I. and II.; John Aitkin, author of "Biographical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain," etc.; William Saunders, also a distinguished medical writer, and John Relph, physician to Guy's Hospital.

The engraving is in stipple, and measures eighteen by twentytwo and one quarter inches. J. H. HUNT.

MISCELLANEOUS.

TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS.

Moscow, August 19–26, 1897.

Claudius H. Mastin, M.D., of Mobile, Ala., has been requested, and has consented, to serve as one of the members of the American National Committee of the Twelfth International Medical Congress of 1897.

The Central (Moscow) Executive Committee consists of the following gentlemen: President, Professor I. F. Klein; vicepresident, Professor A. J. Kojownikow; treasurer, Professor N. F. Filatow; secretary-general, Professor W. K. Roth; secretaries, Professor P. I. Diakonow, Professor W. A. Tikhomirow, Professor I. I. Neyding; members, Professor S. S. Korsakow, Professor J. F. Ognew, Professor W. D. Cherwinsky.

It is officially announced that preparations are being made for the reduction of trans-Atlantic steamer and European railroad fares. A. JACOBI, M.D.,

Chairman American National Committee.

ABSTRACT OF CLINICAL LECTURE DELIVERED AT THE NEW YORK SCHOOL CLINICAL MEDICINE, NOVEMBER 25, 1896, BY WILLIAM S. GOTTHEIL, M.D.

A careful consideration and trial of the various methods of treating the syphilodermata has led me to the following conclusion :

1. In the primary stage, when only the chancre is present, no general treatment; calomel locally.

2. As soon as the second period sets in, as shown by the general adenopathy, angina, cephalalgia, and eruption, the internal treatment for a mild case should be to of a grain of the

proto-iodid of mercury t. d., continued for three months, or until the symptoms disappear. In severer cases, with pustular eruptions, severe anginas, persistent headaches, etc., a course of 6 to 10 intra-muscular injections of ten-per-cent. calomel-albolene suspension, 5 to 10 minims, at intervals of five to fifteen days, should be employed.

3. After completion of the course, and cessation of the symptoms, employ tonics, etc., without specific treatment, for three months.

4. Thereupon a second calomel course, as above, plus a small dose (15 grains) of iodid of potassium in milk after meals. This to be given whether later secondary symptoms of the skin. and mucosæ appear or not.

5. Second intermission of treatment, lasting three to six months, according to the presence or absence of symptoms.

6. In the second year, if tertiary lesions, marked by deeper and more localized ulceration, are present, give the iodid of potassium in increasing doses (60 to 600 grains daily), as may be necessary. Combine with it occasional courses of calomel injections. If no lesions appear, give a mild course of both.

The best local treatment of the syphilodermata is with the mercurial plaster-mull.

BROOKLYN MEDICAL SOCIETY.

At the December meeting the following papers were read: "Some Remarks on Genu Valgum and Its Treatment, with Presentation of Cases," by Edwin A. Hatch, M.D.

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Eye-Strain," by James W. Ingalls, M.D.

"A Demonstration of the Bacillus of the Chinese Plague," by Ezra H. Wilson, M. D.

FOOD IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. By I. Burney Yeo, M.D., F. R.C.P., Professor of Therapeutics in King's College, London. New (second) edition. In one 12mo. volume of 592 pages, with four engravings. Cloth, $2.50. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, 1896.

This is a most admirable discussion of the subject of food in health and disease. Too little attention is ordinarily paid by the physician to this part of the treatment, and, while his mind is principally fixed on the remedies to be applied in a given case, perhaps the most important part, so far as the patient is concerned, is left to the nurse. We commend the volume to the teacher of physiology as well as to the physician, for it deals with food in a way which will aid him very much in the presentation of the subject to his pupils.

NEW BOOKS AND BOOK NOTICES.

All books received by the JOURNAL are deposited permanently in the Library of the Medical Society of the County of Kings.

A TEXT-BOOK OF HISTOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE AND PRACTICAL. For the use of students. By Arthur Clarkson, M. B., C. M., Edin. Formerly Demonstrator of Physiology in the Owen's College, Manchester, etc. With 174 original colored illustrations. Philadelphia W. B. Saunders, 1896. Pp. 554. : Price, $6.00

net.

This volume combines in one the descriptive and practical parts of histology. In the first two chapters are described general methods, such as softening and hardening methods, embedding, freezing, staining, etc. In the succeeding chapters the structure of the organs is described, and the student is initiated into the method of demonstrating it. The author has studiously avoided all disputed territory and given only established facts. The volume is a most valuable addition to the armamentarium of the teacher.

THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE: a text-book for practitioners and students with special reference to diagnosis and treatment. By James Tyson, M. D., Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, and Physician to the Hospital of the University, etc. Illustrated. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1896. Pp. 1184. Price, $5.50.

The long and extensive experience of Professor Tyson, both as practitioner and medical writer, would lead us to expect from his pen a most useful and entertaining work on the practice of medicine, and we are not disappointed in our expectation. We venture to say that few text books on this subject have more satisfactorily covered the field. The contents are divided into fifteen sections, as follows: Infectious Diseases; Diseases of the Digestive System : of the Respiratory System; of the Heart and Blood vessels; of the Blood and Blood-making Organs; of the Thyroid Gland; of the Urinary Organs; of the Suprarenal Capsule; Constitutional Diseases; Diseases of the Muscular System, and of the Nervous System. This last section occupies three hundred pages, and is the most satisfactory presentation of the subject we have seen in a work on general practice. Sections are also devoted to the Intoxications, Alcoholism, Morphinism, Cocainism, etc.; to the Effects of Exposure to High though bearable Temperature; to Animal Parasites and the Conditions caused by them; and to a Summary of Symptoms following Overdoses of Poisons and the Treatment; to which is added a Table of Minimum Dose which has caused Death, and Maximum Dose followed by Recovery. Tables are also given for the conversion of the English into the Metric system, and the reverse.

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A TREATISE ON SURGERY. By American Authors. well Park, M. D., Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery, Medical Department, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, N. Y. In two very handsome octavo volumes, comprising about 1600 pages, with about 800 engravings, largely original, and about 40 full-page plates in colors and monochrome. Volume I, General Surgery and Surgical Pathology. Volume II, Special Surgery. Price per volume, cloth, $4.50; leather, $5.50. Net. Lea Brothers & Co., 1896.

In this treatise of Park's, modern American surgery is well represented. It is not long since American medical students were obliged to obtain their surgical knowledge from the text-books of English authors; but to-day all departments of surgery, both general and special, are so well treated by American authors, that, except to compare foreign surgical methods with our own, there is no need for a medical student or practitioner to purchase a foreign volume treating of surgery.

In the preparation of this treatise the assistance of the following twentyeight surgeons has been invoked: W. T. Belfield, M.D.; A. D. Bevan, M.D.; H. L. Burrell, M.D.; E. H. Bradford, M.D.; C. J. Blake, M.D.; C. S. Bull, M.D.; D. B. Delavan, M.D.; F. S. Dennis, M.D.; Duncan Eve, M.D.; J. H. Etheridge, M.D.; J. A. Fordyce, M.D.; F. H. Gerrish, M.D.; Arpad G. Gerster, M. D.; H. A. Hare, M.D.; W. A. Hardaway, M.D. ; J. M. Holloway, M.D.; C. B. Kelsey, M.D.; R. W. Lovett, M.D.; R. Matas, M.D.; H. H. Mudd, M.D.; C. B. Nancrede, M.D.; Roswell Park, M.D.; C. D. Parker, M.D.; J. Parmenter, M.D.; J. Ransohoff, M.D.; M. H. Richardson, M.D.; C. P. Smith, M.D.; E. Souchon, M.D.

The illustrations are of the best, some of them being especially praiseworthy. The publishers deserve the thanks of readers for having issued the treatise in two volumes; though if the nine pounds which the three volumes weigh had been distributed in three volumes, we should have thanked the publishers more heartily.

A TEXT-BOOK OF MATERIA MEDICA, THERAPEUTICS, AND PHARMACOLOGY. By George Frank Butler, Ph. G., M. D., Professor of Materia Medica in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, etc. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1896. Pp. 858. Price, $4.00 net.

In the recent contributions to medical literature, whatever may be said about other departments, certainly that of materia medica has received its full share of attention. There are some features of Dr. Butler's book which commend themselves to us. The arrangement of the topics discussed, basing the classification of drugs on their therapeutic affinities, is, as claimed, both philosophical and rational. The giving of the genitive forms in full will be very helpful to prescription writers. It is not complimentary to the medical profession that this is so, but it is a recognition of the fact, alas! too true, that many of its members are unable, through their ignorance of Latin, to form the genitive when they write their prescriptions. It is to be hoped that with the

increased preliminary education required for admission to the medical colleges, this opprobrium will soon be removed, and that it will be no longer necessary for authors to give the genitive of substantives and of their qualifying adjec tives.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. For the use of Students and Practitioners. By John H. Musser, M. D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. New (2d) edition, thoroughly revised. In one octavo volume of 925 pages, with 177 engravings and 11 fullpage colored plates. Cloth, $5.00; leather, $6.00. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1896. In the second edition, Musser's well-known treatise has been thoroughly revised, and in its contents will be found the most recent approved advances in physical diagnosis. Among the important additions are new engravings and colored plates which serve admirably their part in illustration. Dr. Musser's twenty years of experience, covering the field of the general practitioner, the hospital physician, and the consultant, enable him to speak ex cathedra, and make his views especially valuable. He has well fulfilled the object he had in view in writing the book, to deal with the whole subject of diagnosis in its present state of development in clear language, and with abundant illustration, to afford the practitioner a consultant upon which he might rely, and to present the facts and principles in such a manner as to give the undergraduate and post-graduate student a rational grasp and practical working knowledge of this fundamental science and art.

DISEASES OF THE EYE. By G. E. de Schweinitz, A. M., M. D., Pro

fessor of Ophthalmology in the Jefferson Medical College; Professor of Diseases of the Eye in the Philadelphia Polyclinic, Etc. Second edition. Thoroughly revised. With 256 illustrations, and two chromo-lithographic plates. Pp. 679. Price, $4.00 in cloth; $5.00 in sheep; $5.00 in half Morocco. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders.

About forty new illustrations have been added to the last edition, and the mechanical execution of the former illustrations much improved.

Dr. Edward Jackson has revised the chapters on Normal and Abnormal Refraction, and also the Section on Retinoscopy. Paragraphs on the following subjects have been introduced: Filamentous Keratitis, Blood staining of the Cornea, Essential Phthisis Bulbi, Foreign Bodies in the Lens, Circinate Retinitis, Symmetrical Changes at the Macula Lutea in Infancy, Hyaline Bodies in the Papilla, Monocular Diplopia, ubconjunctival Injec Germicides, Infiltration, Anesthesia, and Sterilization of Collyria.

A chapter is also added upon the use of the Ophthalmometer. On page 64 it is stated that the pupil is generally smaller in blue irides and in eyes with hypermetropic refraction, but larger in dark irides and in eyes with myopic refraction. This statement is at variance with the recent observations of Silberkuehl, who found that the refractive condition of the eye and color of the iris did not materially affect the size of the pupil. Dr. de Schweinitz' experi