MARSHALL HEADS

SPOKANE DOCTORS

At the annual meeting of the Spokane County Medican Association in the assembly room of the Old National Bank January 12, a large attendance being present, the following new officers for the coming year were elected:

President, Dr. H. P. Marshall. First vice-president, Dr. Peter Reid. Second vice-president, Dr. R. I. Newell.

Secretary, Dr. William Sullivan. Corresponding secretary, Dr. Chas.

Butts.

Treasurer, Dr. A. R. Lindgren. Boardof censors, Dr. Carroll Smith and Dr. W. P. Pennock.

"The medical society is in flourishing condition and we expect one of the most successful years in the history of the association during the coming 12 months," said Dr. Marshall, newly elected president.

"It has been decided to postpone our annual banquet until next June, when the State Medical Society is to hold its annual convention in Spokane. The banquet and annual meeting at that time will be the largest affair of its kind ever held in the city. Already we are making arrangements for the entertainment we expect to furnish the visiting doctors."

MEDICAL MEN MEET

AND READ ARTICLES

The Snohomish County Medical Society gathered in the High School building January 12 to listen to pa

pers of interest, read by Seattle physicians, who responded to invitations to attend the meeting.

Dr. Jordan read a paper setting forth the diagnosis of leprosy, and Dr. Eagleson was heard on the subject of the X-ray as an aid in diagnosing stomach disorders.

PORTLAND CITY AND

COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY

Meeting of the Portland City and County Medical Society was held in the German House January 3, 1917, at 8 o'clock. Dr. J. M. Short, president.

Minutes of preceding meeting read and accepted.

Proposed for membership, Dr. H. P. Belknap.

Dr. Sommer presented a case of multiple fractures of both bones of the forearm with bone grafts without removing interposing tissue.

Dr. Samuel Slocum showed a case of fractures of upper and forearm, using bone plates.

Dr. Sommer exhibited a case of Angioma of Kidney from patient 54 years of age. Also showed a liver, the left lobe of which was filled with gall stones.

Dr. Sabin reports cases of reunited bone graft.

Dr. Sommer presented a paper on "Myositis Ossificans Traumatica," which was very instructive and highly appreciated. Also showed lantern slides of various phases of bone development.

Paper by Dr. E. B. McDaniel on "Bone Grafts."

Dr. Pettit showed different kinds

HEALTH BOARD ELECTS BIWER

Dr. E. T. Biwer, a Boise physician, was named secretary of the State Board of Health when that body convened to organize and name a successor to Dr. Ralph Falk, resigned.

Dr. E. E. Laubaugh, state bacteriologist; H. Louis Jackson, state chemist, and J. K. White, head of the pure food department, are to remain in their positions until the legislature adjourns. It is planned to consolidate the pure food department with the bureau of vital statistics. If that change is made, the department is to be reorganized.

Reorganization Planned

The Governor will not appoint a physician to succeed Dr. O. B. Steely of Pocatello, former president of the board, until it is determined whether or not the legislature will place the plre food department and bureau of vital statistics under a hingle head.

POLK-YAMHILL SOCIETY ELECTS

OFFICERS

The officers for the Polk-YamhillMarion Medical Society for the year

1917 were elected in January and are as follows: Dr. R. E. Kleinsorg, Silverton, president; Dr. R. I. Wood, Amity, first vice-president; Dr. J. O. Matthis, Monmouth, second vice- president; Dr. J. R. Pemberton, Salem, third vice-president; Dr. P. W. Byrd, Salem, secretary and treasurer.

WOUNDED IN GERMAN ARMY

Official figures recently given out by the German government show that of the total number of officers and men in the German army who were wounded during the second year of the war 70 per cent recovered fully and were able to return to the trenches, and only 6.4 per cent of the wounded were completely unfit for military service; the remaining wounded men were able to do military duty at home. A noteworthy decrease in epidemic disease during the second year of the war was also reported, the number of cases dropping from 51 per 1,000 durthe first year to a trifle over 38 per 1,000. The greatest number of patients, 21.5 per 1,000, was treated for nervous diseases due to the strain of battle. Pleurisy was the cause of illness in 6 cases per 1,000, pneumonia in 4. Smallpox has absolutely disappeared from the morbidity tables, and other scourges, as typhus, typhoid, and cholera, have been practically eliminated, this improvement being ascribed to the use of serums and other scientific methods of prevention. The number of men on monthly sick reports from all causes has decreased from 120 to 100 per 1,000.

Hollow Hopes

"Never despair; somewhere beyond the clouds the sun is shining."

"Yes, and somewhere below the sea there's solid bottom. But that doesn't help a man when he falls overboard." -Baltimore American.

Progressive Medicine. A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, M. D., assisted by Leighton F. Appleman, M. D. Volume IV. (December, 1916). $6.00 per annum. Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia and New York. Contents:

Diseases of the Digestive Tract and Allied Organs, the Liver Poncreas and Peritoneum, by Edward H. Goodman, M.D.

Diseases of the Kidney, by J. Harold Austin, M.D.

Genito-Urinary Diseases, by Charles W. Bonney, M.D.

Surgery of the Extremities, Shock, Anaesthesia, Infections, Fractures and Dislocations, Tumors, by Joseph C. Bloodgood, M.D.

Practical Therapeutic Referendum, by H. R. M. Landis, M.D.

The Operating Room. A Primer for Pupil Nurses. By Amy Armour Smith, R.N. 12mo. volume of 295 pages, with 57 illustrations.

W. B. Saunders Company, 1916. Philadelphia and London. Cloth,$1.50 net.

This excellent little primer has been written by a nurse for nurses, and contains data gleaned from jour nals on nursing, physicians' libraries, and much practical experience and should prove of the greatest practical value to every surgical nurse. It covers every need of the nurse, describes the technic and procedure of the modern operation from the nurse's standpoint, numerous formulae, and is a complete course of instruction in this very important phase of nurse training.

The Harvard Health Talks-Adenoids and Tonsils by Dr. Algernon Coolidge.

An Adequate Diet by Percy G. Stiles.

The Harvard Health Talks, a series of short volumes in popular style, have recently been augmented by two more books, entitled "Adenoids and Tonsils," by Dr. Algernon Coolidge, and "An Adequate Diet," by Percy G. Stiles, both of the Harvard Medical School.

The former book has several disgrams and is sure to prove useful to many a teacher and parent. The second is a readable contribution to the literature on foods, pointing out both what constitutes adequacy of diet and what may be the results of inadecuacy in quantity or composi tion.

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Constipation, Obstipation and Intestinal Stasis. Second edition, larged. Constipation, Obstipation and Intestinal Stasis, by Samuel Goodwin Gant, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Diseases of the Colon, Sigmoid Flexure, Rectum and Anus in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. Second edition, enlarged. Octavo of 584 pages, with 258 illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Sauders Company, 1916. Cloth, $6.00 net; half morocco, $8.50 net.

The subject of intestinal stasis and its sequelae are subjects that are attracting a great deal of attention at present both from the standpoint of the surgeon and that of the internist, and this work represents the latest

teaching along this important line. The author needs little introduction for he is considered one of the foremost authorities on this particular subject. He has written a work that covers the ground in a most thorough manner, every phase of the subject being considered, and though written by a specialist, the work will be of the greatest practical value to every practitioner and surgeon as well. There was a time when medical treatment of these conditions was considered the only one, but the author, while considering considerable space to drug therapy, has also considered in detail the many other means of treatment adopted to the various types. He thus includes dietetic treatment, massage, electricity, mechanical appliances, psychotherapy, physical exercises, vibration, etc. He has pointed out clearly the indications for the adoption of these various measures and in simple language has described the technique of their application. Separate chapters have been devoted to the treatment of complications and sequelae of constipation, spastic constipation, acute constipation, and the constipation of infants and children. An important inclusion in this work is an outline of the technic of differentiating between abdominal and rectal constipation. Another feature of value is a formulary of the most effective prescriptions used in treatment. addition to the many illustrations found in this latest edition, many important chapters have been added, covering such topics as Pericolitis, Perisigmoiditis, Mesocolitis, Diverticulitis, Diseases and Incompetence of the Ilio-cecal Valve, Cecum Mobile, Lanes Kinks, Myxorrhea Coli, and a Resume of Intestinal Stasis (symptoms, complications, end-results, diag. nosis and treatment). It is in short the last word on this important topic

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and should find a place in every phy sician's library.

The Medical Clinics of Chicago. Volume II, No. 2 (September, 1916). Octavo, 196 pages, 22 illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1916. Price per

year, paper, $8.00; cloth, $12.00. Contents:

Clinic of Dr. Charles Spencer Williamson, Cook County Hospital: A Caseof Acute Miliary Tuberculosis; A Case of Syphilis of the Liver.

Clinic of Dr. Isaac A. Abt, Michael Reese Hospital (Sarah Morris Memorial Hospital for Children): Feeding the Normal Baby with Artificial Foods; Food Preparations.

Clinic of Dr. Ralph C. Hamill, Northwestern University Medical School: An Unusual Case of Multiple Sclerosis; Eternal Ophthalmoplegia Dueto Disease of the Pons; Presentation ofa Case of Progressive Muscular Atrophy Due to Syphilis of the Anterior Horn Cells; A Case of Beginning General Paresis.

Clinic of Dr. Frederick Tice, Cook Counyt Hospital: Carcinoma of the Head of the Pancreas; Chronic Bronchitis, Emphysema and Marked Cyanasis, Consideration of Congenital Heart Lesions, Other Cases of Cyanosis.

Clinic of Dr. Joseph Zeisler, Northwestern Medical School: Etiology and Treatment of Acne.

Clinic of Dr. Solomon Strouse, Michael Reese Hospital: Diabetes in the Young; A Case of Renal Glycosuria.

Clinic of Dr. Joseph C. Friedman, Michael Reese Hospital: Chronic Diarrheas.

Clinic of Dr. M. Milton Portis, Cook County Hospital: Syphilis of the Stomach.

Clinic of Dr. Charles Louis Mix,

Mercy Hospital: Pleurisy and Gastric Spasm: The Morphin Habit Subsequent to Lead Colic; A Case of Myelogenous Leukemia.

Clinic of Dr. Arthur F. Beifield, Cook County Hospital: Differential Diagnosis of a Case with an Enermous Number of Nucleated Red Cells in the Circulating Blood.

Personal Health. By William Brady, M. D., Elmira, N. Y. 12mo of 407 pages. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1916. Cloth, $1.50 net.

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In this well written little manual the author has presented in a form readily understood by the average reader many important facts bearing on the subject of personal health. There is little doubt of the need for disseminating this information to the public and there is no better presentation of the subject than in this little volume. The author has shown excellent judgment in what to say and how to say it, and every physician can do well to recommend this work to his lay friends. The author has covered in separate chapters each of the following subjects: Teeth and Mouth, Catching Cold, Adenoids and Tonsils, Catarrhal Conditions, The Eyes, Vision and Illumination, The Ear, Heat and Ventillation, The Air We Breathe and How We Don't, The Skin, Scalp, Hair and Nails, What Shall I wear? Digestion, Metabolism and Nutrition, Auto-Intoxication, Blood Pressure and Arterial Disease, The Blood and Heart, Underweight and Overweight, Disorders of the Nervous System, The Three Great Plagues, The Inside of the Chest, Cough and the Art of Guessing, Personal Side of Sanitation, The Family Doctor, Major and Minor Maladies, First Aid in Emergencies, The Medical Cupboard.

The Medical Clinics of Chicago.
Volume II, No. 3 (November, 1916).
Octavo of 211 pages, 44 illustrations.
Philadelphia and London: W. B.
Published
Saunders Company. 1916.
bi-monthly. Price per year: Paper,
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Clinic of Dr. Walter W. Hamburger, Cook County Hospital: The Modern Medical Treatment of Chronic Ulcer of the Stomach and Duodenum.

Clinic of Dr. Isaac A. Abt, Michael Reese Hospital (Sarah Morris Memorial Hospital for Children): Infantile Paralysis (Acute Poliomyel

itis).

Clinic of Dr. Ralph C. Hamill, Cook County Hospital: Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis.

Clinic of Dr. Charles Louis Mix, Mercy Hospital: Two Cases of Primary Pernicious Anemia.

Contribution by Dr. William Allen Some Pusey, St. Luke's Hospital: Cases of Eczema from Evternal Irritation.

Clinic of Dr. Frederick Tice, Cook County Hospital: A Case Presenting Addison's Syndrome; Gangerine of the Lung, with Special Reference to Treatment.

Clinic of Herman L. Kretschmer, Presbyterian Hospital: The Treatment of Chronic Colon Pyelitis by Pelvic Lavage.

Clinic of Dr. Charles Spencer Williamson, Cook County Hospital: Polycystic Kidneys; A Case of Recurrent Endocarditis with Cerebial Embolism; An Atypical Case of Gout.

Clinic of Dr. Frank Smithies, Augustana Hospital: Cases Illustrating Spasm at the Cardia and Cardiospasm Associated with Diffuse Dilatation of the Esophagus.