DR. CHAS. D. LOCKWOOD, of Los Angeles, is back from

his Eastern trip.

DR. J. H. MCBRIDE, of Los Angeles, is home again from his Eastern trip.

DR. MONTGOMERY THOMAS, of Fresno, has returned home after a recent trip.

DR. W. F. B. ELWOOD has been appointed City Health Officer at Alhambra.

DR. A. H. TICKELL has been elected County Physician of Nevada City, Calif:

DR. F. S. BYINGTON, of Los Angeles, has returned from his visit to St. Louis.

DR. H. H. CLARK, of Santa Cruz, was seriously injured recently in a collision.

DR. DUMONT DWIRE, of Oxnard, has been appointed County Health Officer.

DR. L. ST. JOHN HELY, of Madera, has returned after a few months in the East.

DR. W. E. HIBBARD, of Los Angeles has left for a four months' trip to Europe.

DR. JOHN HENRY HOWELL, of Hanford, Calif., died June 27, 1904, at the age of 80.

DR. JOHN C. FERBERT, of Los Angeles, has returned from an extended Eastern trip.

DR. H. G. BRAINERD, of Los Angeles, has returned after an extended Eastern trip.

DR. ARTHUR G. HUNTLEY has located his office and residence at 973 Sutter Street.

DR. WM. DUFFIELD has been appointed Superintendent of Public Health of Arizona.

DR. ERVING HIGGINS, lately of Minnesota, has decided to locate at Morgan Hill, Calif.

DR. EARNEST BRYANT and MISS SUSIE BYXBEE were married in Los Angeles recently.

DR. F. R. BURNHAM has been elected President of the Board of Health of San Diego.

DR. A. W. MOORE, of Los Angeles, is taking a postgraduate course at Philadelphia.

DR. HICKS, of Calistoga, has been appointed Resident Physician at the New Idria Mines:

DR. M. R. TOLAND, of Pomona, has returned home from his post-graduate work in Chicago.

DRS. DAVIDSON and TROWBRIDGE have resigned from the Los Angeles City Board of Health.

DR. C. ROSSON will take charge of the practice of DR. HOLMES during the latter's absence.

DR. A. T. NEWCOMB, of Los Angeles, has returned from a three months' absence in the East.

DR. VARD H. HULEN has returned from Europe and has resumed practice at 708 Market Street.

DR. TAPE contemplates the erection of a commodious sanatorium at Arrow Head Hot Springs.

DR. WM. WATT KERR, of San Francisco, has returned home from his summer vacation at Coronado.

DR. Wм. J. HOSFORD, of Alameda, sustained severe injuries recently by being thrown from a bicycle.

DR. G. W. GOODALE has been appointed an assistant chemist to the Board of Health of San Francisco.

MRS. ELIZABETH GOODWIN, of Los Angeles, has willed $80,000 to the Children's Hospital, on Castelar St.

DR. WILLIAM DUFFIELD has resigned his position as a member of the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners.

DR. L. A. W. BURTCH, of Clifton, Arizona, has been elected Superintendent of Graham County Board of Health. DR. CHARLES H. JONES, of Tempe, Arizona, has been appointed a member of the Territorial Medical Examiners.

DR. CHAS. F. CRAIG, U. S. A., has moved to the Presidio, occupying quarters adjoining Army-General Hospital.

DR. C. W. EVANS, of Modesto, has gone East to enjoy the Fair. DR. J. C. ROBERTSON is attending to the doctor's practice during his absence.

DR. A. ABRAMS, of San Francisco, gave an interesting lecture before the Academy of Sciences July 4, 1904, on the treatment of tuberculosis.

DR. WILLIAM COPE, of Pleasanton, had a narrow escape from being seriously injured by an automobile which smashed the doctor's buggy in which he was riding.

DR. M. P. CAMPBELL, Superintendent of the Southern California Insane Asylum, has resigned his position and DR. WILLIAMSON, of Minneapolis, is to receive the appoint

ment.

NOTES AND NEWS.

LONG BEACH is to have a new hospital.

SAN JOSE is to have a Red Cross sanatorium. SANTA MONICA is to build a new $75,000 hospital. STOCKTON is to build a $10,000 emergency hospital. SAN BERNARDINO is to have a new private sanatorium. THE Crocker Sanatorium has been opened at Healdsburg. AN emergency hospital is to be established at San Rafael.

LAS VEGAS HOT SPRINGS, N. M., is to have a $400,000 sanatorium.

THE Children's Hospital, of Los Angeles, will soon be ready for occupancy.

THE California Hospital, of Los Angeles, is adding a new four story annex.

THE Angelus Hospital Association, of Los Angeles, is to build a large general hospital.

COMPTON, Calif., is to have a new hospital under the direction of DRS. MILLER and SPENCER.

SUPREME COURT affirms judgment for $1,200 in favor of DR. W. P. SCOTT versus the Superior Oil Co.

LONG BEACH, Los Angeles County, has organized a hospital association with DR. PERCE as Chairman and DR. HARRIMAN JONES as Secretary.

OAKLAND physicians are to establish a new $75,000 sanatorium. The incorporators are Drs. M. D. Allen, P. W. Anderson, E. A. Holman and others.

NEWS comes from abroad that Dr. Lunden claims to have experimentally proved that rays reflected from radium. enable the blind to see partially.-Scientific Am.

LOS ANGELES is to have a new educational institute to be known as the "American Institute of Mentalism." We do not believe Los Angeles will take kindly to the name.

A French botanist has discovered that a new plant, londolphia thrallonii, which grows on the west coast of Africa, contains rubber, and it is already being brought to market. The white mangrove tree, growing in the swamp lands of the Queensland coast, also yields rubber sap obtained by incision of the bark. This is also marketable.

Literary Department.

Under the charge of WINSLOW ANDERSON, A. M., M.D., M.R.C.P.London; M.R.C.S.England; L.S.A. London, etc., Professor of Gynecology and Abdominal Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of San Francisco.

DISEASES OF THE GALL-BLADDER AND BILE DUCTS, INCLUDING GALLSTONES. A. W. MAYO ROBSON, F. R. C. S., Hunterian Professor of Sur. gery and Pathology, 1897, 1899, and 1903, and Vice-President Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1902, assisted by J. F. DOBSON, M. S. (Lond.), F. R. C. S.; lately Resident Surgeon to the General Infantry at Leeds. Third edition. Price, bound in muslin, $4.25, net. William Wood & Co., publishers.

Since the issue of the second edition in 1900, so much progress has occurred in the pathology of the diseases of the gall-bladder and bile-ducts, and such improvements in the technique of the various operations, that the whole book has had to be recast. This edition is therefore not merely a reproduction of the last, but almost a new work. Besides an entirely revised chapter on the operative technique of gall-stones, several new chapters have been added, many additional cases furnished, and the whole of the book has been brought up-to-date. The work is beautifully illustrated by 31 plates and many line and half-tone engravings. Contents: I. Anatomical Consideration; II. Physiological considerations; III. Injuries to the Bile Passages; IV. Inflammatory Affections; V. Intestinal Obstruction; VI. Tumors of the Gall-Bladder and Bile-Ducts; VII. Gall Stones or Cholelithiasis; VIII. Cholecystotomy; IX. Calculi in the Common Bile-Duct; X. Cholelithotrity; XI. Choledochotomy; XII. Cholecystectomy; XIII. Cholecystenterostomy. Appendix.

OBSTETRICS FOR NURSES. By JOSEPH B. DE LEE, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics in the Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago; Lecturer in the Nurses' Training Schools of Mercy, Wesley, Provident, Cook County, and Chicago Lying-in Hospitals. 12 mo of 460 pages, fully illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company. 1904. Cloth, $2.59, net.

Although this work was written, as the author states, primarily for nurses, yet from our interesting examination of it we firmly believe that medical students will find in it much of value, since the duties of a nurse often devolve upon him in the early years of his obstetric practice. There are really two subjects considered-obstetrics for

nurses and the actual obstetric nursing-and Dr. De Lee has combined them so that the relations of one to the other are natural and mutually helpful, presenting this important branch of medicine in a clear and interesting form. The illustrations have not been borrowed from other works, as is too frequently the case, but have been made expressly for this book. The photographs were taken by the author from actual scenes, and are true to life in every respect. The text is the outgrowth of eight years' experience in lecturing to the nurses of five different training schools. SIMON'S CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS. A Manual of Diagnosis by Microscopic and Chemical Methods. For Students and Practitioners. By CHARLES E. SIMON, M. D., late Assistant Resident Physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. New (fifth) edition, thoroughly revised and much enlarged. Octavo, 695 pages, 150 engravings, 22 colored plates. Cloth, $4.00, net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York. 1904.

Besides a careful revision, this edition embodies much new matter which has appeared in the literature of the past two years. The chapter on the blood has been almost entirely rewritten, and has been enlarged by 60 pages. Special pains have been taken with the chapter on technique. A section dealing with the nature of anilin dyes. and the principles of staining has been introduced, which it is hoped will render this portion of the book more interesting to the clinical laboratory worker, and will serve as a guide to further investigation. The work will be found. fully up to date.

A GUIDE TO THE CLINICAL EXAMINATION OF THE BLOOD FOR DIAGNOSTIC PURPOSES. BY RICHARD C. CABOT, M. D., with colored plates and engravings. Fifth revised edition. William Wood & Co., publishers. Price, $3.50, net.

About 90 new pages have been added to the fifth edition. A new set of colored plates has been prepared from specimens prepared in the new "Romanowsky" staining method, as applied to routine blood examination. Considerable additions have been made to the chapters on infectious diseases and blood parasites and minor changes on almost every page in the book. This is undoubtedly. the most complete work on the clinical examination of the blood for diagnostic purposes extart. The illustrations are perfection itself.

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