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drawing the knees toward the abdomen. The colic of colocynth, unlike that of belladonna, is relieved by pressure.

Antimonium tartaricum is invaluable in contending with the bronchial irritation which so frequently follows the administration of ether.

Antimonium crudum is of equal value in overcoming the indigestion which is attended by pain at pit of stomach. With it there is belching with taste of what has been eaten, with a thick, white or yellow coating of tongue. Not infre quently the abdomen is distended, with much rumbling of incarcerated flatus.

Magnesium phos. is often prescribed by me to overcome spasmodic pains in any part of the body, but especially if there are spasmodic pains in the bladder and urethra.

It is hardly necessary to say to this audience that china is the remedy above all others for anemia resulting from loss of blood. Later on, when it is necessary

to build the patient up, calcarea phos. is one of the best of all reconstructing remedies for anemia and prostration.

China and lycopodium are of signal service if flatulence is troublesome.

The serpent poisons and phosphorus are always to be thought of where blood degeneration is a marked symptom, particularly in septic conditions.

As I said at the beginning of this paper, I have nothing original to present to you. I think that surgeons too often take it for granted that general practitioners will understand that the indicated remedies are given in post-surgical treatment, and therefore, in reporting cases, say but little regarding internal medication. We cannot too often review the indications for certain remedies, which, I believe, will aid us many times in saving life when death would result were such remedies not administered.— James C. Wood, M. D., Medical Era, December.

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Book Reviews

THE PHYSICIAN'S VISITING LIST FOR 1902. Fifty-first year of its publication. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. Price, $1.00 and upwards.

Promptly this valuable part of a physician's armamentarium comes to hand, with all of the old splendid features it has contained for so many years, and several new ones. We do not see how the busy physician can keep house without it. PRACTICAL MEDICINE. By F. Mortimer

Lawrence, A. M., M. D., Assistant in Practice of Medicine, Hahnemann Medical College; Chief of Medical Clinic, Hahnemann Hospital Dispensary, Philadelphia. Price, Cloth, $3.00 Net. By mail, $3.25. Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. 1901.

When we take up the curriculum of any of our colleges the first thing that strikes us is the amount of work which a student has to accomplish within a given period. Hence it is that students' manuals have been found necessary to enable the student to economize time and energy. The principal point taken into consideration in the writing of a manual is conciseness and brevity. Many times we find manuals too brief in the consideration of disease. Dr. Lawrence's work is not a manual nor is it an encyclopedia. It is a concise, carefully prepared work which contains the gist of the descriptions of the various conditions, having really all that is necessary for a student to know in order to understand the subject. As the Doctor says: "It is not a book for advanced workers, it is intended entirely for students."

Its striking feature is the clearness with which are detailed methods of examination. Tests of bile, stomach contents, faeces, blood, urine, etc., are exceptionally full and at the same time simple and easy to do. His description of methods of blood count is also very good. One criticism, however, we think is justifiable, and that is a lack of symptomatology in his therapeutic suggestions. It is not enough to tell a student that the most important remedies are bry. onia, arnica, etc., or that bryonia, arnica,

etc., have been recommended, but we should know why, when and in what strength bryonia or arnica may be used.

The index is very helpful, and the general appearance of the book is, as are all Boericke & Tafel's publications, pleasing and substantial.

A TREATISE ON THE ACUTE, INFECTIOUS EXANTHEMATA. Including Variola, Rubeola, Scarlatina, Rubella, Varicella and Vaccinia, with especial reference to Diagnosis and Treatment. By Wm. Thos. Corlett, M. D., L. R. C. P. Lond. Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology in Western Reserve University; Physician for Diseases of the Skin to Lakeside Hospital; Consulting Dermatologist to Charity Hospital, St. Alexis Hospital and the City Hospital, Cleveland; Member of the American Dermatological Association and the Dermatological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Illustrated by 12 Colored Plates, 28 Half-tone Plates from Life, and 2 Engravings. Pages viii-392. Size, 61⁄4 by 94 inches. Sold only by Subscription. Price, Extra Cloth, $4.00 Net, Delivered. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street.

In Cleveland Dr. Corlett is well and favorably known from the splendid work done by him in the dispensary connected with Lakeside Hospital. There is probably no skin clinic in the city which is so fully attended as his, and he has made a very enviable reputation for himself. As a result of these years of work and his careful study of his specialty comes this admirable treatise which will probably take its place as a classic. It is a book which should be within reach of the physician as he sits at his office desk.

The author has gone to a very considerable expense in illustrations, the results being exceptionally perfect representations in color, for instance, of the eruption of smallpox, varicella, scarlatina, and other diseases which are sometimes extremely difficult to diagnose without some such help. The keynote of the author in preparing the work has evidently been thoroughness.

This has been attained by the use of unlimited space, but fortunately not being From open to the criticism of verbosity. what we have said it is evident that we heartily endorse the book and advise its purchase. The mechanical execution is well up to the standard.

TEXT-BOOK OF NERVOUS DISEASES. Being a Compendium for the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By Charles L. Dana, A. M., M. D., Professor of Nervous Diseases in Cornell University, Medical College; Visiting Physician to Bellevue Hospital; Neurologist to the Montefiore Hospital; ex. President of the American Neurological Association; Corresponding Member of the Societie de Neurologie, etc. Fifth Edition. With 244 Illustrations. New York: William Wood & Company. 1901. Cloth, $3.50.

A book which has gone through four editions and is still in enough of a demand to warrant the issuing of a fifth needs no comDr. Dana mendation from the reviewer.

in this last edition has made one particular addition which is very important, and that is the chapter on General Paresis. He is quite justified in adding this subject to the A number already full table of contents. of changes have been made, particularly with regard to the microscopical anatomy of the nervous system and the addition of a chapter on Diseases of the Cauda Equina, which, with the substitution of new cuts for the old, and the addition of some corrections, make the book a very complete and desirable one. We are sure it will meet the same generous reception that has been accorded to the first four editions.

LIBERTINISM AND MARRIAGE. By Dr.

Louis Jullien, Surgeon of St. Lazare Prison;
Laureate of the Institute of the Academy of
Medicine, and of the Faculty of Medicine of

Paris. Translated by R. B. Douglas. 170
Pages. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company,
Publishers. 1901.

The American edition of this work comes quite apropos of the discussion which is being had concerning the question as to whether or not restrictions should be placed upon persons having specific diseases and who are contemplating marriage. Much has been said about the responsibility which a man shoulders when he asks a woman to join him "for better or for worse." Dr. Jullien discusses particularly the question of the marriage of a person inoculated with specific disease and presents the facts in a fair and interesting way. It is a book which can be read with profit by all practitioners of medicine. It contains the best treatise on blenorrhea, which is a nice name for the more commonly used "gonorrhea," that we have ever seen, and the hints and suggestions contained throughout the book will well repay a careful perusal of it.

The following pamphlets have been re ceived:

MYOCARDITIS. Some Clinical Observations.
By Wm. H. Vandenburg, M. D., Professor of
Physical Diagnosis and Diseases of the Heart
and Lungs, New York Medical College and
Hospital for Women; Visiting Physician
Hahnemann Hospital.
Tubercular Cystitis.

By Bukk G. Carleton, M.
D., New York. Consulting Genito-Urinary
Surgeon to the Hahnemann Hospital, and
Visiting Genito-Urinary Surgeon and Special-
ist to the Metropolitan Hospital, New York
City. Reprinted from the Hahnemannian
Monthly, March, 1901.

The Urine of Uro-Genital Tuberculosis. By Geo.

F. Laidlaw, M. D., New York. Reprinted from the Hahnemannian Monthly, March, 1901.

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Correspondence

Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 1st, 1901.

To the Members of the American Institute of Homeopathy: The American Institute of Homeopathy in session at Richfield Springs, N. Y., empowered the newlyelected executive committee to select the place for the Institute's 58th meeting.

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The Committee has made choice of the City of Cleveland, O., for the meeting of the Institute in the month of June, 1902. We feel assured that after the meeting taken place the members will agree that the Committee's decision is the wisest one that could have been made. In 1899 the Institute made Cleveland its first choice for the next succeeding meeting, thus recognizing its eminent fitness. The local profession now desires the meeting. Cleveland has the advantage of being easily accessible by many lines of road from all parts of the United States. This is looked upon as being of the greatest importance in insuring a large attendance. The place of meeting must be accessible. The month of June in Cleveland is one of the most delightful of the year, and weather conditions are likely to be of the pleasantest. The Hollenden House which will be headquarters-is one of the best hotels in any city in the country. It has made many concessions in the interests of its expected guests. The Hollenden has 500 rooms, and will take splendid care of a large number. There are other first class hotels near by. All can be suited and all can be accommodated.

There is a very large number of Homeopathic physicians in the part of the country tributary to Cleveland, making it a most favorable point for the accession of new members. It is many years since the Institute has met in Ohio, an additional reason in favor of the choice that the Committee has made.

It is proper to state that the Executive Committee is well aware of the fact that there is a strong and wide-spread sentiment in favor of a quiet "resort" for the Institute meetings. Each member of the Executive Committee shares in this feeling. With this in view an earnest effort was made to find a suitable place of the character. The only one that presented itself was Put-in

Bay Island, in Lake Erie. After a thorough investigation the Committee felt compelled to abandon further thought of this place, for the main reason, among others, that it is very inaccessible. Boats do not always make proper connection with trains, often causing long delay. Should the lake chance to be rough, the trip is very objectionable to many people. Therefore, because of its inaccessibility, the Committee became convinced that it was undesirable to make choice of the Lake Erie island resort.

In making the above announcement of its final choice, the Executive Committee entertains the confident assurance that the meeting of the Institute to be held at Cleveland, June 17-21, 1902, will take its place among those which have been the most successful, the most profitable, and the most largely attended.

Jas. C. Wood, M. D., President-elect. Ch. Gatchell, M. D., Sec'y-elect.

November 25th, 1901.

Dear Doctor: I have the honor, and I am proud of it, of organizing the Hahnemann Society of my alma mater. I at first called the class together for an evening drill in, or review of, anatomy, and it was so successful that after a few nights I prevailed upon the class to select one of their number to superintend each of the other chairs. The second year we had a more complete organization at the beginning of the course and elected officers, of which I was the first president, and printed certificates which were awarded to each of the graduates on commencement day.

Permit me to call your attention to the omission of two of my classmates from the graduating class of 1861-Francis Brick, my room-mate, and Constantine Lippe. If your history is to be published in book form perhaps it may not be too late to correct the omission. Dr. Brick is now in practice in Worcester, Mass. Dr. Lippe has been dead several years.

I have read your history with much pleasure and wish you continued success until it is finished.

Fraternally yours,

H. C. Allen.

We have received the following letter:

Waverly, N. Y., Dec. 27, 1901.

Dr. J. Richey Horner, Cleveland, Ohio:

Dear Doctor: Dr. R. Belle Beach, an alumnus of the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College, having died on the 23d of September last, leaves a good location for a lady homeopath. We wish to get a physician to buy her property here and succeed her. I hope we may hear from you soon.

Yours, etc.,

Dr. J. N. Smith.

Dr. J. Richey Horner, Cleveland, Ohio:

Dear Doctor: Enclosed please find check for $1.00, which apply to payment of my subscription to Homeopathic Reporter. It is with pleasure I welcome its advent to my office, telling me of the doings of the different members of the class and alumni.

It begins to seem a long time since leaving our alma mater-nearly eighteen years; but in all that time we have been plodding along in the one place, taking a vacation occasionally, sometimes "across the pond," sometimes in the great West, but always re

taining a warm and loving interest in our institutions and alumni.

Wishing success to your efforts with the Homeopathic Reporter, I am, Sincerely,

Florence Smith-White,

Class '84.

Geneva, O., Nov. 15th, 1901. Dr. J. R. Horner, Ed. Homeopathic Reporter, Cleveland, O.:

Dear Doctor: I rise to point of order and protest against your reference in the November Reporter to my old medical roommate and class-mate of '85, C. H. H. C.— Mrs. Pauline M. Webster, M. D., of Long Beach, Cal., as a man. For she is a good, orthodox woman and did nothing in the least out of order to be thus named. Besides, her husband is a minister, and if he should once fire his oratorical guns at you, in her behalf, there would not be enough of you left for a skeleton for the museum, and what would become of our well edited college journal?

Yours fraternally,

Lena E. Hitchcock, Class of '85. C. H. H. C.

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