LA CORRESPONdencia Medica de FILIPINAS | the Association of American Physicians, and is the title of a medical journal which has re- honorary member of the West Virginia Medical cently come into existence in the Philippine Society. In 1873 Professor Dabney was the Islands. prize essayist on medical chemistry of Harvard DR. GEO. M. PHILLIPS, of Maysville, Ky., University.— Journal of the American Medical has been called to fill the Chair of GenitoUrinary Surgery in Barnes Medical College, St. Louis. THE following changes have occurred in the faculty and teaching corps of the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo: Dr. Arthur W. Hurd has been promoted from Lecturer to Professor of Insanity; Dr. Francis T. Metcalfe has been appointed Lecturer on Comparative Pathology; Dr. Ferdinand G. Moehlau has been appointed Instructor in Physiology, and Dr. J. F. Whitwell Instructor in General Pathology. The following clinical instructors have been added to the staff: On Surgery, Dr. J. F. Whitwell; Diseases of the Nervous System, Dr. James A. Gibson; Diseases of Children, Dr. Maud J. Frye; Diseases of the Skin, Dr. Grover Wende; Diseases of the Nose and Throat, Dr. George F. Cott. Association. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF NIAGARA UNIVERSITY.-The changes of teachers during the year have been as follow: Dr. Earl P. Lothrop has been appointed Clinical Assistant in Obstetrics; Dr. Alfred E. Diehl, Lecturer on Histology; Dr. George Roberts, Lecturer on Chemistry, and Dr. Robert A. Poynton, Lecturer on Anatomy. Dr. L. Bradley Dorr has been promoted from Lecturer on to Professor of Bacteriology. THE Chair of Obstetrics and Practice of Med icine, University of Virginia, made vacant by the death of Prof. Wm. C. Dabney, will be filled only temporarily until the Board of Visitors shall have time to make a proper selection of a professor as successor. Dr. Rawley W. Martin, of Chatham, Va., on the part of the board, Prof. Paul B. Barrington, of the University, and Dr. W. C. N. Randolph, of Charlottesville, were appointed a committee to make selection of a suitable doctor to fill the chair temporarily. THE WOMAN'S Medical College of BALTIMORE. Dr. Charles E. Simon has been appointed Professor of Physiology and Histology; Dr. Charles O'Donovan, Professor of Diseases of Children; Dr. Pearce Kintzing, Professor of Chemistry; Mr. Ralph Robinson, LL.B., Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence; Dr. Berwick B. Smith, Lecturer on Pathology, and Dr. Claribel A Cone, Lecturer on Hygiene. The session is to be lengthened to eight months, and the threeyear course has been required for graduation since 1884. MEDICAL DIRECTOR PHILIP LANSDALE, U. S. N., on the retired list, died while on a visit in Connecticut. He was born in Maryland in 1817, and entered the navy in 1846 as Acting Assistant Surgeon. He was promoted Surgeon January, 1861; Medical Inspector 1871, and Medical Director June, 1873; retired with rank of Captain in 1879, and since then has made his home in Philadelphia. BOOK REVIEWS. Compend of the Practice of Medicine. By DAN'L E. HUGHES, M.D., Chief Resident Physician Philadelphia Hospital, etc. Fifth Physicians' Edition. Thoroughly revised and enlarged. Including a very complete section on Skin Diseases," and a new section on "Mental Diseases." Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1894. " This work has been before the profession for a number of years, and four editions have been exhausted. Its original plan was excellent, and allowed a natural expansion to correspond with the results of progressive clinical investigations. Dr. Hughes has succeeded in compressing the essential facts of symptomatology, etiology, pathology, and treatment into a book of moderate size. It may be advantageously used by undergraduates and young physicians as a basis or guide to the study of more elaborate works. Its object has been very satisfactorily accomplished, for a vast amount of material is con W. C. DABNEY, M.D., of Charlottesville, Va., died after an illness of three weeks. He was born in Albemarle County, Va., July 4, 1849, and was educated at the University of Virginia. He was made the first President of the State Board of Medical Examiners, and held that office until September, 1886, when he was elected Professor of Obstetrics and Medicine in the Uni-densed into a book of moderate size. The versity of Virginia. Many of the former pupils of Professor Dabney are in practice and join in sorrow at his death. He represented the Medical Society of Virginia in the National Medical Congress, held in Washington, D. C., in 1887; was a member of the American Medical Association, | index is added. language is clear, and the statements of the text are based upon the best authority. The progress of recent years has been incorporated in the several sections. The publishers have brought out the work in handsome style. A serviceable Inebriety or Narcomania: its Etiology, Pathology, | Lectures on Hygiene and Sanitation. By SENECA Treatment, and Jurisprudence. By NORMAN KERR, Fellow of the Medical Society of Lon. don, etc. Third Edition. London: H. K. Lewis, 1894. This is a well-written work upon one of the most important subjects of the day. Dr. Kerr is widely known as an exponent of the view, which now seems to be gaining ground in many quarters, that inebriety is in itself a disease. While the advocates of this opinion seem to often confuse cause and effect, and vice versa, their studies have been useful in compelling attention to new aspects of the subject. Their painstaking investigations have accumulated a mass of material which has led to deductions seriously modifying the old-time rough-and-ready judgments of the unfortunate victims of drink. It has been shown that the course of alcoholic intoxication and insanity present striking analogies, that different forms of intemperance are comparable to the various manifestations of lunacy, that mental degeneracy is a powerful predisposing cause of alcoholism, and that alcoholism, in its turn, engenders various forms of nervous disorder. The neurotic type is peculiarly exposed to the temptation to excess, and the tendency is frequently inherited. Certain constitutional diseases favor a disposition to the abuse of alcohol, and the same is true of narcotic drugs, such as opium, chloral, etc. One chapter of Dr. Kerr's work deals with the habit of ether intoxication prevalent in Ireland. Interesting chapters of this book are those which treat of the etiology of inebriety. In addition to those at which we have already glanced, the author considers the influence of sex, age, religion, race, climate, traumatism, etc. A valuable chapter is that which relates to the medical prescription of alcoholic liquors. There can be no doubt that an abuse of a carelessly-given counsel to take "a little wine for the stomach's sake," may lead to life-long misery, A recog. nition of this danger and a more accurate conception of the physiological action and thera peutic worth of alcohol have markedly decreased the use of this species of beverage as a stimulant in diseased conditions. Five chapters of the book are devoted to a discussion of the varied measures in vogue for the purpose of diminishing the effects of, and counteracting the desire for, liquor. The last half of the book is given up to the presentation, from the author's point of view, of the medico-legal aspects of the subject. The book is written in an interesting style, the author's experience is wide, illustrative cases are apt and numerous, and, altogether, the work is well worth perusal. EGBERT, A.M., M.D., Late Lecturer on Hy. giene, University of Pennsylvania; Professor of Hygiene, Medico-Chirurgical College; Lecturer on Hygiene, Drexel Institute, etc. Published for the use of his classes and for students of hygiene. Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Company, 1894. Much of the physicians' work relates to the prevention of disease. From simply advising patients as to ventilation, diet, habits of life, personal hygiene, etc., it is a ready step to an intelligent study and exposition for the public welfare of the same and related subjects. Dr. Egbert has brought out a useful book, in which, after a preliminary statement of the causes of the disease, the main heads of personal and public hygiene are presented. The book is admirably adapted to be useful to students, as well as to that numerous class of practitioners who have not the time or the means to pursue a systematic study of the subject in bulky treatises. With the manner in which he has executed his task we have no fault to find, and, in fact, nothing but commendation. We must, however, regard it as a mistake, in one who holds a professorial chair in one institution, to refer, on the title-page, to the former lectureship which he held in another school. A teacher should thoroughly identify himself with the college of which he is a member. Hand-Book of Obstetric Nursing. By FRANCIS W. N. HAULTAIN, M.D., F.R.C.P Ed., and JAMES HAIG FERGUSON, M.D., F.R.C.P.Ed., M.R.C.S.Eng. Second Edition. Revised and enlarged. With thirty-three wood-engravings. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1894. Obstetric nursing is so important a branch that we are glad to receive a little manual which, in plain and easily-understood language, explains the basis upon which successful nursing most depend. This is the distinctive merit of this work, the usefulness of which will be by mo means limited to Edinburgh. A Treatise on Diphtheria. By DR. H. BOURGES. Translated by E. P. HURD, M.D. Detroit: Geo. S. Davis, 1894. This brochure is one of the Physicians LeisureLibrary Series. It gives a good description of the pathogenesis of the disease, and briedy nanrates the methods at our command for combating disease. It is a book which should be welcome to every practitioner. Essentials of the Diseases of the E. ranged in the form of questions and answers. Prepared especially for students of medicine and post-graduate students. By E. B. Ge SON, S.B., M.D., Clinical Professor of Otology, Dr. Gleason's book is No. 24 of Saunders's Question-Compend Series. The author has been remarkably successful in arranging his material in order and in compressing it within a small space. The text is good and the illustrations excellent. The book should be useful for the purpose for which it is designed. A Treatise on Appendicitis. By GEORGE R. FOWLER, M.D., Examiner in Surgery, Medical Examining Board of the Regents of the University of the State of New York, etc. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1894. Dr. Fowler has prepared a useful work, in which the reader may obtain a clear conception of the symptoms and diagnosis of a disease much more common than formerly suspected. The methods of treatment and after-treatment are set before the reader in good style, the text is illustrated by a number of beautiful plates, and the reader will find that the time spent over its pages has been well bestowed. The McClure's Life of Napoleon. New York: S. S. McClure, Limited, 30 Lafayette Place. The publishers of McClure's Magazine have secured the use of Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard's great collection of Napoleon prints. This is one of the most important collections of its kind in the world, and represents the results of many years of collecting. One hundred and fifty of these pictures have been selected, and will be published in six issues of McClure's Magazine, commencing with No. vember. Most of the pictures will be full-page, and the series will constitute the most important and most complete collection of Napoleon ever published. The life of Napoleon will also be told with especial reference to the mass of new material which is now available. Napoleon became famous so young, and he retained around him so many who knew him from his early youth, and he was so remarkable a man, that memoirs without end have been written about him. many of these of great importance have only just been published. But The pictures and the text will present Napo. leon in a most complete and accurate manner. The series will be completed in six months. McClure's Magazine for October will contain an interview with Dr. Calmette, of the Pasteur Institute, Paris, regarding his recent triumphant experiments in inoculation against snake poison. A remarkable series of pictures of poisonous snakes, drawn from life, will illustrate the article. CURRENT MEDICAL LITERATURE. Clinical Reports on Insanity. By the Medical Staff of the Maryland Hospital for the Insane. I. The Relation of Pelvic Disease and Psychical Disturbances in Women, by George H. Rohé, M.D., Superintendent. II. A Case of Trephining for Insanity, by J. Percy Wade, M.D., Assistant Physician. III. A Case Showing the Relation of Kidney Disease to Insanity, by Milton D. Norris, M.D., Clinical Assistant. IV. Acute Delirious Mania, Probably Depending upon Septic Absorption, by Fred Caruthers, M.D., Clinical Assistant. V. Results Obtained with Sulfonal and Hyoscine in the Treatment of the Insane, with Report of Cases, by John H. Scally, M.D., Clinical Assistant. Extracted from the Ninety-fifth Annual Report of the Maryland Hospital for the Insane. A New Method of Checking Bleeding After Tonsillotomy. By Robert H. M. Dawbarn, M.D., Professor of Operative Surgery and Surgical Anatomy, New York Polyclinic. Errors in School-Books. A Synopsis of the Various Points of Interest in Post-mortem Examinations. By Charles H. Merz, A.M., M.D. A Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, and Articles on the Construction and Maintenance of Roads. A Volumetric Study of the Red and White Corpuscles of Human Blood in Health and Dis. ease, by the Aid of the Hæmatokrit. By Judson Daland, M.D., Instructor in Clinical Medicine and Lecturer on Physical Diagnosis and Symptomatology in the University of Pennsylvania, etc. A Clinical Study of Eleven Cases of Asiatic Cholera, Treated by Hypodermoclysis and Enteroclysis. By Judson Daland, M.D., Instructor in Clinical Medicine and Lecturer on Physical Diagnosis and Symptomatology in the University of Pennsylvania, etc. The Physician: His Relation to the Law, and the Legal Rules Governing the Collection of His Fees. By H. G. Blaine, A.M., M.D., late Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System in the Toledo Medical College, etc. Hysteromyomectomy for Large Myomata of the Uterus. By Hunter Robb, M. D., Associate in Gynecology to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. Fel Bovinum as a Therapeutic Agent. By D. H. Bergey, M.D. The Reason Why the Neck of the Femur Does not Break. By Benjamin T. Shimwell, M.D., Adjunct Professor of Operative Surgery, Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia, Pa. JOHN C. BAKER & Co., Philadelphia: Dear Sirs: You will find inclosed P. O. M. Order for two dollars, for which you may send me Barlett's Pile Suppositories. They give prompt relief, and in many cases a permanent cure. Yours respectfully, A. W. DAVIDSON, M.D. BROWNSBURG, IND., September 10, 1894. NOTICE. Physicians who employ iron in their practice should be greatly interested in a new iron preparation recently introduced to the medical profession by Frederick Stearns & Co., Detroit, Mich., called Hæmoferrum (Blood Iron). This is a natural proteid compound aseptically prepared from fresh bullocks' blood, and put up in 3-grain pilloids (flat pills), with a highlysoluble coating. F. Stearns & Co. claim their Hæmoferrum to be free from all the objectionable features hitherto attending the administration of iron in other forms, it being extremely soluble, pleasant to the taste, agreeable in odor, is readily and easily assimilated, and neutral in reaction. Furthermore, it is nonconstipating (a valuable characteristic), nonirritating, and non-poisonous, even in large doses. BROMO-SODA. There are days when the wear and tear, the excitement, and the physical labor almost carry me under, and make me waver in my resolve to bid a long farewell to the indolent life of a pampered literary star; but when that cowardly feeling threatens to carry the day, I know that I am "nervous," and that I need a "bracer." Cocktails are mannish and vulgar, Turkish baths are a failure, but a dose of the Bromo Soda of William R. Warner & Co., which, like all brain-workers, I have learned to keep at hand within my own home, soon sets me to rights again without subjecting me to any demoralizing dangers, and almost "makes a new man of me," or would if that feat were possible.-BELLE BRIGHT, in Traveller, August 4, 1894. FORWARD. The medical profession must wake up. There is a call to advance" all along the line. Young blood and young ideas are coming to the front. The older physicians with their nauseating syrups, tinctures, and fluid extracts are not wanted. The profession is crowded, and the chances are that, in this country at least, it will be more so. The physician to-day must be on the alert for patients. Hospitals, asylums, and infirmaries and drug stores are strongly competing for patients. In them from Wherever introduced it has been warmly 10,000 to 15,000 young physicians are being received by the medical profession, and has graduated, to enter new and inviting fields of the cordial indorsement of the most prominent labor. All these facts emphasize the argument physicians in Detroit, in which city it has been that, unless a man is peculiarly fitted for the thoroughly tested clinically. Dr. Hal C. profession, he had better seek other business. Wyman, Professor of Surgery in the Michigan If a physician fail to make a living, it is a College of Medicine, states: "The pilloids bad failure. Business men don't want doctors, of Hæmoferrum (Sterns's) have in my hands and it is hardly the thing to undertake manual proven a splendid tonic. In wards of the labor. The doctor in active practice must Detroit Emergency Hospital we have learned have push and audacity. He must anticipate to depend upon them in the preparatory treat--anticipate, and carry his ammunition with ment of patients who must undergo severe him. In a crowded church he should be presurgical operations, and they have proven pared with restoratives for a sudden case of useful in the establishment of convalescence." asphyxia. The same in a theatre and other (Continued on advertising page 18) CLINICAL LECTURES. REMOVAL OF THE STAPES; STRICTURE OF THE EXTERNAL Ο College. No. II duced by vibrations. Without an eye to perceive, then, the vibrations of the ether that produce the sensation called sight might go on forever, and yet there would be no light. Sound is a sensation, and should carefully be distinguished from the vibrations that produce. it. Sonorous bodies may vibrate forever in the air, but, without organized beings to per By E. B. GLEASON, S.B., M.D., Clinical Professor of Otology in the Medico-Chirurgical WING to an indisposition of your Pro-ceive their vibrations, there is no sound. fessor of Ophthalmology (Professor Fox), I have been asked to lecture to you during this hour, and feel that we can profitably spend it in the study of an organ at the present time much more interesting than the human eye, because most of the problems as regards optics have been solved, and hence ophthalmology is more nearly an exact science than any other department of medicine. On the other hand, much remains to be learned as regards the physiology and pathology of the organ of hearing; and, although otology has made great progress during the past decade, and books of enormous bulk have been written upon "The Ear and its Diseases," yet that which remains to be learned greatly exceeds in importance that which is already known. I cannot help feeling that, as the result of the great activity exhibited by the aurists of this decade, because of the many earnest, capable men who are now hard at work upon the unsolved problems of otology, we are even now upon the verge of important discoveries that will elevate otology-probably the most neglected of all the departments of medicine-to the position of as nearly an exact science as ophthal. mology is. Both sight and hearing are sensations pro* Delivered September 19, 1894. The human ear is generally capable of perceiving the sound produced by a tuning-fork vibrating only sixteen times during a second. A sound one octave above this—a tone produced by 32 vibrations during a second (C-2)—is the lowest note of most pianos; the highest, seven octaves above, is c,-4096 vibrations during a second. According to Helmholtz, the human ear is able to distinguish as musical notes tones lying between 16 and 38,000 vibrations per second, or a range of about eleven octaves. Applying the same nomenclature to the vibrations of the ether, which, falling upon the retina, produce the sensation called light, we find that the human eye has a range of only about one octave. Doubtless there exists, beyond each end of the solar spectrum, colors produced by vibrations of the ether so slow or so rapid that no human eye is capable of perceiving them,-beautiful colors, no doubt, that no mortal has ever seen. Above the range of hearing there exist aërial vibrations so rapid that the human ear is incapable of perceiving them as sound,-celestial tones, if you please, that no human ear has ever heard. That such musical tones do exist has been proved by experiments with flames sensitive to aërial vibrations. We have before us this afternoon a young lady, about 30 years of age, from whose left |