Association, to be able to make the announcement that our Journal of proceedings is out and distributed to our members without cost to the association. All say it is the quickest, best and cheapest report our association has ever made.

If there is an eclectic in the state who has not received a journal of our proceedings if he will notify me, I will send him a copy.

I would like for each eclectic in the state to send me his address. 1 make this special request to all members of our association. I have written to all the members, and several of my letters have been returned uncalled for.

I make this request through the GLEANER, hoping thus to reach all; for the eclectic who does not take the GLEANER, is a back number, and hardly worth looking up.

Wishing one and all a happy and prosperous new year, I am, traternally yours, L. S. Downs.

BOOK NOTICES.

ELECTRIC Light Bug; or Belostonia-a paper on this gigantic insect-reprint from The Medical Index, by Theodore William Shaeffer professor of dermatology in the Woman's Medical College, Kansas City, Mo.

American Medical Review.-The above is the title of a brand new medical journal. It is edited by Drs. Daniel Lewis and George B. Bradley. This has the appearance of a medical magazine that has come to stay. The enthusiasm of callow newness is always grateful, and it always commands our sympathy; but alas, it also draws on our pity. That sort of enthusiasm does not appear in this latest candidate for patronage. The journal impresses you as already old, for it possesses that peculiar aura that infallibly pertains to maturity. It makes a broad-shouldered, full-bearded bow, and you shake hands with it familiarly, though deferentially. It is its purpose to be to medicine what the Review of Reviews is to literature, and it will do that thing.

The spirit of this journal seems to be comprehensive and independent. It will be tied by no ism, and controlled by no master. The editor says: "We have no fads, not even a medical theory." A useful feature of the journal is its "Index Medicus." This consists of a list of journals in connection with a catalogue of the titles of their leading articles. The list includes 204 medical journals, among which does not appear the names of several good journals that come to our table. The editor has made the mistake of his life in omitting from his list that brightest, upto-datest periodical of the century, THE MEDICAL GLEANER. Was this

an oversight, or the result of prejudice? Not for the sake of the GLEANER, but for that of the Review, we hope it was merely an accident. We predict for this new-comer a brilliant success (if it deserves it) for there is a living excuse for its existence. C.

HEALTH AT HOME, is the name of a new journal started by Dr. T. A. Bland and his daughter, Cora. It will be the organ of "The American Health Club." Dr. Bland is an old and experienced physician and hygienist, especially the latter. The same is true, in a less degree of his daughter. Although, the little journal seems designed especially for the laity, it will always contain helpful reading for the doctor. We wish it. C.

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A New Stitch Securing the Mucous Membrane to the Skin at the Annus After Removal of a Cylindrical Part of its Lower Third. By Thos. Charles Martin, Prof. Genito-Urinary Surgery of the Cleveland Medical College.

Columbia Calendar, Eleventh Annual Edition: Handy and convenient; more space for memoranda, greater charm than ever given by liberal illustration, and a unique grouping of dates, the bright, sparkling thoughts on each leaflet, together, make this the calendar to meet the needs of business men. Pope Manufacturing Co., the enterprising builders of Columbia Bicycles, and the champions of good roads are the publishers. Their factory and offices are at Hartford, Conn.; they have branch offices in the eleven largest cities of the United States.

DELICATE, BACKWARD AND PUNY, AND STUNTED CHILDREN Their developmental defects, and physical, mental, and moral peculiarities considered as ailments amenable to treatment of mecicines, by J. Campton Burnett, M. D, Philadelphia; Boericke and Tafel.

We have all of us been confronted scores of times by the class of cases treated of in this little work. We have puzzled over them 'till our heads ached, only to be finally cornered into the conclusion that the best thing would be to apply hygienic means, and let nature do the rest. That is good enough as far as it goes, but Dr. Burnett's position is that we must first clear the way for nature by medical means. He seems to demonstrate the practicability of this, though skillful drug manipulation. His theory really reaches the bottom of medical instruction, and is therefore not new. If therapeutic helpfulness is a medical fact Dr. Burnett is right. His little bank is worthy a place in any physician's library. Price, cloth $1.00 net. By mail $1.05.

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We are anxious to have a full list from all of the States.

Good Things.-Old and New.

HEADACHES OF EXTRA-CRANIAL ORIGIN.-[By Frank Woodbury, A. M., M. G., Philadelphia, Pa. Read before the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, at Hot Springs, Ark.]-In the discussion following the reading of this paper, Thomas Hunt Stucky, M. D., Ph. D., Professor of Theory and Practice and Clinical Medicine, Hospital College of Medicine, Louisville, Ky., said: "The paper just read is to me one of unusual interest and importance. When we take into consideration the many causes of headache, and look back upon the treatment for the past twenty years for the condition by opium or its alkaloids, chloral, the bromides, etc., and remember their tardiness of producing relief, the danger of having our patients become drug-habitues, 'tis indeed, a fact that antikamnia has proven a Godsend to the people, as well as the profession. One fact is evident, and that is that antikamnia has almost entirely displaced opium, its compounds and derivatives. If it has done this and nothing more, its mission is a great one and its usefulness thoroughly established. 'It does not depress the hearts action; it does relieve pain. An extended use from its first appearance on the market has served to increase my confidence in the great value of antikamnia."" -Medical Record.

TYPHOID FEVER.-In The Chicago Medical Times, for January, Dr. S. J. Smith, of Filley, Neb., reports the cure of several cases of typhoid fever, and the cutting abruptly short of one or two threatened cases, by the administration of 21⁄2 grain doses of sulpho carbolate of zinc every two hours.

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