PERSONALS.

Dr. and Mrs. Goldwin Howland, have returned from England.

Dr. Frank P. Cowan died at the Western Hospital, Toronto, on October 17th.

Dr. W. H. Pepler has removed his office from the corner John and Adelaide Streets to 600 Spadina Avenue.

Dr. Chas. Temple has removed from Spadina Ave. to the new residence built by him on Palmerston Boulevard.

Dr. J. S. Hart, of Parkdale, has come forward as a candidate for election for West Toronto, for the Medical Council.

Dr. H. P. H. Galloway, of Winnipeg (late of Toronto), has been appointed lecturer on Orthopedic Surgery in Manitoba Medical College.

Dr. D. Clark, ex-Superintendent of Toronto Asylum, was made an honorary member of the American Psychological Association at its annual meeting held recently in Boston.

The representatives elected from the Medical Faculty of the University of Toronto to the Senate are Mr. I. H. Cameron; Drs. J. F. W. Ross, G. A. Bingham, Gibb Wishart, and W. P. Caven.,

Dr. Brefney O'Reilly returned to Toronto the first week in October, after several years spent abroad in study and travelling in many lands. He has settled at the family residence 54 College Street, and has taken up practice there. We heartily wish him great success.

Dr. Albert A. Macdonald, who for four years has ably represented West Toronto in the Medical Council, is again in the field for election. Dr. Macdonald is as present residing with his brotherin-law, Mr. Alfred Beardmore, in St. George St., until his new residence is completely finished.

DR. BRUCE RIORDAN has announced that he is "out" for election to the Medical Council as representative for West Toronto. The fight will, therefore, be a three-cornered one between Dr. A. A. Macdonald, Dr. Hart, of Parkdale, and Dr. Riordan.

Obituary

DEATH OF DR. JOHN MATTHEW LEFEVRE.

ON September 15th, 1906, at his residence, 1,300 Georgia Street, Vancouver, B.C., John Matthew Lefevre, M.D., M.R.S.C., Eng., in his 53rd year.

DEATH OF DR. JAS. STEWART, OF MONTREAL,

DR. James Stewart, who was one of the most eminent physicians in Canada, died at his home in Montreal, on Oct. 6th, following a recent stroke of paralysis.

He was well known in various parts of Ontario, particularly in Huron county, where he practised in both Varna and Brucefield.

For some time he was head physician at Montreal General Hospital, and at the opening of the Royal Victoria Hospital became prominently identified with that institution.

DEATH OF DR. MINERVA M. GREENAWAY, TORONTO.

THE death, on Sept. 27th, at St. Michael's Hospital (where she had been for ten days suffering from a severe attack of typhoid fever), of Dr. Minerva M. Greenaway, removes one of the most accomplished and beloved lady doctors of the Dominion. The circumstances of her passing away are particularly sad, for it was only two weeks before that she returned to Toronto, after patiently nursing at her home in Tottenham her father and two sisters, who were suffering from the same disease, to which she herself succumbed, the father's illness proving fatal in spite of the careful attention of Dr. Greenaway.

The deceased lady was a graduate of the Women's Medical College in 1899, and took first-class honors at Trinity University. She afterwards took a post-graduate course for one year at a West Philadelphia Hospital. For the past five years she has carried on a successful practice in Toronto. Dr. Greenaway was a lecturer on the diseases of children at the Women's Medical College, Secretary of the Alumnae Association and lecturer to the nurses at the Orthopedic Hospital.

News of the Month.

THE NEW ONTARIO PROVINCIAL BOARD OF HEALTH.

THE composition of the new Provincial Board of Health was announced recently. It is as follows:

Dr. Charles Sheard, Medical Health Officer of the city of Toronto, who, it is understood, will be chairman.

Dr. Milton I. Beeman, of Newburgh, who has acted as Medical Health Officer for various municipalities in his district.

Dr. John W. S. McCullough, of Alliston, one of the Board of Examiners of the Ontario Medical Council.

Dr. C. Bernard Couglin, of Peterborough.

Dr. W. J. Robinson, of Guelph, Medical Health Officer of that city.

Dr. W. R. Hall, Medical Health Officer, of Chatham.

Dr. C. A. Hodgetts, the permanent secretary, will, of course, continue in that capacity with the new board. The term of the members outside of the secretary-is three years. The board holds regular quarterly meetings and special meetings when occasion demands it. The old board passed out of existence on August 21 of this year, and none of its members were reappointed.

The American Internationional Tuberculosis Congress. Notices have been sent to many physicians throughout the United States, and are appearing in the medical and public press regarding an "American International Tuberculosis Congress," to be held in New York City, November 14 to 16 next, and an association known as "The American Anti-Tuberculosis League," which is to meet in Atlantic City next June at the time of the meeting of the American Medical Association. It should be stated that the gathering in New York next November and the one in Atlantic City next June have no connection whatever with the International Congress on Tuberculosis, authorized at the last session in Paris in 1905, which will hold its meeting in Washington in 1908, under the auspices of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. (Prof. Adami, of Montreal, wishes it stated that he is not a member of this association, nor has he any connection with it.)

The Physician's Library.

A Manual of Medicine. By THOMAS KIRKPATRICK MONRO, M.A., M.D., Examiner to the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; Professor of Medicine in St. Mungo's College, etc., etc. Second Edition. 1906. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox. Canadian Agents: Carveth & Co. Price, $4.00.

Monro's Manual of Medicine occupies a place between a short treatise and a large text-book. The matter is brought well up to date, is presented in a clever and forcible style, and is not choked up with too much detail. The present edition is handsomely gotten up, well bound, and covers the whole range of general medicine, including a very good section on diseases of the skin. Among the infectious diseases a short account of the diseases more common to the topics is given, including Beri-Beri, Dengue, Weil's Disease, Yellow Fever, The Plague, Trypanosmiasis, etc. This chapter can be read in a very short time, and contains much that is instructive. The section on diseases of the nervous system is exceptionally complete and clearly written. The treatment of disease throughout is conservative, but due mention is made of all modern methods. The book would be very useful to students in the final years and young practitioners.

E. A. M'C.

Indications for Operation in Disease of the Internal Organs. By PROF. HERMANN SCHLESINGER, M.D., Extraordinary Professor of Medicine in the University of Vienna. Authorized English Translation by Keith W. Monsarrat, M.B., F.R.S.C., Ed. Surgeon to the Northern Hospital, Liverpool. Bristol: John Wright & Co. London: Simpkins, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited. 1906.

The author of the book, Professor Schlesinger, University of Vienna, states, that he was induced to write it by the fact that practitioners have frequently expressed to him a desire to possess some concise work, which would serve as a guide in determining the necessity for surgical intervention in diseases of the internal organs. He has written, therefore, essentially for the practitioner. In Canada, and in the United States most regular physicians are general practitioners, so that this work should be useful particularly to men not in hospital practice, in order to enable them to form an independent opinion as to the advisability of an operation in a case of internal lesion.

The author treats the diseases of the various organs of the human body in 456 pages. In Appendix I, he gives the indications for the Induction of Premature Labor, pp. 459-472.

In Appendix II, he treats of Operations on Diabetics, pp. 473476.

In Appendix III, he treats of the General Influence of Operations on the Body, pp. 477-490.

There is a full index, pp. 491-498. The English translation by Dr. Monsarret, Surgeon to the Northern Hospital, Liverpool, is well done.

J. J. C.

Anesthetics. A practical handbook, by J. BLUMFIELD, M.D. Cantab, Senior Anesthetist to St. George's Hospital, etc. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, publishers. 1906.

This handbook, which belongs to the "Medical Monograph Series," edited by David Walsh, M.D., deals very tersely with the "Nature and Action of the Common Anesthetics. Their chemical properties, the physiological points involved, the respiratory embarrassment, the various stages incident to anesthesia, the apparatus to be used, position of patient, methods of administrations, the merits and demerits of the different anesthetics, in brief all the factors that any one giving an anesthetic should be thoroughly familiar with, are discussed in an intelligent, practical and scientific manner, by an expert anesthetist.

J. H.

The Health-Care of the Baby. A Handbook for Mothers and Nurses. By LOUIS FISCHER, M.D. Author of "Infant Feeding in Health and Disease," "A Text-book on Diseases of Infancy and Childhood," Attending Physician to the Willard Parker and Riverside Hospitals; Former Instructor in Diseases of Children at the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, etc., etc. New York and London : Funk & Wagnalls Company. 1906.

This book is full of common sense. It does not go into the subject very deeply, but it goes into it in a way that will result in health to those children who are fortunate enough to have nurses that are familiar with this writer. It is a book full of suggestion which will be a comfort to every nurse and mother, and while it does not interfere in any way with what is considered proper medical treatment, wherever it is studied it will relieve the medical man in attendance from a great many of those little worries, which are simply the result of neglect on his part to give directions about things that he naturally considers the nurse and mother should understand. Every nurse should study this book, and a vast number will benefit by it.

A. J. J.