MEDICAL PRESS EXHIBIT AT ST. Louis.—A recent communication from Dr. Charles Wood Fassett, editor of the Medical Herald, St. Joseph, Mo., has the following:

"I have secured adequate space at St. Louis, in the palace of Liberal Arts, with a view to making a display of American medical publications which shall be commensurate with the importance of this class of work, and earnestly solicit the coöperation of editors and publishers of medical journals. Decisive action must be taken at once. The expense necessary to make this exhibit will be nominal. There is no charge for space, and I believe that the Department of Publicity will assist us in maintaining an up-to-date and comprehensive exhibit, where files of current issues of every medical journal in the land may be found during the progress of the great fair.

"Full information will be furnished later, and all medical journalists are urged to communicate at once with me with a view to united action and early endeavor, so that additional space may be secured, if necessary, to accommodate all who desire to join the bureau."

SEVERE SEPSES SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH ENEMATA OF COLLARGOLUM are reported by Dr. H. S. Loebl, of Schlesinger's Division of the FranzJosef-Spital. During the last two years much therapeutic experimentation has been done in this division with Unguentum Credé and Collargolum. In some cases intravenous injections of the latter were found impossible on account of obesity or smallness of the veins. Collargolum enemata of 24 to 4 grains in 21⁄2 ounces of distilled water were therefore administered twice daily for eight days, a cleansing enema being given beforehand. Besides two case histories, the speaker demonstrated the temperature curves of three severe sepses, a puerperal infection, and a thrombo-phlebitis following typhoid, in which the favorable results were doubtless due to Collargolum. In four cases the enemata had to be stopped, partly be cause of negative results, partly on account of other complications. No definite results were obtained in six feverish phthisis cases. The advantages of the enemata lie in their safety and simplicity and in ease with which the dosage may be increased.

In the discussion Dr. Frank highly recommended the intravenous Collargolum injections.

Prof. Hermann Schlesinger agreed with Dr. Frank, holding that Collargolum is a most effective weapon in septic conditions, especially when administered intravenously. Schlesinger has seen apparently hopeless cases saved by it. In his experience the rectal application was just as effective as the intravenous method.

(Abstracted from the Wiener klin. Wochenschrift, October 29, No. 44, 1903.)

Reviews and Book Notices.

THE NEUROLOGICAL PRACTICE CF MEDICINE. A Cursory Course of Selected Lectures in Neurology, Neuriatry, Psychology, and Psychiatry; Applicable to General and Special Practice. With 177 illustrations. After the Author's Class Room Methods as a Teacher of Students. Designed for Students and General Practitioners of Medicine and Surgery. By Charles H. Hughes, M.D., President of the Faculty and Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Electrotherapy, Barnes Medical College. Former Major and Surgeon in Chief of Schofield, Winter, Hickory Street, and McDowell's College Military Hospitals, Superintendent Mis souri State Insane Hospital, Acting and Honorary Member of Many Home and Foreign Medical and Scientific Societies, Etc. Member Gov erning Board of Centenary Hospital, ex-Member Board of Health, and Consultant of City Hospital. Insane Hospital, Etc. 8vo, cloth; 415 pages. Price, $3. Hughes & Co., 418 N. Third Street, St. Louis, Publishers. 1903.

The Neurological Practice of Medicine is a cursory course of selected lectures, from an eminent source of clinical and lecturing experience, on the essential features of neurology, neuriatry, psychology, and psychiatry applicable to the general and special practice of medicine. The book is plainly and forcefully written in the author's well-known, impressive, and succinct style. Many of the pages of the book are peculiarly fascinating and eloquent, as well as accurately descriptive and scientific.

The style of the author in the amphitheater reappears in this remarkable book, as those who have sat under his clear and original teachings will discover in the reading of the several chapters.

The fruitful results of thirty years of extensive clinical experience over a portion of the vast fields of neurology and psychiatry are presented in this valuable book.

The psychiatric factor in surgical and medical practice, psychical depression and the neuropathic diathesis, post-operative insanity, etc., are some of the other and many remarkable features of this remarkable book, from a remarkable source of extensive and broad clinical observation and experience, reaching over a third of a cen

tury of constant, varied, and wide medical practice, giving aspects of medical observation and reasoning from the neuro-anatomical, neuro-psychological, and neuro- and psycho-therapeutical side of medical observation, that is coming rapidly under the consideration of the profession and destined to prominently prevail in the future practice of medicine.

A REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE Medical SciENCES. Embracing the Entire Range of Scientific and Practical Medicine and Allied Science. By Various Authors. A new edition, completely revised and rewritten. Edited by Albert H Buck, M.D., of New York. Vol. VII. Illustrated by chromo lithographs and 688 half-tone and wood engravings. Pp. 951. William Wood & Co., Publishers, New York. 1904.

The seventh volume of this magnificent work has just been issued, and in no way falls behind the preceding splendid volumes of this complete handbook. The series lacks only one more volume, and will make the most complete work for reference in any of the branches of medicine and surgery extant. This volume begins with "Saccharin" and ends with "Ulcer," among the many important subjects contained being the spinal cord, which is most fully considered in its anatomy, physiology, diseases, and injuries, the article on "Surgery of the Spine," being contributed by our fellowtownsman, Paul F. Eve, M.D., Professor of Surgery and Dean of the Faculty in the Medical Department of the University of Tennessee. His brother, Duncan Eve, M.D., Professor of Surgery in Vanderbilt University Medical Department, also of this city, contributed the article on "Dislocations" in Volume III. The entire work comprises a complete medical library in itself, and is something more than a revision of Beech's "Handbook," nearly all of the articles having been entirely rewritten.

PHYSICIAN'S VISITING LIST (Lindsay and Blakiston's) FOR 1904. Fiftythird year of its. publication. Seven different styles, ranging in price from $1 to $2.25. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Publishers. Sold by all booksellers and druggists.

With this edition "The Physician's Visiting List" enters upon the fifty-third successive year of its publication. This is a record which tells its own story. The old veteran is on hand. In addition to the other valuable features for which it is noted, we wish to

call attention to the pages on incompatibility, chemic, pharmaceutic, and therapeutic, and the page on the immediate treatment of poisoning. "The Physician's Visiting List" is a pocket record book and ever handy reference guide for the medical practitioner. Neat, compact, well-arranged, and durable, it has justly earned so many friends throughout the medical world that commendation is un

necessary.

PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE. A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries, and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. By Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College, etc. Assisted by R. M. Landis, M.D., Assistant Physician to the Out Patients' Department of Jefferson Medical College Hospital. Vol. III., December, 1903. 8vo, cloth; 444 pages. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers. Philadelphia and New York. 1903.

This valuable digest in its concluding volume for 1903-Vol. IV., December-comes to us with all its former excellencies well maintained. The following is a brief summary of its contents: Diseases of the Digestive Tract and Allied Organs, the Liver, Pancreas, and Peritoneum, by John C. Hemmeter, M.D.; Anesthetics, Fractures, Dislocations, Amputations, Surgery of the Extremities, and Orthopaedics, by Joseph C. Bloodgood, M.D.; Genito-Urinary Diseases, by William T. Belfield, M.D.; Diseases of the Kidneys, by John R. Bradford, M.D., F.R.C.P.: Physiology, by A. P. Brubaker, M.D.; Hygiene, by Charles Harrington, M.D.; Practical Therapeutic Referendum, by H. R. M. Landis, M.D. A full and complete index concludes the volume.

THE WORTH OF WORDS. By Ralcy Husted Bell, with an Introduction by Dr. William Colby Cooper. 8vo, cloth; 305 pages. Third Edition, revised and enlarged. Hinds and Noble, Publishers, 31-35 W. Fifteenth Street, New York. 1903. Price, $1.25.

This little work should be in every public and private library, in every school, college, and university. For teachers and writers it is invaluable. It points out the many errors that are so common in speakers and writers. It covers a wide field, and is written by one who has evidently given the subject much and careful thought. The short chapter of about twenty pages, devoted to "Slang," is of more than passing interest. In its previous editions it has received. the commendation of able writers and speakers.

MEDICAL RECORD VISITING LIST FOR 1904. William Wood & Co., Publishers, New York.

This "Visiting List" has always given the most complete satisfaction to all who have tried it.

A complete revision of the reading matter in the front part of the "List" has been made this year. The table of average doses has been carefully revised and brought up to date, all the newer drugs of importance being included. A novelty introduced last year for the first time into a "Visiting List" is the Obstetrical Chart. This will be found useful for making quick estimates of the probable duration of pregnancy. In all respects the high standard of manufacture, as to paper, printing, and binding, that has always distinguished the "Medical Record Visiting List" has been fully maintained.

A NONSURGICAL TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE PROSTATE GLAND AND ADNEXA. By George W. Overall, A.B., M.D., formerly Professor of Physiology in the Memphis Hospital Medical College. 8vo, cloth; 217 pages. Illustrated. Marsh & Grant Co., Publishers, Chicago, Ill., 1903. In presenting this book to the profession, the author has, by avoiding theoretical discussion, endeavored to give a plain, practical, and concise summary of the methods and results of nonsurgical treatment of diseases of the prostate and their sequelæ as demonstrated by more than twenty years' clinical experience.

Notwithstanding the brilliancy of its sheen and its work in the hands of an experienced surgeon, yet the errors of the knife being so often irreparable gives this little volume a peculiar value. And again it is not always that you can obtain consent for using the knife, and perforce are compelled to resort to other measures.

THE AFTER TREATMENT OF OPERATIONS. A Manual for Practitioners and House Surgeons. By Lockhart Mummey, F.R.C.S., England, B.A., M.B., B.C., Cantab, Demonstrator of Operative Surgery St. George's Hospital, and late Senior House Surgeon of same. 8vo, cloth; 221 pages. Illustrated. William Wood & Co., Publishers, New York. 1903. The importance of the after treatment is by no means secondary—a most brilliant operation may be rendered ineffectual, and an almost hopeless one may round to under proper measures. The author has given us in this little volume a condensed mass of valuable, practical matter that is to be found in fragmentary form here