IDIOCYNCRASY OR SOME OTHER REASON.- We meet with many cases in practice suffering intensely from pain, where for an idiosyncrasy or some other reason it is not advisable to give morphine or opium by the mouth or morphine hypodermically, but frequently these very cases take kindly to codeia, and when assisted by Antikamnia its action is all that could be desired.

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NEUROTIC DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD.- Including a Study of Auto and Intestinal Intoxications, Chronic Anemia, Fever, Eclampsia, Epilepsy, Migraine, Chorea, Hysteria, Asthma, etc. By B. K. RACHFORD, M. D., Professor of Diseases of Children, Medical College of Ohio, University of Cincinnati; Pediatrist to the Cincinnati Good Samaritan and Jewish Hospitals; Member of American Pediatric Society; Association of American Physicians, etc. New York: E. B. Treat & Company. Price, $2.75.

Nervous diseases are not so well understood by the average general practitioner as their importance and frequency demand; and the specialist is entirely too often depended on, when with a reasonable amount of reading and study of such a work as Dr. Rachford has given us, this will in a large number of cases not be required. This work will be of great service not only to the general practitioner, who so often is met by conditions which, if promptly treated as they should be, will in many instances add no little to his hold upon his clientele; but will prove a boon to many a little sufferer who otherwise would be treated in a doubtful and uncertain manner, until, becoming uneasy, special advice and consultation is sought.

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Selections.

THE SENN BANQUET

(TESTIMONIAL BANQUET AND PRESENTATION OF MEDALLION AND LOVING CUPA SPLENDID TRIBUTE OF PRAISE AND ESTEEM FROM THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.)

From the Journal of the American Medical Assoc., Nov. 18, 1905. A TESTIMONIAL banquet was given to Dr. Nicholas Senn, Chicago, at the Auditorium Hotel, Saturday evening, Nov. II, 1905.

There was an attendance of 686, and from forty to fifty physicians, approximately, were turned away because proper accommodations could not be provided for them—a matter of great

There were repre

regret to the committee of arrangements. sentatives present from twenty States. Dr. William A. Evans, Chicago, acted as toastmaster. Messages of congratulation were read from several prominent physicians in different parts of the United States, who regretted their inability to attend this notable event.

Dr. Joseph D. Bryant, New York City, presented a gold medallion to Dr. Senn, miniature replicas of which were distributed among those in attendance. On one side of the medallion was a likeness of Dr. Senn; on the other the inscription: "To Nicholas Senn, the Master Surgeon, from his Fellows, November 11, 1905." Dr. L. G. Nolte, Milwaukee, Wis., presented Dr. Senn with a silver loving cup, given by his former private pupils.

Between the speeches were interspersed musical selections by the Swiss Quartette and singing by the banqueters, Dr. Norval H. Pierce leading. Drs. Fernand Henrotin, Daniel R. Brower, Jacob Lang, and William E. Quine related very amusing and interesting anecdotes about Dr. Senn. Addresses were made by Drs. Witherspoon and McMurtry.

The occasion was a memorable one. Good fellowship prevailed, and Dr. Senn, the center of attraction, received a tremendous ovation.

Toastmaster Evans, after calling the meeting to order, said that, in a certain sense, this testimonial to Professor Senn is not the result of Chicago effort, but represents the spontaneous sentiment of the profession of the Mississippi Valley. Viewing the matter from that standpoint, he said there was no reason why a word of welcome should not be said to any man within the sound of his voice. But, on the other hand, there are many men who have journeyed to Chicago from afar in order to add their testimony, their presence, and their words to the testimonial that is given by those who live in the city of Chicago. In behalf of the central committee of arrangements, he extended a welcome to the visiting physicians from the Mississippi Valley, from the Eastern seaboard, from the Gulf States, and from the States of the Pacific. While Professor Senn is the beneficiary of

this meeting, we are no less gainers by it. This is a series of banquets started some years ago, and there are hundreds present who remember how a similar banquet served to sustain the declining years of a man whom the profession all honored, and there are those who every day make acknowledgement of the fact that at that selfsame moment this section of the country was made a better land to live in and a better land in which to practice medicine. Dr. Evans referred to the banquets given to Christian Fenger and N. S. Davis, after which he introduced Dr. Joseph D. Bryant, New York City, who presented Dr. Senn with the gold medallion.

Dr. Bryant said that he knew of nothing that gives him greater comfort than to be able to fulfil the humble position that he was requested to do, the opportunity of spanning, by a few sincere, honest words of affection and praise, the brief interval between the bestowal of a token of distinguished regard and its acceptance by Dr. Senn, whom the profession so much delight to honor. It is fitting that one whose professional career began about the time of that of Dr. Senn should be chosen for this gracious purpose; one whose effort to emulate his achievements added much to the total of his own; one whose respect for him, begotten of years of friendly intercourse, has deposited in his heart a regard for him that knoweth no abatement.

Along the pathway of medical endeavor for nearly a quarter of a century noted and enduring examples illustrative of the wise forethought and generous co-operation are seen in the cause of advanced standing. Instances of his surgical technic foretell notable results that now proclaim great surgical triumphs. The organization of military medicine, of no recent date, has yielded an abundant harvest because of his early conceptions and continued earnest culture. The books made by him, those given by him, will testify, respectively, to the bright sunshine of active life and the sombre shadow of recollection. Human afflictions, which before his time yielded only to indomitable fate, now yield to the outcome of the inspiration of his teaching and the handiwork of his technic. Long-deferred and defeated hopes are now revealed in the happy opportunities contributed by the saving