Dr. William Hopkins Prudden, Buffalo, 1905, a resident of N. Y. City, died at the Roosevelt Hospital, July 24, aged 30, after an operation for acute appendicitis.

Dr. Maurice Howe Richardson of Boston, Harvard, A. B., 1873, M. D., 1877, was found dead in bed at home, July 31, aged 60. His work in surgery was of the highest rank and he was one of the contributors to Park's and Dennis's systems.

Miss Margaret B. Bowden was found drowned in Niagara River, Aug. 5, 1912. For some time, and especially for the last year, she had been in bad health, with marked nervous prostration. She was a member of an old New England family but had resided in Buffalo for many years. At the time of her death, she was in her sixtieth year. For nearly a quarter of a century, Miss Bowden had served as secretary to the late Col. W. W. Potter, M. D., the former editor of this JOURNAL. As Dr. Potter's health declined, the active work of the JOURNAL fell more and more to Miss Bowden and for some months after his death, she was the sole proprietor, manager and editor, save for the voluntary assistance in strictly medical details, of several friends. On account of her modesty, few except these collaborators knew of the extent of her duties or realized her marked ability not only as a business woman but as a judge of strictly medical literature. Without technical instruction, she had gradually acquired a familiarity with medical journalism and was both a fluent writer and a wise critic of submitted articles. Last summer, we repeatedly urged Miss Bowden to continue in charge of the JOURNAL with such professional assistance as was volunteered but she realized her bodily and mental fatigue and refused. After this refusal, we urged that she should continue in active charge at least of the business details but were forced to yield to her firm resolution to retire completely from the work. She would not, while living, permit a tribute to be paid to her splendid executive and literary ability, her courage and devotion in carrying on the JOURNAL in the interim between editorships, and the sacrifice of health and strength which the labor involved. We feel this acknowledgement of her services to the profession of Western New York, though perhaps contrary to her own wishes, is demanded as a matter of honesty.

Dr. T. B. McClintic of the U. S. Marine Hospital and Public Health Service, died Aug. 13, at Washington, D. C., aged 39. He was born in Warm Springs, Va., graduated in medicine at the University of Virginia and appointed to the service, 15 years

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ago. For the last two years, he had been studying the Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, first well known through the researches of Chowning and Wilson, who traced its transmission to a squirrel tick. Dr. McClintic had labored especially in the Bitter Root valley and so successfully that no case of the fever had occurred this year until he himself developed symptoms on Aug. 9, and started for Washington, typic signs appearing en route. Mere words are inadequate praise for a martyr. In the past, there has been a tendency on the part of a few narrow minded army and naval officers to sneer at the Marine officers as civilians but this feeling has almost entirely disappeared and, indeed, even in the army and the navy, the risks especially of medical officers, are constant and not dependent on the presence of war.

Dr. Frank T. Cochran, Jefferson, 1872, died at Hudson, N. Y., July 17, aged 60.

Dr. Delos Burd Manchester, died at Schenevus, N. Y., July 21, aged 54. He was a graduate of Buffalo, 1883. For many years he practiced at Oneonta, N. Y., later at Grant's Pass, Ore.

Dr. Alfred M. Haight of White Plains, N. Y., a graduate of the N. Y. Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, 1879, died suddenly of heart disease at Ocean Grove, N. J., July 14, aged 56. He was a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy and of the State and County organization and was attending physician to the White Plains Hospital and Jennie Clarkson Orphans' Home.

Dr. Frederick F. Hoyer of Tonawanda, a graduate of the University of Buffalo, 1849, died Aug. 16, 1912, aged 91.

Dr. Hoyer's great, great grandfather was Peter Hoyer, who migrated from Hesse Cassel in 1748 and located in Herkimer. Dr. Hoyer was born at the family home in Warren (originally known as Andreastown), Herkimer Co., N. Y., May 9, 1822. After a course of medicine at the old Geneva Medical College, he practiced by license, in accordance with the existing custom and law, with his uncle, Dr. Peter P. Murphy of Roylaton. In October, 1846, he married Miss Pauline Towne of Royalton who died in 1910, aged 87. After marriage he continued his medical studies and received the doctor's degree at the University of Buffalo in 1849. On May 9, 1849, he and his wife moved to Tonawanda by canal boat, built their home there in 1853, and resided there till their death. From 1861 to 1863, he was visiting physician to the Erie Co. Almshouse. In 1880 he was President of the

Medical Society of the County of Erie. In 1908, he was made an honorary member. Dr. Hoyer was the oldest mason in the state, having joined Lake Erie Commandery (of which his uncle was one of the three founders) in 1857. For several years, his masonic brethren honored him by calling in a body at his home. Dr. Hoyer, beside enduring the hardships of pioneer practice, common to his time, had the experience of two epidemics of cholera Asiatica and of numerous conflicts with small pox. He

was a strong man, physically, mentally and spiritually; rightly honored and respected by his patients, to the third and fourth generation, by his profession, by his fellow citizens.

Dr. Daniel Gaylord Mason, who had practiced in East Henrietta, Monroe Co., N. Y., for 28 years, died at his home, Aug. 13, aged 57. He was born in Walforth, Wayne Co., N. Y., July 9, 1855. He graduated in medicine, in 1879 at the New York University. Several years ago, he became infected during an

operation and his health gradually declined, although he made a gallant fight for recovery and persisted in his medical duties till recently. He was a member of the State Society and the Monroe Co. branch, of the Central N. Y. Medical Association, and a charter member of the Rochester Academy of Medicine. He was formerly President of the Medical Society of the County of Monroe.

BOOK REVIEWS

AN ESSAY ON HASHEESH, Including Observations and Experiments, by Victor Robinson of New York, published by the Medical Review of Reviews, 80 pages, 50 cents.

This is a most interesting review of the historic and literary aspects of the drug and it contains valuable contributions to symptomatology, with a very sensible reminder that idiosyncrasy has much to do with determining the exact disturbances noted.

In passing, we may say that we have never observed the confusion of time and space so eloquently described by H. C. Wood and that the sole toxic symptom (obtained in the transition from the ordinary preparations to one of real activity) noted has been a fear of death, without any definite subjective suffering or objective indication of depression of any function to warrant the fear. 25 cents.

OBSTETRIC CHARTS IN COLORS. Battle & Co., St. Louis. 25 cents.

In all, 37 figures are given, classified from normal labor to the most difficult obstetric manipulations, semi-diagramatic, so as to center the attention upon the mechanics of labor and of correcting interference. Reference to these charts will refresh the memory of the practitioner and they would be of the utmost value in the instruction of midwives, nurses and medical students. A very brief, straightforward description, with formulæ, of the preparations of the firm, concludes the book.

PELLAGRA, An American Problem, by George M. Niles, M. D., Atlanta; published by W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 253 pages, illustrated, $3.00.

This is an exhaustive study by one who has had large opportunity for observing cases and patience and good judgment in reviewing the work of others. No definite conclusion is reached as to the etiology, although the author commits himself definitely to the conception of the disease as an entity, with which view, we have as definitely disagreed. The practical discussion of symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment is full and excellent, though obviously, from the point of view of the reviewer, diagnosis consists only in meeting the requirements of a somewhat

arbitrary definition and prognosis, prophylaxis and treatment, not limited by the idea that we have a definite disease process, are different in some respects from the same methods applied to what is regarded as a specific disease.

LABORATORY METHODS, with Special Reference to the Needs of the General Practitioner, by Drs. B. G. R. and E. G. C. Williams, with an introduction by Dr. Victor C. Vaughan. Published by the C. V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, 203 pages, 42 illustrations, $2.00.

This book makes no pretentions of covering the field of clinical diagnosis but it does deal not only with the various fluids of the body but with methods of cutting and staining tissues, examining for poisons, post mortem technic and the general equipment of a simple laboratory. It does well, what it sets out to do.

TUMORS OF THE JAWS, by Dr. Charles L. Scudder, Boston. Published by the W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. 391 pages, 353 illustrations, cloth, $6.00, half morocco, $7.50.

Elaborate monographs on particular fields of non-visceral surgery, of which the same author's work on Fractures, recently reviewed, is another good example, show how far specialization has advanced. But even for the general surgeon, a work of this kind is more convenient for reference than the brief chapters of several more comprehensive text books and, from the mere financial standpoint, one case in prospect would amply justify the purchase and perusal of the book. Not only is there a complete discussion of general principles and a grotesquely horrible collection of extreme cases, but technic is both described and illustrated with the utmost detail.

A TEXT BOOK OF GYNECOLOGY, by Dr. William Sisson Gardner, Baltimore; published by D. Appleton & Co. 286 pages, 138 illustrations. $3.00.

This is a very concise, systematic treatise which avoids minutiæ and gives a good general idea of the subject. It is, however, sufficiently full for all but the experienced specialist seeking the perfection of details.

GOULD AND PYLE'S CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY. Second edition, revised and enlarged, under the editorship of R. J. E. Scott, M. A., B. C. L., M. D., New York. 2 volumes, 653 illustrations, $14.00.

The work represents a large number of collaborators, 33 more than for the first edition and 400 pages have been added. Several very recent subjects are included. This work impresses us as being of the greatest practical value. George M. Gould has the knack of systematizing information, lighting on illustrative types,