INTERNATIONAL CLINICS. A Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures and Especially Prepared Articles on Medicine, Neurology, Surgery, Therapeutics, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Pathology, Dermatology, Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, and other Topics of Interest to Students and Practitioners. By Leading Members of the Medical Profession Throughout the World. Edited by Henry W. Cattell, A.M., M.D., Philadelphia, U. S. A., with the collaboration of John B. Murphy, M.D., Chicago; Alexander D. Blackader, M.D., Montreal; H. C. Wood, M.D., Philadelphia; T. M. Rotch, M.D., Boston; E. Landolt, M.D., Paris; Thomas G. Morton, M.D., Philadelphia; James J. Walsh, M.D., New York; J. W. Ballantyne, M.D., Edinburgh, and John Harold, M.D., London. With Regular Correspondents in Montreal, London, Paris, Leipsic and Vienna. Vol. I; 12 series. 84 illustrations, 3 colored plates. Price, cloth, $2. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London.

The most valuable feature of the International Clinics is, as we have remarked in previous reviews of this work, its practical teaching quality. In the present volume will be found articles from some of the ablest clinicians in the world, and these articles are prepared especially for the Clinics, and are not reprints or extracts from any journal or journals. Further to be commented upon in this volume are the thorough reviews of the progress of medicine for the year 1901, which completely cover the ground of medical advance for that period, and the many excellent illustrations that abound throughout the work.

ATLAS AND EPITOME OF OPERATIVE SURGERY. By Dr. Otto Zuckerkandl, Privatdocent in the University of Vienna. From the Second Revised and Enlarged German Edition. Edited, with additions, by J. Chalmers DaCosta, M.D., Professor of the Principles of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, etc. Second Edition, thoroughly revised and greatly enlarged, with 40 colored plates, 278 text illustrations and 410 pages of text. Price, cloth, $3.50 net. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co. 1902.

The atlas feature is peculiarly applicable to a work on operative surgery, for it thus affords definiteness of detail that can be brought out only in a work thus illustrated. This is the second edition of Zuckerkandl's popular work, and it has been thoroughly revised and greatly enlarged. The favorable reception that this book obtained in its first edition should continue to be borne out in this second.

ATLAS AND EPITOME OF OTOLOGY. By Gustav Bruhl, M.D., of Berlin, with the Collaboration of Professor Dr. A. Politzer, of Vienna. Edited, with additions, by S. MacCuen Smith, M.D., Clinical Professor of Otology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. With 244 colored figures on 39 lithographic plates, 99 text illustrations and 292 pages of text. Price, cloth, $3 net. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co. 1902.

In this series of atlases none should prove more valuable than this. It pictures in colors the pathological changes of the ear far better than any similar book of the kind that we have ever seen. This, in fact, constitutes all that is necessary to say by way of review of this book; for, while there is no little descriptive text, it is the illustrations which render the volume of greatest value. In the preparation of the work the author has enjoyed the collaboration of Professor Dr. A. Politzer, of Vienna, from whose rich collection of specimens a number of valuable examples have been obtained.

IS THE MEDICAL PROFESSION ENTITLED TO REPRESENTATION IN THE "HALL OF FAME"?*

BY JERE LAWRENCE CROOK, A.M., M.D.

JACKSON, TENN.

Members of the Association and Visiting Friends:

THE honor of addressing this body as its presiding officer is one which I esteem most highly and acknowledge with rare pleasure. Residing in the city which is the home of the West Tennessee Medical and Surgical Association, I take great pride in adding to the words of welcome of Mr. T. H. Arnold on behalf of the other citizens, the cordial greeting of the physicians of Jackson to the Association collectively and individually, at its annual homecoming.

The interrogatory which I have assigned myself the task of answering in your presence this evening is one of supreme interest not alone to every disciple of Esculapius in America, but one which is worldwide in its scope. If answered affirmatively by the "Electors of the Hall of Fame," they will, as I shall attempt to show, but have given honor to whom honor is due.

The "Hall of Fame for Great Americans" owes its existence to the generous impulses and lofty conceptions of a noble woman-Miss Helen Gould, of New York. The beautiful

* President's Address, delivered before the West Tennessee Medical and Surgical Association at its Eleventh Annual Session, Jackson, May 22, 23, 1902.

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building stands near the center of New York's splendid park adjoining the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is an enduring monument to its founder. In this superb temple one hundred and fifty panels are provided, each to be dedicated to an American citizen whose lifework entitles him to be immortalized in a "Hall of Fame," or elsewhere, as a leader or benefactor of mankind. No one is eligible who has not been dead at least ten years. Thus far twenty-nine names have been enrolled by the jury of one hundred electors, each name having received fifty-one or more votes, as required. Patriots, statesmen, authors, essayists, inventors, soldiers, sailors, preachers, poets and lawyers are represented; but not one representative of that profession of whose members the Globe Democrat, in a recent editorial, spoke as follows:

"Doctors do not call themselves philanthropists, yet they. practically accomplish more in that line than men of any other vocation. What a great though quiet force they have been in the building of the West! If the full story of their labors and sacrifices in Missouri could be told, the record would touch every heart and impress every mind with its value and magnitude. Doctors are men of wholesome and highminded sentiment, suited to the needs and advancement of every day life. They know few holidays, and often devote those they have to greeting a noble old teacher as they did last night. (This refers to the banquet to Dr. E. H. Gregory in St. Louis.) They work in the shadows of human existence, but always toward light. Americans could get along without politicians, being born that way, but the learning and goodness of the medical profession does not come by nature."

Dr. Burnside Foster has published a poem in the St. Paul Medical Journal on "The Doctor at the Parting of the Centuries", from which I quote the following lines so appropriate to my subject:

To cure their ills, to guard the people's health
Bring little fame and scarcely more of wealth.
'Tis rare indeed upon the roll of fame
To find inscribed the busy doctor's name;
Nor is it wrought in gold or carved in stone,
Few poets have writ the things by doctors done.
To worship heroes and to sing their praise,

To tell of love in many different ways,
Of human happiness and human grief,
All this has been of poetry the chief;

And yet, methinks, the greatest theme of all
Has been neglected, and scarce sung at all.
Who of all men sees most of all these things?
Who of all men to those who suffer, brings
Most comfort, most relief from pain?

Whose is the helping hand ne'er sought in vain?
Ask of yon happy little lad,

Whose legs were crooked and whose back was bad,
Who made him straight and put his back at rest.
Ask of some mother at whose happy breast
A new-born babe is held with joy and pride,
Who sat beside her and to whom she cried
For help and comfort in her hour of pain;
And ask her if she ever cried in vain.
Ask of the soldier back from some campaign,
To whom he owes it that he's home again.
Ask him, who ran to help him when he fell,
And snatched him from the very jaws of hell,
Where bullets rained and shells were bursting round
And dead and dying cumbered all the ground.
When pestilence and plague with horrid breath
Are stalking through the land and dealing death,
Who faces them without a thought of fear?
Whose is the voice the sufferer loves to hear?
All these the doctor does, has done, will ever do;
These are his duties and his pleasures too;
Not that he loves to see and hear the pain;
But loves to make the sufferer smile again,
Loves to wipe the tears away, to hush the cry
Of anguish; or, if need be make it easier to die.
And yet they tell us that no doctor's name
Deserves a tablet in the "Hall of Fame!"

I wish to affirm in the first place this evening that the medical profession is entitled to representation in the Hall of Fame because of its ancient and beneficent history.

Renouard, in his history of medicine, arranges chronology of the development of medical knowledge in three grand divisions or ages. The first age commences as far back as historic tradition carries us and terminates toward the end of the second century of the Christian era, at the death of Galen.

It is clearly established that long before the birth of philosophy, medicine had been zealously and successfully cultivated

by the Esculapiadæ, an order of priest-physicians, that traced its origin to Esculapius, the father of medicine, whom the people deified on account of their great love and reverence for him.

The second age begins at the death of Galen and ends with the end of the 14th century.

The third continues through the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, and is called the age of renovation. This was as far as Renouard carried his history, but I think we may carry it down to the present time by adding one more century and call it the age of anesthesia, bacteriology, asepsis and antisepsis.

The oldest documents we possess relative to the practice of medicine are from the pen of Hippocrates, a learned descendant of Esculapius and a contemporary of Socrates, who lived from 460 to 400 B. C., a man of fine judgment and common sense; a bold and fearless surgeon, whose lofty ideals regarding his profession are beautifully shown in the Hippocratic Oath, which even at the present day is considered a worthy guide for every true member of the profession.

Among the Egyptians, medicine flourished at a very early day. Here every doctor was a specialist, each treating a separate portion of the body, according to Herodotus. Their fame extended to other countries, and their knowledge of medicine is celebrated by Homer, who in his fourth Odyssey describes Polydamna, the wife of Thonis, as giving medicinal plants to "Helen in Egypt, a country producing an infinite number of drugs, where each physician possesses knowledge above all other men." In those days doctors received their salaries from the public treasury, but very strict rules were applied to the practice of young doctors, whom Pliny regarded "the only persons privileged to kill a man with impunity." Babylonia and Finland managed to get along without physicians, but the Hindus tried to keep pace with the Greeks in medicine as in astronomy and metaphysics, while Rome imported nearly all of her physicians from Greece.

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From the time of Galen, whose title to fame rests largely on his anatomical studies, up to the end of the second period, we find medicine making very slow progress. Medieval med

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