(providing, however, for reciprocity with other states having equally stringent laws), specify a minimum educational standard, and to prohibit the appointment of anyone to a place on the board who is in any way connected with a medical college, as well as to define more clearly the powers of the board, and a few minor points. We were met with the statement that then the time was too short to make any changes (why?), and that the draft as sent down was practically the only bill that could be lobbied through the legislature, and we were out-voted. It was not true, however, that the legislature would not pass a different bill. The legislators were very liberal and would have a good bill as willingly as the thing it did, that would have been a credit to the state. The real opposition came from the originator of the bill-the honorable Secretary-Treasurer-and it was generally understood that he would fight the bill if changes were made in it. So far as I have been able to find out he is the only man in the state who really thinks the bill a good one. Then he calls everyone a "knocker" who presumes to criticise. Well, some people do consider everyone knockers who do not agree with them. However there are other influences which hinder the effective execution of even the law we have, and we will be confronted with the same conditions so long as the medical colleges of Colorado practically dominate the actions of the board and until they raise their standards to be the equal of the very highest in the country. I am making no fight on Colorado's medical colleges. I am proud that we have them in our midst and I hope that they may continue in their good work. But there lies one of the sources of the trouble of so many candidates passing the board. But let them raise their standard and properly educate their graduates and they will have no difficulty in passing a reasonable examination before the state board. The older states have abandoned the plan of making exceptions of their state schools.

To remove all suspicion of ulterior motive I think it would be appropriate if members of medical college staffs would decline to serve on the board of examiners. The requirements as outlined by the board look well on paper, but I have reason to believe that in many instances they are loosely enforced, which is evidenced by the small percentage of rejections, as compared with the total number of applicants, and further that applicants have been licensed even after they had failed

to pass the examination even in as many as three branches. There is no disputing the fact that there are twice as many physicians practicing in Colorado as are necessary to do the work and live respectably thereby. But in setting up a barrier let there be but one, and that the highest attainable educational standard. That will be restrictive enough if fixed high and enforced. It should be at least as high as New York. Such a restriction can be enforced under the present, but it is not yet. As the honorable Secretary-Treasurer of the State Board of Medical Examiners is the father of the present "ideal medical law," let us hope that he had no ulterior motive in preparing the bill, and later the rules, etc., governing the actions of the board. Under those rules, which he says are together with the other recorded proceedings of the board, open to the public for inspection, is one appropriating $125 per month to the honorable Secretary-Treasurer, and $100 per month additional for a stenographer. These salaries are conditional, however, on the raising the amount by the income from applicants at $25 each. Should there not be a sufficient number of applicants to make up the amount, then no salaries are forthcoming.

These salaries and other expenses of the board require that approximately 160 applicants shall be accepted each year, in order that they may be met. The conclusion is obvious. Probably the salaries mentioned are necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the board, preparing defenses of the law we have, etc. I am not sitting in judgment on those propositions, and I hope that no sharp practice was played in providing fat salaries for the parties mentioned. But it doesn't look well. The question of examination of candidates, exclusion of medical college men from the board (which is done in many states), a minimum educational standard, and the execution of the law should have been embodied in the provisions of the law. Then there could be none of this vaccillating nor would there be any suspicion of an endeavor to enforce the law under cover. Gentlemen, as I write this, I am representing no one but myself and expressing simply my personal views. In some particulars I might take issue with you. But in the main I want to commend you for the action you have taken, and trust you will not recede therefrom. It is only in the interests of the people of the state of Colorado that I care to discuss the subject, and I hope that next winter, when the legislature meets, that some amendments may be made to the law

which will have a tendency to make it more practical, if not "ideal."

I am fraternally yours,

(Signed) R. C. ROBE. After a limited discussion, the question of insurance fees was considered. On motion, Dr. Graham was appointed a committee to request Colorado's delegate to the A. M. A. to see that the insurance question was considered at the Boston meeting. Meeting adjourned at 10:30 p. m. CHARLES B. DYDE,

Secretary.

Larimer County Medical Society.-Regular meeting, met in the City Hall; present Drs. Killgore, McHugh, J. J. Halley, Sadler, S. C. Halley, Kickland, Lee, Fee, Replogle, Upson and Stuver. The minutes of the last regular meeting were read and approved. A motion was then made and duly carried we proceed with the revision of the fee bill. A broad, general discussion of the various phases of the subject was had, and nearly every physician present took part in this discussion. The following rates were adopted, viz.: Day calls within the city limits, $2; night calls within the city limits, $3. For country visits outside the city limits the following schedule was adopted, viz.: Taking the intersection of College and Mountain avenues as a starting point to reckon from; one mile, $2.50; two miles, $3; three miles, $3.50; four miles, $4; and above four miles at the rate of $1 a mile.

Owing to the lateness of the hour, the Society adjourned to meet June 13, at 8 p. m., to complete the consideration of the fee bill and to fix on fees for insurance examinations. Adjourned. E. STUVER, Secretary.

CORRESPONDENCE

Abstracts of Papers to Be Read at the Coming

Meeting of the State Society.

The representatives appointed by the constituent societies have been requested to furnish me with abstracts of their papers of from 50 to 20 words. It has also been requested that these abstracts be sent to me not later than July 15. It is highly desirable that there shall be no delay in this particular, otherwise it will be impossible to place the completed program in the hands of each member of the State Society by September 1.

The object of publishing these abstracts in the program is that each member of the

Society may have an opportunity to read them and prepare himself to discuss such papers as appeal to him. The program will not permit a lengthy abstract, as it would make it altogether too bulky. It is desirable that the abstract should set forth, concisely, the most important features of the paper. Papers containing tables of statistics should furnish in the abstract the results that these tables show, but not the tables themselves. Where several cases are reported in a paper illustrating some particular point, the point should be plainly stated in the abstract, but the cases themselves need not be cited. Generally speaking, the abstract should be a final summing up of the paper. All papers read before the Society should be type-written, and this applies to the abstracts. Remember, it is not the paper I want sent me by July 15, it is the abstract. MELVILLE BLACK, Secretary. Majestic Building, Denver, Colo.

BOOK REVIEWS.

Diseases of the Nervous System, Resulting from Accident and Injury. By Pearce Bailey, A. M., M. D., Clinical Lecturer in Neurology, Columbia University; Consulting Neurologist to the Roosevelt, St. Luke's and Manhattan State Hospitals, etc., New York City. Cloth, 627 pages. Price, $5. D. Appleton & Co., New York and London. 1906.

This work succeeds "Accident and Injury; Their Relation to Diseases of the Nervous System," by the same author, which was so favorably received in 1898.

About 200 pages of text are added which inIcludes the new chapters on "Acute Injuries to the Brain;" "Complications and Sequellae of Brain Injuries;" "The General Physical and Mental Results of Head Injuries."

Like its predecessor, there is an introductory chapter in which the method of examination is clearly detailed which in the present has been thoroughly revised, necessitating the addition of 14 pages.

The Babinski phenomenon is dismissed with a brevity which is out of proportion to the rest of the chapter, which is perhaps too often the case where works are intended for other than neurologists.

Almost 60 pages have been added in revising the section on injuries to the spinal cord, in which many new illustrations, including skiagrams, arę added.

The important subject of "Traumatic Neurosis" has received careful consideration.

Part III opens with a new chapter on medicolegal considerations and closes with a thorough revision of the chapter on Malingering.

An excellent bibliography follows the text, and there is a carefully arranged index.

General practitioners and members of the legal profession, even more than neurologists, should find in this a most valuable aid, and those who have profited from the original will find many additions of value in the present edition in its new style. .G. A. M.

The World's Anatomists. By G. W. H. Kemper, M. D., Muncie, Ind. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia.

This little book is interesting from an historical standpoint, as it contains biographies of 229 anatomists from 300 B. C. to the present time.

Man and His Poisons. By Albert Abrams, A. M., M. D., San Francisco. 268 pages. E. B. Treat & Company, New York. Price $1.50. The title of the above book would indicate that it was intended for the laity, and a perusal of it does not change one's first impression. It is valuable as a collation, for the quotations are so numerous as to almost overshadow the ego. There is little in the book, howthat is new to the profession except the fact that the author has written other papers, as he refers to his own writings 19 times.

The Physical Examination of Infants and Young Children. By Theron Wendell Kilmer, M. D., Adjunct Attending Pediatrist to the Sydenham Hospital; Instructor in Pediatrics in the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, New York; Attending Physician to the Summer Home of St. Giles, Garden City, New York. Illustrated with 59 Half-tone Engravings. 12 mo. 86 pages. Bound in Extra Cloth. Price 75 cents, net. F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

This little book contains some valuable suggestions for young practitioners, as well as several fine portraits of the author.

The Examination of the Function of the Intestines by Means of the Test-Diet. Its Application in Medical Practice and Its Diagnostic

and Therapeutic Value. By Prof. Dr. Adolf Schmidt, Physician-in-chief of the City Hospital of Friedrichstadt in Dresden.

AuthorGerman

ized Translation from the latest Edition, by Charles D. Aaron, M. D., Professor of Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines in the Detroit Post-Graduate School of Medicine; Clinical Professor of Gastro-enterology in the Detroit College of Medicine; Consulting Gastro-enterologist to Harper Hospital, etc. With a frontispiece. Plate in Colors. Crown Octavo, 91 Pages, Extra Cloth. Price, $1 net. F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street, Philadelphia. Two words will suffice to describe this work: It is concise and complete, and should be in the hands of every general practitioner.

Progressive Medicine, Vol. VIII, No. 1, March, 1906. 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 Octavo. Medical College of Philadelphia. 304 pages, with seven engravings. Lea Brothers & Company, Publishers, Philadelphia and New York. (Per annum in four cloth-bound volumes, $9; in paper binding, $6, carriage paid to any address.)

This volume contains five well-written articles bringing up-to-date the following subjects: Surgery of the Head, Neck and Thorax, by Charles H. Frazier, M. D. Infectious Diseases, Robert B. Preeble, M. D. Diseases of Children, Floyd M. Crandall, M. D. Rhinology and Otol. Laryngology, D. Branden Kyle, M. D. ogy, by B. Alexander Randall, M. D. busy practitioner can find in this volume just what is new on the above subjects without being compelled to read what is old and well known.

The

Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical. By Henry Gray, F. R. S., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons; Lecturer on Anatomy at St. George's Hospital Medical School, London. Edited by I. Pickering Pick, F. R. C. S., Consulting Surgeon to St. George's Hospital and to the Victoria Hospital for Children; London, etc.; and Robert Howden, M. A., M. B., C. M.; Professor of Anatomy in the University of Durham, etc. New American Edition. Thoroughly revised and re-edited, with additions by John Chalmers Da Costa,

M. D., Professor of Principles of Surgery and Professor of Clinical Surgery in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; Surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital; Consulting Surgeon to St. Joseph's Hospital. Illustrated with 1,132 elaborate engravings. Lea Brothers & Company, Philadelphia and New York.

Generations come and generations go, but "Gray" endureth all vicissitudes of time. As a popular text-book of anatomy it has gone through numerous editions, and now appears in a new garb under the able revision of Dr. J. C. Da Costa. For years it has been remembered with esteem and almost reverence by successive classes of medical students, and is still in the lead as a reference work among the general practitoners.

The new edition has been most carefully revised and brought up-to-date. The lucidity of description of previous editions is also markedly present here, together with a large number of new illustrations, many of which are in colors, culled from the treatises of Splateholz, Testut, Poirier and Charpie, Toldt, Cunningham, Gerrish and others.

The editor did wisely in excluding the chapters on Histology and Embryology, as these now form separate branches in the college curriculum, and are therefore best treated in special text-books. Where some information on these subjects is necessary to make the text clearer, the essential points are set down by the author in connection with the organ under discussion.

Physicians who wish to renew their knowledge of anatomy, as well as teachers, of this subject, will welcome the appearance of this new American edition. P. H.

A Text-Book on the Diseases of Infancy and Children, for the use of students and practitioners of medicine, by L. Emmett Holt, M. D., Sc. D., L.L. D., professor of diseases of children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York; attending physician to the Babies' and Foundling Hospitals, New York; consulting physician to the New York Infant Asylum, Lyingin Hospital, Orthopedic, and Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled; with 241 illustrations, including eight colored plates. Holt's Diseases of Infancy and Childhood (third edition) is an excellent work, and no Especial doubt well deserves great success. pains seem to have been taken with the illus

trations, many new ones being added and the ones in former editions greatly improved, and all in all the book presents a very attractive appearance.

However its chief usefulness will not depend upon its attractive appearance, but upon the fact that as a treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood it is one of the best in medical literature. One of its best features lies in the fact that as closely as possible it confines itself to the diseases of infancy and childhood and is not, as so many other works, on pediatrics constantly crossing the borderland into the field of adult diseases. In a work of such general merit it would be difficult to select any special chapter for commendation, but the chapter on esamenstion of the sick child, milk and infant feeding, diarrhoeal diseases, diseases of the nervous system and of the uro-genital system are especially worthy of praise.

The esanthematous diseases, too, have been treated in a very masterly manner. The book is very readable and practical and on account of its practical nature commends itself more to the student and busy general practitioner than to the specialist. Special attention has been given to the pathological change of early life and the author has drawn largely upon his wide personal experience, in the preparation of the many excellent drawings and photographs. The remarks on the hygiene of infancy will be of great benefit to old as well as young practitioners.

To the physician who numbers the third edition of Holt on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood among his medical works and follows its advice we would say that he is bound to secure good results. C. F. S.

VACATION DAYS.

During the next few months the readers of Colorado Medicine will miss from its pages one of the most interesting features, viz. the reports from constituent societies. The one great argument in favor of a State journal is the fact that the society is kept alive all the year by these reports, keeping each society in touch with the others. The thanks of each reader are certainly due the secretaries who have furnished such comprehensive reports.