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schools in Brooklyn since the 18th of last September because of eye disease, and throughout the entire city six thousand three hundred forty-seven pupils were dismissed because of some disease of the organ of vision. The Gouverneur Hospital was recently transformed into a hospital for the accommodation of patients afflicted with ophthalmic diseases, and within ten days over two thousand cases of trachoma in school children were received for treatment. Upward of one hundred operations were performed, and more were considered necessary but the great number of patients precluded operative procedure on other than the most severe cases.

IN MEMORIAM.

IN the prime of manhood, at the zenith of his success, in the midst of a wide field of usefulness and endeavor, Doctor Hugo Lupinski departed this life, April 7, 1903; and,

Whereas, In the death of Doctor Lupinski the Academy of Medicine of Grand Rapids, as a whole and individually, has suffered an irreparable loss, in that his loyalty to the principles upheld by the Academy was unflinching, and his ability as a scientific physician lent value and dignity to its meetings; and,

Whereas, The community at large as well has lost a true citizen and a faithful public servant, possessed of strong convictions and the courage of them;

Be it therefore resolved, That we, the Academy of Medicine and members of this community, do hereby express our sense of loss and sorrow, in a full realization of the good works and noble traits of character of our lamented colleague and brother; and,

Be it resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the records. of the Academy, and that copies be furnished to the medical press, within the judgment of the Secretary of this society, and to the sorrowing family of Doctor Lupinski, in evidence of our sympathy and grief.

Signed,

CHARLES E. HOOKER, Chairman.
HENRY HULST.

PERRY SHURTZ.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, April 22, 1903.

MINOR INTELLIGENCE.

THE "Cure of Bilateral Cystic Kidneys with Autopsy" is the novel treatment announced for that renal condition in the program of papers recently issued by a progressive Michigan medical society.

DOCTOR THOMAS B. COOLEY is in charge of the recently established Pasteur Institute at the University of Michigan. The regents have appropriated the sum of three thousand dollars per year to maintain this department for the treatment of hydrophobia.

CONGRESS recently passed a bill allowing Mrs. Emily Lawrence Reed, the widow of the late Major Walter Reed, of the United States. Army, a pension of one hundred twenty-five dollars per month.

DOCTOR FREDERICK MUELLER, the assistant to Professor Lorenz, has returned to this country from Europe. He will become a resident of Chicago, in which city he will have charge of an orthopedic hospital.

FIFTY thousand dollars have been donated by Mr. T. Sutton Timmis, of Liverpool, for the study of the cause and cure of cancer. The investigations will be made at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary and the laboratories of the University College at Liverpool.

DOCTOR KOULIABKO, of Saint Petersburg, who maintains that the heart of warm blooded animals can be made to beat as long as fortyfour hours after death, recently succeeded in producing contraction of a heart which was removed from a child who had succumbed to pneumonia.

FIVE physicians of the Willard Parker Hospital, together with the superintendent of the institution and two attendants, were recently arrested in New York City for illegal voting. Under the law physicians who reside in hospitals and who accept compensation from the city are designated as paupers and therefore are not allowed to vote.

THE following appropriations for Washington institutions have been made by Congress: One hundred thousand dollars for the Providence Hospital; one thousand dollars for the Garfield Memorial Hospital; fifteen thousand dollars for the Washington Asylum Hospital; and ninety-nine thousand dollars for the Government Hospital for the Insane.

EIGHTY leading physicians of Chicago will erect a four hundred thousand dollar hospital in that city. This sum does not include land, furnishings or equipment. The building will be eleven stories high, will contain elegant suites and sumptuous wards, and is especially intended for wealthy people-those who consider comfort of more importance than collateral.

THE Grand Rapids Academy of Medicine elected the following officers at its annual meeting: President, Doctor Louis A. Roller; vicepresident, Doctor Charles E. Hooker; treasurer, Doctor Earl Bigham; secretary, Doctor John R. Rogers. The following physicians constitute the new board of directors: Doctors Orris E. Herrick, Alexander Campbell, Bessie Earl, James B. Whinery and Henry Hulst.

MISS MARY C. LOWELL, M. D., LL. B., of Boston, is supposed to be the only woman in the world entitled to pursue the professions of law and medicine by virtue of degrees and diplomas. She is the daughter of Colonel C. W. Lowell, who officiated in the capacity of adjutant-general of Louisiana during the reconstruction period, and a descendant of Chief Justice Parsons. She was the first woman assistant superintendent of the Maine State Hospital for the Insane, which position she filled for five years, after which she journeyed abroad and visited the

hospitals of various European capitals. The love of study prompted her to elect a course in law, and she intends to procure two more degrees Bachelor of Jurisprudence and Master in Chemistry.

THE Pennsylvania legislature has made appropriations of two hundred sixty thousand dollars each to the Jefferson Medical College and Medico-Chirurgical hospitals for the purpose of erecting new buildings.

THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts lately ruled that the Boston Medical Library is a charitable institution. This decision permits the library authorities to receive a bequest of fifty thousand dollars from the Billings estate.

SERVICES were recently held in memory of Doctor Horace Wells, the discoverer of ether, at Center church, Hartford, Connecticut. A memorial window has been placed in the church in remembrance of the doctor and his wife.

AN ordinance against spitting on street pavements has been promulgated by the health department of the District of Columbia. A law now in force prohibits this practice in street cars and public vehicles throughout the district.

THE Executive Committee of the PanAmerican Medical Congress. has accepted the suggestion of the Argentine Republic to convene the fourth PanAmerican Medical Congress in Buenos Ayres in 1905, instead of 1903 as previously announced by the committee.

AFTER an epidemic lasting over a year the United States quarantine officers declare Manila free from cholera. During this period one hundred thirty thousand three hundred sixty-two cases and eightytwo thousand nine hundred fifty-five deaths have been reported.

It is possible that the Isle of Pines may be converted into an international leper colony. A German scientific society has made proposals to the Cuban government for the acquisition of the island, the mineral springs of which are said to contain medicinal properties suitable for such a colony.

PHYSICIANS should exercise caution in prescribing the following drugs for nursing mothers, as they are eliminated by the mammary glands: Arsenic, bismuth, carbolic acid, cascara sagrada, castor oil, garlic, iodin, iron, jalap, magnesium sulphate, mercury, oil of copaiba, oil of turpentine, opium, potassium iodid, quinin, rhubarb, senna, strychnin, sulphur, volatile oils, and zinc.

THE fact that wood alcohol causes blindness is a matter of record. Recently the physicians of the New Orleans Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital observed that many of the patients entering that institution from country towns were afflicted with partial or total blindness. In seeking a cause for this condition the fact was disclosed that a cheap antiseptic, which had been employed throughout Louisiana, contained an enormous quantity of methyl alcohol, some of the specimens yielding, according to the analysis of the city chemist, thirty per cent of this product, an amount which rendered them unfit for internal employment.

RECENT LITERATURE.

REVIEWS.

PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS.*

WITHOUT doubt this is the best work extant on this subject. It deals with the psychologic and physiologic facts of sexual life and their pathologic manifestations. It therefore appeals to the cleric and legal professions as well as to the medical. Each will find in it a mine of useful special knowledge.

*By Doctor R. von Krafft-Ebing. Authorized English translation of the tenth German edition by F. J. Rebman. W. T. Keener & Company, Chicago.

SAUNDERS' MEDICAL HAND-ATLASES: AN ATLAS AND EPITOME OF ABDOMINAL HERNIAS.*

ATLASES on special subjects are by no means numerous but the frequency of hernia renders this volume unusually acceptable. It is comprehensive in itself but is most advantageous as a supplement to the few exhaustive treatises that we already possess.

*By Privatdocent Doctor George Sultan, of Gottingen. Edited, with additions, by William B. Coley, M. D., Clinical Lecturer on Surgery, Columbia University (College of Physicians and Surgeons). With 119 illustrations, 36 of them in colors, and 277 pages of text. Cloth, $3.00 net. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1902.

REFERENCES.

NEW BOOKS.

W. B. SAUNDERS & COMPANY announce the early issuance of books bearing the following titles:

"MYOMATA of the Uterus." By Howard A. Kelly, M. D., Professor of Gynecology in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

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"A TEXT-BOOK of Pathology." By Joseph McFarland, M. D., Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology in the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia.

"THE Practical Application of the Röntgen Rays in Therapeutics and Diagnosis." By William Allen Pusey, M. D., Professor of Dermatology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago; and Eugene W. Caldwell, B. S., Director of the Edward N. Gibbs Memorial X-Ray Laboratory, and University of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City.

"TUBERCULOSIS." By Norman Bridge, M. D., of Los Angeles, Emeritus Professor of Medicine in Rush Medical College, in affiliation with the University of Chicago.

"A TEXT-BOOK of Operative Surgery." By Warren Stone Bickham, M. D., Assistant Instructor in Operative Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City.

"THE Care of the Baby." By J. P. Crozer Griffith, M. D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, et cetera.

"PRACTICAL Points in Nursing" for Nurses in Private Practice. By the late Emily A. M. Stoney, Superintendent of the Training School for Nurses, Carney Hospital, South Boston, Massachusetts.

"A TEXT-BOOK of Obstetrics." By J. Clarence Webster, M. D., F. R. C. P. (Edinburgh), Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Rush Medical College, in affiliation with the University of Chicago.

"A TEXT-BOOK of Diseases of Women." By Barton Cooke Hirst, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics in the University of Pennsylvania, Gynecologist to the Howard, the Orthopedic, and the Philadelphia Hospitals.

“A TEXT-BOOK of Modern Therapeutics." By A. A. Stevens, M. D., Lecturer on Physical Diagnosis in the University of Pennsylvania; Professor of Pathology in the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia.

"THE Vermiform Apppendix and its Diseases." By Howard A. Kelly, M. D., Professor of Gynecology in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; and E. Hurdon, M. D., Assistant in Gynecology in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

"THE Blood in its Clinical and Pathologic Relations." By Alfred Stengel, M. D., Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania; and C. Y. White, Junior, M. D., Instructor in Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.

"MEDICAL Jurisprudence and Toxicology." By Henry C. Chapman, M. D., Professor of Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; Member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Philadelphia, et cetera.

"A TEXT-BOOK of Legal Medicine and Toxicology." Edited by Frederick Peterson, M. D., Chief of Clinic, Department of Neurology, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City; and Walter S. Hains, M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Toxicology in Rush Medical College, in affiliation with the University of Chicago.

"A THESAURUS of Medical Words and Phrases." By Wilfred M. Barton, M. D., Assistant to Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics and Lecturer on Pharmacy in the Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia; and Walter A. Wells, M. D., Demonstrator of Laryngology and Rhinology in the Georgetown University. Washington, District of Columbia.

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