the liberal patronage of our entire people. He tells the story in simple, plain language, and it forms an important historical link in the chain of events fraught with such unsurpassing moment to this great country. The book can be obtained from the author by addressing him at Little Rock, Ark. THE AMERICAN ILLUSTRATED MEDICAL DICTIONARY. For Practitioners and Students. A complete Dictionary of the Terms used in Medicine, Surgery, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Chemistry, and the kindred branches, including much collateral information of an encyclopedic character, together with new and elaborate tables of Arteries, Muscles, Nerves, Veins, etc.; of Bacilli, Bacteria, Micrococci, Streptococci; Eponymic Tables of Diseases, Operations, Signs and Symptoms, Stains, Tests, Methods of Treatment, etc. By W. A. NEWMAN DorLAND, A.M., M.D., editor of the "Americau Pocket Medical Dictionary." Second Edition, Revised. Handsome large octavo, nearly 800 pages, bound in full flexible leather. Philadelphia and London: W. B. SAUNDERS & Co., 1901. Price, $4.50 net. A large first edition of the work was issued in October, 1900. From the day of its publication the book met with a remarkably large sale, and the edition was exhausted in eight months. This immediate success is doubtless due to certain special features which distinguish this work from other books of its kind. The avowed object of the author has been to furnish in a volume of convenient size an up-to-date dictionary, sufficiently full for the requirements of all classes of medical men, or, in other words, to give a maximum of matter in a minimum of space and at the lowest possible cost. This object has been secured by the use of a large page, thin bible paper, and a flexible leather binding. The result is a truly beautiful specimen of bookmaking. In this edition the book has been carefully revised. The author has also added upward of one hundred important new terms that have appeared in medical literature during the past few months, words that have recently come prominently before the profession, and which of course are not to be found in any other dictionary. Other valuable features of the book are to be found in the complete and satisfactory definitions, the etymological references in the original languages, and the clear method of indicating the pronunciation. There are over one hundred new tables, and the illustrations add greatly to the usefulness of the book. DISEASES OF THE Digestive ORGANS IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD, with Chapters on the Diet and General Management of Children and Massage in Pediatrics. By LOUIS STARR, M.D., late Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Consulting Pediatrist to the Maternity Hospital, Philadelphia, etc. Third Edition. Rewritten and Enlarged. Illustrated. Published by P. BLAKISTON'S SON & Co., 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1901. Price, $3.00 net. Dr. Starr has made his revision very thorough, adding a number of new chapters and leaving out some matter that he considered absolute. Of the additions may be mentioned the sections on Simple Atrophy, Infantile Scurvy, Rickets, Lithemia, Infectious Follicular Tonsillitis, Naso-pharyngeal Adenoid Hypertrophy, Proctitis, Appendicitis, with quite extensive changes in the section on Feeding. The Introduction on "The General Management of Children," comprising nearly one hundred pages is especially valuable. MATERIA MEDICA, PHARMACY, PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS. By W. HALE WHITE, M.D., F. R. C. P., Physician to and Lecturer on Medicine at Guy's Hospital, London; Author of a Text-Book of General Therapeutics. Edited by REYNOLD W. WILCOX, M.A., M.D., LL.D., Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Attending Physician to the Hospital; Visiting Physician to St. Mark's Hospital; President of the American Therapeutic Society; Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine, etc. Fifth American Edition. Thoroughly Revised. Published by P. BLAKISTON'S SON & Co., 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1901. Price, $3.00 net. This is a very excellent work from an English author, made more valuable to us by its American editor, who is well and favorably known as a most capable teacher of Therapeutics. This fifth edition has been very thorougly revised, material corrections made, and an addition of some twelve pages of new matter. The Materia Medica is just such as the practicing physician needs, and from a Therapeutic standpoint it is fully up-to-date and reliable. It has justly obtained a very decided popularity with teachers and students, and will be of great service to the practitioner. The work of Dr. Wilcox in adapting it to use in this country has been most excellently performed. Fourth Vice-President of the Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy. Records, Becollections and Reminiscences. G. O. BROSNAHAN, M.D. The subject of this sketch was born in the city of Pensacola, Fla., on the 17th day of December, 1835; graduated in medicine at the University of Louisiana, session of 1857-'58, returned to Pensacola and entered into the practice of his profession during 1859-'60. About November or December, 1860, entered the Rifle Rangers (a local company at Pensacola) as Orderly Sergeant, and participated in the capture of the Pensacola Navy Yard, in January, 1861. In October, 1861, entered the Confederate service as a private in an Alabama company, the "Prattville Dragoons," then at Pensacola. In January, 1862, was ordered to Corinth, Miss., and the company was detailed as special couriers to Gen. Ruggle's Division, and participated in the Battle of Shiloh. His horse having been killed under him during the engagement, he mounted the horse of a comrade who bad just been killed and continued with the command to the end. He, with the company, also participated in the battles around Corinth. In 1863 the "P. D.'s" were transferred to the Third Alabama Cavalry, Company "K," under command of Gen. Joe Wheeler, and was in tne battles at Murfreesboro, Shelbyville, etc., in the retreat of Gen. Bragg's Army to Chattanooga, Tenn., protecting his rear. He was in the Battle of Chickamauga and in Gen. Wheeler's raid through Tennessee and into Kentucky, participated in the six weeks' almost contiuous fighting in and around Dandridge and at Mossy Creek, during the wintering of the army in East Tennessee. He returned in 1864 to Oxford, Ala., and went to the hospital at Greenville, Ala., on the sick list, and was then then transferred to the hospital at Montgomery, Ala., where Dr. Stout finding out that he was an M.D., placed him in charge of one of the wards. Later, he was ordered before the Medical Examining Board at Macon, Miss., and there was appointed Assistant Surgeon and assigned to duty with the Twelfth Louisiana Regiment in front of Atlanta. A few days after reporting he was assigned to care for the sick who were being removed to Griffin, Ga. About a week later was assigned to duty with Darden's Battery and was with the battery at the Battle of Knoxville, Tenn., and in the retreat of the army to Selma, Ala., and from there forced to retreat into Georgia. During the retreat from Selma he was cut off from his command, and surrendered at Demopolis, Ala., April, 1865, to Gen. Canby's command. After the surrender he returned to Pensacola and entered into the practice of his profession again. On the 5th of July, 1865, he married Miss Cynthia McK. Gingles, daughter of Capt. Charles H. Gingles, of Haynesville, Ala. In 1875 he was compelled to abandon the practice of medicine on account of ill health, then entered into the drug business in which he continued until 1890, when his invalid wife requiring his constant care compelled him to give up all business. SOME FACTS OF THE HISTORY OF THE ORGANI- AND HOSPITALS. BY S. H. STOUT, A.M., M.D., LL.D., Ex-Surgeon and Medical Director of the Hospitals of the Confederate Armies and Department of Tennessee. (Continued from June Number.) VII. While the brigade spoken of in No. VI., was encamped at Camp Trousdale, the Provisional Army of Tennessee was turned over to the government of the Confederate States. It, therefore, to the end of the war, was a part of the Provisional Army of the Confederate States. I remained in ignorance of the fact that my commission from Gov. Harris as a surgeon in the Provisional Army of Tennessee, did not entitle me to be known and regarded as a surgeon in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States until after I was stationed in Chattanooga in March, 1862. I had regularly received orders, and obeyed them as such, and drew pay and re |