library, and provide for their circulation among the members of the State Medical Society who reside outside the city of Seattle on such terms and under such conditions as shall be agreed upon between the city council of Seattle and the medical society.

Dr. Thomson thought any member of a county medical society should be eligible to election in the state ociety.

Dr. Thomson thought the society had need of money, and that the society's money could not be put to a better use than to run the quacks out of the state.

It was recommended that a committee of three be appointed as a committee on legislation.

It was moved that $50 be set aside in accordance with resolution. Motion seconded and carried.

Dr. Coe-The papers of this session have been of unusual value, and it seems to me we should preserve them. We are in receipt of exchanges from nearly all of the medical socie ties, and I think these papers are of sufficient value to publish.

Dr. Willis moved that the committee on tuberculosis be continued during the year and be given enlarged scope for the education of the public by the dissemination of literature including the entire subject of tuberculosis, and that they be allowed to appoint sub-committees, and also that the same appropriation that was made last year, $50, be allowed to the committee. Motion seconded and carried.

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:Dr. H. W. Dewey, of Tacoma, president.

Dr. J. W. Hickman, vice-president.

Dr. T. W. Musgrove, of Fairhaven, second vice-president. Dr. Chas McCutcheon, of Tacoma, secretary.

Dr. J. W. Bean, of Ellensburgh, treasurer.

Board of Censors:-Dr. H. C. Willison, of Port Townsend; Dr. L. M. Sims, of Kalama; Dr. F. L. Goddard, of Fort Steilacoom; Dr. R. L. Thomson, of Spokane; and Dr. Wm. H. Axtel, of New Whatcom.

Dr. Dewey, on taking the chair as president, said that he thanked the society for the honor conferred upon him. the highest honor to which a medical man can aspire in the State of Washington, and he asked the assistance of all the members of the society in making the coming year a prosperous one, and to increase the membership at our next meeting as far as possible.

On behalf of the Pierce County Medical Society, he extended an invitation to the State Medical Society to hold its

next annual meeting in Tacoma, which on motion was duly accepted.

Dr. Thomson moved that we adjourn to meet the second Tuesday in May, 1899, at Tacoma.

Dr. Thomson moved that the secretary's salary be fixed at $50 for the coming year.

Dr. Willison moved a vote of thanks for the faithful manner in which our retiring officers have conducted the business of the society.

Dr. Wing asked if the persons who read papers had the privilege of publishing them in any magazine they desired. In reply the president read Article IV of the constitution, stating that the paper became the property of the society. Dr. Coe thought if the paper was the property of the society, it was for the society to dispose of it.

Dr. Musgrove hoped that all papers would be published in the journals as well as in the transactions of the society. He thought the paper was the property of the writer in that sense and he could have it published in a journal as well as in the proceedings of the society.

The president stated that the society certainly had the privilege of publishing any of these papers in its records; that he did not think there would be any objection whatever to an author of a paper sending it to any paper for publication: that when published of course the journal should state that it was read at the meeting of ...e state society, and if that, were done there could be no objection to their being published in as many medical journals as desired.

Dr. Thomson stated he thought the object of the appointment of the publication committee was to act as a board of censors to decide whether the papers were worthy to be published or not in the transactions of the society.

On motion the society adjourned to meet the second Tuesday of May, 1899.

BOOK REVIEW.

A System of Practical Medicine. By American Authors. Edited by Alfred Lee Loomis, M. D., late Professor of Pathology and Practical Medicine in he New York University Medical College, New York, and Wm. Gillman Thompson, M. D., Professor of Medicine in Cornell University Medical College, New York. In four imperial octavo volumes. Volume IV-Diseases of the Nerv

ous System and Mind; Vasomotor and Trophic Disorders; Diseases of the Muscles; Osteo-Malacia; Racaitis; Rheumatism; Arthritis; Gout; Lithæmia; Obesity; Scurvy; Addison's Disease. 1099 pages, 95 engravings, and 8 full-page plates in colors and monochrome. For sale by subscription. Per volume, cloth, $5.00; leather, $6.00; half morocco, $7.00. Lea Brothers & Co., publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1898.

It was indeed a happy plan, happily consummated, when the fourth and last volume of this "System of Practical Medicine" was given to the profession. The plan of the entire work was a happy one, because it afforded an opportunity for the compilation in the extended work, of the science of practical medicine as it is in these closing months of the present century. In the selection of section authorities again was the plan of this excellent work marvelously consummated, for every man whose name stands forth in the list of contributors is an artist in his own line, and that by the said representatives not only requires a vast amount of personal observation in completing the outside knowledge to the present moment, but also a vast accumulation of personal experiences almost incomparable. The present volume, although the end of the series, is really a complete book in itself upon nervous diseases and a few other branches of the science of medicine. Dr. Frederick G. Finley, associate professor of clinical medicine in the McGill University, occupies the opening chapters upon diseases of the peripheral nerves, while Dr. M. Allan Starr gives a diagnosis and localization of spinal-cord diseases, and anterior poliomyelitis. Dr. Edward D. Fisher, also all the acute and chronic myelites, Landry's paralysis. Dr. D. D. Stewart, posterior, primary, lateral and postero-lateral and spinal sclerosis, while Dr. Christian A. Herter writes on diseases of the medulla and pons, syphilis of the cord and of heredity ataxic paraplegia, spinal progressive muscular atropy, syphilis, tumors, and malformations of the spinal cord, syringo-myelia and diseases of the medulla and pons. If we were to mention any section of the book as better than anything else in it, we might be safe in saying that the chapters on diseases of the brain, encephalitis, multiple sclerosis, chronic hydrocephalus, abscess and atrophy of the brain, by J. T. Eskridge, M. D., should be given the palm. Drs. F. X. Dercum, F. T. Miles, Frederick Petersen, C. L. Dana, Wharton Sinkler, Landon Carter Gray and Fierce Bailey write on various topics under the subject of nervous diseases, giving the pook by their very names an element of value which win bring many readers. Dr. J. J. Putnam writes a full chapter on neurasthenia, while Dr. Morton Price gives his well known views on traumatic neruoses. Several writers have excellent chapters in the book in addition to nervous diseases on miscellaneous subjects. Osteomalacia, rhachitis, rheumatism, gonorrhoea, gout, lithmia, obesity, Addison's disease, come in for liberal treatment. One cannot fail to be well pleased with this excellent volume, and to say of Messrs. Lea Bros. & Co. that the present is one of the works in medicine which will make the name of this house illustrious for many years.

A Guide to the Clinical Examination and Treatment of Sick Children. By John Thompson, M. D., Extra Physician to the Royal Hospita. for Sick Children, London; Lecturer on Diseases of Children, Edinburgh School of Medicine. In one crown octavo volume of 350 pages with 52 illustrations. Cloth, $1.75 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia, publishers, Philadelphia and New York.

A well-written and thoroughly competent volume on diagnosis and treatment that will enrich the literature of paediatrics. It is compact, the style and diction exemplary, and on the whole it is modern and authoritative.

The author has approached the subject through the field of clinical medicine and has added much that is new and original. The article on physiognomical diagnosis, that is, the study of the appearance and expression of the child's face and the attitude of its body and limbs, is especially commendable. Many photographs of diseased states are introduced to elucidate the text. A careful perusal will not fail to indicate to the student the royal roau to a successful practice among children.

A Text-Book of Practical Therapeutics. With especial Reference to the Application of Remedial Measures to Disease and their Employment upon a Rational Basis. By Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. With special chapters by Drs. G. E. de Schweinitz, Edward Martin and Barton C. Hirst. New (seventh) edition. In one octavo volume of 770 pages, illustrated. Cloth, $3.75; leather, $4.50 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York.

Medical readers everywhere will be gladdened by the announcement of this new (seventh) edition of Professor Hare's "Practical Therapeutics."The first appearance of this volume, seven years ago, filled a long-felt want, and its steady progress in scientific excellence ever since has made it the constant friend of the successful practitioner everywhere. So firmly established has it become in the professional mind, by reason of the convenience of reference and the rational classification of drugs, that no similar work can ever hope to rival it and certainly not to replace it.

The book is practically in two parts, one devoted to drugs and other remedial measures, and the other to diseases, each being arranged alphabetically for easy reference and case study. The author was the first to recognize the importance of bringing together in a reliable textbook the lessons taught by bedside experience and the results of laboratory methods. This ingenious plan and masterly execution in diction affords an easy acquisition of medical lore, and accounts largely for the phenomenal success that this work has received at the hands of physicians and students. Several prominent specialists have contributed valuable articles in their lines of work, namely, De Schweinitz, on the

treatment of diseases of the eye; Edward Martin, treatment of venereal diseases; Barton Hirst, on the puerperal state, and J. Howard Reeves, on the upper air passages. The book has been thoroughly revised, and to make it more complete, the preparations of the British Pharmacopoeia have been introduced, together with a dose-list of drugs, official and unofficial.

Juvenile Offenders. By Wm. Douglas Morrison, editor of Crime and Its Causes, The Jews in Rome, etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1897. 320 pages. Price, cloth $1.50.

The study of the born criminal can not be very well pursued without a thorough reading of this present volume. Perhaps nothing has been written upon the subject of crime in youth which has attracted so much attention as this little book of Dr. Morrison's, and certainly nothing has been said relative to the treatment o. juvenile offenders, and the employments of methods looking to the transformation of the young criminal into a useful citizen as valuable as the present volume. If anything is to be done for the criminal class the work must be done while the child is young, for if criminal habits can be abstained from in youth, as stated by the author, the individual is not likely to take up crime as a trade later in life. We commend the work for careful reading.

An American Text-Book on the Diseases of Children, Including Special Chapters on Essential Surgical Subjects: Orthopaedics; Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases of the Skin; and on the Diet, Hygiene and General Management of Children. By American Teachers, edited by Louis Starr, M. D., Consulting Pædiatrist to the Maternity Hospital, Philadelphia; late Clinical Professor of the Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Member of the Association of American Physicians, and of the American Pædiatric Society; Fellow of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, etc. Assisted by Thomas Westcott, M. D., Instructor in Diseases of Children, University of Pennsylvania: Visiting Physician to the Methodist Episcopal Hospital: Physician to the Dispensary of the Children's Hospital; Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and Member of the American Pædiatric Society. Second edition revised. Philadelphia. W. B. Saunders, 1898. Price, cloth, $7.00; sheep. or one-ha.. morocco, $8.00.

Since Keating's work on Diseases of Children, numerous smaller works upon pædiatrics or some of its branches have been published from time to time. There is no subject in medicine which is of more importance than that of diseases of children, for if we consider for a moment we must see that nearly if not quite one-half the sickness for which doctors are called to treat is found in those who are young.