The diseases of the tear passages, so often cursorily treated in text-books, receive the greater space demanded by their frequency and their refusal to respond to treatment. This chapter, and those on the diseases of the conjunctiva, cornea and iris, in which the general practitioner is always interested, will be found complete and reliable. A short chapter is devoted to the hygiene of the eye. The rest of the volume is taken up with those diseases which more particularly concern the ophthalmologist.

One lays the book down, having formed a most favorable opinion of it.

J. M. M'C. The Doctor's Recreation Series. CHAS. WELLS MOULTON, General Editor. Vol. III." In the Year 1800," Being the Relation of Sundry Events Occurring in the Life of Doctor Jonathan Brush During that Year, by Samuel Walter Kelley, M.D. Akron, O., Chicago and New York: The Saalfield Publishing Co. 1904. Canadian Depot: Chandler & Massey Limited, Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg.

We have taken occasion in two previous issues of the JOURNAL to state the fact that a series such as this would, we felt, meet with the support of the medical profession as a body. We understand that this prognostication has been fulfilled and that Charles Wells Moulton's volumes have "caught on." The reading is light and quite interesting, and will be the means of passing many a pleasant hour during the approaching winter months to all of us who become at times tired of the stereotyped medical works. Vol. III. is as good as, if not rather better than, its predecessors, and gives a most interesting account of events in the life of Dr. Brush over a century ago. Graves' Disease, With and Without Exophthalmic Goitre.

W. A. Y.

By

WILLIAM HANNA THOMPSON, M.D., LL.D., Physician to the Roosevelt Hospital; Consulting Physician to the Manhattan State Hospitals for the Insane, East and West; formerly Professor of the Practice of Medicine, New York University Medical College; Physician to Bellevue Hospital, etc. Pp. 143. New York: William Wood & Co. 1904.

The object the author had in view in writing the monograph on Graves' disease was to emphasize the fact that the constitutional and general derangements which are characteristic of Graves' disease, constitute the disease, and not the condition of the thyroid gland or of its accessories." This contention can hardly be said. to be new, nor perhaps is it quite claimed by the author to be so, as he gives certain quotations from the works of others who have made somewhat similar observations.

The writer of this treatise has, however, given us ample evi

dence of the correctness of his contention, as set forth in the clinical histories of twenty-eight patients who at no time showed any sign of exophthalmic goitre and, for comparison, that of fortytwo patients who had goitre as an accompanying symptom.

Whilst the fact may thus be established that goitre may not exist in a typical case of Graves' disease, still we have as yet no proof that in such cases the thyroid function is normal. It is quite possible that derangement of thyroid function may exist in the absence of gross pathological lesion of the gland. It is a well-known clinical phenomenon that many of the characteristic symptoms of Graves' disease may precede thyroid enlargement, the goitre developing late.

The monograph will be read with interest by all students of clinical medicine. It contains quite a wealth of material in recording the clinical features which presented themselves in a large number of cases under the observation of the author of the work..

A. P.

A Practical Treatise on Genito-Urinary and Venereal Diseases and Syphilis. By ROBERT W. TAYLOR, A.M., M.D., Clinical Professor of Genito-Urinary Diseases at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia Universitv), New York; Consulting Genito-Urinary Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital and to City Charity Hospital, New York. Third edition, thoroughly revised, with 163 illustrations and 39 plates in colors and monochrome. New York and Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co.

Dr. Taylor's "Genito-Urinary and Venereal Diseases" is really a magnificent work, which does credit to the author and his country. It is not, therefore, a matter of wonder that an Italian translation of the second edition of this work has been issued by the Union Tipografico Editrice of Tprin.

Dr. Taylor has had thirty years of experience and large opportunities of studying genito-urinary and venereal diseases in hospital and private practice. He is also the possessor of a felicitous style of writing, combining the merits of the writer and clinical teacher, so that the reader is never left in doubt as to the author's meaning.

Any physician of experience in the diagnosis and treatment of these diseases will be pleased with the perusal of Dr. Taylor's book, which gives evidence of modesty and good sense, directing to a useful purpose the data of clinical experience. Dr. Taylor believes firmly in the efficiency of nitrate of silver in gonorrhea, and he expresses but a poor opinion of argentamine, protargol, et hoc genus omne. In this respect he does not quite live up to the modified proverb which he quotes, "De novis nil nisi bonum."

In selected cases of syphilis he favors the hypodermic use of the perchloride of mercury, preferring it to any other salt of that base.

The influence of syphilis on the different organs and tissues of the body, particularly in the tertiary stage, is very fully considered, data being given of the tertiary affections of the viscera. A full description is given of the syphilitic affections of the nervous system.

Artistic illustration is a feature of the book. It is by far the handsomest book of the kind we have seen, and, as a standard authority, deserves a place in every practitioner's library. The book is beautifully printed and well bound.

J. J. C.

The Seaboard Magazine. Devoted to the Industrial and Agricultural Development of the South. Published monthly by the Industrial Department of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Portsmouth, Va.

To any

and all who are interested in the South and its development, we say "Send for a copy or two of The Seaboard Magazine." It is most interesting, and freely illustrated in half-tone. The issues we have had the privilege of looking over contain some articles on "The Land of the Manatee, the Land of Flowers," and goes to prove how rapidly this, up till recently unknown part of the South, has developed. The magazine also gives information as to Palmetto, where coffee and pineanoles are cultivated to perfection; Sarasota, the winter and summer resort on the South-west Coast; Braidentown, the largest town in the Manatee section, and Pinehurst, "The City of the Ideal." Any physician will receive a copy of The Seaboard Magazine on presenting or mailing his card to the Industrial Department of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Portsmouth, Va.

The firm of H. K. Lewis, 136 Gower St., London, W.C., Eng., is too well known to require more than passing mention. Mr. Lewis has been a medical book publisher for many years now, and from his printing presses have come a large number of the best known English medical works. Their names are too numerous to mention; suffice it to say that a few of the most recent ones

are:

"Diseases of the Skin: Their Description, Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment." With Special Reference to the Skin Eruptions of Children, and an Analysis of Fifteen Thousand Cases of Skin Disease. By H. Radcliffe-Crocker, M.D. (Lond.), F.R.C.P., Physician for Diseases of the Skin in University College Hospital, London. Thoroughly revised and enlarged, with 4 plates (2 being colored) and 112 illustrations. 2 vols.,

large Svo, 28s. net. "This is by far the most exhaustive work upon diseases of the skin which has as yet appeared. The practising dermatologist cannot afford to be without it."Therapeutic Gazette.

"Diseases of Women. A Practical Text-book." By A. H. N. Lewers, M.D. (Lond.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.), Senior Obstetric Physician to the London Hospital, and Lecturer on Midwifery in the London Hospital Medical School; Examiner in Obstetric Medicine to the University of London; Examiner in Midwifery and Diseases of Women at the Conjoint Board of the Royal College of Physicians of London and of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, etc. Just published, thoroughly revised, with 4 plates and 166 illustrations, crown 8vo, 10s. 6d. "This neat, bright and well-written volume.

It has what is much more valuable than the most correct photographs, a number of good diagrams. This book must recommend itself to every student and practitioner, for in it he will find the gist of the whole subject."-Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery.

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Handbook of Diseases of the Eye and Their Treatment." By Henry A. Swanzy, A.M., M.B., F.R.C.S.I., Surgeon to the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, and Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin. Just published, with 167 illustrations, post 8vo, 12s. 6d. "This favorite hand-book Its popularity with students is as great as ever. It is received with growing favor by practitioners who have once perused it, because of its readability and the soundness of its teaching."Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery.

Hygiene and Public Health." By Louis C. Parkes, M.D., D.P.H., Lond. Univ. Lecturer on Public Health at St. George's Hospital School, etc., and Henry R. Kenwood, M.B., D.P.H., F.C.S., Professor of Hygiene and Public Health at University College, etc. Now ready, with 88 illustrations, pp. 763, crown 8vo, 12s. "As a general text-book covering the whole range of hygiene and public health the practitioner and student will find it thoroughly satisfactory."-Lancet. (English.)

A postal card to H. K. Lewis at above address will bring a catalogue by return mail.

Reference to page xcix. of this issue will reveal the advertisement of Mr. H. J. Glaisher, medical book publisher, 57 Wigmore St., London, W., England. His annual complete catalogue of Publishers' Remainders in all branches of literature, including medical, will be sent post free to any physician on receipt of calling card. Mr. Glaisher's prices are greatly reduced, so that it will repay any of our subscribers to communicate with the address as given.

The Canadian

Journal of Medicine and Surgery

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VOL. XVI.

TORONTO, NOVEMBER, 1904.

NO. 5.

Original Contributions.

ADDRESS IN MEDICINE.*

BY R. E. McKECHNIE, M.D., VANCOUVER, B.C.

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,-In asking a member of the profession residing in the far West to deliver the address in medicine, I feel that a compliment has been paid, not so much to myself, as to the West. To demand that we, living so far away from the centres of learning, from the great teaching institutions of the East, should nevertheless be expected to keep ourselves abreast of the times and in touch with the latest discoveries, is surely expecting a great deal; and then to expect that one, living under such barren influences, should be able to give you an address equal to this occasion, containing some food for thought and pointing out the pathway of duty and practice, is to look still farther for a miraculous manifestation. But the genus of the West is ever equal to all occasions. It has grown accustomed to the knowledge that the best wheat in the world grows in our North-West: that our forests can supply the hugest sticks of timber known to commerce; that our fisheries can supply the world with illimitable quantities of salmon, halibut and other delicacies; always the best, the hugest, and the illimitable, ever the superlative. So it is not strange that a strong egotism has developed out here, sufficient even to accept this task, and hoping, but with misgivings, that its self-sufficiency may not suffer in the attempt. Personally, I feel that a great honor has been conferred on me, and I most sincerely thank the Association for its * Read at meeting of Canadian Medical Association, Vancouver, B.C., August, 1904.