies, M. D., Brooklyn, N. Y. The chairman of bureaus were appointed by the president as follows: Homœopathic Philosophy, J. H. Allen, M. D., Logansport, Ind.; Materia Medica, A. G. Allan, M. D., New York City; Clinical Medicine, Annie L. Geddes, Glen Ridge, N. Y.; Surgery, Howard Crutcher, M. D., Chicago, Ill.; Obstetrics, Julia M. Plummer, M. D., Boston, Mass. The Association's next meeting will be held in Detroit.

RATTLESNAKE BITE RECOVERY. Editor Medical World:-On the morning of July 10, 1895, I was called to see a lad, 13 years old, who was bitten by a rattlesnake pilot on the dorsal side of the left hand. His arm was corded well with a grass cord, but he was screaming and crying, and it was impossible to keep him still. I at once made a crucial incision at the point where the snake fangs had taken effect. Then I effect. Then I charged my hypodermic syringe with a solution of permanganate of potash and injected it just under the cutis through my incision, inserting the needle in every direction. I then waited about twenty minutes. I kneaded the dorsal side of the hand well, getting out all the poisoned blood I could. I then repeated the injection of permanganate of potash.

Inwardly I gave him ten grains of muriate of ammonia and repeated it in twenty minutes. In one hour he was resting well, and in thirty minutes he was sleeping sweetly. I continued the ammonia every hour for eight hours, after which I gave him 10 m. of tr. of digitalis every four hours till four doses were given. After this I used hop poultices to his hand and arm. He made a speedy recovery and is now doing well.

J. C. BANKSON, M. D. Montcalm, La.

CHINA IN GALL-STONE.-Twenty years ago, the late Dr. Thayer of Boston, declared that china will cure gall-stone colic. This was before my time, medically speaking, and it was before the time medically speaking, of the majority of those who are now engaged in the active practice of medicine. The experience I have had in treating this painful ailment leads me to repeat the declaration of twenty years ago that china will cure gall-stone colic, or, I would rather say, cure the cause of gall-stone colic. I present this subject for the reason, also, that there may be some who have never tried the remedy for this purpose, or perhaps, had not known that the claim is made that the remedy is capable of accomplishing such results. "Since 1854," he says (writing in 1874), he has "not failed in a single instance to cure permanently and radically every patient with gall-stone colic who has taken the remedy" in his manner; and he has treated many from all parts of the United States. He gives the sixth dilution at increasing intervals till only one dose a month is taken. Sometimes, he says, the first ef

fect seems to be an increase in the frequency of the attacks, till, as he supposes, the gall-bladder is emptied, but then they subside and cease. -W. J. Martin, M. D. from Amer. Institute Transactions.

The Homeopathic Physician gives an account of a student who passed all the examinations in the German Universities at Kiel and Leipzig with great credit, but was denied a diploma when his homoeopathic tendencies became known. He was compelled to recant an article inadvertently published on cholera during the epidemic in Hamburg. Even then his graduation fees and thesis were returned to him. He was not granted a certificate. A physician who had sometimes used homeopathy in in his practice, wished to graduate from the University at Kiel but was refused for fear of a "relapse," after his having been forced to renounce Homœopathy. The author closes by saying: "After long consideration I left Kiel, and followed friendly advice to hand my dissertation in to the medical faculty of the University of old renoun, Jena. Though I was a perfect stranger there, it was accepted by the faculty. I stood the examination for graduation well, and received my diploma as soon as my dis sertation had appeared in print. "I pass over sundry things and only want to add that later on I went through the Royal Board of Examination in Berlin successfully, for the right of self-dispensation of homœopathic medicines. Now consider: I was persecuted by a Prus

sian faculty for inclination to a healing method which is recognized as such by the Prussian State through a Royal Board of Examination."

Dr. Montague R. Leverson, in Antivaccination News gives his views on vaccination as follows:

1st. That vaccination never has prevented and never can prevent an attack of smallpox.

2d. That it is powerless to modify any such attack.

3d. That it has invaccinated and is liable to invaccinate syphilis, cancer, leprosy, tuberculosis, scrofula and many other diseases.

4th. That the human analogue of cowpox is syphilis or great pox. Proof of this last is to be found in the classical works of Dr. Crookshank and Dr. Creighton, the latter, the author of the article vaccination in the Encyclopedia Brittanica, 9th edition, Volume XXIV.

5th. The testimony above referred to renders it almost certain that vaccination has caused more deaths and diseases than ever has smallpox, whose dangers and ravages have been wickedly exaggerated by official quacks.

6th. Jenner was a mercenary charlatan whose ignorance and impatience of scientific methods were equalled only by his mendacity in which last he has been imitated by his official followers.

In short you will find if you investigate the subject that vaccination was conceived in ignorance, born in fraud and deception, and nourished and maintained by falsehood, robbery, and murder.

Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System, delivered at the National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic, London. By W. R. Gowers, M. D., F. R. S., Physician to the Hospital; consulting physician to University College Hospital; formerly Professor of Clinical Medicine in University College. Philadelphia, P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1012 Walnut street, 1895.

Those who have read "Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System," "Diagnosis of Diseases of the Brain","Medical Opthalmoscopy'', and the Dynamics of Life, ''will not be disappointed in this new work of Dr. Gower's. His chapters on Syphilitic Hemiplegia, Bulbar Paralysis, Acute Ascending Myelitis, the Infantile Causes of Epilepsy, the Foot Clonus and its Meaning, are not surpassed by anything in the English language on those subjects. K.

The Students Dictionary of Medicine, and the Allied Sciences, comprising the pronunciation, derivation and full explanation of medical terms, together with inuch collateral descriptive matter numerous table,etc. By Alexander Deane, M. D., Assistant Surgeon to the New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute; reviser of me ical terms for Webster's International Dictionary, Philadel phia,, Lea Bros. & Co. 1893. Nearly Octavo size 650 pages.

This book is precisely what the title indicates; a student dictionary. Of course the entire rate of a complete medical lexicon has not been attempted but, by the exclusion of obsolete terms, great space has been saved for such terms and matter as the present state of medical terms and termenology would seem to demand pronunciation, a matter of first importance to students, has received exact and most happy attention. Few things present the medi cal man at such scientific and literary disad vantages as inaccuracy in this particular. Derivation and Orthography have received every needed attention.

A table of the muscles and another of the nerves make a marvel of complete information in the space alloted. There is also an excellent classification of poisons with symptoms and antidotes

We are sure the student who wishes a portable dictionary at moderate price will not be disappointed in its purchase. Big books to the student became tiresome to handle, to say nothing as to increased cost.

A Hand Book on the Diseases of Children and their Homoeopathic Treatment Illustrated, A text book for students colleges and physicians. By Charles E. Fisher, M. D., President American Institute of Homceopathy; Ex-President Texas Homoeopathic Medical Association; Editor Medical Century; ex-Editor Southern Journal of Homeopathy; late Physician Protestant Orphans Home San Antonio; Editor Text Book Homœopathic Surgerg,etc.; etc., Chicago Medical Century Company, 31 Washing on st, 1895, pp. 905.

In attempting to review Tooker's and Fisher's

diseases of children, both in the same number of the JOURNAL we find ourselves much in the plight of a romantic lover with two sweet hearts in the same family. If they were just a little way apart he could afford to be desperately in love with the one last seen. But we accept the situation and will try to make the best of it. telling that they had not been published in the great splendid city of St. Louis, instead of the windy, bad smelling village known as Chicago. But to be more sedate; Dr. Fisher has produced a splendid book, up to date all around. We think it open to the same objection we make to Dr. Tooker's book. That is to say a number of subjects have been included that belong to a work on general practice. These inclusions make the book heavy and tiresome to handle, and unnecessarily expensive. For ex ample;there is a chapter on yellow fever. Now yellow fever is not particularly liable to attack children and when it does, does not specially differ from adult attacks.

We cheerfully commend the book to intending purchasers as every way excellent and 1rustworthy.

The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary (4 Volume Edition.)

A thoroughly accurate practical and exhaustive work of reference to all the words in the English language, with a full account of their origin, meaning, pronunciation and size.

Edited by Robert Hunter, A. M. F. G. S., assisted by John A. Williams and S.G. Herritage, A. B., and by sixteen prominent specialists in their various branches.

The entire work re-edited and revised by an extensive corps of eminent American professors, 4 volume edition copyrighted 1894 by Oglive Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois. W. B. Conkey Company, 1895.

This is doubtless the most exact and comprehensive dictionary ever issued in the English language, and for aught we know in any other language ancient or modern. Indeed as to minut al exactness and completeness it is simply a literary marvel, a book wonder. The first thing to attract attentio is the size of the work. The largest sized editions of Webster or Worcester comprise about 1650 pages. The work under review contains 4731 pages quarto size. One edition is in four volumes, the other in six volumes, with the usual variety as to style and material in binding. The paper and printing are equal to the best style of the art. While the price is moderate the proprietors are liberal as to terms or time of payment, so that any one with literary tastes, habits and needs can afford to purchase. No one with literary habits should be without the work, if he can possibly spare the purchase price. We confess to an enthusiastic approval of the work, both in plan and execution.

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