Society Reports--Notes of Interest. THE ONTARIO MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. The 25th annual meeting of this Association will begin Tuesday, June 6th, and be continued until the 8th, in the Medical Faculty Buildings, Queen's Park, under the Presidency of Dr. Wm. Burt, of Paris. The organization of this Society was effected largely through the efforts of the late Dr. J. E. Graham, and has through its quarter century of existence become a unified force and power in the medical life of the province. Under the direction of a long line of wise presidents, including such familiar names as Clark, Richardson, Rosebrugh, Temple, Moorhouse, Reeve, Bruce Smith, Grasett, Britton; and later, Gibson, McKinnon, Powell, Mitchell and Ross. The development has been along broad and generous lines, and while the numerical success has not been as great as could be desired, the elevation of the moral force of the Association has been increased so that it stands to-day for ethical righteousness, for scientific progress, and for everything which tends to enhance the professional status of its members and the welfare of the communities in which they have so important a place. These principles guarantee the continuance of the Society's existence. It is then the duty of the men throughout the province to give force to the principles which their wisely selected leaders have expressed. That is especially the case with the younger men and the only way to accomplish this end is to attend the meetings of the Association, and become imbued with its spirit. Given the enthusiasm of members with the present solidarity of purpose, there will be no limit to the effectiveness of its work. The quality of the papers presented, the professional standing of those who are attracted from at home and from outside Ontario to participate in its deliberations, ensure every member being well repaid for the time consumed in attending the meeting. It is a fine post-graduate course compressed into a few hours, only demanding a little individual concentration of effort to make it of great value to every one. Only practical subjects are presented and only practical every day workers and thinkers discuss them. With William Burt as president, and A. Primrose and I. H. Cameron as chairmen of the local committees, with a full supply of interesting papers, with visitors of the prominence of Drs. Ochsner, of Chicago, and Pritchard, of New York, there is no doubt of the success of the meeting. The provisional programmes will be issued before the end of the month. "The Gardener's Spade Silver Fork Deformity, in Fractures of the Carpal End of the Radius. At a recent meeting of the College of PhysiDeformity, and the cians of Philadelphia, Dr. John B. Roberts of that city said that these lesions continued to be badly treated by many practitioners. For comfortable convalescence and perfect cure it is essential that the normal cavity of palmar surface be perfectly restored, and this must be accomplished even if great force be required to disentangle the fragments. The "gardener's spade deformity," so designated by Dr. Roberts, is fracture in the same part of the radius, but with displacement in the opposite direction. This was frequently unrecognized and consequently imperfectly reduced. When the carpal end is disentangled in both the "silver fork" and "gardener's spade" deformities, the treatment is simple once normal apposition is secured. A light straight splint on the dorsum of the forearm. and hand, or a convex splint on the palmar surface, was the proper retentive dressing. Local Anesthesia in guinal Hernia. Dr. John A. Bodine, at the March 20th meeting of the New York County Medical Association, presented a plea for the use of local anesthesia in the radical operations for the cure of inguinal hernia. He has made a personal study of 300 radical operations by local anesthesia in 284 patients, 16 being cases of double rupture. There were 275 males and 9 females, the youngest patient being 15 years and the oldest 80 years. The amount of cocain used in no case exceeded 1⁄2 grain. In not one case was there any wound suppuration and no patient died. Dr. Wm. N. Berkeley, read a paper before the Vincent's Angina. New York Academy of Medicine recently, on the present clinical and bacteriological status of Vincent's Angina, which disease he defined to be a localized, acute or subacute inflammation, usually ulcerative, less often membranous, of the mouth and fauces. Vincent's accounts of the affection attracted the attention of the medical world in 1898; and, during the last four years, the disease had been repeatedly noted in all of the large clinics in New York. The lesion is usually a circumscribed penetrating ulcer, its sight in the majority of cases being on the tonsil, usually on one, and rarely on both. Out of 22 cases seen by Dr. Berkeley, 14 involved the right tonsil The superficial similarity of Vincent's angina and tonsillar diphtheria were very great. Sprays of permanganate of potash and Lugol's solution seem to be of value in the treatment. Physician's Library. "The Eye, Mind, Energy and Matter." By CHALMERS PRENTICE, M.D., Chicago, Ill. 66 From the perusal of this rather peculiar little work one would be inclined to say the author is an ophthalmic specialist, and one who is disposed to refer a large percentage of human ills to eye defects, or impressions received through the sense of sight. We cannot always agree with the author's views, as when, for instance, he says: Disease is simply perverted function." To our mind disease is much more than simply perverted function. A liver may be suffering from "perverted function," the result of an attack of acute alcoholism, or the same organ may be suffering from malignant disease, in which case it would seem to us there is something more than simple perversion of function. On the other hand, the author's ideas on such subjects as alcoholism and its relief or cure by "fogging" the vision, are, we think, bound to give rise to much thought, and, who shall say? perhaps revolutionize our method of treatment. The work is published by the author. Practical Pediatrics. A Manual of the Medical and Surgical Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. By Dr. E. GRAETZER, Editor of the Centralblatt Fur Kinderheilkunde and the Excerpta Medica. Authorized translation, with numerous Additions and Notes, by HERMEN B. SHEFFIELD, M.D., Instructor in Diseases of Children, and Attending Pediatrist (O.P.D.) New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital; Visiting Pediatrist to the Metropolitan Hospital and Dispensary, etc. Pages xii-554. Crown Octavo. Flexible Cloth, Round Corners. Price, $3.co net. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street. One of the best works on this subject it has been our luck to run across for many a day. It is possible there is no book published on pediatrics which presents in so small a space such an abundance of practical and clinical material, pathological and bacteriological data, and details of etiology and diagnosis. A truly excellent work, and one particularly useful to the young practitioner, to whom our advice is—get it. Lea's Series of Medical Epitomes. Edited by VICTOR C. PEDerSEN, M.D. Alling and Griffin's Diseases of the Eye and Ear. A manual for Students and Physicians. By ARTHUR N. ALLING, M.D., Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology in Yale University, Department of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, and OVIDUS ARTHUR GRIFFIN, B.S., M.D., Late Demonstrator of Ophthalmology and Otology, University of Michigan, and Oculist and Aurist, University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan. In one 12mo volume of 263 pages, with 83 illustrations. Cloth, $1.00 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1905. The Medical Epitome Series is rapidly approaching completion, this being the seventeenth of the twenty-two handy volumes which are to cover the essentials of every branch of Medicine and Surgery. It is easy for students, and practitioners as well, to post themselves to date for examinations or practical purposes by reading these authoritative little books. They are written by professors or teachers in colleges, of high standing. Yale and the University of Michigan, for example, furnish the authors of this excellent volume on the Eye and Ear. These subjects are treated in a manner as clear, thorough and interesting as the necessary limits of space will permit. The illustrations are numerous and effective. By CHAS. Philadel "Malformations of the Genital Organs of Woman." DEBIERRE. Translated by J. Henry C. Simes, M.D. phia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut St. Net price, $1.50. A valuable contribution to the literature of teratology, and while, perhaps, not of special interest to the busy general practitioner, a glance at the contents is sufficient to engage the interest of the anatomist and pathologist. Saunders' Question Compends.-Essentials of the Practice of Medicine. Prepared especially for students of medicine. By WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS, M.D., formerly Instructor in Medicine and Lecturer in Hygiene, Cornell University; Tutor in Therapeutics, Columbia University (College of Physicians and Surgeons), New York. 12mo of 461 pages. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1905. Canadian Agents: J. A. Carveth & Co., Limited, 434 Yonge St., Toronto. Double number. Cloth, $1.75 net. In this new volume in Saunders' Question-Compend Series the student is provided with a book of the utmost practical value. Throughout the work special stress has been laid on the more common aspects of the various diseases, emphasizing the contrasting points in similar condition, so as to render differential diagnosis as easy as possible. Symptomatology and treatment have likewise been adequately, although concisely, considered. In fact, this little work is the best we have seen, and for students preparing for examination it will be a most welcome and trusty aid. It contains a vast amount of practical, essential information in the least possible space. American Edition of Nothnagel's Practice.-Diseases of the Blood (Anemia, Chlorosis, Leukemia, Pseudoleukemia). By DR. P. EHRLICH, of Frankfort-on-the-Main; DR. A. LAZARUS, of Charlottenburg; DR. K. VON NOORDEN, of Frankfort-on-the Main; and DR. FELIX PINKUS, of Berlin. Entire volume. edited, with additions, by ALFRED STENGEL, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Octavo volume of 714 pages, fully illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. A. Saunders & Co., 1905. Canadian Agents: J. A. Carveth & Co., Limited, 434 Yonge St., Toronto. Cloth, $5.00 net; half morocco, $6.00 net. This volume on Diseases of the Blood is the ninth in Nothnagel's Practice to be published in English. It includes Anemia, Chlorosis, Leukemia, Chloroma, Pseudoleukemia, and each condition is treated so exhaustively and the theories discussed so carefully that the work will remain the last word on the several subjects for many years. Dr. Alfred Stengel, under whose excellent supervision the entire series is being issued, is also the indi |