Liver;" "Cerebrospinal Meningitis;" "International Defense against Tuberculosis;" "Meningeal Hemorrhages."

Section of Pediatrics.-"Spastic Affections of Infancy; Classification and Pathogenesis;" "Cerebrospinal Meningitis, Etiology and Treament;" "The Social Struggle Against Rickets;' Orthopedic Surgery in Affections of Nervous Origin, Spastic and Paralytic;" "Congenital Dislocation of the Hip;" "The Treatment of Abdominal Tuberculosis (peritoneal)."

Neurology, Psychiatry, and Criminal Anthropology.-"Penal Reform from the Anthropologic and Psychiatric Point of View;" "Forms and Pathogenesis of Dementia Praecox;" "The Relations of Progressive Muscular Atrophy to Charcot's Disease;" "Cerebral Localization in Mental Disease;" "Education and Crime;" "Stigmata of Degeneration and Crime."

Section of Surgery.-"Septic Peritoneal Infections; Classification and Treatment;" "Gastro-intestinal and Intestino-intestinal Anastomoses;" "Recent Additions to Arterial and Venous Surgery."

Section of Medicine and Surgery of the Urinary Organs.-"Surgical Intervention in Bright's Disease;" "Surgical Treatment of Prostato-Vesical Tuberculosis;” “Progress of Urology in the Diagnosis of Renal Disease;" "Painful Cystides."

Section of Ophthalmology.-"Blepharoplasty;" "Serotherapy in Ophthalmology."

Section of Laryngology, Rhinology, Otology, and Stomatology.-"Study of the Opileptogenous Action of Foreign Bodies in the Ear and of Vegetations in the Naso-pharynx;" "The Different Forms of Suppuration of the Maxillary Sinus;" "Injections of Paraffin in Rhinology;" "Differential Diagnosis of Tubercular, Syphilitic, and Cancerous Lesions of the Larynx;" "Choice of Anesthesia in the Extraction of Teeth;" "Treatment of Alveolar Suppuration."

Section of Obstetrics and Gynecology.—“Conservative Surgery of the Ovaries;" "Tuberculosis of the Adnexa;" "Symphisiotomy;" "Pregnancy and Cancer of the Uterus;" "Therapy of Puerperal Infections."

Section of Hygiene and Epidemiology.—“The Intermediary of Yellow Fever;" "The Co-operation of Nations to Prevent the Importation of Yellow Fever and the Pest;" "Watering the Streets as a Means against Tuberculosis;" "Recent Additions to the Etiology and Epidemiology of Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis."

Section of Military Medicine.-"Portable Ration of the Soldier during Campaign;" "The Purifying of the Country Manor;" "Emergency Hospitals on the Battlefield."

Section of Legal Medicine.-"Signs of Death from Drowning;" "Ecchymoses in Legal Medicine;" "Epilepsy in Legal Medicine;" "Organization of Medico-legal services."

Section of Colonial and Naval Medicine.-"Etiology and Prophylaxis of Beri-beri;" "Etiology and Prophylaxis of Dysentery in Hot Countries;" "Mental Diseases in Tropical Countries;" "Hospital Ships and Their Function in Time of War;" "Tuberculosis in the Navy and its Prophylaxis."

A RECOGNIZED AUTHORITY OF THERAPEUTICS makes the following state

ment:

"In treating acute and chronic rheumatism I regard the patient in much the same light as the surgeon does an infected cavity, the all-important necessity being drainage in both instances. Whether the drainage is for the purpose of eliminating a germ or its toxic product, or the toxic product of a faulty metabolism, the economy demands an elimination of the detrimental substance before results from medication may be expected.

"We should then institute a system of drainage especially from the skin, kidneys and bowels."

Tongaline is constructed on exactly these principles, since in addition to the anodyne and sedative properties of the tonga and cimicifuga, the anti-rheumatic and diuretic properties of salicylic acid made from the natural oil of wintergreen, there is the cathartic action of the colchicum and the diaphoretic action of the pilocarpin.

Hence in Tongaline we have the ideal eliminant, and no remedial agent will enable you to correct more promptly and thoroughly rheumatism, neuralgia, grip, gout, headaches, sciatica, and lumbago.

TREATMENT OF GENITO-URINARY TROUBLES.-Cystitis being the most frequent of the chronic inflammations of the urinary tract, we may take it as an example for consideration. My experience with hundreds of these cases taught me to always examine the urine closely. From a therapeutic standpoint, we are not interested so much as to just where the irritation is located as we are in what will cure the patient. In these cases I have prescribed cystogen, which has a direct action upon the mucous membrane of the genito-urinary tract. Formaldehyde is liberated in the urine, and the whole tract from the glomerulus of the kidney to the meatus is bathed with a solution of formaldehyde, this preventing the formation of pus, allaying irritation, and overcoming decomposition. Cystogen aperient was prescribed in many cases. This is an effervescent salt of cystogen, containing phosphate of soda, and its administration was followed by marked improvement in all cases. Cystogen aperient should be prescribed when a laxative is desired in connection with the therapeutic effect of the drug.-Brose S. Horn, M. D., in Charlotte Medical Journal.

THE TRI-STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF ALABAMA, GEORGIA AND TENNESSEE.-The Executive Committee of the Tri-State Medical Society has selected Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September 26, 27 and 28, as the dates for the seventeenth annual meeting at Chattanooga. A rate of one fare for the round trip has been secured on account of the fall meeting of the Chattanooga Fair Association, which organization will have a horse show and many other attractions from September 26 to 30. Those desiring to read papers should send letter to the Secretary, Dr. Raymond Wallace, Chattanooga. The President has appointed the following chairmen of committees: Arrangements, W. L. Nolen, Chattanooga; Sociology, R. R. Kime, Atlanta; Credentials, B. S. Wert, Chattanooga.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS.-This Association will hold its eighteenth annual meeting at the Hotel Astor, Longacre Square, New York, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September 19, 20 and 21, 1905.

Dr. Robert T. Morris, 616 Madison Avenue, Chairman; Dr. Samuel W. Bandler, 229 West Ninety-seventh Street, and Dr. James N. West, 71 West Forty-ninth Street, constitute the local committee of arrangements, one or all of whom will gladly furnish information to members and guests upon application.

PONCA COMPOUND will prove an invaluable agent in the treatment of functional, uterine, and ovarian disorders.

NOTICE: Armour and Company announce their readiness to furnish the parathyroid substance in powdered form, in one drachm vials, at $1.50 per drachm.

The parathyroid glands are very small, and so hard to get out that the material can be supplied only in very small quantities.

The parathyroid substance has been suggested in the treatment of paralysis agitans, exophthalmic goiter, etc.

DR. T. D. CROTHERS, of Hartford, Conn., Superintendent of Walnut Lodge Hospital, and editor of the Journal of Inebriety, has accepted an invitation to deliver the first oration in the Norman Kerr Memorial Lectureship, at London, England, October 10, 1905. Dr. Kerr will be remembered as an eminent London physician who made a special study of inebriety, alcoholism, and other drug disorders. He wrote several excellent books on this subject, and was instrumental in securing the enactment of laws for the control of inebriates, and the promotion of hospitals for their care, throughout Great Britain. He founded the British Society for the Study of Inebriety in 1884, and this society and his friends

have organized a memorial lectureship for yearly orations on his life and work. It is a very pleasant recognition of the progress of medical science in this country, that an American physician should be invited to deliver the first lecture.

DR. Q. CINCINNATUS SMITH, for many years an active practitioner of Austin, Tex., an occasional most welcome contributor to this journal, has recently moved to San Diego, Cal. We wish him and his wife the most unalloyed happiness and continued prosperity in their new home. To the citizens of San Diego and of the Pacific Slope we can most heartily commend them.

RELIEF IN NEURALGIA AND GIRDLE PAINS.-The efficiency of antikamnia tablets in neuralgia is beyond dispute, and is well illustrated by the following case. An old nurse who had suffered from severe neuralgia at intervals for many years, and whose hair had become gray on one side of her head from this cause expressed herself as having gained more relief from antikamnia tablets than from all of the many medicines which had been prescribed for her. For pain about the head from almost any cause, antikamnia tablets always have undoubted preference over all other coal-tar preparations. They are a useful adjuvant in the treatment of migraine, and the headaches of school children promptly yield to moderate doses.

In cases of organic spinal disease they proved of considerable value. A woman of fifty-two, with transverse myelitis (complete paraplegia) found them reliable for controlling the very annoying girdle pain. Two or three doses of one tablet each, within twenty-four hours, were sufficient to make the pain endurable. In another case, where there was the girdle sensation connected with its earlier history, and numbness and paræsthesia of the lower extremities existed, one antikamnia tablet was given three times a day along with a regular potassium iodide treatment. The observation of this case has extended over eighteen months, and at no time has the progress been so satisfactory as during the last six weeks, in which she has taken antikamnia tablets regularly.

FAR BETTER THAN OPIUM OR MORPHIA.-N. B. Shade, M. D., late editor North American Medical Review, Washington, D. C., says, in the Medical Examiner and Practitioner:

"Papine is derived from the concrete juice of the unripe capsules of Papaver somniferum, U. S. Pharmacopoeia. Physicians who have tested the virtue of papine in their practice have given evidence that it contains all the medicinal value of opium, with all its bad qualities eliminated. Papine has none of the bad after effects of opium, morphia, laudanum,

paregoric, etc. I positively declare and insist that the physician who once gives papine a trial cannot be persuaded to deprive his patients of the great benefit of this agency to relieve pain, an implement of precision which is perfectly harmless to the patient."

STEGOMYIA FASCIATA has produced an epidemic of yellow fever in certain sections of Louisiana and adjoining states.

Stegomyia punctata has inoculated thousands with virulent malarial germs throughout the balance of the Mississippi Valley.

Tongaline, Mellier, in one of its forms as indicated, antagonizes and destroys the effects of these parasites on account of its extraordinary eliminative action on the liver, the bowels, the kidneys, and the pores, whereby the poison is promptly and thoroughly expelled.

COLLARGOLUM IN URETHRITIS.-Since publishing a note on the use of Collargolum for urethrovesical lavage, Dr. Tansard, of Prof. Balzer's service at Hospital St. Louis, in Paris, has successfully employed it in numerous cases. Thus by means of two daily auto-irrigations with a quart of a 1:500 Collargolum solution, a urethritis that had persisted for several months was cured in ten days. There was never the least irritation.

In old and chronic urethritis with profound lesions of the mucosa and periurethral cysts, the following method gave excellent results: Massage on a Benique, 55 or 60 sound; urethral lavage with antiseptic solution; and finally a permanent injection of 30 to 45 minims of a 4 per cent. Collargolum solution, the urethra being closed with cotton. This did especially good service in a case of over two years' standing, which resisted all other treatment. Four cases were all cured within eighteen days. In three others he alternated, with good result, Collargolum irrigations with oxycyanide of mercury lavage.

Tansard further treated acute gonorrheas with oxycyanide of mercury until the discharge had nearly dried up, and then gave Collargolum instillation, the filaments disappearing from the urine after five to eight of them. Ten cases of chronic urethritis, some more than three years old, did not remain under observation until cured; but in all the gonococcus disappeared after less than thirty instillations, though there were still filaments in the morning urine.

In six gonorrheal cystites about I dram of a 4 per cent. solution was injected daily into the bladder. In five every vesical symptom disappeared within eight days; the sixth, which was very violent, remained unimproved after ten days, and was put on silver nitrate, which acted no better.

Tansard concludes that Collargolum is an important anti-gonorrheaic, both in acute and chronic cases. It acts as rapidly as the silver salts.