meantime sufficiently weighed this question to arrive at the conclusion that such a venture would be unprofitable to the Society and without excuse for existence.

Nothing was done for the visiting members of the Society in a social way, and in fact we have every reason to believe that the arrangements for their comfort were not wholly commensurate with the demands, but this latter state of affairs was due to no fault on the part of the committee of arrangements, for the Society met at the time when the demand for accommodations in this city was at its greatestrace season, and no provision could be made to obviate the disadvantages to which the members of the Society necessarily submitted on this occasion. We trust that should the Society favor us in the future by again selecting Memphis as a place of meeting, we shall be enabled to remove the unfavorable impressions that may have been created by the experience of some of the members of the Society on this occasion.

COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF THE MEMPHIS HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE.

THE annual commencement exercises of the Memphis Hospital Medical College were held at the Auditorium on Friday afternoon, April 25, at 2.30 o'clock. 171 young men were awarded diplomas in medicine. This is one of the largest classes that has ever been graduated from this institution.

The session of the College just closed has been one of the most successful of its existence, there having been in attendance during the past term 687 students. This does not equal the attendance of the previous year, which ran up to 750, but was no doubt due to the fact that the new College building was not completed on contract time, and the facilities were hardly adequate for the large number of students who desired to attend lectures at this College.

The new building of the College has now been completed in every detail, and provides one of the most complete and handsomest structures in the South devoted to the teaching of medicine. Provision has been made in the new building for the accommodation of 1000 students.

EDITOR'S NOTES.

JOSEPH J. KINYOUN, M,D., PH.D., late director of the Hygienic Laboratory of the United States Marine Hospital Service at Washington, has accepted the directorship of the Biological Laboratories of the H. K. Mulford Company, Glenolden, Pa. This in itself bespeaks scientific advances as applied to antitoxins and vaccines. Dr. Kinyoun is a student in original bacteriological research, and from his work we feel confident new therapeutic and prophylactic agents will be involved. Dr. Kinyoun has made a study of the progress of serumorganotherapy and the investigation of infectious diseases. In the interest of the government he has visited the various bacteriological laboratories and scientific institutions of Europe and Japan; as its representative he has enjoyed special advantages in the study of bacteriology and allied subjects, under Profs. Koch, Behring, Pasteur and Roux in the Hygienic Institute and Institute for Infectious Diseases at Berlin, and Institute of Pasteur, Paris. He is widely and favorably known as a sanitarian and scientific investigator, and has been delcgated on numerous occasions as special representative to international congresses. It is fair to assume that the high standard of the products of Mulford's serum and vaccines, under the direction of a man so singularly fitted for the place, cannot but be still further advanced.

DR. WILLIAM THOMPSON REDMOND, of Crockett Mills, Tennessee, was married to Miss Della Durham, also of Crockett Mills, Sunday evening, April 27, at 8:30 o'clock, at Crockett Mills.

THE MEMPHIS AND SHELBY COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY authorizes us to extend an invitation to eligible physicians of Shelby county to join the Society.

THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS for the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, Dr. A. H. Cordier, has announced the dates of the next meeting in Kansas City, Mo., as October 15, 16, 17, 1902.

THE M. J. BREITENBACH COMPANY, of New York, inform us that they have secured a final decree from the Superior Court of Middlesex enjoining Henry Thayer & Co., of Boston, from making or using in any way a wrapper made in imitation of the one which is used on bottles of Gude's Pepto - Magnan. The court also adjudges them damages commensurate.

DR. JACOB DEUTSCH, a well-known practitioner of Memphis, died at his home, 231 Madison street, April 17. Dr. Deutsch was a native of Austria, having been born at Moravia sixtytwo years ago. Coming to America at the age of 27, the deceased has since been engaged in practice in Little Rock, Ark., and for the past twelve years in Memphis. Dr. Deutsch was a member of the Memphis and Shelby County and State Medical Societies and the Tri-State Medical Association.

A SYLLABUS OF BACTERIOLOGY has been prepared for free distribution by the Palisade Manufacturing Company, of Yonkers, N. Y. This brochure contains much valuable information concerning the technique of bacteriological examinations, and will be found highly useful to every practitioner who attempts this work in any degree. The colored plates illustrating the various bacteria are excellent samples of the lithographic art.

BOOK REVIEWS.

PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE, VOL. 1, 1902. A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Octavo, handsomely bound in cloth, 452 pages, 5 illustrations. Per volume, $2.50, by express prepaid to any address. Per annum, in four cloth-bound volumes, $10. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York.

In this most recent issue of Progressive Medicine we are presented with the customary amount of excellent medical literature that is found in each volume of this admirable quarterly of progress in medical science.

In the current volume the surgery of the head, neck and chest is considered by C. H. Frazier; a section on infectious diseases by F. A. Packard deals with typhoid fever, tuberculosis and the various eruptive diseases; Floyd M. Crandall writes of the diseases of children; pathology is treated by Ludvig Hecktoen; laryngology and rhinology are written of by St. Clair Thomson, while R. L. Randolph considers otology.

A MANUAL OF GYNECOLOGY for the use of Students and General Practitioners. By F. H. Davenport, A.B., M.D., Assistant Professor in Gynecology, Harvard Medical School. New (4th) edition, revised and enlarged in one 12mo. volume of 402 pages, with 154 illustrations. Cloth, $1.75 net. Lea Brothers & Co., publishers. Philadelphia and New York, 1902. Prepared with a two-fold object of giving to the student in clear and succinct terms the best methods for arriving at a diagnosis, and the most trustworthy therapeutics of the commoner diseases of the female pelvic organs, and to afford the general practitioner a practical work of quick reference, this book has gained for itself even greater popularity than the author had hoped would be its fate.

The plan of briefly and clearly presenting its subject matter has been carried out to the extent of presenting only such treatment as the author, in his large experience, has found to be of the greatest practical value.

The work will be found to meet every demand made for a manual that is concise and yet not too contracted in the character of its contents.

WHERE THE MAGNOLIAS BLOOM. A Tale of Southern Life. By Frederic Bacon Cullens. Published by the Abbey Press. London and Montreal. 114 Fifth avenue, New York.

The author has presented his readers with a dainty little volume which purports to treat of Southern life in some of its phases prior to and during the civil war. The story has no feature of unusual interest, but may prove sufficiently interesting to hold the attention of any one who has an hour or two of spare time for which they cannot find better employment.

DISEASES OF THE INTESTINES. Their Special Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment, with Sections on Anatomy and Physiology, Microscopic and Chemic Examination of the Intestinal Contents, Secretions, Feces and Urine; Intestinal Bacteria and Parasites; Surgery of the Intestines; Dietetics; Diseases of the Rectum, etc. By John C. Hemmeter, M.D., P.D., Professor in the Medical Department of the University of Maryland; Consultant to the University Hospital and Director of the Clinical Laboratory; Author of a Treatise on "Diseases of the Stomach," etc. In two volumes. Volume II. Appendicitis. Tuberculosis, Syphilis, Actinomycosis of Intestine, the Occlusions, Contusions, Rupture, Enterorrhagia, Intestinal Surgery, Atrophy, Abnormalities of Form and Position, Thrombosis, Embolism, Amyloidosis, Neurosis of the Intestines, Intestinal Parasites, Diseases of the Rectum, with plates and many other illustrations. Octavo, 675 pages. Published by P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, 1902. Price, Vol. II, $5 net. Set complete, $10.

In our review of the first volume of this monumental work we felt that we could hardly be sufficiently complimentary in our expressions of appreciation of its highly classical nature. This quality is emphasized in the second volume that is just from the press.

In this volume are embraced those pathological conditions that occupy the border land between internal medicine and surgery. The author leads us from a thorough study of the ever recurring subject of appendicitis through a discussion of tuberculosis of the intestine, intestinal occlusion, etc. Every chapter constitutes a distinct and exhaustive study of its subject, and is remarkably thorough in its systematic preparation, which is illustrated in the carefully arranged list of references that closes each chapter.

Illustrations of beautiful execution abound throughout the volume, and the letter press and the paper are in keeping with other admirable characteristics of the work.

A PRACTICAL MANUAL OF INSANITY. For the Student and General Practitioner. By Daniel R. Brower, A.M., M.D., LL. D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases in Rush Medical College, in Affiliation with the University of Chicago, and in the Post Graduate Medical School, Chicago, and Henry M. Bannister, A.M., M.D., formerly Senior Assistant Physician, Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane. Handsome octavo of 426 pages, with a large number of full-page inserts. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902. Cloth, $3 net. Modern methods of handling cases of insanity differ radically from those of a few years ago, and the study of insanity as a special field for investigation has progressed very rapidly. It is very necessary nowadays for the graduate in medicine to have some acquaintance with at least the rudiments of psychiatry, and the practitioner always feels very much better equipped when he has a more or less intimate knowledge of this interesting department of medicine.

Dr. Brower is well known for his work in connection with the study of the insane, and in this manual he has given us an intelligible, up-to-date exposition of such facts as are essential in even a rudimentary study of the subject of psychiatry.

MORPHINISM AND NARCOMANIA from Opium, Cocain, Ether, Chloral, Chloroform and other Narcotic Drugs; also the Etiology, Treatment and Medicolegal Relations. By T. D. Crothers, M.D., Superintendent of Walnut Lodge Hospital, Connecticut; Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases, New York School of Clinical Medicine, etc. Handsome 12mo. of 351 pages. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902. Cloth, $2 net. The most widely prevalent and distressing of all the various drug habits undoubtedly is that of morphomania, and the rapid increase in the last few years of the practice of morphin using by habitués is such as to occasion universal alarm, and to imperatively demand attention from the medical profession and our law makers. Dr. Crothers is regarded as an authority of unquestioned repute in the study of the various drug habits which are becoming so common, and the medical profession will welcome a work of the character that he has prepared. In this book Dr. Crothers has not confined his attention to the discussion of the subject of the abuse of opium and its derivatives, but likewise considers the habitual use of cocain, ether, chloral, chloroform and other narcotic drugs. He groups general facts and outlines some of the causes and symptoms common to most of these cases, and suggests general methods of treatment and prevention. The work will prove interesting to any reader, and is highly instructive in the details which can so advantageously be used by the medical profession.

MANUAL OF CHILDBED NURSING, with notes on infant feeding. By Charles Jewett, A.M., SC. D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women, in the Long Island College Hospital. Fifth Edition, revised and enlarged. Price 80c. E. B. Treat & Co., 241-243 West 23d street, New York. The object of this book is to furnish the nurse with a practical teaching manual, comprising the most important features of hospital training. In carrying out this plan condensed paragraphs have been adopted, and the author has thereby succeeded in supplying within a small compass quite an amount of useful information. The little volume goes beyond the scope suggested by its title, and considers also the subject of the care of the child, artificial feeding, etc. The work will be found amply sufficient to fill the requirements for which it is intended.