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ception Committee was composed of Doctors McCorkle, West, Rushmore, Jameson, Mayne and J. W. Hyde.

Dr. Walter Wood announces his resignation as attending surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital, Brook

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Dr. H. Beekman Delatour has been appointed Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Long Island College Hospital.

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. French, of 150 Joralemon Street, gave a delightful reception at their residence November 4th, to meet Sir Felix Semon. The reception was largely attended by many Brooklyn and Manhattan physicians and others not connected with the profession. On November 3d Sir Felix delivered an address before the senior class of the Long Island College Hospital on Acute Septic Inflammation of the Throat and Neck. To Dr. French is due the thanks of the medical profession in Brooklyn for the opportunity to meet this distinguished foreigner.

The father of George Arents, Jr., the young man who was injured by the overturning of his machine during the Vanderbilt cup race on October 8th, has presented $1,000 to the Nassau Hospital. It was to the Nassau Hospital that Arents was taken after the mishap. He is still there, but is rapidly recovering.

Everybody's Magazine for October prints a full page picture of Dr. Osler, of Johns Hopkins, with the following paragraph appended:

"The appointment of Dr. William Osler to the Regius Professorship of Medicine in the University of Oxford is a distinguished recognition of Dr. Osler's brilliant services in the American. medical profession. Dr. Osler, born in Canada and a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, is acknowledged to be one of the foremost scholars in the medical profession. His writings not only cover a wide range of subjects but show insight and profundity. He has been Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical School since 1889. His departure from this country will be deeply regretted."

Dr. Anita McGee and her party of trained American nurses, who volunteered to nurse the Japanese soldiers, were recently decorated by the Mikado for their services in Japanese hospitals.

Harvard University intends to install another department with a four years' course to be devoted to the education of trained nurses. The department will probably be in charge of Dr. Alfred Worcester, of Waltham, Mass., who has just returned from a six months' trip to Europe, where he was sent by Harvard to investigate

methods of training for nurses. This college for nurses will be the first of its kind in the world. The students, besides lectures and recitations from text-books, will receive training experience in private homes as well as in hospital wards.

Prof. Niels R. Finsen, the discoverer of the "Finsen rays," has recently died in Copenhagen. He was forty-three years of age and a native of the Faroe Islands. In 1890 he was graduated from Copenhagen University, and three years later published an article on "The Influence of Light on the Skin," in which he asserted that smallpox could be cured by putting red curtains at the window of the sick room, a method successfully employed in the Copenhagen epidemic of 1894. Soon afterwards he found it possible to concentrate rays of electric light in such a way as to cure lupus, his first cure being that of a patient who for eight years had tried every known method unsuccessfully.

The recently elected officers of the Brooklyn Gynecological Society are: President, Walter J. Corcoran; First Vice-President, John O. Polak; Second Vice-President, Ralph H. Pomeroy; Recording Secretary, Henry C. Keenan; Corresponding Secretary, Victor L. Zimmerman ; Treasurer, Joseph F. Todd; Pathologist, Charles L. Fincke.

Riots have occurred in Rio Janeiro because of the attempt to suppress smallpox. Twelve persons have been killed and sixty wounded, more than even the "anti-vaccinationists" can claim to have come to harm by reason of vaccination itself. Verb. sap.!

The latest report of the United States Commissioner states the whole number of medical students in the United States as 26,821. Of these there are in the State of New York 2,374; of these only 1,800 are in the city; 574 in the rest of the State outside of the city.

The Japanese medical commission which has been making a tour of the health departments of the principal cities of Europe and this country, declared, through one of its members, D. Sato, Chief Surgeon of the Imperial University at Tokio, that our local health department was better than anything he had seen in his tour, being equalled only by the health department of Hamburg, Germany.

The Court of Appeals, in a recent decision upheld the constitutionality of the law which provides that a child who is not vaccinated shall not be permitted to attend the public schools.

The deanship of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, which has been filled by Dr. John G. Curtis as acting dean since the resignation of

Dr. McLane, in June, 1903, has been filled by the election for the statutory term of Dr. Samuel W. Lambert, professor of applied therapeutics. Dr. Lambert is a son of the late Dr. Edward W. Lambert and was graduated from Yale with the degree of A. B. in 1880 and with that of Ph.D. in 1882. He was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1885. Since 1896 he has been one of the visiting surgeons at New York Hospital. Dr. Lambert becomes a member ex-officio of the university council, the board of trustees of Roosevelt Hospital, and the boards of managers of Sloane Maternity Hospital and Vanderbilt clinic.

The new French Hospital, opened by the French Benevolent Society, will be ready for patients November 15th. The cornerstone was laid by M. Jules Cambon, ex-Ambassador from France, November 18, 1902. The hospital cost $400,000, with a mortgage on it of $175,000. The building is seven stories in height and 104 feet long. It will accommodate 150 patients, having six wards and thirty private rooms. The flooring is one continuous sheet of composition without cracks or joints. The doors are without panels to prevent dust accumulation.

There is food for thought in the paper of Major Louis L. Seaman, U. S. A., who recently read a paper before the Association of Military and Naval Surgeons of the United States or Japan's Care of Sick Troops. Dr. Seaman showed that Japan's loss from sickness among her troops during the present Russo-Jap war is only one per cent. against our seventy-five per cent. during the Spanish-American war. His paper furnishes most interesting reading regarding the modern and scientific methods employed by the Japanese medical department. There is no country, except possibly Germany, whose army and navy medical department can compete with the Japs. They undoubtedly have the most thoroughly organized and finely appointed medical corps of any of the world's nations. And it is said that the Jap is only an imitator!

The Charities Commissioner has plans under consideration for the construction of a new emergency hospital at Coney Island to cost $100,000. The new hospital is to be kept open all year, and not for five months only, as is the present emergency hospital.

A completed system of medical inspection of the schools has been established. A physician is sent daily to every school, and the scholars are inspected as to contagious or infectious diseases. Trained nurses are assigned to the schools in the poorer districts. Children are made to keep

themselves clean, and these nurses make home inspections. They show the parents the necessity for keeping their children clean and healthy.

Chancellor MacCracken, of New York University, in his annual report, presented to the board of trustees, called attention to the startling decrease in the number of medical students in the city and State. He arraigned the wealthy men of the city for their failure to endow medical schools and asserted that "a medical college is sixteen times as deserving as a clinic or hospital."

Dr. Louis A. Weigel, of Rochester, N. Y., who recently submittted to an operation for the removal of his right hand and a part of his left hand through continued exposure to X-rays, is being anxiously watched by others engaged in this work. Professor Welch, of Johns Hopkins, reports a diagnosis of cancer. Dr. Weigel's case is somewhat similar to that of Clarence E. Dailey, Edison's chief assistant, who died early in October, this year. Dailey suffered for seven years, during which time he had seven operations, the last one for the removal of both of his arms.

Dr. Charles Repin recently presented to the Paris Academy of Science a new method of freeing the blood from toxic substances in disease. By a special apparatus which he uses, he literally washes the blood by drawing off the serum, and replacing it with an artificial serum-normal salt solution. The blood is taken from a vein by aspiration and at once mixed with eight or ten times its volume of saline. The mixture is sent into a centrifugal separator which is so arranged that all the blood corpuscles are collected at one point. They are then taken from the separator by a pump which re-injects them into the system. at once. The apparatus is automatic and works continuously.

The business manager of this JOURNAL makes the following appeal to the physicians of Brooklyn:

The BROOKLYN MEDICAL JOURNAL should be the medium through which to keep the physicians of Brooklyn posted regarding physicians' offices to rent, carriages, books, instruments; to buy or sell, etc. You are constantly in touch with people who have offices to rent, etc. Will you kindly send them to us? It will cost them only $1.00 to put a "Want" ad. in the JOURNAL. We desire two pages or 36 "Want" advertisements for our next issue. A large list of this kind may at some time be of great use to you in selecting an office. You can help to make this an important and useful department of the JOURNAL. We trust that you have the welfare of the JOURNAL at heart and will be with us in the matter.

BOOK REVIEWS.

THE BLUES (SPLANCHNIC NEURASTHENIA): CAUSES AND CURE. By Albert Abrams, A.M., M.D., F.R.M.S. N. Y., E. B. Treat & Co., 1904. Front., 240 pp., 5 pl. 8vo. Price: Cloth, $1.50.

The main endeavor of this interesting and withal useful book is to distinguish a new sub-form to which he gives the name splanchnic neurasthenia. “An attack of the blues is nought else but an acute neurasthenia," etc., p. 15. "Treatment directed toward the relief of abdominal congestion alone will often permanently arrest the neurasthenic symptoms," p. 137. While these excerpts give the cue to the work, the first half is devoted to a general description of neurasthenia, i. e., to a summary of current ideas, some good, others less so. The latter portion is taken up with a discussion of various matters relating to the liver, lungs, pulse, etc.

He seems unaware of the modern view that arteriosclerosis plays an important rôle for while he describes (p. 33-5 the "Brain Changes in Neurasthenia," he says on p. 38, "neurasthenia has no definite pathology." The conclusion (p. 5) "that the important thing in all exercises is the mental effort put forth" does not appear to harmonize with our views of Rest Cure. He makes a warranted criticism of "uric acid intoxication." Gastroptosis and allied states he does not accept as important factors in his form. What he calls "Pulmonary anemia" is clearly incipient tuberculosis. He describes as new what he terms "Liver reflex," a shrinkage of that organ on stimulation of the skin over it. The distinction between hypochondria and simple melancholia does not seem to be sufficiently made, though on p. 14 he truly says, "The morning heralds the depression." Positive views on treatment are presented. Many of the old regulations, as about eating, are echoed without needed re-casting. He condemns cathartics, and recommends a combination of local massage exercises, electricity and appliances (p. 138). Somewhat similar may be the effects of certain respiratory and circulatory gymnastics described by Edward Blake ("Study of the Hand," etc., 1899, London). And it is a striking fact that we find much the same object aimed at by our townsman, Dr. C. F. McGuire, in his excellent little volume on "Rational Physical Culture" (V. this JOURNAL, 1902, p. 476). Each of these men is looking at things from his own standpoint and makes his own recommendations, but it all the more indicates a wide awakening to the importance of congestions of the trunk-viscera. The best plan for everyday prevention and relief is that of Dr. McGuire.

W. B.

THE TREATMENT OF FRACTURES. With Notes upon a Few Common Dislocations. By Charles Locke Scudder, M.D. Fourth Edition, Thoroughly Revised. Phil., N. Y. & Lond., W. B. Saunders & Co., 1903. 534 pp., 2 pl. 8vo. Price: Buckram, $5.00; Sheep or Half Morocco, $6.00.

The best evidence of the value of this work is the fact that within four years there have been four editions. What we have already said in reference to this work still holds good, namely, that while it is not an exhaustive work in this field, it is one that is thoroughly up to date, and of great value to the student and general practitioner.

One of the valuable features of this work is the fact that the methods of treatment are not only described in clear, concise diction, but the illustrations are of such a character that they show how to apply the apparatus. The illustrations are a feature of the book.

We note that in this edition many new illustrations have been added. of the same excellent character as those in the original edition.

In this edition the author has made an important contribution in a chapter which he modestly describes as "Notes upon a few Dislocations." In this chapter the principal dislocations are discussed, methods of treatment thoroughly illustrated, and altogether forms a very satisfactory addition to the work.

Under dislocations of the shoulder we are glad to note that the illustration so frequently borrowed from Kocher has at last been abandoned and an original one substituted. It shows the patient lying down instead of sitting on a chair according to the German method. We believe that it is important to have the patient lying down while reducing this dislocation, for the reason that the patient is very apt to faint when the bone is replaced because of the shock upon some filament of nerves which go to the cardiac plexus.

The dislocation of the proximal phalanx of the thumb, which has always proved so difficult to reduce, is most satisfactorily treated and amply illustrated. The author's method of reduction is the only satisfactory one that we have found.

We note that the author has classified dislocations of the hip under two varieties, anterior and posterior. We are glad to note that this the proper classification is gaining ground, and has at last appeared in a modern text book. WILLIAM FRANCIS CAMPBELL.

A TREATISE ON ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY. By Royal Whitman, M.D. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Phil. & N. Y., Lea Bros. & Co., 1903. 848 pp. 8vo. Price: Cloth, $5.50.

The present edition of Dr. Whitman's excellent work brings out the many advances made in this branch of surgery since the first edition, and also treats the different subjects in a more extended way. There are added also a number of fine illustrations, thus giving an almost perfect pictorial description of nearly every class of cases in all its different phases. These photographs of patients which the author has seen are an exceedingly valuable feature. This book should be found in the library of every practitioner as the symptomatology alone is a great aid to an early diagnosis in orthopedic conditions. And it is to be remembered that practically every orthopedic case in its incipiency must be passed upon by the family physician. His decision will influence greatly the results. The reading of some chapters will be instructive to many who have not followed this branch of medical science, in showing what may be accomplished in these days of modern orthopedics in what were formerly classed as hopeless or, at best, discouraging forms of disease. The chapters on the nontubercular affections of the spine and joints are especially interesting, and their perusal would well repay the busiest practitioner. The oft-neglected child with paralytic deformities has hopes held out to it by the suggestions made in the paragraphs on this subject, for important advances have been made in the technique of tendon transplantation and in the association with it of arthrodesis. The general surgeon should be able to get many valuable points on fixation by plaster of paris or instrumental means. Nowhere else can one find so clearly and practically stated the normal mechanism of the foot, its abuses and injuries, and its treatment under all conditions. The whole work is interesting reading, even without taking thought of its instructiveness. Medical science has been advanced by it, and humanity has been benefited.

CHARLES DWIGHT NAPIER.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. For Students and Physicians. By John H. Musser, M.D. Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Phila. & N. Y., Lea Bros. & Co., 1904. 1213 pp., 63 pl. 8vo. Price: Cloth $6.50; Leather, $7.50; Half Morocco, $8.00. Musser's Diagnosis has, from the day of its publication, occupied an enviable position in the esteem of the medical profession. Having now passed into the fifth edition it has grown in size and comprehensiveness until it may fairly be called encyclopedic. Its distinguished author has availed himself to the full of his opportunities to revise, enlarge and rearrange his material until the present edition fully represents the ripened results of his labors. In this edition especial attention has been paid to the later methods of laboratory work and physical diagnosis, and a section dealing with the X-ray has been added. Musser's work should be in the possession of all internists as an exponent and repository of the best medical knowledge of to-day. G. R. B.

UNIV. OF MICH.
DEC 18 1904

Brooklyn Medical Journal

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