1 yet many cases of amenorrhea exist because the woman cannot afford to lose the blood, and, therefore, no local effort should be made to bring on the flow. Hydrosalpinx leaves absolutely no room for electricity, especially as it is impossible to diagnosticate it. The last chapter is on Contra-indications, which consist of ovarian tumors and papilloma of the broad ligament. The only other contra-indications mentioned (Chap. V.) are: 1. During the menstrual flow. 2. If there is any acute metritis or peri-metritis. Under any other circumstances and with these exceptions, electricity can be used for, and cure, every ailment to which woman is liable. The book is well written, clear and concise. The author's positions are firmly and positively taken, and will carry conviction to many minds. It is, however, filled with false teachings, and its very positiveness is its greatest fault, as it advances, as settled and accepted facts, some things that are as yet only in their infancy and on trial, and some others which have been found wanting and are dying out. Taken as a whole, it were much better that the book had never been written, as those who accept it as their infallible guide, are doomed to many disappointments, and to some such it may cause sad disasters. In consequence of all this, the reputation of electricity in those cases in which it is a most valuable therapeutic remedy, will suffer. THE UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO, MEDICAL DEPART MENT, ALUMNI ASSOCIATION COMMENCEMENT. The fourteenth annual meeting of the Alumni Association of the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo was held at the college building on the Commencement Day, March 26, 1889. The Association convened in the upper amphitheater in the morning session, when Professor E. V. Stoddard, of Rochester, delivered the address of welcome. The President's annual address was deferred until the afternoon session. At the business meeting, the following officers were elected: President, E. L. Shurley, Detroit; First Vice-President, Peter M. Wise, Ovid; Second Vice-President, Eugene Smith, Detroit; Third Vice-President, E. R. Hopkins, Silver Creek; Fourth Vice-President, M. B. Folwell, Buffalo; Fifth Vice-President, Alex. McNamara, Corning; Permanent Secretary, John J. Walsh, Buffalo; Recording Secretary, Eugene A. Smith, Buffalo; Treasurer, E. C. W. O'Brien, Buffalo; Trustees D. W. Harrington, E. C. W. O'Brien, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y.; Horace Hoyt, M. D., East Aurora, N. Y.; Henry Lapp, M. D., Clarence, N. Y.; F. E. L. Brecht, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y.; Executive Committee: F. W. Abbott, H. H. Bingham, and W. T. Tanner. Dr. W. Scott Renner, of Buffalo, and Dr. John McPherson, of Akron, N. Y., were elected honorary members. The afternoon session was held in the lower amphitheater, when the Vice-President, Dr. E. L. Shurley, read his annual address, after which the following papers were read: “Practical Observations on the Localization of Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord," Frederick Peterson, M. D., New York; "Dilatation of the Heart and its Treatment," Henry R. Hopkins, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y.; "Rachitis," Irving M. Snow, M. D, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Richmond, of Livonia, presented for the Association's consideration an interesting case of innominate aneurism. The commencement exercises in the evening were held in Music Hall, where a large audience assembled to witness them. The degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon the following candidates by the vice-chancellor, the Hon. James O. Putnam: Albon E. Bartoo, Eden, N. Y.; Alfred Joseph Rutherford, Milwaukee, Wis.; Robert S. Carr, East Bloomfield, N. Y.; Anna Wadsworth, Brockport, N. Y.; William J. Zopfi, Buffalo, N. Y.; James H. McCort, Rochester, N. Y.; Jacob M. Kraus, Clarence, N. Y.; Grover W. Wende, Mill Grove, N. Y.; Leonard O. Eastman, Berkshire, N. Y.; Frederick W. Koehler, Buffalo, N. Y.; William Stanton, Belfast, N. Y.; Marrian A. Townley, Ludlowville, N. Y.; Patterson J. McNamara, Corning, N. Y.; Henry Jones Mulford, Buffalo, N. Y.; Augustus L. Damon, Canaseraga, N. Y.; Robert W. Green, Geneseo, N. Y.; Lewis E. Dixson, Morris, N. Y.; George W. Goler, Roches Allen A. Jones, Buf ter, N. Y.; Lorenzo P. McCray, Clymer, N. Y.; Herbert A. Birdsall, Buffalo, N. Y.; Louis A. Ball, Buffalo, N. Y.; falo, N. Y.; John Theren James, Medina, N. Y.; Lyman C. Broughton, Buffalo, N. Y.; Edward Whittier Kendall, Kendall, N. Y.; Alfred W. Henckell, Rochester, N. Y.; Herbert Upham Williams, Buffalo, N. Y.; John M. O'Brien, New York City; John R. Gray, Buffalo, N. Y.; Elmer E. Briggs, Silver Creek, N. Y.; Arnold Drexel, Mount Calvary, Wis.; Samuel Huston Lynde, Buffalo, N. Y.; Ammiel J. Thorne, Haverlack, Canada; Lucius L. Ball, Buffalo, N. Y.; John C. Brown, Smithport, Pa.; Harold A. Hayes, Tonawanda, N. Y.; Katharyn M. Bailey, Buffalo, N. Y.; Walter S. Yates, Santa Barbara, Cal.; William T. Twitty, Warrenton, N. C.; Thomas Bagley, Buffalo, N. Y.; William O. Burbank, Gaines, N. Y.; Cornelius Mackey, Rushville, N. Y.; John J. Drake, Buffalo, N. Y.; William A. Ladd, Clarence, N. Y.; Thomas B. Fernald, Norwich, N. Y.; Walter E. Gregory, Dansville, N. Y. The degree of Graduate in Pharmacy was conferred upon sixteen candidates. These gentlemen all appeared before the Board of Twentytwo Curators in the morning, and were examined in obstetrics and gynecology, practice of medicine and surgery. The address to the Alumni was delivered by Professor George Henry Fox, M. D., of New York, and the address to the graduating class was given by Ansley Wilcox, Esq., of this city. An appropriate banquet at the Tifft House closed, in a most agreeable manner, a memorable day in the history of the College. MEDICAL DepartmenT OF NIAGARA UNIVERSITY. CLOSE OF THE WINTER SESSION-SPRING COURSE OF Medical LECTURES. The medical faculty of Niagara University have organized a course of didactic, clinical and laboratory instruction, under a corps of able instructors, to open April 15th, and to continue six or seven weeks. This movement practically makes the medical course eight and a half months in length, and enables the faculty to include many studies which it has been found impossible to reach in the regular course of six months. We desire to witness a further advance in this excellent school of medicine, by extend ing the term to nine months. This college has been in the vanguard of medical reform in this State, and these movements are healthy indications of the spirit actuating its growing body. The Winter course closes with the commencement exercises, which will be held April 9th, at which a small class of thoroughlyequipped young men will graduate. It may be stated that the examinations extending over a period of two weeks, will be severe, though fair and impartial, and the institution will fully sustain its reputation for thoroughness. In organizing the supplementary or Spring course, the faculty have borne in mind the fact that students of medicine, in prosecuting their studies, need wiser direction and guidance than the preceptor can furnish. Besides, the laboratory facilities provided are ample, enabling the students to devote time to departments which demand greater exactions than he can afford in the regular session. We are confident this movement will be supported by the profession, who will send their students just commencing the study of medicine, and thus furnish them with facilities necessary in the four months of their pupilage. Society Meetings. THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION of the Medical Department of Niagara University will hold its fourth annual meeting, Tuesday, April 9, 1889, commencing at eleven A. M., at the college building, Ellicott street. The programme includes the Address of Welcome, by Prof. A. E. Persons; the President's Annual Address, by Dr. C. C. Frederick; business session and election of officers. The afternoon session, at three o'clock, will be held in the Lecture Room Y. M. C. A. Building, at which the following papers will be read: Acute Infectious Osteo-Myelitis, by Herman Mynter, M. D., Buffalo, Professor of Surgery, Medical Department, Niagara University; The Principles of Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis as based upon its Etiology and Pathol ogy, by Hermann M. Biggs, M. D., New York, Demonstrator of Anatomy and Instructor in the Carnegie Laboratory, Bellevue Hospital Medical College; The Gynecic Element in Psychiatry, by Charles A. L. Reed, M. D., Cincinnati, Professor of the Surgical Diseases of Women, Cincinnati College of Medicine, Professor of Gynecology, Women's Medical College. THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES of the Medical Department of Niagara University will be held Tuesday evening, April 9, 1889, at Association Hall, Y. M. C. A. Building. After the conferring of degrees, an address will be given by R. Stansbury Sutton, M.D., L.L.D., of Pittsburgh, Pa. The annual banquet will take place afterward at the Genesee. The medical profession and others interested are invited to the afternoon session of the Alumni Association, and the general public is also cordially invited to attend the commencement exercises in the evening. THE ANNUAL MEETING of the National Association of Railway Surgeons will beheld at St. Louis, Mo., on Thursday and Friday, May 2 and 3, 1889. The prospects are that this will be one of the largest gatherings of medical men ever assembled in this country. Dr. W. B. Outten, of St. Louis, is the chairman of the committee of arrangements, and everything will be complete for the accommodation of the Surgeons. Any information desired can be had by addressing the Secretary, C. B. Stemen, M. D., Fort Wayne, Indiana. THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION will hold its fortieth annual meeting in Newport, R. I., commencing Thursday, June 25, 1889, and continuing four days. From the indications on all sides, this promises to be one of the most interesting meetings, from a scientific point of view, that the Association has held in some years. THE BUFFALO MEDICAL AND SURGICAL ASSOCIATION will hold its regular monthly meeting at Mechanics' Institute, No. 9 W. Mohawk street, Tuesday, April 2, 1889, at 8:30. Election of officers. |