so great an amount of material, but will be as useful to the general practitioner as to the surgeon and specialist.

Professor J. B. Warbasse describes a most wonderful case, which would be hard to believe but for the illustrations accompanying his article. Valuable papers, illustrated in colors, are presented by Dr. Watson, of the Boston City Hospital; Dr. Scudder, of the Massachusetts General Hospital; Dr. Brewer, of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City; and Dr. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn. The other papers are also fully illustrated with black half-tones made from the original drawings and photographs.

No advance has been made from the usual price of 50 cents per copy. This number will be sent free with every subscription for 1905, received before February 1, 1905, so long as the issue is in print.

To secure this special number, send your order at once to J. B. Lippincott Co., Washington Square, Philadelphia, Pa., Publishers of the Annals of Surgery.

TIRED, WORN-OUT NERVES.-The uniformity, reliability, and promptness of action of Daniel's Conct. Tinct. Passiflora Incarnata as a nerve sedative and hypnotic in hysteria, nervous headache, restlessness, and epilepsy, make it the best preparation on the market to-day. In the case of a boy nine years old, suffering from angina pectoris, Passiflora quieted the heart's action, toned the nervous system and gave satisfactory results when nothing seemed to give relief.

In sleeplessness from extreme nervousness, due to overwork, Passiflora causes the nervous system to be relaxed and the nervousness to gradually disappear. It is the ideal remedy for tired, worn-out nerves.

A physician who had treated a dangerous case of tetanus concluded with this remark, "Convulsions frequent and severe were controlled with Daniel's Passiflora."

LYNNHURST SANITARIUM.

We take pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to this new institution recently established at Memphis, and under the management of Dr. S. T. Rucker, formerly of this city and Chattanooga. The sanitarium is situated in one of the most beautiful suburbs of the "Bluff City," with two main buildings for male and female patients, set back fully one hundred yards in a spacious lawn well set in grass, with a number of large forest trees. There are in all forty-five well ventilated and lighted rooms, handsomely and appropriately furnished, with electric lights, heated by a most excellent system of hot water radiators, with hot and cold water in each, each supplied with every needed convenience, and communicating with the main office by electric bell.

It is a private home, possessing superior advantages for the care and

treatment of the various forms of nervous and mental disease alcoholic and narcotic cases not received. All necessary apparatus for hydrotherapeutics, electricity, dry hot air, manual and mechanical massage and psycho-therapy, together with ample provision for modified rest cure, special dietetics, in- and out-door exercise, amusements, etc., are new, modern, up-to-date and admirably arranged.

In The Southern Medicine and Surgery of Chattanooga, for January, we find an editorial endorsing Dr. Rucker as "thoroughy capable of carrying on such a work," in which we most heartily concur. He proposes to, and we know will, carry on his work in a thoroughly ethical manner. He was a member of and Treasurer of the Hamilton Co. and Chattanooga Medical Society, and is now a member of the Nashville Academy of Medicine, of the Tennessee State, and the American Medical Associations.

NORWOOD'S TINCTURE OF VERATRUM VIRIDE.- Long recognized as a most valuable adjuvant in treating acute inflammatory affections, of more recent years it has almost come to be regarded as a "specific" in the treatment of puerperal eclampsia. The Shaker's Society of Mount Lebanon, N. Y., now makes "Norwood's Tincture" of unquestioned purity and reliability, and of uniform strength.

Veratrum Viride (Norwood) is entirely nontoxic. Dr. Norwood used the preparation himself in an extensive practice of thirty-six years, and stated that it was destitute of all poisonous effects in any size dose. Dr. Percy, of New York, who was awarded a gold medal by the U. S. Medical Society, reports many cases in which this preparation was used. Never in a single instance was the effect anything but beneficial. Veratrum Viride has the endorsement of many of the best men of the American profession.

LA GRIPPE AND ITS SEQUELE AGAIN PREVALENT.-The following suggestions for the treatment of la grippe will not be amiss at this time when there seems to be a prevalence of it and its allied complaints. The patient is usually seen when the fever is present, as the chill, which occasionally ushers in the disease, has generally passed away. First of all. the bowels should be opened freely by some saline draught. For the severe headache, pain, and general soreness give an antikamnia tablet, with a little whiskey or wine, or if the pain is very severe, two tablets should be given. Repeat every two or three hours as required. Often a single dose is followed with almost complete relief. If, after the fever has subsided, the pain, muscular soreness, and nervousness continue, the most desirable medicine to relieve these and to meet the indication for a tonic, are antikamnia and quinine tablets. One tablet three or four times a day, will usually answer every purpose until health is restored. Dr.

C. A. Bryce, editor of The Southern Clinic, has found much benefit to result from antikamnia and salol tablets in the stages of pyrexia and muscular painfulness, and antikamnia and codeine tablets are suggested for the relief of all neuroses of the larynx, bronchial as well as the deep seated coughs, which are so often among the most prominent symptoms. In fact, for the troublesome coughs which so frequently follow or hang on after an attack of influenza, and as a winter remedy in the troublesome conditions of the respiratory tract, there is no better relief than one or two antikamnia and codeine tablets slowly dissolved upon the tongue, swallowing the saliva.

OBITUARY.-We regret exceedingly to learn of the recent death of Mr. Wm. Gilmore, of Cincinnati, who has for a number of years been at the head of the Wayne Elixir Co., and who has placed many members of the regular profession under obligations to him by means of this most excellent diuretic combination. He leaves a number of warm friends in this city and throughout the South to regret his demise. Kind, genial, courteous and modest, he was a true gentleman in every sense of the word, and in his business habits he was strictly reliable and of unquestioned integrity. His son, Mr. P. M. Gilmore, will, we understand, continue the business of Wayne's Elixir Co.

RUTHERFORD COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.-At the December meeting of this Society the following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing year: President, Dr. E. H. Jones; Vice-President, Dr. E. C. Freas; Secretary, Dr. Rufus Pitts; Treasurer, Dr. Vernon K. Earthman.

Dr. E. C. Freas was elected delegate to the next meeting of the Tennessee State Medical Association, with Dr. H. C. Rees, alternate.

Dr. J. B. Murfree, Sr., was re-elected a member of the Board of Censors.

NEW ORLEANS POLYCLINIC:- Eighteenth Annual Session opens November 7, 1904, and closes May 20, 1905. Physicians will find the Polyclinic an excellent means for posting themselves upon modern progress in al! branches of medicine and surgery. The specialties are fully taught, including laboratory and cadaveric work.

For further information address, New Orleans Polyclinic, Post-office box 797, New Orleans, La.

THE USEFULNESS OF GOOD HYPOPHOSPHITES in Pulmonary and Strumous affections is generally agreed upon by the Profession.

We commend to the notice of our readers the advertisement on advertising page 17 of this number. "Robinson's Hypophosphites" is an elegant and uniformly active preparation; the presence of Quinine, Strychnine, Iron, etc., adding highly to the tonic value.

FOR SALE. Nice residence in convenient, elegant part of the city of Austin, Tex., for $2,500 cash; good practice, and office in business part of city thrown in; wish to retire from practice; great bargain. Address Dr. Q. C. Smith, 617 Colorado St., Austin, Texas.

Reviews and Book Notices.

SAUNDERS' QUESTION COMPENDS :- - ESSENTIALS OF BACTERIOLOGY. By M. V. Ball, M. D., formerly Resident Physician at the German Hospital, Philadelphia. Fifth Edition, Thoroughly Revised. By Carl M. Vogel, M. D., Assistant Pathologist at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), New York. 12mo volume of 343 pages, with 96 illustrations, some in colors, and six plates. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1904. Cloth, $1.00 net. Within the last few years rapid progress in Bacteriology has involved many radical changes in the science, necessitating a thorough revision in the preparation of this edition. It is with pleasure we note the inclusion of all the recent advances in the subject of Immunity, Tuberculosis, Yellow Fever, Dysentery, Bubonic Plague, and other infectious diseases, making the work reflect as faithfully as possible the present status of Bacteriology. We can confidently say that this book in the present fifth edition will be found of inestimable service to the student.

SAUNDERS' QUESTION COMPends :— Essentials of NERVOUS DISEASES AND INSANITY: Their Symptoms and Treatment. By John C. Shaw, M. D., late Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, Long Island College Hospital Medical School. Fourth Edition, Thoroughly Revised. By Smith Ely Jelliffe, Ph. G., M. D., Clinical Assistant, Columbia University, Department of Neurology; Visiting Neurologist, City Hospital, New York. 12mo volume of 196 pages, fully illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1904. Cloth, $1.00 net.

Of the progress made in every branch of medicine during the last few years, none has been more prominent than that considering diseases of the nervous system and of the mind. Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, therefore, in making the revision for this new fourth edition, has found it necessary to recast the work entirely, bringing the order of arrangement in accord with the

present knowledge of these important subjects. Quite a commendable change in arrangement is the grouping of subjects in such a way as to bring out the natural relations of affiliated nervous disorders. This will be found of great service to the student.

In the section on Disorders of the Mind, the general views of such leading psychologists as Ziehen, Weygandt, Kaepeln, Berkeley, and Peterson have been carefully weighed. This new fourth edition is well worthy our recommendation and we give it most heartily.

TOXICOLOGY (Lea's Medical Epitome Series).- A Manual for Students and Practitioners, by Edward W. Dwight, M. D., Instructor in Legal Medicine, Harvard University. Edited by Victor C. Pederson, A. M., M. D. 12mo, cloth, pp. 298. Price $1.00. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1904.

This little volume is a most excellent compendium of the facts in connection with toxicology, which should be a part of the knowledge of every practitioner of medicine.. It will prove of especial value to students of medicine, for whose benefit a series of practical questions are placed at the end of each chapter.

DISEASES OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES and the allied and resultant conditions, with modern methods of diagnosis and treatment. Lectures to general practitioners by Boardman Reed, M. D., Philadelphia, Pa., Professor of Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract, Hygiene and Climatology in the Department of Medicine of Temple College, Philadelphia, Attending Physician to the Samaritan Hospital, Member of the American Medical Association, American Climatological Association, American Academy of Medicine, American Electro-Therapeutic Association, Foreign Member of the French Societe d' Electrotherapie, etc. 8vo, cloth, pp. 1024. Price, cloth, $5.00 net; half morocco, $6.00. Sent by express or mail on receipt of price. E. B. Treat & Co., Publishers, 241 - 243 W. 23rd St., New York, 1904.

This octavo volume of 1024 pages embraces a full account of the simplest and least disturbing methods of determining the character of the motor secretory and excretory work of the principal organs having a part in the processes of digestion and metabolism, by examinations of the stomach contents, feces, blood, urine, etc.; together with a full exposition of the subject of diet