THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY met at the offices of Drs. Murfree, Murfreesboro, Wednesday at one o'clock P. M., Sept. 5, 1906. Dr. Rufus Pitts read "A Few Notes on the Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association and a Visit to Boston." Dr. H. C. Rees read an essay on the subject of Phthisis Pulmonalis. These papers were discussed by the members present.

The following members were in attendance at this meting, viz.: Drs. E. H. Jones, H. C. Rees, D. C. Huff, A. J. Jamison, S. C. Grigg, J. B. Murfree, Jr., J. B. Murfree, Sr., President, and Rufus Pitts, Secretary.

THE MARY C. RUDOLPH MATERNITY HOME, has recently bought at 219 Spring St., Nashville, Tenn., a handsome brick building, which has been transformed into a modern hospital, being well equipped for its special work. The situation is ideal for a maternity hospital, the building being surrounded by a grove of trees, giving shade, seclusion, and quietude.

We are personally acquainted with the management and know it to be in charge of strictly ethical physicians. The institution is doing most excellent work and deserves the patronage that it is receiving from the profession.

IN A REPORT of the last meeting of the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners held at Dallas, in the August number of the Texas Med. News, we find that the total number of applicants examined was 144, of which 102 passed and were licensed, and 42 failed. Among the colleges represented were the following: Med. Dep't. Univ. of Nashville, one passed and two failed; Vanderbilt University, four passed and two failed; and Med. Dep't Univ. of Tennessee, six passed and one failed.

MESSRS. BATTLE & Co., CHEMISTS' CORPORATION, 2001 LOCUST STREET, ST. Louis, Mo., have just issued the eleventh of the series of twelve illustrations, of the Intestinal Parasites, and will send them free, to physicians on application. Number eleven consists of most excellent illustrations of the Whip Worm, Tricocephalus Dispar, male, female, the head, the ova singly and in groups, and a piece of the interior of the caecum with the parasites attached.

M. D.

Beviews and Book Notices.

AMERICAN PRACTICE OF SURGERY.- A Complete System of the Science and Art of Surgery, by Representative Surgeons of the United States and Canada. Edited by Joseph D. Bryant, M. D., and Albert H. Buck, Complete in eight Royal Octavo Volumes. Vol. I. cloth, pp. 815. Illustrated by chromo-lithographic and other plates and by line and half-tone engravings. Price per volume-in extra muslin, $7.00; brown leather, $8.00; in extra half-Levant Morocco, $9.00. Wm. Wood & Co., Publishers, New York, 1906.

In the June number of this journal we had the pleasure of announcing the publication of this magnificent and exhaustive work on surgery by American authors, and the first volume just received from the publishers fully sustains all the promises made in the preliminary statement. The paper, press work, mechanical execution, and engravings cannot be surpassed, and it will be a right royal addition to the grandest surgical library.

After a very modest preface, we find pages 3-67 occupied by a very interesting "Introductory "— The Evolution of American Surgery by Stephen Smith, M. D., LL. D., of New York, in which will be found some very entertaining biographical abstracts of those who have done so well their part in this evolution; a number of excellent engravings add no little interest to this part of the volume, among which we notice those of some with whom we were familiar in the days that have gone by, viz.: Samuel D. Gross, Lewis A. Sayre, F. H. Hamilton, P. F. Eve, J. Marion Sims and others.

Inflammation, by A. S. Warthin, Ph. D., M. D., of Ann Arbor, Mich., occupies pages 71 to 145; Disturbances of Nutrition, by A. G. Nicholls, M. D., C. M., of Montreal, 146 to 255: Processes of Repair, by Edward H. Nichols, M. D., of Boston, 256 to 290: Tumors and Tumor Formation is also considered by Dr. A. G. Nichols of Montreal in pages from 291 to 386; Parasitical Relations of Cancer, by Harvey R. Gaylord, M. D., of Buffalo, N. Y., 387 to 412; which completes Part I.,-" Surgical Pathology."

In Part II. we find under the heading of "Complications and

Sequela," pages 415 to 462, taken up with Infections of Occasional Occurrence, by Paul M. Pilcher, M. D., of New York; and Surgical Shock, by Joseph Bloodgood, of Baltimore, pages 463 to 497.

Part III., "General Surgical Diagnosis," is divided into the following subjects, occupying together pages 501 to 690; General Principles of Surgical Diagnosis, by one of the editors, Joseph D. Bryant, M. D., of New York; The Body Fluids in Surgical Disease, by Harlow Brooks of New York; Radiographic Interpretation of the Epiphyses, by Preston M. Hickey, of Detroit, Mich., and the Technique of Radiographic Work by Mr. Walter J. Dodd and Robt. B. Osgood, M. D., of Boston, Mass. The article on Blood Pressure that should have come in the division, having been unavoidably delayed by the illness of the author, will be brought out in the Appendix, in Vol. VIII.

In Part IV. we find its pages, 691 to 770, devoted to “General Surgical Treatment," by Jas. E. Moore, M. D., of Minneapolis, Minn., and Part V., pages 771 to 799, considers "General Surgical Prognosis."

While this is but a mere synopsis of the contents of this splendid volume, it serves to show that we have in store in the near future a most valuable addition to the Surgical Literature of the present day, it being the exclusive production of American Authors. The succeeding volumes we understand will be issued at intervals of about three months each, the second volume now being nearly ready.

PROGRESSSIVE MEDICINE, A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries, and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences.- Edited by H. A. HARE, M. D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in Jefferson Medical College, assisted by H. R. M. LANDIS, M. D., Assistant Physician to the Out-Door Departments of the Jefferson Medical College Hospital. Paper, 8vo, pp. 368. Vol. VIII, No. 3, September 1. 1906. Price, $6.00 per annum, $1.50 per volume. Lea Brothers & Co., New York and Philadelphia, Publishers..

In Volume VIII. No. 3, of this excellent quarterly publication we find that Diseases of the Thorax and its viscera, including the Heart, Lungs, and Bloodvessels are thoroughly and exhaustively considered, so far as the latest developments are concerned,

by William Ewart, M. D., F. R. C. P.; Dermatology and Syphilis by William S. Gottheil, M. D.; Obstetrics by Richard C. Norris, M. D., and Diseases of the Nervous System, by William G. Spiller, M. D.; a very copious Index completing the volume.

These are the same able collaborators to whom was entrusted the work on Number 3 last year; and each one of the chapters has again been treated by its author not only in consonance with the general aims of the series, but with an individuality which gives it a special and original interest and importance.

Any one reading carefully each of the volumes during the year, and as they come out every three months, this would be no great undertaking, would find that he would be pretty fully in touch with the progress of medical science during the year. The cost of the volumes is exceedingly low, considering the valuable nature of their contents; and the general make up, paper, print, indexing, etc., make its use not only profitable but pleasurable.

Selections.

AMPUTATION AT THE HIP-JOINT, WITH REPORT OF FOUR CASES BY WYETH'S METHOD.- Dr. J. Shelton Horsley (Amer. Med., Oct. 21, 1905) after giving a brief history of amputation at the hip-joint, mentions five different methods of controlling hemorrhage: (1) Ligation of the femoral artery before division. (2) Aortic and abdominal tourniquets. (3) Compression of the common iliac artery through the rectum by means of a lever. (4) The elastic tourniquet as used by Wyeth. (5) Compression of the common iliac through an abdominal incision. He quotes Poppert as saying that seventy per cent. of all deaths from hipjoint amputation are from hemorrhage, and consequently regards the methods of controlling hemorrhage as most important. He favors the method of Wyeth. He also emphasizes the importance of combating shock both by precautionary measures, as blocking the nerves by injections of cocaine into their substance, and by the use of intravenous infusions of adrenalin as recommended by Crile. He reports four cases with three recoveries and one

death. The fatal case was one in which operation was necessarily done in presence of grave shock. Two of the cases were for tuberculous disease of the hip-joint, and in both instances blocking the nerves with cocaine was resorted to, and, as a result, neither patient suffered from shock.

EHRLICH'S REMARKABLE STUDIES OF CANCER IN MICE.The inoculation of mice with cancer is being practiced on a very large scale by Prof. Ehrlich, of the Frankfurt Institute for Experimental Therapeutics.

The principal forms of malignant tumor are carcinoma, or true cancer, and sarcoma. Carcinoma occurs only in epithelium, the most important constituent of the glands and the outer layers of the skin; sarcoma only in connective tissue, which is found throughout the body. In man, mixed tumors (part sarcoma and part carcinoma) are very rare, and in mice they have never been known to occur spontaneously. But at Frankfurt a carcinoma that had remained true to type through nine inoculations, began to develop. The microscopical structure of sarcoma in the tenth mouse inoculated, became converted into a pure sarcoma in the fourteenth, and so remained during fifty subsequent inoculations. In another case a like change occurred suddenly, the characteristics of a mixed tumor appearing only in a single generation, the sixty-eighth. In a third case the mixed type seems to be per

manent.

According to current theories carcinoma cells cannot change directly into sarcoma cells. The most plausible explanation of the transformation is that chemical changes in the carcinoma cells cause, through irritation, sarcomatous degeneration in the connective tissue and that the original carcinoma is crowded out by the more rapidly growing sarcoma.

Tissues and cells, whether normal or morbid, can be transplanted with success only from one animal to another of the same species or a species which forms hybrids therewith. Mouse cancer, for example, can be transmitted, permanently, to mice only. Nevertheless, if a rat is inoculated with very virulent cancer from a mouse, a tumor is produced which attains large size in a week,