News of the Month.*

AUTUMN POST-GRADUATE COURSES AT PARIS.

FROM Monday, 19th of September, to Saturday, 1st of October, courses and practical demonstrations, the details of which follow, will take place at the Hotel des Sociétés savantes (Science Societies House), rue Serpente (Serpente Street), and in several hospital services, at Paris:

At the Science Societies House (Hôtel des Sociétés savantes, rue Serpente): Bacteriology, Dr. Veillon; Dermatological and Syphilographical Therapeutics, Dr. Leredde; Massage, Dr. Marchais; Diseases of Urinary Organs, Dr. Noguès; Electrotherapy, Dr. Zimmern; Midwifery, Dr. Dubrisay; Nervous Diseases, Dr. Sillier; Applied Therapeutics, Dr. Landowski; Hygiene and Therapeutics of Children, Dr. Lesné.

At the different hospitals: Gynecology, Dr. Arrou (St. Antoine Hospital); Practical Surgery, Dr. Souligoux (Lariboisière); Auscultation, Dr. Caussade (Tenon); Stomachal Diseases, Dr. Soupault (Bichat); Oto-rhino-laryngology, Dr. Laurens

(Bichat); Ophthalmology, Dr. Morax (Lariboisière).

The fee for every course (which will include about from 8 to 10 lessons), is 20 francs, to be paid when registering. Detailed programmes will be sent on request. For all information, apply to Dr. Marchais, Hôtel des Sociétés savantes, rue Serpente, Paris.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Must Leave Canada. One hundred and thirty-five Syrian immigrants, who arrived on the 2nd ult., by the steamer Halifax of the Canadian line, from Havre, and landed at Grosse Isle quarantine station for medical inspection, were examined, and 105 of the lot were found violently affected with trachoma, and declared incurable. They were ordered to be deported by the Halifax on her return to Havre. This is the largest number of immigrants ever deported from any Canadian or American Atlantic port in the history of immigrant medical inspection.

The Physician's Library.

BOOK REVIEWS.

The Doctor's Recreation Series. Editor-in-chief, Charles Weils Moulton; Associate Editors: Nicholas Senn, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., C.M.; Wm. Henry Drummond, M.D., LL.D.; John C. Hemmeter, M.D., Ph.D.; Wm. Warren Potter, M.D.; Titus Munson Coan, M.D.; Emory Lanphear, M.D.; Albert Van Der Veer, M.D., Ph.D.; Winslow Anderson, M.D.; W. J. Bell, M.D.; Henry W. Roby, M.D. 12 volumes, octavo. Cloth and half morocco. Akron, O., New York and Chicago: The Saalfield Publishing Co.

The aim of the editors has been to amass a great amount of useful, curious and entertaining literature pertaining to the medical profession, which has heretofore been either inaccessible to the general practitioner, or so widely scattered as to be practically unattainable when most needed. These volumes present as complete and varied a collection of the best purely literary medical literature as can be brought within the compass of a dozen volumes. As an actual encyclopedia of medical literature, they will take a place not hitherto occupied. Much good material, both prose and poetry, drifts hither and thither on the stream of fugitive literature, and, if not wholly lost, is likely to become forgotten. Many of the pieces here collected have been rescued from the oblivion that seemed awaiting them, while much of the set is original and presented for the first time.

In last month's issue, we had occasion to review Vol. I., “The Doctor's Leisure Hour." Vol. II. has come to hand recently. It is entitled "The Doctor's Red Lamp," a book of short stories concerning the doctor's life, selected by Charles Wells Moulton. It is a most interesting volume, containing short stories by different, authors touching upon the daily life of the physician. The material has been selected from a large number of sources, the authors including such well-known litterateurs as Conan Doyle, Ian Maclaren, Ambrose Bierce, Lucy S. Furman, J. E. Montgomery, Maud Wilder Goodwin, Henry Seton Merriman, and Joseph Kirkland. We know of no better series of books for the busy physician to buy, with which to amuse himself on his vacation, or after a busy day's work.

W A. Y.

A System of Practical Surgery. By PROF. E. VON BERGMANN, M.D., of Berlin; PROF. P. VON BRUNS, M.D., of Tubingen, and PROF. J. VON MIKULICZ, M.D., of Breslau. Volume III., Surgery of the Extremities. Translated and edited by William T. Bull, M.D., Professor of Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York; and John B. Solley, M.D., New York. New York and Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co. 1904.

The volumes of this excellent work continue to appear with great regularity and celerity. Volume III. is even better than its forerunners. The contributors are men of excellent reputation, and are known to the profession the world over: Dr. M. Borchardt, Prof. Dr. P. L. Friedrich, Prof. Dr. A. Hoffa, Prof. Dr. F. Hofmeister, Prof. Dr. D. Nasse, Oberarzt Dr. P. Reichel, Oberarzt Dr. A. Schrieber, Privat-Docent Dr. M. Wilms. The work is largely free from the defects which so mark various systems." It is not a compilation where the antiquary may search who is looking for discarded and effete methods; viewed even from the standpoint of the specialist it is exhaustive, yet concise, thoroughly modern, though conservative. The illustrations and mechanical execution of the work are of the best. reviewer need only refer to such subjects as "Congenital Dislocation of the Hip," the treatment of which has made such rapid strides in the last decade, and to "The Treatment of Club-Foot," which has reached the very ideal of perfection, to be able to recognize that the author of these, as well as of the other subjects treated in this volume, has written what represents the best and latest knowledge upon the subject in hand. No better system of surgery has been published.

The

B. E. M'K.

Small Hospitals: Establishment and Maintenance.

By A. WORCESTER, A.M., M.D.; and Suggestions for Hospital Architecture, with Plans for a Small Hospital, by WILLIAM ATKINSON, architect. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 43 and 45 E. 19th Street.

At a time when so many new hospitals are being built, and when the public are becoming so interested in the care and management of the ill and injured, a book of this kind is of great value, as it not only describes how the public may be interested, the arrangements of committees, and the organization of hospital boards, but it goes into the whole question of the difficulties which might be expected to exist where allopathy, homeopathy and eclecticism are all recognized as legitimate modes of practice. This little book contains many valuable hints with regard to the temporary hospitals, and the steps that may be taken to fit a

dwelling-house to serve as a hospital until a better one can be built. It contains plans also for the building of hospitals, smaller and larger, and isolation wards, and the letterpress of these plans is full of suggestions that must be of value, not only to those who are building hospitals but to every practitioner, as from the knowledge of what is best, he may see a way to improve what exists in the very houses that he has to visit.

A. J. J.

International Clinics. A Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures and Especially Prepared Original Articles on Treatment, Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Orthopedics, Pathology, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Otology, Rhinology, Laryngology, Hygiene, and other topics of interest to students and practitioners. By leading members of the medical profession throughout the world. Edited by A. O. J. KELLY, M.D., Philadelphia, U.S.A., with the collaboration of Wm. Osler, M.D., Baltimore, U.S.A.; John H. Musser, M.D., Philadelphia; Jas. Stewart, M.D., Montreal; J. B. Murphy, M.D., Chicago; A. McPhedran, M.D., Toronto; Thos. M. Rotch, M.D., Boston; J. G. Clark, M.D., Philadelphia; Jas. J. Walsh, M.D., New York; J. W. Ballantyne, M.D., Edinburgh; John Harold, M.D., London; Edmund Landolt, M.D., Paris, and Richard Kretz, M.D., Vienna. With regular correspondents in Montreal, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Leipsic, Brussels and Carlsbad. Vols. I. and II. Fourteenth Series. 1904. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. Canadian agent: Chas. Roberts, Montreal.

Volumes I. and II. of the fourteenth series of "Clinics" are fully up to, and in some respects ahead of, some of their predecessors. We are pleased to see that the name of Dr. Alex. McPhedran, of Toronto, has been added to the list of collaborators, and feel that such is a distinct acquisition and of additional value to the series. Among the contributors to Volume II. appears the name of Dr. John McCrae, Lecturer in Pathology at McGill University. One of the most valuable contributions to Volume I. is "The Progress of Medicine during 1903," by Drs. David L. Edsale, Joseph C. Bloodgood and A. A. Stevens. The article covers over one hundred pages, and makes Volume I. worth purchasing, if for no other reason. In it, Dr. Edsale covers Infectious Diseases, Parasitic Diseases, Diseases of Metabolism, of the Blood, of the Cardio-vascular, Respiratory and Gastro-intestinal Systems, and Diseases of the Liver and Kidneys. Dr. Jos. C. Bloodgood takes up Surgery under the headings of Shock, Surgical Infections, Anesthesia, Blood Examinations, Blood Cultures, Burns and Sealds, Fractures, Tumors, and the Surgery of the

Stomach and Pancreas. Dr. A. A. Stevens deals with Treatment, viz., that of Infectious Diseases, Constitutional Diseases, Diseases of the Blood, Ductless Glands, Circulatory System, Diseases of the Kidney, Respiratory Tract, Stomach, Intestines and Liver.

Of Volume II., the first 128 pages are devoted to "Diseases of Warm Climates." Among those who contribute short articles to that department is Dr. John McCrae, who writes one of 22 pages on "Recent Progress in Tropical Medicine," a chapter well worth reading, and showing great scientific thought. Dr. C. Jarvis contributes 15 pages or so on "Sleeping Sickness," which is comparatively common in the Uganda country. A very interesting and instructive chapter, "Broncho-pneumonia in Children," is contributed by Dr. Isaac A. Abt, and one on "The Limitations of the Utility of Digitalis in Heart Disease," by Dr. Jas. M. French, is worthy of careful perusal.

W. A .Y.

Cap'n Eri. By JOSEPH C. LINCOLN. Toronto: William Briggs, Publisher.

The Cap'n is a man without a mate in the story-book line, excepting wonderful old David Harum. Eri lives, moves and has his being in and around Cape Cod; his quaintness has an irresistible charm, and his love of comfort appeals to many a physician, especially those who have spent their earlier years in the country, and can remember being asked to step into the parlor and "set on the sofa "-to which invitation the Cap'n answers, 'No, thanks; hair-cloth's all right to look at, but it's the slipperiest stuff that ever was, I cal'late. Every time I set on a hair-cloth sofa I feel's if I was draggin' anchor."

W. A. Y.

A Text-book of Alkaloidal Therapeutics. Being a condensed resume of all available literature on the subject of the active principles, added to the personal experience of the authors. By W. J. WAUGH, M.D., and W. A. ABBOTT M.D., with the collaboration of E. M. EPSTEIN, M.D. Chicago: The Clinic Publishing Co. 1904.

This work covers a field that, up till now, has been largely ignored by the bulk of the profession. The tide, however, has been gradually turning till to-day physicians, who decried the system most vehemently, are now among its active supporters. There is little doubt that anything that is new, as a rule, is slowly taken up, and the headway made is discouraging. Alkaloidal medication is to-day receiving a good deal of attention, and the WaughAbbott text-book consists of 400 pages of literature, covering the 138 different alkaloidal preparations, their toxicology, physiological action, etc. As the authors say, "The mission of our book